Dormmates | NCT Jaehyun

Chapter 22

"You have a sister?"

"I had a sister." Yuta said as he scrawled on his table. "She died from an accident fifteen months ago."

The room is too quiet for your liking at the moment. You didn't know you were holding your breath until Yuta spoke again.

"You look...really, really like my sister. I almost thought she came alive again when I first met you at the alley."

"The alley? I met you at school when I first came here."

"No, we met at the alley beside the mart in Hongdae."

You tried to recall and soon gasped in realisation, "That was you?!"

Yuta almost laughed at how freaked out you looked.

―Flashback―

"Yah, leave me alone!"

"How can we just leave a pretty girl alone?"

"It's fucking 6 o'clock in the evening, the sun isn't even down yet and I bump into two drunkards."

The men chuckled devilishly and eyed you from head to toe as if undressing you by eyes. 

"I'm just trying to buy dinner for fuck sake I'm literally too hungry for this shit." You mumbled to yourself.

"Stop coming near me!" You kicked one of the men in the crotch when he neared you. He yelled in pain and kneeled down on the floor.

"Yah!"

"Don't yah me!" You slapped the other man in the face as he came closer.

He held onto your arms, just as you were about to kick him, he fell.

You widened your eyes at the two passed out men on the floor then at the newcomer.

"Are you alright?" A guy in full black with a black mask asked you. You saw his concerned eyes.

"Yes I am, t-thank you."

"Here, come on." He pulled you to sit on the side. He called the police and both of you were waiting for them to arrive.

"Did they hurt you anywhere?"

"No they didn't. I didn't let them."

"That's great. Glad that you're fine."

Through his eyes, you found sorrow and kindness at the same time. Even though it was the first time you met him, you knew he is a good person, you felt protected around him.

After the police arrive, he sent you back to your lobby and left with a wave. You never asked for his name nor his number.

―End of flashback―

"Gosh I can't believe this." You widened your eyes. Lifting up your hand, you held it in front of Yuta's face and blocked his nose and mouth just like how a mask would cover them. "It really is you."

"Just that my eyes ain't that swollen."

"Yeah...now that I looked at it."

"I was on my way back home from my sister's funeral."

You just nodded and looked away.

"She was just a year younger than me. We aren't that close even though we grew up together. I just can't seem to figure what is she thinking. We greet when we see each other and that's all. I don't know anything about her; I don't know any of her friends, I don't know how her dating life worked, I don't know how are her studies. I regret not knowing her as a brother." Yuta spoke weakly. "It was like fate when I saw you right after my sister's death as if for me to make it up to her. It seemed easier that you're the same age as me, but still...I just fail at doing everything."

"How is bullying her making it up to her?" Someone asked from the door.