chapter iii. novocaine
cast: grunge kid!yeonjun ✗ art student/painter!fem.reader
synopsis: you’re an out-of-place art student living in your childhood hometown, pursuing your dream of becoming a painter. one day, you were given a mysterious responsibility as you try to not get your childhood best friend killed
genre: coming of age, college/university au, childhood best friend au, supernatural au, angst, fluff, mature content (sensitive topics and eventual smut)
based on: video game life is strange (2013)
word count: 7686
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warning(s): bullying, mention of bruises and blood, missing person, mention of drugs and drug abuse, mention of car accident, mention of parental figure abuse, trauma (if i forgot some, let me know)
message from the moon: remember that this story is fiction. do be careful and read the warnings at the top as both the chapter and the series as a whole will contain serious and sensitive topics.
thank you for the love that you give to time wave and as i promised in one of my reblogs and the series masterlist, you can now access beyond the wave and be able to interact with the characters! happy reading and hope you enjoy :D
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one week has passed since that faithful, well, determined day when you reunited with your childhood best friend choi yeonjun. you've met him one more time since that, mostly talked about what you both did in your school years and how your childhood friends are doing. but one thing is for sure that makes you curious.
who is that other person that was with him?
when you heard him hesitating back in his room, all you want to do was to comfort him. yet, because of your academic and introverted nature, a complete 180 difference between you and him, you haven't been there with him. receiving a few drunk texts from 'your best boy, yeonjun', even phone calls when you were trying to paint your newest creation that you're going to post to your gallery where you either heard silence or trembling of bass from his end.
but, most of your days now have been even more interesting than the ones before, especially with your newfound power of time manipulation that you're scared to use on a bigger scale. you've trained your powers by yourself, usually with rewinding if you have painted on the wrong part of your canvas or watercolor paper. you have gained a bit of control of the power that you have. nevertheless, it's still a mystery as to why and how you gain it.
you have been keeping it to yourself, scared that if you tell people either they called you crazy or use you in some way. the belief of yours for being a reserved kind of person is being challenged with having the power to change everything just by opening your palm and getting into a certain mindset.
faded bustling noises came to your ears as you sober up from your thoughts, mr. park's voice booming from the center of the room as the class listen to the topic for today, your favorite art movements: impressionism and post-impressionism. seeing all the painters that inspired your art on the screen as the light from the projector above you shines. monet, renoir, morisot, cassatt, van gogh, picasso, munch, the list goes on as he tells the class what is unique about the movement, which you nod at slowly.
"i have seen a few of the students in this class that have a few impressionist tendencies in their art style." mr. park said as his eyes landed on you. you quickly look away to find karin gazing at you with a blaze inside her eyes. forcing your eyes to turn away in horror to then see herin look at you, her eyebrows furrowed. the class continues. more crumpled paper coming from your left to herin as the snickers that you have recognized as karin, elle, and yizhuo continues. a few times you catch them glancing towards you as well as park and herin who looked between you and the other two. you sit there still, trying to focus on the presentation instead of their shenanigan.
why did you suddenly show up on the three girls' radar?
his alarm rings as everyone scrambles outside, you sat there as you collect your things back into your bag, noticing karin walking up to park and talk to him, hearing her giggle, and both walk outside the room together. herin is still in the room writing in a small notebook, seeing the crumpled paper balls scattered around her. remembering what she experienced today and the days before when you see her looking down, you approach her.
"hi herin." you smiled warmly. herin looks up and her lips curve up a bit.
"hello." she replied.
"what are you doing?" you asked curiously.
she looks down seeing that her notebook is still open. "oh... it's just... something i came up with."
you see the words and structure as it resembles poetry. writings that mention family and home, describing them in beautiful words and analogies. now covered by her hand.
you replied, "ah... do, do you want to stay here or are you leav-."
"i'm leaving... later... i guess." her hand still covers the open book.
"well, we can go together! if you want, i mean," you exclaimed, feeling the awkwardness in the room as you rest your hand behind you.
"we can?" she looked surprised and you answered with a nod, giving a warm smile.
"you don't have t-."
"sure, let me clean up." your eyes widen hearing her answer quietly but excitedly.
the two of you walk along the campus grounds to your residence hall, just now knowing she lives on another floor of your building. you see people having fun around you, some play frisbee, some just lay down and chat, walking past the alley entrance that you usually go through, the same alley that you encountered yeonjun and your power. you took a glance at herin who looks around the perimeters, looking sullen.
