Acceleration [Book 1]

27: Car Chase

⊱⋅ ─ 27: CAR CHASE

"They broke up?" Jaehyun asked, looking up from the newspaper as he placed down his mug of coffee down on the coffee table, four of the lads seated opposite from Jaehyun.

Minho nodded, rubbing the back of his head as he saw the commotion, but didn't hear what the former couple were arguing about. "Chan seemed to take it hard." The oldest of the four males said.

"But it's fine, I guess," Hyunjin butted in, "they seem to talk it out nicely," he added, hoping he could lift up the heavy atmosphere.

Jisung rolled his eyes, then an irritated groan escaped his mouth from the back of his throat, "Right, Ferret, right," he sarcastically grumbled, "they were crying during that hug Chan pulled up!"

Sighing, Jaehyun leaned on his knees, "Are you really sure that they broke up?"

"Why would they be crying, then?" Jeongin looked at the three older males that witnessed the alleged breakup of their leader and newest member, "I told Felix to talk to Chan, I didn't want to have any problems going on about in the team, Hyunjin and Jisung fighting like cat and dog is enough already-"

"Hey-" Jisung and Hyunjin both exclaimed in complete protest, but even so, Jeongin continued to say what he wanted.

"Alpha Wolf and Ocelot were like my parents while staying in this team!" Jeongin's voice cracked at the very end, "I never meant for them to breakup, I just wanted them to stick together," his tears then started to slip and sniffles got in between his words as he talked, wiping his tears as he continued, "and now, it looks l-like... it was my fault, because I was- I was pushing Felix to talk to Chan."

Hyunjin, who sat closest to Jeongin, couldn't help, but pull the younger male into a warm and comforting hug, "Innie, it's not your fault, you wanted to help, we wanted to help, and Felix and Chan breaking up is not on you," he said as he rubbed the lad's back in comforting circles, "we're not really sure what happened."

Jisung right there and then couldn't stand it, the man he treated as an older brother, as an actual family member is still back at the pool, being consoled by the Seo siblings, he can't just sit around and do nothing, his mind was telling him to do something - just anything - to help ease Chan's pain, but what?

"I'll talk to Chan and Felix separately," Jaehyun said after he finished his afternoon coffee, later on folding the newspaper and putting it at the newspaper bin, "I told them to talk things out, agree on something, not break up."

"What are you talking about?" Jisung asked, eyes squinted at the man, scrutinizing him.

"I'll explain when Johnny returns," he said, sighing as he stood up, "where is Chan?"

"He's probably with Changbin back at the pool," Hyunjin said, his arms still wrapped around Jeongin.

"And Felix?"

"I'm here," all of them, except Jeongin, who was still sobbing into Hyunjin's chest, it was Felix, his bags in his hands and Seungmin behind him carrying his extra things, "what's wrong?" Felix scanned everyone's faces, his eyes landing on each and every expression, Minho as blank as an oblivious rabbit, Jisung seemingly holding back himself to do whatever Felix thought he would try to pull up, Hyunjin's saddened expression, Jaehyun's scary expression of disappointment, none of those really affected him, not much, really, not until his eyes landed on Jeongin's figure, shaking under his own sobs, cheeks stained in his hot tears.