My sister?!
Leo ended up running as far away from the apartment as possible and once he didn't recognize where he was, he stopped running and looked around him.
It looked like he was in some sort of abandoned section of the city. The houses and the shops looked run down and old, everything around him looked ancient. "J-Just how far did I run?" Leo thought to himself, looking around.
He then shook his head, thinking to himself "this is the least if my worries...I have to figure out a way to stay in that apartment...staying there...will make me forget about the past."
As Leo was looking around him, he was trying to find at least one person so he could ask them where he was, but he couldn't even see anyone in sight. "What the heck, how far did I go?" Leo asks himself once again, still looking around.
At that moment someone then comes up to Leo form behind him and grabbed his shoulder.
Once Leo felt someone grab a hold of his shoulder, he jumped a bit getting startled and looked behind him to see who that person was.
"Kid, what're you doing out here?!" The man asks, he looked like he was in his forties and his clothes looked warn out and dirty.
Leo was kind of hesitant to say anything to the man, he could be on drugs.
The man then continues to say "you shouldn't be out here at this time of night...you're in the east side of town now...this is where all the gangs are, if you stay out here, you'll get shot!" The man says, grabbing Leo's wrist and dragging him into a building.
Leo looked at the man confused and once he was in the building, he shook his wrist out of the mans grip and asks "what're you doing, let go of me!"
"You'll die out there at a time like this, wait until day break before you continue to go on your way" the man says, looking at Leo seriously.
Leo still thought the man was on drugs and was about to turn around and leave the building when a women was right behind him and says in a smile "he might sound crazy, but he's just trying to protect you."
Leo looked at the women and then at the man and sighed as he says "alright, I'll stay for the night."
"I'm sorry darling...did my husband scare you?" The women asks, now walking to Leo's side and leading him up into the abandoned building that from what it looked like, looked like an abandoned hospital.
"Y-Yeah...um why'd you drag me all the way in here?" Leo asks, looking around a little freaked out, the scenery around him made him feel like he was in some sort of horror movie.
"This is where we live" the old man says; now walking on Leo's other side.
Leo was looking back from the women to the man and was a little scared to follow them as he asks "where're you taking me?"
"We live in one of the poorest parts of town, this part is kind of forgotten by the rest of Seoul, most people don't even know this place exists because it's a gang territory so most of the people who use to live here before the gangs took over ten years ago went into hiding, some kids even lost their families so they now live here with us." The women explains, looking at Leo in a smile.
Leo nodded meaning he understood the women now and was a little less scared. Leo then thought to himself "so then that means the apartment isn't too far from this place..."
"Here is everyone" the women says, walking into a room with a whole bunch of kids crowding around some lit firewood trying to stay warm.
"It's like I entered some sort of dimension" Leo thought to himself, looking at everyone who was wearing worn out, dirty clothing.
Once the teenagers and kids who were in the room saw Leo, they were kind of shocked to see him because he had proper clothes on, sure they were kind of dirty but they weren't as wrecked as theirs.
"What's your name?" The women asks Leo and Leo then answers "my name is Jung Taekwoon."
"J-Jung Taekwoon?!" The man repeats with his eyes opening wider, a little shocked.
Leo nodded meaning yes and now the women, man and even a couple of the kids were shocked.
Leo ended up noticing the shocked expressions on everyone's faces and says a little "what?" Wanting to know why they were all so shocked.
"You have an older sister...right?" The old man asks, making sure it was really the 'Jung Taekwoon' they were thinking of.
Leo nodded meaning yes and the older women was in total shock, not wanting to say anything after they confirmed it.
"Why, do you know my older sister...by and chance...do you know where she is, she's been missing for ten years!" Leo asks, he wasn't even scared of talking to these strangers because they might know where his older sister was.
The older women looked at Leo and looked down as she says "w-we do know where she is."
Leo's eyes opened wider in shock, tears were forming in his eyes as he asks "w-where is she?!" This would be the first time he would have seen her in ten years.
The women and man didn't want to show Leo where his sister was and says "I-I don't think you should see her..."
"Why not, she's my sister!" Leo yells, now getting even more angry.
"Are you sure...you want to see her?" The man asks, looking at Leo seriously.
Leo nodded meaning yes and the man then brought Leo to his older sisters hospital room.
As Leo and the older man both walked inside, the older man then says "Uk, we've...found him."
"Found who?" The women calls out from behind the curtain that was covering the bed.
As Leo heard his older sister's voice, tears started to roll down his cheeks and the man then continues to say "y-your brother...he's here..."
You could start hearing Leo's older sister crying from behind the curtain and she says "d-don't let him look at me...h-he can't see me like this..."
"Nuna..." Leo says, with tears still rushing down his cheeks.
Just by the women hearing Leo call out to her she started crying even harder as he says "please Taekwoon...don't look at me."
Leo ignored his sisters wishes as he pushed the curtains out of the way to see her, the first time he'd see her in ten years.
As Leo looked at his older sister, his eyes opened wider and he was in total shock, the only words he was able to push out of his mouth was "N-Nuna...w-w-what happened to you?!" Now sobbing as he looked at his sister.
