Annyeong, Soojin! [Ateez Fanfiction] ✓

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The Wise Monkey's POV:

Seonghwa wakes up from his dream, sitting up to have a moment to collect his thoughts. The dream was kinda nonsensical, still critical enough to have his heart beating fast and force him to replay the scenes to help remembering later on. 

"You look like you had some nightmare," Hongjoong who's sitting on his own bed says startling the older.

"Oh, you were here," Seonghwa says. 

"Yeah, I just arrived some minutes ago. Didn't feel like sleeping yet."

Seonghwa nods and proceeds to stare at his lap.

"Want to talk about it?" Hongjoong offers.

The other looks up and then fixes his gaze on the lap again as he begins speaking.

"The dream was weird, I-I mean most dreams are but this was a bit unexpected and it was both kinda realistic looking but not at the same time, i-it was weird."

"Dreams tend to be weird like you said. But why is it bothering? What was in it?"

"I saw Ahn Soojin in it..."

"That was the unexpected, bothering part?"

Seonghwa doesn't reply but Hongjoong understands.

"So, what happened in it?"

"She wasn't Choi Daisy, she was Soojin. She even said as she approached me, 'Soojin's here'. But, she looked like how Daisy looked, just with the clothes that looked like a costume from a period drama. It was a realistic kind of a dream."

Hongjoong's pupils dilate slightly. "Realistic? Like Jongho's—"

"No, not one of those, thankfully. It was a realistic 'dream'. It just did not have any of those nonsensical pink skies or flying cats or random scene changes. The environment looked normal. A vast area of land covered with grass, the sound of birds and stuff. She was the only person in sight, she was standing very close to me."

"And here's the strange parts," he continues. "There was a very unusual height difference between us, I was way too tall and was looking down to see her face, she was angling her neck to face me. And she was calling me Hwaseong. Not by my actual name, not with any honorifics, just a 'Hwaseong'. It was as if I was younger than her or something."

"Just seems like a regular dream to me that doesn't make sense," Hongjoong finally gives his opinion.

"No, there was something off about it. It was very weird." Seonghwa's face suddenly falls remembering something and Hongjoong notices.

"Is there more? Why are you this upset? I can understand that you probably didn't want to dream about her, but it's just a dream."

"Dreams say something. You don't dream about things you don't think about in day-to-day life," Seonghwa says. "I don't think about her much. I-I mean, at least I try to...T-That's why it's bad to dream about something that you're trying to avoid thinking about. On top of that..." He takes a pause.

"On top of that what?" Hongjoong asks.

"The dream didn't end there. Suddenly the scenario changed. Soojin changed and instead of her, m-my....no... She was there."

OHHH. Makes sense.

Hongjoong immediately goes to sit on Seonghwa's bed beside him.

"And she looked disappointed," Seonghwa gloomily continues. "I-I am a bad person, Joong-ah..."

Hongjoong rubs his roommates back comfortingly. "You're really not, Seonghwa-yah. It's not your fault. Stop still thinking like that, okay?"

"Okay?" Hongjoong asks again, using his stern voice on him.