When Minho was done explaining his life story, Jisung looked down at his lap, worrying Minho a little bit. He was nervous to see how his boyfriend would react to everything and really wanted to ask Jisung, but he knew that he should give the boy some time to process everything.

A few seconds later, Minho heard sniffles coming from his boyfriend, and he started panicking. "Jisung? Baby what's wrong?" He lifted Jisung's face and saw tears streaming down his face.

Minho frowned and wiped the tears away with his thumb. "Why are you crying?" He asked softly.

Jisung placed a hand over Minho's and leaned into his boyfriend's touch. He closed his eyes and took a shaky breath, a few more tears slipped down his cheeks. "I'm so sorry you had to go through that. You didn't deserve to be treated like that."

"Please stop crying, I'm okay, really." Minho smiled to show the person he loved that he was actually okay.

"If I knew your past was this serious then I would've never asked about it and your scars. I'm sorry for acting so ignorant about Moonjin."

"Why are you apologizing? It's not your fault for what happened to me and it's not your fault that you didn't know what happened. Stop blaming yourself for nothing. It happened a long time ago and I've moved on from it. I'm the one who wanted to tell you because I love you and you deserved to know the truth."

Jisung cried a little harder after Minho said that. He really got lucky with him.

"I thought I said no more crying." Minho said lightly.

"These are tears of gratefulness, I don't know how I deserve you."

Minho frowned a bit, "Jisung if anything, I'm the one who doesn't deserve you. You are such a sweet and caring person that sees the good in people. Even for me and I'm in a gang. I treated you like shit at the beginning and you still were kind towards me."

"Actually I was terrified of you." Jisung giggled softly.

"Yeah but even if you were scared of me, you still unconsciously cared for me and saw the good in me when no one else really does. That's just your nature and I adore it so much."

"I mean finding the good in you wasn't hard, it might've took more work, but it wasn't hard."

Minho's heart skipped a beat, he really was in love with Jisung.

"... Is this why you act so cold to other people?" Jisung asked quietly.

Minho nodded, "Yeah basically. After Moonjin and Jaewoo, I didn't want people to think I was vulnerable like I used to be because that's what led to all the unfortunate events. I started having really bad trust issues after that and didn't trust anyone other than Stray Kids... Until you and your friends came along. But because of my trust issues, I act really rude since I doesn't want people to think that they have a chance to get close with me." He explained.

It all made sense now. Minho isn't an actual dick, he just had a very rough childhood that forced him to act the way he does because he's doesn't want it to repeat again.

"Under that mask, you're actually a really sweet person and you would do anything for the people you love. I think you should show that part of you more because that's one of the things I love about you." Jisung said softly.

He really knew how to make Minho's heart flutter. Even if it was from the smallest things, like hearing Jisung say what he loved him. It made Minho want to tackle the boy and give him all his love. Which is exactly what he did.

Jisung most definitely wasn't expecting his boyfriend to attack him to the bed with open arms, engulfing him into a hug, but he certainly wasn't complaining. He loved being in Minho's presence, it was like a comfort blanket and it made him feel the most safe.

"You know I love you right?" Minho smiled, cuddling his boyfriend.

Jisung giggled, "You might've mentioned that a few times, but I wouldn't complain if I heard you say that all day for the rest of my life."

"I'm more than willing to say that all day for the rest of your life."

There goes Jisung's heart again, beating like he ran a marathon, all because of Lee Minho.

"I really need you to stop doing that." Jisung mumbled.

"I didn't even do anything." Minho chuckled.

"Shut up, you're making my heart beat really fast and you make me flustered and you make my heart melt and you make fall for you even harder than I already am." He rambled.

Minho smiled, feeling his heart doing exactly the things that Jisung described. "Then I'm going to need you to stop doing that too because you make my heart do all those things and you make me fall for you even harder than I already am, it can be over the smallest things too, like hearing you say 'I love you'."

"I love you with my whole heart."

The corners of Minho's lips curled into the brightest smile he's ever wore. "I love you with my whole heart too." He whispered.

Jisung felt the heat rise in his cheeks so he rolled to the other side, wanting to hide his red face from Minho, but the gang member noticed this and rolled Jisung back so he was facing him. The red boy quickly buried his face in Minho's chest, making the boy chuckle at his cuteness.

After some time Jisung lifted his head from Minho's chest, pouting at him. Minho brought his hand up and gently caressed Jisung's cheek before leaning in and kissing his forehead very gently. Jisung took a hold of Minho's hand and brought it into his view. He carefully looked at the damage done to his boyfriend's wrist. Now that Jisung knew the story behind them, he touched them very gently, almost as if he would rip the skin if he touched them roughly. He quietly observed the harsh markings while Minho observed Jisung.

