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"Where is Chay, Kim?"
"At your fucking house, I just dropped him myself, and came back." Kim replied, using anger to mask his despair.
"He's not at home, someone broke in, Chay's missing!" Porsche said, his voice getting weaker with every phrase spoken.
Kim immediately rose to his feet and came nearer, " how the fuck can that happen, it's just been like forty five minutes, I saw him get inside myself!!"
"But he's not there, I don't think he even made it to the room because the room doesn't look lived in at all!"
"It's not possible! Oh my God, Chay…" Kim closed his eyes and took a deep breath in to ground himself lest he would fall.
"Let's get to your house first" said Kinn and tugged both Kim and Porsche along.
The time in the car went slowly, Kim kept looking at his hands trying his best to be calm so as to have a sane mind to function, Porsche she'd silent tears as he tried to call on Chay's number repeatedly, it was just Kinn who had a clear mind to inform the guards and call for backup before they started investigation. The car pulled in infront of 'K's cadenza' , Kim took a deep breath before stepping out of the car and immediately leaped inside the back door from where Chay took him inside when they escaped the mob once. He entered the room to find the lights still on, the bedsheet was made and all the things put properly in place, someone had definitely broken in, it was too clean for both Chay and Porsche. Kim bent down to look at the floor, it was practically shining, no visible fingerprints, no dust , very well fucking trained people, who were probably hiding even before Kim came to drop Chay. He was perhaps being watched for sometime now, that's why they were aware Porsche won't be there and they got Chay as soon as Kim left him, was this the reason why Chay never came to peek in from the blinds?
He smelled bleach, but why would they need to clean up with bleach if it was just kidnapping?
Kim's blood ran cold, he quietly went to Kinn, " Get luminol, this place has been cleaned with bleach!" He whispered to Kinn ,tensed.
Ten minutes later, luminol had been sprayed to recover two small patches of blood, thankfully, it meant no death, and unfortunately, someone did get injured and here, the someone in question might be Chay!
Porsche was on the verge of collapsing and simultaneously in the mood to kill whoever took Chay and Kim was thoroughly in the mood of killing only, he'll rip the city apart and burn everyone to ashes if Chay was hurt.
Arm was called along with a team of bodyguards, Chay's phone was found broken in the dustbin of his room and the sim was found crushed some ten metres away. Porsche's room had been untouched, which was even bigger concern because the target had solely been Chay and perhaps it wasn't because of Porsche. Kim was officially losing it . Porsche had been calling all of porchay's friends in a frenzy, only to hear a monotonous response of Chay not being with them, of course he was not but Porsche wasn't in a mood to believe his brother had been taken, he couldn't bring myself to believe in what state his brother might be in right now. He had been answering each and every call on his cell phone in a hope that maybe Chay would contact him or perhaps someone would ask for a ransom or anything that could lead him to Chay. He doesn't want to think about anything like his brother could possibly be in the middle of a torture at the moment or probably dead… No! No, Chay is fine, he has to be fine. Porsche can't lose him and neither can Kim.
They got all the cameras from the shop below and nearby, the freaking alley that had the backdoor entrance did not have any camera coverage and probably it was the one used to escort Chay out.
The next 14 hours were spent in watching the different camera footage, glances of Chay feeding stray dogs, petting stray cats and coming out to run an errand. Kim had been in the footage around 9 times, coming to pick up Chay and dropping him, waving byes at the boy, Chay coming down seconds later after Kim's departure to catch a glance of his retreating lover. Porsche and Chay bickering while moving in one or the other instrument in the shop together. They took a note of the vehicle's number plates in case they had been in the area multiple times. By the end of another couple of hours, it was sure that any suspicious car had not been frequent at least in the past two weeks.
The search team has been looking for every nook and cranny of the city with Kim accompanied by Kinn and Porsche.
Kim was trying is best to not think about how he perhaps was less than a minute away when Chay would have first realised that there were people in his room, and maybe he would have tried to call him or shouted his name but the phone would have been snatched out of his hold and Kim didn't realise he was in danger right in front of his eyes. And Kim himself dropped Chay in the mouth of danger from where he was kidnapped!
