Jisung's POV

I felt nausea when those memories came to me naturally. I didn't know why I wished it would have been like before. If I was suddenly in trance, anyone with me could easily snap me out of it but I couldn't even stop it now. It's just there. The memories were just there if I tried to think of it.

I sighed, it's been a few hours since I left my mother's house and went to work. Chan had been glaring at me as if I did something wrong by returning to work. "At least! Shouldn't you take one more week to rest? How is one week enough?", He had been rambling about this for a long while and he made me wondered, "aren't you busy?"

Well, seeing how he was the owner of this company and also my superior, I thought he would be more busy than this. He seemed like he had a lot of time to waste. "Of course, I am...", He justified himself but towards the end his voice be had lowered down.

"Actually...are you alright?", I narrowed my eyes and observed this shameless man who had danced his way into my personal studio and lied down on my sofa as if it was his own. Precisely, it was indeed his since he owned this building but just casually acting like he wasn't bothering me with work, wasn't he a bit too shameless? I pointed at myself, "you're asking me?"

If you ask me, I had never been this better. In fact, everything felt suck now that I just felt like straggling my past self for even thinking of throwing Hyunjin's letter away even if I actually didn't do that. Now, the question was why did the letter went missing anyway even when I already gave the letter to him? It was another pain to think of. I thought if I think a bit more, something might come to me but there wasn't anything about it at all. I wasn't that skillful at being bad or scheming when I was 18!

"Felix...called me", there that gaze again. Chan didn't know anything but he always looked like he knew something or maybe he was just giving me pity not matter what the reason behind my haggard looks was? . "He said you might be returning to work again...I just thought maybe something bad happened or-"

"You're overthinking. I'm fine. Hyunjin is fine.", I told him firmly. There must be a reason behind him being this concerned.

He pushed himself up and sat straight. "That's good. I just don't want you to end up like me and Minho"

I pressed my cheek against my palm and hummed. It wasn't a news to me anymore, I heard about it from Hyunjin and Felix how Chan and Minho's relationship hadn't been good nor progressing towards the nice path. They fought almost everyday because there wasn't much understanding between them but now they stayed as friends.

"Have you ever want to be with him again?", It was a slip of words. I didn't mean to mention it to him but it just happened to pass through my lips carelessly. He gave me a thoughtful look. "That's...a bit hard to say. It would be a lie if I say that I never thought of it"

"But being together only bring misfortunes to us. There weren't any sign of us caring for each other anymore. We're happy the way it is now. It's a way I protect myself and him", hearing his words kind of made sense but at the same time I couldn't help but be disappointed.

Hyunjin had said the same thing before that if he was afraid of something, he would avoid them. Chan was doing the same thing.

This made me realize that being adult didn't mean you would be brave enough to do anything as you wish. In fact, you became more restricted doing what you wish to do and decided to stay in your comfort zone more. It wasn't necessarily a bad thing but I couldn't help but be a bit... disappointed?

Or could it be that because I had been trying to do things out of my comfort zone that misfortunes kept on coming to our way?

"Jisung?", Chan waved his hand in front of me and I snapped into reality. "I have to go back to work"

I smiled and chuckled, "thought you had all day long to stare at my face. Finally getting tired of me now,huh?", He threw a pillow at me and cursed under his breath before he went out.

"The boys comeback is in two days! You better be ready because they will bombard your studio as usual", Jisung raised his eyebrows then the memories came again.

"Eh...", He said when he remembered how each come back the boys would meet him and started talking about people's reaction when they saw them perform. "I am not that lonely after all"

I was just truly blind that I didn't see I had a lot of people around me who I could talk to.

I stood up from the chair and grabbed my wallet. I told Hyunjin I would come home by myself today, maybe I should grave some food before going home.

The two of us would be too tired to cook anyway. "Maybe pizza will do...", I mumbled as I texted Hyunjin not to cook anything for dinner.

On my way out, I bumped into someone, my phone falling out of my hand. The person who had bumped into me apologized and picked the phone up for me. When she was about to walk away, I grabbed her shoulder, "granny?", I said, my voice sounded a bit odd as I was so confused.

"Yes?", The old lady said, her voice was just like how I remembered it was when I first met her. "How come...." She looked the same? It's been 10 years but she still looked the same as she was before. "Oh my...", The old lady said, trying to wiggle her way out of my grip and the realization of how hard I had been gripping onto her arms made took a step back.

