"Why don't you smile even a bit?" Boss Jeon commented as I never say a word since we got on the plane.

"I..." I paused. "I just can't for now," I replied. "By the way, about the media?" I asked him.

"Ahh, don't mind about it. My brother already talked to HIVE's attorney and decided to settle thing privately for you and Sunghoon's sake. So, no news will come out about you getting bailed out. Also, all the media are busy about the year ends, so they totally forgot about your case already," he explained that made me sighed and looked outside the plane's window.

"That's good to hear then," I commented.

"Sunoo, you're going to meet your friends now, so don't make them feel worried," he stated while looking at his cellphone.

"Until when I'm going to stay in there?" I asked him instead.

I can pretend I'm fine in front of Jungwon and Ni-ki so I don't worry about it anymore. I'm really feeling down right now.

"Just wait for like a half year," he answered that made me throw my gaze at him.

"Half year? 6 months? I need to review for the next CSAT already. I should have been taken it already last month but a lot of things happened and our money wasn't enough," I complained.

"Hey calm down," he said. "Jungwon and you can still review while you're both in Japan. I will assign a professor so you two can review. Don't worry about it," he stated in his casual tone.

What he said made my brows wrinkled. "Why are you helping me this much? I don't think this is just about ENB's success," I doubted.

He stopped scrolling through his screen and looked at me. Boss Jeon isn't that old and he's really manly. He's manipulative and has his one word.

I fear him sometimes, I thanked him sometimes but he's bullshit every time.

"Yang Jungwon and you deserve it. So, I'm doing what I can to help you. Well, I think you can add the guilt that's why I'm doing this? But you were the one who applied in my company before so sometimes I don't really think these are all my fault. HAHAHA silly!" he laughed at the end then drink his water.

I just glared at him and rolled my eyes. I looked outside the window and I couldn't see anything.

"Was that the only reason?" I asked him again.

"Kim Sunoo," he called me that made me look at him. He's so serious.

"Why?" I asked him.

"When I was at your age, I really wanted to make tons of money but doing it is the exchange of leaving my family," he stated.

He never opened up personal matter to me. He's always weird. I'm annoyed now.

"So? You didn't leave your family, right?" I asked him.

"My dad almost pulled my name out on our family register," he answered and then laughs.

"No way," I reacted while frowning. "You choose money over them?" I asked.

He nods, "But you're smart, firm yet stupid. I'm glad you didn't give up and choose your family instead," he stated.

I sighed and look down, "How about Park Sunghoon?" I whispered.

"Love? It's everywhere but you only have one family and that's Jungwon and Ni-ki, you can't ever replaced them," he stated.

"What's with you? Why are you talking like you're my hyung or what?" I commented so that it won't make us both emotional.

He chuckles, "Money... You can make lots of that for yourself. Love? It will come at the right time but family? You can't find them everywhere because they will reside inside you," he paused and ruffles my hair, "Sorry for making things hard for you, Kim Sunoo."

For real, I'm now annoyed. He isn't Boss Jeon that I know.

He's making me feel so uncomfortable around him and I hate him. Boss Jeon isn't like this. "I'm tired, I'll just take a nap," I said and turn my back at him. I'm so tired that I let myself sleep for a while.

A lot of people are fighting because of money that sometime's you're already willing to cut your ties with those blood related to you.

Really, life is so cruel.

"Hey brat, wake up we're already in Japan," my eyes opened end I saw Boss Jeon fixing his suit.

"We're here?" I asked not in my proper self.

"I just said it, let's go," he said and leave me behind.

I just scoff and stood up while massaging my neck. The flight attendant smiled at me as I walk outside the door and take the stairs. It's too early but there are a lot of people already in the airport.

This is my first time coming in here. I smiled because of the thought that I'm going to meet my brothers now.

Boss Jeon and I head inside and wait for our luggage. While waiting my eyes is busy peeking outside the arrival area if Jungwon and Ni-ki are there.

I saw my things so I pulled it and Boss Jeon did the same. I think he will stay here for a week that's why he has his suitcase. "Yours already with you?" he asked me.

"Yeah," I replied while nodding.

Then we started walking outside. My eyes started searching around then I heard someone shouted, "HYUNG!"

I looked at that direction and my eyes started to water as I run into them and then they both hugged me.

"I missed you two," I cried while hugging them so tight.

"Me too hyung," I heard from Ni-ki with his sobs.

"Dummy, you stayed there for so long. I missed you so much!" Jungwon cried also that made me laugh.

I looked at them and brushed my tears, "I'm glad you're both fine," I stated while smiling then they hugged me again.

"Hyung, I'm sorry," Ni-ki apologized.

