10

Days passed like what Jisung saw never happened. He never inquired anything from Hyunjin neither did he ask where Hyunjin always go to Everytime they were supposed to hang out.

His time spent with Na-Eun was also growing small and smaller. It felt like the Na-Eun he had befriended before forgot he existed. Maybe Jisung was just exaggerating because Na-Eun always greeted him, they just chat less but not because of Na-Eun. It was because of Jisung. He was to be blamed because he was afraid to take a step. To be rival with your own best friend? That was too much. He didn't know if he could sacrifice his friend ship with Hyunjin for a girl.

"I should be the one getting angry" Jisung huffed, gently throwing himself on his bed sofa. He was not in Hyunjin's room as the usual because Hyunjin had another plan for the day.

"He's probably with Na-Eun again" Jisung groaned, picking up his phone to dial Na-Eun's number. At least, if he couldn't stop being a coward, he could still be cheeky and bother the both of them.

Ring....

"...." Jisung stared at the phone and raised an eyebrow. "Why the hell is she not answering me? She used to pick up so fast" Jisung scoffed, just what was she doing with Hyunjin?

Click...slam

Jisung pushed himsf up from the sofa, turning around to peek at whoever had entered his room. "Felix?" He asked, instead a taller guy with a beauty mark under his eye appeard. Half of his body was soaking wet, it seemed like he ran in the rain. "Wait... it's raining outside?"

Hyunjin shrugged. "Yeah...it was raining when my plan ended. Why?"

"Where is Na-Eun?" Hyunjin frowned. "Why do you know her?"

Jisung glared angrily at Hyunjin, he stood up and ran towards Hyunjin. "Did you send her home after your date?"

"What date-"

"Hyunjin fucking answer me!" Hyunjin shuddered when a lightning struck. "I dropped her off at the vet! She's taking her cat back!" Jisung pushed Hyunjin away and ran out, taking an umbrella with him.

Hyunjin leaned against the wall before dropping to the floor. "What the hell is he getting mad for?"

Crackles....

The light inside Jisung's room shut off, leaving Hyunjin thinking whether he did anything wrong again.

Ring...!

He looked at his phone that had dropped out of his pocket when he fell on the floor, it was the only light inside the room. The name flashed on it's screen — Jisung

It came with a text saying 'I'm gonna kill you when I come back ' but Hyunjin didn't bother to text back knowing Jisung will only ever spit more hurtful things instead of explaining what was really happening through his mind. He opened his chat with Na-Eun instead, asking if she went home. When he didn't receive an instant reply, he turned his phone off and picked himself up from the floor.

He went into his room to find a dry clothes before going to sleep early. He had a headache, maybe because he had been stressed a lot. Swimming hadn't been helping him either.

When he woke up the next day, he was welcomed by surge of pain in the head. It felt like a truck just hit him on the head. It felt like a hungover but worse. He tried to lift his body but gave up after finding it too difficult of a task.

Bang! Bang!

The he heard it, sound of banging through his front door. He once again give up to stand up when dizziness overcome him. "Are you really not opening up, Hwang Hyunjin?!" The guest sounded frustrated but Hyunjin couldn't even lift a finger, don't even talk about yelling back.

A frown downed his pale face. Isn't that Jisung? Why is he not coming in by himself...then he remembered, Jisung had threw the spare key to his face when he left angrily.

Memories from last night returned and anger washed over him. Shutting his eyes and covering his ears, he decided to sleep, to ignore Jisung.

"You know what?! Fuck you, Hyunjin!" He heard Jisung's stomping off his feet, strutting away from his room.

His uneven breathing stabilized as he fell into a deep sleep, not knowing his fever would worsen the next time he woke up.

*

Practice was not fun. Well, at least not as fun as it used to be. Jisung didn't know why maybe because he had a fight with Hyunjin but they do all the time. It wasn't anything special plus, he was doing good in practice, his coach compliment him and Na-Eun even smiled at him. "Hey, ji" he looked up, feeling a hit weird since Hyunjin was the only one who ever call him that. He did tell Na-Eun to call him that but it was still foreign to his ears and it felt wrong.

"Yeah?" Jisung was surprised he didn't sound as excited as he should be. Usually, he would be all over the roof whenever Na-Eun talked to him.

The lady took a seat beside him, patting her skirt and settling to kea her back against the wall.

"Thanks"

Jisung raised an eyebrow before realization came to him. "It's nothing" he shook his head. "I can't just do nothing when I know you're scared of....thunder" he whispered the last part. Na-Eun smiled at how considerate Jisung was to not say it outloud but it wasn't something she was ashamed of.

"Yeah, but how come do you know I was there?" Jisung froze. He didn't want to say Hyunjin told him and he didn't want Na-Eun to know he was anything related to Hyunjin either. Sure, his friends had mentioned him a few weeks ago but Jisung sure she wouldn't have remembered since he was mentioned only briefly.

"I..." He slurred

"I was just passing by and saw you hugging yourself at the bus stop...", the truth was, he ran all the at to the vet and when he didn't see her, he went around the neighbourhood until he saw her crouching down in the bus stop, hugging herself. " oh " she merely said.

"But are you alright?" Jisung was startled. Nobody asked him that today because he was doing good, people assumed he was in a good mood. "You're not really a good actor, you know?"

Jisung wanted to laugh, he had deceived the whole basketball team today, how was he not a good actor?

"It's nothing...I don't want to talk about it" Na-Eun nodded. She wanted to be a good friend who Jisung can depends on but she knew when to back off. " I don't know what you're going through but I'm sure you will get through it just fine. You're Han Jisung after all"

"The basketball Prince" She laughed, standing up and dusting off her skirt. "I will go check the other members, so, cheer up!" She showed both of her fists before running away.

"She's so bubbly" Jisung shook his head. "Right....I will go through this just fine" even so, he didn't do to visit Hyunjin that day and he didn't know Hyunjin was absent through the rest of the day.