[Lost In the Mountains]

After her last student had gone home, JinHee stretched her hands out, still sitting in her chair.

The day was rather uneventful, just like the other days during this week. Yixing rarely came by anymore. He was busy preparing for his group’s debut.

Or rather… he is busy with that girl. JinHee thought bitterly,

She carefully stacked all of the papers lying on top of the piano and headed over to the cupboard to store them. It was not long after that she heard a familiar voice calling her.

“… JinHee?” Henry called out, “You’re locking up, right?”

She nodded at him, “Yeah. I’ll be done in just a sec.”

“Alright. Drive safe.” He smiled at her, charming as always.

As soon as she was finished with arranging her stuff, JinHee swooped up her Prada bag over her shoulders, strutting out of the room calmly.

Her phone rang, breaking the silence of the hallway.

“Hello?” she answered.

Yixing was on the other line, and she assumed he was out somewhere since the background noises were pretty loud. “JinHee-yah. Have you been to Namsan Tower?”

“Yes, why?” she replied, recalling her date ages ago with JoonMyeon.

“Well… I need your help.” He said nervously.

“With what?”

There was a short pause before he said, “I think I lost my way in it- and I sort of lost AiFei on the way too.”

JinHee gawked at what she was hearing, “You what?”

“I didn’t mean to lose the girl- I just did!”

“Oh Yixing…” she sighed, “What do I do with you?”

He chuckled lightly on the other end, “… Save me?”

JinHee shook her head as he hung up the call, pulling out her car keys to drive to Namsan Tower. What was Yixing doing there if he doesn’t know his way around the place?

She reminded herself to never let a tourist wander off somewhere with a fellow tourist later on in life.

Oh forget that,

Just never let Yixing play tour-guide anymore.

*****

“Yixing, where are you?”

He scoffed, “Well, if I knew, I wouldn’t be lost now, would I?”

“Just tell me what you can see around you then.”

“There are… trees.” He said blankly, “So many trees…”

JinHee exhaled tiredly, “Are you on a path way?”

“Yeah, there’s a cliff with wooden fencing around it next to me.”

“Good. It’s easier then.” She thanked the heavens, “Just stay right where you are and don’t move… I think you’re somewhere within the trekking path.”

She ended the call with a swipe of the screen and kept her phone inside her front jean’s pockets. JinHee looked around as she walked, searchin