[OH] Timeless Truth - Kim Minseok

EIGHT - With the Shadow of You

After 6 months

"Hanbyul please get me my coffee and bring it here! I'm in my room!" — Minseok shouts through his bedroom so that Hanbyul can hear his voice.

Ish this girl, she cannot hear my voice?" — Minseok asks himself after he felt that nothing changes after 5 minutes.

He gets out from his room and look downstairs.

"Hanbyul!" — He shouts again.

There is still no answer from Hanbyul. Till that, Minseok realizes, it's been 6 months since Hanbyul gone. Why he is like this?

"Aish. I should be okay by now. But why did I still reminisce about her? She is gone now." — Minseok mumbles before dragging himself downstairs to make his own coffee.

He feels nausea and his vision went a bit blurry when he takes his steps down. He reach for the handle and stay still for awhile there.

"What is wrong with me lately?" — Minseok questions himself in his heart.

That is how Minseok been living his life these past 6 months. He always calling for Hanbyul's name especially when at home. Truthfully, its awkward for Minseok since Hanbyul was the one whose done all of the house chores in his house. All Minseok knew was, everything already done neatly for him to use. But that was before, now, Minseok is kind of a bit miserable and out of his own track. He barely catch up with his schedule now but he slowly can manage it now.

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He found her diary from her pile of albums. He caress the dust on that pink book before he opens it.

"I'm sorry Minhyuk for not letting you knew this ahead. Sorry for leaving you alone here. I want you to find someone better than me, someone who won't leave me like I do. Goodbye Minhyuk. For forever.

"Ya! Hanbyul-ah!!!!" — Yixing shouts from his bedroom.

Hanbyul comes to her brother's room while running. What kind of emergency is this that makes her gege shouts like that?

"Wae gege wae? — Hanbyul comes into Yixing's bedroom and burst in.

She looks at his brother and her both eyebrows knitted together. His brother relaxly lay on his bed with a laptop on his stomach.

"Ya! Xing-ge! Why you shouted my name just now?" — Hanbyul frowns.

"You made a sad ending again? The heroine die this time?" — Yixing yells to her while pointing on his laptop.

"Gege! You fooled me! I ran here because I thought something bad happened to you, but you are just reading my story again?" — Hanbyul scolds his brother this time.

"Hanbyul! Stop making sad ending! I want a happy ending too!" — Yixing whines.

"Its my story Xing-ge, so it's up to me how I want to end it. I just love to make the guy suffer since all guy deserves that." — Hanbyul replies to her gege.

"You know that I am always a fan of your work right mei? I'm just speaking from the reader's point of view." — Yixing adds to his answer.

"You will see the happy one on television. Don't worry." — She replies while walking to exit the room.

Before she can do that, he catch her hands and pull her to his lap and she lands there before his both hands hugs Hanbyul on her waist and Yixing put his chin on the side of Hanbyul's shoulder.

"So my baby sister once again got an offer to make her story into drama series?" — Yixing asks with his slow tone.

Instead of answering, Hanbyul nods as her answer to his question.

"Can you help me again this time? Help me to make a draft for a perfect happy ending storyline. All of the words and detailing will be from my own intelligence." — Hanbyul asks her gege this time.

"Byul-ah, not all men are the same." — Yixing look at his sister's face in his hug.

"My ending has nothing to do with that gege." — Hanbyul protests.

"Don't you ever boo boo to the fool me Hanbyul. My face might seems like I am a blur person but I am not a stupid person Hanbyul for not noticing all of your changes. Even if you don't say a word to me about your husband or what is the reasons for you to come here, I can guess it from your behavior and all of the changes you had made."

"I hope you know Hanbyul, I am your brother. Doesn't matter if I am your oppa in Korea or as your gege in China. I am the same person Hanbyul. We came from the same gene. Our father's and mother's. Please let me take care of you and be responsible for you as your guardian. Stop harshing your self Byullie. You knew why Dad named me Xing and you Byul ? Because he wants us to shine no matter where we are. We are both our parents' stars either in China or Korea. Even they are not together anymore, they love us Byul. Arrachi?"

Yixing pats Hanbyul's head and smile to his sister.

"So don't write sad story anymore okay? Let's live happily after this!" — Yixing added before letting go of his hug on Hanbyul's waist and move her from his lap.

"Ge, thank you for being my brother." — Hanbyul says with her head down, staring on the carpeted floor in Yixing's room.

"For what?" — Yixing replies.

"For being my brother." — She adds.

"You need to thank papa and eomma for that. Hehe." — He chuckles.

That is what siblings for. Supporting each other and gives their opinion to each others.

Either they are as the Jang's in Korea or the Zhang's in China. They are both the same. The spelling might be different but the blood in them never lied to them.

Their parents got divorced when Hanbyul was 10 and Yixing was 12 years old. Mr. Zhang took Yixing with him to China while his ex-wife insisted for Hanbyul to stay with her. Since that, Hanbyul grew in a not safe lifestyle from their previous life. She slowly lost her dear ones, one by one.