"Kinn, I think whoever took him has some ulterior motive and it's not about random or threatening or anything we think!" Kim said.
Porsche stopped in his tracks," what if… "
"What, Porsche? Do you have any enemies or previous unsorted fights or anything? Did Porchay piss off someone he shouldn't have?.." Kim asked restlessly. Each minute they couldn't find out where Porchay was, each minute he inched closer to danger without a hope to be saved.
And Kim doesn't want to think what if he's already…No! Nothing will happen to him!
They made a list of people Porsche might have pissed off in his active mafia phase.
"The American?"
"No, I didn't even look that way throughout.."
"Any influential leader here?"
"Yeah, i did fuck up with Samkorn's gang but.."
"But what??"
"But, we just slaughtered their entire gang and literally no one was left after the blast after he tried to fuck up one of our deals by trying to get a mole in our business.." said Kinn, answering for Porsche.
"Any other Jao por? Try to think ,Porsche, something, anything!! Chay might be in danger!" Kim said, shaking Porsche's shoulders. Porsche descended to the ground and sat helplessly, he shook his head in negative , his hands came up to cover his face as he cried like a child lost in a fair.
Kim looked at his watch. It's already been almost a day since Chay went missing.
Each and every clue was leading them to dead ends. From fingerprints to shoe prints to tyre marks, they had tried to collect everything and couldn't find a proper answer to any of the questions.
No one had called for a ransom, no suspicious activity went on. " I think you should go home and keep looking, I'll go back to see if there's any update " Porsche said as he got up to gather himself . "I can't go Porsche! Chay is in fucking danger and we can't trace him!" Kim said, getting furious.
"Stop shouting it on my face, will you? I know , and we won't be able to find him if we stick together and keep sitting. I'm going back home to look for him at any other place we might have missed and you'll do the same!" Porsche shouted. Kinn immediately rose to his feet and took him out of the security room they had been using to re-watch the footage of the cameras nearby.
"Why are we going that way Kinn, I asked you to go to the university Chay studies in?" Kim asked when they took a different turn .
"Because we are going to your apartment, you have not slept in more than 32 hours and you have also not eaten anything too, you'll die before Chay is found if you continue this" Kinn replied.
"But Chay is missing Kinn, how can I eat and sleep without knowing if he had food or not, if he is safe or not…" he looked out of the window to conceal a tear that formed in his eyes, "without knowing if he's alive or not!" Kinn kept a hand at his shoulder, "he will be fine Kim, be hopeful, just take an hour's rest, and then we'll go to his university ourselves, till then I'm sending Arm and Grey there, it'll turn out just fine okay." Kim didn't believe a single word that Kinn had said, he won't be able to , he needs to see Chay right now, alive and safe and smiling in front of his eyes. But he did not protest either, he let himself be driven and dropped at his apartment building.
Kim entered his apartment, it felt empty as if all he had strived to make it had vanished in thin air.
He passed his piano that had a small black box on the top of it. He picked it up and slumped down his bed. The sma box felt so heavy, Kim had got a customised chain of a small guitar and guitar pick that he planned to give Chay the day he took him to his apartment, he had planned to propose to him wearing the same guitar printed tee that Chay gave him on their first meet. "Chay, I love you" … Kim had said before he dropped him, Chay didn't say anything to him. Maybe he pushed his luck too far.
He felt tears tickle down his face to fall on the carpet and get soaked in it. He got up to go to take a bath, the warm water made his mind clearer to think about more important things now. He pushed his thoughts aside to make a fresh list of possible abductors that were qualified enough to plan such an efficient kidnapping. He ran his hands in his hair in frustration, he was getting impatient with each passing minute and a voice that shouted his most dreaded thoughts in his head kept getting louder and louder.
He came out from the washroom to his phone ringing continuously.
[Porsche]
He immediately answered and asked ,"you found a lead? Did you find him?!"
"He's home.."
The line went dead...