engage

new friend

"Mika Lee?" Mrs. Byun called out during attendance, "Here" Areum said as she looked the teacher dead in the eye.

"Isn't your name Areum?" Ming asked from beside her.
"It is but I personally prefer my teachers to call me my other name" the girl said

"From now on me and author will refer to you as Mika, we can be the two M's!" Ming said with an enthusiastic smile.

"Author?" Mika asked suprised, but she got shushed by her friend as their professor made an announcement.

"My class A dancers as you know recently we went to Seoul Dance Centre to preform now we are going to enter a competition at Tokyo Dance Centre with my Class B dancers" she announced as she handed out flyers to the class.

"Contact this number to find out the performance information" she said as she walked around the entire class.

The bell rang, "That concludes todays lesson about KRUMP" the woman said as she popped some gum in her mouth,

"It's in 6 weeks?" i said as i stared at my friend who also looked worried.

I made my way to Sehun who was with his other friends, "Are you going to the competition?" i asked him as he gave me the answer i was looking for.

"Is he coming?" Ming asked, "Yes" i answered as we walked to the table with the boys.

I sat between Yangyang and Ming the Liu siblings.
Ming sat next to Mark.

"There's a pattern in the way you guys are sitting it's a Liu sibling, Lee sibling, Liu sibling and finally a Lee sibling" Jisung mentioned as a joke.

"Are you guys going to the competition in Tokyo" Haechan asked everyone sat by the table.

"Yeah i think i'm going it depends on what our parents say" Ming said as she took a sip of her soda.

"Why do you need permission from your parents were in University?" Jaemin asked with a confused look written all over his face.

Everyone looked at him like he was crazy, "We need money unlike you rich guy so we'll have to ask our parents" Yangyang said as he ate his lunch.

"Why don't we all stay over at my dads holiday home in Tokyo for that week?" Jaemin suggested as we all looked at him.

"I don't mind", "Sure" , "we'll see" everyone had agreed.

..

After all of her classes Areum entered her car and began driving to her apartment as she drove she saw a tall boy in the rain with no umbrella.

She slowly stopped her car and the boy looked up he seemed around her age, she rolled down the window.

"Get in, it's really bad to be stuck in such weather with no warmth" she let him in not caring about the mess he was making only happy that she had helped someone.

"Thank you so much, i owe you one" The boy said as she looked around the girls car it was severely clean.

"Im so sorry for making a mess" the boy grunted as he put on his seatbelt.

"It's okay, where do you live?" the girl asked,
"Honeycomb apartments" the boy said lightly as he looked at the wipers and followed their wiping pattern by beating his thumb lightly.

"Oh, i live there as well" she responded with a faint smile.

Throughout the ride she learnt that his name was Sungchan and he shared a similar music taste with her.

The two were listening to Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar and Bryson Tiller on the way to the apartments screaming out their favourite songs lyrics.

"I live in room 34, here's my number if you ever want to talk again" the boy said handing out his number to her.

"I actually live in room 35, so i guess that means we are neighbours" The girl said with a warm smile and she undid her seatbelt, getting out the car and the two walking up to the rooms.

Weird the two decided to go to Sungchan's room and watch a series as the girl wasn't a big fan of movies.

The two decided on watching Move To Heaven (best kdrama).

"What are they even saying?" the two said in unison as they were both lost and confused on what was being talked about before they let out laughs.

Soon enough the girl felt her phone buzz next to her.

She responded as she saw it was her brother calling her, "Hey are you in your room?" the person on the other line asked the girl.

She hesitantly responded, "No i'm in a friends room we are watching a series, what did you need?" she responded.

"Umm, Just come to my room please it's really urgent" she heard the man on the other line snuffle and she jumped off her new friends couch.

"Sungchan it was nice watching the show with you i really need to go check on my brother i'll talk to you tomorrow" she said as she put on her shoes getting a bye in response from the boy before leaping out of the room.

Areum was an athlete in high school which explained why she could run very fast.

She opened his door and saw her brother balled up on his bed she immediately ran up to his bed and started comforting him.

"What's wrong?" she asked him, "I'm sorry, i'm really sorry" the boy said before handing her his phone.

On his phone was a news article that contained the most painful thing she had ever read she felt her heart drop and everything stop around her.

YOUNG UNIVERSITY STUDENT
KIM SEHUN FOUND DEAD AFTER
SHOOTING IN HIS HOME

FIND OUT MORE ON THE NEXT PAGE ➡️

Areum's heart began to beat rapidly almost as if it was about to burst.

All the memories of eachother rushed through her brain as her legs became weak enabling her from standing.

Areum went crashing down onto her brothers floor and she sat there in silence while her brother cried.