"i didn't mean to peek back in class, but..." you see her head tilt towards you as she heard your words, the steps that you both took flatter yet still consistent.
"your poem's nice." you continued.
she raised her eyebrows and her eyes move frantically, "uh... well... thank you... i didn't mean to show it."
"no, it's my fault. if i can erase it from my head, i will do it." you blurted out and she chuckles at hearing your almost nonsense. you feel your face warm as the words register in your brain. "s-sorry. perks from my social awkwardness." you looked to your feet and how they take the steps forward.
"i can relate," she replied. you both continue on your way when she suddenly continues the conversation. "the poem is about me missing home." you pouted as you look at her now looking at you as well. "i've been writing poems like how others write diaries. poems, for me, convey emotions much more properly." you heard her sigh and look away, her shoulder slouched.
"i miss my family, my friends, my dog, i just miss them, you know. i feel estranged here and i want them to comfort me." she pulls her cardigan sleeves down her wrist as a small breeze flew in the area.
you became acquainted with herin back when you enroll as you both were in the same orientation group. even though you both aren't close, she was a bright kid back then, very friendly, very innocent, maybe too innocent. however, you felt how she exuded positivity back then and how she became the mood maker of your orientation group. then, it slowly fades away as negativity takes place.
"i miss my family too." your answer made her look back towards you.
"oh... i thought you were from haeyang." she replied, remembering that back in the orientation when you introduce yourselves and where you come from. your answer back then is haeyang as you didn't feel at home back in the city you lived in before coming here.
"i, i used to live in haeyang in my childhood and i moved away, then i come back to haeyang for college but my family didn't come back with me. so..." you straighten it out to her. she nods and gave you a warm smile. the sight of both of your residence hall building a few meters away from where you at and you both move closer until arriving at the front.
"we're here." she exclaimed and you replied with a smile. "you can go back in. i have something to do off-campus," you said to her. she replied with a tight smile yet gave a thumbs up, earning a chuckle from you. you both wave goodbye as she goes into the building. as you face away to go off-campus, you see karin, elle, and yizhuo on their way towards you. you stride forward, not giving any care, then you hear her whisper to you as you pass by her.
"stay away from park." and she chuckles, the steps of their heels walking away.
you bit your lips and furrowed your eyebrows as you paused, 'don't reply back' was what your mind said but a sudden surge of courage made you talk.
"hey karin, i just want to say that i don't know what you're talking about."
you heard the heels stop and turn around, karin is now facing you as she moves forward. "you really didn't know?" she stood in front of you, her arms crossed. you replied with a nod and she scoffed, "do you want to know why we do those stuff to herin?" she chuckle as you look at her with eyebrows raised. she comes closer and whispers.
"she hooked up with park a few months ago. i saw how her score in his class rose up all of a sudden." your eyes widen as you glance at her. "i've been suspicious of you since last week and before it, if i found out that you did do him, i'll treat you how i treat herin." she then lean back to face you, a smirk forming on her lips.
"just to let you know, he's mine." and she walked away, leaving you in a pool of confusion deeper.
-
"is that all?" you look up from the box filled with an art print of your art and a few small things that you're going to send with a other similar boxes for your customers to the figure in front of you.
"i hope that's everything done." you replied, the figure hummed and grab the box from you.
"i'll send it to the post office after i closed the store." you look up and see min smirks.
min is your other friend that you're close with. they own a small art shop inherited by their parents who were both artists: painting and photography respectively. you never see them back then as they live outside of haeyang. they're also an alumnus from your institute and you both connected with your love of art, especially cause you bought your supplies from them other than the big convenience store where most of your peers go to. a small, quaint store off-campus but not that far to downtown.
you trusted them with your secret gallery and pseudonym as they always help you especially when you decided to sell art prints by preparing and sending them. you have been grateful for them ever since they decide to help you.
"any interesting stories that happened from the last time you came?" min asked as they organize the boxes that they will bring and the supplies that you bought.
you hummed and replied, "i went to the american-style diner downtown." they swiftly face you, eyes widening.
"miss ahn's?" you nodded while squinting your eyes at them.
"she's my aunt, believe it or not." now is your turn to be stunned.
