8:01 pm 

"Sit, I'll be back." 

Chanyeol instructed, his eyes looking down at his pet, his puppy Zzar, looking back at him in a sitting position with her puppy eyes toward him to take her along and Chanyeol almost gave in but restrained himself as he cleared his throat, and shook his head. "No, I have to throw out the trash, so stay here and I'll be back quickly." 

Zzar stayed still, and Chanyeol understood to smile, his dimple visible over his cheek as he patted her to immediately walk toward the entrance of his house with a trash bag in his hands, and as soon as he opened the front door, a shriek left his lips behind his accelerated heartbeat. 

"What the-" 

"Don't mind me."

The female sitting on his porch with her back in his sight had uttered, her voice audible but enough for him to hear clearly as Chanyeol tilted his head, a confused look taking over his face. "You," He trailed off, taking a step forward through his front door while taking a peek through the female's face who had her head leaned against the wooden pole with her arms hugging it like a child embracing a bear for a warm hug. 

"Yep, it's me, your neighbor." She stated, not even tearing her gaze away from her house which was located just across from his, and Chanyeol frowned, looking down at the figure as he stood by her side. "Okay. Ms. Neighbor, can I ask, what are you doing on my porch?" 

"This is kind of embarrassing for me to say," She bit her lower lip, before averting her eyes from her house to tilt her head up toward him as she met his eyes, for a moment they stared at each other, her features displaying under the porch light above them and Chanyeol raised his eyebrows. "Well?" 

"You can throw the trash away and don't mind me because I'm not going to barge in your house." 

That was all she said, before looking away from him and his forehead creased in amusement, as a sigh left his lips to climb down the three steps while walking past her seated figure toward the end of the street, unknowingly leaving the door opened, and as after a few minutes of his way towards his house, he found his puppy on the lap of his neighbor. 

"And you asked me not to mind you after taking my puppy?" 

Chanyeol inquired, his eyes intent somehow at the sight, and he saw her flinching as her wide eyes met his calm ones before they turned into narrowed ones. "I didn't take him," She paused, a frown of confusion appearing between her eyebrows behind her bangs on her forehead as her eyes averted to the puppy. "Or her?" 

"Zzar." Chanyeol uttered, taking a few steps toward the porch as he stood by it with his hand in his sweatpant pocket. "Her name is Zzar." 

A delighted smile graced her lips, beaming under the whitish light like her eyes. "Oh, so her name is Zzar," She trailed off, caressing her head softly to which the puppy leaned into her touch, making the latter giggle. "It's nice to meet you." 

Chanyeol stared at them for a moment, just standing there, and looking at his puppy getting along with his neighbor, the neighbor whom he had never interacted with before, only heard or got a glimpse of her by chance, but right now, she was sitting on the porch of his house with his puppy on her lap with her lips moving in a conversation with her. 

"You know, you can sit here instead of just staring at us." She said, snapping him out as a sudden heat had rushed up to his ears which had him clear his throat, along with his eyes averting away from her until she said something again. "It's your own house and porch and your puppy-" 

"And you?" He cut her off, surprising her and himself as well, at his own uttered words and her eyes blinked a couple of times blankly before her shoulders did a nonchalant shrug. "Your neighbor, I guess?" 

"The neighbor you haven't ever noticed before?" He questioned, before taking a seat beside her with a maintained distance, and heard a chuckle from her, a chuckle which had brought his lips into a smile unknowingly as he saw her shaking her head. "No, I know you, Park Chanyeol, the sweetest guy in our neighborhood." 

His forehead creased. "Am I called by this name?" 

"You didn't know?" A gasp left her lips. "Wow, I thought everyone