Hunted

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Jina ran her fingers through her fiery hair, releasing a heavy sigh meanwhile. Her eyes moved through the pictures on the walls before returning back to Taeyong's. "You couldn've at least told me..." She stood up, Taeyong doing the same. "Dayeon and I will search her room, she might have left something behind, I don't know a second phone or something." Another sigh. "I don't even know what to think..."

Taeyong nodded. The brunette girl walked up to them as Jina already climbed the stairs with zero motivation. Dayeon's full lips lifted in a reassuring smile before she left a soft peck on his cheek and followed Jina through the corridor of the first floor.

Taeyong turned around to the rest of the jobless men standing restless around him. "Dial every number, guys. You all know Soji's description."

• • •

The arrow behind the steering wheel was escalating quickly as the black Benz cut through the wind down the highway towards Seoul. Not that Mark knew where exactly he was headed, neither did his companion.

The Panamera was nowhere to be seen, even though they didn't lose a second before they drove off after it. For a girl with deadly fear of fast rides, it was obvious that something big had driven her to run away like that again, even after everyone found out why she disappeared in thin air for a month. Or at least the base of it was revealed if not the whole story.

However, it was obviously not enough knowledge to keep her from doing the same again. Except this time she didn't even try to hide it. Or maybe she didn't want to hide it at all. She didn't have time to hide it.

The mocha haired ran a hand through his messy hair. His leg was uncontrollably tapping against the bottom of the car in impatience. His eyes scanned every single car entering and living his frame of vision, hoping to catch a glimpse of the one he was looking for. Every following moment making it harder for his eyes to pay attention under the darkening dull sky. The streetlights weren't enough to completely lighten up every car on the wide four lines road.

A heavy invisible cloud of air escaped his lips and he turned to the ravenette in the driver's seat. "Do you even have any idea where we're going?"

The said guy stayed quiet for a second. His eyes dangerously narrowed at the road in front of his eyes. He wasn't even focused on where he was driving. All he knew was that somewhere before him on the exact same highway was Soji and he needed to catch her and bring her back home for good.

"Do I look like I know?!" He question-answered back sarcastically. "She literally vanished and except for Seoul, I have no other idea where she'd be headed."

"And Seoul is a very extensive area." Jaemin rolled his eyes aside. The amount of irony in his voice drove the other even madder than he was. "And let's not forget the possibility of her not even being headed towards Seoul this time."

"If you have any idea, why don't you share, Mr. Na?" The ravenatte quickly snapped back, not losing a second with his eyes narrowed at the younger guy.

Jaemin's eyes darkened, not used to it and loathing the idea of hearing his real surname. His Adam's apple bobbed as he gulped down the urge to fight Mark, even though he wanted to punch his guts so desperately ever since he saw him kiss his girlfriend back on the party. He despised the idea to even talk to him and here he was, still working together with him every single time Soji was involved.

"Yes." He answered after taking his time to pull himself together. He looked away from Mark while the other averted his eyes to him, having picked his attention. "Considering that Soji stayed with that Jimin guy for the past month, he might at least have an idea."