I hate wattpad! I updated this chapter 13 hours ago... Wattpad even congratulated me sayin "Cngratulation, you just published chapter 24". I didn't get any notif so I simply thought maybe my chap wasn't good, or the ones that used to read also stopped reading. But then I entered with my dad's phine, and WALLA! no chapter 24 like HELL!!! I know its not that anticipated, nor that important chapter, but I WORKED REALLY HARD TO FINISH THIS CHAP EARLY not to be not published by WATTPAD! This app is ANNOYING!

I know i shouldn't say anything about it, but I didn't have anyone to speak to to I just blrted it out to you guys. TT

Anyway, no clue on murderer in this chap..... Sorry about that. -_- I'm pissed as hell...

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Hakyeon ruffled the towel over his head for the final time, trying to wipe the water of his hair. He didn't expect the rain to start so suddenly, and now he was soaked. Looking across the room he found Leo almost crumpled up in a corner, with his large hands hugging himself. The ghost seemed to be shivering from coldness. He was shivering from coldness...

Hakyeon sneezed once, that made him feel light headed for some odd reason.

"Bless you.." Leo whispered, more like mewed. Hakyeon didn't know why but he felt a giggle making its way upto his throat. There was no one in te studio at that time, well if you were to count the cctv as something that equaled to a person then there was a third person in there as well. Hakyeon didn't bother about that. He moved forward, towards the corner.

"Cold?" Hakyeon asked, slyly.

Leo gave a childish nod. Hakyeon didn't know why, but Leo seemed extra cute to him today. He giggled.

"You look so cute when you feel cold.."

"It means you are cold as well...."

"Ow my! Kitten even knows how to retort back! What a nice kawaii pet you are there!" Hakyeon said, raising his hand over the head of the other, acting like he was patting him. The smile on his face only grew wider. Leo growled.

"I should take you to those cafes with a lot of cats. I haven't ever visited one, so it would be good to visit one with you!" Hakyeon was in a good mood. Perhaps he had a ice sleep yesterday night, Leo thought. A small smile broke into the poker faced feature of his.

"And when would you do that?" Leo tried to act a little curious. For some reason going to a café with Hakyeon....the idea seemed fairly appealing to him. Something that he might want to look forward to.

"I dunno! How about you? Is there somewhere that you would like to go to?"

Leo seemed dumbfounded for a while, then he shyly opened his mouth,

"I wanted to visit the sea this year..."

"The sea?" Hakyeon asked, fixing himself on the floor right next to Leo.

Leo gave another shy nod. Hakyeon didn't know why he felt so shy suddenly, but since Leo looked cute when he was acting all shy shy, he didn't feel like he should care. In fact he was liking it, the air around them was so free now, it seemed relaxing. He felt as if they were finally able to take a single steps towards each other after taking several steps backwards. The thought was sustaining, He wondered if it could always go on like that or not.

"After the concert was over... I haven't been to one for last five years.."

"Well, I have never even been to one." Hakyeon bluntly replied.

Leo looked at him dumbfounded,

"You are joking, right?"

The elder shook his head, from side to side. There was basically no reason for him to lie at this point. He truly did never went to a sea beach, just simply because he didn't feel like it. He didn't understand what made people go so crazy over the heels for sea beaches. To his it was the same as a river, with the difference that you can drink river water at some places, but you can and should never try sea water.

"Hmm... we should visit these places then.... Which sea shall we go to I wonder..." Hakyeon said, index scratching his chin.

"How about Jeju?"

"Jeju? Hmm... sounds good!" Hakyeon clapped his hands together. He could see the slight blush on Leo's face, the ghost was excited. Hakyeon felt good. It was good, the atmosphere around him was good now.

"When?" Leo tried to act not too desperate, but his voice was higher than usual. Hakyeon again giggled.

"Well, I have this competition next month as well, if I don't get eliminated. So it's hard to do so within the next month. How about the month after that?" Hakyeon asked quite enthusiastically, but noticed how the blush slowly disappeared from Leo's face. Hakyeon couldn't quite make out why Leo was down so suddenly,

"What's wrong?" Hakyeon asked, voice presenting every single possible symptoms of showing how confused he was.

Leo slowly shook his head once, then looked at his feet. He sat with his knees up to his chest, so the situation quite made him look like a damsel in distress.

