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It's the world that would meet with the other one accidentally
The loud sound of alarm clock just forced Johnny to woke up from his 2 hours sleep. His hand groped the empty spot on his left side until he reached the edge of a small table near his bed. Carelessly, he grabbed the noisy alarm clock and threw it on the wall harshly that it got broken and no longer worked. He wanted to curse, but he himself couldn't get away from the drowsiness. Therefore, he only ended up groaning as he rubbed his face roughly and pulled the blanket up over his head, being ready to get back to sleep.
However, his instinct told him to open his eyes and remove the blanket from his face. As an expected, he followed his instinct because he felt something was happening.
"By the way, that was the fifth alarm clock that you've destroyed."
A someone's voice welcomed him as he pulled away his blanket from his face. Realizing who that someone was, he only sighed and rolled his eyes. "Get out of my room," he muttered.
"Next time if Boss asks me for..."
"I said get out of my room!" He threw one of his pillows towards that person but only got an annoying laughter as the response. And a second later, the pillow that he threw suddenly flew back towards him and hit his face. "You Asshole!"
"Yeah, whatever you say, You Lazy Ass. You better hurry up because we have something to do this morning. Ten minutes."
That the only things Johnny heard before that someone walked out of his room and slammed the door. He dropped his head to his pillow before letting out a heavy sigh, eyes looking up to the ceiling above him which was all full of dark. Literally, there's no light inside his room. Completely dark and nearly could be called as black since he barely could see anything.
Yeah, dark or black.... two similar colors, or even if dark could be called as a color, he liked the most. He felt comfortable when he's in the room or place like this. It had been his favorite since his childhood. Reason? He didn't know any reason why he liked dark place like his room.
"Breakfast?" A guy in blue leather jacket showed a toast towards Johnny when he opened the door.
"Give me the new one," Johnny replied lazily, dragging his own feet into the kitchen after ignoring death glare from that guy. He took a bottle of water from the fridge and placed it onto the table. "What kind of thing was that?" He questioned the guy as he sat on the chair.
"What thing?"
Johnny didn't know if that guy was acting stupid or being ready to get some punches in his face, but he found it annoying. Today he was just not in a good mood to play some jokes. "Yuta."
That guy named Yuta only snorted and gave a toast for him.
"Boss told us to take a package today. Those people already sent it this early morning," Yuta spoke after he shipped his morning coffee.
"Where?"
"They said they placed it in the store near school building...." Yuta paused his words, letting his lips parted for a moment as if he's recalling something. "Aah..., that white building. Did I say it right? okay, whatever. I remember that store and that school."
"Only two of us?"
"You don't wanna go with me? Hey, Johnny, no matter how far you try to avoid me, we will always end up being together. You and me were born to each...." Yuta couldn't finish his line because Johnny already kicked the legs of chair near him, causing him almost dropped his coffee glass on the floor. He turned around in his seat, being ready to curse at Johnny.
"Stop talking nonsense. I'm your senior here. Although we're same age friends, you still can't say anything you want to me." Johnny ignored how Yuta looked like he was about to attack him with his coffee glass.
"Senior? What senior? Literally, you're just the youngest member here. No, we are the youngest members here. You think I'm scared of you only because you always say that? Nope, Buddy. You're wrong and...." Yuta's phone buzzed on the table and it made Yuta gestured Johnny to wait. He got one message and it seemed from their boss. "Well... uhmm... we don't have much time today. Actually I still want to roast you, but duty comes first. Let's continue this conversation later. We're going now."
Johnny only snorted quietly as he saw his friend walking out of their small apartment. After putting back the bottle into the fridge, he grabbed his black coat and slipped his phone in his ripped jeans's pocket.
Yeah, duty comes first. It's the slogan that he'd been holding since he joined this group five years ago. Officially, anyway. He's not sure if he could call his group as a group since all he and his members did was only doing things which other normal people would think of it as bad ones.
Johnny couldn't tell everything he had been doing this five years was bad or right. He just did what he had to do. It's the rules he got and he's always ready to do it.
A black car just stopped near the small store and a second later, Yuta and Johnny's figure came out of the car, eyes observing their surrounding naturally before getting in to the store. Yuta casually walked towards the ice cream freezer and grabbed two ice creams.
"I'll ask the owner," Yuta spoke, hand offering one of his ice creams to Johnny but only getting a rejection. "You just rejected a thing that can make your dead brain alive." He walked over the store owner and talked with her for couple minutes.
