“So… You were actually there when the incident happened?”

                The radio DJ asked the exact same question as the others radio DJs asked EXO members in their past visited as guest in three radio stations. Baekhyun was a bit tired tonight because of the packed schedules and his body burned because of the fever so he let the ever talkative Chanyeol and Chen to answer the question instead. Baekhyun settled on putting a serious and sympathy expression on to show his concern about the incident. A scary incident indeed which happened one week ago, a warehouse caught on fire and the worst part was a total 25 workers were burnt down to death. It did not mean that Baekhyun was careless about the incident but he was tired of recounting the story again and again. An actually almost made up story because Chanyeol, Chen, Suho, D.O, Sehun and he, himself had spiced up the story to make it more exciting.

                Baekhyun nodded his head several times to fake the fact that actually he was not listening. His head felt heavy and his body sore in places. Vaguely he heard Chanyeol and Chen’s voice but he could be careless in his less than healthy state. His eyes warily caught the sight of Jaehyun hyung, EXO manager. He might be seeing things because he thought Jaehyun hyung was pale and anxious. Beakhyun was pretty sure he was wrong because Jaehyun hyung was never anxious, he was the person with the greatest self- control Baekhyun ever came across, that was why Jaehyun hyung was chosen as manager of EXO.

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             “Hyung… I think you miss the turn. Tonight we go directly to our dorm, right? We don’t have practices tonight, right?”

                Suho, the only person who was awake aside from Jaehyun who drove, commented lightly. To his surprise Jaehyun did not respond.

                “Hyung?”

                Suho tried to catch Jaehyun’s attention that might be too focus on driving. Again, Jaehyun did not respond to Suho’s surprise.

                “Hyung?”

                Suho suddenly felt that something was off. He noticed that Jaehyun’ hands were trembling.

                “Hyung, is something wrong? Where are you going to take us? I don’t think this way heads to our dorm or even SM office.”

                Again Jaehyun did not answer Suho’ question.

                “Hyung?”

                This time Suho’s voice was tainted with fear, Jaehyun hyung acted strangely since EXO finished their recording for radio.

                “Why don’t you read the letters sent by your fans instead Suho?”

                Suho’ eyes widened, now he was sure something was wrong. Never once Jaehyun called him with his stage name. He eyes the pile of paper shoved to him earlier by Jaehyun. As he eyed the paper carefully he noticed something strange. A crumpled paper was there among nicely present letters. Suho picked the paper and almost had a heart attack because of its content. Written in Jaehyun legible handwriting it said:

You and your members are in great danger. I don’t know what they want but they surely don’t want to negotiate with me. They have kidnapped my wife and my daughter, they asked me to bring all of you to a deserted warehouse or else they kill my family. I am sorry I have to pretend as their puppet but I am sure I can find a way to save you guys and my family. I will drag my time to bring you to them while try my best to find a way to report this incident to police. I am sure we are being watched to please act naturally.

                “Hyung… it’s a joke right?”

                Suho asked with dry voice. The paper’ content was not making any sense so the best explanation was it all merely a joke.

                “Wh—What are you talking about?”

                Suho noticed that Jaehyun was shaking.

                “This paper you write, this is a joke right? What danger? Police? What are you talking about? Are you….”

                Suho never got to finish his sentence because suddenly a car in front of him stopped altogether and Jaehyun stepped on the brake on reflect to avoid collision and effectively wake up the rest of EXO members, Baekhyun, Chen, Suho, D.O, Chanyeol and Sehun.

                “What it is hyung?”

                Sehun asked sleepily with a groan. Too bad neither of Jaehyun or Suho had chance to answer Sehun’ question because in a speed of light a bunch of men appeared and two of them shot their gun to the door of EXO’ van.

                None of EXO members had chance to react when their van door were opened forcefully and one of the men shot Jaehyun right in the head in front of their eyes. None of them were also able to react when one of the men pointed a bottle to their direction and sprayed the content to them. What they can remember was they suddenly felt so drowsy and darkness took over their conscious.

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                “Stupid manager tried to be a hero.”

                One of the men commented with a snicker after he and his friend successfully transferred all of EXO members to their van.

                “Why can we kill all of them already? It will be easier. We can make it look like a traffic accident because their stupid manager drives while drunk.”

                Another man asked almost liked a complaint.

                “Because Boss said not to do so.”

                The man who seemed to be the person in charge answered with a shrugged as he drove his van to a place he knew soon will be a place of execution.

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