Broken | Jaeyong

chapter 25

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"Where's Chenle?" Johnny asked as Kun entered the room.

The older was sat on one of the couches in the middle of the room, multiple laptops on the coffee table before him. They were scanning the city's security cameras for where the killer's dealer might have went after they went to his house, but he disappears after the third camera at the end of the block. It also didn't help that the footage from the hospital was practically useless because it was blurred by the water.

"He's hanging out with his boyfriend." Kun sighed, a chuckle making its way out of his mouth afterward, "He's stuck to him like glue."

"Lele's got a boyfriend?" Jaehyun questioned in surprised as he made his way out from the kitchen, two mugs in hand. Little shy Chenle had a boyfriend?

"Yeah," Kun laughed, "I thought he was joking when he told me."

"Why? You were pregnant at his age." Johnny quirked a brow.

"But Chenle is much different to me when I was his age." Kun defended himself, "I made sure of it."

"Have you met him yet? The boyfriend?" Jaehyun asked as he sat down next to Johnny, giving the taller his cup of coffee.

"No, but I've seen him. He's tall and quite built but he has such a baby face." Kun laughed at the boy's contradicting visuals.

Jaehyun froze. That description sounded eerily familiar. "His name wouldn't be 'Jisung' would it?" He asked Kun and oh, how much he hoped he was wrong. Perhaps, Chenle was as close to Jisung as he thought.

"Yeah, have you met him?" Kun frowned, sitting down on the other side of Johnny.

"Kinda." Jaehyun shrugged, which made the other two look at him curiously. What would Jaehyun have to do with a high school kid beside the dealer?Jaehyun caught the looks and immediately wanted to draw the attention from himself.

"So, you let him go out? What about his safety?" Jaehyun inquired the smaller, looking at the screens instead of the other.

"I said no at first but I figured there was two other people with him and they were going somewhere where there's a lot of people, so he's fairly safe if he goes out for only a couple of hours." Kun responded with a shrug.

"Who's the other one he went out with?" Jaehyun asked. Was it Jeno? Was he the one he saw around Jaemin that day?

"Jeno. He's Chenle's and Jaemin's friend." Kun answered with a frown, "Do you know him too?"

"Yeah. Yeah, I do." Jaehyun said, his features stiffening.

"What is it, Jae?" Johnny asked in concern.

"I have a feeling Jeno was the one who helped the killer that day." Jaehyun told them.

"How? Why? He's just a kid." Kun frowned.

"The dealer is just a kid too." Johnny informed as his brows furrowed in thought before looking at Jaehyun, "But why do you think that?"

"He's close to both Chenle and Jaemin, and not to mention Jisung." Jaehyun answered and the other two frowned once more.

"Why does it matter that he's close to Jisung? What did he do?" Kun asked. If his son's boyfriend was a threat to his safety he'd like to know.