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"you wanted to talk to me?" jungwoo pointed to himself before softly fiddling with his shirt collar. he was always curious as to what ten and renjun would be talking to lucas about, but he never thought they would ask him. despite his worrying, he had to hold his head high and not show them that.

"no we came in here for a pencil." ten was quick to fire back. renjun gave him a warning glance before he smiled back at jungwoo.

"uh- yes. we wanted to ask you some questions. if that's okay with you of course!" renjun was quick to ask for the older's permission. he had never really interacted with the orange haired male so he didn't know what to expect. ten was just waiting to leave at this point. he knew jungwoo wouldn't answer anything.

"i don't mind.." jungwoo smiled slightly as he sat down at his desk. renjun sat down across from him while ten took the empty desk beside jungwoo. he was beyond surprised to hear that jungwoo had even agreed to this.

"we heard you have been speaking to jeno lately. is that true?" renjun asked carefully. he didn't want to hit a nerve that would push jungwoo away and deprive them of their answers. jungwoo looked over at ten who hadn't look away from him that whole time.

"yes, it is. are you interested in seeing him?" jungwoo asked turning back to renjun. renjun was slightly intimidated by jungwoo since he knew his aggressive tendencies, but he was so sweet at the same time. the combination was deadly. jungwoo smiled widely, resting his chin in the palm of his hand. "don't be scared, i don't bite."

"just answer the damn questions, jungwoo. we don't need you flirting." ten slammed his fist on the desk to refrain himself from pouncing on the latter.

"no...i actually really don't want to see him. but i was curious to know how and why you two started interacting? it just doesn't make sense." jungwoo was quiet for a moment. he narrowed his eyes at the nervous male in front of him. he knew renjun and ten were trying to pull something out of him.

"it's no secret. i pick up lucas from work sometimes and i ran into him a couple of weeks ago."

"what day?"

"the friday he quit." jungwoo watched as renjun and ten glanced at each other. he knew exactly what they wanted to hear and he wasn't going to give it to them. he could tell them about why he had conversations with jeno anytime, but he wasn't going to tell them why he was hired back by mr. qian.

"i know what you guys are trying to get out of me," jungwoo sighed, "ask me about jeno all you want but nothing more." and he was going to do everything in his power to make sure no one would find out why either.

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jaemin was relaxing at lucas' house. the tall male had invited him over along with sicheng, mark, and another male he had just met. his name was kun.

"where is mark?" jaemin asked.

"he couldn't make it. he's on a date or something." lucas replied. the group talked about work the whole entire time. jaemin was surprised lucas and sicheng didn't bring up him and renjun like usual. it was almost as if they were purposefully avoiding that topic. not that jaemin minded, he didn't really want to discuss it either.

"what happened when you went out to talk with renjun and ten the other day?" sicheng asked.

"they just asked me if i heard from jeno." jaemin frowned. why would they want to know jeno's whereabouts after what happened? so that's exactly what jaemin asked lucas.

"i don't know. they keep asking me questions about jungwoo and jeno. i don't know much so i told them to talk to jungwoo." lucas answered. there was something suspicious about that and it didn't sit right with jaemin at all. sicheng didn't seem to care too much but kun was listening closely to every word.

"what's going on at the department that's causing those two to question people? i figured i would hear about it if something bad happened." kun spoke up. lucas and sicheng's eyes doubled in size, blood rushing to their faces. jaemin didn't understand why they looked so panicked or why kun said he would know if something bad happened at the department. especially when he didn't work there.

"why would you know if something bad happened? i've never seen you around the office."

"lucas didn't tell you? i work with the ceo of the entire company." now it was jaemin's turn to panic. kun scanned the three male's faces, raising his eyebrow. he just knew something was going on.

"is it because of the new employee? jungwoo?" none of them knew how to answer that. of course lucas assumed that was the case since that was all renjun would ask about, but jaemin on the other hand was completely lost. and sicheng? he didn't seem to care too much.

"we don't really know much either, mr. qian."

"lucas, i told you to call me kun."

lucas nodded, "don't worry, nothing...happened. they're probably just wondering why jungwoo was hired or something." yes. that's exactly what ten and renjun were wondering. lucas had blindly hit the nail on the head. jaemin had found himself to be the only who caught on to that oddly specific guess of his. he wasn't going to tell anyone, but he was going to try to figure out why ten and renjun were creeping around.

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renjun and ten were on the hunt again. this time, they had came to the conclusion that they were gonna tell johnny all the information they had picked up. "i don't think i can go up anymore." renjun panted as he crouched down. ten rolled his eyes, taking renjun's hand and dragged him the rest of the way until they ran into jaemin.

"where are you two going?" he put a hand out to stop them. ten was a little surprised but he didn't let the younger stop him.

"none of your business." ten pushed past jaemin and continued walking with renjun in his hand.

"why do you guys want to know why jungwoo was hired? does it really matter?" jaemin smirked slightly when he saw ten and renjun freeze. slowly the two turned back around to face jaemin. both renjun and ten were confused on how jaemin knew what they were doing. if he knew, then who else was catching onto them? it was just another mystery they had to add to their list.

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this one wasn't revised at all, so apologies💀