DNYL CLUB/// norenmin

Part 13

Previously on DNYL CLUB:

"Something's wrong." 

Jaemin looked up. "What is it?"

"It's Jisung, we- we don't know where he is."

Renjun sat bolt upright. "What the hell?"

"He left the house a little while back, wouldn't tell us anything, and now we can't find him."

Jeno walked in. "He's not answering his phone, Mark. Chenle says Jisung isn't with him, either. He's gonna look, though." He stiffened when he saw Renjun and Jaemin sitting on the bed with no distance between them. As he looked closer, though, he noticed the tears in Renjun's eyes and sighed.

"Mark, you go look for Jisung- call Hyunjin and Chan and tell them to search with you. Um," he said, hesitating, "I need to stay here."

Mark rolled his eyes and nodded.

Jeno shut the door and sat down in front of Renjun. "Injunnie," he said as he took Renjun's hands in his, "what's wrong?"

Jaemin looked at him. "Jeno, I don't think-"

"It's fine, Jaemin. Nono can stay." Seeing Jaemin's raised eyebrow, he nodded. He curled up again, his eyes becoming distant.

Jeno glanced up. "Jaemin," he said, "what's wrong with him?"

"Can I tell him?"

Renjun nodded.

Jaemin sighed and gently held up one of Renjun's hands, untangling them from Jeno's. As he rolled down the sleeves, Jeno's eyes widened, then narrowed.

"Again?" he asked angrily.

"Yeah," Renjun said in a small voice. "Again."

Jeno slowly leaned forward and hugged Renjun, who looked up with surprise. He hesitated a little, then snuggled up against Jeno.

"Don't do this, okay?" he said with a frown, stroking Renjun's hair. "Don't do this to yourself."

"Why not?"

"Because we need you, Renjun." Jaemin whispered. "We won't let you leave us like that."

They sat in silence for a little while, Jeno and Jaemin forming a kind of protective cocoon around Renjun.

A knock sounded on the door.

"Come in."

"Guys, we have a little bit of an issue." Chan walked in.

"What is it? Did you find Jisung?" Renjun sat bolt upright.

"Well, we found him, but- uh, you'd better see for yourself."

Jaemin said, "What are we going to see?"

Hyunjin laughed nervously.

"What is it?"

"Um, he's- just a little bit- high." Hyunjin grinned sheepishly.

Renjun groaned. "Are you serious?"

Jaemin forced himself off the bed and stood up.

"How'd this happen?" he asked with a grin.

Jeno stood and pulled Renjun up.

They heard a high pitched giggle from the living room, and Jaemin poked his head out the door.

Jisung was lying on the couch with his head in Chenle's lap. Chenle's head was bent downward to face Jisung's, and Jisung kept reaching up and touching his fingertips to the smaller boy's face.

"Chenle," he kept saying, "why are you so adorable?"

Renjun's face turned white. "What's he on?" He turned to Hyunjin, who shrugged.

"No clue."

They walked toward the living room. Renjun suddenly noticed something odd.

Jisung's face was streaked with tears. Though he smiled and laughed, his voice rattled with very word.

He walked the rest of the way to the couch and knelt down in front of Jisung, patting his hair.

"What's wrong, Jisung?"

"Nothing," the boy grinned, and Renjun would have believed it. Renjun would have believed that smile. Even through the tears, his grin lit up the whole room.

But he could also believe the look on Chenle's face. That look that told him that something was wrong. Really wrong.

"Something's up." Renjun looked at both of them. "And one of you two is going to tell me why my brother is high and crying with you!" He glared at Chenle, and his voice became accusatory.

Jisung's smile disappeared. "No, no, Junnie, no," he said, reaching for his brother like a child. "Not Chenle, it's never Chenle, it's me, me, my fault, my fault, my own goddamn fault-"

Jeno and Jaemin looked on as Renjun put his arms around his brother and started sobbing again.

"Oh, come on!" Jeno groaned silently. "We just got him to stop crying."

"What's wrong?" Renjun kept repeating. "Sungie, please just tell me what's wrong!"

Hyunjin walked beside Renjun and put a hand on his shoulder. "Maybe you should leave him alone for now, Renjun."

"I didn't raise him this long to leave him alone!"

Renjun was breaking again. All of them could see it.

"Junnie," Jaemin started to say. He shut his mouth when Jeno grabbed his wrist and pulled him closer. Renjun frowned when he saw Jeno's possessive move.

He looked down at Jisung, then up at Chenle. He took a deep breath, calming himself a little.

"I want an explanation, but not right now." He paused. "I know you care about him. Try and tell him to sleep."

With that, he left the room. They heard a door slam shut and the click of a lock.

Jaemin's face became pale. "Oh, no." He looked at Jeno, and they rushed to Renjun's door. They could hear drawers being rattled.

"Where are they, where are they, where are they?"

Jeno looked at Jaemin with his eyebrows raised. "Does he have blades in there?"

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Please don't kill me

I swear it all gets better

ILY