A/N - Omo! So many comments~ So happy!!! And yep, new chapter and more mysteries explained. Kekeke, this chapter is one of my faves again! Shocking news at the end...unless you guys guessed it already. oh well, let me know~

@thunbii - Welcome back! And how did you guess???!!! (shock horror) Yup, IU appears!

@reilsm - Haha, you're psychic as well. Read on to find out why~ Don't worry about the subbin thingy, i usually don't subscribe to any channels anyway. Can't wait to see this week's ep coz Lauren is in it apparently and B1A4 have to learn how to speak english >< That will be good fun!!!!

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@wookielove - haha, love the detective outlook! Try to spot all the clues and let me know what you think will happen next? For example, i won't explain Joon's mysterious lead yet...but can you guess??? Thunder's debt as well~~~ 

@HanSang - Yah! I know about the comments because i kept seeing 'new comment' and then...click click...hey....it's just HanSang again >3 Joking~ Haha, but i had to put that gif in when you mentioned that ep. I'm also addicted to the Two X song now, been listening to it non-stop for like 4 hours already :P You watch B1A4 hello baby as well? When does BISS usually get the subs out by? Can't wait for this week's ep! Lauren's in it!!!

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Chapter 28 – With tears, everything collapses 

Joon POV

“Seungho.” I caught him the minute he entered the dorms. “I need to speak with you.”

Seungho looked surprised. “Did you find out something?”

I felt the words stick in my throat. “It’s about IU.” I managed to say.

“I know,” he sighed and I froze. He knew? “I know Cheondoong is close with IU and stayed with her for a month. So I called her and meeting her later at 4pm.” He glanced at the clock. Two hours to go. 

“Uhh.” That wasn’t what I wanted to say. In fact, since when did he stay with IU for a month? Impossible…because she was…she was…

“Hyung!” a loud voice and the door banging open interrupted us. It was Mir.

“What’s wrong, Cheolyong?” Seungho sighed, sounding incredibly exhausted. “Did you find out anything?”

“Yes.” Mir nodded about a dozen times before getting to the point. He explained his meeting with the journalist lady, his discovery of the man’s identity and the lady’s advice. I rubbed my temples. The situation was getting murkier with every step.

And then G.O had to make it worse. “We’ve been barking up the wrong tree,” was the first thing he said as he threw the door open and kicked off his crisp leather shoes. “They’re threatening Cheondoong to do some sort of favor for them. There’s no money involved for Cheondoong, but I’m sure whatever favor they’re getting him to do means money for them.”

I sat down with a loud thunk on the chair. Damn. It was favors now. Always trickier to deal with.

Seungho absorbed the information quietly as Mir re-told G.O what he had found out. I wondered if I should speak up and say something, but Seungho spoke then.

“I’m going to meet IU now.” He picked up his jacket and car keys. “Are you guys coming with me?”

Mir and G.O nodded immediately. But when Seungho looked towards me, I just shook my head. I couldn’t deal with meeting her. Not right now.

As they left, I collapsed back onto the couch, curling up so that my head was tucked into my arms. Then I groaned at the chaotic mess my brain was currently in.

Not good. Really, not good. Everything was swirling out of control and I was drowning in the midst of it.

Ji-eun POV

Seungho, G.O and Mir sat in my living room, right where Sanghyun had sat nearly three months ago. Whilst Sanghyun had been crying then, the three of them looked like they had long run out of tears.

“Is this about Sanghyun?” I asked, setting down four cups of tea onto the table. Seungho nodded whilst G.O scouted my house and Mir preoccupied himself with flicking through a photo album that had been placed on display on my coffee table. I ignored the latter two and focused on Seungho.

To be honest, I wasn’t surprised. I hadn’t heard much from Sanghyun lately and I was worried. Their appearance could be about nothing else but him.

“Yes.” He looked at me firmly. “I want to ask you about that month Sanghyun spent with you.”

“That?” I was surprised. It felt like eons ago. “Sanghyun and I are friends. So when it turned out our breaks coincided, I suggested we go stay over at a mountain cabin. It’s around five hours from Seoul and its quiet and reclusive. We spent our times composing songs, practicing our singing skills and Sanghyun even taught me how to dance.” I couldn’t help smiling at that memory.

But I frowned then. “What’s with the questioning? Did Sanghyun not tell you?”

Seungho shook his head. “He didn’t. Another question: did he leave on the fifth of July or not?”

I tilted my head and consulted my calendar. “The fifth I believe. We inputted the number into our phones.” I flicked through my phone to double check. “Why?”

