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Jinus pov:
After about 4 hours at the hospital, Baby came out and the nurses told us we can go without another word.
”They aren’t going to tell us what happened???” I ask dumbfounded.
”It’s called ‘doctor patient confidentiality’.” Baby answers monotonously.
“I thought when the patient was a minor they had to tell their parent or guardian.” Abby walks up beside us.
Baby smirks.
“Well, considering my ID says I’m 23 they don’t have to tell anyone.” He sticks out his tongue at Abby teasingly.
“Your ID says youre 23?” Rumi buts in. “How?”
“Gwi Ma made us all fake IDs when we came to the human realm. It would be problematic if we didn’t have any.” I explain to her.
”Then why doesn’t it say your real age?” She asks. “Or, the age you became a demon.”
“Something about control.” Romance answers before I can. “He didn’t like telling us things about our past lives.”
“Why don’t you tell us?” Abby whines to Baby. “We waited in the hospital for four hours just for them to pat us on the back and tell us to leave?”
“I didn’t get much more than that either.” Baby shrugs. “It’s not like they actually tried to figure out what happened.”
”Isn’t that their job?” Romance asks.
”Pfft. You really are old. That’s how doctors do things nowadays.” Romance pouts angrily.
We arrive at the girls unit and go inside.
Babys pov:
I stay out while everyone goes inside. I’m going to go for a walk. Not that they need to know that.
I pat my bag, assuring myself that my knife is tucked away safely and turn around to leave.
”Baby?” Mystery calls my name.
”hm?”
“Where are you going?”
I sigh. “For a walk.”
He pauses for a second, as if unsure what to say. “Are you sure that’s a good idea after what happened?”
“The doctors said I should be fine. Besides, I won’t go far.” I start walking again.
”Can you at least turn your location on? I don’t want you getting lost again.”
I turn back angrily. “You aren’t my dad? Why would I need to share my location with you?” I semi yell.
”I’m just worried.” He answers calmly. “We all are. Please?” He asks again.
”Will you stop nagging at me if I do?”
“I promise.”
”ok fine.” I swipe on my phone, turning my location on for Mystery only before turning around and leaving without another word.
I know exactly where I’m going, the problem is how do I go there without Mystery knowing.
…
I walk around town, past a bunch of shops with my hood up. I don’t want to be recognized in a populated place like this.
Scanning over all the shop names I finally find the one I want.
‘Seol Vaporz’
I walk to an alley nearby and hide my phone under some garbage before heading into the store.
Quickly, I select a vape and 120 ml of liquid in the flavour ‘sweet strawberry ice’ before heading out of the store and snatching my phone back.
”Hopefully that wasnt too long” I mutter to myself, checking my phone for any messages before setting it into my pocket and heading seeing into the alley.
I sit down against a building and fumble with my vape before finally getting it filled. It feels like forever since I’ve done this even though it’s only been a couple of months.
I breathe it in desperately. Keeping it in my mouth before puffing it out.
Mysterys pov:
”Hey guys,” I call to the others who are chilling around the unit.
“hm?” They respond in synch.
”I think I should tell you about something.” I start off seriously. “It’s about Baby.” The others straighten up when I say that.
”Ok.” Jinu says. “What about him.” The others huddle together on the couch.
”Well… I saw something when I took off his shirt… two things actually, and I’m worried about his safety.” I take a deep breath before continuing. “When I took his shirt off, the first thing I saw was demon patterns on his chest.” The others gasp.
”But that should be impossible.” Romance says.
”Yeah Gwi Ma is dead” Abby adds.
”I know.” I answer. “The other thing I saw when I took his shirt off was his arms…” I pause. “They had cuts all over them. Some of them were fresh while others looked days to weeks old.” I describe.
The others jaws drop open.
“WHATTTT!” Abby exclaims.
”Do you think hes doing that to himself??” Jinu asks.
”What else would it be dipshit?” Romance adds sarcastically.
”And there’s also the fact that he hasn’t eaten almost anything since we became human.” I add. “I don’t think he’s ok.” I look up to the other boys.
”What can we do about it though?” Abby asks. “It’s not like we can FORCE him to eat. I mean… we CAN but it wouldn’t be very nice of us.”
“I don’t think that’s the best idea.” Romance raises an eyebrow at Abby.
”And what about the demon markings?” Jinu asks. “I’m really concerned about that.”
I nod. “It’s just a theory, but Gwi Ma feeds on dark emotions. I think he might not be as dead as we thought.”
“But then how come our demon marks aren’t back?” Abby asks.
”I don’t know… Maybe because there’s not as much bad emotions for him to feed off of in us.” The others nod. “I’m not saying thats what’s happening though, it’s just a theory.” I quickly add.
”So what should we do?” Romance asks.
”We should encourage him to eat and watch him closely.” Jinu suggests. “And maybe search his stuff for anything he could use to hurt himself.”
“I really don’t think he would like being treated like a kid.” I argue.
”But he is one.” Romance shrugs.
”Well yeah…” I huff in frustration. “Ok we can try that.” I finally give into them.
”it’s for his own good.” Abby adds. “We’re just trying to keep him safe so I don’t see anything wrong with it.”
”Yeah…” I answer. “Ok.”