Kyuu 九

"Johnny hyung, Yuta hyung, WAKE UP!" Doyoung, who woke up an hour ago, entered the dark room with a loud thump. Now that Taeyong is in a coma, he's been responsible in cooking breakfast with Kun every morning. He's still not used to waking up earlier than usual but he believes it helps him to be more disciplined. While Kun is off finishing a few of the last side dishes, Doyoung was sent to wake the boys up, which leads him to where he is now.

"Ya why is the room so dark?" The lanky boy went towards the thick curtains and slide them open. The room was filled with bright sun rays in an instant, resulting the two older boys to groan in their sleep. Doyoung went to Johnny's bed and took off his covers, followed by Yuta's. As the cold air rushed in, the boys shivered and groggily woke up unpleasantly.

"Hyungs go and wash up! Breakfast's ready and we have to be at the studio in an hour. We don't have much time so we need to complete our task as soon as possible!" Doyoung announced enthusiastically as he threw each of their towels on their heads. He then walked out the room with head held high and proceeds to wake the other boys up.

"I call shots." With that Johnny quickly sprinted into the bathroom beating Yuta to it.

"Seriously? What time is it?" Yuta searched frantically for his phone. His bed covers was thrown all over the floor and his pillows flew by Johnny's unmade bed. Gratefully, he found his phone hanging on the foot of his bed, threatening to fall off. With swift movements, he caught the phone in time before it met the floor. Kudos to his fast reflexes after years of playing on his school's soccer team. He then unlocked the phone at look at the time.

"Its only 9..ughhhh." The Japanese man is used to sleeping in during off days so the change was quite inevitable for him. The boy rested his back on the headboard of his bed and scrolled through his phone while waiting for his turn to shower. As he scrolled through his phone, he realised Doyoung didn't close the door on his way out. Because of that, his line of sight is automatically positioned on Taeyong's door. He stared at the door for a few good seconds until his body unconsciously stood up and brought him in front of the closed room.

Hesitantly, he placed his fingers on the cold door knob and twist it open, unrevealing the vacant room. As much as it was raided so many times by the authorities, Taeyong's room remained spotless like it was untouched. His bed sheets were made, belongings were placed at the respective spots and his room still smelt like him. It was like he never left. Kun or Taeil hyung must have kept this place clean in case of his return. Yuta went further in the room and halted in front of a study desk. On the desk was stationaries and books organised accordingly by colour. He opened one of the drawers and saw a book familiar to him.

"Oh? Its the notebook I bought for his birthday." Yuta took out the notebook and scanned the contents. It was filled with song lyrics and mind-maps. Even in writing, he keeps it organised. As he was about to close the book and put it back at its place, a piece of paper managed to slip out from it. Curious, the Japanese boy picked it up. To his surprise, it was a picture of the both of them during their trainee period. Yuta flipped it over and saw that there was a message written.

"Thank you for all you've done for me Yuta. I might be able to trust someone again thanks to you. Let's continue to stay together, forever."

Yuta traced the words with his fingers as he tried not to cry. He remembered the day he took this picture with Taeyong. They were backstage at one of SMTOWN's family concerts getting ready for their performance. It was their first big stage as trainees so they were feeling very nervous. Yuta recalled the moment where Hansol vomited before dancing on stage due to his nerves. Jaehyun was trembling so much he had to take a medicine to calm him down.

Everyone was nervous but Taeyong showed his leadership by saying encouraging words to motivate his teammates for the stage. With his guidance and motivation, their performance was successful and we even received compliments from their seniors. Yuta could never forget that day, ever since then, he have been looking at Taeyong in a different light unlike the others. He admired his skills, his looks, his ability to lead, the leader was just meant to be on the stage. At that moment the Japanese member decided that he wanted to stand by him on the same stage, again and again and again, as far as their fate brings us.

Yuta smiled at the picture and placed the notebook at its original place. As much as he kept reliving precious moments of them together is sweet, being in the older's cold room give him the shivers, especially after what he had experience that day. Yuta took the picture and left the room to occupy the bathroom which was now vacant.

"Hey where did you go?" Johnny who only had a towel hugging his waist asked, as he began drying his hair with a blow dryer.

"Just next door." Yuta answered as he placed the picture secretly on his desk.

"What for?" Johnny continued drying his hair as he observes his roommate's action through the mirror.

"I don't know. My body brought me there. Maybe I just miss him." Yuta shrugged as he walked across the room to get his towel.

"Me too. I hope whatever he hid in the studio has something to do with his actions." Johnny sighed as and turned off the dryer and went to his closet to pick an outfit of the day. Meanwhile, the other was silently sitting on his bed thinking of Taeyong.

"I really hope so too."

// hello guys its been long since I posted yes and im sorry! Good news, my laptop is fixed and I can finally write more compared to while I was using my phone. tiny screen and fat fingers? not the best partners. anyways....i'll try to pick a day that I think I will be able to post on every week and try to maintain the updates. maybe every Friday? or Wednesday? I'm not sure yet lets see how it goes. my schedule right now is a bit packed with how I have to jumble school and my part time job at the same time so please understand. today I promise I will try to upload two chapters for each book. thank you for you patience!!! xoxo