Summer Of August || RYEJI

Chapter 4

June 01, 2011

My window is wide open. I'm here, holding my sketchbook and a low-cost pencil, watching a girl outside.

I'm now 11. What then?

"Yo, Ryujin-ah!"

I startled and quickly hid my drawing through an empty page of the sketchbook. Sheez. Sohee's gonna take my soul in no time.

"Why?" I asks and stands up to meet her.

"Nothing," Sohee walks toward my bed. I looks at her confusingly but the older one settled herself on my bed. She sat on the bed with her eyes darted on the window.

I shrugs before going back to my place earlier.

"Everytime you're having your vacation you'd just stay here in this room. You don't even want to play with me at all. Don't you think it's boring here?" Sohee suddenly asked that made me gasp.

"I-It's not like that, unnie. I just don't want to get used to something nor someone getting used of my presence." I said and smiled.

"Like how you left this house three years ago? Like how you impulsively did that without thinking of me and my Mom? When in fact Dad's just right there. He's just going for work. You won't lose him. But instead, you chose to leave your home, to leave us when we thought that everything was getting better." Sohee stated but I decided to keep my mouth shut. We're not yet adults to be talking like this.

I got up with a heavy breath while holding my sketchbook. Then, I started taking my way out of this room.

"I envy Hojung...she's got the sister I wished I have."

I'm sure she's just having her bad day. She will eventually forget about this. I'm sure she didn't mean to say those.

Sohee kept telling me when we were together how lucky she is to have me as her sister. Besides, I can see it from our photo album. The moment I was born, Sohee was there, gladly smiling at me. Sohee was there with her bright smile while I was sleeping in my crib. Sohee was there. Sohee loved me.

Sisters do have fights. Sisters experiences everything. So this is just an example of it.

"YEDDEONG-AHHHH!"

Sol unnie's voice escaped from their home again. They looked like sisters who doesn't talk a lot. Indeed. Maybe voices comes out when they're in their own world.

There's this called ambivert for a reason.

"Unnie-yah!" a soft and gentle shout. I can see Yeji from the open window here in the living room. Sol's there, headlocking her in front of their door.

"Did you steal MY chocolate bar?" I heard Sol asking. 

"Sohee stole it, unnie!"

I gripped the pencil that I'm holding with a smile on my face.

"SOHEE-YAAAAH!"

Buddy, aren't they cute? Isn't she cute?

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