Jisung didn't even notice that his eyebrows were furrowed or that he was frowning, but Minho did. "Baby, I'm fine. It doesn't hurt and I'm not going to break if you touch them. I know it looks really bad but there's no pain."

"I just wish that you didn't have to go through that." Jisung softly kissed Minho's wrists.

The gang member stayed quiet for a moment before saying, "I used to wish that too, but everything happens for a reason and if I never went through that, then I wouldn't have joined Chan hyung's gang and I would've never met you. So if I had a choice to go back and change my past, but also have the future change or to have to relive it again and keep the same future, then I would, without a doubt or hesitation, choose to relive it again if it meant that I would still meet you and Stray Kids."

Jisung's cheeks turned a light pink, "I don't think I'm worth you going through that again."

Minho frowned. How does Jisung not know that he deserved the entire world? "Stop talking yourself down all the time. You're the most amazing and beautiful person, inside and out. I don't want to hear you insult yourself anymore because none of it is true. I don't know who told you that, but I wanna have a little talk with them because you're worth going through that again and much more."

Jisung looked up at his boyfriend with watery eyes and a little pout. He was going to cry any second because of how sweet his boyfriend was being.

"Don't cry." Minho said softly, gently caressing Jisung's cheek with his thumb.

"Stop making me cry by being so sweet." Jisung laughed lightly and his boyfriend smiled.

Jisung's mind wandered to the first day that he met Moonjin and remembered something that didn't make sense to him. "When Moonjin first came to our school and we got assigned to our partners. You almost punched him, but Changbin and Hyunjin stopped you, telling you the 'remember the rule'. Why'd they stop you? What's the rule?"

Minho sighed, "Our one and only rule in Stray Kids is to never kill anyone in front of the eyes of the innocent, people who aren't in gangs. Changbin and Hyunjin stopped me from punching Moonjin because they knew that once I started, I wouldn't have stopped until he was dead."

Jisung nodded. "How'd you know that Moonjin wasn't going to follow us?" He asked after a moment of silence, referring back to when they were in his room.

"He won't follow you 24/7, he only said that to scare you. Even if he did decide to follow me, then I would definitely know and our guards would message me or something telling me I'm being followed. If that didn't work, then the people guarding the entire property would for sure see him, even if he thinks he's slick because the guards are very well trained and they know what they're doing." Minho paused for a second, "There's been plenty of people who tried to follow me and the gang, wanting to find out where we live, but there's a reason why no one has ever succeeded."

"But how do you know he's not going to go after my siblings?"

"Well, because Moonjin doesn't know how to get through your gate and like I said before, he's not smart so he won't figure it out. He's also not after your siblings so he won't waste his time going after them."

Jisung knew the answer to the question he was about to ask but he still had to ask. "Who's he after?"

Minho sighed, holding his hands, "You."

Jisung closed his eyes, "Why me? What does he want from me?"

The gang member frowned, "It's because you're the one that's dating me. I don't want you to freak out, but the gang and I think he's going to use you to get to me, get revenge from when I killed his best friend. But me, Chan hyung, Woojin hyung, and everyone else aren't going to let him get the chance to get near you. We're all going to keep a close eye on Moonjin and you."

Jisung stayed quiet and Minho continued. "That's why I need you to tell me whenever something weird or out of the ordinary happens to you because if something happens to you then I'm not going to forgive myself."

The boy still hadn't said anything. He was thinking and processing everything that was told to him. Minho sighed and frowned even more. "If you want to break up and leave me then I understand. It'll be safer for you to not be wit-"

"Stop." Jisung demanded and Minho immediately closed his mouth. "Don't even finish that sentence. I'm not leaving you. That's not an option. Yes I'm overwhelmed by everything you just said to me, but I don't care if you think I'll be safer by not being with you because I won't feel safe without you there. I trust you and the gang and leaving you is something I refuse to do."

Minho blinked a few times before the corners of his mouth curled up. "God I'm so glad you said that because I wouldn't be able to live without you." Minho said before he leaned in and gave his boyfriend a deep kiss filled with love.

-

The next day Jisung and Minho hung out together until he got a text from his siblings to come home. Minho dropped him off, making sure to tell him to text him if anything happened.

When the gang member went home, he walked into the basement where his brothers would probably be hanging out. The boy sat down on the couch and felt everyone's eyes on him. They were all wondering why Jisung stayed the night. The night before, Minho texted Chan briefly saying that Jisung was coming over because something happened. He never went into detail though.

