Where are you? [REVAMP] - HAECHAN

Chapter 9

Mark enters the room and sees Haechan looking out the window as if he's a trapped soul.

"I bring you some oranges" he breaks the silence as Haechan turns around with a tired smile.

"Finally you are here, what took you so long?" he asks as he gestures to Mark to come closer. When Mark is within his grasp, he reaches out to take the two oranges in his hands and starts peeling them. Mark intends to share the oranges but Haechan takes no care and starts eating them both.

"Since when?" Mark asks him.

"Since what?" Haechan asks him back, oblivious to what Mark already knew.

Mark walked away from him, keeping his distance. He walks to the window and let out a sigh.

"I don't know it's just weird" he starts.

"What's weird?" Haechan asks him again as he finishes eating the oranges.

"You don't actually like oranges since school, like every time they give out oranges during lunch, you will give it to me instead" Mark answers without looking back

Haechan let out a nervous laugh "Ah, that's when I have a childish appetite. I'm grown now, I eat sort of things".

Mark laughs along with him "You know, talking about our days back in school, you changed a lot ... even more than Jeno and Jaemin" he said and Haechan got flustered.

"It's probably the weather that got me all sentimental. Remember how we used to skip classes after lunch to go practice and when our parents found out, they got mad and got us Saturday classes to catch up. We were so tired but it was bearable because we did it together" Mark had a smile on his face when he reminisced those days but not Haechan who looked away with a scowl.

"Mark can you stop asking me about that" Haechan said annoyed.

"About what?" Mark asks still looking outside, he is about to face Haechan with his truth.

"About fucking whatever happened back then? I don't live there anymore" He answers irritably and Mark lets out a chuckle that gets Haechan confused.

"Or is it because ... you never existed?" Mark asks sharply, he turns around seeing him stunned.

"You are not Donghyuck are you?" Mark walked over to him, right before his shaking eyes, taunting him with his question.

It was cold, it felt like a stranger just walked into his life. The silence between them had him choked and only then, he could see the little smirk under that different gaze.

"So you knew huh? he has come out to you"

By then Mark knows he is now talking to the stranger.