Change [✔️Completed ] Michaeng

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Whole day distrubuting the flyers with no new information regarding Chaeng's presence. That black box footage is the only thing that gave us the new thing about her. Knowing that she's okay. I relieved. Even though it doesn't change the fact that she's running away. From her home. Her mom. And me.

I plopped myself on the bed. My bed in my house. I decided to come home first settling my mind. Can't showing my negative thinking in front of eomma. The door knocked, revealing Sana with food on a tray. "Hey." I positioned myself into a right sit position, sweeping my hair to the back, sighing. "Hey."

She walked inside the room, the aroma of roses immediately filling the room. I think, she just finished taking a shower. "You're home early. No student council?" I asked her taking the food tray and put it on my lap. She shook her head, "Sehun handled everything for me." I nodded at her answer and look at the food. Burger with my heinz ketchup. "Thanks" Sana nodded her head, "It's just a frozen burger. Ugh, sorry." I giggled and started to sprouting the ketchup from it's heavenly bottle to the inside of my burger and took a first big bite and humming because of the deliciousness of my heinz ketchup.

"You okay?" Sana asked me.

"Yeah! It's delicious! Oh shit. I missed this." I answered her excitedly. As it's delicious indeed. Instead of answering me with her usual excited tone, she just staring at me with that pity on her eyes.

"What? Why are you looking at me like that? Oh? What is this?" I tasted salty things on the corner of my lips. It's salty and warm.

"A-am I crying? Why do I cry? Eh? The burger is delicious! Maybe I cry because of this. Yeah." I keep biting on the burger like there's no tomorrow. I took the cold and freezing coke on the tray and drink it. I bite and bite. Still, the salty warm things won't escape from my face.

I got surprised by a body pressing on my body and a hand caressing my back. It's Sana.

"Mina-ya.." Sana keep calling me while sniffling.

After 2 minutes shocked by her sudden movement. I let my burger fell on the tray and hugged her back drowning my face to her neck. "I miss her, Sana." and crying all my heart out. I just realised I've been holding on my tears when I lived in Chaeng's house. This is the peak. My peak. I missed her so bad.

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I squinted my eyes feeling it's really heavy to opened it up maybe because I cried to my sleep. Slowly opening, I can see Sana sleeping beside me with her little snoring. She let me use her arm as her pillow and the other arm hugging my waist keeping me close with her. I wanted to get up but my body just won't. I'm becoming weak. Again, I think it's because I've cried a lot before I sleep. Sighing, I decided to get more closer to Sana and deepening my face into her neck. Maybe because of my movement, she let out a small voice indicating that she's wake up.

"You're up already?" she said with her raspy voice still with her closed eyes.

I just nodded on her neck. She slowly opened her eyes and looked down at me. "C'mon. Get up."

I whined as I just want to lay my body here. I'm weak. But Sana being Sana. She dragged me forcefully to get out of the bed. I don't even realize when did she wake up sliding her arm from my neck. Look? I'm weak.

"Aaah... Sana-yaaa...." I keep whining to her try to make her stop dragging me outside.

She's strong for a girl who just woke up. I ended up standing in front of our house. The suddenly orange light because of the sun setting suddenly hit my eyes making me closed my eyes as fast as possible. I can hear Sana giggling beside me while locking our door. "Get up, sleepyhead. Here." she wrapped me with my jacket and cleaned my face with a wet tissue. "You are a girl." she said to me after wiping my face with the wet tissue and wiped her face too. We started to walked around the neighboorhood without talking just admiring the view. And yes, it helped me a lot. It calmed me down for a little bit and make me think clearly about Chaeng. I know she's safe and there's a reason behind it.

Oh, because of that video that showed Chaeng is running away not being kidnapped or other things, the police were not looking for her anymore. They said that, it's a personal issues. They just helped us if there's new information about Chaeyoung. Bullshits right? But, Minhyuk keep helping us in looking for Chaeng. Kind of him. That's why we keep on distributing flyers now instead of waiting in the police office in any case the police got anything in their investigation.

We arrived in a park. I sat on the swing. While Sana, keep playing on the slide. "Mina-ya! Come! It's fun!"

I just giggled at her while swing myself on the swing. "Sana-ya!" Sana stopped playing slide and looked at me. "There's an interesting story about this swing." I said to her smiling. She walked to me and sit on the other swing. "What?"

"Do you remember when you told me you kiss Chaeyoung on the cheek for the first time?" I asked her swinging lightly with the swing. She nodded. "And I said that I'm going to the convenient store. Well, actually I went here." I said to her stopping my light swing and staring at the sky. "I was so upset back then. And I screamed it out here while swinging like crazy. I can't stand it when I see her with you. Or she's happy not because of me. Or people hurting her. I can't stand it. I love her. So much." I stopped staring at the sky and looked at Sana already looking at her shoes. "It's not your fault. Stop blaming yourself. I just wanted to share it to someone how I loved her as she's not here now." I smiled at her. She just smiled weakly at me. We decided to went back home with the slight happy feeling inside of my heart. Sana eases me."Thank you, Sana. You helped me a lot." she turned around and winked at me. I scoffed and rolled my eyes playfully to her. We went inside and Sana went to the kitchen to get us some cold water when there's a buzz on my phone.

From : Chaengchaeng 💓

Did I see it right? It's from Chaeng. I took a deep breath and trying to stop my trembling hands immediately open my phone from the password and click on the chat application revealing Chaeng's message to me.

From : Chaengchaeng 💓

Hey, Minari.. I'm at the park near your house.

That's it. Just that short message made my stomach burning. My eyes filled with this hot sensation and my chest are throbbing. I'm not sure what I should do when I see her right after this. I stomped my feet and opened the door loudly leaving it open and ran my ass to the park. I heard Sana screaming behind me but I just ran my ass off to this fucking stupid lion cub.

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Park. I've arrived. Where is she? I can't see a person or any soul here.

Ngiik ngiik

Rusty thing's sound. The swing. I stomped my feet to the park further behind the slide where the swings stand. Indeed. There's someone there swinging lightly while humming on something. It's been weeks. Almost 2 months of her being missing. Her hair is not that short anymore. It fell down until her shoulder. She's so thin with her small body. I walked slowly to her. First step, I heard her singing that familiar tune. Is it Chopin? Yes. She told me about that. She keeps on singing it.

I walk again slowly, her scent. It's not the familiar scent that I used to inhaled while I'm with her. It's still the same strawberry but.. It doesn't like the same strawberry. It's gloomy. Her body is really thin. Her toned arms, is even smaller than before. Just like a skeleton.

I think she heard my footsteps as she turned around facing me smiling.

"Minari.."