"Oh hey Minho." Chan said.

"Hey hyung." Minho sighed.

"How come Jisung stayed the night? What happened?" Woojin asked worried.

Minho sighed, "Jisung called me, scared out of his mind, begging me to come over, so I rushed out of the house and raced to his. When I knocked on the door, he threw himself at me and hugged me so tightly. I was so surprised and asked what was wrong. He pulled into the his house and pulled me upstairs, stopping right in front of his bedroom door. He explained to me that when him, Seungmin, Felix, and Jeongin went to Seoul yesterday, he felt like someone was watching him, but whenever he looked around there was no one there. When he went home, there was someone buzzing the gate so he went outside to check it out and he saw an envelope on the floor with his name on it. Inside the envelope was a letter and like ten pictures of the four of them while they were out in Seoul."

Minho threw the envelope onto the table. He took it because Jisung didn't want it anywhere near him. Chan read the letter and gasped. "Moonjin."

Yedam, Hyunjin, and Changbin were flipping through the photos, absolutely fuming, they had the same reaction as Minho from when he first saw the pictures. The fact that someone like Moonjin was following their boyfriends and threatening them and they didn't even know, was unsettling.

"So Moonjin really is going to use Jisung to hurt you." Woojin said.

"No. He isn't. We're not going to let him even get the chance." Chan said sternly.

"I told Jisung to text me right away if anything weird happened to him. You guys should probably do the same." Minho told to the three people who were dating Jisung's friends. They nodded. "Even if Moonjin's not after them, just to be safe."

"Anyways, I told Jisung that he was gonna come home with me and we came home and went up to my room. I told him that the person who sent that letter was Moonjin. Jisung started questioning how I knew and I finally told him everything. My scars, my past life, how I joined the gang, I told him everything." Minho finished explaining.

Everyone in the room slightly gasped and opened their mouths, staring at Minho with wide eyes. They knew he was going to tell Jisung at some point but they didn't think it was going to happen last night.

"How'd he take it?" Hyunjin asked softly.

"He cried and apologized because he felt bad that he even asked about it. He apologized for acting ignorant about the whole Moonjin situation." Minho said. "I don't know why he was apologizing though, he didn't do anything wrong. It made me want to hug him and comfort him... God I really hate seeing him cry from sadness, especially when it's because of me."

"Minho you're making it seem like you purposely tried to make him cry. You didn't. You gave him what he wanted, the truth, and he's definitely really thankful for that." Woojin pointed out.

"I gave him the option to leave me." Minho dropped.

Everyone gave him a look that said, 'stupid bitch'. He continued, "He didn't even think twice about it before he turned that option down."

"Well no shit. He's in love with you as much as you are in love with him. He won't let anything get in between your guys' relationship, he's gonna fight for it." Changbin said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Minho smiled to himself, thinking about when Jisung said that he loved him.

"Wow I can't believe you told him finally." Yedam said in subtle shock.

"He waited long enough and I wanted to tell him, it was time." Minho shrugged. "I'm glad he took it well though. I mean, not like I thought he wasn't going to, but you know, there's always that fear."

The group knew exactly what Minho was talking about. His past wasn't an easy subject to comprehend, especially the details. People spent their lives thinking that Minho is this tough ass dude with no heart, which is partially true. He is tough but under all that toughness, there's a little broken inside of him. Jisung is the first outside person to know the truth and that made Minho extremely vulnerable and naked, but he didn't care. He loved Jisung and he wouldn't have it any other way.

"Telling him made me feel a lot better. I felt the weight of the sky being lifted off my shoulders. He made me realize that it wasn't something I should be ashamed of. Something that shouldn't be dragging me down anymore." Minho smiled to himself.

Everyone broke into a grin and Chan pulled Minho into a bone crushing hug. "I'm seriously so happy for you."

"Chan hyung please I can't breathe." He laughed and the older male let him go. "I told Jisung that he should also tell Seungmin, Felix and Jeongin the truth about Moonjin too." Minho continued.

The gang froze and looked at him with wide eyes. "The truth as in..." Woojin started.

Minho nodded, "As in childhood, yes." The confusion in everyone's faces remained so Minho explained further.

"Yeah I know you guys are surprised, but I think they have a right to know who Moonjin really is since they were dragged into this whole mess when he stalked them. They were bound to find out sooner or later and I trust the three of them so I don't mind them knowing about it. But Jisung will probably only tell them the bare minimum."

Everyone's shocked face slowly turned into proudness and they all patted Minho on the back telling him how proud they are of him and how far he's come.

