Complexity

Take a rest, will you?

Sohyun Pov

I was still confused as to why I ended up sleeping in Xinyu's room, next to her, with Xinyu hugging me like I was a doll.

Oh yeah... Handong told me to sleep here because it was raining heavily and there were no buses or taxis at this hour. At this hour, she meant 1 am. I don't know what Xinyu and I were thinking that we forgot the time while doing our assignments. Even so, our assignments were done.

"Finally done"

"And I'm tired. How can you work from midnight to morning without feeling tired?"

"Who says I'm not tired? I'm really tired. That's why I always fall asleep in class. If you don't move, my sleep will always be peaceful" she just chuckled as she laid her head on my shoulder.

"Do I mind doing this?" I just nodded slightly. Honestly, I was a little bit unused to it because this was the first time in a long time. But I didn't have the heart to push her head away. She was also very tired.

"But Xinyu... I think I'm going home"

"Are you sure you want to go home?" Of course not, but what else could I do.

"I'm not sure, but I want to go home" she seemed to understand what I meant so she led me to go outside the house. But before we reached the exit, we passed Handong and she asked me.

"Are you going home?"

"I think so"

"Take what?"

"Maybe a bus or a taxi?"

"Look outside, then look at the time" I looked outside while Xinyu looked at her cellphone.

"It's 1:30"

"And it's raining really hard outside"

"That's what I mean. You better stay here for the night. You can wear Xinyu's clothes. Your bodies aren't that different, right?"

Well... it's not that different. But Xinyu is much taller than me. So the clothes I'm wearing look really long on me.

"ARGH YOU'RE SO CUTE!!" of course my face turned red. Not because I was wearing Xinyu's clothes, but because Ning-Ning and Handong also saw me wearing Xinyu's clothes.

"Who's older out of the two of you?" I don't know because I don't know Xinyu that well. 

"I'm October"

"That means Xinyu is older. Treat her well or I'll kick you out of this house" Ning – Ning said to Xinyu which was only replied with a lazy eye roll by her.

"But where does she sleep?" That's right. I'll probably just sleep on the sofa.

"I'll just sleep on the sofa" Xinyu immediately shook her head and hugged my body gently.

"You won't sleep on the sofa. You're a guest, and there's no way our guests would treat us like that"

"What if she just sleeps in your room?"

"Then me?"

"On the floor? Use Ask" Xinyu just showed an annoyed face but she also agreed with Handong's input.

One strange, all strange

Initially Xinyu did sleep on the floor. But I felt uncomfortable because she must have felt cold sleeping directly on the floor. So I told her to sleep next to me. her bed was also big enough for 2 people.

"Why don't you just sleep on the bed?"

"You're already sleeping there"

"I mean here" I said while patting the empty side of the bed gently.

"I don't want to make you uncomfortable"

"I can't be uncomfortable with my own friend" I tried here.

"DO YOU CONSIDER ME A FRIEND?"

"If not, I won't talk to you. Come up" she happily lay down next to me.

There was no conversation, no movement, just the two of us staring at Xinyu's ceiling. I glanced at Xinyu, and swas playing with her fingers. As if she was anxious.

"What's wrong?"

"I've rarely slept with other people before. Even with Ning-Ning, rarely. So I'm a little... anxious? Can I say that?"

"Do you need something? I can help"

"I'm used to hugging things"

And here I am, being hugged by my first friend in high school named Zhou Xinyu. She just hugged me, but I felt like I should pat her head or something to make her calm down a bit because I could feel that she was still a bit anxious. So I stroked her head even though I wasn't sure if what I was doing was right or not.

"Sohyun"

"hm?"

"since when did you learn to play guitar?" why so suddenly?

"guitar? I don't know? Since elementary school maybe?"

"you like cats too?" how did this girl know?

"you stalked my instagram account?" she nodded which I should have understood from the start.

"I stalked your account because I wanted to have a topic to talk about with you. I really wanted to be friends with you but you were so closed off" she explained but I could feel that she was now showing a sullen face. I couldn't see, because the room was dark and she buried her head in my neck.

"Well now I'm here. Is there something you want to ask?" she was silent and didn't respond for a while. Until finally he gave a rather unpredictable request.

"Can you play the guitar for me?"

"But I don't have a guitar anymore"

"That's right..." again she was silent. But again she had a rather strange request.

"You like cats right? Want to go to a cat cafe? With me?" it wasn't difficult.

"Okay. You set the schedule"

"RIGHT?" I could feel her getting up from lying down and I could feel myself between her hands. The room was indeed very dark, but I could feel that her face was very close to mine.

A little mistake, something unwanted could happen

"Of course. Now sleep okay?" I tried to answer as calmly as possible.

"Okay" I could feel her hugging me again, but this time a little tighter than before. I couldn't complain because I liked her a little.