"Let's talk about it another time, Kong-ah." 

 

A few days passed since those words came out of Jaehwan's mouth. It was friday already and there was still no real conversation, no explaination, not even a hint for Hongbin what happened between Wonsik and Jaehwan. Plainly nothing. 

  The younger would be stupid to not understand that his best friend tried to avoid him. That he avoided long talks at all.   It was just clear in these conspicious moments, when Jaehwan took a lot of time picking his food in the canteen, came to school in the morning right in time before classes started and went straight back home after his lessons. He just didn't let Hongbin any space and time to ask a second time what occurred that day.   Of course, Hongbin couldn't force his best friend to open up and release every single information of the happening, but at least, Jaehwan could say that he actually didn't want to talk about it.   But he didn't.   And it made Hongbin crazy.    Hongbin hated the feeling to hold back and not to force his Hyung to talk. The only thought that made it possible for him to surpress his curiosity and to endure, was the thought, that there must have happened something. Something that Jaehwan first had to arrange with himself.    Even if he couldn't be sure about what hid under the hush-up, Hongbin could be sure that it was nothing common or expected, because Jaehwan never tried to evade something from the younger. Not even mentioning keeping secrets. Normally he told Hongbin everything.    So Hongbin just tried to accept the silence of his friend. To be completely honest, there simply wasn't any other option than accepting. He couldn't do anything more than just asking and waiting, right?

 

"Just stop thinking about this."   Hongbin mumbled to himself, while sitting calmy on the edge of his bed in his room. To scold himself was the only way he could get away from his thoughts about Jaehwan's behaviour in the whole week.    The student decided that sitting down for long time on this bed with a dark blue duvet cover wouldn't be a good idea, because it was friggin' messy. The sheets were still as untidy as he left them when he went to school earlier and he was sure that he would freak-out if he sat there any longer.    In this whole week he was thinking too much about the issue with Jaehwan, that he forgot about tidieng up his room, what completly stood in contrast with his neat personality. Yes, he was a freak when it came to tidiness, but in this week he didn't even think about folding his sheets or cleaning up at all. Even though there wasn't a lot in his room - except of that double-sized bed and some other furnitures like a small wooden desk with a laptop placed on it, a huge cabinet and a stylish black nightstand right next to his bed -it still looked horrible because of all the papers on his desk and the clothes on his chair.   Hongbin felt like everything just was a mess, his mind as well as his room.   "I can't believe how it looks like in here.", was the thought that crossed his mind while trying to distract himself from thinking too much about certain issues.   Did he really do this all? How couldn't he get angry because of this mess before? He really needed to change his thoughts, else he would be burried in his own mess soon.    Everything around him didn't let him continue to sit there quietly, he clearly needed to do something.   In the next moment Hongbin finally  balanced his weight on his legs and started to clean up. Maybe that was exactly what he needed in the moment; No thinking, just doing.    But as great as this intention was, it didn't last long. While making a move to the vacuum cleaner, his mobile phone suddenly buzzed, what brought him back to reality again.   Who could that be?    There weren't many people that would write Hongbin a message when the weekend began. And due to the current tension between them, he was quite sure that it wasn't Jaehwan. So there was just another option left.    Without even thinking more about it, Hongbin intuitively grabbed his mobile phone, that was inside of his pants pocket and looked at its screen. The message that popped up about a minute ago was from Hakyeon.   Cha Hakyeon. As he expected.   Even though the message was only a "Let's meet up later, Hongbin." Hongbin's eyes widened in surprise.   It would be too much to say that Hakyeon and Hongbin were good friends. They just were in that kind of a senior-junior-relationship that got along well and informed each other about their life, but ignored each other at school completely. Maybe their relationship could simply be discribed with the term "living diary". In other words just a relationship based on own advantages.   The result of this selfish relationship was a lack of closeness, even if they literally knew everything about the other and kept each other's secrets trustworthly. They met up sometimes directly after school, but not at anytime in their free time, so their meetings were rarely spontaneous. But this time, it was different. The message came out of nowhere.   One thought in Hongbin's mind led to the other until he came to one question: Did something important happen to Hakyeon that he really needed to talk about in person? And if it was like that, what was it?   Deciding that he couldn't let this questions unanswered he quikly dialed Hakyeon's phone number.   While Hongbin was waiting for the older to pick up, he was asking himself why he actually called. Was it just to calm himself down or was he really that worried? Without being able to answer his question in this short time the older was heard on the other side of the line after some peeps,   "Wow, I expected a short answer, like ... a text message? But calling me, that's new. You're always surprising me, Hongbin."   Without even paying attention to the words that came out of Hakyeon's mouth Hongbin just directly answered the latter's message with an   "Okay, let's meet up, sunbae. I'm going to be in the Café, where we usually meet after school, sitting at the table, where we're always talking. I'll give you 40 minutes."   Hakyeon smiled at these words, while suspecting the younger of being worried by his sudden behaviour.   "Seems like I'm worth a call now, even if you just give me the same short answers. Our relationship seems to improve.", Hakyeon responded jokingly