the boy next door • donghan

05

kwon eunbin

"eunbin and soyeon, both of you detention for being late."

i sighed as i turned towards soyeon and gave her a little pout as we bowed slightly in front of ms lee before heading to our seats.

blame it on our luck that ms lee - the school's strictest teacher was taking our first period. we could've gotten away for being late for 3 minutes if ms lee wasn't the teacher taking us.

i was already moody enough and having detention after school simply made my day worser.

i could barely focus on class the whole day today as my mind kept wandering off, thinking about random things like whether i should rewatch produce 101 season 1 or 2.

"yah! kWON EUNBIN!"

i gasped loudly, jumping out from my daze to see soyeon staring at me with a frown.

"what's wrong with you? i called you for the millionth time already," she scowled at me in exegeration.

"just... nothing..." i placed my chin on my palms while staring into space.

"quit spacing out. we have to go for detention, hurry up," soyeon grabbed onto my wrist.

"oh yeah, school ended already?" i asked in confusion.

soyeon rolled her eyes in despair.

"yes ma'am!!! can't you see that half the class is gONE??" soyeon frowned.

"oh yeah, okay let's go," i chuckled foolishly, letting soyeon pull me out of the class.

as we were making our way to the detention room, i pulled my phone out of my skirt pocket and my eyes widened in shock as i saw 17 miss calls from my mum.

"wait wait wait, oh my god wait," i stopped in my tracks, one hand pulling onto soyeon's arm and the other dialing my mum's number to call her back.

"what is it now kwon eunbin," soyeon sighed as she turned back to look at me, but her face immediately changed after seeing me looking all serious.

"what is it?" she asked, genuinely concerned now.

i lifted up a hand, telling her to wait as i called back my mum.

"eomma, what - "

i stopped speaking as cries erupted from the other end of the phone.

"eomma? what happened? why are you crying?" i asked urgently as soyeon's eyes widened.

"eomma??!!" i said louder as my mum continued crying.

i broke out into cold sweat as i bit onto my lips nervously, dreading whatever my mum was going to say next.

"your oppa... your oppa he...he..." my mum finally managed to choke out from her sobs.

"yes what about hyunbin-oppa? what happened to him? tell me eomma!!" i cried out. soyeon quickly gripped onto my arm, supporting me up.

"he... he got into a nasty accident... and he's in the ICU now..." my mum finally said as i heard her breaking out into tears again.

my hands were shaking and my face was turning red, oh my god.

"i...i'll head to the hospital now, text me the address!" i blinked rapidly as i ended the call. i lifted my eyes up to soyeon, trembling furiously.

"hurry up you should head to the hospital," she told me quickly before grabbing my hand and pulling me in the opposite direction we were heading, towards the school gate.

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kim donghan

"could you drive faster please?" i told the taxi driver anxiously as he nodded and sped up the taxi.

i breathed heavily as i shut my eyes and leaned back against the seat.

i didn't want to believe whatever my mum just told me. i really didn't want to. i just couldn't.

my mum called me eariler on in tears, saying that my older brother who had moved out to live alone had got into a messy accident and was sent into the ICU.

taedong has to be alright. he has to.

"please, please be alright hyung, please," i whispered softly, praying hard for my brother to pull through this.