✦ 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙨 | 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘰

004 | opening up

"Haruto!" Junkyu screamed on Haruto's front door before he started banging it.

Chaemin, who's standing behind Junkyu, shook her head at the latter's actions.

"It isn't that hard to press the doorbell," she told Junkyu with a finger pointing on the doorbell beside the front door.

"Doorbell, my ass," Junkyu hissed as he stopped banging the front door. "Let me kick this stupid door instead."

Before Junkyu could even hit the door with his foot, Chaemin pinched Junkyu's right butt cheek. The boy let out a scream as he took a step back, eyes glaring on the girl.

"What was that for?!"

"Doorbell, my ass," Chaemin mimicked Junkyu's tone before pressing the doorbell once.

A few seconds after, Haruto opened the front door. He was dressed in his comfortable clothes while drying his hair using the towel that is resting on his shoulders.

"Why is he being scandalous?" Haruto asks Chaemin.

"He wants you to chill inside the convenient store," the girl responded. "Only if you are not busy," she added.

Haruto's gaze fell on Junkyu who is grumbling by the doorstep.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Chaemin just pinched my butt!"

"Serves you right," Haruto deadpanned.

"What the hell, Watanabe?!" Junkyu bursted out.

"I'll just get my wallet," Haruto told Chaemin, completely ignoring Junkyu as he went back upstairs.

Junkyu scoffed in disbelief as he ran his fingers through his hair. "I really don't understand Haruto. Sometimes, he is so friendly. But there are times that he definitely just annoys my soul."

"Good for you then."

"You two are really alike," Junkyu commented with his face all crumpled.

Chaemin nodded her head with a smile on her lips as he started patting Junkyu's right shoulder. "Very much appreciated, Kim Junkyu."

"Take your filthy hands away from me," Junkyu hissed after flicking Chaemin's hand away from him.

Haruto finally got out of his own home. He locked the door behind him before facing both Chaemin and Junkyu.

Without a single word, Junkyu turned on his heel, stomping away from the two as he took the way that leads to the convenient store.

"He acts like he is a girl suffering from a monthly period," Haruto commented as he watched Junkyu's back.

Chaemin nodded her head in agreement. "I really don't get him sometimes. He is such a weirdo."

"I heard that, Lee Chaemin!" Junkyu shouted as they arrived in front of the convenient store. He started to unlock the entrance door before proceeding to unlock the exit door.

"Glad to know that you are not deaf!" she answered back.

"Bickering again."

Junkyu, Haruto, and Chaemin turned their head on their right, only to see Yedam leaning himself on his motorbike.

"Why are you here again?" asked Chaemin as she walked closer to Junkyu.

"Is it wrong to visit you?" Yedam asked before bringing up his cigarette in between his lips. "Are you even well enough to work again?" he added.

"Just ignore him," Junkyu tells Chaemin as he made her enter the convenient store first. He then followed behind her as they headed straight to the counter to start their shift.

"That guy does not really mind his own business. I wasn't even talking to him," Yedam spoke in the thin air before his eyes found Haruto.

The younger boy was already staring at him without any expressions shown on his face.

"Are you friends with that Kim Junkyu guy?" asked Yedam, who slowly started walking towards where Haruto is standing with a cigarette still in between his lips.

Haruto nodded his head, eyes meeting with Yedam's own. The latter brought down the cigarette from between his lips and held it in between his index and middle finger before flicking off the ashes from it.

"He likes her, doesn't he?" Yedam asked, exhaling the smoke through his nose and mouth.

"Yeah, obviously," Haruto responded plainly, eyeing the latter from head to toe.

Yedam raised an eyebrow when he noticed how the tall boy is looking at him up and down. He then chuckled out of the blue.

"Stupid me. I did not even introduced myself to you," he said as he brought back the cigarette stick in between his lips once again.

Yedam stuck out his hand in front of Haruto, offering a handshake.

"Bang Yedam, a certified ass," he introduced himself.

Haruto let out a small smile and shook Yedam's hand lightly. The elder was taken aback, not expecting for the latter to be nice at all.

"Watanabe Haruto."

"Japanese, I see," Yedam commented as they brought their hands back to themselves. "I am sure that you are that guy who got two cans of coke at two in the morning."

Haruto stifled a laugh. "Yeah, that's me."

Yedam pulled out the cigarette stick in between his lips, dropping it to the ground before stepping on it. "You look so lost at that time," he told Haruto.

"Well, kind of," Haruto agrees.

Yedam nodded his head as he took out a mint gum from the pocket of his jeans. He unwrapped the gum before bringing it inside his mouth.

"Did you had a nightmare if ever?" he asks the younger boy.

Haruto couldn't answer immediately when he suddenly remembered that the girl from his dreams and that new girl from his school are only the same.

Yedam noticed that Haruto's expression suddenly changed after he asked him a question.

"Don't answer my question if you don't want to. I mean, that was a pure nonsense─"

"It was a nightmare," Haruto interrupts Yedam, making the latter to furrow his eyebrows. "I am always having nightmares," he added, voice trembling.

"Why do you sound unsure?" Yedam asked.

"Because those nightmares that I have almost every night are starting to get real."