Annyeong, Soojin! [Ateez Fanfiction] ✓

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The Wise Monkey's POV:

"Guys!" Wooyoung runs into the dormitory. It's late, but knowing his bros, none of them is probably sleeping yet. But maybe they are, he prospects, when he tried to video call his friends earlier, it didn't connect. That's why he's so eager and out of breath as he jogged into the living room, desperate to disclose his news that was delayed since the time of the video call. 

He scans the room. Mingi's lying on the couch, and surprisingly, Hongjoong's here too,  too vested in the book in his hands. The leader vacantly glances up from the page to learn Wooyoung's state. The others are probably in their rooms, or not here at all, Wooyoung assumes.

This state of his feels familiar to the boy. Yet different. Daisy used to be the one who rushed in with news like he's doing right now. He was always one among her audience, so he never understood the itching thrill she carried, if anything he was the one to call her out for supposedly being dramatic.

"I have news!" Wooyoung yells and then looks at his hyung. "Are they sleeping?"

"You were supposed to ask that first," Hongjoong quietly replies as he turns the page of the book. 

"You sounded like Daisy," Mingi boredly points out.

"I'm busy playing!" Yunho says from his room.

Mingi laughs. "Now my claim is even more solidified," he says. The three in the living room are now brought back to the old memories with Daisy.

Seonghwa, Jongho and Yeosang come out of their rooms. Wooyoung decides that San is either playing with Yunho or sleeping.

"I have news," Wooyoung excitedly begins.

"Yeah, I heard that. What is it?" Yeosang grumpily asks.

"Well, we all already knew that the parallel world resembles our world, right, the roads and shops and stuff," Wooyoung speaks. "But today I found out that it is, or it might be, the exact copy of our world. How crazy is that!" He immediately opens his phone and shows a picture to his mates.

Mingi gasps as he looks at it. And the other few are surprised. Hongjoong, the only one who remains the same. 

It's a picture of the Italian restaurant Daisy owned. 

"To be honest, I anticipated the possibility of it happening," Hongjoong sighs. "But it's still scary though. Guess we'll never fully have peace if more and more weird things start coming to light without us understanding what actually happened and why."

"Do you guys think noona knows about this?" Jongho asks after a moment of shared silence and it isn't unnoticed by the rest how the boy chose to address Soojin informally.

"We should call her and ask," Wooyoung says.

"Why?" Seonghwa is quick to question. "She established she didn't want us to unnecessarily contacting her. There's no need."

"It's not exactly unnecessary, I think she'd like to know about this," Jongho reasons.

"Yeah," Wooyoung says and looks at Hongjoong. "Hyung should call her."

"No, don't look at me, I'm not doing it again. Can't really tell if she'll take offence or not," Hongjoong coolly says. He doesn't seem to mean it; the leader's quality is instilled in him, no matter what, he's always the one who willingly volunteers to lead and represent his bandmates, work-related or otherwise. Wooyoung knows that too.

"I will call her then," but he says that anyway. "Give me your phone."

"This is not the time to call someone, she could be sleeping," Hongjoong says, going back to reading. Seonghwa goes back to his room earning concerned looks from his donsaengs.