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What time is it?

Seonwoo woke up later than usual.

Riki was supposed to bang at his door every morning to wake him up, but strangely, Riki was once again out of sight.

Did he leave in the middle of the night again? But then, Seonwoo didn't see a used glass of milkshake in the sink. Riki would always drink one before leaving, and he's not washing it.

Seonwoo took the initiative and knocked on Riki's bedroom door. He heard the boy grunt before it becomes silent again. Seonwoo didn't wait for any approval and used his spare key to open the door.

Riki is still in his bed, body curled as if he's been enduring cold all night.

Riki opened his eyes, glossy and tired.

Seonwoo walked closer. He noticed how red Riki's face were.

“What time is it?” Riki's voice sounded weaker than it was last night.

Seonwoo touched both their foreheads, comparing their temperature.

“Gosh, Riki, you have a fever!”

Riki grunted, swatting Seonwoo's hand off his skin. He then proceeded to sit up.

“What are you doing? You're sick, lay down and I'll prepare you something to eat,” Seonwoo worriedly said, stopping Riki from stepping down the cold floor.

“I'm fine,” Riki insisted, but he was too weak to argue more.

Seonwoo gently pushes the boy back to his bed, “Just lay down.”

Riki couldn't argue more, he just let himself fell back into his comfortable bed and closed his eyes.

Seonwoo quickly dashed out the room and prepare a soup for his sick roommate, putting everything on a tray with a medicine and a bottle of water.

“You can't leave without me,” Riki tries to argue again.

“I've called Mr. Park, he's sending Sunghoon,” Seonwoo said, trying to feed Riki.

Riki remained silent again, receiving all the care Seonwoo is giving.

An hour later, Seonwoo finally leave the house after making sure Riki fell asleep.

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Seonwoo was busy rearranging the sudden big change on the chairman's schedule for the whole month when he noticed two men approaching the chairman's office, one of them seemed familiar.

“What the, it's Riki,” Seonwoo says after he realized who owned the familiar figure.

He stood up from his seat and ran after them. The other man stood beside the office door, while Riki goes inside. Seonwoo entered the office without any second thought.

Riki was standing before the chairman, straight and strict.

“Riki,” Seonwoo speaks, not minding the stare coming from the chairman.

Riki didn't speak, he just stood there, straight and strict.

Seonwoo walked closer, trying to reach for Riki's forehead. He was still burning up, but not as bad as earlier in the morning.

“Seonwoo,” the chairman speaks, “Riki needs to finish something.”

Seonwoo looked back at his boss, he doesn't seem mad. Instead, Mr. Park seems entertained.

“Hold on, at least bring some medicine with you,” Seonwoo says before dashing out the office.

He quickly took some medicine on his drawer and ran back inside the office. The man on the door seemingly entertained watching him, too, just like the chairman.

“Please, Seonwoo, this is embarassing,” Riki whispered enough for Seonwoo to hear.

“Just take this medicine and I'll stop,” Seonwoo whispered back, trying to fit the medicine into Riki's palm.

The boy kept his hands closed, making it hard for Seonwoo, until one bright idea came into his mind.

He looked up at Riki, who was still standing straight with his sight glaring at  nothing in particular. Seonwoo took the moment to slid the medicine into Riki's pocket, but the boy's reflex was faster than him.

Riki stepped backwards, while Seonwoo tripped in his own feet. The first thing he did to stop himself from falling was to hug Riki.

Seonwoo clings for his dear life, hugging Riki's waist as tight as he could. Not until he felt something unusual from behind Riki's waistline.

Hard.

Seonwoo moved his hand down a little bit more, trying to feel the hard thing underneath Riki's suit.

The chairman cleared his throat.

Seonwoo looked up, meeting Riki's shocked eyes.

“Riki—”

Riki pushed him off, before snatching the medicine in his hands.

“I'll be leaving,” Riki then speak, before walking out the office.

The man outside followed Riki's footstep, while Seonwoo watched them enter the elevator.

The chairman cleared his throat again, “We'll talk about it later, Seonwoo. For now, do your work.”

Seonwoo could only nod his head, before unconciously walking out the chairman's office.

Seonwoo tried to push the thoughts aside and did just as the chairman told him to do. He was hoping for a clarification from the chairman.

But then, the chairman didn't talk about it with him. Instead, he gave him loads of paper works to complete.

Still, his mind couldn't forget that hard thing behind Riki's waistline.

Riki...carries a gun.

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