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Minho walks through the house, confused as he noticed that neither Felix or Seungmin were here anymore. He hadn’t heard either of them leaving, which makes him slightly worried as it’s not something the two of them do. They normally inform either him or Chan that they leave the house, what isn’t the case this time.
“Hey hyung, have you seen Minnie? He looked through my phone and changed the password to something.”
Minho turns around to see Hyunjin standing behind him, holding out his phone. “I haven’t seen him since this morning. Did you try calling him?”
Hyunjin shakes his head. “Well, I did put he didn’t pick up.”
Minho frowns, walking to the living room. Hyunjin follows him, now curious as to what is going on. “Have you seen any members of the maknae line?”
“No? Han and Innie left at breakfast, Lix and Minnie went to do their own things so I didn’t want to bother them. I spend some time with Lia noona before Chan and Changbin hyung went to speak with her.”
Minho nods, taking his phone out of his pocket as he sits down on the couch. Hyunjin sits down next to him, watching him closely.
“What’s going on hyung?”
Minho shrugs, trying to look up the locations of the other boys their phones. “Not sure, but I have a bad feeling about this.”
Hyunjin nods, staying quiet for now as he watches Minho do his thing.
“We’re in so much trouble, Minho hyung has spammed me with messages asking where I am.” Felix pouts as he looks at his phone. They’re now parked in front of the house, ready to go inside.
“We just explain what happened, like we had to pick up Han and Innie.”
Jisung just opens the door, not saying anything as he makes his way to the house. The other three quickly follow, worried about him.
“I’m going to take a shower.” Jisung mumbles, as he quickly makes his way to his bedroom so that no one can ask him any questions.
Minho gets up from his place on the couch, walking over to the other boys while still watching Jisung. He frowns when he notices Jisung’s shaking hands. “What happened?” He turns to the other boys, who all look at the ground. “Well?”
“I got tired of walking so Hannie hyung asked Seungmin hyung to pick us up.” Jeongin looks up at Minho, hoping that he will at least believe him for now.
“Are you okay? Maybe you should take a nap then.” Hyunjin pulls Jeongin with him to the couch, not wanting the younger to stand much longer if he is tired from walking. Felix follows them, knowing that he will tell Minho what happened if he stays there any longer.
Minho raises an eyebrow at Seungmin, wanting to get more information about what happened while they were out.
“I don’t know what happened hyung, I only picked them up. You should ask Jisung.”
“None of you got hurt?”
Seungmin shakes his head. “Not that I know off.”
Minho sighs, patting Seungmin’s shoulder. “Okay, thanks. Go watch a movie with the others, oh and Hyunjin wants to know what you did to his phone.”
Seungmin lets out a laugh, remembering what password he changed on Hyunjin’s phone. “Sure, good luck hyung.”
Minho knocks on the door to Changbin and Jisung’s bedroom, waiting for Jisung to reply. He had waited about 30 minutes before going up to check up on Jisung.
“Who is it?”
“Minho.”
Jisung stays quiet, not really wanting to speak with Minho just yet. He had hoped that taking a shower would have helped him calm down but it didn’t really help one bit. His brain is making extra hours already, trying to figure out who could be responsible for the grace at the graveyard and why they would do it.
“Sung?”
Jisung doesn’t notice that his breathing is getting quicker but Minho does. Hearing that Jisung’s breathing is getting faster as he is listening closely from the other side of the door. “Hyung…”
“I’m coming in Sung.” Minho opens the door, looking around to try and find where Jisung is sitting. He quickly makes his way over to Jisung when he sees him sitting in the corner of his side of the bedroom. Jisung has his legs pulled up against to his chest, looking at the ground.
“What’s wrong Sungie?” Minho carefully lays a hand on Jisung’s knee, not wanting to scare the younger. Jisung just shakes his head, not able to talk right now. He covers his ears with his shaking hands, trying to block out the voice in his head that are starting to yell at him.
“Sungie? Tell me, what’s going on?” Minho rubs Jisung’s knees, hoping that it will calm him down at least enough to talk. “Hey hey, take deep breaths for me Sung.” Minho notices that Jisung’s breathing gets worse as time goes by.
“Ca-n’t hy-ung.”
Minho bites his lip, trying to remember what to do. This isn’t the first time they have been in a situation like this but it sure has been a while since Minho had to deal with it on his own. Last time he at least had Changbin by his side. “Okay, I’m going to grab your hand and put it on my chest, okay?”
Jisung nods, letting Minho take his hand away from his ear. Minho carefully lays Jisung’s hand on his chest, taking extremely deep breaths in the hope that Jisung will copy them. “Just try and follow my breathing, okay?”