“Because Sanghyun didn’t return till the twelfth. One week later.” Seungho’s eyes took on a strange gleam. “And he claims he stayed at the mountain lodge during that one week.”

I paused. Why would Sanghyun say that? He clearly didn’t stay with me. No, I remember him leaving perfectly.

“Where is he?” I asked, intending to talk to him myself.

Seungho stilled.

I didn’t like that reaction. “Where is Sanghyun?” I asked again, my tone firmer and more insistent.

Seungho gulped.

“Seungho-ssi!” My voice was loud and I was on the borderline of yelling. “Where is Sanghyun!?”

Seungho raised his eyes to meet mine. “Sanghyun…is in hospital. He collapsed two days ago.”

I froze and dropped my teacup. It shattered and hot liquid spilled everywhere. G.O scrambled to his feet, looking for some cloth to clean up the mess. But I couldn’t care less. My Sanghyun was in hospital and I had been going on with daily life like an idiot.

“Why didn’t you tell me this earlier!?” I hissed, standing up angrily. “This is more important than stupid questions about Sanghyun arriving home late. Where is he!? I’m going to see him right now!” I snapped.

Seungho opened and closed his mouth, his lips fluttering like a fish, as if he couldn’t decide what to say. “Ji-eun…” he finally said. “Listen to me first-“

“Ji-eun ah.” Mir interrupted all of us. I swung my angry gaze around to him, but he just looked up with curiosity etched upon his face. He had my photo album opened spread-eagled on his lap.

“Yes?” I hissed, not pleased that he was more preoccupied with pictures than Sanghyun’s health.

“When did you say you first met Cheondoong-hyung?”

I frowned. Where did this question come from? “Around three months ago.” I said, not entirely sure of the date but I still remembered those memories of him sobbing on my sofa vividly.

“Three months ago?” Mir tilted his head.

“Yes.” I confirmed.

“What’s this all about, Mir?” G.O sounded impatient and walked over to look at the page Mir had open. Then he froze as well.

“Impossible…” he whispered. And looked up at me.

I felt my anger grow and stormed forwards. “What is this all about?!”

“Because if you only met him three months ago,” Mir said, turning the photo album around so that Seungho and I could see the picture. “Then why is there a photo of you and Sanghyun from three years ago.”

My mouth froze half-open. I blinked. I had wanted to say what he was talking about was pure nonsense, but the photo in front of me was solid evidence. It was Sanghyun and I, posing together whilst sitting down on a pure white table. And the date stated 2007 – three years ago.

“And then,” Mir continued, as if he wasn’t dropping bombshells enough. “Who is this person with you and Sanghyun?”

He flipped a page and showed me a new photo. The three of us: me, Sanghyun and…

“That’s my twin.” I managed to say. “Lee Ji-yun.”

“Twin!?” came three shocked voices. “I’ve never heard about that?!?

“That’s because my parents didn’t want…didn’t want the world to see…ugh…” as I tried to speak, sudden thunderbolts struck my head. I staggered backwards, holding my throbbing skull and tried to think, but I couldn’t.

“Ji-eun?” Seungho stood up cautiously and walked over to me. I flung out on hand, ready to tell him I was fine. But I wasn’t.

Vivid memories flickered through my head like a black and white film on fastforward. I saw Ji-yun and I running along the seaside, laughing and playing. I saw Ji-yun and I sitting down chatting to someone, who? A dark figure. Tall, boyish but skinny. I saw Ji-yun sitting next to the boy, smiling wider than I had ever seen before. And I saw…I saw her expression darken, her eyes glitter bitterly and her hands dart forwards. 

I saw something silver-blue fly towards me. I saw fire flickering and blood dripping. I saw the night sky lit up with the bonfire of the living.

And then I saw nothing else.

Seungho POV

Everything was collapsing. Ji-eun looked like she had suffered a mental break-down at the talk of her past and her twin! I couldn’t believe it. She had a twin none of us had ever heard about. And what was she saying before about her parents?

I don’t know. Everything was going up in fire.

G.O had put Ji-eun to bed, believing it was best to let her recover naturally. Mir had slid those incriminating photos out of the photo album and pocketed them. We might need them later.

And then just when I thought nothing worse could go wrong, Dara called me.

“Get over here,” she said in a trembling voice.

“What’s wrong?” my voice was sharp with worry.

“It’s Sanghyun,” she whispered, sounding on the verge of tears. “He’s going crazy.”

A/N - Lots of different things are going on! Did you expect this result? As for the next chapter, Sanghyun has indeed gone crazy and its up to leader Seungho to step in!

And the pic *faints* is the iest thing i have seen so far ><