Me and You Together Song [ Chanrosé ] - One-Shots and Short Stories

10. When You Know

This one is probably the most cliche thing I've ever written, so be prepared for that. It's also gonna read as a little disjointed because it's all episodic, lots of little memories through the ages.

Based on another one of my favourite songs from this year, "When You Know" by Neck Deep.

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Five Years Old

"Have a good day, Chanyeol." The boy's mother called after his rushing body. The Christmas holidays were finally over and the exhausted parents could turn over their overly energised children to someone else for a few hours. Not that the children weren't equally as excited to be getting back to school. They were all looking forward to spending hours playing with their classmates each day, not a single nagging mother in sight.

Chanyeol acknowledged his mother's words with a nod of his head before continuing to scurry towards his group of friends. Confident and self-assured, Chanyeol had found it easy to make friends in the new environment. He had always been a friendly and energetic boy, this continuing into his school years.

His meaningless chatter with his friends continued well into the classroom, their teacher having to hush the nattering boys as they quickly scrambled to their desks, eager brains just waiting to be filled.

"Settle down everyone." The kind-faced teacher called, sensing that the class was far from done with their conversations about the winter break. Her hands were placed on the shoulders of an unfamiliar girl to the rest of the class.

She looked nervous to say the least, nibbling on the skin of her lower lip whilst glancing anxiously around the noisy classroom. Dark hair framed her oval face, bangs resting upon her forehead whilst the rest of her hair was pulled into two bunches on either side of her head. Her small hands fiddled with the ends of her backpack as the last of the class fell to their seats.

"We have a new student with us today." The teacher beamed widely, squeezing the girl's shoulders in reassurance. "Everyone, this is Rosie. She's just moved here from New Zealand."

The girl smiled bashfully as murmurs of hellos echoed through the classroom, waving her hand in recognition. Chanyeol was indifferent at first, still as friendly, just indifferent. He was completely unaware of just how important the girl would be to him in the very near future.

Rosie appeared to settle in nicely that day, a group of girls immediately inducting Rosie into their group come break time. Chanyeol had barely had enough time to greet the girl, everyone swarming the new student out of curiosity and interest. That was until a fateful game of hide and seek.

The game was a common practice amongst Chanyeol's group of friends, the boys, and the occasional girls that joined them, finding it hilarious when the seeker was running around like a headless chicken trying to find them all.

On this particular day, the girls had decided to join them, dragging Rosie along with them. The large group huddled, heads together as they tried to decide who would be seeker. No one ever wanted the job, having to act alone and also having none of the fun of hiding.

After several intense rounds of rock, paper, scissors, Lisa was deemed to be the seeker, a disgruntled look upon the small girl's face.

"Loser." Sehun, Chanyeol's right-hand man joked. Lisa retorted by poking her tongue out, obviously upset at getting the short straw. In a split second, her hands were over her eyes, counting from ten six times, because lord knows she couldn't count down from sixty.