Chapter 12
Yi sat in the train wagon on the seat with Kai lying in front of her feet who was nibbling with his mouth on his dewclaw. Yi lied her head on the window yawing, then she rolled her eyes down at the dog, which was licking his paw, which was wet from his cleaning.
"Is your claw really that dirty boy?" Yi asked seeing the dog wag his tail at Yi's comment, but continue his job making Yi shake her head.
On the corridor, Jin came and took a seat beside Yi, who glanced back at the boy, who had arrived.
"Anything new?" Jin asked watching Yi shake her head.
"I didn't check anything yet" Yi mentioned looking at Jin, then she covered her mouth as she was about to yawn again, making the boy grin.
"Good to know I'm not the only one tired here" Jin joked earning a nod from the girl.
"Maybe I should take a little nap" Yi mentioned Jin nod.
"Sure, you can lie your head on my lap without a problem, if you want to"
"Nah it's alright, thanks Jin"
"Alright" Jin responded, then Yi handed her smartphone at Jin.
"In case Peng says something, here," Yi told the boy which took her smartphone. "Or you can check his location"
"I might do that later" Jin explained getting up from the seat to open the luggage he had over the train's overhead bin and took out a thick book, then sat back flicking through the pages stopping halfway the begin of it, putting a glance over the chapter.
Almost two hours later Jin had fallen asleep with the book on his lap, while Yi lied with her back on the seat with her legs leaned on the wall and her head against Jin's body.
Yi's smartphone started ringing waking Jin up, who just looked around in confusion figuring out, where he was.
"How many hours have passed?" Jin questioned himself and looked at Yi's smartphone on his legs ringing while showing the current time and the phone number of the calling person.
"Uh hello?" Jin spoke as he answered the phone of his best friend. "Hi Nai Nai….Yi's sleeping. Should I wake her up?"
"No it's alright, I just wanted to know how she's doing. I wasn't able to talk to her the other time"
"She's fine. She's tired because uh, we we're doing…..uh stuff yesterday"
"What stuff are you talking about?"
"We…..uh were on that science slumber party yesterday and...we did a lot of great stuff yesterday like…..how to analyze a virus or uhm… there were so many amazing things I'd like to tell, but I kind of can't recall them at the moment,"
"You two can tell me that when you're back,"
"We will Nai Nai. I tell Yi, you have called"
"Thank you"
"No problem….bye" Jin pressed the red button, then looked at Yi, who had her head lied against the side of his belly. Jin gazed at Yi with a charming smile and reached his hand down at the side of her back causing her to tilt and he retrieved his arm back quickly widening his eyes in surprise as she seemed to be going to wake up. Yi stretched her arms while yawning, then rolled her eyes up to see Jin's face looking down at her.
"Uh did you hear the phonecall?" The medical student asked the raven-haired girl, which sat up with her back against Jin.
"Oh you were phoning?" Yi questioned earning a nod from the friend.
"Yeah, it was Nai Nai. She just wanted to know, if you were alright and I told her you were asleep and what we did yesterday"
"Did she buy it?"
"She first seemed shocked about the way I said stuff. No idea, maybe I said it in a weird way"
"I can always talk to her later if we get to it"
Jin handed out the phone to Yi, but before she picked it up she looked up at Jin's face before speaking to him again. "Did you try to locate Peng again?"
"Next stop…." The train conductor announced while Yi and Jin were chatting with each other.
"I had planned it after I would finish that one chapter on my book, but then I went onward and onward, thereafter I had fallen asleep and got woke up with your smartphone"
"Oh"
"It's not bad" Jin mentioned watching Yi unlock her smartphone for him, then she pressed on the tracking app to locate Jin's phone number, soon the phone of Jin was located on the map near him and Yi on the ground of the train station the train had stopped.
"He's in this station" Jin mentioned getting up from the seat. "He must have left the train right now"
"What are we waiting for?" Yi asked exchanging looks with her friend, which got up racing along the corridor of the wagon at the exit, where a couple of passengers were leaving blocking Jin the sight.
