We are One...For You

“Good morning.” You yawned over the phone. It was another one of those days when EXO came to greet you through their annoying morning calls.

“Have you eaten yet?” Kyungsoo asked.

“Yes, cuz I just woke up.” You replied sarcastically, rolling your eyes.

“Haha. Just eat something okay.” He assured, you could actually hear him chuckle.

“Arraseo, arraseo. I’m hanging up I gotta eat.” Then you hung up.

You quickly went downstairs to grab something to eat, you were really starving and if you don’t put anything in your mouth sooner or later you’re gonna collapse. You took a quick turn to the kitchen, and you were so surprised of what you saw…more like who you saw. You eyed the person who was helping your mom bake delicacies. You shook your head to make sure it was him or you were just hallucinating from the hunger. And seeing he hasn’t disappear out of place, you were finally convinced it was really him.

“D.O.?!” your jaw dropped.

“Oh hey dear.” Your mom greeted warmly. Your face remained in the same expression, eyeing the male who was smiling smugly at you. ‘What is he doing here? How did he ended up here? Did he tell mom about everything?!’ you mentally panicked.

“Dear, I want you to meet Do Kyungsoo, he lives on the next block. But he hospitably came here to hand us these freshly baked cookies! Isn’t that nice?” your mom beamed. You gave your mom a blank expression and went back to him.

“Hey…” Kyungsoo greeted. “Seung Shin Hee, right?” he asked. ‘No shit Sherlock.’
“Wow! How did you know her?” your mom asked.

“Oh, were batchmates.” D.O. replied politely. Your mom gave a satisfied nod.

*BING*

“Oh! The pastries must be done.” Your mom quickly headed to the oven to take out the pastries. And my do they smell delicious! “Let’s eat!”

You slowly walked to the dining table and took a seat, still can’t believe what was happening. Kyungsoo took the seat across you and just looked at you like nothing was going on. You tried to send him mixed signals. ‘What are you doing here?!’ he just responded with a snicker.

“Here they are!” your mom handed a tray full of warm golden-brown cookies. Your mouth watered as the delicious aroma filled the air. You can’t help yourself but pick up a piece and just stuff it in your mouth. And as expected, they were heavenly. The moment got disturbed by a telephone call ringing from the living room. You were about to stand up to get it when your mom stopped you.

“Don’t worry. I’ll get it.” And just like that your mom left the kitchen, leaving you and D.O. alone in the kitchen.

“So…how was it?” he asked.

“Delicious.” You confessed. You turned back to the plate of cookies. You got another piece and took a bite. The flavors just magically swirl in your tongue as you chew. You hold off the whole piece with your mouth.

“SHIN HEE.” He called which made you turn your attention back to him. But what surprised you was the fact he took a bite with the cookie you were holding off in your mouth. Blood began rushing to your cheeks, lips vibrating. The two of you were holding off a cookie on each sides with your mouth. Trapped in each other’s gaze, you can’t help but notice the smile in his eyes. It was cute. But then reality snapped back. ‘WHAT AM I DOING?!’ you mentally panicked. You quickly parted your mouth with the pastry and wiped your lips. Kyungsoo was just there chuckling at the sight of you being shocked.

“D.O.! What the heck?” you muttered, he just responded with a smile and ate the cookie which was once yours. “What if mom saw us? I’m dead.”

“Cuz I know she won’t.” he flashed a cute little wink.

“SHIN HEE honey.” Your mom called from the living room. Before you could even stand up to go there, she already appeared on the kitchen doorways.

“Yep?”
“Someone called and said he needs you at this shop.” She handed you a note with light scribbling of an address. “The guy said at 1:00 later.” You just gave out a nod. ‘I wonder where this is.’ You sighed.

“Ehem.” A cough made you and your mom’s attention caught by the male behind you. “I better get going.”

“Already? Well, it was very nice to meet you.” Your mom chime in. You just gave out a sarcastic look. Then after exchanging a few goodbyes, he finally left. Yet the memory was still in your mind no matter how hard you tried to erase it. ‘Stupid mind. Stop thinking about it!’ you mentally commanded yourself as you went back to your room upstairs.

But as soon as you entered, a soft music was playing.

“That’s funny. I don’t remember leaving anything on.” You scanned the room to find where the sound was coming from. You were getting kind of carried away with the tunes, but you still kept on searching where it was from.

“I lost my mind Noreul choeummannasseultte.” You hummed as you kept folding the bed sheets to look. You looked around when you noticed something on top of the doorway to the balcony. You slowly approached to check out what it was.


