Criss-Cross || Hyunin

Chapter 3

It was the third time that Hyunjin felt conscious of his clothes. Every single person in the meeting was so well dressed, that the people downstairs felt shabby to him now. He awkwardly stood near the door as he watched everyone taking their seats. Though, when Jeongin noticed him still standing at the door, he glanced at his colleagues and walked towards him.

"Come in." Jeongin said, "Everyone's waiting for you."

That's when Hyunjin realized that he was the cynosure of all eyes. He followed Jeongin and on his signal, sat in a chair beside him. There were seven people present in the room, excluding himself. Only one of them seemed to be slightly older than the rest.

Predictably, Hyunjin's intuition was proved right when the older person coughed to gain everyone's attention. "Shall we start?" He signaled towards Hyunjin and said, "That's Hyunjin, Park's man." at the mention of Park's name, Hyunjin noticed how except for Jeongin and Minho, all looked at him rather hateful. " I mean he was his man... Now he will work with us.."

The intensity of the gazes over him reduced, making him twitch his lips in confusion.

"Chan hyung," a boy with blonde mullet and freckles on his face like a galaxy uttered hesitantly, "Are you.." he glanced at Hyunjin, "Are you sure?"

Hyunjin noted how as soon as the blonde boy called Chan, his expressions soften.

"Felix hyung," Jeongin said in a firm tone, "If we have made a decision, we would have put two and two together?"

The stress lines on Felix's forehead disappeared. he nodded, "got it." But Minho didn't seem amused.

Chan looked between the two and leaned back in his chair. "It would be better if we start with the introduction " He looked at Hyunjin. "I'm Chan. You already know Minho and Jeongin. " he signaled towards a squirrel-looking boy, "That's Han jisung. He will tell you about the plan."

Han nodded at Chan and said, "Chaeyong is holding a party at her farmhouse next week. For the completion of 10 years of her company. A lot of people are invited." Through the invitation of one of those businessmen, you and Jeongin will go to that party. Disguised."

"We have a hint where the papers could be," Chan said in a serious tone. "Changbin, please show us the map."

The man sitting on the other side of Hyunjin stood up with a nod. Hyunjin gasped at his muscular body and made a mental note never messing up with him. He adjusted the projector screen and then switched off the lights. The very next moment a house plan was projected on the screen and Changbin began to explain,

"The farmhouse only has five rooms. The hall area and dining area will be filled with guests. Arrangements have also been made for the guests in the two rooms below. So, it's highly unlikely that we'll find our documents here." He pointed the remote towards the upper rooms, "Can't say a thing about these three rooms upstairs. One is for Chayeong's personal use, I have no information about the other two."

Chan nodded gravely whereas Hyunjin thought Chan was acting much more mature than his age. Everyone there was probably in their 20s but they could replace peaky blinders.

Putting his thoughts aside he questioned, "How do you know that?"

"Did a little chat with the event manger," Changbin said with a smile and shrugged, "He was an idiot."

He then switched on the lights and another man put forward his doubt, " But it would take a lot of time to check all three rooms"

Jeongin shook his head, smiling wittingly, "Uhun, Seungmin hyung. That won't happen. Am I right Han hyung?"

Han was the only other brunette in the room besides Minho. He titled his head, puzzled but when Jeongin signaled something to him. he raised his eyebrows and laughed in realization. "Okay, okay, But what do you want to be this time?"

"Caterer?" Jeongin asked, looking at everyone for their approval, " If you go as a caterer, you will have access to the whole house. "

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"You have to attract the attention of Chaeyong and her security guards. " Felix said, pointing at Hyunjin. "And help Jeongin get out of there."

Hyunjin smiled sarcastically. " Will I alone attract the attention of so many guards?"

He smiled politely at him, "No, Han will help you."

Hyunjin furrowed his brows and looked at Han, "How?"

Before Han could reply, Seungmin waved in the air and said, "I'll explain." He winked at Hyunjin. " The guards standing on the upper floor will be fed sleeping pills in the water." He grinned. " You will take care of the guards standing below.. right?" He asked the 'right' so dangerously that Hyunjin doubted his bubbly spirit was a facade.

Minho who was quiet since long, spoke in a straight voice, " When those papers are found, then both of you will leave from there.. Seungmin will be waiting for both of you on his bike at a short distance from the farm. You will go in Chan's car but while leaving from there you have to leave by bike.."

Hyunjin gave Minho a pat of praise in his head. Cars increase your stature and bikes are easy to handle, to run away. If their plan went wrong, it could be an easy option.

" There is a divergence on the route you will go while leaving, there are two routes." Minho went on to add. "The highway is only 3 km away from the second route. Seungmin will be at 1km. Give him those papers. and Seungmin -"

"I know, I know," Seungmin said in a sing-song tone, " Take those papers and go to the other side through the forest path. and then ," he snapped his fingers, "burn them?"

Minho nodded silently whereas Hyunjin uttered "burn them?!" He looked between Minho and Jeongin in disbelief. "We are doing all this shit just to burn those damn papers?"

Minho didn't bother but Jeongin smiled and said, "There are some secrets in those papers, which we do not need now, but if they reach wrong hands, then people might get to eat our funeral food." Minho snapped his head in Jeongin's direction but before he could blurt something

Hyunjin nodded, "Oh. Got it." He then looked at Chan and said, "you're the boss here?"

Everyone exchanged looks, except for Minho, while Chan shook his head. "Nope, just a little more experienced."

"Oh," Seungmin teased, "so you accept that you're old."

Chan gave Seungmin a serious look, "you are right Seungmin. But I last longer ......"

"No need." Seungmin opened his mouth in shock. Hyunjin tried to grasp what that means and if it was what he was thinking, he had some questions
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The next chapter will ne the last part of meeting. i swear after that yeah yeah yeah