"you never told me." you pouted and cross your arms.
"you never asked." you roll your eyes as a small smile appear after they chuckled. "you went there alone or-"
"with my friend, yeonjun," you replied instantly, earning a gasp from them.
"choi yeonjun?"
"yeah, why?" you see them walking closer to you. they chuckled after seemingly recalling their memory.
"he doesn't look like it but he's a nice kid." they then continued. "he's a regular in my aunt's diner, like an 'i-don't-even-think-he-eats-food-back-home' kind of regular." you stare at them in curiosity. they pushed the paper bag full of supplies towards you. "must be a childhood friend of yours, hm?" you respond with a nod. they look down and smile warmly.
"recently my aunt has been talking about him with me. she said that he looked different from the past week and weeks before it. now, i realize the reason." they grab one of your hands and put it on the paper bag strap.
"he's now in joy because of you."
-
the handle of the brush caresses the back of your hand as you pouted at the canvas in front of you, the contrast of the warm tone of the paint resembling your room's color with the other cold tone from the same color rested on your palette.
you decided to paint the vision that you get last week in your room. the horror of seeing your canvas and easel in front of the window that is filled with white and snow. but, instead of being scared by it, you cope with using it as an inspiration for your painting, relating it with the 'beauty in captivity' theme with you painting the view of your canvas, easel, and window in some kind of a replica. the canvas sketched in the canvas painted a normal view of your room and window on a day-to-day basis while the room and window behind said canvas in your work is painted with a cold tone resembling the vision that you got.
you didn't realize it's almost midnight as you can't see the moon from your open window, almost reaching the center point of the sky. you feel the calluses starting to form on your fingers where your brush sits. your eyes observing the painted colors on the canvas then you got distracted by a frantic set of knocks and a thud. thinking that it was minjeong, you put away your brush and palette and open the door to find,
"yeonjun?"
"hi, (y/n)..."
yeonjun in a sleeveless white ac/dc shirt with ripped jeans and chains hanging out the side. his tattoos, big and small, now more prominent, leaning against the wall beside your door. you lean in closer and whispered.
"what are you doing here?! you're not supposed to be-"
"let me inside and i will explain what happened." he silently replied as he looks frantically side to side at the open hallway.
you sighed and widen the door as he limps inside, raising your worry. it rises again as you see bruises formed on both his arm and his lips busted with blood on the corner of his mouth. you quickly guide him to sit on your bed as you grab the first aid kit that you got in your room.
"speak as slowly as you can cause i have to clean you up and treat your wounds. tell me if it hurts too much," you said calmly as you set everything up and sit beside him.
"okay, so i was lounging at one of the houses wanting some free booze when that guy that i use to owe a stash of weed from suddenly punched me in the face." your mind immediately resolves to minhyuk as he was the only 'friend' of his you encountered who talk about drugs. you sensed the trace of his 'partying' from the nicotine scent that he gave off.
"i said to him that i already gave his money back like a few days ago but he still insists that i still owe him, well i know he wants to scam me. so i punched him in ret- shit." he hissed and flinch his arm away.
"sorry!" you jumped and he giggles. you gestured him to continue while you treat his bruises.
"i punched him in return cause he punched me first but i’m not lucky cause his friends are there and they start to attack me. i got away but i forgot that i didn't bring my truck today. luckily, the party was at a house near the halls so i went here and suddenly remembers what if i go to your room and i did." he finishes and he looks towards you, who are still taking care of a few of the untreated ones.
you sighed as you look up toward his face. you use your other hand to set his jaw still so that he faces you, you clean the lips slowly and asked, "how did you know where my room is?"
he replied, mumbled but you still able to decipher what he said. "you have told me before last time we met but you didn't tell me the room." his nose flared.
"fortunately, each room has a whiteboard with names on it so i just search for yours and i found it." you see him smirk crookedly from the injury as you let go of his jaw. you crouch to your mini-fridge and grab a cold bottle of water.
"stick it to your lips to compress it. it will help to stop the swelling." you looked at him worried and he nods as you then clean up the first aid kit. but, you heard knocks on the door again and you heard the familiar voice of your across-door neighbor.
"(y/n), do you have any tampons or pads? i ran out of them. i want to change it." she continues knocking. you and yeonjun raised your eyebrows as you quickly direct yeonjun to stand up.
"hide underneath my bed." you quietly said.
