Bunny House

-YOUR P.O.V-

“I’m sorry… _____…. your mom and dad… they…” the doctor didn’t have to finish the sentence… I already knew what happened…

I rose form my seat and ran down the hall… it didn’t seem to have an end so I ran and ran… until…

“______…. are you okay? ______” whispered a male voice. There were hands on my shoulders, shaking me to wake up.

I opened my eyes to a hardly awake JongUp, his eyes full of concern, staring down at me.

“Are you ok? You were crying…” he whispered after I had already sat up rubbing my eyes.

I instantly smiled at him.

“Yeah, I’m fine, just a bad dream, don’t worry about it.” I said brightly and got out of bed.

JongUp watched me rustle around my room as I grabbed my towel and a change of clothes.

“Do you want to talk about it?” he asked hesitantly getting up. He approached me at the doorway, looking down at me.

“Nah, it’s just a dream, don’t worry about me. Go back to sleep.” I said and ruffled his hair.

He hesitated, fixing it, eyes not leaving mine.

“….if you say so…” and with that he was gone.

I waked into the bathroom and splashed cold water on my face. Looking up I stared at the wet reflection in the mirror…

It’s been 3 years… 3 years already…

-JongUp P.O.V-

We didn’t have a schedule today so all 7 of us were home together. After sleeping in all the guys, including myself, came downstairs to see an already dressed _____ cooking.

“She’s up early…” muttered YoungJae and walked to the TV, after grabbing a peace of toast.

“I wonder if she’s doing something important today.” Whispered Zelo and went to greet _____.

After hearing us enter she turned around to face us with a bright smile on her face. Typical _____.

“You burned the toast.” Muttered YongGuk as he picked through the bread. We all prepared ourselves for the morning exercise.

“I did? Oh sorry!”

SORRY?!

Everyone stared at ______, including YongGuk.

“I’ll make another one if you want.” She added later, seeing everyone stare.

“No… this is fine… I was just… saying…” YongGuk said a little confused at her reaction.

“______ are you doing anything today?” asked Himchan as he sat down at the table.

“We were planning to go shopping maybe?” DaeHyun added as he pored himself a cup of coffee.

“Sorry guys, but I have… some people to visit.” _____ responded softly and placed the rest of the food on the table.

YongGuk was still watching her intently.

“Aren’t you going to eat?” called DaeHyun after sitting down, watching as _____ headed upstairs.

“I already ate, don’t worry about me!” she called from upstairs. Moments later _____ appeared again with a leather jacket on.

“Are you sure you want to go, it’s raining out!” called Zelo

“A little rain never hurt anyone!” she shot back with a smile

“Do you want someone to go with you?” asked YongGuk suddenly

“No. Thanks for the concern! I can go myself!” she smiled and was gone.

“I… I’m going to go too” said DaeHyun randomly and shushed upstairs. He was down in his disguise in a matter of 3 min and out the door.

“He is so going to stalk her.” Mutter Himchan and got hit upside the head by YongGuk.

“You know I’m right!” he hissed back, rubbing his head.

“What ever!” YongGuk shot back and got back to eating.

“Geez… without arguing with _____ you’re a very grumpy guy!” Himchan muttered into his food.

After that… everything went quiet and I couldn’t help but think back to this morning…

____ was acting strange…

“It’s… not her birthday today… is it?” I said out loud and the guys heads shot up. They all exchanged looks.

-DaeHyun P.O.V-

Okay so I did follow her…

I CAN’T HELP IT I WAS CONCERNED!

We got on the bus and I put my mask over my mouth and pushed up my tick glasses, making sure I staid behind her.

God… I sound like a stalker…

I watched her reflection in the window.

She wasn’t smiling anymore… as a matter of face she looked sadder than I’ve ever seen her… a single tear rolled down her cheek and she wiped it quickly. Why was she crying?

I got out of my seat ready to approach her when the bus stopped. _____ rose and got out. I followed again.

We entered a… cemetery? Why was she… and then it hit me…

_____ stopped in front of two stones and began to pray. Were those her… parents?

I pretended to pray to a random stone in front of me but out of the corner of my eye I watched her… she prayed for a long time and then she stepped back and smiled. Tears streamed down her face but she continued to smile…

“mom… dad…” she said in a weak voice.