"Hey, you didn't do anything wrong," then I let out a soft chuckle.

He looked at me smiling, "At least we're now together again," he stated.

I nod at him and I looked at Boss Jeon, "Thank you," I said and he just nods at me.

He then tap Jungwon and Ni-ki's shoulder then ruffled my head even if I have my cap, "Take care in here and I will contact you from time to time, I'm going to go now," he said and then walks out.

The three of us bowed at him even if his back is the only thing we can see from him. I looked at him and smiled, "Let's go home?" I asked and then we all chuckled.

Sunghoon hyung, let's be apart for now and meet again in the right time. Let's be happy for now with the things we have and be happy again when we crossed our paths again.

It may take a bit longer than expected but I know we will meet again. I just hope our feelings haven't faded.

A lot of things happened while we're here in Japan. We celebrated holidays in Ni-ki's house. He started attending school while Jungwon and I are now working also.

I'm working in a computer shop while Jungwon is working in a café. If work is smooth, we're able to fetch Ni-ki from school and we eat street foods.

At night, Jungwon and I are meeting the instructor who assigned by Boss Jeon for us to review for the CSAT. The good thing in here is, we're not paying her anything.

So far, everything is working out fine. Language barrier really sucks but we can still handle it.

About Sunghoon hyung, I don't really heard about him but he came back with his new album last month and with his first Japanese album. Despite of having troubles last year because of me, his sales and streams went 3x higher than before.

Mainly because his songs are really relatable. His lyrics are so deep and sad and I'm not going to lie that I'm thinking his songs are about us.

I wonder how he is right now?

When I got in here, I saw that there's an old cassette player in here and I decided to play that tape he gave me. I burst in crying while listening on how that song is so good.

I thought he's going to include it in his new album but I heard a different version of it. That song is so melancholy. A total opposite of this song that's in me.

"Sunoo, you're spacing out again," I heard from our instructor Ms. Shin.

I scratched my forehead, "I'm sorry Ms.," I apologized then she smiled at me and she continued with her lessons.

After our three hours of lectures, we decided to go outside and look for some refreshments. "You two should get back to Seoul next month," she opened a topic.

"Why?" Jungwon asked and sip on his juice.

"Are classes aren't done yet, right?" I asked him.

"Yep but you need to process your school papers that I'm going to pass soon. Well, you can do it next month but it's already ber months though," she added.

"We'll ask Boss Jeon if he'll let us come back to Seoul for that," Jungwon said.

"Right, we'll just stay there for days and after that we will come back in here right away," I agreed.

Ms. Shin nods, "That's good to hear, just let me know if what the news is okay? I'm going to leave you here now," she said and bid her goodbye so we bowed at her and waved our hands.

"Why are you here?" A familiar voice from our back speaks so Jungwon and I looked back. "Ms. Shin just left?" she asked also and walk towards us.

"Yeah and why are you here outside? It's already late," I asked her.

"Ahh righ! I bought jelly pudding because I'm really craving for it! You want?" she offered me while smiling.

"Sunoo, I'm going to go ahead first. I'm already sleepy," Jungwon said and I just nod at him then he walks away.

"He's not usually sleepy though?" I heard her commented.

"He might be going to watch Jay's content again or something," then I laughed.

"How about you Sunoo-chan?" she asked me.

"What about me?" I asked her back in confusion.

"Aren't you going to watch Sunghoon's content?" she asked me.

"Why would I do that?" I asked her in my casual tone and sip on my cola.

"Because you like him," she answered me.

She's Sato Ayaka. She's Ni-ki's neighbor and his close childhood friend. She loves cosplaying and she's really cute. Aside from loving mangas and cosplaying the characters, she's also a K-pop fan- specially a Penguin.

"Yeah, I do like him but I don't think I can watch his contents though?" I replied and laugh.

"He's also an artist now. He's drama holds the highest rating and he's also an mc in a music show. He's so-" I cut her off.

"He's so successful right?" I continued what she's trying to say.

"No," she disagree that made me furrow. "He's so sad despite of those. I can really see it from him," she corrected me.

Her statement made me look away, "If ever, I'm going back to Seoul for a while. Seoul is really big and wide right? Will our paths going to cross?" I asked her randomly.

"SEOUL!? You're going to come back in there?" she exclaimed like a kid.

"We're going to wait for Boss Jeon's approval first," I answered her. "Why?" I asked her.

"Can I come? Please! I really wanna go there! Please! Please! Take me with you and Jungwon-chan!" she begged like a kid that made me chuckle.

And that's it.

Boss Jeon gave us five days to process our school papers. Jungwon, I, Ayaka, together with Ms. Shin, we travel to Seoul and I'm really feeling nervous.

