Remember me || JHS ||

4.

Author POV:

Arriving at the cafe they find a table in a corner, YN sits with his back to the door and the counter.

Hobi sees that a few new patrons have entered and is about to leave when his boss appears in front of him.

"Hoseok, you're still here. Your shift ended a quarter of an hour ago." he says.

The café owner is a middle-aged and tall man, he always wears a friendly smile and is a very nice person.

"I know Bruce is sick and I wanted to help out some more."

"You don't have to. I know you have to get up early again tomorrow and you're always filling in for the others. You need to get some rest too. So get out of here!" he says firmly and pushes him toward the staff room.

Hobi POV:

After my boss closes the door behind me, I change my clothes and get my backpack out of a closet. I sling a strap over my shoulder and leave the room.

I quickly say goodbye to the other employees and want to leave.

Then a girl at one of the tables catches my eye, as far as I can see it's the same girl who ran into me outside the library today.

At least she wears the same clothes and her hair looks like that too.

This hair reminds me of YN, she also had such light brown hair with a few lighter almost blond strands.

I can't make out her face again because she has her back turned in my direction.

I have a strange feeling as if I know her but I ignore it and leave the cafe and walk to my apartment.

On my short walk home, I look to see when I have classes tomorrow. I have three, two are in the morning, then an hour off and then another in the afternoon.

As I stand outside the door to my apartment, I let my backpack slide off my shoulder onto the floor and look for my keys.

I unlock the door, let it slam shut, and take off my shoes. I leave my backpack by the door as usual.

I make myself something for dinner before I read through my notes again. As soon as I can do it all I go to sleep.

~

The first lecture is over and our professor says goodbye to the students.

I shove my notebook into my backpack and just drop my pen in with it, I'll find it later.

"Hi Hoseok, we're going to get something to eat do you want to come?" I look up and in front of me are three boys from my class. The boy who asked me I know because I tutored him once and the other two are his friends he always hangs out with.

"Yeah, sure. Where are we going?" I ask while giving everyone a smile.

"We thought we'd go get a pizza, is that okay with you?" asks the tallest of the three.

"Sure thing. But I have to go over something with a professor first. You guys can go ahead. I'll follow you," I say as I remember a task I need help with.

The boys nod and leave the school together with me before we part ways.

Our university consists of three buildings, we were just in one of the big ones. The professors usually stay in the smallest one, which also houses the cafeteria.

The buildings are laid out in a U-shape and between them is something like a garden. In this garden, the students can stay between their lectures or just come here.

So I make my way to the opposite building.

While I walk I look at my cell phone and text one of my friends who asks if we don't want to have a "boys' night out" again.

But this leads to the fact that I don't see the student who is running towards me in a hurry in time, which is why my cell phone lands next to me on the gravel floor.

With an annoyed sigh, I look after the running boy, who has not even apologized.

I turn to the side and pick up my cell phone, clean off the dirt and am about to start moving again when I stop, frozen.

Not ten meters in front of me on a bench which stands around a large tree sit two girls, they talk animatedly and both laugh happily.

The blonde girl is Mi Cha and the other... my eyes widen as I see the face, it is very familiar. It is clearly YN my childhood friend who suddenly just disappeared.

From one day to the next she was just gone, no message, no apology and no explanation. She and her parents were just gone. I have been wondering all these years what happened and here she is sitting on a bench laughing with an obnoxious person.

Without really realizing it, my body starts moving. I arrive at the bench and the two look up, without thinking twice I pull YN into a tight hug.

"Oh my god! YN, where have you been?" I ask her excitedly and sadly at the same time, not understanding why she left.

She pushes me away, to which I look at her questioningly.

"I'm sorry, but do we know each other?" At these words, I feel my heart shatter into a thousand pieces.

"It's me, Hobi don't you remember?" I ask incredulously, staring at her expectantly.

But Yn just shakes her head apologetically and takes a step back. I want to walk toward her but the "barbie" squeezes between us.

"Sunbae?" she bats her eyelashes and looks at me, "How do you know her?" I think in her voice I hear contempt.

I push her aside slightly and turn my gaze back to Yn. I want to take her hand but she avoids me.

"I'm sorry, I really don't know who you are. You must have me confused."

With those words, she grabs her things, which were on the bench, and pulls Mi Cha behind her by her sleeve.

I just stand there looking after them, shocked, dejected and sad.

I don't understand what's going on. We haven't seen each other in maybe three years, how can she not recognize me?

Others might say it's really a case of mistaken identity, but I know Yn, it's definitely her.

Yn's appearance threw me completely off track, I forget what I wanted to do and go to the restaurant where I see the others already waiting at one of the tables.

I drop my backpack next to my chair and sit down. I just stare into space and don't even notice how the others interrupt their conversation and look at me skeptically.

"What's wrong with you, you look like you've seen a ghost." All three of them laugh but I can't laugh because it feels like I really did see one.

I just don't say anything and start eating since it was just brought to our table.