One Call Away | soongyu

Chapter 11

That was close. Seungcheol thought

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"Hey, sorry I was late, I was trying to squeeze an answer out of Seungcheol hyung but he didn't cave." Min sighed as he slumped himself down on the seat, dropping his bag down.

"It's fine, at least we know that it's really important I guess. Otherwise he wouldn't keep so silent about it. Here, I got coffee for you." Young handed over the cup of Americano and sipped on his own Espresso.

"Anyway, where do you want to go for lunch? We can't possibly have lunch in a cafe. I'm starving already." Min complained. He rubbed his grumbling belly while pouting, suggesting to Young he really wanted to eat.

"Okay, okay. Let me just run to the toilet first. I had to hold it in to keep your seat." Young dashed himself directly to the toilet immediately after finishing his sentence. Min laughed at Young's silliness and grabbed his coffee to drink again.

As Min held the cup, he felt a bump on the cup sleeve. Finding something off about it, Min pulled out the paper sleeve and a paper fell out on the table

"What is this..." Min mumbled as he looked around before discreetly opening the paper.

'Seungkwan got a new job again. I thought this might be the safest way to tell you, Jeon Wonwoo knows that I'm in contact with you and Soon for some reason.'

The paper read. Min furrowed his brows and quickly stuffed the note in his pocket and acted like it was nothing. If Jeon Wonwoo had such information, there must've been a tail put on one of them.

"Hey, I'm back, let's go." Young wiped his hands dry on his jeans. Min only gave a nod and quickly followed Young into the car.

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Once they had gotten on the car, Min held Young by his arm, telling him not to drive away yet. He then pulled out his phone quickly and typed on his phone.

'I saw the paper, let's go to my house instead. There's a route we can take to shake the tail off, if they're tailing us and not the other two.'

"What? What about lunch, weren't you starving?" Young frowned too. He himself was also getting hungry from all the waiting.

"We'll order food okay? Let's get to my house and talk." Min convinced, fixing his phone onto the stand and typed in his address for Young to drive there.

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"Soon hyung, I found a document on Jeon Wonwoo, he was from an orphanage or something, would that information help?" Gyu shouted across the house even though they were in the same room. They had been digging for information for hours and hours again, but most were either not the Jeon Wonwoo they were looking for, or it had no useful information. They both looked like cavemen, with deep and dark eye bags that hung below they're eyes, and messy hair.

"It might help, show me." Soon walked over and bent down, slumping his arm casually over Gyu and staring at the article. His eyes scanned the page like a computer scanner, reading and finishing the article in seconds. "Let's print it out. One thing we know now, Jeon Wonwoo came from an orphanage, and he isn't and only child."

"Oh, Min's calling." Gyu announced as he connected the laptop to the printer, sending the article to be printed.

"Hello? Min, what's up?" Soon picked up Gyu's phone that was lying on the couch and received the call instead.

"Hyung, I called because Young just came back from a meet with Jeon Wonwoo, two things he found out. He knows that we're in contact, and Seungkwan was forced to take another job. It's a rich tycoon again." Min whispered through the phone with an awkward tone that Soon chose to ignore. Instead, he changed the phone to speaker mode and held it out.

"You're on speaker, what do you mean he knows we're in contact?" Soon informed Min. Gyu had his ears perked hearing that Jeon Wonwoo knew they were in contact.

"Me and Young suspect that one of us is being tailed, otherwise he wouldn't have seen me leave Gyu's house that day."

"That does sound like one of us is being tailed indeed. Alright, I'll watch myself when I leave the house. You too Young hyung, you and Soon hyung are lookalikes after all, don't parade around too much, or stay in Min's house, like Soon hyung does in mine." Gyu reminded. For some reason, it made Soon's heart beat faster. The idea of living with Gyu, his cheeks heated up without reason. He had been used to this ever since the incident, why was he feeling like this? Was this normal?

"Whatever, whatever, I know. Anyways, we, uh, gotta go. Talk later." Gyu could practically sense Young's awkwardness over the phone as he laughed, sending his farewell before ending the call.

"Don't you think something is up with the two of them?" Gyu laughed, turning his head directly at Soon, who nodded in return with a small smile.

"I sensed Min's awkwardness too, he always called me Soonie hyung over calls, I've never heard him call me hyung without my name." Soon informed, giggling at Min's terrible attempt to sound normal. Gyu however felt a tinge of jealousy rise up in him again. He didn't like that Min called him Soonie. He wanted to do that too.

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"So uh. About just now." Young mumbled, his eyes darted everywhere except for Min's eyes.

"Why? Didn't you say nothing happened, why did you bring it up again? Did you like it?" Min smirked playfully as he took a step closer towards Young, wanting him to look into his eyes.

"W-what? Why would I? Are you c-crazy? Give me your phone, we haven't ordered our food because of you!" Young's eyes widened at the taller male's as he grabbed Min's phone from his pocket. His cheeks were flushed red, and burning hot. Min only gave a chuckle before he walked over to the couch and pat the seat.

"Come here and order the food. Why are you using my phone anyway? You have your own. Or do you like things I own?" Min teased again, his eyes had a gaze that could melt people's hearts in an instant. For some reason, Young felt compelled to listen to Min and shuffled his way to the couch, but sat himself at the opposite end away from Min.

"My phone ran out of battery, d-don't get any ideas." Young rebutted. He wasn't really looking at food. Truth was, he was so flustered, even though he was already inside the app, he was just swiping up and down, staring at the screen. Min let out a smirk, shifting himself to sit right beside Young and pulled him closer, before he landed his own head on Young's shoulder.

"I trust that you have taste in food, order something nice. I'm so tired I need a nap right now. So lend me your shoulder while you get our dinner."