Cinnamons and cookies [On hold]

12

"JISOO CATCH ME!"

"SEOKMIN DON'T RUN THERE!"

Despite Jisoo's shouting, 4 year old Seokmin still ran not looking forward. He ran to catch him but stumbled down.

"Caught you!"

Jisoo almost saw Seokmin fell from the cliff. "You, stupid kid, you could've died!" he heard. Seokmin just chuckled and he heard a sigh. "Hyung, there was a pretty butterfly!" he heard the kid's laugh.

"You okay there Jisoo? Thanks for trying."

Jisoo looked up and saw a blurred face. He squinted trying to see as the boy offer his hand to help. all he could see is black framed glasses. he reached for the hand, but before he could hold it, he jolted up his bed, 3:49 in the morning.

he panted as he was trying to think what happened. black framed glasses. for days, it was haunting him since the incident. 

as they deal, they leave seokmin alone and they will get money, other loan sharks also left seokmin. they just collect like always and they give it to jisoo and jisoo will give the money to seokmin as part of his salary. 

for weeks, seokmin didn't notice anything that made him relieved.

"hyung, there was a pretty butterfly!"

"really? then don't catch it, it needs to be free for it to remain beautiful."

Seokmin jolted from his sleep. It's been days, and it still haunts him.

all he knows is just the black framed glasses, round and thin.

'hyung...' but he doesn't have any brother and relatives before that he can call someone as brother. he is isolated, a cheery optimistic kid like him is lonely. cliche right? because of his parents and still he blame his parents for that.

3:49 AM, he forcedly woke himself up and started to get ready for work. not forgetting his wallet and keys. he opened the door seeing joshua also walking out.

they stared at each other. seokmin in dazed while joshua stared at him like the most interesting thing in the world. 

"good morning."

the two broke out their staring session and their eyes went to chan who is still rubbing his eyes, seems like he just woke up and changed into something.

"morning chan."

Joshua's eyes went back to seokmin who is smiling to chan. "oh, boss, you're early, it's just four in the morning?" Joshua went back to chan still a bit dazed.

"pardon?"

"you're so early, it's just four in the morning, why?"

"ju-just nothing, why is it bad?"