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As soon as Seonghwa woke up, he realized that laziness had failed. His head was incredibly split, his life was spinning and a slight nausea was felt. Looking at the time, he saw six in the morning and decided that he would not fall asleep again. Listening a little, he heard a soft sniff from above, which means Hongjoong is still sleeping.
Park decided to get up, as soon as he did, his bones immediately ached as if he was sleeping on the floor, crouched in the most uncomfortable position. Seonghwa decided to go wash up and make breakfast for the rest of the members.
God, how sickening, he felt like he was about to faint. When he got to the bath, he saw bruises under his eyes, how good that today was only practicing choreography.
As soon as he opened the refrigerator, he only got worse, but you can’t give up, I’m all trying so hard, he can’t be inactive, he is the oldest, he must set an example.
With grief in half, he cooked pancakes and found that it was time to wake up the guys. He began to enter the rooms one by one. It was time to wake Hongjoong up, ever since they confessed to each other, he could openly worry about him. Now he sleeps so sweetly, but this dream needs to be broken.
“Hey Hongjoong, wake up?” He shook him lightly by the shoulder. Kim muttered something indistinctly, but opened his eyes.
“Hyung? Good morning,” Hongjoong smiled sunnyly.
“Did you get enough sleep?”
“Finally yes! It's all thanks to you, thank you... Wait, you're kind of pale, is everything okay?” Kim immediately sat up and looked at Seonghwa with concern.
“Of course, don’t worry,” - Park didn’t know that he could lie so well - “Hurry up, I baked pancakes, the younger ones will eat everything now.”
“Oh, I'm already running, are you sure everything is fine?”
“Yes, yes, of course.” Seonghwa patted his head a little.
Hongjoong quickly got out of bed and ran to wash his face. As soon as he left the room, Park was able to relax and was immediately seized by a violent cramp.
“Fuck, it hurts so much.” Seonghwa started thinking about letting someone know how he was feeling.
When he was released, he decided that he would sit with everyone at the table so as not to cause unnecessary anxiety. Everything is often experienced anyway, and here he is.
Park entered the kitchen, all the members were already sitting at the table and waiting for him, he noticed that a plate was set for him.
“Oh thanks, I already ate.” Seonghwa walked over to the table and put the plate away, then just sat down with the others.
“Hyung, are you okay?” Yunho asked, after which everyone turned their attention to him and immediately became worried.
“Don’t worry, I’m fine, I just didn’t get enough sleep,” for some reason, Park didn’t want to be worried about him, then he stumbled upon Hongjun’s disbelieving look and immediately buried himself on the floor.
“You know, I'm full, I'll go work for a bit, then we'll rehearse the choreography," Hongjoong said, leaving the table and heading into the room.
Seonghwa was immediately worried. The rest of the participants became lost in what was happening. Mingi and San looked at Hongjoong with a surprised look, the rest of them had already switched to a worried one.
“What is the matter with you today, hyungs?” Yeosang said as if in emptiness.
“Everything is fine, I'll go check it out,” Park trudged into the room on wadded legs, on the way he was seized again by a cramp. He squatted down and closed his eyes a little, it even seemed to him that he was about to vomit.
After taking a couple of deep breaths and waiting for the pain to subside, he was able to get up and walk into the room.
“Hongjoong, what is it? You only ate half a pancake, does it hurt?” Seonghwa carefully approached the leader and sat down next to him.
“Soul, hwa, soul. Better tell me what hurts you. I heard you breathing under the door. I don’t understand why you are trying so hard to hide your well-being,” Kim removed the laptop from his knees and took Park’s hand in his “You know that I love you and worry?”
“Of course I know, I love you too, but knowing that you worry absolutely in vain, I feel great,” Seonghwa kissed his knuckles. Then his stomach cramped again, and the headache suddenly made itself felt. Park closed his eyes tightly and barely held back a groan of pain.
“Seonghwa, I can't do this anymore! What happened to you?” Hongjoong was no longer a little worried.
“Everything is really good, I just got an electric shock,” he simply couldn’t come up with an even more stupid excuse, so until Kim continued the topic, Park decided to slowly change it “Are you ready to go rehearse? And promise to eat later?”
“Okay, I promise, I'm ready, let's go call the others.”
In less than five minutes of practice, Seonghwa's convulsions began to repeat every thirty seconds, and it became increasingly difficult to endure. He was constantly looking at the worried looks of Wooyoung, who stood nearby and saw how hyung squinted, although in fact almost everyone saw.
“One, Two, Three,” Yunho kept count, everyone actively repeated the movements after him.
At the thirtieth very painful minute, Seonghwa wanted to cry, it was very painful, the nausea increased significantly, and the temples throbbed, the cramps in the stomach practically did not stop. The members decided to take a short break to get some water. Park stepped back into a corner and squatted down, burying his face in his knees.
“Seonghwa-hyung, what is happening to you, we are very worried,” Wooyoung suddenly appeared next to him, he lightly touched Park's back.