"you don't have any empty clo-"
"no! hide! don't forget the bottle." you lightly pushed him as he crawls underneath your bed, a light groan coming from his injured body and he grabs the bottle to bring it to him as you stood in front of your door. softly straightening out your clothes and you open the door.
"sorry for waiting." you replied, giving a small smile.
"i'm glad that you're my bestie..." she waltzes in as she heard you chuckle and is on her way to your cabinet when you hear her sniffing.
"(y/n), do you smoke?" she asked, hands on her waist and eyebrows lifted. you paused as you want to deny, your mind on haywire as you come up for a reasonable answer.
"w-why do you ask???" you stood still and she sniffs again.
"i smell nicotine." shoot! that's from yeonjun. you bit your lips as you come up with a somewhat made sense reasoning.
"i, i, well... y-yes i smoke." she now turns to you in shock and a 'huh' coming with it.
"i smoke when the, the weather's cold. i-if it's necessary." you chuckled awkwardly when minjeong squints her eyes. you realized that the lie that you told can be easily debunked if she asks where the cigarette or its tray is at.
"uhuh... you don't look like a smoker to me." she said as she faced the door behind you. "but, your body is yours. so i don't have a right to complain." you let out your breath secretly. "and by the way. you're sleeping late tonight? looks like you haven't painted all of that part." she points at the canvas, you smile as you give a nod and she said her farewell as she walks out of the room. your body limps as the door closes and you heard the quiet laugh coming from the bed as you see yeonjun crawling out.
"that was one of the funniest things i have ever fucking encountered."
"shush." you sulked and sit beside yeonjun on the bed as you looked at the swollen lips. "bit better than before, just keep compressing it until the bot-"
"(y/n), i forgot the pads!"
minjeong bursts into the room, making you and yeonjun leap on the bed, her eyes landed on the figures before her. all of you in shock. you quietly stood up to grab the pads from your cabinet and give them to her.
"boys aren't supposed to be on our floor," she whispers.
"i know," you whispered back.
"i definitely will be coming back after i change," she replied then she went to the bathroom. you sit awkwardly with yeonjun while he compresses his lips. both of you giggled after that situation. you heard minjeong knocks on the door first before she opens and closes the door behind her, now standing in front of you.
"so..." she exclaimed.
yeonjun stood up and said, "i'm yeonjun, y/n's childhood best friend." he let out his unoccupied hand.
"minjeong, y/n's neighbor and current best friend." she shook his hand and they face you, staring you down. you feel your face warms up as you clear your throat.
"anyways..."
-
you three had a great time that night. mostly the two of them making fun of you, making you blush so hard, but you're glad that both of your friends click with each other. the painting got abandoned as you three talk while sitting on the floor. then you remind her that she got another practice later in that day, she sighed and went back to her room while yeonjun sleeps over in your bed.
"she's a nice girl." you heard yeonjun say beside you, facing the ceiling. you hummed and let out your breath as your eyes wander on the room with the moonlight and street lamps illuminating the room from the window.
"she's the one that you told me back in the truck right? my stepmom's student?" you face him and replied a 'yes'.
"ahh..." he sighed and you felt him move closer to you and rest his head on your shoulder. you feel your body still and he continues
"that's why we click. you and my stepmom."
he then invited you to go somewhere right before falling asleep soundly.
two days later, the day arrived as you waited in the diner, miss ahn accompanying you after serving for another customer. "i didn't know you're min's aunt." she chuckled.
"we don't look alike but they look like their mom a lot. they're close to me especially as they see me as a mentor in doing a business. before their parents died, they never told them they identified as non-binary. so min told me and they looked glad that i support them." she looked down, a small smile decorating her face.
you heard chimes from the bell behind you. you see miss ahn's lifted expression while giving a smile of recognition to a figure who is now standing beside you, grabbing one of your curly fries. yeonjun leans forward wearing a gray graphic tee beneath a black ensemble, black jeans pants, black long sleeves shirt, and black chuck taylors. you sneered as you continue the fries, not noticing that a quiet kitten now rested on top of the barstool beside yours and him.
"two strawberry donuts on the go, please." yeonjun said.
"coming," she replied from the sink. you heard a meow coming from beside you, seeing pansy sitting down nicely as she looks at you eating.
"you brought pansy?" you almost shouted.
he giggled and rubs her head. "she misses her mom, you know?"