“How are you guys? I’m alright… Uncle made me stay with 6 guys to whom he is a manager… at first… I didn’t want to stay there… I was afraid that… I’d start caring for them and… they’d disappear… like you guys…” she paused the rubbed her eye.

“But… they’re a great bunch… I expected them to me snobs… but they’re great… so caring…” I couldn’t help but smile as she spoke. She was also smiling while staring at the sky.

“I kept my promise dad… I am doing my best and I’ll keep doing my best. I’m getting a job and I’m going to do my best in martial arts.” She smiled again

“I’ll be back in a minute, I’ll go get some flowers.” She suddenly said and I panicked.

Before she could see me I ran off… might as well get some flowers too… show respect to her parents…

-YOUR P.O.V-

I boughs some daises… my mom loved them… and then decided to head back to the cemetery. As I walked it began to poor harder… and soon people began to seek shelter under café roofs. I looked over the names of the cafes.

“Chingu Café”…. I said to myself… why does it sound so familiar. Without a second thought I walked in.

“Welcome to-“ said a familiar voice and then stopped.

“Oh! It’s you! Park Lee ____, right?” I threw my wet hair back and looked up to see the guy from the other day smiling down on me. He was wearing the restaurant waiter uniform.

“Kikwang- sanbe!” I said and smiled.

“You came here for the job interview?” He asked and began collection the plates.

“No actually-“ I began but was interrupted by a flying apron. I caught it an stared at him curiously.

“Great then put this on, you can put your flowers on the side with your jacket. As you can see, we’re packed so your interview will be this. Let’s see how you can handle this.” He said and smiled up at me as he walked to put the dishes on the counter, they were later taken away by an older man.

“Unless you can’t handle it.” Kikwang smiled at me daringly and I threw my jacket off, which made him smile wider, and put the apron on and got to work.

-Kikwang P.O.V-

I watched her work. She had a wide smile on her face as she approached every customer. I knew that the female customers expected me to serve them but instead they got her. But they weren’t disappointed. As a matter of fact they made casual conversation with her, laughed and even tipped her.

I smiled to myself and decided to play with her a little.

As she rushed past me I casually put my foot out, she tripped and I grabbed her waist.

“Careful there newbie! I might have to take off some points for clumsiness.” I said and winked.

“Do I get to take points off of YOU for purposely tripping me?” she asked, smiling up at me sarcastically.

She saw?

I pulled her up and she dusted herself off.

“here let me put your hair up for you.” I said when I saw her struggling with her wavy, red hair. She handed me the elastic without a second thought and I began putting her hair up for her.

Because it was still a little wet I could smell the fragrant shampoo she must have used that morning… I smiled to myself.

“Oppa! You have a girlfriend?” asked two girls suddenly; one had a pout on her face.

“Oh n-“ I began to protest but ___ beat me to it.

“Nah, your oppa is just a future co worker, and because my hands were sticky he was doing me a favor. Thank you sanbenim” she said and bowed to me, taking off her apron.

“I have to go though, the rain stopped and I have somewhere else to be.” _____ said with a thoughtful look on her face.

“You will be coming back to work tomorrow right?” asked my uncle looking out of the kitchen.

“I am not officially hired though-“ ____ began to protest but I interrupted

“You’re hired then! See you tomorrow!” I said with a bright smile on my face holding her jacket out to her.

Puzzled she stared at me for a while and slipped her hands into the sleeves.

“I’ll… think about it…” she said and picked up the daises.

“Fine, but do I get your number at least? I mean I’ll need a way of contacting you to see if you accepted or not.” I said and smiled. I pulled out my phone and put it out in front of my mouth, giving her an eye smile.

She paused and narrowed her eyes. After a moment she shrugged and took the phone from my hand and typed in her number.

“I’m off. Thank you for the shelter from the rain Ajushi!” she yelled to my uncle and bowed respectfully.

“Thank you for the hard work! Hope to see you tomorrow!” uncle called back.

“Bye Kikwang –subae” she bowed to me and was out the door.

“She’s a nice girl Kikwang, hard working.” My uncle said as a matter of fact as he leaned on the counter of the cash register, with a smile on his face.

“She’s not my type uncle.” I said simply and took the apron she was wearing to the back.

