Mystery Lover Ch. 11
11~KEEP IN TOUCH
It was a couple of days later, when Taemin received an alert on his phone around one in the morning. He was resting in his bed when it came through:
'Hey, Tae, it's Rika. I'm home now. See you soon.'
Taemin's eyes lit up from the message. He was glad that Erika had made it safety home. He sent her a reply message before turning over and falling back to sleep. He woke up the next around nine in the morning. His group was getting ready to practice on some dance moves when his laptop signal a facetime request.
He headed over and noticed Erika's icon on his screen. He hit the accept button and saw her face.
"Morning, Tae, hope I didn't catch you at a bad time," she said.
Taemin smiled before looking out the door of his room to see if his hyungs were around. "No, it's just getting my stuff to head out in a few," he explained.
"Oh, well I don't want you to get into trouble being late," she told him.
Taemin shook his head. "Like I said, it's fine. We only have dance practice today."
Erika nodded her head as she rocked back and forth in her chair. It was kind of weird talking to Taemin through the laptop then right in front of him. Its was like they didn't have much to talk about, even though they knew each other so well.
Just then Erika could hear her stepdad call out to her. "Who's that?" Taemin asked.
Erika rolls her eyes as she got up from her chair, leaving the laptop screen. Taemin could hear an argument going on and wasn't able to make out much of it before a male came into the room slamming down the laptop.
Taemin was stuttered at the movement and was staring at a black screen. He rubbed the top of his head before hearing Jinki call out his name. He pushed himself away from the laptop and gathered up his bag to head.
Whatever happened on the other end of the laptop, didn't feel right to Taemin. He grabbed his phone and quickly sent a message to Erika to see if everything was alright.
He slide his phone into his pants and rushed out of his room following behind his hyungs.
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Since that episode, Taemin hasn't heard anything from Erika. He sent her a message but still nothing. It wasn't like her to not respond to any of his messages. He sent another one to her and this time the message came back that the number you're sending to is invalid.
Okay something definitely wasn't right, he thought.
He got up from the bed and scrolled out of his room staring down at his phone. He didn't even notice that he had bumped into Jonghyun.
"Taemin, you need to watch where you're going," he stated.
Taemin raised his head and kept apologizing to Jonghyun. "Sorry, hyung it won't happen again," he mumbled.
Jonghyun stopped in his tracks and looked at Taemin. He saw Taemin head to the kitchen and grab the box but never looked at what he grabbed. He then turned and dragged his body to the table sitting down but all while doing so his eyes never left his phone.
Jonghyun walked over and sat down across from Taemin. He sat in that spot for ten minutes. During that whole time, Taemin never acknowledged him. He even waved his hands in the air and still Taemin didn't do anything.
"Taemin what's wrong," he finally asked.
Taemin mumbles incoherently to himself.
"What?"
Taemin mumbles again but some words Jonghyun was able to make out. "Phone. Answering. Not. Who."
After some time of figuring out what Taemin meant, he finally able to understand. "Who's not answering, Taemin??"
"She isn't," Taemin confirmed. He placed down his phone before laying his head in his arms. Jonghyun grabs Taemin's phone and looks at it. Normally he doesn't do this but he needed to know what was going on.
He slides the phone in which it unlocks it. He see the message screen and the last person comes into view. Erika.
He taps her name and sees the outgoing messages from Taemin to her. It goes on and on about him asking her how's she doing up until recently where the messages came back unable to send to sender.
He put the phone down and slides it back over to Taemin. He places hand on top of Taemin's head. "Maybe something happen to her phone," he suggested. "She might be getting a new phone."
He gets up from the chair and heads over to his room. "Maybe it's for the best that the both of you stop communicating, there's some things more important right now."
He closes his bedroom door leaving Taemin by himself in the living room. He looks up staring at his phone. He doesn't believe that Erika would just stop talking to him unless there was a logical reason and right now he couldn't think of any.
He gets up from his chair snatching his phone and putting his phone away. If she didn't want to talk to him then it's fine. He heads to his room as he grabs paper and pen to write.
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