Jisung nods again, trying his best to follow Minho’s breathing. He shuts his eyes closed, trying to ignore the yelling in his head and the headache that is forming as well.
“Just deep breaths Sungie. There you go.” Minho smiles, rubbing Jisung’s knee with the hand that isn’t holding Jisung’s. “That’s it Sungie, deep breaths.”
Jisung slowly opens his eyes again, looking up at Minho with teary eyes.
“Sungie, can I hug you?”
Jisung nods, letting Minho pull him into his lap. Minho pulls the boy close, rocking them both slightly while Jisung hides his face into Minho’s neck.
“What happened Sung?”
“Someone is trying to attack us.” Jisung whispers, biting his lip. “Me and Innie went to vi-sit his brothers gr-ave and somehow my grave was th-ere. It shouldn’t be there, it should be with my fa-milies.”
Minho frowns. “What?”
“Something felt off, so I looked around and found my grave. I know for a fact that it shouldn’t be there. I didn’t live anywhere close to here.” Jisung shivers at the thought.
“So that’s why Seungmin and Felix went to get you guys.”
Jisung nods, closing his eyes again feeling tired. Minho hums, putting some notes down in his phone so that he can inform Chan about what happened to Jisung and Jeongin today.
“Don’t worry Sung, we will find who did this and take care of it.”
Lia frowns as she looks around the kitchen, trying to find something to make for dinner. But she can barely find any food in the fridge or cupboards that will feed a 9-member household. She sighs as she walks over to the living room where she knows a few of the younger guys are playing on the ps5. “Where do you all keep your food? I want to make dinner but I can’t find anything.”
Hyunjin looks away from the television. “Should be in the kitchen, we did forget to the groceries though…” When he turns back to the screen, Jeongin kills his character winning the game. Making Hyunjin slam his controller down on the ground.
Jeongin smiles, turning to Lia. “You should ask Channie hyung or Minho hyung to go grocery shopping.”
“Minho hyung is busy right now.” Felix takes Hyunjin’s controller, putting it back in the case. “He told me not to disturb him unless one of us is dying.”
“Not eating could kill us?”
Lia sighs, running a hand through her hair. She decides to go look for Chan, seeing as the younger boys aren’t of any help.
She looks through the house, not really knowing where his room or office are. When she opens the door to a room, her eyes widen as she freezes. In front of her were a lot of screens, all filled with camera footage or information about certain people. One of the people on the screens is her own father, the other person on the screen seems familiar to her as well. Someone she met a few times because of her father, Hwang Bo Kyung. The only difference between the two is that Hwang Bo Kyung’s name is underlined with a red line.
“What are you doing here?”
Lia flinches, quickly turning around to see Jisung standing behind her. His facial expression as cold as ever, giving her a clear idea that she should not have found out about this room.
“I uhm I’m looking for Chan oppa?” She nervously plays with the ring on her finger, not sure what to do.
“Well, he is not here, so get out.”
“Sorry.”
Jisung just rolls his eyes, watching her quickly walk off. He sighs as he locks the door to the room, he only left for a minute so he left the room unlocked not thinking that Lia would ever find that room, now he regrets not looking it.
Lia quickly walks away, not looking at where she is going. Causing her to walk right against Chan, who catches her as she nearly falls to the ground.
“Careful, you should be looking where you going Lia.” Chan chuckles as he lets her go.
“Oh, thank you oppa.”
Chan smiles at her. “No problem, so what are you doing in this part of the house? I’m sure this wasn’t included in the house tour.”
“I got lost while looking for you.”
“Looking for me?”
Lia nods her head. “Yeah, I wanted to make dinner for everyone but you all don’t have any food in this house. The younger boys told me to go ask you or Minho to go grocery shopping.”
Chan hums, looking down at his watch. “Well, me and Minho have to leave in a bit for a meeting but Changbin could go with you. Just wait in the living room while I will get him.”
Lia nods, slightly frowning as she walks back to the living room. She didn’t know that Chan and Minho had a meeting today but maybe they just didn’t want her to know.
“Ready to go Lia?”
Lia turns around, facing Changbin before she nods.
“I asked the kids what they wanted us to get, so I have a list on my phone.”
“Kids?”
“Oh, the younger members. We call them the kids.”
Lia just nods, following Changbin to the car. She finds it actually cute that the older three man call the younger boys’ kids, it’s as if they are a real family. This may only be her first day here and she may not know all of them but it’s clear they all have an amazing bond.
They drive in silence to the grocery store, not sure what to talk about. Lia bites her lip, trying not to let the question she has for Changbin slip. But she can’t help herself but wonder.
“What’s your opinion on my and Chan oppa’s wedding?”