As they all settled down, Changbin said in a serious tone, "Now what're we going to do with Moonjin?" and everyone looked at Minho.

-

Jisung quickly invited his friends when he got home, telling them it was an emergency and they all come over in five minutes.

"What happened?" Seungmin asked the moment Jisung closed his bedroom door.

"What's the emergency?" Felix asked worried.

Jisung sighed, "Sit down." His three friends complied and sat on his bed.

"Remember when we went to Seoul and I thought that someone was following us?"

His three friends gave a confused face as they nodded. "Well after you guys left my house, I was sitting downstairs, watching something, when I heard my gate monitor go off. I walked up to it and checked the camera but there was no one there, no cars or anything. I became really confused because I wasn't expecting anything and my siblings weren't either. I just ignored it and sat back down. Then it went off again, but there was no one there. I ignored it again but it went off. This time I just walked outside to the gate and checked who was there. There was no one, just an envelope on the ground. I picked it up and it had my name written on it. I walked back inside and ran up to my room."

"Jisung you idiot, why'd you go out and check? That's how you die." Seungmin rolled his eyes.

"I don't know, I just had to. Anyways I opened it and there were a stack of pictures and a letter in the envelope. I looked at the pictures and they were of us, when we were walking around Seoul." Jisung said and the other three opened their eyes wide.

"What?" Jeongin whispered.

Jisung pulled out his phone and showed his friends the pictures he took of the photos taken of him and his friends. They all looked at the photos in shock, not knowing how to feel or what to do. They felt uncomfortable and unsafe.

"The letter was worse," Jisung showed them a picture of the letter that was written to him.

Seungmin, Felix and Jeongin all gasped with their mouths opened slightly. "Jisung, you need to tell Minho about these or something. Who is WPQO?" Felix looked at his friend.

"I did. I called him immediately and he showed up quickly. I showed his the letter and the pictures. He looked livid and he told me that I was going to stay with him for the night at his house. So we went back to his house and sat on the bed. He told me he knew who sent that envelope."

"Who?"

"Moonjin."

Everyone sucked in their breath, "Moonjin? Why would he do that?" Jeongin asked.

"That's what I asked Minho. He looked at me and said that it was time for him to tell me about his past."

Felix, Seungmin, and Jeongin gasped, covering their mouths, "He finally told you?" Seungmin whispered and Jisung nodded.

"He finally explained everything, what his childhood was like, how he got the scars and how he joined the gang. Guys," Jisung felt his eyes weld up with tears. "He's had such a rough childhood, I don't understand how he survived that and continued on with life."

The three friends frowned and engulfed Jisung in a big group hug. "He had Chan hyung, Woojin hyung and everyone in the gang to help him through it. And now he also has you." Felix said.

Jisung wiped his few tears, "Yeah but still."

"No buts, stop crying because I hate seeing you cry." He pouted.

"Okay okay." Jisung gave a sad smile, "Anyways, Moonjin and Minho knew each other when they were kids and the things him and this dude named Jaewoo did to Minho..." Jisung's voice gave out and the boy took a deep breath, "Moonjin is the reason for Minho's scars."

When Jisung said that, his three friends' eyes bulged out of their sockets. Jisung continued, "After Minho joined Stray Kids, they seeked out revenge for Moonjin and Jaewoo. They soon found out that the two were in a gang called WPQO. They invaded and killed Jaewoo, but left Moonjin alive to live with the pain of losing someone he loved. That's why they know Moonjin and why he is a horrible person. They think that he's after me to use me for Minho's torture, get revenge."

"That's why our boyfriends are so protective of us now. Jesus Christ, Jisung you need to be with Minho at all times." Seungmin said.

"I know I know. He asked me if I wanted to leave him." Jisung said.

Everyone's eyes darted to him, waiting for his next comment, "He said that it would keep me safer, but I obviously told him that that was bullshit and I would never leave him. He seemed really relieved when I said that."

"Oh thank god, you didn't leave him." Jeongin sighed in relief.

"I could never."

"I didn't expect Moonjin to be like that." Felix said in shock.

"I didn't either, I was shocked when Minho told me but it makes sense."

"I'm glad Minho hyung finally told you about it though. You're really doing the impossible right now."  Jeongin said making Jisung smile shyly.

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i'm so sorry for scaring you guys with the chapter hint that said 'break up'. at least we now know that jisung won't leave minho no matter what hehe

i hope a lot of your questions were answered but if not then comment questions you still have :)

opinions?

in the next chapter:
-they're back?
-they meet
-dinner?

tell me what you think is gonna happen in the next chapter :)