Chapter 4

The way he sprung up was like he had been waiting for infinite years . He seemed to have aged so much in the time span that he look as if he had even lose weight and sense. A careless inspection would make one convinced that Jinyoung is mindlessly intoxicated.

The cause of this bullet reaction was his door bell that rang. Namkyu jumped towards it but he was immediately disappointed to see delivery visitor, and not his rebellious young brother .

He grabbed the food and he pirouetted back to the sofa prior slamming downwards. It was already early morning but since it was the weekend he isn't obliged to go to work . He impulsively checked his phone and it was low with battery. The reason being he spent the whole night waiting and calling Jinyoung but he wasn't even picking up , he checked all matches that Jinyoung could participate in but he gave up as knew Jinyoung would let him know so that he can be showered with pocket money. Just then he noticed a message from last night

'The microorganic build up on his skin could have had a major contribution to the bloating which is why we used several tests but verifying time of death is just a long haul right now. I had them check the age of the unicells like you said and we would receive the results on Monday -HyoSon',

He threw the phone and he went to Jinyoung's room. HyoSon likes to report every single detail. Who doesn't know that ?

Still empty.

It's like having one's hopes sky high and being let down brutally mixed with knowing there is nothing yet still hoping for some mind-blowing development . A part of him knew Jinyoung wasn't in the room but another wished he was , and that other one seemed to the most corrosive, currently eating him alive.

Now he is partly convinced that Namkyu is with DoekHwan nevertheless the unfortunate part is that Namkyu doesn't know or have DoekHwan's phone number and home address. But he can try to call someone at the school and have them link him to those details.

With that he went and dialled the number but unfortunately it wasn't reaching through reason being it was the weekend. furthermore even if it did go through, the school isn't going to give him other people's contact details until someone absolutely verifies Namkyu's claims and the fact that DoekHwan and Jinyoung are friends. Understanding this, How on earth is he going to find DoekHwan ,let alone Jinyoung?

He pulled his jacket and some clothes along with food for his cute athlete brother after he brushed his teeth . His next stops were all arcades that Jinyoung visited .

All of them said he hasn't came for more than a week and they thought that he had left for a tennis game which he would naturally tell the owners so that they don't erase his gaming perks.

After twelve game-rooms, his will ran out of his chest and slammed like a glass on the ground as he didn't even know where else to check or who to ask next so he drove to the station.

Owing to that it is arguably early , most officers haven't came but there is a reporting one or the receptionist.

" Hello , my little brother has been missing for two days. I don't know where he is. He isn't answering his phone and he is not at all the places he usually goes",

" Okay, how about friends? Relatives?",

" I am the only familiar member and I don't know where his friend lives nor his phone number. Please help me", he cried not even realizing that he is begging pitifully.

The officer wrote down the findings as well as DoekHwan's name and he said that those with the ability to check for DoekHwan's contacts in the system are yet to arrive so he can just go home and they will search. Obviously Namkyu refused saying he wants to be there every step of the way.

He went back to his car and he sat inside.

He had brought some of Jinyoung's clothes incase he was cold . He also carried water and a juice for him but just seeing these items soaks him in agony . He recalls the last time that his parents almost took Jinyoung away to stay with them.

Whenever Namkyu was having a hard time with school, Jinyoung was there. During Namkyu 's breakups, he was there. Namkyu 's science olympiads , Jinyoung was present. Even when he had no significant input and was just extra luggage , he was always available. To think at the time he atleast eight years old yet Namkyu didn't mind bringing him along everywhere. His parents were against it but since Jinyoung is a silent kid, he would cause any raucous when with his brother. Due to this finger-nail behavior , everyone was convinced that Namkyu could be Jinyoung's biological father but the biological mathematics didn't match.

The only times when they were not together was when they are at work or at school. After that even when they are in total disagreement or complete silence, they will be in each other's company

He lowered his eyelids and a heavy tear descend down from the corner of his perfect painfilled eyes. In the short few minutes he had been camping in this car, he had managed to regurgitate all memories of Jinyoung in the last few days but he couldn't see himself holding his little brother. He even started to wonder if taking Jinyoung from their parents have a negative effect on his development. Is Jinyoung the way he is because of him? Because of Namkyu denying Jinyoung parental upbringing, could Jinyoung be in ... He refused to think that something other than good could happen. Not to him , not his family and not to his one and only Jinyoung. His everything.

