𝙇𝙊𝘼𝘿𝙀𝘿 𝙅𝙐𝘿𝙂𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏 ➢𝘼𝙏𝙕. 𝙎𝙀𝙊𝙉𝙂𝙅𝙊𝙊𝙉𝙂

➣ 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄

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It has officially been a month since Hongjoong had accepted Seonghwa's friendship, and to be honest, Hongjoong's had enough. Yes Seonghwa treated him like a king and all but Hongjoong doesn't like Seonghwa, he stills holds a strong judgement against him. To make matters worse Seonghwa became very touchy with Hongjoong recently, intertwining their fingers, sliding his arms around Hongjoong's waist and even one time hoisted Hongjoong onto his lap. If there was one thing Hongjoong hated, it was being manhandled, at least when he was sober. But he never spoke a word of the topic to Seonghwa, allowing him to live in the illusion that the two could actually be compatible.

And now here he was sitting in his boss' office complaining as to why he couldn't hurry the process.

"It's already been a month! Don't you think that's far more than enough time to process just a warrant!" The older man, Choi Hyunseok groaned struggling to keep his calm attitude, "I understand that it must be frustrating for you. But you didn't even let me speak, I called you in here to tell you something but you ended up lecturing me."

Hongjoong sighed out and crossed his arms, finally letting the older man speak. "The warrant has been approved. It took so long since we had to make sure that whatever information you had collected was plausible."

In that moment Hongjoong felt such a rush of relief, it felt like weights had been lifted off his shoulders. "Finally." The older man drew a paper from the printer beside his desk, "Here, you can see the warrant for yourself. Share it with the team." Hongjoong was handed the sheet of paper and to say he wasn't happy would be a lie. "You're dismissed," Hongjoong stood up and bowed to the man, "And Hongjoong, next time you come into my office.. Remember who's in charge, don't try to lecture me again."

Hongjoong practically ran through the halls like a school boy in passing period to the team's meeting room, to his surprise Yeosang and San were already there, working away at the whiteboard. San turned his head to Hongjoong, "Hey, what's up?" The other man threw himself into a chair and raised the sheet of paper in the air, "Warrant."

The other two were shocked at just that one word. Yeosang left the white board and took the warrant from Hongjoong's hand, "Holy shit, we got 'em."

San put his hand on his hip and frowned, "So we came in at 4 for nothing?!" Hongjoong chuckled and ran his fingers through his hair, "I guess you did, but hey, overtime man. Where's the others?"

Yeosang placed the sheet on the table, "Yunho and Mingi are in their offices I believe, Wooyoung is out getting lunch," he checked the watch on his wrist, "And.. it's officially lunch. He should be back, the other two will be here any second."

Within minutes the whole group was inside the room, eating at the sandwich platter that Wooyoung had brought. "So when are we busting his ass?" Yunho asked with a smirk on the end of his lips. The others nodded in agreement, mouths full of food. "Well, whenever we see fitting I guess?" Hongjoong shrugged, "We just have to go over a plan." Yeosang cleaned his mouth with a napkin, "How much of a plan do you need? It's simple, just drop a bomb and you don't even have to step foot in that place." Wooyoung hummed in agreement, "Yeo's right, makes it easier on everyone too."

Mingi crossed his arms, "One, I don't think we have juristiction for that." Yeosang rolled his eyes mumbling, "Juristiction my ass." Mingi shook his head, "And two, we gotta get Choi's kid into the field." The rest of the group groaned and mumbled remembering the promise Hongjoong and Wooyoung had made to Jongho.

Hongjoong tried to reason with them, "Alright calm down. We're not going to just drop a bomb because there's other people besides just him there. Now, we're gonna work on a plan tonight and we're going to include Jongho. That's final."

Yeosang nudged San's arm with his shoulder, "What a bunch of pussies." The two giggled at Yeosang's remark. Wooyoung set his drink down, "Hey! You two shut it because neither of you have even gone into the field before!" That comment sparked an idea in Yunho's mind, "Say... Why don't we take them into the field this time. Won't be much of an issue, and they helped a lot on the case." Mingi nodded in agreement along with Hongjoong and Wooyoung. "So what do you two say?"

After lunch the group split up to work on their respective cases, smaller ones, less important.

They all met up at Yeosang and San's shared home after work, including Jongho. "Why am I here again?" The youngest asked with a genuinely confused face. Yeosang sat down at the table with a wine glass in hand, "Because. Hongjoong and Wooyoung let you help us out, and now we're all gonna go and arrest Park Seonghwa and we're taking you with us. Got it?" "Oh. Yeah." Jongho awkwardly coughed and folded his hands in his lap, waiting for the others to proceed.

Just as Hongjoong opened his mouth to begin his phone rang. "Who is it? Lover boy?" Yeosang teased sipping from the glass. Hongjoong gulped at the contact name, Seonghwa. Wooyoung crossed his legs, "Well go on, answer it."

Hongjoong mouthed 'Excuse me' and left the table, answering the phone and going into a hallway.

"Hello?"

"Joong, Sorry if I'm
bothering you."

"Oh, it's not a problem.
What's up?"

"I know we met up two days
ago but I'm dying to see
you again... I was
wondering if you could
come over again."

[Hongjoong bit his lip nervously,
desperately trying to think
of what he should do.]

"Um.. sure. Why not?
I'll stop by some time
this week."

"Perfect! Just call me
whenever you're on
your way."

"Will do. Talk to you later.
Bye Seonghwa."

"Bye Hongjoong,
love you."

Hongjoong hung up, he'd heard those last words Seonghwa had said. Did he really love him? He groaned and shoved his phone into his back pocket, trudging back to the table where the others had been discussing.

"Alright Hong. We got it," San started with a devious look in his eyes the others had the same look in their eyes, even Jongho. He pulled out a notebook with a title across the first page in big bold letters 'Beating Park Seonghwa's Ass!' The pictures were drawn by Yeosang and even had text bubbles and captions.

"So, you're going to go to his house." He flipped to the first page, "And then you're gonna seduce him." He flipped the notebook to another page with two stickfigures, presumably Hongjoong and Seonghwa. "Then you take off-" As San was turning the next page Hongjoong grabbed the notebook, cutting him off and cueing a bunch of annoyed sounds from the others.

"You didn't even get to the good part! Yeosang illustrated you two-" Hongjoong whacked San on the top of the head with the notebook. "No." He rolled his eyes, expecting nothing less from his childish friends. Mingi sighed, "Anyways, what'd he want."

Hongjoong slumped into a chair, "Wants to meet up this week." Yunho smiled at him, "Hey! That's a perfect opportunity! Don't worry, we don't have to carry out the other plan, unless ya' wanna."

Hongjoong glared at him, "No. We're not carrying out the OTHER plan. Now let's get to doing something actually productive please."

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another update :) might post another update today, im debating between updating this book again or not<3

also not @ how poker face by lady gaga fits this book so well (o_o)