"aww..." you cooed as you look at her and her eyes shining as she stares at your fried. "you can't eat potato but you can eat leftover chicken. i'll ask them for you, okay?" she replied with a meow. you looked back at your cat's dad.
"where are you kidnapping me?" you replied in suspicion before finishing the fries from your hand, you felt his hand rest around your shoulders and he brought his body closer to yours. he leans in and whispers to your ears.
"somewhere special, especially to you." you grimaced from the ticklish feeling. he notices and continues blowing the side of your face, making you nudge away, and continue eating your meal.
after grabbing the donuts and leftover chicken in their respective paper bags, all of you are seated in the truck as it rolls on the street. the lighthouse passing by as the vehicle strides forward, listening to your style of music now instead of his which he allowed, rubbing pansy who sat on top of your lap. the streets becomes familiar as you look through the window in front and beside yours.
"are we going to your house?" you took a glance at him and sit up. he shooked his head just as the truck went by the way to his house, going a few blocks and turning an intersection, an intersection that you are familiar with.
"no way." you cover your mouth after gasping. the truck slows down as it stills in front of a house, the house that used to be your home before you moved.
you heard the truck stop and yeonjun opening his door. "what are you waiting for? let's go."
"are you serious? we're visiting..." you looked out of the window, feeling your eyes starting to water as you felt pansy rubbing her head against your hand that rested beside her. he hums in agreement. you open your side of the door and stand up as yeonjun picks pansy up along with the paper bags. you stood at the carpool that your dad's car used to park at. the exterior color still looks the same but aged with cracks on the wall and vines covering some parts of it.
"isn't someone living in here?" you asked hesitantly. you see yeonjun shook his head then you replied, "how would you know?" he lets pansy down and she walks to the front of the door. yeonjun fishing something out, a silver glint on his hand. a key with a mini replica of haeyang's lighthouse hanging from it.
"i know someone who lived here."
you stood there jaw-dropped but then you slowly follow him as he unlocks the front door. it opens as the three of you walk in, pansy leading the way as she inspects each doorway and walks to the open space at the back. you felt weird seeing the old home that you left, a few pieces of furniture still settle inside but no indication as to who lived here and how yeonjun knows the person.
the open space that is the living room, dining room, and kitchen combined still lets out a sense of familiarity for you. it opens to the empty backyard full of grass, either an empty spot of them or a spot full of overgrown.
"i-" you wanted to say something but paused as everything came down on you and you felt a tear running down your cheek. all the memories of your childhood when living in the house clouded your mind. you remember how you and yeonjun always play tag in between the living room and backyard with his mom and your mom reminding you both to be careful, how you used to have a dollhouse in the backyard where you and he play family with you two’s favorite plush dolls.
yeonjun turns around and sees you sob quietly, gets to you quickly to hug you hard. "aww, (y/n) baby." he cooed making you internally roll your eyes but continue in gripping his shirt. he let you go and rub away your tears. "now, you're making me wanna cry too." you giggled and he followed.
he guides you to the stairs and you both ascend up. seeing the room that used to be your parents' open from the doorway, a double bed settled in there with a wardrobe and cabinet. but, when you both arrived at the closed door of the room that used to be yours, you sensed that he slowed his step.
"is something okay?" you faced him, now it is his turn to look nervous instead of you.
"that room, used to be your room too, is the room of someone i know." you looked at him in worry. "you can go in first and i’ll be right behind you," he said, tucking his hands in his jeans pocket. you nodded and face the door. when you open it, you face something familiar but not just from your memories, but also from your association with yeonjun now.
the room was colored light gray, posters of bands and sketches decorated the walls, the bed look wrinkled as if someone sleep in there last night, a bookshelf of books and vinyl discs on the side of a desk which still has littered supplies on top. when you reach an open book on it, you make up a sketch of a red poppy almost in full color. your eyes wander and landed on a notebook, a high school notebook with a name written on the cover.
choi soobin
the name sounds familiar to yours but you never met a choi soobin in your life. then the memory came. a memory from when you started one of your days in the institute. you remember on your way to your first class of the day, you looked at the bulletin board. an unsettling news rest at the front.