Johnny sighed and randomly touched some snacks on the shelf near him, eyes wandering towards every corner inside the store to look for that package though he knew those people weren't that stupid to place it on random spot. A pack of vanilla cookies barely slipped out of his hand when a bunch of school boys broke into the store. Their laughs sounded so noisy that Johnny could yell at them to shut up. In a short moment, he gave a little attention towards those boys who kept shouting at each other while picking some soft drinks. They looked so innocent and naive in his eyes. Too innocent for this cruel world.
Or was it only him who thought of it? They seemed normal and had not seen any bad things in their little peace world. Yet. He hoped they never experience the kind of world he had been living in.
A slow pat on his shoulder dragged him out of his thoughts. He turned only to see a brown-colored box right beside his left eye.
"Let's go," Yuta said after removing the box from Johnny's face.
"You got it?"
Yuta raised the box in his hand and pushed Johnny's back to walk towards the door. "We need to confirm it to them. That old lady gave me this phone number. So, now it's your turn. You call this number and say we already go the package."
"We should check it first before confirming it. What if they gave us bad quality?" Johnny stopped his hand from pushing the door.
"This gun! This thing....." Yuta was forced to pause when he realized his voice suddenly got high and those school boys turned over them simultaneously. Their facial expression made him yelling at them "What?! Mind your own business, Toddlers!"
Knowing his friend's temper, Johnny immediately pushed the door forward and dragged Yuta out. He didn't want this stupid guy having a nonsense fight with unknown teens since they still had more important thing to do.
oOo
There's other world that had been doing fine untill it almost crashed with that world if only there's no any distraction
Sicheng jumped over Jaehyun's back after they crossed the road and got a slap on his butt from the back because he almost made Jaehyun fall down.
"He's always like this after telling us that kind of lame story," Kun scoffed as he walked together with Doyoung behind Sicheng and Jaehyun.
"What kind of lame story? I didn't hear at all. I'm sorry," Doyoung laughed. "Was it about the darkness again? Wow, I just realized I have a friend that really loves something stupid."
"No snack for you, Kim Doyoung," Sicheng said as he put his hand around Jaehyun's shoulders.
"But today is your penalty, though. You lost the game yesterday, so you have to buy us snacks before we go to school. Woah, Grandpa Sicheng is here," Doyoung replied sarcastically.
Jaehyun and Kun laughed so hard.
"You were cheating, All of you!" Sicheng cried out defensively.
"You're the one who couldn't play football. Wait, your soccer skill point is zero," Doyoung directly shouted Sicheng's weakness, causing the black haired boy ran over him and gave him some punches on his arms.
"You don't want to let him alive, do you?" Jaehyun guessed, hand pointing at the store near them to give a signal that they finally arrived.
"Never gonna stop it, anyway," Doyoung finally could speak after he managed avoiding Sicheng. "His Dad won't arrest me even if I tell his son to cross-dress as a girl next time," he playfully attacked Sicheng again.
"Can we use it for the next game? What about ping-pong?" Suddenly Kun said and could make Jaehyun laughing when he pushed the door.
"Don't talk anymore, Kun!" Sicheng yelled.
"You're not good at being angry, Dong Sicheng. You always look like a kid when you're like that. Just don't be so hard on yourself."
"A five years old kid who can't even reach his opponent's hand when they're fighting."
Their laughs just turned into crazy ones as they entered the store. The urge to push his friends towards the shelves was so strong for Sicheng, but he knew he couldn't do that. He didn't want the owner of this store kick him out and never let him get in anymore.
"Is it fine if we eat ice cream this morning?" Doyoung asked innocently after grabbing some packs of vanilla ice creams.
"Is he acting innocent again? If it is, I just want to tell him to try other trick. It's already old stuff and he's trying to bring it up again. Such a nonsense," Sicheng spoke after leaning his back against the freezer door behind him, his hand reaching a small pack of potato chips and pulling Jaehyun's arm to stand next to him.
"I'll take this." Jaehyun showed chocolate sticks.
"Only that? You can pick whatever you want, Jaehyun," Sicheng said in low voice.
"Yeah, I know. Even if I want a lux suite, you will buy it for me and...."
"You're too much, Jung Jaehyun. Don't be too delusional," Sicheng cut off, waving his hand in front of Jaehyun's face to wake up him from his silly thoughts. He looked at Doyoung and Kun for a moment and they seemed talking about something funny that could make them laughing so hard. He nudged his elbow to Jaehyun's arm as if he wanted to make their own little conversation.
"What?"
"Can you accompany me tonight?" Sicheng asked in very low voice, almost sounded like a whisper.
"Again?" Jaehyun raised his brow.
Sicheng rolled his eyes, feeling annoyed on jaehyun's reaction. "Jaehyun..."
"It's not like it's your first time asking me for something like that, though. You better get rid of the "Can" word next time if you don't want to hear a rejection from me," Jaehyun laughed.
