They arrived at a tiny waterfall with a beautiful lake glistening in the evening sun.
Jaesung had taken Yihai's hands again and led him up some small rocks as the gingerly made their way behind the water fall. There was a small cave there. The evening sun reflected an orange light in and it smelled like damp dust, but not too bad.
"This is my favorite place to watch the sunrise or sunset," Jaesung said. "It's beautiful through the waters."
Yihai looked out through the waterfall and was captivated by how beautiful the rays of the sun looked through it.
"It's good."
Jaesung found a dry patch of ground and sat down while Yihai stood awkwardly, toeing at the ground.
"How was China?
"It's good," Yihai said then corrected himself as he sat down beside Jaesung, watching the dimming sun through the waterfall. "It was good."
"You changed a lot, Yihai," He could feel Jaesung's stare burning into the side of his face. "You're nicer for a start."
Jaesung laughed, a melodious sound Yihai wanted to hear over and over again.
"How come I don't remember who you are at all?"
Jaesung shrugged, picking up a stone and scratching irregular patterns on the ground. "I wasn't significant to you."
There was no bitter undertone in his words, it was just like a fact he'd accepted and there's nothing he could do about it.
"Oh.." Was all Yihai said.
There was a short silence as both boys watched the sun. It had started setting but Yihai didn't feel like leaving Jaesung's side any minute. Right here, beside him was better than his suffocating room.
Suddenly, Yihai's phone rang and Jaesung glanced at him. It was his father.
"Where are you?" Was the first thing he heard. "The maids informed me that you've been gone for over three hours."
What!? Has it been that long?
"I went for a walk." He stated simply, feeling infuriated but trying to contain it. He hated it when his father acted like he cared.
"Go back right this instant. I have some business partners coming over and you have to be present."
"I don't want to. Goodbye." Yihai said and dropped the line, immediately switching off his phone. "Aargh I hate him so much."
"Who?" Jaesung asked.
"My dad," Yihai sighed. "I really don't like him."
Jaesung went silent.
Yihai stood, dusting his rear end, "It's late, I have to get going. Won't you too?"
Jaesung shook his head, grinning brightly. "I'll stay a bit more. Do you know your way out?"
"Yes..."
"Just keep straight from that brush we came out from, it's not difficult to find the main road."
"Okay..." Yihai said, then added tentatively. "See you...later?"
Jaesung perked up. "You want to see me again?"
Yihai blinked. "No. I mean... well yeah... no... I was wondering-"
Jaesung released a laugh. "Yes, you'll see a lot of me around...for sure."
"Okay..." Yihai said again. "Then...goodbye."
"See you later." Jaesung smiled, giving a small wave.
"Yeah, see you later." Yihai replied and walked out of the little cave, feeling Jaesung's eyes on him.
Yihai being the rebellious child he was had not come downstairs for dinner with his dad and stupid business partners but instead he stayed locked up in his room, chatting with Jian on Line. He was informed that his ex-girlfriend, Irene had moved on with a senior, Sicheng. Not that he really cared anyway. If anything, he was happy she found someone who liked her because he didn't have an ounce of feeling towards her during their depressing relationship. After his chat with Jian, he tried to replay the sound of Jaesung's giggle-like laughter in his head. There was nothing weird about it, right? He just loved the sound of another human's laughter. The next day, some maids had brought in numerous sets of a school uniform for him. Apparently, his dad had already registered him in a notable prestigious school he had a satisfying share in. Yihai couldn't be any more happier to start school. Which explains why the next Monday he was ready by 6am and too nerve wracked to eat breakfast. H
When they got into the school's huge silver gates, Jaesung grabbed his bag and got down first and went ahead into the building without glancing at Yihai who felt infuriated and disappointed at the same time. He got down also, slamming the door and angrily adjusted his bag on his shoulders. It was his first day at school and he knew he'd broken at least seventeen rules in the school book. His shirt was flown out and a button undone, revealing his white undershirt, he was wearing a chain bracelet on his wrist, his hair still had leftover silver dye, he was wearing hazel contacts but he was going to lie and say he had an eye problem. At least he was early and there was no disciplinarian teacher outside yet. Class 5C was where he was placed and he managed to find it without asking anyone for directions. The class was noisy when he entered with half the girls taking selfies while making weird faces and noises at the phone. The boys were the ones making the most noise, hollering loudly