"You wanna go earlier?" Hakyeon again asked, voice soft as it could get.

Leo waited a while, before letting out a soft sigh.

"Hakyeon..."

"Uhmmm..."

"I only have one month left... By the time you finish your competition,"

Leo raised his face, eyes fixing into Hakyeon's. His dark feline eyes held just a simple sadness, and a half broken smile flashed across his face, he simply shrugged. Hakyeon was expecting a smile from him, but certainly not the type Leo had showed. He pondered what could he had said wrong. It wasn't as if he had said something stupid like celebrating his one month death anniversary again. And then it hit him. The smile dropped even for his face, he looked away. Leo also looked away from him, they stared at the large mirrors of the dancing room. Hakyeon felt colder.

He didn't know what he could say.

"Are you certain that it's only three months?" Hakyeon whispered. It was a foolish question to ask, Leo had been saying three months from the very first day. Yet he asked, he pondered who was it that gave him that time? How did he know?

"Hmm.."

"How do you know?"

Leo kept his mouth shut for a while, looking assiduously at his feet, it felt a bit weird these days, he wondered why.

"A voice, when I woke up, I heard it...."

"That's absurd! I'm sure you just heard that because you were shocked at that moment." Hakyeon huffed and Leo snorted at that, annoyed.

" Do me being here seems consistent to you from any point?"

And Hakyeon fell silent. No, it didn't. But it was hard to believe that a voice had told him that.

"What did he say?"

Leo didn't reply, his eyes were closed, looking at him one would have thought that he was a doll, with fair skin, beautiful raven hair, a perfect creation by some artist. And the missing of his heartbeat would be there to fulfil the final touch of his creation.

These were all ludicrous, Leo was right, him being here was ludicrous. Him being stuck with Hakyeon out of all the people on earth was absurd. Him having only three months was absurd. Him having to live with someone at such a state when his carrier was struggling to build a name for himself was absurd.

Him being dead was absurd.

Hakyeon bit the inner part of his bottom lip restlessly.

How long do we have?

"Three months....bear out what you pledged," Leo whispered. Turning to his partner he could see a pained reaction on his face. Hakyeon counted, he had only four weeks left if measured by weeks. They were a lot, judging a life of a normal person. But it was his life, four weeks of his life meant the final of the competition. The quarter final was soon. He made it far despite of all the bullshits that life had offered him in these past two months. He just came too far, but then Leo.... He couldn't go that far, he had lost everything by the time he had started to earn things. His time was going away.

Hakyeon felt destitute. If Leo was some other person maybe he wouldn't have cared about Leo's time. After all, he was dead and it didn't matter how he thought of the matter, Leo was dead and a dead's time is rather invaluable to him than his own. But it was Leo, and he felt Hakyeon had cared about himself enough to actually again let Leo's time fly away this effortlessly.

"Shall we think of a day among these practicing weeks?" Hakyeon asked, he tried to sound cheerful but the glimmer of his eyes went missing.

Leo fiddled, what was Hakyeon thinking now, he thought. These conversation between them was getting a bit weird between them lately, more than just bit. They would start with making plans, then Hakyeon would say something, then Leo would say something, they will be reminded of how many days are left and next they would keep quiet because of sadness. He was hating it. Who said he wanted that. He would rather feel the pain from the blisters than to actually sulk about how many days were left. He really didn't want these last days of his bonus life to be worrying about the thing that had already ended.

"Or how about we think of the next dance. It's the round before the quarter final right?" Leo said casually, slanting his head to a side, blinking.

"Well, we can do that after the master-"

"I don't want to..."

Hakyeon snapped. He tried to read Leo's eyes, to see if they were playing some games with him now or not. If they were then what was he to play next?

"Why?" A sloppy question but free pass, he guessed.

Leo leaned forward, jarringly close to Hakyeon, eyes scanning Hakyeon's face one. He paused at his lips. He exhaled, deliberately, Hakyeon could notice the fall of Leo's chest, a cozy warm shot of air fanning over his skin. Hakyeon followed Leo's eyes, he was quite curious to know the reason why it stopped on his lips.

