Area One

29

The next day, when Yixing visited him, they didn't mention what had happened the day before. Junmyeon was sure Sehun had run to him immediately after leaving his apartment and he was grateful towards the healer for not bringing it up.

When they had just sat down at the table, there was suddenly a voice coming from the corner of his room.

"Nice, I didn't expect to find you both together."

Junmyeon turned around so quickly something in his neck cracked. He hissed in pain and glared at Jongin.

The teleporter gave them a wide grin, crossed the room and pulled out a chair for himself. "Less work for me, I guess. It's nice to see you."

"What exactly do you have against just knocking on the door?" At least Yixing was just as surprised as him.

Jongin raised an eyebrow as if the answer was obvious. "Doors are boring."

"Anyways, it's good to see you again." Junmyeon recalled what he had said earlier. "What do you mean by 'less work'?"

"Ah." The teleporter reached into his jacket and pulled out two black, shiny, flat things and gave them to each of them.

"Those are cell phones." Aside from all the other appointments, there was also a person who visited Junmyeon and told him everything he needed to know about this new world. The first thing he had learned about were cell phones.

"Where did you get those?" Yixing inspected his one closely. "Aren't they expensive?"

Jongin shrugged. "Baekhyun organized them. I don't know how he got them. But hey, there are enough for all of us and all the numbers of the others are already saved in the contacts, so we can call each other and send texts and there's also a group chat for all of us."

His last words made Junmyeon eye the device with new interest. "You mean we'll be able to communicate with each other, no matter where we are?" Then he remembered something. "Wait, how do you know everyone's addresses? No one has been able to tell me all of them so far." Which was weird, considering how Chronos obviously did know where everyone was if they kept visiting for health check-ups and all the other things.

Jongin gave him a smug smile. "Baekhyun asked for a laptop and a few other things and it took him a day or something to figure out where everyone is. It's actually a little ridiculous that Chronos is so badly organized. If they couldn't get apartments near each other for us, the least they could do is to tell us where the others are."

"I guess they thought that seeing each other regularly might make it more difficult to deal with the past," Yixing mused. "I disagree, by the way."

Junmyeon didn't agree either and looked at his new cell phone and then at Jongin. "You will probably finish distributing these in a few hours, right?"

Jongin nodded proudly. "I have all the addresses now, so it won't take long. You're the first ones because I wanted to inform you first, Hyung. And because I thought you might want to organize a meeting as soon as possible. We haven't all been together once since we came here."

Jongin wasn't wrong. Junmyeon was already thinking about the best time for all of them to meet. "There is usually nothing scheduled for Sunday evening, right? Let's do it then."

The teleporter scoffed. "It's not like it would hurt to miss one of those schedules."

That wasn't the point. Chronos had their reasons for keeping them from meeting each other, and Junmyeon understood them, but he didn't agree with them. If they all rescheduled their appointments, Chronos would notice and send more specialists to prevent any consequences like flashbacks and the last thing Junmyeon wanted was meeting more people he didn't know.