At the End of Summer || Mark Lee (NCT)

Chapter 15. DREAM

"Or beauty. It depends. You get the idea."

I looked at her. She was still looking up at the sky.

"Just like the sky." She said, smiling.

I couldn't help but smile widely at her.

Just like you.

We reached Donghyuck's house after a while. We rang the doorbell, and before a minute passed, he opened the door.

"Hi, guys!"

Mrs. Lee appeared behind him and she hugged the both of us the moment she saw us.

"Looking beautiful as always, Elizabeth." She smiled at her.

"Oh—uh. Thank you, Mrs. Lee." Elizabeth smiled back shyly.

"You too, Mark. You look so handsome today. Have you gotten a girlfriend?" Mrs. Lee joked.

"Uh—I—heh. No, Mrs. Lee. I don't have a girlfriend." I stuttered a bit.

I don't know why I got shy all of a sudden. Maybe it's because Elizabeth was there.

"Eomma," Donghyuck rolled his eyes, "we need to go, they're waiting for us already."

"I'm just kidding. Anyway, be careful, okay? You two take good care of Elizabeth." Mrs. Lee said.

We all nodded and said goodbye to her, then we headed to the bus stop.

Renjun, Jeno, and Jaemin were already at the bus stop, waiting for us. They arrived five minutes earlier.

We all just talked excitedly about what we were going to do today while we waited for the bus. As soon as it arrived, we got inside and took our seats.

Since there were six of us, we didn't fit at the very back of the bus because the seats were only for five people. So only four of us sat at the back, while the other two were on the seats in front of us.

Elizabeth sat next to the window by the left side, while I sat beside her. Donghyuck then sat beside me, and Renjun sat beside him. Jeno and Jaemin sat in front of us, then I put my guitar on the side of their seats.

We talked mostly about music on the way. It was a thirty-minute ride towards the city, and another thirty minutes towards the company of Jaemin's dad. So after a while of talking, most of us just rested on the bus.

Jeno and Jaemin played on their phone, while Renjun and Donghyuck decided to take a nap. Elizabeth and I were silently listening to music on her phone, sharing earphones with each other.

Her music library was something I've come to admire. It was well-organized.

Her songs were classified properly into titles, artists, genres, and albums. And they all have album artworks. She has playlists for every song that she deemed the same in genre, in quality, or in artists, generally. She has playlists specifically for Taylor Swift, for rock bands such as Pierce the Veil, Bring Me the Horizon, Tonight Alive, Sleeping with Sirens, and Mayday Parade, and for other artists from different genres such as pop, ballad, hip-hop, R&B, and a whole bunch of others.