"Peng! Peng!" Hollered Jin from over the crowd and jumped out of the train passing between the people. Yi followed Jin along with the Sheperd-Chow-Chow mix.
Jin pressed on the update button again that showed Jin, that he was near his smartphone, but he couldn't spot Peng nor his accompaniment Dave anywhere. Jin pressed on the action that appeared beside the location button and it showed Jin three different options and he pressed the option to cause the phone to ring.
Jin heard a familiar ringing in the near and he spotted near a vending machine for sweets a boy around his age looking at his smartphone with a bewildered expression on the face from seeing the phone ringing.
"Huh?" The raven-haired boy noted as he saw the tan-skinned Asian boy in front of him staring at a smartphone, that looked exactly like his own smartphone. "Hey, where did you get that phone from?" Jin questioned earning a glance from the boy.
"Uh…..It was a birthday gift" The boy answered looking at Jin, who crossed his arms unimpressed.
"Funny, cause I've got the exact same phone cover and ringtone on mine"
"And what's the matter?" The boy questioned. "There are thousands of people with the same phone cover and eventually one Hundred with the same ringtone,"
"But I bet no one has the same background picture, right?" Jin asked grabbing the phone of the boy pulling it near to his face to check the unlocked smartphone which revealed a picture of Jin together with Yi and Peng. "And I don't think you would have me or my friends set as your background picture, right?" Jin asked the boy stern, which furrowed his eyebrow annoyed, then pulled his hand off Jin's.
"That's not…..how did you change my smartphone's background picture?" The tall boy asked glaring at Jin.
"Hey, there's no need to play innocent. I know how my smartphone looks like from both sides and if you really believe it's your smartphone, which I doubt show me your contact list or the photo gallery"
"No I don't….you need to respect my privacy, that what's in here is none of your business"
"Hey, before we continue this, let me tell you something" Jin started and pressed on the display of Yi's smartphone and suddenly the smartphone of the other boy started to play a ringtone, making the boy wide his eyes and Jin smirk at catching the boy's lie. "Got ya!"
"This doesn't prove anything" The boy mentioned crossing his arms. "If you lost your smartphone, it's your fault. Finders can keep it"
"That smartphone is under my name. Technically if you don't give it back to the rightful owner he can prosecute you for that. It would be much easier for you to just give it back to the owner, wouldn't it?"
"I already told you, it's mine" The boy insisted making Jin growl at the comment. Jin's face then changed as he got another plan in trying to get his phone back.
"So….if that's your smartphone then, you won't mind it then if we two go together to the train station police and clarify this situation?" Jin suggested observing the boy think about his plan, then he gazed at Jin with a smirk and pushed him away to be able to escape.
"Hey!" Jin shouted while Yi appeared together with Kai to help him up.
"He has got my smartphone. Your phone tracked it" Jin mentioned leaving Yi back, which watched Jin pursue the guy and as he grabbed the boy by his arm he got punched on his eye with the other teen's fist, making Jin fall down.
"Jin!" Yi shouted seeing her friend sat up slowly, then Yi ran at the friend getting down on her knees to check him out. "You're alright?"
"I'm good" Jin answered, then heard something hit the ground and he saw the smartphone he had tried to get back from the other boy on the floor lying with the display against the ground.
"Stay here, I'm going to get you something to cool your eye" Explained Yi racing towards a clothing store were a few young teenage girls were looking at the hanging clothes on the outside.
Jin sighed annoyed at what happened to him, then he looked at the phone on the ground and stretched his arm out trying to grab it, then he saw Kai pass beside him and try to fetch it with his mouth, but he couldn't pick it up well and drooled saliva all over it and Jin moved closer to pick the smartphone up without forcing his arm for it and he turned around to see the smartphone's display was broken. Jin looked at Kai, which looked at the boy neutrally and watched the boy sight, afterward Kai lied his head on Jin's lap wagging with his tail and gazing at him with puppy eyes.
"Well, we're not going to find Peng that easy now" Jin complained placing his hand on Kai's back, hearing him whimper from showing him empathy for the medical student. Jin smiled a little and caressed the dog near his head causing him to wag happily with his tail. "Now in these few days, I can understand, why dogs are considered men's best friend."
