Despicable! • JUNHAO

PART TWENTY SEVEN.

「ｊｕｎ」

"Hey, Jun!" Vernon says across the hall, Minghao and I walking hand in hand to psych.

I smile back, missing the days we would share together with our friends.

His hand briefly grazes my shoulder, but isn't intimate under the intimidation of Minghao.

"Are you going to Joshua's wake tonight?" he asks, the question not being what I had in mind for the next topic I would discuss among him.

"We're going together" Minghao replies for me tamely, and Vernon only gives a tight lipped smile before continuing down another hall.

Everything's changed so fast.

Merely a week and a half has passed since the day that will be stained into my memory.

The joining of me and Minghao.

I went blind.

It could have been seen from a mile away, in my opinion, but Minghao still continues to show every mixed emotion he could towards it.

At first, it seemed everything was falling apart.

~

"How the fuck are we going to fix this?!" Minghao holds his head in his hands, sitting on the couch that now belongs to a dead man.

I'm still standing over the body while he panics. While it's warranted, I can't seem to think of any solution. Of anything at all.

There's just a wall encircling my brain, locking away any thought that I could make.

And it's so very frustrating.

--

My memory of that day is blocked by the same wall that wouldn't allow me to think.

All I know, is that it's not easy transporting a body.

But I'm recovering.

Not many people have been brave enough to talk to me(and even more so Hao)- other than Vernon- after the event of him on the roof with Joshua. But that's just one of the things I have to ignore.

I'm feeling great.

And for the most part, that's all that matters.

Sure, I'm in the most feared relationship anyone's ever seen.

Yes, I lost my other friends, like Seungkwan and Wonwoo.

Yeah, I haven't seen Mingyu since that day.

And no, Minghao and I never talked about Jeonghan.

And of course, we know there's some sort of investigation about it behind our backs. But with it's halt to our advantage, Seungcheol has been in custody, being interrogated for the past week over his long gone lover.

But I'm feeling great.

--

「ｓｅｕｎｇｃｈｅｏｌ」

A week and a half ago, I was taken into custody.

My friends watched me be dragged into a police car, while I was busy having a panic attack.

But it wasn't as it seemed.

One week earlier

After being ushered into a small interrogation room, I was joined by two men- then to my surprise, uncuffed.

They took the seats across from me at the barren table other than a particularly thin file.

"Choi Seungcheol?"

"..Yes?"

One man leaned over. Though he appeared young, there was exhaustion in his eyes that proved him to be more experienced than one would believe.

"I'm Detective Park Jeongsu, but most call me Detective Leeteuk. I'm here to inform you, that you have not been arrested under the suspicion of foul play. We brought you here today, because we need your help."

—

Everyone thinks I've been in custody, relentlessly interrogated over my boyfriend.

Instead, I've been preparing to find evidence on Xu Minghao for the murder of Joshua Hong and Yoon Jeonghan.

The feeling from hearing Joshua was dead is indescribable. But when the worst is happening to everyone around you, you know there's a malignant, cancerous evil looming- one that one would pray and weep on their knees to desperately prevent it from entering their lives if they knew it was coming.

But no one had any idea. All we had was an approaching apprehension that no one could place.

This time though, I'll be ready.

His wake is here.

And it will be the fall of Xu Minghao, if it's the last thing I can be sure of.

-sorry for the hiatus! I'll be finishing this book as soon as I can and then continuing with BLIND and Holy Smokes. Thank you for reading<3