Masquerade | Johnyong

★ Seven

Chapter 7: Embrace

7:20AM
Xiaojun puts on a fresh pair of clothes. He looks at Hendery who is still sleeping. He quietly walks to the bed and sits down. Xiaojun smiles to himself as he plays with Hendery's hair.

"Get your damn hands out my hair."

Xiaojun frowns, obeying as he retreats his hand. "I'm sorry. . ." He apologizes, looking down.

Hendery sighs dramatically, turning around to face Xiaojun.

Xiaojun tucks in his lips in an attempt to stop himself from smiling. He wants to touch Hendery's hair again but Hendery already told not to. "How are you feeling?" Xiaojun questions. "Great but it feels like I was punched in the guts with a hammer." Hendery answers, annoyance in his tone.

"How would you know how that feels?" Xiaojun asks in a joking manner, giggling. Hendery keeps quiet, preferring not to answer that question. Xiaojun's smile slowly fades and turns into a frown.

Hendery quickly catches onto Xiaojun's sudden change. "I was joking, calm down." He says, sitting up slowly.

Xiaojun hums, giving a rather dry response before he gets off the bed. "If you need me just call for me." He takes his leave, leaving Hendery by himself.

Xiaojun walks into a gaming room. Well, it wasn't really but whatever. He meets Kun with a cup of coffee in his hand. "Coffee?" Kun kindly offers. Xiaojun rejects it. He goes over to the pool table.

"Hendery lied straight to my face." He mutters, crossing his arm as he leaned on the pool table.

Kun sits on the rocking chair as he throws another dart at the board. "When hasn't he lied?" He laughs, making Xiaojun more angry than he already was.

Xiaojun goes over to Kun. He snatches the dart out of his hand and throws it, the dart landing right in the middle.

"What the hell!"

"What's so special about Jaehyun? He thrives off of making everyone around him uncomfortable and scared. He loves hurting everyone. That guy is like a sadist." Xiaojun says, going over to the window.

"Well, if you think about it. He really does try so hard to get something out of Taeyong but fails which is probably why he likes preying on Hendery." Kun says before taking a sip of his coffee. Xiaojun sits on the pool table, "Taeyong is crazy. Push his buttons, you're history. That's my favorite thing about him." Xiaojun chuckles.

"I'm going to go check on Hendery." Xiaojun says before leaving.

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Yuta checks to make sure Taeyong is asleep before getting out of bed and walking out the room. He takes out his phone and dials a familiar number.

The phone rings for a while before Yuta finally gets an answer.

"No questions. Meet me at Cherry Smoke Cafe." Yuta says with a deadpan tone before hanging up. He quickly but quietly leaves the house, unknown to Taeyong who is still sleeping.

He'd be asleep for a while longer than usual as he ended up going to sleep around an hour ago.

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Yuta sits at a table outside the cafe with a latte in front of him. He taps his feet, getting impatient. At first he thinks of calling but leaving would be a better idea.