runaway idol / cha eunwoo astro ✔

29 [edited]

Chapter 29:
Missing

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[Eunbi P.O.V]

4 pm and Eunwoo still hasn't come home.

Where is this guy actually???

I have been dialing his number continuously since an hour ago but every single time, the damn operator will answer my call. I have to go to work by now but I'm too worried about Eunwoo's condition that I'm pretty sure I can not focus with my work.

Is he alright? Nothing bad had happened to him right?

Eunwoo is the only one that I can think about right now. I probably look like a mom who had just lost her child but I can care less about it.

This won't do. I have to let ASTRO members know about this.

I call Sanha immediately and after a few seconds, the latter answers.

"Nuna?"

"Sanha-yah, Eunwoo is missing!" I waste no time in telling him the news.

"What??" Sanha exclaims in shock and I can hear the rest of ASTRO members asking him what's wrong in the background.

"He's already gone when I wake up so I assume that he just went somewhere but until now he still hasn't return home. What if something wrong happened to him?" I'm at the verge of crying.

"Eunbi-yah, calm down." I can hear Jinwoo tells me. Guess Sanha passes the phone to the leader. "Have you call him?"

"Hundred times but he didn't answer his phone. I've texted him too but he never replies." I bite my lips to calm myself down. Stop freaking out, Lee Eunbi! I mentally scold myself.

"Really??" Jinwoo groans, "Hmmm  this guy, where did he go?!" He mumbles under his breath.

"Eunbi-yah.." This time, it's Myungjun. "Are you sure he is missing? Perhaps he just go for a walk or something?"

I groan, stumping my feet on the floor to surpress my frustration, "No, I don't think so. Eunwoo is hiding from the public right now, he couldn't be loitering around carelessly. If he goes for a walk, why did he never answer his phone? Besides, he's been out for almost the whole day!" Tears that I've been holding in finally break out and I slump down on the couch.

"Okay okay I'm sorry! Now calm yourself down. We'll be there ASAP." He ends the call.

I release my phone from my grip, letting it fall to the couch before tumbling down to the floor. I can hear a crack sound the moment it falls to the floor. I can care less about my phone right now. Eunwoo is more important.

Waiting for ASTRO members to arrive, I cry my heart out while hugging my knees against my chest.

Eunwoo, please be safe.

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"Nuna!" I lift my head to see Moonbin rushing to my side, the others trailing behind him. They all have the same worried look.

"Bin-ah.." My voice crack as I wipe my tears away. "What should I do right now? Eunwoo never act like this. Is he mad at me?"

Moonbin shakes his head. "No such thing, nuna. Eunwoo hyung is just— I don't know but you're not at fault in this." He smiles, assuring me.

"I think we have to look for him." Jinwoo says. "MJ hyung and I will look at the places he always go while Rocky and Sanha look around the neighbourhood. Moonbin, you go with Eunbi to look for Eunwoo at other possible places. Do you understand me?" He instructs and we all nods.

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"Nuna, where should we go first?" Moonbin asks after we get inside a taxi.

I shake my head. I don't know where to search for Eunwoo. My mind is blank and all I could think is Eunwoo, Cha Eunwoo and Lee Dong Min.

I swear I will give him a good beating after we found him.

Moonbin tells the taxi driver to just drive around in hope that we see Eunwoo somewhere on the road.

Suddenly, my phone rings. I quickly fish my phone out from my jeans pocket and my eyes widen the moment I see Eunwoo's name on the cracked screen.

"Cha Eunwoo?!" I practically scream after the call is connected. Moonbin quickly lean closer to listen to the call.

"You jerk! Where in the world are you?!" I can't help from scolding him. Doesn't he know that he scares the shit out of me?!

"E-eunbi-yah.." Eunwoo voice is weak, "I'm in pain." He says lowly that I can barely hear.

"Where are you at right now???"

Eunwoo coughs before mumbling, "S-sch-ool." A thud sound follows after his answer. I call for Eunwoo for a few times but he never responds.

"What did he say nuna?" Moonbin asks me worriedly.

"School. He is at our high school." I feel like I'm in daze for a few seconds as I wonder why in the world did he come to our high school. I quickly snap it out of me and tell the taxi driver to go to our high school.

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