Love; Lock It! | Treasure

TWENTY NINE; Double Trouble?

"Well, I saw that coming." Asahi voices out uninterested and continue his gaming session with Yedam while Seeun and Jihoon look at them in disbelief.

They just announced that they are dating to the Suns and Moons,who were present at the hideout, but laters only congratulated and waived this off like a norm. Reasons being four of their members dating already as well as Seeun and Jihoon's proximity since day one.

Both of them begin to walk towards the next duo but stop once they see them arguing heatedly in the corner.

"What even is happening?" Seeing Junkyu and Nori fight, Seeun huffs annoyed. Soon a dejected looking Mashiho enters the room followed by a rather calm Jeongwoo consoling him, attracting attention.

"What's with the long face?" Junghwan snickers but shuts up once Jeongwoo signals him to keep quiet. Hyunsuk approaches them once they sit down at the table in the center.

"Is everything fine Mashiho?" Hyunsuk asks being the eldest one of Suns & Moons. Haruto also raises a brow, curious. Only people not present were Sihmin, Doyoung and Yoshi out of which the girl's absense was severely being felt by Haruto.

"Rami is neither picking up my calls nor responding to my texts." Mashiho lets out, looking like he's about to breakdown in tears. Someone's ears perk up hearing Rami's name. Before anyone could judge, Jeongwoo adds.

"She's been not coming to college since the last few days either and no one's picking up phone at her home as well." Once he clears the situation out, majority of them frown founding the situation peculiar.

"Just go and visit her then." Haruto shrugs nonchalantly.

"I'm not sure about her uncle's address." Mashiho responds, still looking down.

"You can get it from the office." Everyone turns behind, towards the source of voice, Yedam.

"I know a manager there personally, I'll help." He adds causing Mashiho to light up and go towards him along with a few others.

"Where's my girlfr- Sihmin? Where is she?" Haruto questions, scrolling through his phone, trying to play it cool.

"Aren't you supposed to know where she could be? You're her boyfriend Watanabe." Jaehyuk snorts, clearly trying to provoke Haruto when he knew well himself that they were fake dating.

"You just can't give a goddamn answer to a simple question, can you?" Haruto slams his phone down on table, irritated.

"I don't think there's anything simple when it's related to you-" "Guys, cut it out. She's with Doyoung." Junghwan interrupts them before things could escalate. He turns towards Haruto.

"But you guys didn't have any class-" "She's on an important mission with Doyoung." He interrupts once again, this time rather sheepishly.

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"I'll be here if you need back up, just make sure the bluetooth stays connected." Sihmin speaks through the bluetooth she had connected to the one in Doyoung's ear. The latter only nods from afar and gets alert once he spots the mean girls coming towards him.

"Hey Dobby! Hii Dobby!" Lia greets him, causing the two minions to greet together after her.

"Hey guys!" Doyoung scratches his nape, smiling awkwardly, trying to get in the role.

"It was a great idea to have a meal together. Let's go sit there. I made your favorite for you." Lia bats her eyelashes at Doyoung and drags him to a bench nearby, her minions following behind.

Sihmin was listening to and recording their conversation through bluetooth, hiding behind a tree. She tries to peek but someone pulls her back, pinning her to the tree.

"What the-" "What are you doing Sihmin? This isn't a safe plan." Haruto holds her shoulders and shakes her.

"Who told you about my plan?" Sihmin shrugs his hands off and try to turn around but Haruto holds her again.

"That doesn't matter. If Lia finds out that you and Doyoung are using her, she'll create problems for you." This time he emphasizes calmly, to scare her but to his dismay, Sihmin's other name was trouble.

"Haruto, since when did you start to care about problems? Besides, don't you wanna know what's Nori up to?" She holds his hands, shaking them in curiosity.

"I do but-" "End of discussion, focus now. I missed a lot already." She passes him a done look and turn around again, peeking from the tree. Haruto places his head on her shoulder so they could listen together through the bluetooth.

"What are you doing?" She wriggles, flustered.

"Listening to them duh. Now shhh! Focus!" Haruto shushes her.

"Don't be afraid of those Moons either, Dobby. Their princess is already wrapped around my finger. They will be my pawns." Lia smirks, examining her nails while Doyoung downs a bite forcefully.

"But how- I mean it's unbelievable." Doyoung tries to act impressed.

"I've Nori's weakness in my hand." She simpers, looking proud of herself.

"What weak-weakness?" Doyoung pauses mid lunch and questions, nervously.

"I have a secret of her." She responds cockily.

"What is-" "Forget about those brats, let's eat." Before Doyoung could ask anything further, she shuts him up and begins to feed him the lunch.

"A secret. Ummm what could it be? You are Nori's best friend, tell me a secret of hers that other's don't know about and can be used against her." She rambles, turning back towards Haruto who raises a brow hearing her.

"What? You ain't gonna help me?" Sihmin raises a brow back.

"I'm gonna out someone's secrets to you when there's a chance that secret  couldn't be what Lia is talking about?" Haruto questions, folding his arms.

"So what? I'm your girlfriend, I've that much right over you." Sihmin tries to reason but then slaps herself mentally.

"Oh, are you Sihmin?" He takes a step forward, knowing well he had a chance to tease her.

"Wh-what? I meant fa-ke girlfriend." Sihmin takes a step backward intimidated by him and leans against the tree.

"Then I also have some rights as your 'fake boyfriend' i think." Haruto gets closer again and keeps a hand on a branch above, cornering the girl.

"What rig-hts?" She stutters looking up at him, hearing her own heartbeats in her ears.

"Should I tell you? I should show you inste-" "Rutoooo!" She shrieks and places a hand on his mouth, before he could get anymore closer.

"Can't you even listen to a small thing I'm saying?" The pretend couple looks towards the source of noise.

It was Junkyu and Nori at the other side, looking agitated. Standing in middle of trees, Haruto and Sihmin had an advantage of not being seen.

"Why would I Kyu? It's unreasonable, discussion over!" Nori retorts.

"You're being unreasonable. She will bring nothing but problems for you." Junkyu tries to convince the umpteenth time, exhausted by now.

"She's my friend!" Nori yells.

"I'm your boyfriend!" Junkyu yells back.

"I don't care!" With that Nori marches away while Junkyu follows close behind, fuming.

"What did we just witness?" Sihmin mumbles, taken aback, taking her hand off from Haruto's mouth.

"For sure, there's more to this matter. But we'll deal with that later. Let me deal with you first." Haruto deadpans then smirks as Sihmin gets wide eyed.

"Stop, stop!" She points her finger at him as a warning while he leans closer to her.

Before Sihmin could register anything, Haruto pecks her cheek. She stares at him, jaw dropped. He passes his infamous charming smile and sprints away leaving the girl blushing.

"Yah! Haruto!" She shouts and chases  him.

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