MISSING
Choi Soobin
Age 19
Missing From: Haeyang
Date Missing: xxxx.xx.xx
Characteristics: Around 180 cm or more. He has a tattoo on the inner side of his right arm of a flower and another of his left thigh resembling a soundwave
you heard yeonjun's steps behind you walking to something rested at a small table beside the bed. you slowly walk towards him and find him looking at sketches and tattoo guns. he sighed and respectfully sit on soobin's bed. "so yeah..." he replied yet his voice sounds empty.
"your room is also soobin's room." he looks at the ground empty, his hand forming into a fist. you nodded your head. now realizing the person that yeonjun is with when you left. but the weights get heavier as you realize the other person is gone too, even worse as yeonjun himself doesn't know where soobin went.
"i've seen his missing poster before. i didn't know he was someone significant to you," you replied as you stood there. yeonjun letting his hands play with his shirt ends and sleeves. your eyes still remember how your room used to look before it became soobin's, the position of your bed, your desk, your wardrobe. you gently turn your body so you face him.
"do you want to introduce him to me?" you see yeonjun's head lifted from viewing his lap as you gaze at him, the emptiness in his eyes now has a tiny spark in it.
"well... soobin is one of my greatest friends, a high school best friend of mine." he said as he shows a small smile.
"well, hello soobin aka yeonjun's high school best friend. i'm (y/n), yeonjun's childhood best friend." your reply got a chuckle from him. he continues introducing soobin to you.
soobin lived in your old home with his uncle and aunt after his parents died in a drunk driving incident where all of the people involved become casualties. soobin lived with his uncle until he graduates middle school and attend high school in haeyang, where he met choi yeonjun. the two became best friends as they were there for each other. soobin is there for yeonjun after he got scolded for unknown reason, or plural, by his stepmom. yeonjun is there for soobin during the times at home when his uncle and aunt both become more abusive towards him from their alcohol and drug abuse. his uncle died from a solo accident where he is driving under an influence. his aunt died from an overdose of drugs. leaving soobin alone again.
"soobin was also like you." yeonjun said. "he likes arts but instead of painting, he likes making tattoos." you see him gesturing to the supplies. "he starts thinking about tattoo as an artform after looking at all of our favorite bands and thinking that since they also wear tattoos, he wants them too." you see a printed photo of what appears to be yeonjun and soobin behind the supplies. yeonjun has a mullet with pink hair while soobin has silvery-blue hair.
"so he started to learn how to tattoo, at first he tattoo himself on his left thigh. then i allowed him to tattoo me. all of the tattoos on my body are of his making." you looked back at him and give a sullen smile. you can never imagine the level of pain that each of them has, but you were glad that they have each other through those trying times.
"then he disappears a few months after graduating." he added as the pitch in his voice flattens down. "i tried contacting him but realized that he left his phone here. the house was unlocked as i saw a paper with my name and the key beside it, so i searched for him here and there, and found nobody. i never been here since he disappears until now." he nods his head. you kneel down in front of him, something that you've done hundreds of times before, a gesture that you did to herin last week after your first rewind, and reached your hand for him which he complies.
"people said i don't have fear. well, i do but i become numb to it. being left alone by people who actually cared for you multiple times. i was thinking 'maybe i deserved it.'" yeonjun said gently as he looked down, you rubbed his hand as you hear him sob. you lean forward to brush his tears away, slowly moving his head up so he can see you.
"hey, i'm back." your words make him form a smile. "i, i felt so guilty when i have to leave you behind back then especially as i recognized my role as your support system. i'm glad that soobin was there to take my place. for now, i'm not going anywhere." you patted his hands while giving a warm smile.
"i was so devastated. people who i cherished in life were gone from my life. that was why i was so happy when i found you." he added. you pouted at him, remembering what min said to you about yeonjun. "if soobin's here, he would 100% like you too as i do." the words making you flatter.
"i would've probably liked him too." you lean closer and hug him, you felt tears wetting your shoulder but you don't care, you've finally have taken part in your role in his life. being his shoulder to cry on while he also is yours.
the heaviness of the tension makes you want to burst some secrets of your own, you know you can trust him. and you slowly collect the courage to let it out.
"i also want to share something." it perks yeonjun as he moves back to look at you. you licked your dry lips, "i post my arts on the internet anonymously." you quickly said. he raised his brows and giggle.
"why??" he raised his pitch.
