Heat (Yumark)

Chapter Seventeen

Yuta paced back and forth. It had only been five minutes since Ten left to chase after Mark, but the guilt was too great. He wanted, needed, to apologize. He thought about what he was planning on doing, and decided that it was selfish. He couldn't ask Mark to leave. Nor could he ask Johnny and Jaehyun to leave.

Taeyong would never do that to Jaehyun.

"I'm going to go-"

Just as Yuta was about to go after Mark, Ten burst through the door, panting. "M-Mark he-he's-"

"He's what?!" Yuta asked, the panic rising in his voice.

"Gone Yuta, gone!" Ten cried, gripping Yuta's shirt. "When I went downstairs he was gone! I ran around the block to see if he went for a walk but I couldn't find him!" A sob wracked through his body. "He's gone Yuta, he's gone."

Yuta's heart stopped. "This is my fault."

"You don't know that Yuta," Yang Yang grabbed Ten's hand. "Mark knows you wanted to protect him. He was just upset because he cares for all of us."

"I know but if I didn't bring that idea up he wouldn't have taken off!"

"Yuta calm down. Losing your cool won't get him found anytime sooner."

Yuta sighed. Yang Yang was right. If he freaked out now, they'd be slower at finding Mark. "Alright. Call everyone here. We need to have an emergency meeting. And Jaemin?"

"Yeah?"

"Call Lucas, Haechan, and Felix. Have them come here too."

"Okay."

Yang Yang watched as Jaemin left the room. "You're going to tell them? You were just freaking out at Jeno a few minutes ago."

"The situation is different now," Jeno commented. "They're Mark's close friends too, we can't hide the fact Mark is missing from them."

"I know but-"

"I feel the same way you do. They'll be in danger too, but we can't just tell them Mark went on vacation."

"You're right. I'll call Kun and the rest of WayV."

"I'll call them too." Ten sat down on the couch next Yang Yang and pulled out his phone.

Jeno pulled out his own phone, "I'll call the rest of Dream."

Yuta nodded and pulled out his phone. He started scrolling through the contexts. 'Who should I call first?' He thought to himself. 'I definitely can't call Shotaro first, he'll freak out too much. Maybe Jaehyun? No. He'll just get angry. Maybe I'll start with Taeil and Doyoung and work my way down. I'll call Jaehyun and Johnny before I call Shotaro.'

.........

An hour later, everyone from Shotaro and Sungchan to Hendery and Xiaojun were sitting around the room. Everyone had a nervous air about them, Yang Yang, Ten, Jeno, and Jaemin hadn't said why they needed to meet up, just that they needed to meet at Yuta's apartment. Yuta himself had decided to spare the details himself, only mentioning that they had an emergency.

"Uhm..." Lucas cleared his throat. "Who are all these people? I've never seen any of them here before other than Ten and Yang Yang..."

"I suppose I'll start with that..." Yuta rubbed his eyes.

"Felix isn't answering his phone," Jaemin sighed. "I've called him multiple times now, but he's not picking up. We should probably just start."

Yuta nodded his head. "Lucas, Haechan. All these people..." he gestured to all the faces in the room. "...are my friends, my comrades."