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"what do you mean 'i can't leave'?"
                          
taeyong sighed. he was in his office, facing renjun and donghyuck, and explaining that donghyuck couldn't go back to his house.

                          


                          
"you are in danger, dong-"
                          
"i know how to fight. i've been doing taekwondo for years." donghyuck cut him.
                          
"your house looks like a battle fied right now."
                          
"i'll go to renjun's." donghyuck said quickly.
                          
"and put your best friend's family's life in danger?"
                          
"i- how do you know he's my best friend?" he asked.
                          
taeyong sighed. donghyuck was really stubborn. "as i told you, we know everything about you."
                          
"that's illegal." donghyuck pouted. 
                          
"donghyuck, we're in a gang. there's nothing that we do that is legal."
                          
donghyuck crossed his arm on his chest and stayed silent. 
                          
"you two will stay with us tonight, and tomorrow, after your classes we'll see." taeyong explained. "any questions?" 
                          
renjun, who had been silent since then, raised his hand slightly. 
                          
"c-can i have my phone?" he asked shakily.
                          
"you don't need it." taeyong stated.
                          
"i-i need to text my parents, a-and my boyfriends..."
                          
"your parents already know."
                          
renjun lowered his head and kept his mouth shut. he wasn't that comfortable in here. 
                          


                          
taeyong looked at the two silent boys. "if you don't have any more questions, i'll bring you to the room where the youngers are playing..."
                          
taeyong got up from his seat and walked towards the door, the two teens on his heels. they crossed the house, passing through various corridors and finally arrived in front of a pastel coloured door. "here they are. i'm sure you'll enjoy their company." he said before leaving the two of them with a confused expression. 
                          
"what a wired gang." donghyuck said before knocking on the door.
                          


                          
the same door opened seconds after, revealing a small boy with fluffy hair. the two best friends recognized him as he was a student of their school, one year below them; they had never talked to him though.
                          
"hum... taeyong told us to come here?" donghyuck said, but it sounded more like a question.
                          
"oh, you are the two boys kun-ge was taking care of! i'm chenle, nice to meet you! please enter."
                          
this was too scary for donghyuck. how the hell could someone like that be in a gang. first, he was too young, and he was too happy and bubbly. nothing could become weirder than that donghyuck thought. 
                          
they entered the colourful room, noticing another student of their school, and two boys they recognised.
                          


                          


                          


                          


                          


                          
"jaemin? jeno?" donghyuck said, eyes widening. 
                          
renjun, ran across the room and threw himself on his boyfriends smiling brighter than ever. 
                          
chenle closed the door behind them.
                          
"i see you already know jaemin and jeno. this is jisung." chenle said, pointing to the other guy.
                          
"wait- you two..." donghyuck asked pointing towards jaemin and jeno "...were in a gang since the beginning?"
                          
jaemin nodded. 
                          
"and the two of you..." he pointed at chenle and jisung "...are in the same gang?" 
                          
chenle nodded smiling.
                          
"what the hell, aren't you like 12?"
                          
"i'm 18 and he's 17" chenle said happily. 
                          
donghyuck scratched his head nervously. 
                          
"but... nct..." he said. "they are awful... they kill people... they do bad things... you guys seem too soft for doing that..." 
                          
jeno stood up, approaching donghyuck. "i'm sorry donghyuck, but yes, we all are in nct. and about what you just said, it's kind of a cover, to stay feared and far from the police... we do kill, but only for the... good cause? we're the four youngest in the gang. we form a unit called 'dream'" he said.  
                          
"and you don't mind at all?!" donghyuck asked renjun. "don't tell me you already knew."
                          
renjun shook his head. "i didn't know, but now that i do, everything gets clearer. the fact that the two of you lived together, and that i could never come to your house. the fact that sometimes you received a call and had to leave. the fact that you two have such reflexes..." renjun listed, looking at his two boyfriends. "i don't know..."
                          
"i still can't believe it." donghyuck. 
                          
"but- " 
                          
"leave it jaemin. can't you see it's a lot to digest in one day?" jisung said, making donghyuck look at him. "let's just play together. i'm sure there will be even more speech about the gang and everything at dinner. so, let them forget about it for two minutes."
                          
donghyuck smirked. "that's someone cool! i already like you!" he said, approaching the youngest and grabbing the videogame controller he was holding out.
                          


                          


                          


                          
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later that night, renjun and donghyuck were lying on a bed, in the room that was given them. 
                          
they had played videogames with dream until dinner. 
                          
after, they had eaten dinner with part of the gang, as others were on a mission. taeyong had given them a room for tonight to sleep, and clothes to wear (he had just asked the dreamies about it). 
                          


                          
"what is happening to us is crazy." renjun stated, looking at the ceiling. 
                          
donghyuck who was in the same position hummed. 
                          
"turns out nct is not as bad as what the media say..."
                          
"i still fear them. you never know what can happen." donghyuck said. 
                          
"we're safe. they'll protect us."
                          
"keep telling yourself that. i'm not so sure about it."
                          
"jeno and jaemin promised me they'll protect us." renjun assured.
                          
"of course. you have to gangsters as boyfriends. so, you're safe. i have no one to protect me." donghyuck whined. 
                          
"shut up." 
                          
there was a silence.
                          
"thank you renjun." donghyuck broke it.
                          
"for?"
                          
"being worried about me. it means a lot."
                          
"that's just normal..." and they both fell asleep, with a smile on their faces.