Jaemin discreetly entered the tent and scanned the inside. There was a lot of members who he didn't know, from the corner of his eye he spotted Doyoung who was doing his eyeliner. Jaemin approached him.

"Hey hyung how's it going?"

"Oh hi Jaemin I'm doing fine although I don't think you should be in here.."

"It's fine I'll return shortly"

Doyoung nodded and continued to do his eyeliner.
Jaemin just stood there in silence looking down at the ground. After a while Jaemin spoke up.

"How's haechan doing? I heard his mental health isn't the best"

"Oh.. uh he's slowly recovering, he's just really stressed. Now that I think about it, it's quite weird."

"What is?"

"Haechan was doing just fine before the concert announcement. He was actually excited to go at first. Until our leader, Taeyong announced the participants at the concert and suddenly backed out of it"

Jaemin had this sense of guilt eating at his stomach, he wanted to ask more questions but resisted as the performances were soon. Jaemin bid farewell to Doyoung and headed back to his tent.

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Jaemin watched backstage as AESPA finished their first song, they were up next. Everyone grabbed their instruments and headed to stage. They ended up performing until Dawn since the concert started early in the morning.

"I'm beat..ugh" Jisung yawned.

"we should probably pack up-"

Renjun was interrupted Doyoung who suddenly came into their tent. "Hey nono's friends, you guys did amazing up there!"

"Hyung..." Jeno groaned.

"Oh thanks, you guys did pretty great up there as well" Chenle complimented.

"Jeno mom wanted you to come visit after the show, I'll be driving unless you wanna go later?"

"no it's ok I'll come, goodbye guys see you tomorrow" Jeno left with Doyoung.

Everyone was packing up their stuff, when Jaemin approached Chenle. "Hey is it ok if i stay overnight again?"

"Sure, I don't mind" Chenle replied.

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Chenle was carrying Jisung on his back who was already in a deep sleep, Jaemin walked besides Chenle.

"Chenle.."

"If this is about last night I'd rather not talk about it. Now that I think about it, I shouldn't have spilled about them to you."

"..." Jaemin stayed quiet.

"Jaemin please let them stay out of our lives, they left for a reason."

"and for what reason?"

"That.. I don't know, Renjun said he knew but refused to tell us."

"Huh.. okay"

"although.. I do think about them a lot. What they could be doing as of right now."

"Well all I can tell is that hyuck isn't doing so well, mentally and financially. He's currently in a small rotten apartment and he looks pretty unstable."

"hmm.."

They stayed quiet during the walk. When they reached the house Chenle threw Jisung onto the couch.

"You can sleep in Jisungs room, I don't think he'll mind"

Jaemin nodded and headed off to bed, he was too tired to change so he just got into bed and instantly went off to sleep.

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Jaemin woke up earlier than usual. He took the time to dress up and go make breakfast.

Jaemin went to check is phone which has several missed calls from Mars. Seems like Jaemin forgot to notify her about his stay at Chenles. He quickly messaged Mars:

Jaeminin:

Hey, sorry for not picking up. I stayed overnight at Chenles again, last night was pretty tiring 😞

mars replied after 5 minutes

Mars bar:

lmao it's fine, take some rest. I watched last night on tv and it was amazing you guys did well!

Jaeminin:

AWW THANK YOU 😊

Jaemin finished getting dressed up and was looking through drawers, looking for a phone charger when he found a photo album. Curiosity got the best of Jaemin and decided to look through the album.
First set of photos consisted of Jisung's baby pictures and family. The second set contained pictures of the band. One with Mark and Haechan and one without them but with Jaemin himself. He took out the photos and hid them inside his pockets.

Jisung will definitely kill him for this.