Back at the house the time rolled around to one in the morning and Leo was still not back home yet.
"Where could he be, where could he be?!" N says, walking back and forth in the living room, waiting for Leo to return.
"N hyung you're stressing yourself out, calm down a bit" Ken says, now coming into the room himself to stop N from walking back and forth and to calm him down.
Ravi walked into the room right after Ken and tried comforting N as well as he says "it's fine N...you're just extra worried about him because you know about his past now..." Ravi says in a sigh.
"T-That's not it!" N exclaims, now starting to bite his bottom lip.
Ken sighed as he got in front of N and stopped him forcefully by grabbing both of his shoulder and looking at him right in his eyes as he says "N...stop this, you have to calm down."
As Ken says that with a serious expression on his face, N let out a breath of air as he calmed down a bit and sat down on one of the couches with Ken sitting on one side of him and Ravi sitting on the other.
Hyuk and Hongbin then come into the room not long after and sit on the other couch in the living room and N then says "I'm just worried about him...what if he's lost or something...you guys know his people skills...what if he's too scared to ask for directions??" N asks, looking at all the other boys but they all just frowned.
"Well we have school tomorrow...Leo will probably come back during the day tomorrow or something, come on let's just go to bed and wait" Hongbin says in a smile, trying to reassure N but it didn't seem like anything he was saying was working.
"You guys can go to bed, I'll stay up a bit longer and wait for him" N says in a smile, looking at the four boys but the four kids couldn't help but feel worried about N.
Ken nodded meaning he understood and was the first to get up and walk back to his bedroom with Ravi following behind.
As Hongbin and Hyuk left the room as well, N laid down on the couch and kept looking at the front door, waiting for Leo to come home.
Once morning time arose, N was still sleeping on the couch but was awaken by a cellphone ringing.
N rubbed one of his eyes and yawned a bit, still a little tired from just waking up but looked around to see where the ringing was coming from.
As N then found the cell phone that was ringing, it was Leo's cellphone. N was hesitant to answer it but answered it anyway as he says "hello?"
"Hello, is this N?" The women on the other line asks.
"Yes, this is N" N answers, waiting for the other person to say who they were.
"This is Leo's 'older sister' and I'm at the house right now...but it turns out Leo's parents just got out of jail today!"
"Wait what, what're you talking about, I thought it would have been a couple more weeks before they got out, didn't you say it was somewhere around this month?!" N asks.
"Yeah but I didn't know it would have been exactly today! I wanted to tell you to make sure Leo doesn't come back to the house, by all means necessary you can't let Leo come back to the house, at all!" Leo's older sister says, making sure N knew.
N then says "yes, but...Leo hasn't come back to the apartment since yesterday...I don't even know where he is" N answers in a serious tone.
Leo's sister then started freaking out herself as she says "you have to find him, find him with anything you can, make sure he doesn't come back to the house...if he sees his parents...it could bring him back to his old memories and he could think he's a kid again, thinking everyone's out to get him, or that's what the counselor said" Leo's older says, making sure N knew and N said he understood.
Before N ended the call, he gave Leo's older sister his own personal number and with that, the call ended.
Once N put Leo's cellphone onto the table in the dining room, Hyuk then comes into the room rubbing one of his eyes as he asks "w-who were you on the phone with?"
"Leo's older sister...apparently Leo's parents are out of jail already." N explains.
As N explained everything that was going down to Hyuk, Hyuk was just as shocked and wasn't sleepy anymore in the slightest. "W-Well we have to find Leo!" Hyuk exclaims.
"Problem is, none of us would know where Leo would run to when he's upset" N says, looking down at his feet.
"We should just search around right now, come on, let's go!" Hyuk says, going over to the closet near the front door and getting his sweater.
"Hyuk..." N says, giving Hyuk a dull expression.
Hyuk then looked up at N from zipping up his zipper as he says "hm?"
"You don't have pants on" N says, with the same blank expression on his face.
"Dang it!" Hyuk exclaims, running back into his room to put his pants on along with waking up Hongbin in the process.
Ken and Ravi woke up not too long after Hyuk went running back into his bedroom and when N explained to both of them what was happening, they also wanted to help find Leo.
Once everyone was done and ready to go and find Leo, N then says "how are we going to look for him, we can't just randomly be searching places?"
"We'll go to places where Leo would obviously be like first like the soccer field or something and if he isn't there, than we have no choice but to randomly start searching.
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Back to yesterday with Leo he took one look at his sister and was in shock.
"N-Nuna...what happened...to...your legs?" Leo asks, shocked.
"You know how I left back then in the freezing cold...I ended up getting frost bight so...they had to...cut them off." Leo's older sister says, looking down.
"Y-You look horrible, you need a real hospital!" Leo exclaims, looking around the room.
Leo's older sister chuckled a bit as she says "I can't leave this place...who can we call, no phones here work, plus...I don't have a lot of time left anyway...I'm really sick Leo...we have a doctor that lives with us here...he told me I don't even have a month left" Leo's older says, coughing a bit afterwards.
