HEARTBEATS - [제이]

5 | daylight

The girl heard a slight knock at the door of Halmeoni's bedroom.

She was allowed to go upstairs in Halmeoni's apartment if she wanted to. To do her homework or anything else.

Normally no one except Halmeoni herself or another employee would come upstairs as no one else was allowed to obviously.

The girl's eyes switched from her exercise book to the door.

"Haneul?"
A familiar voice appeared from behind the door and the girl could even recognize it even without seeing the person's face directly.

It belonged to a male, a dark haired and eyed boy to be exact.

Jay.

The girl sighed and took a second to pull herself together before even letting him in.
Apparently Halmeoni allowed him to go upstairs, whatever his reason was.

The girl wasn't someone to just leave anyone else behind so she pulled herself together before opening the door.

Jay's eyes widened as his eyes fell onto the girl's figure. She had changed clothes meanwhile, apparently had some of her clothes at Halmeoni's place as well.

The girl's eyes were big as she examined the boy standing in front of her.

"H-hey"
He muttered, scratching the back of his head meanwhile.

Haneul had to hold back a slight giggle by the sight of the boy standing there nervously, muttering.

"Hey"
The girl replied normally, her face covered with a smile.

She didn't quite notice that but just as she looked at him for the first time that day, her smile came back.

"I saw you running up here an hour ago. You looked..."
Jay started as the girl already sighed, hiding her face inside her hands.

She shook her head.

"Oh man, you saw me? Jesus, this is embarrassing. I believe I looked like the dirtiest freak on earth. As if I'm someone just stuffed me into the trash"
Haneul showed her teeth when she looked back at Jay who warmly smiled.

She watched him shaking his head and felt relieved immediately when she saw he wasn't laughing at her.

"Exhausted. I wanted to say that you looked exhausted"
Jay smiled when he finished his sentence.

Haneul exhaled deeply and looked him into the eyes directly. She leaned against the door frame with her right hand while they were talking.

"Oh. Well I mean yes, you could also put it that way as well"
Haneul scoffed when she admitted that.

This situation obviously seemed kind of embarrassing for the girl as she nearly wanted to sink into the ground and never appear again.

"Well, so the truth is that Halmeoni sent me. She'd like you to join us having dinner"
The boy smiled warmly.