"I miss that smile that you do..." He whispered. Hakyeon felt his heart skip a beat, Leo looked up. Hakyeon must have imagined but he thought he could see a smirk at the end of Leo's lips. Hakyeon suddenly gasped for air. The thought that Leo was dead flew out of Hakyeon's mind and he moved back. Trying hard to control the blush, he looked down. He couldn't get himself to look at Leo but he felt Leo was smirking at him.

What a devious ghost!

Hakyeon said, putting his one hand to his chest. Yup, his heart was beating like crazy. Hakyeon failed to see why he was acting that way. Then he also failed to understand why Leo had to say that so suddenly and in that manner.

Leo wasn't practically smirking but he was smiling. It felt good to feel a change in the rhythm of heartbeat. He didn't know why he felt so good after making a guy blush so much. But then again, all rationality flew out of window when Leo was with Hakyeon. As if it was bound to be.

Silly.......

"Well, the newspaper didn't actually say anything about finding any clues?" Ken hollered, peeking above the newspaper. Hongbin was fiddling with his food on his plate and Ravi just laid on the bed. Not really feeling to stand up.

"That's a good news?" Ken said, shifting gazes between the two silent party. Hongbin didn't say anything, just nodded. But Ravi still the same position as he was in before.

Ken was growing impatient. He was never the silent type, he always like it when everyone was gossiping, laughing or at least arguing with one another. He loved to meddle between them. But he haven't been able to do that since he left Hakyeon's house and now he was missing it.

"So... are you two gonna say something?" Ken asked.

"Ravi? Hongbin?"

"Huh?" Hongbin finally snapped out of his daze at the mention of his name.

"Oh.. sure lets do that!"

Ken squinted at him. Raising an eyebrow he shrugged.

"Do what?"

"The thing that you were saying!" Hongbin replied.

"Owh! You mean going to the police station and announce that Hongbin is the killer!" Ken said with a smiley face.

"YES! Wait, what? That's what I agreed to?" Hongbin yelled.

"Of course not! Why don't you listen to me when I talk?" Ken snorted, twisting his face in disgust.

"I was saying, they didn't find enough evidences."

"oww... that's good. But Ken, can you please stop calling me a murderer. I'm not liking that joke."

"Who said that I was joking?" Ken said, his voice was leveled but it held an impact that screamed the fact that he was serious.

"What do you mean?" Hongbin screeched, fisting his chopsticks.

"I'm putting my bet on you!" Ken announced, once looking at Ravi. Ravi flinched a little at Ken's word but remained unchanged either way.

"YA! Do you think I would still be keeping you alive if I was a killer?"

"But you never said that you are not a killer.." Ken retorted.

"Well I'm not a killer!" Hongbin shouted.

"Too bad, I don't think a thief goes around saying that he stole things!" Ken said, folding the newspaper I his hands. Hongbin snapped in fury,

"I'm going to kick you out of the house right now!"

"Well, it would be easier for you to do your jobs more smoothly then."

Hongbin again snapped, he was just about to throw the chopsticks at Ken's direction when he heard the knock on their door. All the eyes turned to it.

"I don't think we were expecting anyone?" Ravi said.

"And Eunji is out of town for an audition.." Hongbin reminded.

Then who is it?

Hyuk overslept tonight, and the stupid secretary did not bothered to wake him up. If this continued then their business might as well start to float in the air. He didn't know how many times had he already cursed his secretary by then. He could very well see his phone was not in the house that could only mean his dear manager had taken it away with him. Hyuk cursed his once more for that. Putting on his watch he pressed a button. It caused a vibration that ran up through his veins (?) as he left for his office.

His secretary was waiting in front of his car, with one of his deadly angelic smile. Hyuk frowned,

"I'm sure your watch is not broken... so why ignore my call? And give me my phone back."

His manager didn't bother about Hyuk's frown, he coolly took his hand behind his back, taking out Hyuk's desired phone he pushed his hand forward.

"I was just talking your father, he had some issues that he needed to discuss with me." His manager replied.

He took the phone from him,

"And he couldn't contact you personally?"

His manager gave his an one shoulder shrug, emotion unchanging.

"Perhaps he thought, calling your number is most likely calling mine."

Hyuk snorted in disgust or fury, he couldn't decide. So he decided to go with both. He got on the car, the driver was someone else today, it was rather unusual for his butler to not to drive. He looked at his butler taking the passenger seat by the driver.

