"Damn," I cursed "I look like a panda." I touched the bags under my eyes, thanks to the nightmares I had last night. "What the hell was that all about? Sungmin's perfectly fine."
I walked out of the house after looking at my terrible bags. I walked down the street again and into the store. "Hello Kyuhyun." Sungmin greeted me, I looked at him. He seemed pretty tired. "Hey, didn't get enough rest?" He shook his head. "What are you doing here, again?" Heeyoung empathize on the word again.
"Why are you chasing away a customer?"
"When did you even buy anything?"
"I bought a bottle of coke recently."
"Yeah, that was like $1.45." She rolled her eyes and continued to mop the floor. Sungmin was packing some bottled drinks. "Need my help?" I asked. "Eh..? Ah, uh no." He smiled at me.
I continued to stare at him until he dropped a few bottles. "Ah..." He seemed out of it, I waved my left hand in front of his eyes. "Hello, earth to Sungmin." He snapped out of it. "Oh, sorry." He picked up the bottles that were rolling on the floor. Heeyoung helped him. "Again? This is the forth time today Sungmin. I think you've overworked your body. Maybe you should take the rest of the day off." What? Forth time?
"No, I'm perfectly alright."
"If you were, you'd not be dropping so many things." Heeyoung mumbled. "Or maybe he's just hungry." I spoke after a long pause.
"That's true, it is my lunch time." Heeyoung sighed. "Okay, you can go, but hurry back~"
"Thanks Heeyoung." Sungmin walked out of the store, and like yesterday, Heeyoung glared at me. "What exactly is it you want?" She spat.
"It's. None. Of. Your. Business~" I stuck my tongue at her before leaving the store. I could see her fuming behind me. That felt really good. "Hey Sungmin, wait up!" I shouted, he paused. "Sorry." He apologized. "Now where shall we eat?" I changed the topic.
"What about the new fast food restaurant around the corner?"
"Sure."
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"Hey, Sungmin, what did Heeyoung mean by forth time?" I popped another piece of popcorn chicken into my mouth. "I don't want to talk about it, let's talk about something else, did anything interesting happen yesterday?"
"Don't try to avoid my question."
"Yesterday I did my assessment books before going to sleep, so I'm pretty tir-"
"Answer me Sungmin."
"Well Kyuhyun, I'm not sure what's going on myself!" Sungmin stood up from the table and left. I ran after him, but damn, he runs fast. I was chasing him when suddenly, he fell onto the rough pavement. I ran faster.
I held him. "Sungmin! Are you alright?" That's when I noticed what I couldn't see from behind. His chin was bleeding profusely, I looked at his palms, no signs of him using his hands to protect himself. I picked him up and ran to the store. "Welcome back Sungmi- WHAT HAPPENED?!" She screamed, the customers covered their ears. "Ah, uh sorry." She apologized. "What happened to Sungmin!" She demanded. "He fell down." I answered, "Do you have any big plasters?" Heeyoung searched through her bag and took out a disinfectant and plaster.
Soon, Sungmin's chin was covered by a huge piece of plaster. "Sorry, for making you two worry." Sungmin apologized. I looked at his shirt, it was stained with blood here and there.
I started to get worried, but maybe it's because he was sick.
'Yeah right kyuhyun, you should start to wake up and smell the coffee.'

Labels: a second chance, angst, kyumin