Seperate bounds || Minsung

7. Painted blur

The next few weeks seemed to have went in a blur. With the trio focusing on their finals and Jeongin helping out as he didn't have his till then next year. It was stressing. The prep work, the revising, the coursework. Everything was needed for the final output and result.

Equally during this time.

"Hello Ji? Get off your phone you've been on it for the past hour when we should be revising" Jeongin huffed at the Quokka "Well as in you three not me as i'm the privelieged emotional support". he added at the end chuckling to himself.

"He's messaging Minho again" Felix mentioned leaning into Jisung who now looked up and moved his phone away as if to tell Lixie to move away and give him space acting as if Felix had committed a crime.

"What is he? Your boyfriend now or something?" Seungmin scoffed looking through some revision notes while trying to memorise as much content as possible. "No he's not, we're still just hanging out" Jisung exclaimed at Seungmin trying to defend himself whereby possible.

"It's been how many weeks since you met and you've been on how many dates already?" Seungmin asked rhetorically as he did have a rough idea. "It's been four weeks and we've only gone out like 8 times, plus they're not dates Minnie, stop getting the wrong idea" Jisung challenged back in defense.

Seungmin just shrugged and had his lunch "Okay, whatever you say Ji, but there's something going on, you're always checking your phone for a text or call like every second when we're not in lesson, but okay if you say there's nothing going on" and went on to act as if he didn't say anything in which Jisung flopped on Jeongin's lap to rest.

"Mhmm! This chicken's so good" Seungmin hummed out purposefully "Hey Lixie want some? Oh wait you can't as that'd be cannabalism". Felix glared at the other and began side hug attacking him pretending to bite the puppy as a form of attack. Seungmin stuck out his tongue at the sunshine. Just when Felix was going to say something back his phone made a notification sound as if someone had texted him. He let go of Seungmin to see what the message had said.

'The contact saved as 'Binnie' has is now restricted as the number is out of service' it said making Felix frown. After Jisung's first proper hang out with Minho, once he came back he told the rest of the group everything Minho had told him, including the fact of the phone switch guessing the same must have happened to Changbin. Felix gulped and looked down shutting his phone off. "Guess he really is out of contact now".

Seungmin went to see what the text notification said on Felix's phone"Ah damnit-" he muttered looking to Felix "Just because you can't find a way to contact him right now doesn't mean you won't be able to see him, you never know Lixie". Jeongin and Jisung nodded in response to reassure him.

"Yeah, knowing Changbin he'd probably try hard to be able to contact us again, you especially as you were closer" Jeongin said "Don't worry Lix, I'm sure you'll be able to see him again". No one knew if their reassurance would be giving false hope for the sunshine, not that they wanted to give him false hope, though the chances of seeing a friend who left for another district again were slim unless you had some form of contact still. Felix huffed "Yeah in a billionth chance i'll be able to see him again, maybe it's for the best, maybe it wasn't meant to be".

"Hey Felix don't say that!" Jisung whined in a comforting way to the freckled friend. "You know very well that's not true! Plus now we know that they change your phone when you move, we can be one step ahead and make sure to save everyone's contacts for when it happens so we don't loose anyone ever again, and trust me when I say we will do whatever we can to help find Binnie, for he's our friend too".

"What if he's with someone who abuses him though? What if he's really hurt and isn't too unwell?" Felix worried, he had been worrying about the other since the second he left and still is now, especially since it's been nearing almost a year he's been gone from their lives.