𝐒𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐈 | 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗻

21

—— HOURS LATER

both sunghoon and I squirmed into the couch seat, bored out of our minds. "sunghoon?"

"what?" he looks over at me vacantly, "do you want to go on a walk, clearly we're not tired and we're bored. Let's go somewhere." i beg him to agree with my idea.

"where are we supposed to go??"

"you're spot, the cafe's roof." I grinned and he tilted his head, "but we need the door to be open to get inside and go up to the roof." he explains.

"oh sunghoon, I'm not an idiot. When I found out about the roof, I kind of inspected it as we were heading out. There's a ladder that leads to the roof by the alley."

"what if we fall trying to go on the ladder?" he tilts his head and I sigh, "that's not going to stop me, one of us gets on and the other one holds the ladder?" i attempt to convince him.

"fine, let's go."

——

we arrive and we go into the alley, sunghoon holds onto the ladder. I climb up and was able to come onto the roof, now as he's climbing up. My grasp on the ladder was taut so that he wouldn't have any difficulties, we both made it into the roof.

pink flower petals had landed on the floor, and remained there. It was a beautiful trail of them, I sat on the bench and he sat next to me. Both of us observed the moon's luminous light shining upon us and sunghoon turns to face me.

"Suyeon."

"yeah sunghoon?"

"I kind of want to apologize for everything I've said to you, like when I told you to fuck off and leave me alone at the rink and when I told you to give your brother a break and for just acting like a jerk to you for no reason. With his death and everything, every day was like a challenge."

"waking up was a challenge, eating, sleeping, taking a bath, everything. I was failing my classes but I got the score back up before the semesters ended. Then when I met you, you were one of the first people other than jaeyun who tried looking out for me and bugging me for the good, and I got confused with that. I can't blame you, because you're a replica of your brother." he chuckled faintly, his eyes staring at the solid ground.

now i've got an better understanding from his perspective, what he felt like and what he was going through. "you weren't used to the feeling of someone trying to look out for you and that's okay, it's okay to be confused. The past is the past, I've moved on from those moments. I wasn't going to keep grudges on them, you don't have to explain, I know. I know you're trying your hardest."

he smiled, "the unusual sensation of you being around me became a good sensation. I've gotten used to your company, I'm probably closer to you than I am with Jaeyun right now."

"is that so?" I giggle. "Jaeyun's going to be so mad if he ever heard that."

"it's our secret." he winks, I pull out my pinky and he links his in with mine. "secret." i repeated in a low tone and lightly laugh.

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