You took it out and saw it was a phone. But what surprised you was that it was not yours, it was different. “Ssaugo ulgo anajugo.” Your hummed to the song played.

“Nege Marajo ige sarangiramyon.” A voice came from your back. You gasped in shock to see Baekhyun standing there inside your room. ‘BAEKHYUN?! WHAT IS HE DOING HERE?’

“Baekhyun?! What are you doing here?!” your voice was almost loud enough to be heard from downstairs. He just responded with an innocent smile.

“H-how did you e-even get here?!” you stuttered in shock approaching him closer to confirm if you weren’t hallucinating. And yep, it really was him.

“You remember the time your mom answered the call?” he asked and responded with a nod. “I took the chance to come here from the back door.” He explained like it was nothing at all. “And by the way who was that guy on the kitchen with you?” he asked.

“It was Kyungsoo.” You still haven’t recovered with the fact that D.O. was at your house a few moments ago, and another fact that Baekhyun was inside your room didn’t help at all.

“Damn it he came first.” He mumbled. “Anyways…” his face brightened up. “Let’s hangout here.” He first took his phone from your hands which was completely frozen in placed, then he scanned your whole room.

“You got a nice room.” He complemented. You just rolled your eyes and threw yourself back to bed. “Oh and what is this?”

You sat back up to see what caught his attention. Next thing you know, he was dragging an organ set from beside your closet. You quickly stood up and tried stopping him. The organ was there ever since you were 10 and it hasn’t been used in a long time, like a really long time. You even doubt if it still works, or if you can still even play from it. It was a present from your umma from before on your 10th birthday.

“No not that!” you pointed at the instrument which he was taking out.

“You have an organ? Cool.” He then pulled out some cords and wires attached from its back and started connecting them. “Let’s play a song then.” He cheered like a little kid.
Before you could have completely stopped him, he had already pressed some keys on the organ. The tones were still vibrant and lively like the day you first used it. It still played the same melody as before, your heart felt kind of light on knowing that the instrument still works after all these years.

“Haruga machi ilbunchorom neukkyojige mandeulji, nomanisseumyon yonghwasoge juingong.” He sang. His voice was light yet clear and it went very well with the notes he was playing. You tried to stop him, but your feet was glued to the ground and you were all eyes and ears on seeing him play it. He was good, heck really good. He lifted his head back at you, he gave out a small smirk as he sang.

“Nan noman gwenchantago malhejumyon modu wanbyokhe Oh baby.” He continued, and that’s when your heart nearly skipped a beat on how beautiful he sang the chorus:

I lost my mind
Noreul choeummannasseultte
No hanappego modeungoseun Get in slow motion.

He gestured you to join him, which you gladly did. “Nege marhejwo ige sarangiramyon.” Then he continued singing the rest of the parts then gestured you to join in again.

“Nege marhejwo ige sarangiramyon.” You sang back in a soft voice. Then he stopped playing.

“Woah.” He then followed it with a small applause. “You were awesome. Now…” he approached you, took your hand and placed you in front of the organ. You found it amazing seeing how much you’ve outgrew the thing remembering that the instrument reached your neck years ago. ‘Can I still even play this?’

He took a seat on your bed and rested his chin playfully on his hands. “Now play something.”
You took a deep breath. You were nervous, but why? It has been years since you ever touched the thing. You smoothly glided your fingers across the keys. It still felt the same as years ago. A smile somehow managed to form on the corner of your lips. Then without you knowing it, your fingers started pressing the keys to play the song –What is love.

Everything that you played came out naturally. You were still doing this, and it was amazing. Who knew after all these years you didn’t forget how to play this? Your heart quickened as every note passed out beautifully just the way you want it. You lifted your head a bit to see Baekhyun’s dazed expression. He was amazed, but not as much as you were. The song was almost done. ‘Yes, I can do this.’ You encouraged yourself. Then accidentally you got too excited a hit the wrong note. You mentally facepalmed yourself for such a careless mistake. ‘Uh! It was going so well.’ You gritted your teeth.

“Haha. Don’t worry.” Baekhyun then came approaching you. He positioned himself beside you and held your hand to the keys on the organ. “It’s like this.” He then puppeted our hands to play the notes. Your heart became faster within each passing second he was holding your hand. It was an alien yet somehow it felt nice. You can’t help yourself but sneak in a few glances at him. He was charming, heck very. You trailed down the path of his arms, and yes they were on top of yours.

