Do you remember me? (skz fanfiction)

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Hyunjin PoV

When we got home the only thing we wanted was to go to sleep. Jeongin and I went to 'our' room and Jeongin lay down on the bed. His eyes were still red from crying and he sniffled a lot. I sat on the edge of the bed and looked at him. A strand of hair hung in his face which I brushed away. "I'm sorry," he whispered, turning to the other side of the bed. "Stop apologizing. It's not your fault," I said softly, laying down next to him. I wrapped my arms around him and pulled him closer to me. "Everything will be fine," I whispered into his hairline where I then planted a small kiss. The younger one didn't answer so I didn't bother and just closed my eyes to sleep.

A week passed. It was quieter than before and we all barely spoke to each other.

Seungmin just read books all day, the only thing he came out for was to eat something. He tried not to let on that it was killing him as well. But we all knew that he was also devastated.

Felix tried to see things positively and went for a lot of walks. He went out to the farmer most of the time and helped him with his work. Our money was almost gone. So we looked for other ways to get food. Since we were in a small town with not many inhabitants, we tried to negotiate with the farmers, which worked out quite well. We had to help the farmer with some of the work, but fortunately that kept us busy. And Felix did it the most.

Jisung had the hardest time. He locked himself in his room for the first three days and refused to eat. We all tried to get him to eat something. But he was stubborn and didn't speak to us. Sometime on the third day he decided to eat some food after all before he would starve. Despite this, he remained silent and spoke to none of us. One night he had a nightmare and woke up screaming. That was one of the time where he spoke to me, since our room was the closest to his room, I was the first person to enter. One day he suddenly disappeared and we were incredibly worried. When he got home he had a chain with ashes in it around his neck. With minho's ashes. The only thing he said to us was: "The wind almost blew away all the ash."

Chan tried to cheer us all up and failed miserably. He tried to do everything to make things better for us and he would keep trying.

Jeongin was acting weird. Different than usual but what did I expect. If someone important died then you behaved different at all if you blamed yourself for it. Still, he was a bit to different. A bit as if he weren't himself.

I hardly recovered either. I drew a lot and, like Felix and Chan, helped the farmer with some things. My sleep suffered greatly from my thoughts. I slept two to four hours every day, so I was always very exhausted. Sometimes I sat with Chan in the living room late at the night and we talked a little. He also seemed to have a hard time falling asleep.

I was sitting on my bed drawing when Jeongin turned to me and said softly, "Let's go for a walk. The weather is very nice." I looked at him and a soft smile formed on my lips. I nodded and we walked out together. At first we walked side by side until our hands touched. I interviewed my fingers in his and so we walked on.

"Hyunjin," the other exhaled before continuing shortly after, "I really like you." I stopped and looked at him. "You're my best friend of course you like me," I said, smiling at the younger. He faced me and took my other hand too. He looked at our hands and said, "No Hyunjin. I like you more than that."

I pulled his face up by his chin so he was looking at me. "Oh really?" I asked and looked at him seriously. My face got closer and closer to his until I could feel his breath on my lips. Our lips brushed but weren't pressed together yet. But before I could connect our lips, the other was pushed away by someone.

The person pushed Jeongin to the ground and punched his face so he started bleeding out of his nose. Realizing what had happened, I immediately pulled the other person away from him and looked worriedly at Jeongin. But when I looked at the unknown person, my eyes widened.

The person standing there was also... Jeongin?

Mar 3rd 2023