하루토 • to my star

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8th June 2020

The crippling silence stayed for what felt like hours just standing and staring at each other. One chuckled starting off a chain reaction of awkward laughs through the room.

"You're joking."

"Fortunately for you, Hyunsuk, I'm not." I spoke pushing my chair in and walking closer to them. Wow.. they were tall, I was already really small but I feel like an ant.

"Have a look around. I'm cooking dinner, is jajangmyeon okay?" A series of hesitant agreements were heard as I turned my back to walk into the kitchen. Behind me, I heard members ask if it was a prank or if someone had broken in but they would soon find out I was here to stay.

...

After a few minutes, they had looked around some staying in the room and others sprawling out on the sofa. There were only six members since the group was split into two dorms and I was dreading having to go through the whole awkward process again.

"Need any help?" I heard Jaehyuk ask from the other side of the counter. "Actually yeah, can you cut the onions?"

He walked around opening random cupboards until he found the right things. The dorm was pretty empty obviously since we had just moved in, there were only six single bowls and very few foods, in the living room they was just a sofa and a medium-sized tv, the only thing around were their suitcases, that were messily laying on the floor with a mix of coats and jackets.

The rooms were plain, no human essence, leaving it to an empty and hollow room.

"So you're not joking." He said placing down the cutting board on the counter next to me.

"Nope." I answered popping the 'p' as I stirred the brown sauce in the bowl. The silence came back as we did our respective tasks I had a habit of killing conversations I definitely needed to fix it.

"Hyung why are you crying?" Junghwan came into the kitchen with curiosity. Looking to the side, he was indeed crying, his eyes were red and tears brimmed the bottom edge.

"Onions man." He said rubbing his eyes with his hand.

"Wait Jaehyuk no-" It was too late and his hand shot off from his face as his eyes scrunched up with water running down.

I tutted at him while getting a flannel and running it under the water, it was like taking care of a baby and I had a feeling it was going to be a daily thing.

I reached up to the back of his head and with my dominant hand wiped his eye. "What am I going to do with you?" I shook my head and grabbed his hand to make him hold it on his eye. "I'll do the rest, go sit down."

Once he was sat down on a stool I continued to do the rest myself, the kitchen accumulating more and more people.

"So Nao, how old are you?"

"I was born late 04'." I was a few months older than Junghwan so thankfully I didn't hold the title of Maknae that would have been a mess.

"Woah, you look my age but you're in the maknae line." Jaehyuk spoke with wide eyes. There were rounds of questions as I cooked, about various things one being where I was from.

"I was born in Saga Japan, I moved here a year ago."

The ding of the rice cooker made me swing around and start to dish the foods into bowls asking one of them to layout the utensils.

"That's close to where I'm from." Haruto said looking up from his phone, I had noticed that he was one of the quieter ones but maybe it was just because he wasn't use to me like when a child is an angel in front of someone new until they get use to them and they become the spawn of Satan

... 

The dinner was good and I praised my cooking skills finding out that literally none of them could cook and they would probably just order food every day if it wasn't for me.

"So why a boy group?" I was shocked by the sudden question from Jaehyuk, who was in the bathroom with me as we brushed our teeth, I'd definitely need to get use to living with so many people there is no privacy what so ever.

"Oh um, I guess because I like the choreography better and I get along more with guys." There were other reasons one but I wasn't going to say that.

I rinsed my mouth and walked out of the bathroom going into the shared bedroom, there were two bunk beds on either side of the room a window in the very back splitting both sides.

A while before we played Rock Paper Scissors for the beds Hyunsuk ultimately winning by getting the one closest to the door by himself picking the bottom mattress.

Most of the guys were in bed but a few were still around watching tv. I walked through the middle and climbing up the stairs of my bunk flopping onto the mattress, trying my best not to wake up Junghwan, suddenly feeling exhausted from today.

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Wow I did not know how to explain the bunk beds it's basically like this ⬇️

———-       Window      ———-
Nao                                 Jeongwoo
Junghwan                     Jaehyuk
———-                            ———-
Haruto                           ...
Junkyu                           Hyunsuk
———-         Door          ———-