"i just wanted to post about my art and made my own gallery then it got some attractions so i made a business in selling art prints of my art. don't tell anyone it's me though, only two people know before you." you summarized it quickly as he dried his own cheek with his sleeves.
"you have a pen name or something?" he leans closer, curious eyes looking at you, making you smile shyly.
"marisantheia."
"that sounds so elegant." you both chuckled. you stood up to then sit beside him. he notice that you were frowning again.
"i also have one more to share with you." you face him seriously, with him following suit a few seconds behind. "and i want you to promise not to tell this one to anyone. it rests with us, okay?" you let out your pinky to him which he instantly answered and you do the pinky promise.
"this is such a high stake secret..." you sighed before you said it to him. even though you didn't control it yourself, you couldn't do so anyway, you felt time stop as you let it out.
"i can control time."
the room becomes quiet as the needle drops down with a bang. "you're fucking kidding me." you heard yeonjun loudly react, face in shock. you quickly reply that you're not kidding. he looks mixed, giddy, confused, surprised, all at the same time.
"what kind of time control?" he sat up and folded his legs on the bed.
"rewind time." you looked anywhere other than him. you tilt your head as he grabbed your shoulders.
"then, prove it now. i want to know that my best friend here has a superpower." you rolled your eyes and a random game came into your mind. you stood up to grabbed three of soobin's notebooks and a coin from your purse to give to yeonjun.
"since, since you want proof, i want you to quiz me on the positions of the coin. put one in one of the notebooks and i have to guess." you slowly explained as he smirks.
"i have three attempts. if i get all of them correct then that is your proof. be creative if you want." you put your thumbs up which yeonjun replied with the same gesture.
you turn away as yeonjun sets up the game.
you waited while yeonjun entertains you for the placement of the first one. "you can look now." you hummed as you think where the coin is.
"the middle one?"
yeonjun voiced out a buzzer noise as he opens the book on your right.
"ahhh..." you covered your face.
"okay, you got it wrong so you can do your power thingy."
you let your palm out, pressing into the power, and you felt you get sucked and arrived at the moment when you turn away for the first time.
you waited while yeonjun entertains you for the placement of the first one. "you can look now." you hummed as you think where the coin is.
"the one on my right. the left one for you"
yeonjun's eyes widen as he opens the book on your right. "that's just probability playing, okay, second round!"
you turn away again, you heard yeonjun hummed a part of soundgarden's song. "you can guess." you looked at the book.
"the one on my left, your right?"
yeonjun voiced out a buzzer noise as he picks it from behind him. "what the-" you groaned.
"you said to be creative." you nodded after hearing his reasoning.
"okay, that was smart." which he replied with a chuckle.
you let your palm out, pressing into the power, and you felt you get sucked and arrived at the moment when you turn away for the first time.
you waited while yeonjun entertains you for the placement of the first one. "you can look now." you hummed as you think where the coin is.
you open the book on your right and see the coin
yeonjun's eyes widen. "that's just probability playing, okay, second round!"
you turn away again, you heard yeonjun hummed a part of soundgarden's song. "you can guess." you looked at the book then at yeonjun's eyes.
"i have a guess that is out of this world. is it behind you?"
yeonjun mouth forms an 'o' as he picks the coin behind. "how?!"
you squiggle your hand and say. "time control powers."
yeonjun laughs as he told you to turn away for the last time. you heard rustling, a book open from behind you, then you felt a tap on your shoulder and you turn back to face him.
"i heard you open a book but i don't think you put it in the book after what you did the previous round." he raised his eyebrows. "i guess your shirt pocket."
yeonjun scrunches his nose as he let out the saliva-covered coin from his mouth.
"that's smart but disgusting, how the hell did you think about that."
yeonjun leans closer. "anything to outsmart you, baby. okay, last chance for you to control the passage of time."
you let your palm out, pressing into the power, and you felt you get sucked and arrived at the moment when you turn away for the first time.
you waited while yeonjun entertains you for the placement of the first one. "you can look now."
"right one, next."
yeonjun's eyes widen as he let out the coin. "that's just probability playing, okay, second round!"
you turn away again, you heard yeonjun hummed a part of soundgarden's song. "you can guess." you looked at the book then at yeonjun's eyes.
you grabbed the coin from behind him.
yeonjun mouth forms an 'o' as he picks the coin behind. "how?!"
you squiggle your hand and say. "time control powers."
yeonjun laughs as he told you to turn away for the last time. you heard rustling, a book open from behind you, then you felt a tap on your shoulder and you turn back to face him.
