The Way It Burns - BbangNyu

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Chanhee's eyes peered around the brightly coloured kitchen. For such a modern looking house, the inside was quite kitsch. Even more unexpected, due to the dull nature of the garage. The cabinets were alternating turquoise, and white, which continued into the theme of the appliances. The floors, and walls were tiled; on closer inspection the tiles were all unique, none matched another in that room. The chairs were strangely curved, sat around a square table, draped in a wildly pattered, pink and blue, table cloth.

"Teas ready!" The fairy cheered, carrying three cups over to Kevin, Chanhee, and Younghoon. Once the trio had taken their cups, she headed back over, grabbing the remaining three. "Anyone want a biscuit?- here you go darling- I adore biscuits with my tea, my friends think I have a bit of an addiction, but I'd more say that it's an obsession. -And this ones for you- You can help yourselves, they're in that jar over there. I actually got that jar as a present for my 30th- ooh 30, scary I know. Getting old is rough, you'll understand it eventually." She rambled, handing out the tea as she spoke.

This lady was pretty talkative, it was hard to get a word in edgewise. 

"Um well you look great for your age." Kevin said. The fairy swatted her hand in response, letting out a chuckle.

"Thank you darling, I guess those three hours I spend on my skin care everyday are working."

"By the way, we didn't get your name." Kevin continued, taking a sip of his tea, and placing it on the counter behind him.

The fairy had been talking so much, but hadn't even told the group anything about her. They were basically still in a strangers house, with a weird lady who forced them to have tea with her. They would definitely feel better if she introduced herself properly.

"Oh my cherries jubilee! I can't believe I haven't said that yet. I'm Daeun, Eunji's sister." She stated, bursting into another one of her rambles. "You don't need to introduce yourselves to me, but feel free to if you'd like. Well technically I know all your names, not faces though. Let me guess, umm halo boy is Kevin, and that frail little thing is Chanhee. Deep red eyes over there is Younghoon, shy but assertive -[sniff sniff]- siren boy is Juyeon, and that must make you the shapeshifter, Hyunjae." 

"Wow, Eunji must have told you a lot about us." Chanhee giggled, still surprised that Daeun was able to guess them all right.

Taking a big gulp of her tea, Daeun placed it down on the table, reaching for the jar she had pointed out earlier. "Well she was here for a few weeks recently, so she ended up telling me a few stories." Daeun opened the jar, pulling out three long vanilla biscuits. "How was your drive? You're a long way from Pure Sky." 

"It wasn't too-"

"Okay okay, enough of this unimportant stuff." Hyunjae interrupted Chanhee, slamming his cup down on the table. He wasn't really a fan of over the top people, so lets just say Daeun, wasn't his cup of tea. "If this fairy can shut her gob for two seconds, we can make up a plan. Considering the best Eunji could come up with, was sending us to her sister, I don't think this is really the best place for us to stay long term."

Kevin crossed his arms, understanding Hyunjae's urgency, but also getting annoyed at how rude he was being. "I get what you mean, we'll need to sort out a plan, but we can do that tomorrow. It's late, and Daeun has kindly taken us in, lets not be disrespectful." 

"It's alright Kevin, I'm use to this reaction." Daeun chuckled, seemingly unaffected by Hyunjae's insult. "I should probably inform you guys on what Eunji told me anyway. You won't be staying with me, I have someone currently on the way to pick you up. You'll be hiding out in the valleys of the mountain, with one of our dear family friends, farmer Lee. He doesn't know you're runaways though, he just thinks he's getting farm help. So i'll need you guys to help him on the farm for the time being." 

Clenching his fists, Hyunjae felt his blood boiling. "You cannot be serious." He said, through gritted teeth. "I could be cuddle up with my precious Jacob right now, but you're telling me I have to go shovel cow shit instead." 

"Oh no, farmer Lee doesn't have cows, just sheep, and horses." Daeun added, dunking her biscuits in her tea.

"This won't be that bad guys, at least we're alive." Younghoon said, hoping to dull Hyunjae's growing temper. "And it probably won't be forever, just until we can think of another way to keep ourselves safe." 

"You know what..." Hyunjae turned to Juyeon. "Next time someones about to shoot you in the head, I won't save you."

"Then I won't save you, if someones about to shoot you in the head." Juyeon snapped back.

"Cool, lets hope neither of you end up in that situation then." Younghoon stated, ending this silly argument. Turning to Daeun, who was currently stuffing a biscuit in her mouth, he asked, "When's farmer Lee going to get here?"

Daeun hummed, swallowing down the biscuit. She pulled up her wrist, checking the time on her watch. "Should be between 10-20 minutes, I texted him once you guys got here, and it's about a half an hour drive." 

Taking a small sip of his tea, Chanhee felt a small vibration in his pocket. He quickly placed his cup down, pulling the phone out. Looking down, his eyes widened, reading only the first part of the text notification. "Guys, this is really not good."

"What's wrong?" Younghoon questioned, coming over to Chanhee. The other three creatures followed, all crowding around the single phone screen.

Sangyeon

Your dads gone crazy, he's legit put out a press
release that you've been kidnapped by a 
demon.
Sent 7:32

Https://ThePureSkyTimes/GovernorsMissingSon
Sent 7:32

The link took them to The Pure Sky Times, a news source run only by angels, and was known for being extremely hateful towards dark creatures. 

"Shoot, they have your names." Chanhee said, skimming through the first half of the article. "They're saying Younghoon teamed up with Hyunjae and Juyeon, to kidnap me." 

As Chanhee continued scrolling, Kevin's eye was caught by a certain part of the article. "Wait...'We spoke to a classmate who said, 'Kevin had been hanging out with Juyeon ever since he arrived uptown. I think we all knew that he was being manipulated, but Kevin couldn't see it. No wonder he's missing too, he probably lured poor Chanhee into being kidnapped.' What the hell?! This is so stupid." He huffed. He felt his anger die down slightly, as Juyeon held his hand, but he was still annoyed. 

Younghoon couldn't deny that it stung, he hated that all of Pure Sky now thought he was capable of doing such a horrible thing. Though, all that was important was the truth, and as long as Chanhee was safe, he didn't care about what people thought of him. 

"Ignore the article, we knew something like this would happen. Just focus on the fact that we're away from the city, they don't know where we are, and if we're smart they never will." 

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Sorry I missed an upload yesterday, I wasn't very well.

My mums playing Christmas music right now, but i'm really not in the mood. It's not that I hate Christmas, I just don't really care about it. Tho underneath the tree by Kelly Clarkson gets a pass, since its the best😫

Hope everyone had a lovely day🥰