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Sunhee POV.

"What? Is there something on my face?" I ask as Kevin shakes his head from staring at me.

"No," he says, a slight waver in his voice.

"See? I told you it was haunted in there" I say, but I'm surprised Kevin came back looking so dazed, like he saw a ghost or something.

"You we're right. It is haunted" he glances back into the apartment, his lips not upturned. I frown at his sudden change. I really wonder what he saw.

"Anyways," I tap his arm and he looks back at me. "Let's go to school"

The walk to school is unusually silent. Kevin usually cracks a joke or gossips or makes me listen to a song he found. I noticed he really likes music, but I keep forgetting to ask him about it.

The rest of the school day is normal, chanhee and Changmin bickering, people nodding to Kevin occasionally, me being ignored. But today I'm extra nervous, but for once I don't want school to end.

During class Kevin and I make bracelets since we sit in the back. And during lunch chanhee asks me if somethings wrong but I deny it. And Changmin teases about Kevin kissing me yesterday, which I'll never live past.

Finally around 6 pm when Kevin and I are back at the apartment, he tells me he has to run back to school for a last minute peer responders meeting.

"Don't be late!" I say to him and he smiles and says "I promise." And leaves the apartment.

Now it's eerily silent. The apartment is still not as scary as my old one, but a part of me wants to run after Kevin, telling him I don't want to be alone right now.

But the other part tells me I'm getting clingy and I should deal with it. I just shake the feeling off and finish my homework.

I get a text from my mom saying:

Mom 👿
Please wear business casual. There will be one photographer there to capture the moment. Don't forget to smile.

He doesn't deserve my fake smile even. I think to myself. I decide to be cooperative though, because after this I'm never facing him again.  Besides, I've sort of grown out of my shell a bit, maybe I can show Hanbyul how I'm not fazed by him.

I get dressed in beige dress pants and a white long sleeve blouse. No way am I risking wearing a dress around this dude.

I tie my hair in a low messy bun and I stand by the front door, waiting for Kevin to come back.

I tap my foot on the ground anxiously, he's still not here.

By now it's 7:35, and we were planning to leave together at 7:30.

Another slow minute ticks by and very regretfully I text Kevin:

Kevin 🌙🍁

Me
Hey... I'm gonna leave the apartment, meet me at XXX street at 8

Kevin🌙🍁 seen 7:36 pm