“And you get it now?” he looked back at you. You gave out a nod even if you had no idea what notes he made you play just now. But nevertheless, you at least tried to hit the right ones correctly. And apparently, you did.

“Yeay!” he clapped his hands like a little kid. You fixed yourself in small giggles. That, and when the ring of a phone broke the moment. Baekhyu fished out for his phone from his pocket and answered the call. After a few seconds of conversation, it finally ended.

“I have to go.” He said. “I would love to hangout more but Suho-hyung is calling for a meeting.” He pouted. You just gave him a satisfied look. “Uhm, Shin Hee…” he called which turned your attention back at him.

“Yes?”

“Can you distract your mom again so I can leave?” he asked. And by the way he asked it, it seemed to him like it was an easy task. You just rolled your eyes.

“Aish. Arraseo, arraseo.” You just allowed it as long as he will leave. You quickly went downstairs to the living room to see your mom who was quite busy watching drama in the television. You quickly stepped in and turned her view away from the doorway.

“Hey mom…” you tried to say as casually as possible.

“Yes dear?” she asked. ‘What was it am I trying to say?’ you tried thinking of things to distract her as Baekhyun sneaked out to leave. You saw Baekhyun behind the doorway who was waving his hands at you.

“I uh…” you gave him a dead serious look. ‘Just leave! She’ll see you!’ you tried sending him a signal. But he just continued sending flying kisses to you.

“Yes?” your mother was starting to get suspicious. You however tried hard to make Byun Baekhyun leave. Until finally, he went to the back door to leave. Relieved that he wasn’t a problem anymore, you went back to your mom who looked suspicious of your actions. Just before you could say something, the doorbell rang.

“I’ll get that!” and quickly ran to excuse yourself. ‘Phew! That was close.’ You sighed. You made your way to the front door to answer the door. “Coming.”

And when you opened it, another sight shocked you. “SUHO?!” you exclaimed.

“Hey there.” He greeted.

“WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING HERE?!” you can’t help but raise your voice at him. What was he even doing here?

“Just coming to visit you.” He answered back cheerfully. “Can I come in?” Then before you could even approve it, he entered your house and looked around. You were still completely frozen. ‘What was he doing here?!’

“Shin Hee honey, who was–“ your mom came out from the living room. Her words were completely stopped upon seeing the male beside you. She gave you a look you’ve never encountered before. You just tried sending her mixed signals of ‘It’s not what you think. He’s just a friend!’

“Hey mom.” You introduced. Your mom’s mouth was open, but she wasn’t able to say a single word.

“You must be Mrs. Seung.” He approached your mother and kissed her hand, much to your surprise. ‘What the heck are you doing?!’ you mentally panicked.

“I’m Kim Junmyoon. But please call me Suho.” He introduced himself and gave a 90 degree bow. You were kind of creeped out because you never encountered this version of him before.

“What a fine young gentleman.” A hint of flattery was seen on your mom’s eyes. You just rolled your eyes in disgust. “So what brings you here Suho?” your mom asked.

You turned your head to him to meet his eyes. “Yeah, what are YOU doing here Suho?” you emphasized.

“Me and Shin Hee are just gonna do homework together.” Then he held your hand and started dragging you upstairs. “Come on now Shin Hee.” You had no choice but to follow along with his forceful drag. You eyed your mom and mouthed the words: IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK! She just responded back with a nod.

Then she took you all the way up to your room and made you sit on your bed as he closed the door behind him.

“OK WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU REALLY DOING HERE?” you asked as soon as the door was shut.

“Why is it wrong to meet my future mom?” he joked. You just rolled your eyes.

“Why? You don’t want me here?” he pouted. You just looked away before you pity the whole aegyo. ‘Must…not…look.’ You thought. First Kyungsoo, then Baekhyun. Now him. And that’s when it snapped in your mind. ‘Wait…I thought Baekhyun left cuz he called for a–‘

“Meeting.” The last thought slipped through your mouth. “I thought you were holding a meeting with the guys?” you eyed him suspiciously.

“Oh, I only told that to Baekhyun so he’ll leave you.” He said it casually like it was nothing. He walked towards you and seated snugly beside you. You quickly moved far away from him.

“That’s so mean!” you reacted. “We were already having fun.” It took you a few seconds until you realized the words that slipped out your mouth. You covered your mouth in embarrassment. ‘Stupid, stupid mouth!’ you cursed.