"You aint driving?" Hyuk asked curtly.

"No... I seemed to have hurt my hand yesterday a bit. The cut is small, but it's hurting whenever I moved my fingers." Turning to him his manager smiled. The eyes of his manager's disappears every time he gave a full grin, and those puffy cheeks would lift up. Hyuk again snorted.

"What did father talk about?" When the tires under Hyuk's feet started rolling, he sputtered the question out, looking out of the window, eyes fixed on a far distant. He tried to sound like not interested, but deep down he knew there was something that father had said, something that he was not going to like.

"He is trying to set your sister with someone, the person is coming to your parents' house in Seoul, so he asked if you wanted to come as well..." His manager said that, his tone was professional. Hyuk felt his heart sank a little, he was thirsty so sudden. He didn't move his eyes from the window, just his lips parted a little. Then it again shut. He shuffled his head on his seat, and now he felt obnoxious.

"Let's go after lunch...." Hyuk slowly replied. His manager didn't say anything, but noticed how Hyuk's Adam's apple went up and down several times through the rear view mirror.

Hongbin carefully opened the door, just a crack, to peek who it was. When he peeked through the slit, there was none, so he opened a little more, letting a little bit more area to come to his view. And then it happened. He couldn't clearly see, but he felt the slam on his door, rather strong. Causing the door to hit Hongbin's face, Hongbin didn't even delayed to react, as he crumpled up on the floor grabbing his nose. He felt lucky that it wasn't bleeding, or that his nose survived the attack.

"Aigooo~ what a nice house do you have here in this old garage." A man almost sang, fake admiration filled his voice. Hongbin hardly looked at him, he was none other than the officer that had once investigated Ravi.

Ravi......damn....

The officer guy looked at Hongbin sitting on the floor with wide eyes looking at him. The corner of his lips made a slight upturn, his eyes clearly held mock. Squatting before Hongbin he softly grabbed Hongbin's wrist. Hongbin tried not to move his hand but, he beat him in strength and pulled Hongbin's hand away from Hongbin's nose.

"What a beautiful nose you have there! It'd have been a hazard if it broke!" He cooed. Hongbin tried hard not to sneer at him. But that was not the problem, if he was here, that meant there was more polices waiting outside, with car and guns maybe, and they were there to take Ravi away again. He had to say something, something loud, so Ravi would know that the police was here, and Ravi won't come-

"AH! Why are you peeking from the kitchen?" The officer said, quite gleefully, letting go of his hand.

Out of the kitchen...

Hongbin's eyes fell shut. Like how stupid can one get to actually peek from kitchen.

"You know I came to visit you, so there's no point in hiding there you see...." He stated, straightening himself. Hongbin looked over his shoulder, Ravi was slowing taking one step, two step towards them. Hongbin gave him a disappointed look, and Ravi returned it with an apologetic gaze.

The officer shifted his gaze between Hongbin and Ravi once, before a grimace appeared in his face.

"You know, I don't have all the time of my life in my hand to let you two play mind games. So you better hurry over here!" He snapped.

Ravi followed, standing next to Hongbin and Hongbin also got up.

"Now, I am here to ask you some simple questions, very simple questions. And then leave. So Don't make a scene and just answer diligently." The look on his screamed how it was not that simple as he was saying it. Ravi and Hongbin nodded, even though Hongbin didn't need to.

"First question, is the tall one around here?" Hongbin and Ravi startled by that question changed glances between themselves.

"You mean Hyuk?" Ravi whispered, uncertainly.

"His name was Hyuk?" Dojoon questioned back. Ravi and Hongbin just made a face at him and Hongbin replied,

"No..he isn't."

"GREAT!" He was delighted, and his expression didn't fail to portray it even by one bit.

"Now, second question. What were you doing yesterday?" His tone changed completely.

"When?" Hongbin replied.

"I anit talking to you pea boy. You! What were you doing yesterday, and you know what time I'm talking about..."

Ravi fidgeted a little,

"How would I know?" His acting was never the best, but at least he managed to keep his face straight. Although his voice shook.

"Oh, I think you do!"

"N-NO!"

"Why are you stammering then?" He again shot back. Ravi felt cornered, he didn't know how to answer it.

"That's because you look scary, ajhusshi!" Hongbin replied instead.

