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Missing Chunji
I ran towards L.Joe the moment I saw him standing at the library. The moment I saw the others and they said no one has seen Cap and we can’t contact him I felt I really needed to see him, and touch him. Know he’s there. The thing is Cap is never gone; he always had a cell phone when he’s out or with us or a manager and he never goes without answering. He even gives us updates on what he’s doing if he’s gone for a while since he’s the leader. He felt like it was his responsibility, so the moment I heard he wasn’t answering I knew something was wrong.
The moment I got to L.Joe I hugged him as tightly as I could. He hugged back but I could he was confused, I would be too. The thing that worried me with L.Joe is he’s thinking constantly. He’s easily lost in thought and zones out so when I fear that when I tell him this his thoughts about it will consume him and I don’t want him to be depressed.
“What’s wrong?” He asked lightly pushing me back so he could look at me as I spoke but I understood why so I wasn’t offended by the action.
“We can’t find Cap.” I stated simply not knowing what else to saw. His face went blank with surprise and I could tell he didn’t know how to react. He stood there not moving at all with his eyes wide and his mouth beginning to form an ‘O’ shape. “L.Joe?” I asked again worried my fears were coming true.
“Y…yes, I’m…I’m.” He stuttered not able to finish his thought. I couldn’t help but find hiss stuttering cute although I felt bad for thinking so in such a bad situation. He was so adorable that everything he did reminded me of how lucky I am.
“It’s ok. We’re going to find him. Niel, Changjo, and Ricky are out looking right now. Let’s join them.” I said leading putting my arm around his shoulder and kissing his cheeks. He took my hand and squeezed it back in reply and we walked out the building immediately searching for Cap.
L.Joe
I don’t know why I couldn’t seem to find any words. Chunji and I had been walking around for about an hour now, looking for Cap and still, nothing. When we met the others we decided to split off so we could cover more ground, but so far no one had seen anything. Jung-go was a big city so our manager and makeup team agreed to look top but no one can find anything. Chunji and I held hands the whole time and every once in a while would bring each other in for a hug resting our heads on each other’s shoulder.
I struggled to find my words the more we walked and the most I had said since he told me was a few stammers and stutters, not able to finish any of my sentences. I could tell I was worrying Chunji and I didn’t want to. The thought of me making him worry about me made me sick, but I couldn’t help but think about it. I kept thinking about Cap and all I know about him. How he seemed quiet and mean but in reality he was the funniest more talkative guy I know when it’s just us. The thoughts were slowly bring me into a fog like sadness; Chunji was the only thing keeping me form bursting into tears right now.
After another four hours of walking we were all pretty tired. Ricky had brought Changjo back home since he was feeling too tired to keep looking, while Niel had joined us. The absence of our leader had made us all nervous and scared, so none of us wanted to be alone. Chunji had his arm around me as we stopped inside of a shop to rest. The constant searching was draining out bodies and we all could tell the effects.
“Maybe, you should go back to the dorm and rest, Niel. We will keep looking.” Chunji told him once we realized how tired and exhausted the youngest in our group of three was. I nodded in reply as I had wanted to say the same thing to him, but couldn’t seem to make it come out.
“No, I want to keep looking.” He replied, not having the energy to more than quietly say it and sigh.
“I know you do, but you can’t walk forever, and you need to rest. You can’t help Cap if you’re too tired to do much more than walk.”
“Neither can you, you guys are no better than me.” As Niel said this I realized how tired I was. I was slightly leaning on Chunji and he was leaning on the while. We both were exhausted, so my silent agreeing with Chunji stopped and I looked to him and nodded, knowing he would understand.
Chunji sighed before answering, “You’re right. We all need to rest. We’ll call a cab and go back to the dorm to take a break and continue looking after we feel better.” We reluctantly agreed knowing that was the best plan we had. On the ride home no one talked as we all feared on what had happened to our hyung. A terrified feeling grew in my stomach but I tried to repress it not wanted to cry in front of them. I rested my face in Chunji shoulder as he rubbed my back. I loved how he understood my thoughts without me even saying anything.
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