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"1,2,3,4..." Seungcheol starts to count his members to see that everyone is here but gets it to only 12 members including himself. One member is missing.
He looks around and sees everyone except Joshua. He goes to Jeonghan who is drinking water some distance away.
"Jeonghan, Do you know where Joshua is?" He asks jeonghan, not wanting to worry the others over probably nothing. Last time he saw Joshua was 10 minutes ago when Joshua was leaving with Jeonghan to fill up their water bottles.
"Isn't he here?" Jeonghan says, a little confused over the fact that Joshua was not back yet.
"Didn't you come back together?" Seungcheol asks.
"He needed to use the restroom so I went ahead" Jeonghan responds
"You and the others can start warming up while I go check on him" Jeonghan continues says and Seungcheol nods
While Jeonghan goes to check up on Joshua, Seungcheol tells the others to start warming up.
"What about Jeonghan and Shua?" Seungkwan asks
"Shouldn't we wait for the others?" Jihoon asks
"They will be here soon" Seungcheol responds and everybody starts to warm up
How much Seungcheol wants he cannot shake the feeling that something is wrong.
Meanwhile
Joshua is washing his hands when a man and a woman comes into the restroom
"Hong Jisoo but I heard you prefer to be called Joshua" The man says and Joshua nods a little. The woman checks so that they are alone in the bathroom
"I should go back to my members he says and tries to get past the man but only gets pushed back which makes him fall"
"Why the hurry?" The man says before telling the woman to go and get something. Joshua couldn't hear what he said but it gave him an uneasy feeling.
The man gets a text that Jeonghan is heading towards them. The man takes Joshua´s arm with a hard grip and drags him into one of the stalls and puts a knife to Joshua´s throat from behind when he hears the doors to the restrooms open.
"Joshua? Are you here?" Jeonghan says, hoping he would get an answer.
"If you make any sounds I will kill you and then him" the man whispers in his ear before Joshua can answer Jeonghan.
Joshua could hear that the man was serious and decided to obey him, not wanting to put Jeonghan in danger.
"Joshua?" Jeonghan says and looks if any of the stalls are locked but none is and unfortunately he can't look if there´s any shoes
Jeonghan tries to dial his phone but gets no answer and he can´t hear the phone ringing in the restroom
He leaves the restroom and goes to inform Seungcheol and the others. The man hits Joshua in the head and Joshua becomes unconscious. He puts Joshua on the toilet lid while waiting for the woman to come back.
She comes back some minutes later with a housekeeping laundry cart. While she takes out the laundry that is inside. He starts to tie Joshua´s arms and legs with rope and gag his mouth. The two of them then put Joshua in the laundry cart before putting back the laundry over him. They smoothly get him to their car using the laundry cart and put him in the trunk.
Jeonghan comes into the practice room and Seungcheol can immediately see the sad and guilty look on Jeonghan when their eyes meet. That's all Seungcheol needs to know that Joshua is missing
Seungcheol stops the music
"Go and tell our manager while I tell our members" Seungcheol says and Jeonghan nods before leaving to find the manager. Everyone looks confused and a little worried since they still haven't seen Joshua
"It's about Shua hyung, isn't it? Vernon says and Seungcheol nods sadly
Seungcheol explains to the others that Joshua is missing after filling up his water bottle and using the restroom, but also that he can´t be reached over the phone.
"Should we report it to the police?" Jun asks and the others agree.
Jeonghan and the manager comes back to the group and tries to calm the younger members
Seungcheol calls and reports it to the police
Joshua slowly wakes up in what looks like a basement.
His head was hurting.
He groaned in pain and noticed that he was sitting in a chair and his arms were tied up behind him.
Joshua struggled to get his hands free and prayed quietly that this was just a bad dream.
It was really cold in the basement. He looks around and sees a lot of photocards of him on the wall and some other photos that made Joshua really uncomfortable. It was photos of him doing things privately like changing his clothes, Joshua had never seen these photos before.
He doesn't really know how he didn´t see it but there's a camera in front of him. Joshua really wanted to go home, home to his members.
"They should have noticed my absence by now, right?" he says quietly to himself when he sees the man and woman coming down the stairs.
"Hey oppa, you´re finally awake" The woman says and comes really close.
"I´m really sorry for my brother being rough on you, but we guessed you wouldn't come along quietly" she said and ran her fingers down his face.
Joshua did not like her touching him.
"Let's take some photos together" she says and Joshua shakes his head, not wanting to take photos with her but had no choice and because of the gag he couldn't say anything.
"I will remove the gag but if you scream or do anything I don't like you will be punished" she says. "Do you understand?" she continues and he nods.
"Where am I?" He asks and the girl tells him that he's at her home.
"How long will I be here? I want to go back to my members" He says, wishing she wouldn't be mad at him for asking questions
"You will be here forever of course, let's not be silly. I will take care of you and we will have so much fun. I think you just need some time to get used to it. She says
"And besides I wouldn't leave you after all the trouble my brother and I went through to bring you here" she continues and the brother comes back with some soup and a glass of water. He puts it down on a table
"It's dinner time, I bet you're hungry" she says and takes the soup and goes towards him
"Open your mouth and eat" she says but he refuses and she gets annoyed.
"Brother" she says in english and the man kicks Joshua off the chair.
The woman puts the bowl with soup in front of Joshua´s face who now is on the floor
"If you don't obey then we have to feed you like a dog" he says before taking a hard grip and pushes Joshua's face down the bowl. He holds Joshua´s face down in the bowl and Joshua is struggling.
"Put him on the chair again" The woman says and her brother obeys
The woman wipes the soup off his face before she and her brother leave.
Joshua stays awake the whole night, trying to get free with no success
The members are on the police station
"I have found out who the culprits are. Twins, Lee Seon Mi and Lee Do-young. 24 years old, This is not the first time." a police officer says
"Do you have a location?" another police officer asks and they rush to the location.
They arrived and started searching the home.
They finds the brother dead in the living room with multiple stabbing wounds
They moves towards the basement and finds Joshua unconscious in the chair and there's blood coming from his throat after she cut it with her brother´s knife
"You come too late!" she shouts at them before slitting her own throat.
Joshua gets rushed to the hospital and after waiting some hours for an update at the hospital. The members finds out that Joshua will be fine which make them feel relief