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"Youngmin, please just go to your dorm I want to be alone." Joo says as she stays facing away from Youngmin. She was on her bed with the blanket covers covering her shoulders as she stares at the plain wall, ignoring Youngmin's existence.
"Joo-"
"It's been a week and you've been ignoring my favor of leaving me be." She states with a monotone voice as her eyes began to well up with tears. "What part of I want to be alone do you not understand?"
Youngmin was a bit taken aback by her words and just stares at her figure. "I'm sorry." He says as he slowly makes his way out the door, but makes one last glance to check on her. He couldn't comprehend what just happened as he walked out with a slight pain in his chest. His ears turned red, a bit embarrassed of himself for being talked down like that by the girl he sincerely loves. It felt like a rejection to his own feelings though it wasn't.
A small pat on the back from Minho was given go Youngmin as he comforted him.
"She's just a little broken, that's all." Minho says as he gives Youngmin a soft smile. "I don't know how long it'll take, but I'm sure she'll be okay."
Youngmin was then left alone in the hallway as he stares at Joo's bedroom door. A sigh escapes his mouth as he slowly walks away and into the living room where Donghyun, Tae, and Minho are. The trio are seen laying on the couch, playing video games or throwing in some chips into their mouths.
"Hyung, how did it go?" Donghyun asks sitting up.
"Let's go back to the dorm." Youngmin says without even giving a chance for Donghyun to reply. But instead of arguing, Donghyun bids a farewell to his two best friends before heading out to follow Youngmin who was already out on the side walk.
"Hyung!"
Youngmin stops and looks over at Donghyun with his eyes forming tears. "Am I dumb?" He asks out of the blue.
Before answering, Donghyun throws an arm around Youngmin and continues to walk while rubbing his back for comfort.
"You're not. You just really care for her." Donghyun gives a comforting smile.
Still, Youngmin questions himself. Maybe he is dumb. He thought to himself that maybe he added more stress onto Joo's life after all. She seemed so unhappy now, unlike before.
He shakes his head and closes his eyes tightly before reassuring that it's really not on him.
"She's just broken." He thinks to himself as he remembers the words Minho said back at the house.
As soon as Donghyun and Youngmin reach the house, Donghyun enters the room and flops on top of his own bed getting ready to knock out soon. Youngmin follows but sits up looking at his phone. He scrolls up on his conversation with Joo and stops as he read a message that'll probably help him.
"Daisies." The favorite flower that Joo once told Youngmin before.
Looking over at Donghyun, Youngmin sees that he was already instantly asleep. As he made sure that there were no signs of Donghyun being awake, Youngmin takes his chance to leave the dorm once again and goes to a near flower shop.
Finding daises weren't such a problem after all as Youngmin sees a whole section of it. With the help of a kind lady, Youngmin picks a few out and purchases it before heading back to Joo's.
A few small droplets fell from the sky, but as Youngmin gets halfway to Joo's house, a sudden downpour just happens. Youngmin had no umbrella on him. But as of now, he could care less about himself because keeping the flowers in good condition was his priority. He quickly ran and knocked on the door repeatedly until he was let inside by Tae.
"Why are you back already?" But Youngmin ignores Tae and heads over to Joo's room.
Unfortunately, her bed was flat and there were no signs of her.
"Where's Joo?" He asks as Tae and Minho follow behind him.
Minho and Tae both look at each other while shrugging their shoulders, turning their heads back to Youngmin.
"She said she was going to go out." Minho answers.
"Do you know where?"
Tae shakes his head with no thoughts on where Joo can be. His eyes wander to Minho who also did the same.
Without asking the two boys anymore questions, Youngmin rushes out of the room and finds an umbrella by the door. Either it was Joo's or the two boys, Youngmin did not care and quickly leaves the house with it to search for Joo. He takes out his phone and dials her number, but was immediately brought to her voicemail.
He quietly grunts while gritting his teeth when he attempts to call her once more, but the same thing happens. "Pick up the damn phone."
Youngmin thought hard and mentally gives him a slap to the face as he only knew one place where Joo can be.
The patio.
As he quickly speed walks on the way to the patio, Youngmin would accidentally step on puddles and sigh in annoyance.
The sound of thunder grew louder and the rain would not stop, slightly flooding the streets of Seoul.
Joo quietly sits on top of the bench with her notebook on her lap.
She flips through the pages with her entire body shivering from her wet clothes and small breeze from the sky. At anytime, she could probably freeze to death yet she probably could care less about that since she was practically dying from the pain in her heart.
Joo's tears blended in with the rain as she landed on one certain page that tore her to pieces.
A picture of her entire family- her dad, her mom, and her grandma were glued onto the page with small letters that they gave her when she was a baby.
She suddenly ignored the heavy downpour and how freezing cold she was because the picture somewhat numbed the pain she felt. And before she knew it, she quietly sobs to herself, weeping on this rainy night. Loneliness swallowed her up and if anything gets in her way, she would explode. And to her surprise, it was soon to happen as she hears footsteps make its way towards her way.
Though her vision wasn't so clear, she sees someone's feet standing in front of her and suddenly does not feel any rain droplets on her.
Joo's blood began to boil as she felt so overwhelmed by all these emotions inside of her and raises her voice.