"Calm your ass down, they don't know you already," Jungwon whispered on me as we walk outside with our luggage.

I nods nervously, "Yeah, I really want to but I'm still nervous," I replied and he just wrapped his arms on my neck and laugh.

We're still in the airport but I can already see Sunghoon's ad everywhere. He's really famous now. I stopped from walking and head up just to watch his 30 secs ad.

"You'll freak the hell out of you when you see him in person," Jungwon again whispered again.

"I know and it's really scaring the hell out of me," I replied and we both laugh as we started walking again.

We stayed in a hotel and Ms. Shin went home to her house. We both took a rest and when morning came, we started taking care of our school papers together with Ms. Shin.

Ayaka is with her Korean friends so I already put my trust on her that she won't do any trouble.

Our days staying in here and processing our papers we become really busy that I don't mind about other matters. Before our last day, we managed to fix everything and become qualified for the CSAT exams on November.

What we are waiting for years is finally coming.

"I'm fucking tired, please don't wake me up," Jungwon said and before I could speak he's already dozing off.

"Oppa, are you also tired?" Ayaka asked me.

This girl rarely calling me that endearment and if she calls me that it means she really needs something from me. Her tactics.

"Why? Aren't you tired too? You've been out since we came here," I teased her and laugh.

She laughs, "Yeah but there's still one place I haven't gone there," she pouted.

"And?"

"I want to go there before we come back to Japan," she pleaded wearing her cute face.

"Okay okay! HAHAHA! Where it is?" I asked her.

"HIVE Museum," she whispered.

I froze while looking at her in my uneasy feeling. "W-where again?" I asked.

"HIVE Museum," she repeated. "I know! I know you don't want to go there but," she paused and played with her fingers. "I just want to go there before we leave," she added.

I closed my eyes and massage my forehead. I looked again at her and smiled bluntly, "Okay, we'll go," I agreed that made her face shines brightly.

I wore fitted jeans, plain white shirt and striped long sleeves over it. We head outside since Jungwon is already sleeping. The museum will close after an hour from now so we really need to get there as fast as possible. Gladly we made it.

There are only few people but I'm still uncomfortable. Seeing Ayaka's excited face made me feel at ease. We started roaming inside and a lot of things changed in here already.

A lot changed but the nostalgia feeling is still in here.

Ayaka's really happy being in here that she might break something so I held her hand like a kid. This girl is really hyper when she's excited.

We stopped walking when we reached Sunghoon's shelves of achievements. I smiled under my mask when I saw how many awards, trophy and plaque have been added in here since the last time I came.

"You're not regretting coming in here, right?" she asked me while looking in front of us.

"Yeah, I'm nervous but I'm still glad I came in here," I replied.

I bit my lips to stop myself from crying as I remembered our conversation when we're in here before. That we will get all these achievements together.

Congratulations hyung! You deserve all of these. I'm so proud of you.

"I'm happy, I am. I'm happy but so empty," Ayaka said that made me look at her. "That's one of his lyrics," she looked at me. "He may be successful but he's not happy at all. Something's missing and it might be you," she continued.

I smiled and cupped her cheeks, "Let's not conclude things," I said and laugh. "You're going to buy souvenirs right? Let's go," then I held her hand and dragged her out from there.

I know Sunghoon hyung's songs from his recent album "Darkest Light" are really depressing. Some maybe upbeat but the lyrics will really pierce you.

Ayaka bought tee, hoodies and other sorts of things like she will never come back in here.

"Is it all okay? The museum will close now," I asked her.

She checked her paper bag and looked at me, "Yep! Everything is packed!" she exclaimed so we started walking out.

I removed my mask and ruffled my hair as we head outside while I'm holding her hands. I don't know, I just feel like she's going to break something if I let her go. She's so clumsy, believe me.

"Sunshine oppa!" I heard her called me so I looked at her while smiling.

"Oh why? Are you going to tease me again-" I stopped talking when I noticed someone behind her.

I looked at Ayaka and she's about to burst already so I held her hand tighter. I don't want her to cause trouble. "Park Sunghoon," she mouthed and bit her lips stopping herself from screaming.

I just gave her a smile and put my gaze to Sunghoon who's looking at us. He changed so much. He looks so manly, he became buff but this scent. This scent never changed.

How I miss him so much, I could hug him tight.

"How are you?" I asked her while smiling.

"I'm fine," he replied but I can see his tears that are about to fell down.

I smiled to his answers, "That's good to hear," I commented and then bowed at him. "Let's go," I whispered to Ayaka and we started walking.

"S-sunoo!"

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to stop myself from crying. I looked back at him and smiled, "Yeah?"

"We're going to see each other again, right?"