City Wall | K.Sn

| 24 |

I quietly sat and watched as Seojun slept, watching him as thoughts raced around in my head. My train of thought was interrupted by the front door opening into the appartment and closed again.

"Lin?" a voice called out and I stayed silent.

"Yo Kim, where the hell did you go?" Niki's voice called out and it went dead silent in the appartment.

"Lin? Where's Lin?" Sunoo's voice sounded urgent as I could hear his footsteps rush through the appartment.

"The extra room," Jungwon's voice called out and the door to the room I sat in soon opened and a deep breath escaped the person.

"I got scared they had come to take you," Sunoo excused and I quietly hummed as I just kept my eyes on Seojun, grabbing onto my elbows tightly, "they didn't scare you, did they? I swear they're harmless. Niki is just-"

"Like a five-year-old in a teenager's body, I know," I hummed and it went silent.

"I think you should ask Niki what he found in your room," Jungwon pointed out and as I glanced towards the door I could see Sunoo's face fall as Jungwon just stood behind him with crossed arms, "without context it seems quite creepy."

"Can you please follow me?" Sunoo questioned and I just stared at him, "please?"

I let out a deep sigh before nodding and getting up from where I sat, reminding myself that I did like this boy and maybe, just maybe there might be a reasonable explanation behind this. Even though I highly doubted it.

Niki still stood in Sunoo's room, looking through the box he had found. Once in a while a small giggle would escape Niki. 

Sunoo quickly rushed up and pushed Niki aside and looked at the things in the box, even though he probably was well aware of what was in the box. Niki just grinned widely, not aware of how uncomfortable the situation made me or how eager Sunoo seemed to be to explain himself.

"You saw the polaroids, right?" Sunoo spoke as he held at least four of them in his hands.

"Yeah..." I quietly replied as I kept standing beside Jungwon, who simply glanced down at me when he crossed his arms over my chest.

"Okay..." Sunoo quietly nodded, "I know... I know this seems really creepy and stalker like, but there's a good reason."

"Yeah, well, instead of dragging it out, how about you just tell her straight away?" Jungwon questioned calmly and Sunoo slowly nodded.

"Look... my sight isn't the best. I can see things close to me, but things as far away as your room was, you were completely blurred, and this was the only way for me to see you clearly," Sunoo excused and gestured to the polaroids he threw on his desk, "I intended on throwing them out after you came to the West, because then I would be able to actually see your face properly, but I must've forgotten."

"He's slightly nearsighted and use glasses when we have classes," Jungwon excused as I glanced at him, "he's never had malicious intents whenever he took the pictures, I promise you."

"Always grinning whenever the polaroid developed and gasping whenever he saw a new feature of yours," Niki commented with a gag and a small smile tugged on my lips before I looked over at Sunoo.

"If you're nearsighted, why don't you wear your glasses all the time?" I questioned and he let out a small sigh and scratched the side of his face.

"I don't... I'm slightly embarrassed about wearing them," he admitted and I let out a small hum.

"If you're nearsighted, and want me to believe what I am being told right now, then you wear your glasses," I stated, "because... if you could've just worn your glasses and looked over to me when I was in the East, there was no reason for you to take pictures of me."

"I first got them last week," he admitted quietly and I arched a brow at him, "hold on... I have the reciept, wait here!"

Sunoo quickly rushed past Jungwon and I, down towards the home office I had found while I was busy taking care of Seojun up until now. Quietly Jungwon turned to me and softly pushed me over to Sunoo's bed.

"I think you need to sit down," he excused and made me sit down on the bed as Sunoo rushed back into the room with a pair of specs resting on his nose.

"Here... this is the reciept," Sunoo hurried as he handed it to me and I hesitantly grabbed it from him to read over it, "the date is in the top."

"November 3rd, 1989," I whispered with a small nod before just letting out a sigh and rubbing my face in my hands.

"Please please please trust me," Sunoo murmured, "I didn't intend for it to be creepy, but I can see how it can be percieved like that. I just wanted to see how you really looked before we began meeting up and when the officers came that first time I couldn't see what happened properly-"

"It's fine," I whispered and he just looked down at me, "but we gotta burn those pictures because I can't live with knowing they exist, knowing well that I wasn't aware of them being taken."

"Of course," Sunoo immediately nodded.

"Ooooh bonfire in the kitchen," Niki cooed and grabbed the polaroids from the desk, quickly rushing out of the room.

"No, wait- Niki!" Jungwon quickly rushed out after the other boy as I looked after them with a small smile on my face.

Sunoo quietly sat down beside me and softly touched my back, making me snap my head around to look at him as he pushed his specs a bit up.

"I'm so sorry if you got scared about that," he whispered, "and I knew it was somewhat wrong but I became so desperate to know you more after you answered my first letter like that... I knew it was wrong, and I stopped as soon as I managed to get myself under control and this is all weird and you feel uncomfortable and-"

"You're right," I nodded at him and he immediately looked over at me, "it was creepy and wrong, and I do feel quite uncomfortable," I stated and his face immediately fell, "but I feel somewhat assured that you didn't have any malicious intents with it... but I swear if I find something like that again I'll find somewhere else to stay."

"Just don't go back to the East," he pleaded as he looked up at me with big eyes again, "you can go anywhere if you find anything like that again, but please not the East."

"I won't."