Yi showed up with a brown silk scarf and bend down in front of Jin holding it over Jin's face.
"Close your right eye" Yi ordered slowly covering Jin's closed eye with the scarf, she had wet before. "Good"
"What are we going to do now'" Jin asked as Yi sat down beside him. "We can't find now Peng if we got my phone back"
"We will figure it out later, first we need to get back to the trainnnn…." Yi started then looked back at the first railway, where they had left the train to see the train taxing out of the station slowly. "Oh no"
"I've got an idea. We just try to jump into one of the open cargo wagons behind the train" The Chinese friend suggested making Yi wide her eyes in shock.
"You want us to run behind the train and jump into it?" Yi questioned bewildered at Jin's strange idea.
"It's a crazy idea, but it could work"
"Okay?" Yi answered a little hesitant, then Jin grabbed Yi by her hand and pulled her behind him running along with her and Kai beside the platform behind the train. "Have you thought about how we get Kai on the train?"
"Can't he jump?" Jin asked looking at Yi, which stared at him serious doubting on his plan. "I'll see about that, first we have to try to get at least into the last wagon"
"Okay I hope your plan works" Yi stated as she kept.
"Run faster. So you have it easier to jump from the platform into the wagon" Jin hinted watching Yi go faster approaching the open door of the wagon, where she could see hay cubes piled over the others around the interior.
"Jump now!" Jin yelled watching the girl take a leap landing with the upper part of her body on the wagon while her legs lolled out of the train, then she tried to push herself up and managed to get into the wagon, afterward she looked out at Jin, who was running together with Kai.
"We try on the ground," Jin told Yi, then he went down from the platform at the earth, therefore he continued to follow the girl along with the mixed breed. "Hold your arms ready, I try to help Kai up"
"Are you sure, you can handle him?" Yi asked looking at the two.
"I think I have to jump first, then he might follow us" Jin mentioned earning a nod from the girl.
"Try it"
Jin avoided being close to the train to gain momentum, afterward, he ran at the entrance and jumped at the open space, hanging with his legs out of the door.
"I help you" Yi said, then saw Kai jump at Jin's back, causing the boy to slide away while in shock the dog hopped into the wagon landing beside Yi. "Jin!" Yi shouted watching the boy on the ground looking at Yi and Kai sitting inside the train looking at him. Jin's face expression turned into a determinate one, then he got up to race behind the train wagon, where Yi looked out holding out her hand for him.
"I'm almost there!" Jin was closer to Yi, then Jin grabbed Yi's hand and he jumped while Yi dragged Jin behind her into the train tripping over Kai, causing the two to fall on the ground while the dog stepped away from the two to avoid any accidents.
"You alright?" Yi asked getting off Jin a little abashed from the accident.
"Yeah" The friend answered. "Thanks"
Jin looked at Kai, which at the eye contact wagged with the tail and Jin gave the dog a thumb up, making the dog approach him to lick him on the face. "Ouch my eye still hurts" Jin complained, then Yi which had carried the wet scarf with her folded it together into a small lump, then she touched Jin on the shoulder to get his attention.
"Lie your head down" Yi ordered the boy politely, then he leaned his head down at her knees rolling his eyes up at the girl. "Now I can hold it longer" Yi said holding the wet scarf over Jin's eye.
"Is it blue?" Jin questioned seeing Yi shake her head. "It will be. I bet"
"You should have let him go next time. We need to find Peng first"
"I know, but since he somehow got the phone from Peng he should have known, where he is or when he saw him the last time"
"Oh…..well makes sense, why you were trying to convince him to give it back to you"
"At least we're back on our train. The next station we get back to our cabin and stay there until the end. I just don't remember, if the next station is in the evening or in the night"
"I don't know it either, but you don't have to worry about it now. Just relax for now and let this on your eye" Yi told the boy which nodded at the girl.
"Thanks Yi," Jin thanked earning a simper smile from the girl, that sat there with the best friend lying over her lap cooling his eye off while she kept her eyes on it.