Meant To Be, Or Not? - [YEONGYU FF]

Chapter 21

"I'm fine, we left before the fire could reach us, thankfully. What happened here?!" Beomgyu asked.

Hanbin sighed.

"The university... it seems like it was set on fire on purpose."

"IT WAS WHAT?!" the hugging pair screamed at once.

"Somebody else who was in the same building as you informed me that someone sneaked off from her group, and that a second person followed. Shortly after, the fire started. The professors have already checked most of the security cameras, and there is one that is broken, from the building where the fire started. There is no gas leak or open flame anywhere else, so it only adds up that someone intentionally set the university on fire," Hanbin continued.

"Oh god..."

Beomgyu was only thinking intensively.

Hanbin mentioned that there was someone else who followed the culprit...

"What about the other person?" he asked.

"What other person?" Hanbin questioned.

"The one who followed the culprit!"

"I don't know—"

"GUYS!"

The three boys turned around to see a classmate of theirs running towards them, short of breath as soon as she came to a stop.

"We can't find her!" she exclaimed.

"Who?!" Zhanghao asked.

"An orientation student named Jeon Seohee; she was part of my group, and she was the one who followed the supposed culprit. I can't find her, and neither can the staff!"

"WHAT?!"

"For all we know, she could still be trapped in the school!"

"Oh my god," Beomgyu whispered.

"What do we do? We cannot just—" Hanbin began.

"STUDENTS, YOU MUST LEAVE THE CAMPUS!" a professor close by shouted.

Unwillingly, the college students started moving towards the gate, away from the fire. Beomgyu was uneasy, knowing that someone was trapped.

Why is no one trying to do something? Someone's life is in danger!

"Beomgyu!"

He glanced up, and suddenly, Yeonjun appeared in front of him, out of breath.

"Yeonjun—"

His words were cut off by Yeonjun locking his hands onto his shoulders firmly, giving Beomgyu a chance to see the worried expression sported on Yeonjun's face.

"Oh thank god you're okay; I heard that your group was in the building where the fire started!"

"I'm okay Hyung."

Yeonjun exhaled.

"Now I know you are. God, I should have done a better job at making sure that no one brought something suspicious inside the building. I should have checked the bags more; I'm so sorry."

"Don't blame yourself. Even if you would have checked the bags more, you probably would have not found anything either."

"You think so?"

"Yeah."

They questioned themselves how on Earth they were able to talk so calmly in the middle of a freaking fire.

Especially Yeonjun, because as they both knew, he was terrified and traumatized by fire.

Beomgyu meanwhile was still rather quiet, and that of course didn't go unnoticed.