"N-No, nuna you can't just die on me?! I lived ten full years of my life thinking you were dead and right now I find out you've been alive all along and you're going to die, why did I come so late?!" Leo says to himself with tears rushing down his face.
"It's okay Taekwoon, you know I always loved you" his older sister says in a smile, weakly holding Leo's hand.
Leo ended up going on his knees beside his sisters bed and looking at her while on his knees as he asks "w-why does this have to happen to me...why...you can't die!" Leo exclaims with more tears were rushing down his face.
"Leo, I love you, a lot...you know that, but this is for the best... for you...and for me" his older sister says, raising her other weak arm to ruffle Leo's hair.
Leo ended up bawling even more as he kissing the hand he was holding and says "I don't want to lose you again though..."
"Leo...I love you, you'll always be my younger brother...and you'll always have me in your heart" his older sister says, in a weak voice.
"Y-You shouldn't have left me that day, we could have survived without help, the police ended up coming a couple days after you escaped, there was no point, y-you're so stupid, why'd you have to leave me alone" Leo asks with more tears spilling from his eyes and squeezing his sisters hand tighter.
"Ha, ha I am a little stupid aren't I...but I've always been like that" Leo's older sister says in a faint chuckle.
Leo was just happy to see his older sister smile and Leo then says "don't worry...like how you did for me last time, I'll do it for you...tomorrow morning I'll leave and get you help so you can go to a proper hospital!"
"You don't have to do that Taekwoon" Leo's older sister says, but he then cuts her off.
"N-No...you did it for me back then...now I have to do it for you" Leo says in a serious tone, looking at her with a serious expression as well.
The old man ended up bringing one of those old cameras out from one of the storage room and took a picture of Leo and his older sister together as memories and gave Leo the camera afterward.
Leo thanked the man and stayed up all night talking to his sister, telling her all about how he got a scholarship into university and how he made six friends and got himself a boyfriend.
His older sister was extremely happy for him, telling Leo about how her years have been with living in the hospital with all the other kids, and they both ended up sleeping around four in the morning.
As Leo woke up the next day, he woke up around twelve in the afternoon and yawned a bit. He ended up falling asleep right beside his older sister's hospital bed and as he looked at her, he smiled and shook her a bit "wake up nuna, you have to take your medicine."
As Leo shook his older sister, she wouldn't wake up or move.
"Nuna...nuna?!" Leo repeats over and over again, shaking her repeatedly but she wouldn't wake up.
"Someone help!" Leo calls out from the room and the old man and women ended up running into the room worried and Leo then says, with tears rushing down his face "s-she won't wake up!"
As the man went rushing to her, he took her pulse and a frown grew on his face as he says "s-shes...gone."
Leo was in utter shock, he didn't want to believe his older sister was officially dead, but it was right in front of his eyes.
"N-No, she can't just leave like this!!!" Leo yells with tears rushing down his face.
The old man frowned as he says "I'm sorry Taekwoon...but at least...she died knowing she met you again. She always told me her biggest regret in life was that she never brought you with her when she escaped. Because she got frost bite and wasn't able to get help in the end, she always thought that your parents were still abusing you and that she never protected you...that's what she told me...but I guess since she saw you today, well and healthy she's relived...she died...having a smile on her face." The man says, looking back to Leo's older sister once more before looking at Leo.
Leo was still bawling as he fell onto his knees, covering his face and crying. "w-why did she have to die today?!" Leo asked with more tears rushing down his face.
The man then helped Leo up and says "do you want to leave now...it's day break now...it's bright."
Leo nodded meaning "yes and I'll bring back some people to take her body."
The man nodded meaning he understood and Leo left the hospital with tears still rushing down his face.
As Leo left the hospital, he walked back the way he came which was a long walk and walked all the way back to his original house where his aunt uncle and cousin were.
As he got to the house, he saw police cars parked outside the gate and had a confused look on his face as he entered the gate and went into the house.
"Who just came in?" Leo's uncle calls from the dining room and Leo followed his uncles voice to tell him about his sister but as soon as he entered the dining room, there at the table was his uncle, aunt, cousin and...his parents.
Leo's eyes opened wider in shock, his heart started to beat faster and the memories of his past started coming back.
"S-SOMEONE GET HIM OUT OF HERE!" Leo's uncle yells, pointing to Leo.
"That disgrace is here?" Leo's father asks, kissing his teeth, looking at Leo.
Leo stumbled back a bit, looking at his mother and father staring at him.
He then supported himself onto the wall as he turned around and ran out of the room into his original bedroom and locked the door behind him, scrunching himself up into a little ball in the corner of the room and covering his ears as tears slowly rushed down his face once again as he says "please don't hurt me, please don't hurt me" quietly to himself, over and over again.
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sorry you guys had to wait a while for an update but at least I made it long and I'm sorry I made this chapter so sad...yes, Leo's sister died...and now his parents are back!! Next chapter is going to be a little hectic as well. Thank you for reading.
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