Seiji groaned when cold air brushed against his pale skin. It's already 2:00 AM, and he haven't fallen asleep yet. He's been tossing and turning ever since he laid down.
Everything's bothering him and a part of him is scared if he gone to sleep.
What if the abductor enters his room and kill him? Will there be next?
That, no one knows.
He looked at Yohanne who's in deep sleep. He looks so calm. Although he cried a lot after the shirt incident, he didn't look so devastated afterwards. That sent a whole bunch of questions running inside Seiji"s mind.
"Maybe it's him who did all of these? But why? He don't hate Sunho hyung," he thought.
"What if Yi hyung did it? He had reasons tho. Maybe he killed Sunho hyung, so he'll be the only leader left or what if Xyler hyung? What if Min? What if..."
He shook the thought away and sought. He became too paranoid after all that happened. He can't blame himself either. The clues the person or people left are leaving everyone so much confusion.
Nothing like this happened when Xyler and the other celebrities were abducted. They were just plainly gone out of sight and were secretly tortured, this case is different. It's tormenting a lot of people mentally, emotionally, and psychology. Even their trust for each other is a big question.
Friendship is no longer an assurance.
"Why are you still awake?"
He turned towards Yohanne. He was yawning and rubbed his eyes before looking at him.
"I just can't fall asleep with all of these confusions, hyung," Seiji muttered. "I'm scared... scared to lose any of you again but what scares me the most is the thought that maybe... maybe one of us killed Sunho hyung."
Yohanne was taken aback. He raised his brows before pulling himself up to sit.
"Sunho's not dead!" He said almost in a shout. "He can't just die. Besides, it's obvious that the criminal's only playing with us. Besides, don't you trust us anymore?" He asked in a low, disappointed voice.
"It's not like that, hyung, but I'm afraid that that's a possibility," Seiji also sat down to face his hyung.
"Mianhe," he whispered, eyes wandering down the ground.
Yohanne shook his head. "You don't have to be sorry. Even I also thinks the same thing. I'm also scared that maybe it really is one of us."
"But... is Sunho hyung dead already?" Seiji couldn't stop himself from asking once again.
Sehun sought. "No, I told you he's not. I could feel that he's not." Yohanne convinced Seiji for him to be also convinced by his own words.
Everything went quiet until a heavy and fast footsteps, from the outside, broke the silence. The two of them rushed out and found Ten crying in one corner. The others were already outside as well.
"TEN? WHAT HAPPENED?!" Yi gasped but Ten was too scared to answer.
He's shivering and as far as everyone could tell, it's obvious that he saw ANOTHER something.
"Shit! Come to your senses, Ten!" Xyler went near him and held both of his shoulders. "Tell us what happened?!"
Ten was gasping for air. There's a low probability that he could answer. He's too traumatized for what hell of a what-not he saw.
"Just what's going on?" Cheon muttered, trembling at one pace.
Seiji then looked at all of them. Everyone's present except for Taesoo and Min. He ran towards their room—they're not there. They're not even in the living area.
Seiji started running his fingers through his hair in frustration. Numbers of scenarios came flashing in his mind.
"Please no," he bit his lip. "No, no, no!"
He darted to where Ten is shivering and grabbed his shirt up. They came almost nose to nose, but that didn't snapped Ten back to his senses.
"WHERE ARE SOO HYUNG AND MIN!" Seiji already shouted in his face, but instead of answering, Ten started sobbing.
"HYUNG!" Seiji shook him in frustration.
"T-Taesoo hyung," he cried.
The others are starting to get nervous. Probably because they knew that something had already happened.
"TAESOOO!"
Everyone rushed towards the kitchen when they heard Min screaming and there they saw him kneeling beside Taesoo's dead body. His teal shirt has been covered with blood as though something—an animal—had scratched him in his back as three slanting wounds were made visible underneath his cut shirt.
Through the members' traumatizing cries, Seiji found himself walking towards the wall to where a note is written using Taesoo's blood.
"He knows to much, might as well silence him already. Peace."
Zen fell on his knees and Eun's cries echoed throughout the whole dorm. The others are too shock to even utter a word.
With that, Seiji lost his hope that Sunho is still alive.
EcZo were thrown with buckets of questions when the murder has been reported, but none of them answered any of those since they were also placed under investigation.
Min hugged his knees to his chest when he remembered Taesoo. It was just last night when they talked and he has already sensed that something's been bothering him yet he only brushed it away.
"H-He was just with me a while ago," Min muttered, covered his face, and cried.
"Taesoo-yaahhhh!" His screams travelled towards the empty area in their room and disappeared together with the wind.