Fifteen

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After detention, Zhang Hao is the first one out of the room. He couldn't be in there for even another second. This time, they had to stay the whole time since the teacher didn't walk out of the room once. It was a full hour in there and it was so boring, but at least he got to do all of his homework.

He takes his phone out to check the time once he's outside of the school. It's one hour past the end of the school day. Now that he thinks about it, he probably didn't even have to cancel his date with Jiwoong.

But Jiwoong probably made other plans already, so he can't call him anymore.

"Are you walking home?" He hears a voice behind him. He rolls his eyes and pretends not to hear him. He's so mad at him right now. "Come on... get in." Hanbin tells him as he stops the car beside him.

"I can walk." Zhang Hao tells him as he looks down at his phone, pretending to be busy.

"Come on... I'm going to get in trouble if I get home without you."

"And I'd love to see that. That's what you deserve."

"Fine... if you get lost, it's not my fault." Hanbin drives away and Zhang Hao scoffs.

"Wow, he really just left me here?"

He had walked to school earlier today, but it was easy since Jiwoong knew the way there.

"Wait..." Zhang Hao's eyes widen. He still doesn't know the address. "Seriously?"

He sits down on a nearby bench and calls his mom, but there's no answer. He also calls Ricky, but he doesn't answer either. He's starting to regret not taking Hanbin's offer to drive him there. He was just so mad at him that he hadn't remembered he didn't know the address yet.

He knows this isn't a good idea, but he gets up and starts walking. He thinks he might know the way there.  He was wrong though. It comes to a point where he's somewhere he surely knows he's never been in before. By this time, it's starting to get dark and it's kind of a scary looking place. There's so many trees around, there's no houses nearby, and no people.

Around thirty minutes pass by and he sees Ricky's calling him. Finally.

"Hey, Hao. Did you call?" Ricky asks him once he answers. "Sorry, I was-"

"Y-yeah, I kind of forgot the house's address and I'm stuck somewhere I don't know. Can you see if you can find any mail and give me the address so I can search for directions in my phone?"

"Yeah, hold on. I'll actually ask Yujin."

"Yeah, okay." Zhang Hao looks around. He'll thankfully be able to get home soon.

"So the address is-"

"Huh?" Zhang Hao looks down at his phone and sees the screen turned black. Did it just die? "Wow, my luck couldn't get any worse."

He could just go back to school and charge his phone, but there's a problem... He doesn't even know how to get back to school. Now that he thinks about it, it was so stupid of him to start walking when he didn't even know where to go.

"What am I going to do?" He sighs. Maybe Ricky will come get him, but how? He doesn't even know where he is.

-

"I think Zhang Hao's lost." Ricky says worriedly to Yujin. "It seems like his phone died and he doesn't know the address. Even if he did know it, he can't use his phone to get the directions to come here... and it seems like he's stuck somewhere he doesn't know."

"We should go get him." Yujin tells him. "It's starting to get dark."

"Yeah, you're right... but how will we know where he is?"

"We can just walk around. He might not be too far away from the school."

"Okay, let's go."

Just as they're about to walk out of the house, the door opens and Hanbin walks in. "Where are you guys going?" He asks them since they look worried.

"It looks like Hao's lost and his phone died." Ricky tells him. "He sounded scared since he doesn't know where he is."

"He's lost?"

"Yeah, so we're going to go look for him-"

"Don't worry, I'll look for him. You guys stay here." Hanbin tells them. He now feels bad about leaving Zhang Hao behind, but he didn't want to get in his car. What else was he supposed to do?

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I'll bring him back home, don't worry." Hanbin walks out of the house.

"He clearly still cares about him." Ricky tells Yujin.

"Looks like it." Yujin nods.

-

Zhang Hao really isn't the type to get scared easily. Yes, he's not the bravest person in the world, but he's also not the type to get scared over everything...

No, actually... he does get scared over everything.

He's really scared right now and doesn't know what to do. He doesn't see any houses or buildings nearby and he's afraid that if he moves further away from here, he'll get even more lost and nobody would be able to find him.

Why did he have to get lost here? Somewhere nobody walks by?

It's gotten really dark by now that he's sure he's been stuck here for at least two hours now.

His heart starts beating faster when he sees a group of people walking his way and it seems like most of them are drunk since they're tripping as they walk.

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die." Zhang Hao turns his back towards them, hoping they don't see him.

He might be overreacting right now, but you never know these days. Plus, he's alone right now and there's at least six of them.

"Hey, you." He hears behind him. He ignores them, hoping they'll go away if he does so. "Hey, you!" They repeat. This time a little louder.

"Is there a problem?" He hears another voice. This time, it's a familiar voice.

-

Hanbin had been driving around for at least thirty minutes now. He has checked all of the streets near the school, but maybe Zhang Hao ended up walking a lot further than he thought.

After around five more minutes of driving around, he finally sees Zhang Hao. It seems like a group of people are walking over to him and he has turned his back towards them.

Hanbin quickly gets out of his car and is about to rush over to him, but stops when he sees Jiwoong.

"Is there a problem?" He hears him ask them as Zhang Hao looks terrified.

"Wow, we were just going to ask him if he was alright. He seemed scared and lost." One of the guys says, then the group walks away from them.

Hanbin turns back to Zhang Hao and Jiwoong as he watches them from afar.

Zhang Hao quickly pulls Jiwoong in for a hug as he cries onto his chest. Jiwoong hugs him back and rubs his back, telling him everything's okay now since he's here to protect him.

Hanbin touches his chest as he feels his heart break.

That could've been him with Zhang Hao...

But he was too late.

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Finally a new chapter! I'll try to
update this story more often now,
I promise! I have a few other
chapters written, so I'll be
posting them later 💗

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