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Seongwoo's POV (a/n omg i started writing this draft back on december 13 and its may 24 fml) (lmao hi it's september 18 now)

[trigger warning: the following receives content that might trigger some readers]

About 10 minutes after I called, there were rapid knocks on my door. Jinyoung hurriedly ran over to the door and swung it open. He hugged Hyojung tightly.

"Hyojung, my sister is goNE," Jinyoung says. Behind Hyojung was a man, probably Jisung? He nodded in my direction and I nodded back. Y'all know like how people say hey to each other but the cool way- nah nevermind.

Hyojung looks up at me with a stern look on her face, "when was the last time you saw her?"

"She left me around 5, but before that, we went to a photo shoot and was planning on going to eat something spicy but she got a text from Taeyong and said she had to go. She texted me later 'breaking up with me' and said she was taking Taeyong back." I told her. Hyojung nods and then sits down on the couch. Jisung hands her a bookbag and she pulls out her laptop.

Her face lit up from the bright light of the laptop as she opened it.

"What are you doing?" I asked her, Jinyoung sitting in the ground in front of her.

"Going on facebook."

"Wha- ...why?" Jinyoung asks.

"To see if Taeyong or Binnie is active," Hyojung says in a tone of voice that sounds like "duh".

"Usually facebook provides your location if you don't turn it off. It would say like, 'sent from phone Seoul, South Korea' or something like that. Taeyong is a party guy so usually he posts when he goes clubbing, and it's USUALLY always the same club," she says. Jisung and I sit on both sides of her and lean closely to look at the screen. Right after Hyojung looks up Taeyong on facebook and scrolls down, Jisung points at the screen.

"There, 22 minutes ago," he says.

Lee Taeyong  — at Mensclub in Hongdae
sent from phone.
Here again
22 minutes ago

"He's at a strip club? Is that where he took Yoobin?" I ask. Hyojung nods, "if he's still with her then yes. Every time he posts about being there he's always like 'I'm here' or 'here' or ' here again'," Hyojung says as she scrolls down his timeline.

"But my sister hates clubs, why would she go there?" Jinyoung says in confusion.

"Wait... give me the laptop..." Jisung says, taking the laptop away from Hyojung. "What is it?" she asks.

"Mensclub in Hongdae sounds awfully familiar... I feel like I read something about it from somewhere." Jisung opens a new tab and searches up the club. Immediately after he clicks enter, a whole bunch of news articles show up.

Sex Trafficking at Mensclub in Hongdae

11 Women filed Missing: 4 escapes Sex Trafficking in Hongdae

Sex workers in Hongdae at Mensclub

Popular strip club involved with sex trafficking

Four teens who escaped sex trafficking reveals their "branding tattoos"

"Oh my god," Hyojung gasps, covering her mouth.

Jisung clicks on the article about branding tattoos and scrolls down to see if there was a picture of the tattoos. Each of the girls had the same tattoo on their necks of angel wings and a crown in the middle. In tiny letters beneath the crown was the surname, Lee.

"Oh my fucking god. Taeyong's family runs an underground sex trafficking business."