“Oh…So you were having fun huh?” he looked at you in the eyes. You just lowered your head to dodge his piercing stares. “Well, guess what…”

He grabbed bot your arms and pinned them to the sheets. He lifted your chin up so you can face him, you closed your eyes tightly. ‘Damn why did I have to say that?!’

“Look at me.” He commanded. Even if how hard you tried to shut tight your eyes, your face began reacting on its own and slowly opened your eyes. There was just something intimidating in his voice that makes you want to obey it even against your own will. ‘What is this?’ As you opened your eyes, a very handsome face met your eyes. Your heart began beating crazy, cheeks turning to a shade of pink, and beads of sweat coming from your forehead.

“You can’t have fun with anyone unless it’s me.” He whispered.

You gulped. His face was inches away from yours, one wrong move and…you don’t even want to think about it. You quickly pulled back away from him. An awkward silence filled the atmosphere. Then out of the blue he held your hand and started dragging you again outside.

“Where are we going?” you panted.

“I’m going to show you something.” His grip tightened around your wrist. Curiosity came clouding to your mind as you exited the house. ‘Where is he taking me?’ He led you to your backyard and let go of you. You stood there puzzled of what he was going to do. You saw him took the hose which your family used to garden and sometimes clean some things. Then you became shocked of what he was going to do next.

He twisted the knob and water came flowing from the long green hose he was holding. You quickly moved away to avoid from getting wet. Then to your worst fears, he aimed the hose to you and then water came splashing towards you. You raised your arms to cover it but then it was still no use. You could actually hear the guy laugh.

“Suho…” you choked. “Stop it.” A chuckle escaped from your mouth. ‘Why am I enjoying this?’
But still even pleading for it doesn’t make him stop. So you quickly ran towards him even though waves of water came splashing to your face. You took the hose from him successfully and aimed it at him. You laughed at seeing him suffer as he tried to avoid the water shooting at him.

“Shin Hee, stop that!” he begged. But you didn’t and laughed loudly at the sight of him. But finally contented with your work, you twisted the knob to stop it. You can’t help but fix yourself in giggles as you watched him panting and sitting on the grass dripping wet.

“That’s what you get.” You stuck your tongue out at him.

“So…was it fun?” he asked. You bit your lip before a word can escape from you unconsciously. He approached you and looked at you in the eyes. His eyes were like looking through your head and searching for an answer. It was impossible to ignore him now.

“Arraseo, arraseo. Maybe it was fun.” You confessed. His face brightened up on hearing his words. For a moment there you were actually looking at each other, until you finally decided to break it up by looking away.

“I better go.” You spoke.

“Me too.”

“Bye!” you waved your hand at him as he exited through the back. He sent a flying kiss to you, and you had no plans in returning it back. You just rolled your eyes and turned your back at him.

‘That was fun!’ your mind exploded with these words. You headed back inside the house and sneakily tiptoed upstairs to your room before your mom could see what a mess you looked like right now. You went straight to the bathroom for a shower. The thoughts of what happened earlier played back on your mind. Kyungsoo, Baekhyun and Suho. A small smile escaped from the corner of your lips. After the shower you changed to fresh new clothes and went to the balcony to dry your hair. Everything was going fine when you heard your phone ringing. ‘Hmmm…Wonder who it is?’

You went back inside to your room and took your phone with you outside the balcony as you seated yourself on the bench. It was from an unknown number. Curious yet suspicious, you answered the call. “Hello?”

“Is this Seung Shin Hee?” a creepy raspy voice answered back. The voice sent shudders to your back, usually you would hang up on random numbers you don’t know, but a part of you just want to know who it was.

“Yes. Who is this?” you asked.

“I am your worst nightmare.” The creepy voice answered back. Now you were getting kind of scared, you know for a fact this might be a prank, but for some reason you were kind of afraid that it may not be.

“Nice prank.” You tried to sound cool. “Who are you?”

“I am gonna get you from your house, and take you somewhere you could never leave.” The voice answered back in a serious creepy tone. Now you were scared, you ended up the call immediately. ‘Stupid pranksters.’ You thought. Then without even 5 seconds, your phone started ringing again.

It was from the same number as earlier.

“Stop calling me.” You shot at him.

“No. I am gonna get you!” the voice warned. Now you were scared. Your fingers were too frozen in fright to move. You hated how weak you were getting on something that you didn’t even know was real. The phone was still drew on your ear. You could hear him laugh evilly, but the laugh broke when a background voice was heard from the call.

