Reasons to Stay // Hyunin

~15~

Hyunjin found himself seated at a table with Sky, waiting for the food that he'd just ordered to arrive. 

"So..." Hyunjin began, "how are you part of the group?"

Sky looked up from his menu and there was a very slight, very very slight, tinge of annoyance on his face.  "I've always been a part of Eun. But I've been working in Los Angeles previously and have just now been sent back here."

"Ah, I see," Hyunjin mumbled. Sky had a way of making him feel dumb. 

"I'm supposed to help you on your task, and Eun stays in close connection with me to keep me updated on changes he wants to make." Sky took out his laptop. "I.N, is it?" 

"Yup, Yang Jeongin," Hyunjin confirmed, unaware of what he was getting himself into. 

"Orphanage fire?" 

"Yes." 

"2001, and we have his brother who is a 1998." 

"Right." 

"Brother is #1025?" 

"Mhm." 

"So...besides I.N, the list says we have one more target?" 

"I think so?" Hyunjin only focused on his own mission. But he'd overhead some info before. "Kim Seungmin I think," he said in a low voice. "If I remember...#0922?" 

"Hm," Sky answered, still looking at some small print on his laptop. "Yeah you're right, #0922." 

Hyunjin played with his fingers until Sky shut the laptop and spoke up, "So, tell me how's your mission going." 

"Well," Hyunjin thought. Everything's smoothly I guess. I'm pretty sure I even got him to have a crush on me. He trusts me a lot. I just haven't wiped him off yet because he's so oblivious, it's fun to play with. "I think I'll be able to handle it well. He already trusts me a lot and I could do anything anytime." 

"Really," Sky said, "well then that's good, there's no rush to finish quickly. Besides the more time you wait for the 'right time', the more free time you have around relaxing in the city. Because it's still awhile before the deadline, and I don't think Eun expected you to finish so quickly."

"Yeah," Hyunjin smirked, "Innie's super naive." 

A gasp came from the table behind Hyunjin, but with all the bustle of the restaurant it wasn't audible to him. 

"You're right Lixxie!"

Changbin whispered excitedly and fearfully into his phone. He was hunched over, looking at a menu, and had somehow scooched his seat really close to Hyunjin's back. Or Hyunjin was being too loud, Changbin basically heard every word, although it was vague. 

Felix had asked Changbin to spy for him since he would be at school. (How Felix knew that a guy named Sky would come to the school in the middle of the day and unexpectedly pick Hyunjin up to go eat together, we'll never know.) And even though Changbin's a scaredy-cat who'd much rather keep his nose out of gang business, he would do anything for Lixxie. Plus this was his friend Jeongin, who's life was jeopardy now as well. 

Changbin frantically typed notes on his cellphone while Hyunjin spoke, scared that he'd be caught yet excited to be part of a "detective business." It was cute. 

Sky continued to speak. "And Han is here with you too, right?" 

Hyunjin answered without a pause, "Yeah. He's the 'university student majoring in robotics.'" He laughed. "I stay at the university dorm with him." 

"I know," Sky replied. "I'm supposed to be staying with you guys too." 

"Wait for real?" Hyunjin sat up. 

"Yeah...? Didn't you receive notification...?" Sky looked at him with a "duh" face. 

"No I don't think so," Hyunjin frowned and took out his phone. 

Sky craned his neck to look at Hyunjin's inbox. Hyunjin scrolled down until Sky suddenly said, "Dude, it's this. Sent a week ago." 

All Hyunjin saw was a "Google security: a new sign-in on Windows..."

"What do you mean, I always get this and I never open it. It's just Google anyhow." 

Sky let Hyunjin know that he was slapping his forehead mentally, then proceeded to tap the mail on Hyunjin's screen. He scrolled down with Hyunjin too surprised to stop him, then pointed a forceful finger at the bottom of the message that read "New Addition to Double H. Make sure to welcome." 

Hyunjin gawked at the message hidden inside the Google Security Mail and apologised profusely to Sky, who waved it off and said it was okay. Double H was "Han and Hyunjin" little duo with small missions. Although Hyunjin found the whole Sky situation slightly sketchy, he realised that Sky had way too much knowledge to be guessing around and pretending. So yes, he would nicely welcome him to stay at the dorm.

"Will you be coming tonight?" 

"Yes," Sky promptly answered. "Do you have room?" 

Hyunjin shrugged it off, "We can always make room." 

"Good," and then Sky stopped talking about gang issues as their food arrived. They ate in peace and Hyunjin throughout the time was expecting another question or two but none ever came. So that concluded his lunch with Sky. 

Changbin took a screenshot of the notes he took, then sent it to Felix. Since Felix was in study hall, he answered Han? do you know who's han? 

Changbin answered that he didn't know, to which Felix replied, Binnie-hyung, could you do me another favor

Which is how Changbin found himself walking towards Dorm Building #2, "Han's" dorm, instead of Dorm Building #9, his own. (Changbin had a mild case of 'horrified' when he realised that Han "attended" the same university as him.) He was sweating as he casually sat on the bench outside of the dorm building, waiting for students to walk out. 

Felix had asked him to take a picture of any student walking in or out of the building and so Changbin was doing so. Felix had to know what Han looked like. Binnie tried to look inconspicuous as he snapped pictures of random people. He sweat as he remembered his mom teaching, it was rude to purposely take pictures of random people. Mommy, i'm helping the law... he tried to rationalise. 

After a while a guy came out, he was talking on the phone. He sat on a different bench across from Changbin and was making hand motions while apparently trying to explain something to the guy on the other end of the phone. 

"Yes, yes, i understood the assignment," the guy was saying. "Yes I'm sorry, I had some family emergency the other week...Ohh no, it's okay, everything's fine now...Well, maybe I had a little trouble with the, what's it called, coding?...I'll try to finish it by Friday...yes I'm sorry sir, i should inform you, you're right...of course, yes, i'll be in class tomorrow. Hm? What did you say? The robot?...I'm working on it" 

Robot? Changbin heard. He knew Han was supposedly robotics major. But any student could be robotics major. 

Changbin's doubts were cancelled as no one other than Hwang Hyunjin strolled up to Han and stopped to tell him something. 

Yesss. Changbin thought. It might be easy for the bad guys to track down the good guys, but it wasn't too hard for the good guys to track down the bad guys either.