Promise (Sweet Home)

1.1: Pretty Boy

"Was the sky always this blue, it's like a big blue...blob." Na-ri leaned against a crate as she stared up towards the sky, watching the clouds form pictures only her intoxicated mind could comprehend as she raised her hand to inhale another from her joint and breathing out once again with a puff of smoke.

Eun-yu scoffed as she continued to stretch, "You know, you really shouldn't have those, you could go to jail."

Na-ri raised her hands lazily to the girl and lightly shushed her, "You don't need to worry. You're bestie isn't going anywhere. Besides, it's not like they'd come all the way out here. Oh that reminds me..."

She chuckled to herself and continued to ramble on, leaving Eun-yu to roll her eyes, taking the joint from the girl's hands, throwing it across the roof.

Na-ri instantly stood up and turned her direction to where the joint landed, "What the fuck was that for?!" She yelled, turning her head back to the girl, who only continued to stretch. "Only way I could think of to get you to shut up."

Na-ri stared at the girl, mouth agape, words barely registering in her brain, only being able to let out a groan. She walked over, noticing a new figure step onto the roof's edge, right beside her joint.

"Hey!" Na-ri yelled, "Hey you!" The boy turned around and pointed to himself, "Yea, you! Can you pick that up?" She pointed to her roll beside his foot, "Please?"

He glanced to the ground beside him and slowly picked up the joint, studying it as Na-ri walked over. He met eyes with the girl once again, but made no move to hand over as he continued to stare at the girl in front of her, almost in awe.

Na-ri cocked her head to the side and waved a hand in front of his face, "Hello? Anyone in there?" She asked as she stepped closer. Eventually he handed the joint over, but before Na-ri walked away she handed it back to the boy, "You wanna try it?"

The boy made not body movement, only replying with a short no. Na-ri chuckled, "You're not a people person are you? I thought handsome guys weren't loners." The boy only stared as Na-ri continued, "Oh, and don't die here. We have enough ghosts as it is."

She gestured for the boy to walk down the chairs back to the roof, to which the boy reluctantly obeyed. She then let out a smile, "Besides, you're too pretty to die." She watched as the boy's eyes widened slightly, a light pink hue dusting his cheeks.

"Hey! Can you stop flirting with him and help me get this gunk off my shoe!" Eun-yu yelled from above, causing the other two to look up.

The boy's blush deepens, his face heating as Sohpia laughs, "Have you used my cards?" She gestures over to a stack of playing cards beside Eun-yu's things, "You could use one to scrape it off."

Eun-yu sat down, taking out a card, and scraped it across the sole of her shoe, "Probably that bum." She muttered underneath her breath as she worked on scraping the gum off. "Did you see anyone?" She asked, sitting down on the ledge as she laces up her pointe shoe back once again.

Na-ri shook her head, "Nope, no one beside the pretty boy over here." She then turned to the boy once again, "Oh yeah, what's your name? Unless you want me to keep calling you pretty boy."

The boy blinked, barely able to form words to answer the beautiful girl in front of him, "It's hyun... Hyun-su... Cha Hyun-su." He managed before Eun-yu spoke again, "Na-ri, can you go flirt somewhere else? It's really annoying."

Na-ri rolled her eyes, "Fine, I'll go. But I'm taking pretty boy with me." She then grabbed his hand and left, sticking out her tongue to the scoffing girl as they left. "Good, we don't need him dying here. He'll just cause trouble."