A tap on his glass made him break from his trance and he saw a lady officer peaking over.

After he rolled down the window, a gust of warm perfume tickled his nose and the beautiful human portrait smiled at him tenderly. Fate knows that if Namkyu wasn't looking for his brother, he would be reserving a table for two.

She told him that she is the constable they asked to find his brother but she explained that the warrant to search will take atmost three hours to obtain and then some more time to mobilize everything.

The system here works a bit different.

Police officers request warrants at the comfort of their stations. There is no manual going to the prosecutors unless there is a system maintenance check which happens annually and last for fifteen hours. They simply go into the system fill a report and mail it to the respective officials. And if there is no traffic and no other pressing matters those officials have to tend to, the official will sign it and repost back with in a heartbeat .of course after everything is filled , they are given a waiting period and then they can track the warrant on the system.

Namkyu knows that and asked if there is someone he can talk to to speed up the process but she responded that he could try though it will be supremely pointless.

With surrender he decide that he would wait for the warrant.

She bid farewell

Four hours later the warrant came out and she went to go search the system. She obtained DoekHwan's names and saw that he has been arrested for several offenses before he was even eighteen. There were a lot of pickpocketing , drinking, underage labor and smoking cases .This is beyond despicable but it might be favorable for Namkyu as she thinks it means that Jinyoung could be also drinking somewhere with DoekHwan.

She got up from her desk and she went to the break room to announce it. This is literally the most effective way to relay a case to officers, by shouting at them when they are collected in one space. A conference call could do the same but then how many people need to be connected and how many of them are actually free?

There were about eight in the large space and four were watching baseball on the flatscreen television. The rest were chatting on the round table and eating sandwiches with really dark coffee except for the female officer who was drinking juice while having her badge and gun on the table.

GyeongJa took in a deep breath to help her amplify her already small voice. To be honest nearly half the station isn't sure how Hahm GyeongJa even passed the police exam. She is so small , soft , delicate and overall fragile. She looks like something one finds burried very deep in a treasure chest not for any reason except its petiteness.

Her heels clicked on the tile as she navigated to the round table. She began her statement but before she was done, Garam snatched the paper from her hands and instructed her to register his name. Without checking for anything else , he flew out leaving everyone confused but they went back to reality because Garam is always explosive in that manner

He went to the dispatch-unit room and barked at everyone as if they were slacking off on duty. Within twenty-five minutes, he issued a patrol team and two cars left with five offices. By state law , a minimum of two cars can go to check a missing person's last known addresses, if the person isn't there or if the location is enormous like a mountain then a larger team is need of atleast ten cars.

With that done , he exited the station to board the third car. Just then he spotted a black sophisticated automobile that he assumed as Namkyu 's . Sure enough he saw him barely conscious on the wheel, his head rested softly on the headsupport .

According to GyeongJa, he had been waiting for more than five hours so he is probably slumbering or hypnotized by stress. He reached his window , tapped twice only to have he almost flow his head to the sound.

As if he was seeing something worth flying for, he extruded his eyes , promptly opened the door and blurts only to look at Garam with soft eyes. The rest of him was like a muddy track but his emotion and desperation need no rocket scientist to identify

" We found the DoekHwan's address and a unit has gone there.", He told him while facing to the station and standing parallel to the car

" Please let me go there too", he begged him and sniffed a little. He even moved his hands to clasp Garam's which were like old concrete compared to the vibrant ones of Namkyu

Garam told him to get inside the car next to him which was police search car.

Without wasting time, he took all the things on the seat next to him and he got out . Due to his haste motions and trying not to delay progress, he nearly fell down but Garam sort of tried to cradled him momentarily. Just as fast as he elevated, he swiftly lowered his hands as Namkyu flew towards the car, perhaps not aware he almost lost his stability.