"hmm..." you give him a smirk. "first of all that's disgusting but i know it's in your mouth."
yeonjun expresses his surprise with his movement and he spits out the coin to then hug you as tight as he can. "what the fuck? how the fuck?" yeonjun looks silly and you enjoy the happiness that he evokes.
"see?" yeonjun playfully bows to you.
"how the fuck did that happen?" you squiggle your fingers at him as you both laugh.
"but seriously, how did you get the power?" you thought about the vision of the blizzard that you've gotten, it still haunts you to this day knowing that the vision might be a future that can happen. a responsibility of yours to not let the vision that you've gotten to happen in the future is with the power that you possess.
"i don't know how it happen but i've gotten visions before i possess this power."
yeonjun rested his chin to your shoulder, "what do you mean by that?" you look at the outside world from soobin's window, a flash of the snow shows up for a few seconds as your eyebrows furrowed.
"i got this vision of a blizzard." you voice out.
"i was alone there and i almost died from the coldness. then i realized it was a dream, well no it wasn't. it was a vision i realize." you ramble out. yeonjun humming and small steps heard from the floor and he looks down to find pansy arriving and resting on your feet.
"it was very real and i'm scared that it might be real. after i came to reality, i realized that i can control, well rewind, time." you continue, adding that the canvas that he saw back in your room was a glimpse of the vision that you've seen. "i have a feeling that this power of mine can stop it from happening but i don't know how." you see the sky has turned to orange outside as yeonjun stood up and open his hand to you, to which you receive and you both, including pansy, walks downstairs and rested on the patio to the backyard. he brought the paper bag and give the leftover chicken to pansy.
the backyard shined by the sun that is facing you as it slowly settles down the horizon. you see a view of the lighthouse from the house. something that you've never seen before as your backyard back then was full of plants and a tall tree used to stand at the place at which you can the lighthouse. you felt yeonjun placing a strawberry donut on your open palm.
you slowly eat it as you heard yeonjun mumbles, "maybe, i can help you." you peek at him, squinting your eyes.
"we can be partners in crime in time like marty and doc from back to the future."
you scoffed after finishing a bite and you tease, "you'll just going to exploit me in some way."
"hey, i promise i won't." he said after finishing another bite. "as you said, we have to find what is the cause of the blizzard that you've been seeing." you continue eating slowly as he continues. "maybe something strange happened to you back when you gain it." he voiced out. you nodded and let your mind wander away from it as the silence heightened the whole ambience of the moment.
you sighed as you look at the sunset, yeonjun's eyes wandering to the house behind you both and he leans closer to you. "this might be a good place to stay, for us." your eyes returning to yeonjun.
"what, what do you mean?" you looked at him confused.
"you know, living together. i can get out of my dad and stepmom's grasp since soobin left me the key." he replied, nonchalantly.
"what about the house deed?"
"that was the paper i told you. technically, this house is mine since the deed said it is a gift from him to me." you flutter your eyes at him.
"oh wow, that's-" your words got cut off by your phone vibrating. you picked it up to see someone unknown texting you a video. your curiosity got you as you open it, chills running down your spine.
you see herin making out with people at some sort of a party, her movement sways as he kissed multiple people that surrounds her, including the brown-haired guy that you recognized as minhyuk.
yeonjun looks at you as you looked up in fear. now, holding your phone as he sees the video playing. "you know her?" you nodded.
"she is not that kind of girl. she's..." you trailed off and he continues watching the video.
"that son of a bitch..." he remarked, probably looking at minhyuk's presence.
"we have to do something." you quickly replied, taking a glance at him.
he dropped your phone and holds your shoulder so you face him. "we can help, you remember back then when we used to play detectives?"
"you want us to do it for real?" you squinted your eyes.
"maybe your powers might help," he added.
the reminder he give about your ability made you think again.
strangely, you're now in the center of attention in a conflict that you never wanted to insert into. you're confused as to why karin made baseless accusations between you and mr. park, confused about what she said a few days ago that herin is also involved with mr. park, and how she warns you about treating you the same as herin if you do something similar.
you don't know what you have gotten yourself into but you want answers, you want the truth, and yeonjun has already voiced out that he wanted to help.
"let's do it."
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