"I already don't like the new guy." Saint declared during Lunch in the cafeteria, writing some lyrics into his notebook and ignoring the tasty bibimbap in front of him because he was planning to go for an audition and looking good is one of the necessities. "He acts too snobbish." "Everyone in this school acts snobbish," Minsoo sighed as he ate and went through his phone at the same time. "His own is on a whole new level," Saint tsked disapprovingly. "First day in school and he's already picking a fight with Yejun and Jay. Who does that?" "I heard Yejun bumped into him first." Minsoo said. Saint dropped his pen exaggeratedly and faced Minsoo. "Why are you siding with him?" Minsoo shrugged, "He looks good." "You're siding with him cause he looks good?" "And his dad is Chairman Wong." "Screw that." Saint said and faced Jaesung who has been quiet the whole while. "Why did you stand up when Yejun grabbed Lucas' shirt? Like you wanted to go join in the fight or something." Minsoo p
The rest of the day was uneventful for Yihai and apart from two girls having a little cat fight because they were in different fandoms (and that somehow meant naturally hating their guts) nothing interesting happened. Junho and Changmin had gone back to their class after lunch with a little "see you later" but it's school over and Yihai hadn't seen any of their shadow.Yeah, he somehow wished they were around because they were the only people who seemed not to dislike him. Changmin especially tho. He didn't know what was wrong with Junho. Jaesung hadn't returned to class after lunch so it was pretty much only Yihai sitting alone with some guy in front he didn't know subtly looking back at him and sighing dramatically. So now it was school over and Yihai was packing his already doodle-and-lyrics-filled notebooks into his bag when someone approached him, sitting in the chair in front of him, facing him. "Lucas, right?" The guy with a little accent asked and Yihai eyed him without ans
They'd walked home together the previous day. Talking about anything and everything.Jaesung was the most enthusiastic one, asking Yihai everything about his life in China. How his school was? Okay. Did he have a lot of friends? Only one. A girlfriend? A few but the one before he came to South Korea was the longest.Yihai also did find out that the other was a little bit older than him, with months. He had a part time job somewhere that closes late at night, tho he didn't specify. And he had a girlfriend at school.That last piece of information had Yihai feeling something he couldn't understand. It was like his heart dropped from the highest building in the world and fell onto the cold hard floor in a sad lump.Like earlier said, he didn't understand why he felt like that. But he did not like it.It didn't help that Jaesung promised to introduce him to her tomorrow at school.Yihai had shrugged in response.When they'd
It seemed like the whole of Ren's table decided to migrate to where Yihai and friends were sitting. Including Yejun. Who, for the sake of keeping the school's fire insurance intact, sat far away from him but the occasional hateful eying were there whenever the two locked eyes.Minsoo had cheerfully sat beside Junho, to the distaste of the blond male who kept threatening to stab him in the eyes with his chopsticks if Minsoo as much pokes his cheeks one more time. He did manage to successfully stab Minsoo at the back of his palms and the dark haired boy only laughed as he gripped his red hand.Changmin, the chatter-box was unusually quiet and awkward with Saint writing into a book beside him.Yihai decided to ignore them all, trying to finish his food quickly so he could leave. But Lien wouldn't stop leaning over to talk to him."My mum is from your hometown," she said in a really cute voice Yihai found annoying. "My dad's hometown isn't too far fro
Yihai had texted Chaffeur Moon that he would be out with Jaesung so he shouldn't bother waiting.On the way, Jaesung was unusually quiet and looking nervous, not chattering off Yihai's ears like he usually did. Yihai gave up on the sixth attempt to make him try to say more than two words.Their bus ride was silent, as they stood because it was full and Jaesung avoided his eyes, entertaining himself with ad boards they passed by."Is it something illegal?"Jaesung blinked and looked at Yihai before looking away and cracking a smile. "What do you mean?""Your part time job?"Jaesung chuckled nervously. "It might be in some people's terms... but it shouldn't be."Yihai narrowed his eyes at him.Suddenly the bus jerked as it drove over a bump and Jaesung lost balance and fell forward, holding Yihai's shoulders to balance himself, their faces inches away. Surprisingly, this didn't bother Yihai as much as Ren's did.
Jaesung was dead tired as he entered the staff room exclusively for only him, Yejun and Ren. He saw Ren and a red-haired guy kissing on a couch and he frowned at them, instinctively glancing around a room and his mood falling when he didn't see who he was looking for."Ren!" He chastised, aiming a hand towel he was holding at the Japanese male's head. "Staff shouldn't mingle with customers."The guy who looked like he was 20 or something turned red.Ren smirked, "I'm not a worker today.""I'm telling your uncle." Jaesung half-heartedly threatened, referring to Ren's uncle who was the owner of this place. The red haired guy paled."Go ahead," Ren looked amused then the guy stood up quickly and scrammed. Ren released a breath immediately he was out the door. "Ugh, thank goodness you came, he was too sloppy."Jaesung shook his head and sighed, going into the small room where he kept his uniform. He came out minutes later, fully dres