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eighteen

jihoon freezes.

he couldn't believe it. not now.

"what?"

soonyoung says nothing, only spinning him around, pointing to a building.

jihoon follows his finger to a certain area and waits.

soonyoung keeps his hand there. jihoon sees nothing.

they wait a little bit more. nothing.

jihoon blinks. then, something.

it wasn't much, just the quick swish of something weapon-like, by the looks of it, from behind the building.

jihoon sighs. "well, we might want to tell everyone. like, now."

"yeah," soonyoung replied shortly, "i'll do that. you keep an eye on that building, okay?"

jihoon nods as he hears soonyoung from behind him, "guys! they're here, make sure you have everything ready!"

he hears the others gasp in surprise.

"really?" junhui asks, "how close are they?"

"don't really know. we don't even really know if it was one of them. we'd just assumed."

junhui hums, eyes trailing towards the bottoms of the buildings.

minghao speaks up. "do you think we should go down?"

soonyoung thinks for a second, looks back at jihoon, then back at minghao. "yeah, probably."

minghao nods, turning back to the others.

soonyoung walks back to jihoon and put a gentle hand on his shoulder, "we're going down to check it out, you coming?"

"yeah! why wouldn't i be?" jihoon says, already heading to the stairwell. 

soonyoung doesn't reply.

                                                                            ........

once they reach the bottom and they're all in the lobby type area, they're on high alert.

seungcheol had his hand back on his gun, yet again, and minghao was inching his hand towards junhui's.

they've seemed to stick together more often.

they all slowly exit the building, seungcheol going first. he was now the leader. their leader.

there's no sign of anything yet, just the sound of the breeze flowing through the trees and the sound of emptiness.

the thirteen of them empty the building, ready for anything to happen.

soonyoung stays close to jihoon.

he's got this weird protective feel somewhere, that if he leaves jihoon alone for even a minute, anything could happen.

seungcheol stays in the front, always looking behind buildings before moving on down the road.

soonyoung takes his chances and grabs onto jihoon's hand,  clasping them together tightly. jihoon gives him a weird look, "what? are you scared?" jihoon asks, smirking ever-so-slightly.

soonyoung scoffs, "in your dreams."

jihoon laughs slightly at that and starts swinging their hands back and forth.

soonyoung looks down at jihoon, or more like the top of his head. he was at least five inches shorter than soonyoung. he thought it was cute. he thought jihoon was cute.