The Hongs Reunite

Ch. 34

Joshua's POV

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I kept glancing to the staffs, wondering if Jungah had decided to join us here or not.

"Hyung, chill! Jungah is probably sipping her coffee in the waiting room" DK said while slinging an arm around my shoulder casually.

I looked at him and sighed, "I know... you're right..." I mumbled while taking a sip of water from my water bottle, "but I can't lie and said I don't feel kinda.. anxious right now..." I added after giving my water bottle to one of the managers that stood around us.

DK shrugged his shoulders at me, "it could be just a feeling, hyung... think of the positive possibilities" he grinned.

As we were about to step on the stage for another practice run, one of the female stylist came running from the backstage to the manager next to me, "yah, did you lock the door when we left?" She asked in a rather ticked off tone, "lock? No I didn't... the keys are inside the waiting room, on top of the shelf next to the makeup table" he scoffed while showing her his empty pockets.

The conversation had caught my attention uninentionally, I then found myself eavesdropping to the conversation completely realizing that it was bad of me to do so.

The stylist sighed and rub her face, "well it's locked now, so how should I know where the key is? You were the last one to have gone out of the room!" She said.

Manager hyung stared at her for a couple second, "could it be Jungah? Did you check if Jungah locked the door or not?"

That had caught my attention almost immediately, "was she out?" The stylist asked.

I turn to them both and talked, "I-I sent her out because she said that she was hungry, she should be back 15 minutes ago or so..."

They both looked at each other and raised an eyebrow, "but the room was still locked... maybe she brought the keys outside or something... I'll check it later when we head back, you go do your practice run" manager hyung said while patting my back towards the stage.

Eventhough that there is a weird feeling inside me, I know that if I abandon my job now, it'll be bad for everyone.

10 minutes passed and we were ushered back to the backstage and I immediately run towards the manager hyung that I talked with before, "so, did you find Jungah, hyung?" I asked in hope he know my sister's whereabouts.

"I tried calling her, but she wouldn't pick up... I've called her at least 6 times and all of them led to her voicemail" he sighed while ruffling his own hair, "nevermind that, we'll look for her later... you boys need to touch up your makeup and then wait for your turn, understand me? I'll run to the coffee shop to look for her" he said before running off to the other manager to tell him the change of plan he had made.

The thirteen of us walked back with the staffs behind us.

At the corner of my eyes, I could see that some people were crowding there while knocking on our waiting room, some were female staffs and some were male and they looked anxious.

"Excuse me, what happened?" Seungkwan asked as he tap one of the male staffs's shoulder, "our maknae PD heard someone screaming 20 minutes ago, we tried calling whoever was inside but no one answered" he said while continue to open the door.

My heart stopped, "could it be Jungah?" I muttered to myself.

"Hyung! I got the keys!!" A guy said while running to us with a key, he bowed to us before handing the key to whom I assumed his senior.