“Everything is really good, I just didn’t get enough sleep and was very tired. I had nightmares at night, I’ll feel better soon,” Seonghwa promised and stood up to continue.
After an infinite amount of time, training ended and the guys were free. All Park dreamed about right now was to lie in his bed and never get up again. So he did, only he didn’t have the strength to climb to the second floor, so he fell on Hongjoong's bed. Its owner was not long in coming.
“Seonghwa, I'm going to... Seonghwa? Why are you lying here? Are you sure you're fine? Please tell me the truth, I'm very worried about you,” in the depths of his soul, Kim immediately knew that he would not hear the truth, but hope died last.
“I'm fine, I just want to get some sleep, I had nightmares all night” in fact, Park slept like a log all night, and he didn't have nightmares, but it's not so hard to believe.
“Okay, but please, if something really happened or happens, text me or call me, I'll go to the studio, okay?” Hongjoong sat next to hyung's feet and stroked him over the blanket.
“Of course” and this time, Seonghwa really decided to call if it gets really bad.
***
“Seonghwa hyung, can you please cook something for dinner?” Yunho entered the room.
Entering the room, the guy saw his elder sleeping. Every ateez member noticed Seonghwa's strange behavior, so Yunho decided to check his temperature. As soon as he touched his forehead, he knew that Park was absolutely not okay.
He immediately jumped out of the room and began to sound the alarm. Everyone crawled out into the corridor at the clatter and loud whisper.
“Yunho, what happened?” Mingi was the first to break the silence.
“All of you have noticed that Seonghwa-hyung looked bad to say the least today. I went to ask him to cook dinner, and he was sleeping, so I decided to change his temperature. He has a severe fever, something needs to be done.” Yunho looked genuinely concerned.
“Hongjoong should be informed, he is also very worried,” Wooyoung suggested.
“First you need to understand what is wrong with Seonghwa-hyung besides the fever,” Jongho also did not stand aside.
“Let Hongjoong find out, they're kind of in a relationship, chances are Seonghwa hyung will confess to him more." Sun came up with the latest version that everyone agreed on.
So they sent Yeosang to call Hongjoong and report the problem. It was a little scary, but Seonghwa had been suffering for so long.
“Yes? Yeosan, what is it?” Surprisingly, the leader answered quite quickly.
“Seonghwa hyung is not feeling well, he has a fever, you need to do something.”
“I will soon.”
***
Hongjoong didn't lie, it wasn't long before he was sitting on the edge of the bed gently waking up Park.
“Seonghwa, please wake up, we need to talk,” he ran his hand over hyung's forehead, he really had a fever.
“Hongjoong, what happened?” Park began to open his eyes very slowly.
“You don't feel well and it's not up for discussion, what hurts please tell me,” Kim noticed that hyung wanted to start bickering “No, you have a terrible fever. Seonghwa, please.”
“Okay…” as soon as Park tried to sit up, another cramp hit him, it really hurt. He leaned forward and whimpered “The stomach hurts a lot, there is still a head and nausea.”
“Can you feel sick?” Hongjoong gently began to support him and slowly returned him to a lying position.
“No.”
“Okay, can I see the belly?” - to say that the leader was worried about saying nothing.
“Yes... oh.”
Hongjoong removed the blanket from Seonghwa's stomach, then lifted his t-shirt and began to lightly press in different places. First of all, he checked the right side of his lower abdomen.
“Does it hurt here?” Kim literally prayed that he would say no.
“No.”
“Thank God, but here?” he pressed in the center, just above the navel.
“Yes.”
“It seems like it's just food poisoning, it should go away on its own, but I'll ask Yunho to bring a painkiller pill. Are you sure it doesn't make you feel nauseous?” Hongjoong calmed down a bit and started massaging hyung's stomach a little clockwise to ease the pain.
“Not yet, but today I already felt like I was going to vomit,” Seonghwa began to reach for his leader’s hand.
“Okay, I'll be right back, I'll bring painkillers and a bucket just in case,” Hongjoong quickly left.
He returned just as quickly, but not alone. Yunho takes a pack of painkillers and a glass of water, and Kim a bucket.
“Come on, let's eat and drink, hyung,” Jung squatted down next to the bed and helped his older friend.
“Thank you,” Seonghwa smiled.
“Don’t scare us like that anymore, we love you very much and are worried, Hongjoong doesn’t let the others in here, supposedly they are very noisy, but you know, they are standing under the door,” Yunho made something like a hug and left.
“Fool, how did you scare us. Why didn't you confess?” Kim sat back in the seat next to Seonghwa and continued to massage.
“It seemed to me that you don’t need unnecessary worries, so it would be better if I hid it” now Park has already realized that this is stupid.
“In the end, we suffered a hundred times more,” Hongjoong lightly kissed Seonghwa on the forehead. “I love you, go to sleep.”
“I love you too, sorry, Hongjoong.”