strawberry shortcake

20. trust

"It's been an hour shouldn't we check on them..?" Chan nervously paced around the lobby area, his gaze switching from his watch to the direction of bathroom. He started to get suspicious after Jisung wasn't coming back after fifteen minutes. It usually didn't take that long.

Changbin and Hyunjin just told him to chill and sit back. So he did exactly that, but it didn't last for long. Twenty minutes passed, still nothing. Half an hour. Forty minutes. Fifty. And now an hour. He was worried out of his mind. It just couldn't take that long. He would know.

"I don't think I'm ready to see them have sex-" Changbin made a disgusted face that changed into a little smile when Hyunjin broke into sweet laughter. "What?" He asked the laughing male who only shook his head.

"You're just so beautiful like this Binnie." He hooked into his arm causing Changbin's heartbeat to quicken. He didn't remember the last time Hyunjin told him something nice, the more so complimented him.

"You're drunk, you should go to sleep." He gently ran his fingers through the ravenette's hair who only hummed at the nice feeling and pressed more into Changbin's touch.

"Aren't you drunk too?" He muttered, closing his eyes as he was more than comfortable at the moment.

"A bit." Changbin hummed, his fingers still gently brushing through the black locks of hair that felt so soft and comfortable he never wanted to stop.

"Changbin do you really mean it?" Hyunjin asked after a few moments of silence.

"Yes..? I've had only two shots, I may be a little short but it takes more to take me down." He chuckled gaining another sweet laugh from Hyunjin. "Not that, silly... do you mean that you like me?"

He was taken aback by the question. He never expected to hear something like that from him, so he blurted out the first thing that didn't feel like he would expose himself too much. "I- I mean you are handsome."

"So you like me only for my looks?" Hyunjin's smile saddened, and Changbin quickly realized how his sentence sounded. He didn't mean it like that at all.

He liked Hyunjin for some time now, though he always let it be know but jokes and unserious flirting. He knew he wasn't good enough for the taller, so he tried his best to get over his feelings for him.

It was working with how the younger grew attached to some boy he didn't even know. But it made Changbin happy to see Hyunjin so smiley and energetic every time he talked about the boy.

"No. There's much more to you than your looks Hyunjin-ah..." Hyunjin nodded and sat up once again. "I want another drink.." he muttered and ordered for the both of them.

Just when he was about to take a sip of the bitter beverage Chan ran right up to them with shaky hands and terrified expression.

"Th-there's blood in the bathroom- there's a lot of blood a-and I found this-" he lifted his right hand up, holding a bloodied knife that the three of them immediately recognized as Jisung's.

Hyunjin blinked numerous times to even get what was happening into his alcohols dazed mind, but Changbin reacted fairly quickly.

"Chan go into Jisung's room to see if he's there, Hyunjin go find Minho, imma tell Seungmin to check all the cameras and close the hotel to make sure nobody escapes." Chan gave him a thankful look for taking over the leader role even if for a moment.

He really cared about Jisung and with how suspicious he was earlier, he had to blame himself for not checking up on them earlier.

"Hey, what am I supposed to do with Minho?" Hyunjin asked with confused expression and Changbin ruffled his hair. "Just make sure he's safe, and bring him to his room."