A loud banging on his door woke him up. He looked at the clock and noticed he had only slept for about 4 hours. It was still more than he usually got. He got up with a groan and slowly made his way to the door. He was expecting Seokmin to be there, looking for his cell phone or something he might’ve left behind. He was also expecting his neighbor Jihoon, telling him to keep it down even though he’s explained countless times the noise comes from upstairs where Joshua and Jeonghan live. Mingyu doesn’t have a life so how many people actually visited him? That’s why he screamed when he opened the door and saw a black haired stranger. That and because the stranger pushed him into the apartment and ran in locking the door behind him.

Mingyu had wondered how he would die before, at the hands of a stranger wasn’t too far off to be honest. Normally, he would have sprung into action and grabbed the nearest blunt object (he had thought about his escape plan in great detail), but for some reason he was mesmerized by the strange man in front of him.

The two sat on the floor of Mingyu’s apartment. It was completely silent except for the panting of the stranger and the ticking of the clock. They stayed that way for a while, until finally Mingyu had enough.

“Would you like a beer?”

The stranger laughed. It was an awkward laugh, as if he hadn’t done it in a while and almost forgot how to, but it still made Mingyu feel warm.

He led the stranger to the couch and got the beers, turning on the lights on the way to the fridge. The stranger chugged down the beer and Mingyu observed