"Shut up!" Dojoon yelled, eyes still fixed on Ravi. His loud voice made both Ravi and Hongbin's strands of their hair stand up.

"Home...."

"I don't think so! You were in seoul.." He calmly replied, folding his hands before his torso. Ravi tried hard not to swallow, REALLY HARD. Hongbin tried to sneak a glance at his side with the corner of his eyes.

"The CCTV footage had only one guy entering through the alley's entrance, and I think his height clicks." Dojoon again calmly said, his hand inside of his front pocket, taking out his mobile.

Dojoon's words drained the life out of Ravi's face but Hongbin happened to get some color back.

"That's why you here?" Hongbin scoffed, more like acting to scoff.

Dojoon stopped his hand in the midway, the phone in his hand, but his hand was in his pocket.

"What?"

Hongbin made his large eyes even wider, and crossed his arms as well, his palms were sweating a lot, but he tried to act as sturdy as possible.

"Do you know the average height of men in this country? 5'9'' and Ravi is just 3 inches taller than that. And you came here, only based on that much knowledge. That is ridiculous!" Hongbin said, pushing Ravi on his side with his shoulder. Ravi getting the signal, also folded his arms and faked a stable pose.

"Y-y-yah! He is right! I am not even that tall! I'm sure you are just jealous because I am taller than you."

Ravi stated, and Dojoon glared at him. He could feel the raise in his heartbeat, adrenaline pumping through his veins. He took in several deep breaths to calm his stare.

"Sure......there is another reason why I am here..." He said through greeted teeth. Then again a smile was posted on his face. A plastic one.

"Shoeprints.... I'm here to match that!" And that was that, Ravi felt all the energy leaving his shoulders. Hongbin tried really hard not to look at Ravi.

"Now, if you show me the w-"

"Do you have court orders?"

All of their head swerved around to the voice. Ken stood there leaning on the frame of the entrance door, sipping orange juice with an straw, again who knows from where had he got that from.

Dojoon's eyes widened seeing him. This time his whole body swirled around,

"Wait, how did you-" Hongbin's voice got cut off.

"YOU!" Dojoon's voice high, as if he had seen a ghost. Ken casually waved his hand at him, not dropping the straw from his mouth though. He lazily walked towards him.

"I said I never wanted to see you again, didn't I?" Ken hummed, raising his free hand up, to touch Dojoon's chin. Dojoon jolted away from that touch with an instant reaction.

Ken smirked, his hand paused, but eventually made it's way to touch him. The officer shivered at his touch. A smirk widened on Ken's face. Hongbin and ravi, like dumb and dumber stared at the weird reaction of the police officer. It was obvious that he was scared.

"So why are you at my door again?" Ken emphasized on the word again. And Hongbin whispered in Ravi's ear,

"Again? He didn't go to the police station that day...did he?" Ravi slowly shook his head. Trying hard to gasp at whatever was happening there.

Dojoon tenaciously moved back.

"You live with them?" Doojoon snarled, shipping his gaze between Rabin and then Ken. He was having it hard to believe it.

"Well, yes... Since you pretty much kicked me out of my own house, by barging in and proving to people that I was some sorts of conman, when I wasn't. I had to look for some place." Ken sweetly replied. Dojoon huffed, and Rabin frowned.

"What did N hyung say Ken did again?" Hongbin silently asked.

"I have no idea." Ravi replied. The nervousness that was working between them was long gone now.

"I didn't kick you out!" Dojoon protested, he was fidgeting a bit too much now.

"I just did my job!" And Ken dropped his face, he had some sorts of dark aura around him. Ken took his hand to himself.

"Yes... making me turn into a conman you tried to do your job, when you didn't even have enough evidences..."

"I had evidences!" Dojoon yelled, Hongbin and Ravi flinched. They really couldn't understand why an adult was so scared of Ken so suddenly.

"Then why am I out? You couldn't prove a shit! None of the people you had gathered had spoken against me. And now you are here to capture my friends, again without enough evidence." Ken replied, calmly, he had a cute smile playing on his lips and he put the straw in his mouth again.

Dojoon blinked several times, before turning to rabin. His head hurts, swirling his index on his forehead he tried to calm his brain alittle. It was too much to take in.

