"...Minho?"
Hyunjin looked up at the mention as it clicked in his head. "Hm" he faced his food "he must really seem like him" he mumbled "right... it can't be him" she said "did you have hopes?" He asked "No, I mean I don't know. I guess it's just hard to exept that a person is no longer with you, even after years it's still a human that died because of a... stupid other person" she gazed towards "I was somehow always scared to mention him infront of you. I didn't know which kind of bond you had" Hyunjin confessed "to be honest... me neither. We were arguing a lot but sort of also filled each other. He was just really broken, I felt bad, still do. The fact that he died by the same murderer like his parents is even worse.. well that's what I assume at least, I don't even know how it happened. I only heard his voice and couldn't even know how much he suffered, I only knew that he was exhausted and sick of his life... it sort of hurted because I thought I was part of the life he was just throwing away, but I guess I was just being a small piece of joy in his suffering" Maejin finally let out looking a bit hurt but she quickly managed to form a thin smile inhaling the last bit of food.
"Sorry." Hyunjin placed his hand on hers which made the girl lift her head "You don't have to be", "I know but I can't help but still feel bad. I just hope that you can at least have a life were the big part of it can be joy and I also hope that I might be someone who caused at least a bit of it" he avoided eye contact as the girl slowly blinked few times realising what he said "a-ah yeah" she chuckled taking her hand away. "Sorry was this maybe too-" she cut him off "no no its not that, I mean it's not you. I'm just...shy? I donno whatever" she took her plate along with his bringing it to the sink. Hyunjin couldn't help but smile about her.
"You need help with the dishes?" He got up and switched the topic "no it's fine, you should head home now" she told him "so this is what I get back after giving you a ticket. Just getting kicked out" he complained "come on, you know I'm thankful. But it's getting late anyway, we see each other on the weekend, we can text about the rest" she leaded him to the door "hm fine I'll get going then. Bye"
"Be part of my happiness?" She mumbled to herself after closing the door "cute"
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"Here your chicken" Minho placed it on the table infront of chan "hey I was gonna eat it with you" He shouted out to him "I'm not hungry" Minho walked into his room which made Chan stand up "pff what are you talking about, I bet you haven't eaten yet. Come here" he suggested.
After backing out the food Minho showed up "ah you better" he placed some infront of him as he sat down too "thanks", "Don't thank me, you bought it after all"
After 5 minutes passed Minho still didn't say a word "Are you exhausted? Was the day hard? Or is there something you wanna tell me?" Chan faced him which made him sigh "all are correct somehow", "why? what happened?" Chan asked "I think I saw Hyunjin today" He explained "hyunjin?" He turned his head forward "mhm", "did he see you too?", "definitely, but I don't know if he noticed me" he shrugged "he must've noticed you", "why would he? He literally thinks I'm dead" Minho frowned "then why didn't you talk to him?", "why would I? It's not like we ever were friends anyway", "Ugh really Minho? He must know where Maejin is... don't you wanna know too" Minho didn't answer "I know you do. You better talk to her, if I was you I would've already"
"So then why didn't you? It's not like you two never talked with each other, don't you wanna know how she is too?", "this is not bout me though. And yes but do I look like I know where she is? The country is big and I had no clue where to search. Now that we do, you should ask Hyunjin" chan said "I think he lives in the house that I went to today", "oh that's great" chan nodded "great? How come you see everything so positively?"
Minho sighed "sorry that I'm trying to make things work out" he complained "you should have thought bout this 3 years ago where you said that I should just leave her alone. Now that she thinks I'm dead for even longer it'll be even worse. Don't you get it? I don't wanna hurt Maejin-ah again" he put his chicken down that only had one bite and left the room.
