"That? It's been there since I moved in just a week ago, I use the other bed so I didn't bother to clean this up." Heechul shrugged. "That is my youngest niece's blanket! I recognize it! You're hiding them, aren't you?" he roared, becoming angry once more. Heechul longed to punch the man, but if he didn't keep his act up all would be over, so he said, "What an accusation! You have already searched the whole house and you haven't found them have you?" "How do I know they aren't hiding in the closet where you won't let me look? The bit about your ex-girlfriends underwear was a lie to keep me from finding them in there! Wasn't it?" The man demanded. Heechul was out of ideas, if he let the uncle look, he wouldn't find the boys of course, but he would see their clothes! And he would know Heechul was lying about the underwear! "I'm not lying sir, but my closet is strictly private, you wouldn't want anyone prying about your closet, would you? Besides, how do you think anyone could fit in that? It's very small, and from what you've said, I understand that you have many nieces, correct? How would they all fit in there?" "I demand to look." "No." Heechul said, looking the man in the eye, "Only I can see my ex girlfriends underwear." "Then how is my niece's blanket here?!" "How do you know they didn't have two and left one here?" "Fine, they're not in the closet, four people wouldn't be able to fit in that little closet anyway. And that Leeteuk boy would never split up their hiding places, he's too protective of his brothers." the man snorted and went into the bathroom. Once he was finished looking through the whole house, he had to admit there was nothing abnormal there. There was food, toys, which Heechul told him were for when he babysat someone, and nothing out of the ordinary. "Fine, they aren't here then." and with that last sentence he stormed out of the apartment, out of the building, and away from sight. Heechul breathed a sigh of relief, the neighbors went back to their rooms and after 20 minutes, Heechul decided it was safe to call Leeteuk back. "Y-y-yes?" Leeteuk's voice was shaky when he answered the call from Heechul. "He's gone." "Are you sure?" "He's been gone for 20 minutes already, I think it's safe for you to come back now." The four brothers had been hiding in a garbage shed with the ladder outside, "Alright then." Leeteuk told his brothers that they were safe and they made their way with the ladder back home where they jumped onto Heechul saying he had saved them. "I did nothing." Heechul insisted, but when they asked him how he had done it, he boasted, the ex-girlfriends underwear bit made them laugh, and when he told them about finding Ryeowook's blanket, they gasped, and Ryeowook cried, thinking it was all his fault for leaving it there. "Hush Wookie, it wasn't your fault, we didn't know he would come and we had no time to hide it." his elder brothers consoled him. "I'll stay here tonight, just in case." Heechul told them. "But your parents-!" "They don't even notice when I'm gone, they're always working." there was not even a sad note in his voice, he loved being left free like this. He was from a very wealthy family that lived in a gigantic house, and he rarely saw his parents. "Alright then." On these occasions that Heechul slept over, they would usually huddle up on one of the beds talking until the younger ones fell asleep, then Heechul and Leeteuk would carry them back to their own beds. Though there was a bed in their deceased parent's room, Heechul slept with Leeteuk. Leeteuk had wanted Heechul to have his bed all to himself, saying that he himself could sleep on the floor, but Heechul would not hear of it. This night, there was no talking, they all fell asleep quick as a wink, tired from the day's adventures. But when Eunhyuk woke up feeling thirsty, he noticed something, Heechul, who usually insisted on drawing a line in the middle of Leeteuk's bed so they wouldn't end up cuddling, was now hugging his elder brother. Eunhyuk could just make out the shapes of their sleeping bodies, hugging each other close, "Donghae-ah! Look!" he whispered, nudging Donghae, but Donghae did not wake up. Eunhyuk smiled, maybe this would be his little secret then. *** Cho Kyuhyun was now the most feared boy in school. But even as a bully, he could not help but wonder who the boys in the telephone booth were, and why had he been walking towards them? But his mother said the memories he lost were of a terrible time and she did not want him to remember it. He believed her. But something kept echoing in his head. KR. Someone's initials maybe? He did not know