Decalcomania | JJK

20: Playground regrets

So far, this Thursday had been announced as one of the hottest days of this year all over South Korea. Busan was luckily a coastal city, the sea stretching along the eastern coast city of South Korea, which meant that the heat wasn't as mean as in the middle of the country.

But none of that cheered on the trio who were hanging together at Haejin's place.

Not only was it hot, but the humidity made it unbearable to be out without having a way of cooling yourself down. And Haejin's overgrown and empty pool wasn't an option - Not even the heavy rainfalls that had been falling over the large city for the past couple of days would've cleaned it.

But today, the last day of July, was a sunny day and the sunlight beamed inside of Haejin's room, getting on Hoseok's nerves as it blinded him through the phone and at last he got up from his comfortable position in Haejin's bean bag and closed the blinds.

"Don't forget me when you marry that one hot doctor." Nia said jokingly, but deep down she was serious.

The three were talking about future.

It wasn't soon until they started college. The summer break was also ending soon, welcoming their last year as high schoolers.

Hoseok wasn't really paying attention, as his phone was way more entertaining and he knew he and Nia both planned on staying in Busan, which made him less worried about graduating high school.

Haejin wasn't going far either. She would apply for a college in Ulsan, pursuing her parents dream at the nursing degree. Nia had tried talking Haejin from doing only what would make her parents happy, but Haejin had recently claimed that she was getting more and more interested in the human body. Nia wasn't able to decipher whether her best friend was talking the truth or not, but for now she chose to believe her. After all it was almost a whole year until the decision.

"Well depends on how hot he is and how great of a dick game he has." Haejin replied.

"When did the conversation turn into talking about dicks?" Hoseok questioned, throwing himself back onto the bean bag Haejin had in the corner of her room.

"Since always," Nia covered her mouth from Haejin's sight to try to drown out what she was whispering to Hoseok, "you know she's hungry."

Haejin let out something in between a scoff and a laugh, "Says you?"

Nia's playful face was replaced with a tight one, her lips pressed into a thin line as she turned to Haejin immediately shooting her with her eyes.

Her newly born sex life was NOT something she wanted to bring up in front of Hoseok.

Haejin put her hands up in front of her chest defensively.

A silence fell over the room, Hoseok had found his phone again preoccupied with supposedly a game, Nia observed as his tongue was slightly out at the corner of his mouth revealing his engagement and concentration about whatever was going on.

The girl clicked her tongue at the roof of her mouth, earning Haejin's attention which had also been directed at Hoseok.

"No matter what..." Nia spoke, earning Hoseok's attention as well by the sentimental tone in her voice, "...we'll stay best friends, right?"

A jokingly roll of eyes on Haejin's face made Nia stick out her tongue at her.

Behind her, Hoseok had turned off his phone, a prickling feeling welled up in his body.

Best friends

That was all they ever were.

The boy sighed lowly, but nothing that reached the girl's ears and eyes.