Sicheng only sighed loudly. "You just have to say yes or no," he retorted a second later and was about to pretend kicking Doyoung's legs if only he didn't hear someone shouting near cashier counter.
"This gun! This thing...."
Sicheng and his friends turned their heads towards two guys who were standing not too far away from their spot. He couldn't figure out what those guys talking about.
"What?! Mind your own business, Toddlers!"
One of the guys shouted over them. Of course, he and his friends raised their brows, not knowing why that guy in blue leather jacked had to yell at them like that. Doyoung was the only one who being ready to yell back if that guy's friend didn't pushed him out of the store. Sicheng only slightly looked at that super tall guy from the back and decided not to give any attention since he had no idea who they were.
"What's wrong with that old man?" Doyoung grunted, his eyes keep staring at the guys who already stood near their car outside the store. "He called us Toddlers. You heard that, right? Woah, That short old man...."
"At least he's not skinny like you," Sicheng cut off Doyoung's rants.
"And stupid," Jaehyun added and high-fived with Sicheng. Doyoung looked so pissed off on these boys who always in sync when it came to bullying him.
"Guys." Kun tried to remind his friends that they had to get out of here. "School is waiting."
"You go first. I'll pay for these things first." Sicheng quickly ran over the owner.
It's already 10 p.m, Sicheng and Jaehyun just arrived at his home. A second they entered the home, all the lights welcomed them after Sicheng turned them on in one touch. Although it's not his first time visiting Sicheng's huge house, Jaehyun still felt amazed on everything Sicheng had. Especially those lights on the ceiling and those unique lamps on the tables which literally you could see them every corner in the house. And of course none of them that was off. You wouldn't see any dark spot in this house, except when you went outside.
"Your Dad is not going home again tonight?" Jaehyun questioned when Sicheng already disappeared from the living room. He threw his backpack onto the huge couch near him and made a way for himself to sit onto the other one.
"He said there's some case he had to investigate. And I bet he would go home two or three days later. Pitty, huh?" Sicheng walked back into the living room with a sweatpants and white T-shirt. "No more embarrassing moment tonight, I guess," he said as he showed the clothes to Jaehyun.
"New?" Jaehyun rose his brow, pointing at the clothes.
"Don't you see the price tags here? I purposely didn't rip them off so that you can see the efforts I put only to buy these things for you," Sicheng replied bluntly and dropped the clothes on Jaehyun's lap.
Jaehyun only snorted before taking the clothes and getting up. "Let's just go to sleep. If you wanna play some game, go play by yourself," He said as he climbed up the stairs.
Sicheng hurriedly locked all the doors and followed Jaehyun towards his own room. But then, when they're already in the room, they only lay down on the bed, covering themselves with thick blanket and being in silence. Jaehyun was still completely awake beside Sicheng who nearly fell asleep before his heavy sigh was heard.
Sicheng noticed and turned to look at him. "Can't sleep?"
"I think I drank to much coffee today," Jaehyun replied in his weak voice.
"What coffee?" Sicheng narrowed his eyes. "Don't try to fool me. You drank coke today that you almost couldn't say anything because you're busy burping."
"Shut up."
There's a silence again after Jaehyun finished talking.
"Do you want me to turn off the light?" Sicheng knew Jaehyun couldn't sleep if the light was still on.
"Huh, are you trying to be cool? If you turn off the light, you'll be the one who can't sleep at all. I just don't want you hugging me like a koala for the whole night because you're scared," Jaehyun replied and yawned a moment later.
Without saying anything, Sicheng turned off all the lights in his room and get back to the bed. His hands clutched the edge of his blanket on his chest. Obviously, he looked so frightened, slowly having mental breakdown only because his room went dark.
"Told ya," Jaehyun murmured, hand grasping Sicheng's and pulled it on him. "Tonight is another hell for me. My part time job is being a tree for human version of koala named Dong Sicheng in the night."
"I'm not gonna hug you," Sicheng retorted.
"Are you sure you really loves darkness or dark stuff or whatever it is?"
"Don't mock me. I'm trying to sleep here."
"I have an idea to make us fall asleep quickly," Jaehyun smirked as he turned, looking at Sicheng and jokingly seducing him. "Let's have a sex, once we're tired, we could fall asleep easily."
Within less than two second, Jaehyun had to groan i pain after he got a punch from Sicheng.
"Go to hell, Jung Jaehyun! You're freak!" Sicheng exclaimed and threw a pillow towards him.
despite being in pain, Jaehyun still could manage to laugh at Sicheng. "I'm joking! I just can't stand on your "I like darkness but I hate being in dark place" phase. It's so ridiculous."