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25: The new friends

"Jeno's gone, he left." 

Jaemin stood in confusion, left to go where? 

"What do you mean he left?" He felt like something bad was about to happen, or more accurately, had happened. Everyone in the room avoided answering but only so much could be explained, whatever the boys would say would end up hurting Jaemin, what was the point? 

"I don't exactly know that myself..." Mark answered honestly before continuing, "He thinks you think low of him, that's how he put it." Jaemin stood in silence, what could he say in this situation? Not much at all. 

"Do- Do you think he's gone home?" He panicked ignoring the tears that slipped down his cheeks and the slight itch in his throat begging to be removed, he rushed over to slide some shoes on before Renjun jogged over to him. 

"He can't of gone home, with what money and besides his passport is still here." Everything he was saying was true but that didn't make Jaemin want to sit back down and relax, not one bit, he wanted to explain himself to Jeno. Not that he knew exactly what he'd be explaining but that was a future problem. 

"I've got to go find him," He stated simply as he wiped off the tears flowing from his red puffy eyes, Renjun wanted to scoff so bad but he refrained from doing so. 

"The hell you are, not in this state, Chenle and Jisung will go." Just as the two mentioned were about to protest Renjun shot them the strongest gaze on earth and suddenly they were ready to get out the door. 

"B-But-"

"No buts you're not going, I agree with Renjun," Donghyuck said as he dragged Jaemin away from the door and over to the couch, Renjun, Chenle and Jisung left and began their search for Jeno. 

"Where do you think he could have gone?" Chenle enquired, it wasn't like they knew the place well either, the only place they really knew was the beach and the local shop. 

"Jisung you can check the beach, Chenle check the shop and I'll go down there." And that's what they did. 

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"So you just walked out?" A rather tall boy with dark brown hair laughed in disbelief at the story he had just been told, turns out you can meet a lot of interesting people when you go to a Korean restaurant in the middle of the day. 

"Well, what did you expect me to do?" Jeno mumbled as he took another bite of his food whilst the guy sat in front of him nodded, understanding his situation to the best he could. 

"Have you ever been through something similar?" Sungchan, Jeno had learnt was his name not only twenty minutes ago, thought about his question. Had he? He wasn't so sure he ever had but he did want to help Jeno. 

"I can't say I have but I can give you advice?" Sungchan reasoned with the lost boy, Jeno nodded, he'd take anything he could get. 

"What if he didn't mean it like that? You could have misunderstood, I'm sure you've probably witnessed something getting misunderstood and then chaos unwinds." Jeno thought back to the little incident with Donghyuck and Mark, Mark was such an idiot but it's a laugh to think back on. 

"Perhaps but it sounded so real, how can you twist a story as straight forwards as he doesn't want you near him?" Jeno spat out as he continued to aggressively chew down on his food, Sungchan sighed, he felt like he was on a losing battle. 

"Come on, you need to relax." They paid for the food and left, Jeno would quite like to know why he was willingly following this guy that he met only half an hour ago but nevertheless, he didn't do anything to stop it. 

They walked for around five minutes until they reached the beach, as familiar as it was, it's a great place to sleep. 

"Just sit back, I'll be back in a minute." And Jeno did just that and as Sungchan said he was back in under a minute with two drinks in his hands, he passed one to Jeno who took it with a small smile. 

"Who's this?" Jeno looked up seeing an unfamiliar face looking at him, this guy had silver hair and a handsome smile that could probably make anyone fall for him within a second. 

"Oh I met him in the restaurant down the road while you went out," Sungchan explained to the guy who took a seat beside Jeno and Sungchan. 

"Ah I see, I'm Shotaro, Sungchan's close friend." They shook hands, "You can call me Jeno, I'm sorry for interrupting." He apologised with a lopsided smile as he sipped on the drink. 

"No worries, it's nice to have a different presence around." Shotaro sighed as he laid his back against the warm sand, Jeno was happy for the first time today, he was happy he was able to forget the events that took place not too long ago, happy that he could smile and laugh without the pressuring feeling of guilt. 

About ten feet away from the trio having the time of their life stood Jisung looking around like a lost puppy, he couldn't see anything other than groups of people which obviously wouldn't include Jeno as he didn't know anyone else here. 

Jisung's phone started vibrating in his pocket, he picked up the phone as his eyes scanned the beach. 

"Have you found him?"  Renjun asked desperately, it was getting quite hot outside and to be honest, he just wanted to sit down and take a nap. 

"I've walked for ages, I can't see him, all I see are groups of people." Jisung whined, he wanted to go back just as much as the other. 

"Jaemin is going to freak the hell out if we don't find him."  Renjun sighed drastically yet, he wasn't wrong at all. 

"I know, what about Chenle, how's he doing?" Jisung asked with a frown. 

"Same as you, he says the shop owner hasn't seen Jeno at all." 

"Well, what're we supposed to do?" 

"Wait- Why haven't any of us tried calling him?"  Jisung could hear the frustration in Renjun's voice as he stated the most obvious way of getting in touch with Jeno, Jisung groaned in annoyance before hanging up the phone. 

He scrolled down to Jeno's contact before clicking the call button, it rung a few times before going to voicemail. 

"Unbelievable, he declined it." He furrowed his eyebrows turning around to walk back to where they were staying before he overheard a conversation not to far away from him. 

"Is Jisung one of the guys you're here with?" Sungchan questioned as he watched Jeno power his phone off, Jisung spun around looking at the back of Jeno's head as he sat with two unfamiliar men. 

Straight away before he approached the trio, he dialled Renjun's number. 

"I found him, he's with some random guys drinking on the beach." 

"HE'S WHAT!?"