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Chapter 27: It's Sketchy

this is a short one and the writing is lazy im sorry 😅
i h8 this chapter

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i was already awake at six in the morning. sunlight peeked through the curtains and covered the whole room with its warm color. most of the boys were still dreaming away, except for chan, mingyu and seungcheol. the three boys were on their phones first thing in the morning.

"good morning, minseul!" the youngest greeted me. "funny how we were the last ones asleep but the first ones to wake up."

"yeah right, like having a few hours of sleep is healthy for both of you," seungcheol muttered.

i got off the couch and stumbled across to the other side of the room, trying to look out the window. the ground was no longer damp and the sky was clear. wow, i thought it rained all night long. lifting the window open, i felt the lazy wind rush in and back, and watched it push against soonyoung's plants.

they were dead, just like our relationship lmhao.

"wow the wind feels good," chan mumbled, "i would go out for a jog but the stupid virus won't let me."

"you can still do your exercises just out here in front, and wear a mask," i told him. the boy thought it was a good idea, so he rushed to the bathroom to wash his face and skipped his way to the door, telling mingyu to call him when breakfast is ready.

i washed up right away, just like i always do in the morning. and as soon as i came back to the living room, most of the boys were already awake.

seokmin yawned. "where's soonyoung hyung? i thought he was the one outside but it was channie."

"ah, around midnight he got up to go to jihoon and never came back," seungcheol answered.

"why?" seungkwan asked, his eyes squinting. seungcheol merely shrugged. "you don't know? don't you think it's sketchy?" the younger asked once more.

when the boys asked why i didn't check on soonyoung, i only lied, saying i was already asleep that time and i couldn't go into the room because jihoon is sick.

"this sounds so weird! why would he go there a lot while he's sick? are they hiding something from us?" seungkwan whispered. seungcheol mentioned that jihoon probably asked soonyoung to stay there, but seungkwan argued that it's impossible for such thing to happen.

"soonhoon is happening, i feel it!" he claimed. "minseul, you know anything about this?"

i paused to think. "no, i don't know anything." my eyes gazed around the room and stopped to stare at mingyu, who was busy talking to wonwoo. damn it.

the door opened and we all watched chan come in. he looked tired and energized at the same time and i didn't even know that that was possible. "oh hey, everyone's awake. good morning hyungs!" he cheered. the boy walked his way to his backpack to get some clothes, then made a beeline for the bathroom for a quick cold shower.

it's been two minutes and apparently, seungkwan wasn't done theorizing about soonyoung and jihoon yet.

"are you crazy? soonhoon can't happen. isn't soonyoung loyal as fuck?" the leader asked.

"lmao," minghao laughed. he's really the only person who says "lmao" when he laughs. "you should try talking to soonyoung hyung, minseul. you know, just in case."

"just in case what?" i asked

silence. i realized i was talking to nobody since minghao was already fast asleep, and seokmin couldn't stop laughing at how fast that conversation ended.