I want to live

Chapter 3

"Where are you?!"

"Hey! I need some help here!"

"What happened, Jackson?"

"I was out running and I heard a scream so I went to check and there was this man standing over a kid and the kid was bleeding and coughing up blood and then I punched the old man but the kid passed out and now I'm here freaking out and don't know what to do, hyung, help me,"

"..."

By the silence, he got from the other line the older had no idea what the younger was talking about. he groaned "Nevermind, come to Carlson street, I need help getting this kid away from this bastard before he wakes up," without letting Mark say anything else he hung up.

He bends down and lifted the boy's arm around his neck and supported the rest with a tight grip around his waist. He was surprised, to say the least when he had no problem lifting the kid, he let his hand go a little further up and this time he frowned, you could feel his rips dangerously much. Now that he got a better look at the boy the shirt, he had one looked big on his body, it was loose, and it looked like he could get out of it without even unbuttoning it.

His eyes slowly opened, and Jackson didn't notice he was staring until their eyes meet.

"Who are you?" Elijah’s voice was raspy like he had just woken up, but it also made him sound weak and vulnerable.

"I'm--" Elijah began coughing wildly and squirmed around in the other’s arms "--Jackson" He finished his sentence after he made sure the other had calmed down. He decided it was better to wait for his friends to come and let the other sit down for a while, but not here… not if there is the slightest chance of that old geezer waking up again.

Jackson lifted the skeleton-boy up bride-style, in which the other reacted with snuggling his face into his neck. Cute.

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Jackson's Pov

After 15 minutes of waiting by the sidewalk, the slightly taller male breaks the silence that has been with them the whole time "Does the guy I just save from a pervert have a name?" He looks up from the ground "Oh, yeah, my name is... Jay and thanks for that whole thing..." His face went emotionless again.

"Hey, what’s going on?" I heard a familiar voice and look up to see Liam staring down at me.

"Just at the right time," I get up and put Jay’s arm around my neck to help him up, he hops to the door and opens the door for him and helps him in.

"Are you kidnapping me?" Jay said with worry in his voice, he didn't have enough strength to get away even if he wanted to.

Liam snapped his head towards Jackson "I am not going to join in on a kidnapping, Jackson explain!"

As I explained the whole story again, I noticed that while not even being halfway through the story, Jay feel asleep, he curled himself up into a ball and slept with his face hidden behind his knees.

"Okay, but what are we going to do with him now?" Liam's voice was calmer than before.

"I'm going to let him stay at my place for the night, I'll figure the rest put tomorrow," I sighed and got in the car, I was tired as hell too.

When we got home and I carried Suga bride-style into my apartment and into the guest room, my apartment was big so there was easily room enough for at least 6 people to stay here.

I carefully laid him on the bed and started unbuttoning the shirt he had on, it must be uncomfortable for him to have this on while sleeping.

I opened it and it broke my heart what I saw.

It wasn't enough that he was already in that condition when I first saw him, but even if that didn't happen, he still had bruises and scars all over his chest, back and

"Cutting marks..." I mumbled to myself. I let my hand brush over the marks. His skin was pale, and he was unhealthily thin, you could easily see his rips even if he breathed in, his eyelashes long and hair mint-green and soft...

wait soft? Without realizing Jackson had begun to intertwine his fingers in the sleeping boy's hair.

He took his hand away and finish undressing the boy's shirt -leaving the jeans he had on- and walked out of the room.

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Elijah’s Pov

Waking up in a stranger's house after being chased by one's boss and being close to r**e, was not how I was picturing myself this morning. I sighed and silently hoped that they didn’t have the same intentions as my boss.

Even if my boss was gone, I still knew nothing about the people who brought me home with them. I mean they could be a bunch of human-organ dealers or worse… like him...

I sighed and got up. No ass-pain... Good? I stood up and saw something weird. "Why did they undress me...?" I looked around but couldn't find the shirt I had on earlier.

I heard a knock on the door and slightly panicked. Looking around for anything I could protect myself with I spotted a vase white with a dark blue pattern, better than nothing.

I took it and stood behind the door ready if they tried anything.

"Are you still sleeping?" The stranger walked in and tilted his head, probably confused as to why the bed was now empty.

"Leave me alone!" I yelled as I swung my arms down towards the strange male, unfortunately for me, he somehow reacted to it fast enough to throw me over his shoulder and into the wall and down on the ground.

I instantly yelp in pain as he slid down and the stranger only now seeming to realize what he had just done, blinked and snapped out of it.

"I am SO sorry!" He ran over to my now limp less body and tried to help me sit up. I flinched at the touch and tried to inch my way away from him. I squinted my eyes together to remember what had happened, and then it clicked, this guy, his name was Jackson wasn’t it? I questioned myself and slightly glared at him, another question in the back of my mind.

"Why did you help me...?" My voice was low and scared, which made it pretty obvious that I was intimidated by the other.

"Huh—" the strange man was cut off by another unfamiliar voice -to me at least-

"you're scaring the boy," a new person said and entered the room. He looked at me and smiled, his eyes giving off a warm and kind feeling. "Sorry about my friend, he can be a little too... um, like himself? Well anyway my name is Isaac, and this is Jackson," he stretches out his arm towards Elijah and he slowly took it still slightly shivering.

"Hello,"