“I didn’t mean it that way kiddo, but now that you mention it, she would be a nice girl for you for a change.” My uncle said and took the money from a customer.

“I don’t date nice, hardworking girls uncle…” I said out loud.

I only hurt them…was what I though… just like I did that one time… then another thought popper into my head… If she wasn’t my type… why was her smile replaying in my head…

I thought back to what Hyuori asked me to do… this was only a business relationship, just to keep myself safe… nothing else… simply business… the sooner I get over and done with her… the sooner I can go on living my life as usual…

I think…

-DaeHyun P.O.V-

I came back to the cemetery, the place I left ____ before it started to rain… I looked around for any sign of her.

Good I was early, she has not been here yet… there were no flowers form her yet.

I place my blue flowers into one of the two vases by the stones and prayed…

“Ajushi… Ajuma…. I know you guy don’t know why I am… Hi.. I’m DaeHyun… I live with your daughter along with 5 other guys. I just wanted to say that… we will take care of her from now on so don’t worry! We will make her happy, she wont cry anymore! I’ll make sure that she doesn’t cry anymore… I promise… I too like seeing her smile!” I said and smiled into my mask…

I heard footsteps and the sudden familiar voice made me jump.

“DaeHyun!?” Yelled _____ as she stared at me in disbelief.

“O-oh! ________-ah… Hey… you… uh …. When did you come?” I stuttered.

Damn DaeHyun don’t stutter!

“Just now… what why are you here? In front of my… were you following me!?” she yelled and stomped directly towards me. Her face was blank and I though she was going to hit me with the daises…

Instead she sighted and ran her fingers through my hair.

“Your hair wet… why didn’t you wear your hood… babo…” she said and pulled the hood of my hoodie over my head. She then turned to the stones and put the flowers in the empty vase bowed and grabbed my arm dragging me away.

Ajushi… ajuma… don’t let her kill me!

We stood at the train station in silence… I kept glancing up at _____ blank face until finally the bus came. She walked in ahead of me and sat down, the seat beside her was the only empty one and I hesitated, not knowing if I should sit.

The buss began moving and I fell forward, straight onto _____. She had grabbed my shoulders to keep me from falling too far and I had put my hands on the back of her seat to brace myself.

“Babo just sit down beside me, I’m not going to kill you.” She whispered with a smile.

I a rush I did as was told. We were so close that one time… her face was right there… I could feel it… and I wanted to-

“Why did you follow me.” _____ said suddenly interrupting my thoughts. I looked at her and realized that she was watching me. Was I taking to long to reply?

“You seemed… odd this morning… I was worried… so I followed you…” I admitted and looked down.

“What made you think that something was odd?” she asked, the buss too a turn and her weight shifted my direction. The buss stopped and people entered… elders..

We both rose out of our seats and went to stand in the crowd that was piling in.

____ turned to face me and hung on to the pole beside me while I hung on to the one above her.

“You weren’t fighting with YongGuk like you always do. It made me realize something was up.” I said and gave her an eye smile.

She laughed and was pushed tightly to my chest.

“Sorry…” she muttered and laughed again.

“No worries…” was all I managed to breath out… she was so close… so close.

I spaced out thinking… and before I knew it ____ was calling my name… we missed our stop…

Getting off on the next one we decided to walk back… worst decision ever…

It began to rain hard again so we ran back to the building. When we finally got in it we were both fully soaked and laughing.

“Where were you two?” asked YongGuk with his arms crossed when we entered the apartment.

“We… uh…” I began my mind going blank.

“I went to see my friend and ran into Dae on my way back, we took the same bus. DaeHyun said he was shopping for something… but didn’t find it…” ____ bailed me out and headed upstairs.

“Wait! _____!” called YongGuk after throwing me a sharp glance.

“Yeah?” she asked turning around, she was well on her way of taking her jacket off.

“I’m sorry…” mutter YongGuk and Himchan fell off his chair.

I dropped my shoes while YoungJae and Zelo nearly spit their drinks out. JongUp just stared, frozen on the spot.

“For what…? DID YOU DO SOMETHING TO MY ROOM! YAH! RABBIT! I TOLD YOU NOT TO GO THOUGH MY STUFF YOU PERVERT!” ______ blew up on him. The atmosphere in the room relaxed as I passed the furious ______ who began her usual argument with YongGuk.

