HEARTBEATS [2KIM AU]

eighteen

"love..."

Chaewon woke up feeling her phone vibrate by the notification that came in. She groaned and sat up to her bed. She stretched her arms to wake herself up before remembering Minju. Another notification pop out.

Minguri

Good morning, unnie!
I'm sorry that I fell asleep last night.

Do you wanna go out today? There
are places I wanna go.
8:02 a.m. seen.

She smiled and was about to type her reply when Minju's contact was seen on the screen. 'Is she that excited?' She smiled with the drowsiness slipping away from her system. She tapped the green button on the screen and the second after, a cheerful voice can be heard from the other line.

"Unnie~! Wake up!"
"I'm awake now, Min. Someone got a good sleep, huh?"

"Of course! There's this girl named Chaewon that is in my dreams. How can I not have a good sleep, hmm?"
"So early, Minju."

"I'm not kidding! You really made my sleep good! Well, except for the fact that I couldn't say a proper goodnight last night."
"That's fine, at least you're now here hyping my morning." Chaewon chuckled as she heard the other laugh from the other end.

"Oh yeah, almost forgot. So what you say, unnie? You wanna go? It's fine if you wanna rest though."
"I love the idea, Min. Even I don't know why suddenly but I think today is a lovely day to be out."

"Great! Be ready at 10, I'll be there! Love you!"
"Watch your step, okay? You're too excited that you might trip."

"Unnie!"
"Okay, I'm a little serious though. See ya! Love you too!" She hanged up before the other could even whine about her little teasing to her. She smiled seeing Minju's excited figure in her head.

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She went downstairs and was greeted by her father who's seated on his usual chair as he hold a newspaper on his hand. She greeted him and kissed his cheeks and she did the same to her mother who is now serving the breakfast she prepared. "Let me guess, Minju?" Her mother asked which caused her confusion.

"Your smile is chirping much happier than the bird's." Her father said that gave her clue to what her mother is talking about so she nodded her head happily before eating the food. "I'm heading out at 10, Minju said she wanted to go to someplace."

The couple looked at each other, "Minju? Okay, just be back before dusk because we have a family gathering later in case you forgot."

"Right! I did forgot about that." Her parents smiled at her. They're wondering if she would be able to smile the same way after a week when Minju is going for her treatment. They just hope that everything goes well until then.

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Minju felt a deja vu as she was seated at the same sofa yesterday with Chaewon's parents talking to her again. "I hate to ruin the mood but can I ask you a favor?" The couple met each other's eyes before the nodded at the girl in between them. She seemed a little too serious about it.

"When I finally went for my treatment and Chaewon already found out, can you pretend as if you didn't know as well?" For the nth time, they stared at each other's eyes again, confused with the favor the girl is asking them. Before they could even say a word, she had explained to them.

"If Chaewon will know that you two already knew about it for years, she might turn her back to you. When I'm out for my treatment, there will be no one with her but you. She wouldn't let you comfort her when she knows that you knew. Please, don't let her be on her own. That's my last favor to ask."