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#.. TWENTY THREE

"Where are Jungsu and Gunil? I didn't see them at all today" Jooyeon asked while eating his lunch, surrounded by three of his friends. "They didn't tell you?" Seungmin asked back, surprised. "Jungsu left the boarding school for s short period of time. He was allowed to visit a mental hospital. And Gunil... Right, where is Gunil?" No one really knew where the boy was. And it started to get suspicious as soon as the night hit and he still didn't appear.

"Maybe he also went to the ward?" Jiseok wondered. "You know, his borderline disorder got worse again.." Gunil had borderline? Jooyeon never knew, and he never really noticed. Damn, he really only saw the superficial things. "But he never wanted to go there" Seunmgin added, patting Hyeongjun's back, the latter sitting on his lap and hugging him, half asleep.

They seemed to be speculating a lot, until Hyeongjun suddenly remembered something. He pulled out a small sticky note and a pen, writing something down at the speed of light.

"I overheard someone talk about Gunil and Jungsu and that they got intimate with each other. I believe they told Mr Koo."

And then it seemed to snap in everyone's heads. Jooyeon was in shock. Why would someone intrude into their privacy just like that? And how could they just expose them like that? It was quiet in the room, everyone had to process what Hyeongjun had just shown them. Was Jungsu really in the psychiatry?

"We have to find Gunil" Jooyeon plotted, his voice still a little bit unsure. "They can't do that to them. Their last punishment was a lot.. I think they might actually kill them this time" It was a sickening thought. They'd love to help but all of them were scared. Maybe they were wrong though? But the more every single one of them thought about it, the more likely it was that Gunil and Jungsu were both struggling from the consequences of their loving.