complicated ♡ k.ms

Chapter 9

Truc

I walked to my bus stop and waited patiently for my bus to come. I noticed a girl and boy from my grade here as well. The girl was Mary and the boy, I think was Baekhyun. Mary seemed like such a mean person but from what Xiumin said, she didn't sound like one. She was handing Baekhyun his metro card which I think he dropped because his eyes are wide open.

I look around the bus stop and down the streets to see if Xiumin is coming. Where is he? He's gonna be late. The bus is coming in like five minutes. I dial his number and he doesn't pick up. I dial it another two times but it just goes straight to voicemail. Where could he be? What if he's sick? What if he's hurt? I begin to worry and start texting him. He doesn't respond or even read my messages. I begin to worry and wait for his call.

The bus comes over and picks everyone up. I look around one more time to see if Xiumin is coming but he doesn't. I sigh and hop onto the almost full bus and hold the pole tightly. I still worry about Xiumin but try calming myself down by telling myself he's probably got a cold or he's late or something.

The bus stops at my school and I go off. I get a call from someone and I instantly hope its Xiumin. I was right and quickly answered the phone.

"Hello," he says once I pick up the phone. I could hear him panting very hard and is trying very hard to control his breathing.

"Hey! Where were you on the bus this morning?" I start yelling at him about how worried I am.

"I'm fine. Don't worry so much. I'm coming to school. I woke up late because I couldn't sleep well last night. I was thinking about stuff," he says.

"What were you thinking about that made you stay up all night? Was it what you were going to tell me last night?"

I began to feel curious about what he wanted to tell me but told myself to wait until I saw him face to face.

"It's not much. I was just thinking about my science prac."

"But didn't you tell me Mary hel-"

"Oh! The bus is near the school. Gotta go."

I turn around to face the road and see no buses coming down. Strange. Why would he lie to me about that? Wait. Didn't Mary help him with his science prac yesterday? Why was he all of sudden lying to me? I had a feeling that today was gonna be a long day.

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"Xiumin!" I yelled after him once I got out of my last lesson of the day. Thank God it was last lesson! Today was killing me.

"I have to cancel on bubble tea on you again. I promise I'll buy it for you instead! I need to do a report with Hoseok for history," I say feeling guilty again for ditching him.

"It's okay. Education is important," he says and gives me a smile. I can see in his eyes that he is slightly upset but pretends to be okay with it. I feel so bad.

"Well I have to go now. I'm really sorry," I say.

"It's fine," he says as starts to shoo me off. "See you tomorrow!"

I wave to him and start walking down the hall looking for Hoseok. I see him at the gates and he waves at me. I smile and start to quickly walk to him.

So we're going to my place, is that okay with you?" Hoseok says.

"Yeah, it's all good. I'll just get my older sister to pick me up," I say with a smile. He smiles back and we both start heading to his house.

We reach his house and it's pretty homey. We walk in and he tells me to sit on the couch while he'll get some drinks. I pull out my work and open up my laptop and start doing some work. Hoseok comes back with two cans of coke and hands me one.

"So what's the report about?" He says.

"Well, we're meant to pick a country and look into the history of the place," I say as I quickly read the task sheet.

"Okay, where should we look into?"

"I don't know. Do you wanna do Japan?"

"Sounds good." We both nod and start doing finding information

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After two hours of researching, we had both fell asleep and were now asleep on the floor. I woke up and looked around the living room and realised I wasn't in my home. I saw Hoseok on the floor drooling on his arm and I laughed. I poke his arm and shook him awake. He groans and slowly opens his eyes.

"What time is it?" he says with a husky voice. I check my phone.

"It's 7 right now," I say out loud. "I should call my sister now. She's probably wondering where I am."

He nods and starts to stretch whilst I call my sister. It rings three times before she picks up.

"Truc? Have you had dinner yet?" she says.

"Hey, can you pick me up at a friend's house. We had a project to do so I went to his place," I say instantly regretting that I said my friend was a boy. She can be very overprotective over guys I talk to. Her friends had told me that she had a dated a younger boy last year or the year before but it didn't last long. No one knows why. She had been very upset over it and, from what I was told, was in love with him.

"You're at a boy's house? What have I told you about guys?" she says and sighs.

"I'm sorry. I'll text you the address," I mumbled and puffed out my cheeks.

"Whatever, anyways have you eaten? I'm about to close up do you want me to bring some chicken over for you guys to eat?"

The thought of her fried chicken made my mouth water and I instantly say yes. She laughed and told me she would be here soon with chicken.

"Hoseok?" I called out as I texted her his address. He popped out from the kitchen and nodded. "My sister is coming to pick me up and she said she'll bring us some chicken over." He smiled brightly and jumped up and down.

"Oh really?! Wow! I'm so hungry just thinking about it," he says happily. I chuckle and lay on the couch.

About 30 minutes later, the door bell rung and I rushed over to open the door. Hoseok ran up behind me and we opened the door to reveal my sister on her phone. Once she looked up from her phone, her jaw dropped and her eyes were slightly wide. 'Did she fall for Hoseok's looks as well?' I thought but she's not usually like that. I turned to Hoseok who had teary eyes as he looked at my sister.

"H-hoseok?" My sister said nervously as she started to have tears in her eyes.

"Lynh?"