𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦 (𝟭-𝟲). ❥ cix.

3.09 ;; seunghun and byounggon

The next day, Jinyoung still hadn't come back. I was able to find Yonghee, however, who was moving way to quickly for me to keep up with him and let him know I was there.

I folowed him towards two boys that I recognized as the one that Seojun dragged away and the one that Bin (who I now knew was Soobin) dragged away. Yonghee handed the former a flashlight when I finally caught up. "Have you seen Jinyoung?"

Yonghee turned to face me, confusion scribbled all over his face. "I thought he was with you?"

"I thought he was with you. He left the cabin yesterday during the night, and I haven't seen him since." I then realized that I had just interrupted a conversation, and I was about to apologize when I remembered that nobody cared about ym stpidly fucking rich parents here. "Um, hey."

"Oh, right. Kim Seunghun," Yonghee pointed to the boy the camp leader had asked for during visitor's day, "Lee Byounggon," the one Soobin had taken, "Yoon Hyunsuk," and, of course, me.

Yonghee was interrupted by Seojun for a moment. We listened to him talk about the trail we'd be going down (not like I'd be returning) before we started walking.

Once we were moving, Yonghee spoke to me again. "He probably has his own stuff to take care of. As do I."

"Hm?" The as do I was sudden.

"I have... I'm a sad one. Whatever. Where is he?"

"Wait, who are you guys looking for again?" Seunghun's voice was soft, angelic. He seemed to be off well.

"Bae Jinyoung." Yonghee answered. "Know him?"

Seunghun glanced at Byounggon. Their eyes said something to each other. How close were they? Maybe they'd met in previous years. "Not really. I've seen him around once or twice, probably."

We hiked for a while. I think Seojun mentioned it being a full day thing. Looking at the majority of the group in front of us, I couldn't see Jinyoung anywhere. Even when we got to the riverbank and were let loose, he didn't come up to us and we couldn't find him. On the way back, it was the same thing.

Surprisingly, we found him back in our cabin, curled up in his bed with the (extremely low quality, and that wasn't from just a rich perspective) bedsheets pulled over and hiding his body.

"Woah, Jinyoung, there you are!"

I started towards the lump on the bed, but Jinyoung made a sound that told me that he wanted me to back up. "What's going on?"

He was quiet. This was what happened when I asked too many questions, wasn't it? I looked at Yonghee. He and Jinyoung knew each other for a day longer, so maybe they had a stronger connection. But nothing.

I was about to give up when Jinyoung finally muttered something. This time, I heard it loud and clear. "Meet me in Byounggon's tent."

That was all he said. Even from the few words, I could at least tell that the reason that Jinyoung was curled up like that was because he was crying.