✦ 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙨 | 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘰

007 | encounter

"Should we hang out tomorrow? It's Friday anyway," Jihoon suggested.

He earned a lot of excited screams from the group, making him chuckle a bit.

"Amusement park!" Mashiho and Jaehyuk squealed.

"That sound fun," Hyunsuk agrees.

"It would indeed be fun since Halloween is coming," Mashiho giggled.

"I think we should change─"

"No, there will be no changes," Yoshi said, cutting Hyunsuk off.

"Then I'll just back off," Hyunsuk shrugged.

"Scaredy cat," Jihoon teased, earning a glare from Hyunsuk after.

"Yedam!" Yoshinori squealed as soon as he saw Yedam by the school gate.

With a small smile, Yedam waved.

All of them ran up to Yedam, except for Junghwan, Jeongwoo, Mashiho, Haruto, and Yejin.

"Why aren't you excited to see your brother?" Jeongwoo asks Yejin with a slight laugh, noticing that the girl wasn't interested on seeing her own brother.

"He will just annoy me," Yejin responded blankly.

Stopping on his track, Haruto's eyes landed on Yejin, then to Yedam.

'Did I heard that right? They can't be siblings, can't they?' he asks himself.

He then slowly followed behind his friends. With his eyes still on Yedam and Yejin, he noticed that they looked alike for a bit.

"Doyoung! You're also here!" Jihoon beamed. "Did you miss us?"

"Can you stop being disgusting?" Doyoung spats at Jihoon.

"Why can't you be nice like Junkyu?" Jihoon asks the younger with a finger pointing towards Junkyu who is standing behind Yedam.

"Because I am Kim Doyoung, you dumbass."

"Can someone stop me from punching this─"

"No one's gonna stop you, Park Jihoon," Doyoung cuts him off.

"Mom, I'm scared," Junghwan quietly spoke.

Jaehyuk chuckled after hearing Junghwan spoke. "Don't be scared," he tells the youngest. "They are just like that."

"Are these your new friends?" Yedam asked, pointing at the new faces behind his friends.

"Ah, yes," Hyunsuk chuckled. "Mashiho, Junghwan, Jeongwoo, and Haruto."

"Ey, Watanabe," Yedam grinned as soon as he spotted Haruto from the back. "Glad to know that these dickheads are treating y'all nice."

"Hey, Yedam," Haruto greeted back. "Your friends are nice to be with."

"I'm touched to hear that," Jaehyuk said, wiping a fake tear that fell from his eye.

Out of curiosity, Jihoon couldn't help but to ask. "Yedam, how did you know Haruto?"

Without saying any word, Yedam pointed out Junkyu from behind him.

"Uh, Haruto and I live in the same village, along with Chaemin," Junkyu stated.

"Speaking of Chaemin, why isn't she here?" Jihoon asked.

"She's too dedicated to finish our project," Yedam responded.

"You should've helped her instead of coming here," Junkyu tells Yedam.

"She's avoiding Yedam, that's why," Doyoung chimes in.

Eyes glaring, Yedam held up his middle finger in front of Doyoung's face.

"Okay, I forgot to inform you guys," Hyunsuk began. "We're going to the amusement park tomorrow after dismissal. You guys should come with us."

"Nice," Yedam grinned. "You guys should walk up to our school since it is much nearer to the amusement park."

"Noted," Jihoon said. "Let's go home?"

"Bye!" Hyunsuk tells Junghwan, Jeongwoo, Mashiho, and Haruto.

"Bang Yejin," Yedam called out to his younger sister who is standing beside Jeongwoo. "Are you blind or what? Can't you see me here?"

"No, I don't see you," Yejin responded blankly.

"You two really don't get along," Yoshinori chuckled.

Yejin rolled her eyes on Yedam before looking to Junkyu. "You guys better be there tomorrow," he tells the boy.

"Yes, ma'am," Junkyu laughed as he headed towards Junghwan.

"Bye, Junghwan!" Yejin waved her hand to the youngest, making Junghwan to smile and wave back to her.

Mashiho then cleared his throat. "Yejin, we're also here," he coughed.

She let out a small laugh. "Bye, Mashi and Jeongwoo!"

Her eyes then landed on Haruto who was already looking at her.

"Bye, Haruto."

"Take care," Haruto tells her before turning his back, walking off first.

Surprised, Yejin watched the back of the boys as they walked further on the opposite direction.

"Do you like one of them?" Yedam asks her.

"Why would you think of that?" she huffed.

"You were looking at Haruto," said Yedam. "Well, I can't blame you since he has the looks."

"I wasn't looking at him," Yejin denied as she began to walk behind the loud boys in front of them.

Yedam caught up, walking by her side. He looked at his sister's face that is painted in confusion.

"You can tell me anything that bothers you."

With a sigh, Yejin looked down as they walked.

"Haruto would always approach me just to piss me off," she confessed. "He would always open a zipper of my backpack whenever he's walking behind me, grab my books and leave them on the floor by the corner of the school corridor or by the stairs, and he always steals something from my food during our lunch breaks."

"Okay, that's annoying," Yedam chuckled. "He doesn't seem to do those things when you look at him."

With her eyebrows furrowed, Yejin looked at his brother. "How did you two even know each other?"

"He was with Junkyu and Chaemin the other day when they went to the convenient store," Yedam responded. "I got to talk to him after Junkyu and Chaemin went inside the store."

"He seems nice to you."

"Well, he is," Yedam agreed. "He even told me about the nightmares that he is experiencing almost every night."