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     "OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD WE'RE GONNA DIE!" Kun began to scream at the sight of the others missing.

     Yuta and Taeil were turning their heads in every direction, but failed to see any sight of anyone. WinWin stayed close to Kun as they both were scared out of their minds. The four were lost.

     "One minute we were walking next to the group," Yuta started through clenched teeth, "the next we separated with no clue how to get around. How stupid are they? Don't they know that we can't leave anyone behind?"

     "This is your fault." Taeil poked a finder hard on Yuta's shoulder, shoving him away. "You were the one to say you though you saw something. You distracted us from following the crowd and now we're all separated."

     Yuta grimaced at Taeil. "You have no right to put all the blame on me. All we did was look away for one second you inconsiderate ba—"

     "Stop!" WinWin demanded, frowning. "Fighting is not going to get us back with the group."

     "Yeah, it's no one's fault," Kun added. "Let's just keep walking in the direction we were going. We have to catch up to them at some point."

     "Fine." Yuta ended, glaring at Taeil. "Let's keep going. Walk in pairs since the trees are dense and we need to keep people close. Come on WinWin." Yuta walked up to the nervous boy to take his arm.

"WinWin is walking with me," Kun ordered while looping his arm with WinWin. "Until you two first-graders learn to cooperate with each other."

WinWin nodded, shivering next to Kun.

"You expect me to walk through a fucked up forest with him?" Yuta scowled and motioned to Taeil.

"Hey, I'm not so happy about it either, tough guy." Taeil crossed his arms.

"Don't argue with me, it's making my migraine even worse." Kun exhaled sharply. "Let's go. 'There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class.'" He turned around with WinWin and started walking. "Severus Snape, The Sorcerer's Stone."

Yuta looked over at Taeil with a judgmental glare. "I'm not taking your arm."

"I didn't want you to in the first place." Taeil huffed, following the other two. His eyes lingered on the frightened WinWin. Yuta's did as well.

X X X

     "It makes no sense." Doyoung stared wide-eyed at the surroundings along with Jaehyun. "It's like they all disappeared."

"We're so screwed," Haechan commented.

"Where did they go?" Gina questioned, inching closer to the three boys that were also separated.

"I swear they were just by us," Doyoung muttered over Haechan cursing under his breath.

"We have to keep going. How else are we going to find everyone?" Jaehyun put in.

"Wait, but which way were we walking?" Doyoung was spinning a circle trying to figure out which trees looked familiar to know where they came from. But it all just looked the same.

"I think it was..." Jaehyun turned a couple times, questioning to himself the same thing. "This way?" He pointed in a direction his gut was telling him.

"How can you be so sure?" Haechan asked almost bitterly. "Nothing shows a direction we came from. Even our footprints are missing."

Jaehyun looked down to discover that the places around didn't even look beaten down like they walked on them. It looked as if they were planted in a random place.

"This was an awful idea," Haechan continued acidly. "I should've backed out before everyone went in. I barely even know the three people you guys are looking for. I barely even know you!"

"Would you really want to live with the thought that you could have saved people's lives, but you didn't just because you barely knew them?" Doyoung narrowed his eyes at Haechan. He then recognized his anger and took a deep breath to calm down. "Sorry, I'm just... scared."

"Yeah, I think we all are," Gina added. "Shouldn't we start walking if we want to try and catch up?" She began to shiver from the cold night and nerves getting to her.

"Yes, please." Doyoung looked around, and finally decided on the direction Jaehyun suggested. "Jungwoo is probably scared out of his mind. He's so fragile. And Chunja, she doesn't like scary things so she's probably also freaking out. And oh god, Chanmi, her OCD is probably off the charts from being lost. How did she even get herself in this situation in the first place? Dammit." Doyoung clenched his jaw. "They better be okay because if they're dead... I'm going to kill them."

Haechan tilted his head in confusion. "Isn't that a little—"

"Just let him go with it," Jaehyun whispered. He glanced over to Gina as her teeth chattered in the cold. He removed his jacket and extended it in her direction. "Take it."

She looked at the jacket and then to Jaehyun. "But—"

"I have a sweater on, I'll be fine."

Gina slowly took the jacket and put it on. "Thanks," she quietly replied.

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