“I’m NOT A PERVERT AND I WAS TRYING TO BE SENSITIVE! NEVERMIND! GOD GIRLS AND THEY MONTHLY THINGS!”

“I AM NOT ON MY PERIOD YOU DUMBASS OTHERWISE YOU I WOULD NOT BE THE ONLY ONE BLEEDING IN THIS ROOM!”

“okay THAT’S JUST GROSS! WAY TOO MUCH INFO! AND YOU CALL ME A PERVERT!”

“CUZ YOU ARE! PERVERT!”

I could still hear them arguing as I walked into my room and fell on my bed, still wet and dosed off…

I woke up in the middle of the night…. That why I hate taking mid day naps… I was completely awake… but my throat felt funny… oh well…

Without a second thought I went and took a shower.

Getting out I walked past ____ room and paused…

Was someone… sobbing?

Carefully I opened the door to her room to find ______ sitting on the floor, her hair and clothes soaked, staring at a picture on the floor.

Without a word I rushed over to her side and knelt beside her. She didn’t even look at me.

Tears were streaming down her face and onto the soaked picture of her parents.

“they… died… because of me… and I’m still here….” She sobbed.

Not knowing what to do I threw my towel on her head and began massaging her hair to dry it…

“Didn’t anyone tell you that if you sit with your hair we you’ll catch a cold… why are you soaked anyways?” I questioned as her teary eyes stared up at me.

“I went for a run because I couldn’t sleep…” she answered after a long pause.

“In the rain?! What is wrong with you woman!” I hissed at her and she sniffed. I looked around looking for a tissue. When my head turned back towards her I sighed. She was crying again

“I can’t believe… you saw me cry…” she sniffed and rubbed her eye.

“Hey, nothing wrong with that you know… people all need to cry sometimes. Even those who are strong.” I said and pushed her hair out of her face.

“You should change, your soaked…” I said and helped her off the floor.

She went into her closet and I turned to leave.

“DaeHyun… can you… stay…” she muttered and grabbed my arm.

“But you…”

“Just turn around and I’ll change… sit with me for a little…” she whispered and I closed the door. She didn’t even pull my arm… I went willingly…

I lay on her bed waiting for her to change. Moments later there was weight on the bed beside me. I moved over closer to the wall giving her room while she laid down at the edge. ____ had changed into a tank top and sweats. It was quiet.

“DaeHyun…” she finally spoke after a long silence

“Hm?” I asked with my eyes closed. I didn’t know I was still tiered until I was finally lying down.

“Thank you…” she said and turned over onto her side to face me. “for being there for me…” she said and smiled.

“If you ever need to cry… don’t cry alone… my room is just down the hall.. call me and I’ll come and led you my shoulder.” I said and without thinking stroked her cheek. My mind was getting cloudy so I closed my eyes.

_____ grabbed my hand suddenly and then her hand was on my forehead.

“DAEHYUN! YOU’RE SICK!” she whispered loudly.

-YOUR P.O.V-

He was burning up!

He made a murring sound and I got up quickly.

“wait here okay?” I rand down to get some medicine and came back up.

“Here sit up. Take it.” I sat him up an pushed the pill through his lips, then some water to his lips. He swallowed obediently and lay back down.

I pulled my bed covers over him and got up to sleep on the couch but he grabbed my wrist.

“No.. stay…” he murmured and his eyes opened a little. With a sigh I laid back down beside him

“Stupid… your going to get me sick…” I muttered turning on my side to face him.

I’ll just stay until he is asleep and the leave… I though.

But boy was I wrong.

Suddenly DaeHyun threw his arm around my waist and pulled me in close, resting his chin on my head.

“No… never… _____ is very important… I’d never get her sick…” he muttered nonsense to myself into my hair.

“Besides… _____ would scare the cold away anyways…” he sounded like a kid. I laughed into his throat and felt his jaw move, he was smiling.

“______ your hair smells good…” he muttered half asleep, tightening his grip on me.

“Thanks I think…” I responded knowing he won’t hear me.

“You’re evil _______ you stole… my…. And now… I can’t…” he breathed into my head.

“Don’t be sad okay…. I’ll protect you… I promised…” and with that we both fell asleep…