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It's been days since Mafu was absent in social media and well, in the real world. Not like he was dead or anything. But more of missing in the real world. Mostly in Soraru's world.

Really, where has Mafu gone to? Where is he now? Is he alright? Is he safe? Is he with his parents?

Soraru didn't know. He didn't know where his parents were as well. He didn't even know where his hometown is. For so many years they were together, through hard and good times, yet Soraru still didn't know much about Mafu's family background? Or probably they've never just talked about their family with each other? Probably, they never introduced each other with their families?

Sure, they've been in each other's houses. And they lived alone. They knew that.

For the past years they've been together, despite the fact that they had some arguments due to jealousy and trust, they were able to understand each other and learn new expressions and sides of each party.

Even though Lon and Mafu made up as acquaintances, there were times when four of them, including Amatsuki and Soraru, would hang out and Lon would make Mafu jealous; leading them to have a misunderstanding.

It would either be Mafu locking himself up in his room inside his house, leaving Soraru outside his room, knocking and knocking continuously until Mafu has decided to open the door or not. Or it'd be Mafu ignoring Soraru for a couple of hours or probably a day or two. But it never lead them to the point wherein one would've almost said, "let's break up". Soraru always had to solve their problems before anything gets worse. He never regretted making the first move and he was utterly glad.

Soraru trusted Mafu's friends, especially Amatsuki, yet he still felt as if Mafu's friends were hiding something. Probably hiding Mafu's whereabouts.

In the other hand, in the cafe where Soraru, Amatsuki, Luz, Urata, and Sakata met up, the four friends were still there.

"Is Soraru-san angry?" Sakata asked. "Shouldn't we tell him?"

"Tell him what?" Luz asked.

"It feels like we're punishing Soraru-san," Urata said, frowning. "I feel guilty, in all honesty."

"We did put up a good guard, right?" Amatsuki asked, forcing a chuckle in the end.

"... I really don't know what's happening..." Luz muttered, feeling a bit isolated in the conversation.

"We need to talk to Mafu-kun," Urata said. "I can't handle lying to Soraru-san like this. I respect him a lot but... I just can't."

"I agree with Uratan," Sakata said, scooting closer to the green-eyed brunette. "But what if Soraru-san found out? Like... what if he got angry at us?"

Amatsuki merely chuckled. "As if! He's Soraru-san!" he said proudly. "We can just tell him that Mafu-kun messaged us and stuff like that~"

"... Umm, guys...?" Luz muttered, attempting to catch everyone's attention.

It was still no use, everyone still ignored the light-haired male.

"Mafu-kun... I wonder why he's doing this," Amatsuki wondered, followed by a sigh from Urata.

"I wonder why are we doing this," Sakata said.

"GUYS!" Luz shouted.

"Later, Luz-sun," Amatsuki said, closing his eyes.

"Luz-kun~ later, alright?" Urata and Sakata said in unison as they gave the light-haired male a soft smile.

Luz cursed quietly before letting out a sigh and just watch the three males discuss.