Jieun pov

I had to beg Jeonghan to let me leave before them and he finally agreed. I had to get my stuff for school from my home. Or I guess ex-home?

When I opened the door I immediately regretted it. My father was waiting in front of the door with my bag and an angry expression on his face. "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, YOU LEFT LAST NIGHT DIDN'T YOU?! WHO TREATED YOUR WOUNDS?!" He yelled as he began to rip off the bandaging as hard as he could. He once again had a pocket knife in his hand and scratched my face a few times again.

By then the fabric of my pants had a few rips in them that were seeping blood. I wanted to change out of my blood stained clothes but I wanted to get out even more. He threw my bag at me and I ran. I was already late to school and I didn't want to be any later.

When I arrived at school I went straight to my locker. "I should have extra clothes in here..." I mumbled to myself. Just my luck, there was none. I sighed and walked to class with the now ruined clothes that Jeonghan had given me.

When I entered the class, everyone stared at me and I heard many gasps. I ignored it all and walked straight to the back of the room, everyone's eyes following my every move. My teacher looked worried and I told him to go on with the lesson. I made eye contact with a few of the boys from Seventeen that were in my class. If they were this worried, what would Jeonghan do? I can't face him today.

Jihoon pov

I kept watching the door wondering where Jieun was. I couldn't help myself. The door opened. Finally! Suddenly I gasped, she was covered in blood, the clothes were ruined, and she just walked in like nothing happened.

Seokmin leaned over to my seat and whispered "Do you know what happened? When Jeonghan hyung figures out, he's gonna freak out." "I don't know what happened either, but you're right, Jeonghan hyung will probably freak out."

Class went on and I was thinking where she could have gone to look like that. Suddenly I realized and gasped. "What is it Jihoon?" The teacher spoke. "A-ah it's just that I figured out something I was stuck on for a while." "Well that's good but please be quieter, you're disrupting the class." "yes sir." I said and turned to Seokmin. "Seokmin-ah! I figured it out. Jieun must have gone home and she looks like that because of her father" Seokmin covered his mouth. "Oh my gosh Jihoon you're right"

After class Jieun ran out of the room before we could speak to her. We need to get her to Jeonghan.

Jieun pov

As soon as the bell rang I ran straight to the bathroom instead of going to the cafeteria. I pulled out a blade that was in my pocket and pulled up the sleeve of the sweatshirt. I kept cutting till I was satisfied. Watching the blood drip down my arm, it relaxed me a bit.

I washed my arm and decided not to go to the cafeteria until someone grabbed me and pulled me to the direction of the cafeteria. Someone was behind me pushing my back as well. It did hurt a bit because of all of the wound on my body. Once the person stopped pulling me, I realized that I was in front of Seventeen. The boy pulling me was Minghao I think, and the boy behind me was Jihoon.

Jeonghan looked extremely worried and got up and ran over to me. "What happened?! Did you go home?!" I only nodded and I could feel that he was a bit mad. "Yah, didn't I tell you not to go back there?!" I couldn't respond to his words and just looked down.

Basically everyone was looking at this point. No girl ever actually gets talked to by them so this must be a shock.

I was still looking down with no words and felt a hug. He whispered in my ear "I feel like a terrible brother, let me protect you. Whether it's beating up dad, or becoming your legal guardian, or even just being there for you, let me." He pulled away from the hug and brought me to the nurses office.

He patched my wounds, and it felt weird having someone seem to care. He was going to pull up my sleeve and I pulled my arm away. "Jieun-ah, I know what you've done, I saw it last night while I was cleaning your previous wounds. I felt bad and reluctantly gave him my arm. As he pulled up my sleeve, he sighed and looked me in the eyes, "again?" Is all he said.

He was calm and wiped my arm with a damp towel. I'm so lucky to have him now, but I feel bad that he's doing this.

Once he finished, he gave me some sweatpants and another sweatshirt that were in his locker. "Thank you Jeonghan" I said as I hugged him and started to my class which I was once again late.

When I walked in I made eye contact with Jihoon and he gave me a small smile and I looked away. I could tell a few girls were glaring at me because I was with Seventeen. I still feel a bit weird about the fact that I now talk and live with them.

Time skip

The last bell rang and I packed my things. "Jieun!" I heard my name get called. It was Mingyu. I walked over "what is it?" "Walk home with us?" "I'll see you guys later, I'm going to the park, I always do after school. Could you tell Jeonghan where I am? I don't want to worry him" "aww alright I'll tell him, but you remember where the apartment is right?" He leaned closer to me and whispered the address. "Thanks Mingyu! I'll see you later." They all said bye and I walked out of class.

I couldn't even walk out the door before I was stopped. "You're coming with me" was all they said, and suddenly I was grabbed.