"I hope I also have your ability, Han-ah."
"I told you I did nothing!"
"Yeah yeah. I believe you because I know you. But Chan's not like me."
I know. Chan only have Joshua right now and the fact that the only family he has is in danger is really frustrating.
We sent him home to rest, we thought he needed sleep to regain his energy to trust us again. When we fetched him this lunch to send to school, he still glared at us suspiciously, especially at me.
I really can't blame the kid. I haven't explained the conversation I had with Seungcheol a while ago since we decided to sleep first.
Man, this has really been a long day. Maybe I only had some minutes of nap because I tried reaching Taehyung's number the entire day but that butler haven't picked up once. I left him a message about Joshua's situation, hoping he would help.
"So, what do we do after we fetch Chan?" Hoshi asked. We're waiting at the parking area of his university.
"I don't know, really. We're just hunters. We look for missing criminal and surrender that to the cops. We never tried to prove one's innocence."
"But, the things they're accusing of Joshua are all true.." Hoshi looked down and kicked a rock.
Ah!! This is so frustrating! What to do now?
"Jeonghan."
"Oh?"
"Do you think we should ask the detective to-"
"No."
This may sound selfish, but we need to help Joshua alone. If we bail him out, he can have a reason to believe me.
"Oh, here's Chan."
We saw him walking without looking at us.
"Chan, I can explain everything." I told him the moment he took the helmet from Hoshi.
"Let's go. We need to help Joshua."
"He told us to bring you back home."
"I said let's go. Where to?"
I looked at Hoshi to help me with Chan.
"You know what, we need to discuss things first. How about we do it at your favorite bakeshop, huh?" Hoshi wrapped his arms around Chan's, bribing him with bread.
"Fine."
So we went to the bakeshop and asked for our typical order. If Joshua's here, he'll also gonna order the pizza bread like mine. Man, I mis- what am I thinking.
"Explain now, Yoon Jeonghan." Chan told me.
"Before sunrise today, I was talking to Joshua. He went inside because a patient came."
"I know."
"Yeah yeah. And that's when Atty. Choi called me."
"Atty. Choi Seungcheol? What's he doing there?" Chan was shaking a bit and was calmed down by Hoshi.
"He wanted to talk to me that's why he asked me to the convenience store."
"And you just went with him. You're more suspicious now, Yoon Jeonghan."
"Ahhh. I just want to hear him out."
I admit, I was dumb back there. I was tempted by the fact that I'm going to learn more about Joshua.
I explained everything to them. From him knowing mine and Hoshi's background to him not knowing Joshua's to him planning to put Joshua behind bars.
"Was he doing it to take revenge on me?" Chan asked.
"Not against you, but against Joshua."
"What the hell?" Hoshi is obviously mad.
"I know, what the hell. I can smell he's working with Woozi."
"How??"
"I don't know yet. By now, we know everything was planned."
"Yeah. Sorry. I just, I just don't want to lose another family again. I overlooked you two, you're also part of my family now." Chan looked down, but I had a glance of his genuine gratitude. I see him as my younger brother, too. That's why him doubting me kinda hurts.
We all took a bite of our break when someone shouted.
"WOW!"
I caught the bread that I almost dropped because of that scream.
"What was that?" Chan looked at the counter. "Oh, that was our Chemistry professor."
"The owner?"
"Uhm, him." He pointed at the old man who handed someone a cup of iced coffee.
"Oh. Small world." I said.
"Yeah. He retired this year. So this is what he's up to now. How nice."
We continued eating and brainstorming about what to do with Joshua. Then we're surprised again by the ring of my phone. FINALLY a call from Taehyung.
"We've been reaching you the whole day! Have you seen my message?"
"Mr. Yoon Jeonghan, haven't I told you to stay away from Jisoo?"
Oops.
"Yeah yeah. You see, we met again by accident and just, you know, we decided to hang out."
"You're not good at following, are you?"
"Forget it. So how can you help us?"
"I can't."
"What?"
Again, out of nowhere, a man screamed "MISTER HANSOL VERNON CHWE WHEREJSKSLFMFLDPR" and I almost dropped my phone now.
"Sorry. What was that?"
"Mr. Yoon Jeonghan, please pick young master up. Now."
"Pick up? He's still in jail, you mean we sneak him out?"
"He's free. Go now. Before the shooters come."
"Shoo- How is he free and why would there be shooters?"
"Just go, before they kill him."
