《•Freedom•》//▪Kim SeungminFF▪

33

The sun once again rises up from the east, it's warm rays finding it's way through Haneul's window, lighting up the room's dark corners.

Haneul and Seungmin were fast asleep on her bed, cuddling under the warmth of her blanket peacefully.

Meanwhile, inside the dorm of Stray Kids, Bang Chan was also having one of his most relaxing sleeps he had had the whole month.

He lay on his stomach, head to the side against his soft pillow with his hands burried beneath it.

The room was quiet, the beautiful singing and chirping of birds heard even in the busy city.

But that was until Han Jisung decided to barge in the room, uninvited while screaming his lungs out.

"CHAN! CHAN! CHAN!" The boy yelled, his whole body shaking as he shook the leader.

Chan groaned and rolled to the other side. "What now, Jisung? It's," he turned on his phone and groaned even louder. "..fudging 6 am!"

Jisung's eyebrows curved upward. "B-but it's an emergency, hyung!" He reasoned.

Chan mummbled, almost inaudibly but Jisung was able to catch it. "The plumber is in the storage room."

The latter rolled his eyes, whining as he stomped his foot against the floor agressively. "Not that problem! It's different!" He said. "Seungmin is gone!"

Chan's eyes flashed open. He abruptly sat up at the sound of his member being missing. "What?"

"Seungmin is gone."

He furrowed his brows. "What do you mean gone?!" Chan rushed out of his bed, the other members also waking up and getting out of bed because of the ruckus.

"What's going on, hyung?" Asked the maknae, who was still carrying his pillow, rubbing his eyes with his hair still floofy.

"Umm.." he averted his gaze and faced Jisung as they walked to Seungmin's assigned room.

His roomates; Changbin, Minho, and Hyunjin just woken up and now checking the empty bed Seungmin was supposed to be in, in confusion.

"Where is he?" Chan faced the boys with a frown.

They shook their heads and shrugged, panic filling their eyes. "I- I don't remember." Hyunjin said, running a hand through his hair. "I was kinda tipsy last night."

Chan cursed under his breath and ran around the dorm, opening their storage rooms, bathroom, checling the kitchen, and finally stopped in the living room, Seungmin still nowhere to be found.

"H-he must've went down to buy in the convenience store." Jisung whispered lowly, trying to convince himself that his teammate was okay, hoping to calm the panic that was overwhelming them.

Chan nodded slowly. "Y-yeah. He must have." He said before standing up. "I'll go down to ask Haneul if she had seen him, 'kay? Don't call anyone yet. Not JYP. Not our manager."

The boys nodded, lowering their heads as they sat down the living room quietly.

Chan rushed down to the girl's floor, barely breathing as his heart was thumping against his chest hardly.

The weight of guilt and responsibility pushing down his shoulders as he felt like a bad leader for not checking on his members.

He knocked on Haneul's door with his shaking fist, taking deep breaths to calm himself.

He knocked again when the door still wasn't opened. "Curse this." He dipped under the mat and pulled out the extra key, opening the door for himself.