ORPHANS: NCT DREAM

05 | chess

AERI
9 years old

"checkmate." i made the last move, i looked up at jisung and smirked. his reaction was so priceless. "please jisung, you would never beat me." i stuck out my tongue, and laughed.

jisung looked angrily at me, and hugged his own legs. "i don't wanna play with you anymore noona, i always loose. i want to play with chenle." he said, afterwards smiled.

chess was the only game board here in the orphanage. there were only 6 of them. sometimes orphans would fight, because everyone wants to try it. it's our turn, eventually me and jisung locked ourselves inside the room so no one would see us.

"shall we try again? you could practice." i asked, placing the bricks on its places. technically they were made out of wood, and we painted them ourselves, same goes to the board.

jisung pretended to crack his fingers. "well, let's g-"

jisung was cut off.

jaemin came running in, almost breatheless. both me and jisung were startled at his presence, at the same time was also worried.

we stood up. "what, what is it?" i asked.

the other boys stood behind jaemin, also breathless. "i heard sister lina....." he paused, and gulped.

"someone wants you jisung." mark whispered, jisung's eyes widened and his body started to shake.

"no, no they are coming!" chenle whispered shouted. "hide under the bed!" i pointed, the younger did what i said and remained silence.

sister lina pushed the boys to the side, and let two strangers walk in our room. it wasn't jisung's parents though. "well? have you seen jisung anywhere?" sister lina glared at us, but then smiled when she felt the parents looked at her.

the parents were smiling at us. the woman had a pink long dress, that reached her knees along with white high shoes. the man had a grumpy face on, he looked mean.

me and the boys shook our head in sync, at the same time gulped. "well seems like the kidn i requested isn't here, let's go and search for him." sister lina gently pushed the parents out of the room.

she turned around, and gave us a stare. "if you see that rat, tell me right away okay?!" she whispered shouted.

"yes sister lina." we all bowed.

when the door shut loudly, we all giggled and kneeled down to look at jisung who started sneezing because of the dust that flew on his face.

he crawled out, and scratched his nose. "you have no idea how much i tried to hold a sneez- ah- achoo!" he sniffed, then laughed cutely.

mark smiled, stepping in the middle. "we promise this, everytime someone wants us we hide and not let them take us okay?" mark asked, everyone nodded.

"yes!" we laughed together.

note: la vie en rose!!