Never | Lee Haechan

Give it a trust

"What the fuck?" Jiae blurted out after a short pause.

"It's baseless Jiae. Jaemin's just mad about all this,"

"And what he'll pin it on the first person he can?!" She questioned in disbelief as tears stained her cheeks.

Mina intensely shook her head, tears puddled on her eyes too.

"Jiae, no, it's just that- he was the only one in the dorm with you that day,"

Jiae's eyebrows creased and she dug her head further into Mina's shoulder as she caressed her hair. "I asked Jeno to check the dorm cctvs," Mina said with a sigh.

Jiae was glad, so glad she had Mina. She was glad because Mina didnt just give in to the emotional pressure and actually thought clearly.

Her mind searched for every plausible possibility of what could've happened. What could've gone wrong for something like this to happen. Suddenly, Jiae broke the hug when something clicked in her mind. Haechan wasn't home the day the clip was from either. Or the day before or after. In fact nobody was here that day.

Gut feeling. Intuition. That stupid bullshit that she could never let go off. But she'd listen to it anyway.

"We....never found the lost key card," she mumbled making Mina shoot a shocked expresssion at her. "You bitches lost a key card?!?"

"W-we reported it bu-"

There was a loud bang heard outside and without another second to waste Jiae rushed outside, fearing the worst. And it was exactly what she was worried about.

Everyone was gathered in the common room, trying to mitigate the situation between the two that stood at the center.

"Jaemin stop..." she called out.

All eyes turned to her but Jaemin, who had Haechan by the collar against the wall, with rage blazing through his eyes, completely missed Jiae's call. His fist nearly swung a punch at Haechan but paused

"JAEMIN JUST STOP!" Jiae yelled out loud, closing her eyes shut. And that was enough for Jaemin to finally turn around, his grip around Haechan's collar loosening.

"Jiae..."

"Don't....don't fucking talk. None of you-"

Before she could say anything, Jeno rushed in with an open laptop in his hand, with Yangyang tagged behind him, "Somebody broke in to do this," Jeno informed and placed his laptop at the center table of the room, playing the cctv clip he had hacked into. Everybody went up to take a look except Haechan who just let himself frustratesdly collapse onto the couch; his elbow on the arm rest and his head hung on his palm as his thoughts took over.

Jiae glanced over the situation and the level of unsafety she felt when she watched the clip Jeno revealed was unimaginable. It showed a masked man in a full black attire, entering their dorm. The unsettling feeling washed over everyone in the dorm, not just her. But Jiae probably would've broken down right there if it weren't for Mina.

"How'd they break in to such a high security dor-"

Jiae cut off Mark, "a keycard got lost- we did report it but...but it's been almost a month and they did nothing," she explained and all of them look at eachother as if questioning what was even going on.

Jiae took a deep breath in, as if to calm herself down and took a seat with Mina, which happened to be beside Haechan. Everyone followed suit and gathered around to figure out how something like this could happen in their dormitory when it's known for it's high security. It wasn't just about Jiae, it was also a general threat.