Night #3 ( Part 2 )
Taeil hugged his bright rain coat tighter to himself, having discarded his umbrella a long time ago because the wind would not give it a rest. Though the storm seemed to have calmed down, raindrops still fell hard on Taeil’s head and face.
They had decided to pair up and spread around the property in search of Dogyoung who, according to Johnny, had apparently ran out the door scared of the thunder and the loud noises of the door suddenly opening. Taeil looked at Haechan, frantically calling for the puppy and looking around with his own flashlight, his hair all mussed and stuck to his forehead as he was the one who had ran out of the door first in search of Dogyoung, not bothering pulling his hoodie up.
“Haechan, we’ve looked here already… We should search somewhere else…” Taeil pulled his hoodie up to his head and patted his back, a worried frown adorning his face. The younger had a blank expression yet his eyes were wide and never still, his face lighting up with hope whenever a shadow moved and looking broken when he realized it wasn’t his pet.
The young man shrugged off Taeil’s touch and continued to call out for Dogyoung, searching yet again on the same places he had just looked into. Taeil only sighed.
“We are supposed to meet in front of the house with the others, come on maybe they found him?” Taeil tries again only to continue being ignored by Haechan. With a sigh he turns away and makes his way to the front of the house where the rest of the group is gathered, drawn tired faces, hair plastered to foreheads from the rain.
“Did you guys find anything?” Taeil shivers, his feet soaked from walking around all night. Yuta shakes his head tiredly and Jaehyun looks towards the direction where Taeil had come from.
“Where is Haechan? Still looking?”
“I have never seen him like this… He really was attached to the puppy” Taeyong frowns and lightly kicks a bit of mud accidentally hitting Sicheng’s shoe, his shoulders sinking guiltily as Sicheng lets out a surprised noise. At that moment Haechan’s figure appears, making everyone share worried looks between each other.
“Have you guys found him?” He says quietly, looking up from under his eyelashes with an expectant twinkle in his eyes, his fingers fidgeting with his flashlight. It was then that Taeil noticed the redness in his eyes and nose and realized the young boy had been crying. Johnny seemed to have also noticed by the way his eyes shifted nervously away, mouth set in a thin tense line as he brushed his soaked hair back multiple times. Haechan sniffed once and wiped at his face tiredly as the group discussed what other places they could look into ( this time both Chittaphon and Sicheng had their arms around Haechan’s shoulders in a comforting manner ) before Jiyeon’s loud shriek was heard from inside the house, drawing the attention from everyone.
Yuta was the first one to move, running up the steps and into the house, the rest following, calling out for Jiyeon as the girl kept screaming.
She was standing on the couch, clutching a pillow while blindly pointing at the floor, blabbering something in a crying tone.
“Jiyeon? Love, what happened? What is it?” Yuta was staring around, eyes wide and searching while approaching his girlfriend slowly and with his hands raised.
“A RAT! THERE IS A HUGE RAT! AND IT TOUCHED MY LEG!” she screamed and whined after, Yuta managing to wrap her in a tight comforting embrace while looking down slightly panicked.
“Where did it go?” Taeyong asked. Everyone was starting to spread across the room with cringes; Chittaphon was already standing on top of a bean bag with a broom in hand.
“Seriously this is great, now we have a rat living inside the house… Chewing at our chargers and food, transmitting diseases...” Jaehyun crossed his arms with a click of his tongue.
“I don’t know… I think it went under the couch… JUST SOMEONE GET RID OF IT! IT TOUCHED MY LEG.” She whined again and hid her face against Yuta’s chest. The rest were left staring at each other, deciding who would be a man and look under the couch. Johnny rolled his eyes and laughed, kneeling by the couch with a shake of his head.
“Seriously… It’s only a cute little rat people.” He smirks and leans down, looking under the couch with his flashlight “Uhm… Jiyeon, I don’t think---” he makes a surprised gasp and jumps a bit, throwing his head backward in laughter before leaning back down and pulling out a shadow.
“DOGYOUNG!” Sicheng exclaimed and Haechan, who was looking miserable in a corner, immediately perked up and pushed his way towards the excited puppy which was licking at Johnny’s face. Haechan picked the pet in his arms and hugged it with a laugh, all the tension of the night dissipating with the rain.
They all ended up sleeping in the living room, after having dried themselves off, Haechan back to his mischievous self while hugging his precious puppy, tiredness from walking around sinking in at last as they fell asleep one by one.