"You have many concerns, don't you?", The old lady suddenly said. "But did your wish come true?"

I frowned a bit, my wish? "Your wish... didn't you want to be happy? You said it yourself...everyone keep looking at him only. Nobody noticed you"

"So, did your wish come true? Do they finally look at you?", The more she talked, the more convinced I was that she was the same old lady as back then. I was no longer perplexed. I don't really believe in such thing as fate or destiny but nothing could explain how odd this situation was. So, I would just put this as my fate.

I nodded my head and smiled at her. All this time, it wasn't that nobody noticed me but like I said...I was too blind to notice those who had always been taking care of me. "That's good", the old lady smiled and patted my head.

She suddenly bowed her head, looking for something through her bag before she reached out for my hand and spread my hand. She out a candy in my head before patting my head. "You remind me of my grandson. He love this candy. So, I thought you might like it too"

"Grandma!!!", Came a familiar voice running towards us. When I saw the boy with blazing red hair approaching us, I immediately knew why this old lady looked so familiar apart from the moment I met her years ago. She looked so much like her grandson.

"Jaeyong, why did you run? You could trip and fall!", The old lady scolded, hitting her grandson on his back like any typical Republic of Korea's grandmother would. "Ouch! Grandma stop! Hyung, did my grandma said anything weird to you?"

I laughed loudly at the pair. I always thought Jaeyong was a mature person because he was a group leader but he was still a kid that was wet behind his ears. "Nah. In fact, I like your grandmother."

"Next time, we should have dinner together with her and your members!", I smiled widely at him and waved my hand. "Ah...young man", I turned my head and hummed at her. "You better hurry...you still need to pay for your wish. It could be too late until the time to pay."

"...", I smiled politely at her and walked out but I couldn't get her words out from my head.

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Hyunjin's POV

I trust Jisung but I still ended up coming to the studio. I sighed heavily, pressing my head against my palm. It was stressing me out because whoever sent me that text didn't mean anything good.

I could be patient but I didn't want Jisung to do everything by himself. The least I could do was to meet this person and see if they were trying hurt Jisung in any kind of way at all.

"You came...", Hyunjin was perplexed because he recognise this voice. Even if the petite lady was wearing a mask and a cap to hide her face, I would still know that she was HanMi.

I wanted to ask her if this was some kind of sick joke but she didn't seem to be the type who will make a joke. "This place is nice, isn't it?", She suddenly asked, her eyes bright when she looked at me.

"My sister loves making plates...Well, she could do many other things but she love making plates the most", she started rambling about her sister which I had no idea of. "...because she said, if it's a plate people would treasure them more because people use it everyday and it would be a hassle to buy new one everytime"

"People would treasure it more...she will be recognized more. Even if people didn't see her a normal person...at least, people will acknowledge her", she tapped on the table with a rhythm I couldn't comprehend. If she was up to something, I really wished she would just cut it through the chest because Jisung might just be waiting for me at home now.

"What do you want to say? What's that got to do with whatever Jisung is doing now", she suddenly lifted her head and stared at me with an odd gaze. A gaze as if asking me 'seriously? You don't know?'. She was enraged.

"You should know...I didn't approach your sweet Jisung because I just wanted to be his friend.", She laughed as if she found my confused expression funny. "In fact, he was staring at me first. He was staring at me like he could die any moment."

I gripped the edge of the table next to me. Jisung didn't say anything about this before and he said it to me that he definitely didn't cheat on me. That much I knew but heating those words from her mouth enraged me a bit. It irritated me. I couldn't help but think her existence was growing more and more annoying.

She tapped her chin and tilted her head as if she was ridiculing me. Even through the mask, I could see that she was smiling. "Ah...no. Of course, at first I thought that too but no worry, he wasn't staring at me because he liked me or anything"

"I don't have any interest in him in such way too..." She purposefully said such way in a teasing way just to raise my anger. "Plus...he was scared of me"

"But of course he will be scared! If I almost killed someone dear to him, I would be scared too!", She started laughing again, clutching her stomach as if she couldn't hold herself. If I didn't stop her, she could be rolling on the floor and lost her rationality all together. "What do you mean by..."

"Your husband! That sweet looking guy that you trust so much, run into my sister and she's in coma now".

"He ruined someone's life and dare to manipulate me as well"

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Y'all know how I work anyway 😂 I say I'm busy then I will pull this kind of update because I can't hold myself back. I mean hello! I had been holding myself for a week not writing this update when I had a lot ideas in my mind.