Jade Unveiled [Webtoon WIP]

Episode 23 : Connecting dots

Hours have gone by, and Clara was staring intensely at the screen in front of her. Her legs couldn't stay still from the nerves. She hadn't heard from them this whole time, nothing she could do but stare at the red dot that was going so fast from one place to another and would disappear every now and then. Then, the dot would stay out for quite some time...

"Kenz, the dot is gone..." she said nervously "THE DOT IS GONE!"

"You need to calm down, I'm sure they're going through some tunnel or something... or a bridge..."

"You really think so?" She looks puppy-eyed at her; it was hard for Kenz to keep her thinking nothing negative. She knows all too well how these events can turn out and they are nothing but violent for sure...

Meanwhile, it's almost 02:15 am, it's pitch black, and no one is to be found on the road. All the guys are quiet, surely, it's a big difference from how they were creating a ruckus not so long ago, shooting out of the car to this silence. The only thing you could hear was the soft turning of the wheels cradling them to a light slumber. Except for Hisui who couldn't keep his thoughts still and Donghae who was still driving.

Hisui, still in an aftershock, seeing a person he once thought to be dead is now very alive. Alive and killing, literally. He shakes his head in denial, suddenly he catches Donghae glancing to his side every now and then. Jake was sound asleep, the bastard looked innocent even holding a gun. Donghae returns his eyes to the road with the slightest flinch Jake would make.

Hisui grins, "You like him, don't you?" making him freeze. Clearly, that got him by surprise.

He crosses his arms and smiles, noticing Donghae through the rear mirror glancing back. Apollo was snoring away by now.

Donghae laughs it off, "What?"

"You," he said again in a calm voice, "I can see how you look at him. And Jake keeps looking at you too, ... when you don't notice."

This made Donghae snort, whether it was out of excitement or out of nerves. Either way, it made him hold the steering wheel even harder than before.

"Thank you for the observation" he snapped back at Hisui and let out a gentle chuckle.

He didn't deny it...

"Believe me," said Hisui with a broken smile "I know how you feel because I've been through that."

And much more...

Suddenly they took a sharp turn to some battered land down low under a bridge. It was dark, surely nobody would find them here. When Donghae brought the car to a halt, he felt his lead-heavy arms weighing down. The stillness woke Maranzano up with a deep breath, his eyes found Donghae's quite fast.

"Where are we?" he groaned, still sleepy. He then looked behind him to find Hisui staring back at him and Apollo... still snoring. It even made Hisui feel a bit envious of how this guy can sleep anywhere so peacefully.

"Why are they still here?!"

"Why?" scoffed Hisui, "thought of flinging us through the window?"

This in return made Jake smile evilly, "well...I dreamed of doing that" he points at Apollo ", especially him."

"Jake," said Donghae lightly, he turns to look at him "calm down..."

In a mum, Maranzano fights the door open to get out. Donghae sighs in frustration and turns to Hisui ordering him to come out.

Jake was standing near the edge of the riverbank, holding the same gun in his hand. The reflection of the moon shining off the weapon. Donghae and Hisui came to a still standing right in front of him.