Sehun's grip tightened on the steering wheel as he neared the given location. Two identical skyscrapers came into view. Most of the buildings in the city looked alike; tall and enveloped in glass windows, though something about these ones in particular was unsettling, and Sehun didn't want to stick around long enough to find out what that may be.
"Have you been here before?" He asks Kyungsoo.
"No," Kyungsoo admitted, and Sehun wanted to turn the vehicle around immediately. "I know this is it. I can feel it."
Chanyeol scoffs. "What?"
"Trust me,"
"How can we trust you?" Chanyeol shook his head. "You nearly kicked me across a roof."
"The past is in the past," Sehun laughed uneasily, trying to break up any tension between the two. "Besides, it was kinda funny,"
"Funny?" Chanyeol repeated. "You got smacked too, and you call it funny? Are you hearing yourself?"
Sehun shrugged focused his attention to the road. "Where do I turn?"
"Pass by here and we should be fine," Kyungsoo points left, and Sehun passes by the building casually. He pulls into a nearby parking lot beside another building.
"What now?" Sehun turns to Kyungsoo after putting the car in neutral.
"Are you sure you want to do this?"
Sehun nods and relays the question to Chanyeol. "What about you?"
"We have to help our friend," Chanyeol thinks about Xiumin, and notices Kyungsoo staring at him. "What? News flash: I didn't mean you."
Kyungsoo turns around with the same straight face he wore since he got inside the car, and that seemed to make Chanyeol uneasy.
"Excuse us, for a minute, will you?" Chanyeol gets out of the car and pulls Sehun out with him.
"Are you out of your mind? Do you actually trust this guy and all his nonsense?" Chanyeol fumes once they've walked away from the car. "You're just gonna let him tell you where to go and expect me to go along with all of this? Do you want me to pretend it's not weird at all? Because guess what: it is weird."
"I know it's weird," Sehun agrees. "I just want to help him out, Park. You know I was like him once, and I just want to lend a hand, is that too much to ask for?"
"Yes, kind of?" Chanyeol yells in a hushed voice. "He tried to kill us!"
"I know, but..."
"But what?" Chanyeol clicks his tongue. "Why are you standing up for a guy you just met? What's his deal?"
"His deal is, he's trying not to get caught." Sehun begins to explain. "If he gets caught, they will lock him up, run tests, and maybe even kill him. And whatever they'll do to him, they'll do to me, too."
"And you believe all that?" Chanyeol asks. "He's messing with your head, Sehun. He's getting you to do other things, he could care less about what happens to you."
"Don't say that," Sehun glares. "He was only defending himself on the roof, he thought we were hunting him down like the police, the SWAT team, the FBI. I know what it's like to be on the run, and like Kyungsoo, I would've quite literally killed to have someone offer me their help. It's hard to see people other than as threats. Kyungsoo thought we were threats, and we looked at him the same way: as a threat."
Chanyeol lowers his head.
"We should just... give him a chance, and if something gets dangerous or uncomfortable we can stay out of his business."
"Business," Chanyeol scowls.
"Why do you care, anyway?" Sehun lowered his voice, noticing it was getting too loud.
"Why do I care?" Chanyeol turns around. "I care because you're my friend. I know you're trying to help him out, and I know we should give him a chance but you have to understand that different people come to my building everyday and Yoora and my dad are forcing me to work with these people that I don't even know. It's sketchy as it is already, and I don't know why exactly we are working with different people. Kyungsoo or whatever his face is is like those people, except he's being hunted, Oh. I don't want to get involved with someone who could ruin our reputation. I don't want to be forced to work with yet another guy I don't know. Try to understand that."
"That's fair." Sehun nods, and looks back at his car. "I know it's sketchy but I really want to help him out, and he also has answers to whatever happened earlier."
"Fine. I don't know what you did on that roof earlier, but you can't just assume he knows all the answers. We'll help him out but as soon as things get weirder I'm out."
"Hey, guys?" Kyungsoo pokes his head out of the car. "You should get in, someone's coming."
"Are you seeing this?" Chanyeol breathes in deeply. "Nonsense,"
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