"Wait....let me get this straight. You are a con man-"

Ken growled, a deep sound from the base of his throat. A threat. Dojoon twiddled a little.

"Okay... Lemme rephrase... you are a black magician.. who has a dark friend whose parent's mysteriously got murdered but he survived but is now talking part in a national completion so to say named N, a friend who is supposedly a serial killer called Ravi, the tall boy called hyuk is a mysterious son of some famous business company who I'm sure is a demon." Dojoon turned to face Hongbin,

"What are you? A ghost?" Hongbin startled didn't know how to answer that.

"Nope. That's someone else's job." Ken replied instead.

Dojoon felt lightheaded.

"I'm sure he is a murderer now...he has to be!" He screeched.

"Just like how you made me a con man?" perking his eyebrow up Ken hissed, straw still in his mouth.

"You FRIGGIN USED TO DO BLACK MAGIC!" He snapped.

"I told you I was an exorcist, but you turned me into a conman. And now you believe?"

"What you did was not good either!"

"But not was a con man!" Ken didn't hold back

" I am going to put you all behind the bars! Don't you dare to pl-"

The package of the orange juice crumpled in his hand and the officer stopped. Ken stepped forward, again placing his free hand on Dojoon's face,

"Don't challenge me....."He slurred. Ravi and Hongbin both could see the officer go cold.

"The outcome is never what you desire..." he hissed, and dojoon swallowed thickly.

"If my friend is a murderer then come back with solid proof, court order to search our house. And then I'll myself hand him over. But if not, then do not ever come before me. I wouldn't even need to put a ghost behind you this time to haunt you, you see. Because, the human will do a better job. I'm sure, you wouldn't want to be proved as an officer who uses innocent to get promotions. So stay back, and do your work properly, or else..." Ken dropped the juice ken on the floor, it wasn't empty so the juice spilled over the floor. Dojoon nervously just nodded, and he didn't even need to be told to get out. He slowly walked out on his own courtesy.

Ken rolled his eyes once after he heard the door slamming shut behind him. He bent down and picked up the juice bottle.

"Aish.... It's wasted now," He pouted. Then he looked at Ravi and Hongbin's direction. They both jumped up, taking steps backwards.

"What's wrong?" Ken smiled, an angelic smile.

Hongbin and Ravi both shook their head furiously.

"Nothing!" Hongbin shouted.

"You control ghosts?" Ravi questioned.

"Well, that's one of the things that I do...why?" Ken's smile grew wider, parts of his teeth could be seen now.

Ravi's shoulders fell, and he let out a loud sigh.

"Ken Hyung...." Hongbin sweetly called. Ken slanted his head at him, he was still smiling innocently.

"You see... I'm sorry about what I said in the morning.... This is your house as well... How can I ever kick you out.... Now if you excuse us.." Hongbin sweetly said in a shaky tone. And before Ravi knew it, Hongbin was already pulling him out of the house by his arm. Ken, baffled looked at those two getting out. When the door slammed shut with a loud bang he let out a pout. His bottom lips sticking out a bit,

"But.... I just helped you..." He whispered.

The phone rang. Taking a break from his dance Hakyeon picked it up.

"Hello..."

"KEN IS AN EXCORCIST!" and there was the agitated voice of his beautiful dongsen.

Hakyeon put the phone a bit away from his ear, again taking it close he replied.

"Hmm... I know..."

Hongbin fell shut. Quite a few times passed but not hearing even the sound of Hongbin's breath Hakyeon again said,

"Hello?"

It was probably after a few more seconds when Hongbin finally uttered,

"AH"

"hmm... what's wrong?"

"Do you know he controls ghost?" Hongbin asked.

Hakyeon turned his face to the one who was standing beside him, looking at him with that expressionless feature of his.

"Hmm... I know..."

"ow... okay..." Hongbin didn't know what else he could say.

"Why? What's wrong?"

"huh? Nothing... just the police came to investigate and he scared him away..."

Hongbin said in the most sarcastic way he could, but the sarcasm was missing. Hakyeon's eye brows furrowed.

"The police? Did they say something?" Hakyeon asked, cautiously.

"Nah... just that he suspects Ravi..." Hongbin replied. It was obvious that he didn't wanna talk about it anymore.

Hakyeon also understood that, so maybe it would have been better if he asked the questions later.

