hit list | kiheon

04 - prologue

"hey,, guys?" kihyun asked, looking super anxious as he walked towards his friends.

"yeah, kihyun?" minhyuk said, getting off his phone.

changkyun, being the opposite and somehow minhyuk's best friend, didn't even lift his head from his laptop but said, "need something, hyung?"

"oh my god you actually call him hyung aWW-"

"shut up before i slap you."

"what will you slap? my knees?"

"i'm capable of getting a ladder or piggy back riding hyunwoo."

"...i can just take a step away."

"okay both shush please this is important." kihyun interrupted the two.

"ah it's serious?" changkyun asked, lifting his head.

"...yes. have you guys seen honey anywhere? it's been a week.."

"he didn't tell you?" minhyuk asked, surprised.

"tell me what?"

"his dad got really sick, and no one else can take care of him so he's working all the time instead of being at school."

"yeah,,, i-i don't even know when he'll be back.. his phone is turned off and i don't know where his workplace is. plus him and his dad moved to a smaller apartment last week and neither of us know where that is too." changkyun added, eyes tearing up.

"oh my god kyunnie no- don't cry, he'll be back." minhyuk said, and hugged changkyun.

kihyun sat down next to a bench, leaning his head onto a wall and back to the bench. kihyun didn't even get to say bye.

does jooheon still really hate me that much? that he just left telling everyone but me... does he still care about me telling his secret? everyone literally forgot about it in two days. did he just forget about me? what do i do now... i didn't even get to tell him about..

RING!!!

"stupid bell! doesn't even let me get my mind straight." kihyun mumbled, getting up from the ground and wiping the half formed tear in one of his eyes.

"how can it be straight when you're not?" minhyuk said, with a tiny smile.

"not a time to joke around minhyuk..."

"wowie you called me by full name- alright i'll stop."

kihyun, minhyuk and changkyun split up to go to their classes. changkyun kept his head low, in a hood while walking around. he didn't want anyone to see his puffy eyes. no one but minhyuk and jooheon,, and kihyun now ever saw him cry.

somewhere in the middle of class changkyun asked to go to the bathroom, instead ran off to the rooftop. he found kihyun there, sitting against that same bench from before, face facing the sky, head resting on the bench.

"hey hyung.." changkyun said quietly, walking over to kihyun.

kihyun turned his head and saw one of his best friends, in tears again. he sat down next to kihyun and just kept looking at the floor.

"crying again? come here.." kihyun said, trying to keep his voice way softer than his usual one.

changkyun was surprised that kihyun could even talk like that, he always seemed like the emotionless one in the group with the same rough voice in every situation.

changkyun sat down next to kihyun, who turned around and hugged him by his waist. this wasn't normal for the two whatsoever, kihyun and changkyun were probably the most distance two from the group but now they seemed the closest - changkyun's face buried in kihyun's chest and kihyun's face in his neck.

they stayed like that for a while, mostly until changkyun calmed down and stopped crying. surprisingly even kihyun shed a few tears.

kihyun kept thinking about all the things he didn't tell jooheon, and how it was so weird sleeping in his bed alone now, without someone to hug or to hug him.

i knew that feeling i had a few weeks ago would do something. i just knew it. now honey's gone and no one knows where he is and when he'll be back! even changkyun can't track him. he's half demon after all, those guys can track anyone from around the globe but it didn't work for honey. what if someone kidnapped him? what if he got put under some spell that kept changkyun from finding him? agh, i should stop thinking about things like that. kyun is probably just too stressed to do anything properly.

"kihyun? kihyun-hyung? are you okay?" changkyun said, looking at kihyun - who was looking at nothing in particular, eyes dull.

"wa- sorry. got caught in my thoughts."

"it's fine. what were you thinking about though?"

"why you couldn't track honey— ah- jooheon."

"so you do call him that, cute."

"shush. do you have any ideas why you couldn't track him?"

"no.. what were yours?"

"...he could've had a spell put on him but who would do that? honey doesn't have anything like enemies that i know of. well if we're not counting me."

"you guys don't seem like enemies. or, seemed, ever. just like passive aggressive besties, like me and jongin."

"you know kai?"

"err, ex best friend."

"understandable. he's a bitch."

"mhm. anyways, we literally can't do anything to find joo. he could be in a different country, continent by now for all we know."

"there weren't any flights to different continents the past weeks."

"you checked?"

"my dad had to go to england for a business meeting but couldn't, duh, there weren't any flights."

"oh.."

RING!!

"there we go. period one ended."

"you skipped it whole?"

"yes. i can't stand the p.e teacher."

"mr. kim?"

"no. mr. yoon."

"agh even worse."

"we keep getting off track."

"what track was there in the first place. we can't do anything about joo. my powers don't work and it's not like you can teleport to him."

kihyun face palmed.

"wait, you can? did we seriously not think about that?"

"were fucking idiots. watch this not work though."

"eh... try at least."

kihyun looked at nothing again, then clapped twice as he usually did to teleport somewhere or to someone. nothing happened. he pouted and rolled his eyes.

"see? my powers don't work either."

"so we really can't do anything, huh.."

"yeah.. anyways, i'm off to english. the teacher can't stand me skipping at this point and ima get expelled if she realises again, see ya."

"bye hyung."

kihyun made his way to english class, once he was there, he couldn't focus on the lesson or anything. he wasn't even thinking about how he didn't even get to say bye to his crush now, more about what happened to him, why couldn't changkyun track him and why couldn't he teleport to him?