Chapter 2 : Bath House
Laying horizontally on her bed, Seorin held her Samsung phone so that she was holding it above her face.
Squinting at the screen, she saw that Seoyeon, her friend, that sent her a message on Kakaotalk. 'I was really sick today, so I couldn't make it to school... did you hear the news about Sehun?' 'What?' Seorin responded, frowning.
Seoyeon sent her a link, which she clicked. 'Oh Sehun, heir to the rising family company, goes under SM as a trainee...' . Instantly, she dropped the phone, and it fell on her face.
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"Agassi, it's quite a cold day, I brought your jacket in case you need it." One of the servant adjumma laid a long, dark green colored jacket on top of Seorin.
An unexpected move, she bowed awkwardly,"Gamsahamnida..."
Sitting in front of her older brother, they eat breakfast silently. Mr. Oh left an hour ago to Shanghai, for an important business trip. Mrs. Oh, on the another hand, stayed in Korea to handle other company matters.
Making eye contact with her older brother, Seorin looked away and coughed quietly. Sehun looked down at his empty congee bowl, and sat down his silverware. Looking up, Seorin saw her older brother walking toward the exit door, dropping her utensils as well as the jacket, she hurried to catch up to him.
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Sitting next to Sehun in his car, things became uncomfortably silent. Seorin glanced at him, with one hand on the driving wheel and a blank look on his face. As silence enveloped them, Sehun knew exactly what was going on. She knew.
"Oppa.." Seorin whispered, looking down at her uniform skirt,"I never thought that you weren't happy with the role you had in the family."
She looked over at her older brother's direction,"This changes everything."
Instead of speaking up, Sehun forced out a cough, blinking a few times.
"But sometimes change is good," Seorin started again, speaking louder this time,"You can't live without doing the things you love. Just like how you used to tell me."
A unbearable pause was after, waiting for Sehun to respond. But he didn't make a sound, for the rest of the car ride to the school.
Arriving to their destination, Sehun opened the car door, walking out.
Stepping out to her brother's car, Seorin swallowed quietly before walking toward the school.
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Reaching in his locker, Luhan fumbled around his light, creamy colored bookbag for his pencil case. Pausing for a moment, he remembered that he forgot his pencil case, which was lying on his desk.
"Aiish..." He muttered, slapping his forehead with his palm a couple of times. Staring into the contents of his bookbag, he frowned. What a start to a school day.
Entering the classroom, he noticed that his desk neighbor was already sitting in her desk, staring at a notebook. Taking his seat, he turned to the other person next to him.
Reading his nametag, Luhan spoke," Minseok... Do you have a pencil I can borrow?" His classmate turned around, shaking his head 'no',"Sorry."
Classmate after classmate, his question float around the students nearby him, in which they all reply with a head shake or waving their hand,"no".
Awkwardly, Luhan slowly moved his eyes toward Seorin, who wasn't paying attention. It's not a crime to ask her, isn't it? Aigoo... Luhan thought, looking at Seorin daydreaming.
"Seorin..." Snapping out of her thoughts, Seorin snapping her head to the place where she heard her name being called. "Do you have a pencil?"
What? Seorin thought, with a confused look on her face. "Oh," She grabbed a sheep mechanical pencil and handed it to him.
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It was moments after the bell that rang, signaling that the school ended, when Sehun spotted Seoyeon sitting on the edge of the wall of the stairs.
Seoyeon had sent a message to Seorin on Kakaotalk,'Let's go to the bath house today.', When she felt someone's hand on her shoulder. Alarmed, she snapped around to unexpectedly spot Sehun.
Undoubtly, turning into yet another staring contest, Sehun forced out another cough as he spoke,"So you have heard the news..." Seoyeon blinked a few times,"Oppa..."
"Aiish, don't say it like it's a sad thing."
Sehun climbed over to sit next to Seoyeon to sit next to the stairs,"I just don't know what will happen to Seorin." Seoyeon moved her legs foward and backward,"The thing about Seorin, is that she will do anything for you to be happy."
Sehun sighed and looked up,"Did you think I did the right thing?" He turned his head toward Seoyeon, who was looking down. "That is up to you."
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Seorin looked at herself in the bathroom mirror of the bath house, patting her jjimjibang sheep head towel. Seoyeon popped up behind her,"Wah, it's been so long since we have been here."
Seorin nodded, with a smirk. She had missed the pajama-like clothing they have you wear, that is the kind of 'warm' that clothes that come fresh out of the dryer have. And the comfort of the ranging warm to extremely hot igloo-shaped rooms, the complete opposite of the cool temperature outside.
Exiting the bath house comfort room, Seorin and Seoyeon carefully sat the slippers down for the next person to enter.
"Ah, wait, I'll go get some water before we go into a room." Seorin said, pointing at a water dispenser. "Okay."
Heading to the water dispenser, Seorin grabbed a clear plastic cup, and put it under the dispenser.
"Yah, are you stalking me or something?" Alarmed from the voice behind her, she turned around to see a familiar face wearing a jjimjibang and light blue pajama-like clothing, also holding a plastic cup filled with water.
Why is he always where I am? "Why are you here?" Seorin responded with a frown. "I mean, it's weird. Why are you always where I am?" Luhan confronted, "Did you come here by yourself? What are the chances we meet at the same place for the second time?"
"Actually I came here with--" "Me." Interrupting Seorin, Seoyeon walked up to the two. "You can still enjoy your night here, just ignore us..." Seorin pointed out, facing him. Raising an eyebrow, Luhan walked away.
Seoyeon sighed,"He is everywhere isn't he?"
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As it was turning late, the two friends are planning to leave. Sitting on a sleeping mat outside of the warm rooms, Seoyeon took a drink of water, facing her face towards the ceiling.
Seorin, on her phone, showed her a funny picture of an idol's derp face, causing Seoyeon to almost choke on her water. Swallowing her water, Seoyeon bursted out laughing, whilst Seorin smiled at the picture.
A couple of minutes later, they headed out to the locker room to change.
Luhan stepped out of one of the igloo-shaped rooms, and headed toward the male locker room, to prepare to leave.
Oh his way, he stopped and squatted down. Squinting, he saw that a Samsung phone was laying on the sleeping mat.
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Author-nim's Note.
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