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Jaebum, Youngjae is gone.

Jaebum had to read the message twice before he understood. Youngjae is gone? This had to be some kind of bad joke right? Why would he run away? Jaebum stared at the screen, his mouth agape. It was because of him and his stupidity wasn't it?

Jaebum
Wait wait, what? You can't be serious...

Yugyeom
But I am serious! He's no where to find and the last time I saw him he wasn't feeling well at all! I'm honestly so worried.

Suddenly Panic raised up in his body. Jaebum felt his body slowly weakening as he lost control over his breathing. The boy started to hyperventilate while he thought about the worst scenarios that could possibly happen. Jaebum needed to do something here and now.

Jaebum
Stay right where you are. I'm going to come over.

And he did. Without wasting even one second, Jaebum did a quick job in grabbing his keys and putting his jacket on. He rapidly hurried over to the dorms. It took him about two minutes before he finally stood in front of their room. This time, it was Yugyeom who answered, not Youngjae like it was the recent day.

Yugyeom looked worried, just as Jaebum did too.

The two of them didn't exchange many words before they got outside together. After all it wasn't about bonding, but about their friend. Jaebum and Yugyeom searched around the area, but he was nowhere to their displease. They didn't leave out any corner, checking under every rock, but nothing. Half an hour passed until it started pouring down, causing their clothes to stick and their body temperature to drop.

"Do you have any other idea to where he could be?" Jaebum swung the hood over his head where his hair hung slick against his forehead. The two of them were exhausted and cold, but that didn't bother them at all in that moment.

"Well... actually..." Yugyeom then began, staring at the ground as he was thinking. Suddenly he gasped. "There is one!"

"Why didn't you tell me earlier-" But before Yugyeom could even answer that question, he dragged Jaebum to some kind of Park.

"We came here often when we were younger." Yugyeom stopped in the middle of some meadow, trees surrounding it. The younger sighed. "Good old memories."

Jaebum could do nothing but to look around. He wasn't even aware that this place actually existed around here, or he just couldn't remember. There was a playground build to the boys left side and he thought he could even spot a pond in the distant.

"Jaebum, look!" Yugyeom suddenly said, causing Jaebum to flinch a bit. He pointed to the bench to our right. A boy was laying on the wood, shivering hard. Was that Youngjae?

Immediately, the two of them hurried over to the figure. As they approached closer and closer they could finally identify the person and yes, they were right. There was Youngjae, laying on the bench in only a black T-shirt. It's no wonder he was probably freezing to death.

"Youngjae!" He looked up to the two of them. His eyes were read and puffy and his shirt was sticking to his torso. He held his arms in front of his chest in an attempt to warm up a bit. It didn't seem to work much tho as his whole body was shivering uncontrollably. Seriously, what did that boy think?

"What happened?" Jaebum added, Yugyeom taking some time to catch his breath. All that running caused the both of them to pant immensly.

Youngjae didn't respond though and instead just stared at Jaebum. He looked so tired, so down. The elder just wanted to hug him tightly, but would that solve their problems?