“Chanyeol dear, stop laughing! Your disturbing your sister!” a sound of an angry ajhumma was heard from behind. A puzzled look masked your face. ‘And wait…did she just say CHANYEOL?!’ Your eyes widened. Then a familiar voice was heard over the device.

“Sorry mom.” The voice apologized. From a creepy raspy one, it turned to the ever familiar derpy voice of Chanyeol. And it snapped to your mind.

“Chanyeol is this you?!” your voice filled with anger. A nervous chuckle was heard as a response. Now you were angry. You became weak and scared only to know you were pranked call by Park Chanyeol.

“Hahaha.” He laughed. “Got you good.” Then before you could even give him a piece of your mind, he hang up the call, leaving you completely shocked and surprised. ‘Just wait till I see him.’ Thoughts of planning on how to ‘kill’ the guy came clouding your mind.

“I am so gonna kill him!” you gritted your teeth. Five minutes passed and you were still sitting peacefully on the balcony looking at the distant view. Your presence was far away, but your mind was still filled with ideas on killing the Happy Virus. Until you heard your phone ring again. The number from before, a.k.a. Chanyeol, called again. You answered the call right away.

“I am so gonna–“

“Look down.” He cuts you off before you could finish. You raised an eyebrow of suspiciousness. ‘What did he just say?’

“Look down.” He repeated himself before you could ask him.

Then your body reflexibly moved and slowly walked towards the metal railing of the balcony. Your head looked down, and there you saw him. A waving Chanyeol who looked ever so happy with the smile he wore on his face. The plans of earlier on killing him became blur and was completely erased from your mind. Just looking at him being happy and all, melted your heart to not do it. AT least not now, he still did owe you from the prank he pulled off well. He waved his hands at you, however you maintained a blank expression.

“Come down.” He gestured you to go down. His voice was still on line, so you hung up and quicly headed downstairs. ‘Why am I even following him?’ Then you went outside the house and met him. He was still wearing that smile you saw from earlier.

“Hey.” He greeted. ‘I am gonna friggin’ kill you!’ was what you were gonna say.

“Hey.” You replied back.

“Come on!” he gestured you to go with him.

“What?!” you asked puzzled.

“I am gonna get you from your house, and take you somewhere you could never leave.” He said in a raspy old voice, exactly like before. You just rolled your eyes. “Now come.” He held your hand and ran towards God knows where. You just went with the flow and followed him. After a few seconds of ‘jogging’ towards your destination, you arrived at the local park near your place. You’ve actually never been there before, and good thing there was no one there or else it would be very awkward if someone saw you with him.

“Now sit.” He led you to a swing. It was big for a child’s swing, so you became more comfortable seating yourself on it. Then without even expecting it, you felt someone pull the swing from behind, shrugging off won’t help because you’ll just fall. “Now hold on tight.”

Then you felt him let go then you were swinging forth in the air. A small giggle escaped from your lips. This was actually fun. It reminded you back on the old days when your dad was still doing this to you. The feeling was actually like the first time you rode one. Then as the swing became slower and slower, you landed your feet back to the ground to stop it. You were panting, not in exhaustion, but in excitement. “That was so awesome.” You commented.

He then sat beside you. The swing was big enough to accommodate the two of you. Then Chanyeol used his long legs to push the swing from behind, then when he let go, the swing moved back and forth once again. “Whooo~” he cheered. You can’t help but chuckle at how childish the two of you looked. You felt his hand held yours on the rope of chain. It was very comforting, even if this was the first time. Then once again, the swing stopped moving in its pendulum movement. He got up first then offered his hand.

“My lady.” He bowed. You delightfully accepted and took his hand and made you stand up. You were still giggling endlessly from the excitement. It all happened so fast, yet it was a very memorable experience. You just wanted to stay in that moment for life and take the chance to live it.

“You were right, I really don’t want to leave.” You admitted. He clapped his hands like a little kid. Then for a minute you spent the time talking to him about random things. It was amazing on how can keep the simplest things very interesting. Everything was going well, when a phone ring disturbed it.

“Sorry, I have to take this.” He apologized. You just gave him a nod of approval and then he answered it. After what seemed a short yet serious conversation, he ended the call.
“My mom is calling for me, but this is just a while.” He said.

“Nah, it’s alright. I’ll wait here.” You assured.

“I’ll be back right away!” he promised and then disappeared behind the park walls.

And there you were left alone in the silent yet lively park. The memories of the day played back in your mind. Every single thing was an experience to live on, and they just managed to pull it off well. It wasn’t even noon yet and you already had a blast. What more to expect on the rest of the day?

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