faint ; tomorrow x together

■ 14: hang-out ■

───── No One's POV ─────

Wednesday came, and as promised, Ki Chul is with TXT in their house, drinking the bubble tea they ordered.

"I love this. Its so relaxing to escape from school and work for a while" Kai said.

"Just admit that you're too lazy to do both" Taehyun retorted.

"No, I'm not!"

"Yeah, no shi-" Taehyun was cut off when he caught Ki Chul giving him the knowing look.

"ahem... mianhae" he whispered before looking away

"Wah... how did you get him to shut up?" Soobin asked

"Magic~" Ki Chul said while waving jazz hands in the air. They all chuckled except for Taehyun who was embarrassed.

"Anyways" Yeonjun started. "Since we're all here, should we do something to bond more? Any suggestions?"

After a while, Ki Chul spoke up. "How about this? Hmmm.... Let's do some story-telling"

"Is this your way of making us tell you the story when our group and Ryujin's group became enemies?" Beomgyu immediately asked

Ki Chul froze at his sudden question before pouting at the guy

'cute'

"How'd you know?" Taehyun asked as Beomgyu snapped out of this thoughts.

"She wanted to know the other day, but I couldn't say it. I think its only right to tell her together"

"Only if you guys are comfortable with it" Ki Chul butted in.

"I think you have the rights to know since you're part of both groups" Yeonjun said.

"Mind you though, this is our side of the story. Ryujin might have told you something different" Soobin added

"Ryujin haven't told me anything about it. All she told me is that she lost her childhood friend"

"Oh, well... where should we start?" Yeonjun started. "It is true that she lost her childhood friend, but she was our best friend too..."

Park Ha Eun, our senior  and closest friend. She was also Ryujin's childhood friend. We loved her dearly as our older sister, and she loved us as her younger brothers. One night, all six of us were in Soobin's house, and just hung-out like we normally do. Ha Eun went out for a while, saying that she would buy some more snacks at the nearby convenience store. After a while, Soobin suddenly got a call from her. She told us to call the cops to a certain house, her voice full of anxiety. It made us anxious as well. After calling the cops, it took us a while to decide to finally visit the address she sent us. When we got there, the police were already taping the house as a crime scene. There were also two ambulances, and one of them carried her.

"That was... the night she died. The night where everything crumbled down for us. The night Ryujin lost her cool on us" Yeonjun left off with a sigh.

"That was also the night where we finally decided to join the company. We didn't want to at first especially when we are our parents' heirs. But we had the motivation to join after that night" Kai added.

They look at Ki Chul who had a troubled face which made them worry.

"Ki Chul? Are you okay?" Beomgyu asked

"Y-yeah, just..." she stuttered which now made them confused. "What... was her name again?"

"Park Ha Eun" Taehyun answered

Now, Ki Chul was in a deep thought with shaky eyes. "Park Ha Eun... Ha Eun..." she repeated in a hush tone.

"Does it sound familiar to you?" Soobin asked

"I think so. Where did it happen?"

"At the house by the far end corner of this street. Its quite abandoned now" Yeonjun replied

"Can we... go there?"

"Okay? But why, though?"

"Just curious"

They all got up, got out of the house, and started walking to their destination. Once they stopped in front of the said house, a wave of nostalgia washed over the boys. Especially for Soobin who was trying his best not to tear up. They never thought that they'll ever come back here.

Ki Chul, however, stared at the house in disbelief. Then there it was again, her nightmare surging in her. Clearer events passed through her eyes, some of which she can't even remember was part of it, and it made her head ache.

It all ended with a loud bang before darkness consumed her once again.

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well would you look at that, I'm slacking off in updating....