"Okay... I'm busy now. Talk t-"

"Bye"

And the line was cut off. Hakyeon raised an eye brow in confusion but then looked at Leo. Leo was again biting his lower lip. Meaning, he was thinking of something.

"Leo..." Hakyeon called, a soothing tone. Leo, breaking the trails of his thoughts looked up.

"Don't worry, we'll find your murderer very soon." Hakyeon assured, but Leo didn't smile, he gave a somewhat nervous thought. Leo didn't like that idea, Hakyeon figured.

"What's wrong?" N asked. Leo looked up. Then he walked behind Hakyeon, leaning closer to his ears he whispered,

"I don't want to."

Hakyeon turned his face to right, facing Leo. Leo looked normal. Hakyeon wondered what changed his thoughts so suddenly.

"Why? Is it because it could be one of my dongsens?" Hakyeon winced.

Leo's eyes subtly widened then a warmth filled in them,

"No..no...it's not that...." He hummed. Automatically he raised his arms to grab Hakyeon's shoulder, but realizing he can't he stopped. His hands in the mid air, he couldn't decide what to do. Hakyeon noted that as well, trying to make it not that awkward he quickly turned his Body to Leo. Standing face to face, distance jarringly low.

"Then why?" He asked, naively.

Leo dazed out of his thoughts, he was again looking at Hakyeon.

"ah~ It's just that I have one month left." Leo replied, then took a pause. As if he was trying to find next words.

"Yes, that's why we need to hurry.... So you can at least fulfil your final wish."
"But that is not my wish..." Leo protruded, lips curling up like a kitten. Then a soft sigh left his lips.

"I just dont wanna spend my last days playing bounty hunter...." He whispered. Hakyeon's breath hitched in his throat. He wanted to protest the idea, but he couldn't find what to say.

"Then what do you want?" Hakyeon asked, curiosity filled his voice.

"Just some peaceful days," Leo murmured, his eyes half open.

A guilt brushed over Hakyeon, he lowered his gaze.

"I'm sorry...."he wailed.

Leo opened his eyes fully to Hakyeon's words. He didn't know why Hakyeon was saying sorry suddenly.

"I....its because you are stuck with me is why you have to go through so many obstacles. If it's wasn't me, th-then you could have easily had a nice free beautiful time. But because you are with me, because my dongsen are somehow associated to your murder, you are facing such problems....."Hakyeon took a breath after saying that all in one breath. He hadn't realized but his chest was falling up and down very quickly now. His voice broke. He swallowed.

Leo's eyes subtly widened and then it was closed fully. He heard his words carefully. He wondered, if he had been stuck with another but N...would he still want to have peaceful time.

would he even be here if his dongsens were not involved.

That's so silly....

A subtle smile played on his face and he opened his eyes to again look at how wrong Hakyeon could get.

"And even now, even now when you are asking me for time, I can't give it to you. Because I'm selfish. And I needed this competition so much to actually.... Oh god... I think that's why I fainted that day. I was supposed to be with you... But look at me, when fate brought us together, I tried to deceive it and took Hyuk's help and got you stuck in here....why am I like this?" Hakyeon whimpered. He was almost sobbing at this point.Leo again let out another loud sigh,his hands were fisted in the midair, and he whispered.

"Hakyeon-ah~, it's not something to cry about..."

Hakyeon flinched, but then brought his hands up to his eyes, almost rubbing the daylight out of his eyes.

"I'm not crying...something fell into my eyes"

Leo's smile grew and he dropped his right hand to his side, but brought his left hand to hakyeon's forehead.and he touched his forehead a little with the tip of his index finger. Hakyeon froze.

It was warm.he felt warm, yes he didn't feel any object, but he felt warm.he didn't know why he had felt warmth at only one little part of his forehead so suddenly, he had his face lowered when he felt that. But when Hakyeon raised his face up, removing his hands from his eyes he saw Leo pointing his index at Hakyeon.

It can't be...

"My peaceful time is when I see you dance...I told you,I miss that smile." Leo grinned.Hakyeon slowly inhaled, his lips parted a little.

"Leo...." His voice croaky, Leo raised his eyebrow,dropping his hand to his side.

"You really have beautiful​​​​​​​ long fingers....you know..."
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