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Charles Invited to Karaoke Room?!

A/N: Sorry for the delay! I'll write chapter 5 in the morning (it's almost 3am). Also, I made Seungjin have a younger sister, for an excuse to use the name Eunha (I chose Seungjin as an older brother because the name means "galaxy").

Walking from school, Harin gathered Seungjin and Siwoo. Immediately, Harin told them about the timestamp she earned for spending time with Charles. "4:15, Hanbyeol Karaoke Room, for 25 minutes!"

Siwoo looked at his phone, as it vibrated due to Yura texting him. The message read out, "Siwoo, you're going to Hanbyeol Karaoke Room too, right?"

He wrote back. "Yep, we got a time stamp at 4:15 with Charles, why?"

Yura got surprised, and she responded to Siwoo. "Oh! We're in the timestamp right after yours! Kina, Jady and I are going together. We're dragging Sanggeol along to make it less awkward."

"Woah!" Siwoo accidentally exclaimed out loud.

Concerned, Harin asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

"No, not at all!" Siwoo laughed and covered his excitement up. Knowing that his friends will go to the same place, he carefully planned a scheme. Harin caught Siwoo smiling at his phone, but she didn't really do much about it. He was always this weird anyway.

Seungjin was thinking about his singing ability, and as if Harin could read minds, she reminded Seungjin, "Hey! Don't worry about it. The truth is, I'm pretty bad at singing too."

"Well, yeah," he looked at her. "I mean, there's gotta be one thing that we're bad at."

"You're right!" Harin laughed. "You're really good at everything, Seungjin! Like, how is that possible?"

"I dunno!" Seungjin said. "As far as I know, I come from a pretty normal family."

"Speaking of which," Harin remembered something. "You really look a lot like your mom! And you're stronger than you look, really!"

"I get that a lot, actually!" Seungjin agreed. "It's always when you're not around."

They talked for a while and they were already at the karaoke place. Entering, they already saw Charles, and Harin greeted him. "Thanks for hanging out with us!"

"You're welcome!" he said. Siwoo paid for the room, and they went in.

"Woo~ I chose this place because it was pretty cheap~" Siwoo smiled. "Only 10 dollars an hour~ fits my budget!" While Siwoo was still amazed by its price due to the quality of the establishment, the group sat down, and Harin confidently turned on the song, "I will go to you like the first snow."

The others were preparing their ears for Harin's voice, knowing that this song was not easy to sing. And as expected, Harin's singing was quite horrendous. It started off well, but when she started singing the chorus, everything went downhill.

Thankfully, Charles saved the day with his singing. Turns out, he took singing classes when he was younger, but he chose to start playing basketball, and stopped. He never fully stopped singing though, and he became good at singing.

And then he sang Beautiful (Sorry for all the Goblin OST- Oh wait- never mind, I'm not sorry). It wasn't perfect, but it was ten times better than Harin. That relief was short-lived, as it was Siwoo's turn to sing Moonlight Legend (the song from Sailor Moon), a song way out of his comfortable voice range. But, even if the song was in his range, he would still sound like crap.

On Seungjin's turn, it was worse than Charles' singing yet it managed to be better than Siwoo. Harin couldn't believe that Seungjin thought HIS singing was bad, so she stayed silent.

They were all having so much fun, until Charles had to go with Yura and her friends. The notification read, "It's our timestamp now! Also, bring Siwoo with you!"

Charles turned over to Siwoo. "Yura wants you to come along with me, is that okay?"

"Yep!" he said, turning around and winking at Seungjin. "Totally fine with me!"

Seungjin, getting the obvious message, could only sigh and accept the fact that he was all alone with Harin. Despite the possibility of things getting awkward, especially adding the fact that Seungjin liked her, they had fun singing songs, no matter how bad their singing was. Their one hour was over, and as Siwoo was still having fun, they walked over to a cafe.

While walking, Seungjin told Harin the truth about his parents. "Hey, Harin. Y'know how I said that my dad came back home so I couldn't hang out with you guys at the mall?"

"Yeah?" Harin remembered that time.

"I actually..." he sighed. "Don't know him. I don't know what he looks like. I don't have any idea either, 'cause I look too much like my mom. I don't even know his name. Just that he's abroad for work."

Harin came up with an idea. "Hmmm, why don't you just ask her?"

While Harin said that, Seungjin laughed. "You think I haven't asked her? She just told me, he's working abroad. I just know that he's fast and really strong."

"Why? 'Cause you are?" Harin asked, to which Seungjin nodded as he blushed a little.

Sipping coffee, although Seungjin didn't really like how bitter it was, he chose to bear it to not appear as weird to Harin. Why was he suddenly doing things for Harin, though? He's been friends with her for so long, so it was weird that he was so shy around her now.

Perhaps it was because Siwoo wasn't with them, and they were alone in a cafe. Now that he thought of it, he was always with them when he visited anywhere. And their phones rang, with Siwoo texting, "Hey! So, Yura just paid for another hour! So, I won't be out of here until the hour's over! This is way too fun!"

Harin sighed. "Typical."

Seungjin agreed. "Yep. So, where should we go next?"

"Maybe the mall!" Harin said. "Didn't you say that there was this one book you wanted to get at the bookstore or something like that?"

"Oh yeah!" he remembered. "After that, let's do our Math academy homework at my house!"

After going to the mall, they went over to Seungjin's house, and they were greeted by his younger sister, who was in fourth grade. Harin looked down at the girl. "Hi there, Eunha!"

"Hi, Big Sister Harin," she smiled. "When is Hajoon coming over? I need help with science homework and I don't trust you with my homework."

"Y'know, Eunha, I'm not that bad at science," he smiled.

"Hajoon looks better than Big Brother Seungjin," she said bluntly. "And Mommy said you got a C as a final grade last semester for Science. You can't fool me."

Seungjin gave up, and Harin giggled. "Don't worry, Seungjin, you'll do better next time~ Also, why do you refer to Hajoon like that?"

Eunha giggled a little. "Why do you? Isn't he your older brother, Big Sister Harin?"

Harin, taken aback by such a good point, whispered, "Wonder who she hangs out with."

"Anyway!" Seungjin cleared his throat. "Eunha, try not to bother us, we're going to study."

"That's what they all say in the movies," she said. "But they always end up-"

The older brother covered her mouth in time. "Sorry, Harin. She watches a lot of movies."

Harin wasn't very bothered about it, and she just laughed. "It's okay!"