Nine
Free My Heart
“Why can’t I watch? It’s just a scary movie.” Aeri threw her fists at her hip.
“You’re too young. You can’t do everything with us!” Her older brother teased.
“But L oppa’s only two years older than me!”
“Two years is 730 days. That’s a lot of days.” L tousled her hair.
“Please?? Pretty please?” Aeri cupped her palms together and fluttered her eyes.
“Hyung can’t she stay?” Sungyeol asked.
“Yea, look at her. How can you say no to that?” Woohyun patted her head.
“Fine.”
“Yay!” Aeri jumped up in the air.
“But if you have nightmares tonight don’t come crawling into my bed.” Sunggyu warned.
“I won’t! I’ll just crawl into Sungyeol oppa, or Woohyun oppa, or L oppa’s bed.” Aeri stuck her tongue out at her brother.
“Is that real?” Aeri covered her face with a pillow.
“It’s just a movie.” Sunggyu pulled away the pillow.
“But it looks so real!” Aeri hid behind L.
“Is it over?” Aeri asked when the screen turned black.
“AH!” She covered her eyes with L’s shirt when a scary face popped onto the screen.
“Cute.” L laughed.
“Do you regret watching it?” Sunggyu turned to her.
“N…n…no. That was a piece of cake! I can watch it again.”
“Okay, let’s go to bed. It’s past midnight.” Her brother walked her to her room.
“Good night Aeri!” The boys waved.
“Night!”
“Boo!”
“Ah!” Aeri jumped.
“You’re so mean oppa!”
“HA, alright. Good night baby sis.” Sunggyu kissed her forehead.
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“Oppa…” Aeri whispered tiptoeing into his room.
“Aeri? Why are you up?” Sunggyu rubbed his eyes.
“I can’t sleep.”
“I told you not to watch the movie. Come here.”
And Aeri jumped into her brother’s bed.
“When are you gonna grow up and not have to crawl into my bed when you’re scared?”
“Never.”
And with that Aeri fell sound asleep.
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“Oppa! I want this one!” Aeri pointed to the
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