Junmyeon and Chanyeol leave after Kris pays for pizza and beer, their payment for "cleansing" his apartment. He wants to tell them that it didn't work but he'd rather save Tao's ghostly extravagance for another time. He's sitting on his couch, sipping his can of beer when he remembers a key fact from the article Junmyeom read to him. 'Found hanging in the living room' Kris shudders and analyzes his surroundings, wondering where Tao had spent his very last moments. His gaze falls on the crystal chandelier and he can't seem to stop staring.

"They took down the old chandelier after I died" Tao is suddenly beside him, picking at the pizza "It's a shame because the old one was really nice"

His nonchalance is unnerving to Kris "How old are you?"

"Well I guess I'd be twenty thre- no twenty four this year. It's 2017 right?" He taps his chin

"You died when you were twenty?" Kris suddenly cried "You didn't even live your twenties and you're stuck in MY apartment"

Tao is amused at Kris's wallowing "It was my own decision, stop whining."

"Why?" Kris asks

Tao shrugs "I dunno"

"What? How do you not know why you committed suicide? People don't just wake up one day and decide hmm maybe I'll hang myself from my chandelier today!" Kris explodes, frustrated

Tao scoffs "I'll tell you some other time, you're too emotional over someone whose already dead."

"Do you know who found you?" Kris continues with his questions revolving Tao and his untimely death

"Nope, I don't really know what day I died I remember everything up till I put the rope on-" Kris visibly cringes at that line "and maybe a few days later I was back in my room, I thought it was a dream but when my parents came to get my stuff they didn't see me."

"How come I can see you?" Kris grows wary because he is not about to admit to being physic.

"It just took me a while to realize how to make myself visible. You know ghost training" he laughs

"So there's no heaven, no hell? We're all just stuck?" Kris is uncomfortable with his sudden realization

"I don't really know, there's no magical spirit guide and I haven't seen any other ghosts, maybe it's because I wasn't meant to die, but wouldn't that mean that I would get reincarnated? I have no anger or fiery rage that makes me want to rip your throat out, so no unfinished business. I'm just" he pauses "I'm chillin"

Kris decides to drop the topic because it's making his head hurt, thinking about the after life is not one of Kris's favorite pastimes. "So what did you study? I know you went to University of Korea which is lame by the way."

"I'm assuming you went to Seoul University?"

"Damn straight!"

"Explains why you're sitting talking to a ghost. You're a total loser"

"Oh shut up, I'm very cool. I work for a fashion magazine" Kris puffs out his chest proudly "Which is a very cool job"

"You got me there, that is pretty cool" Tao sighs "Which mag?"

"High-Cut"

"Alright you might not be a total loser." Tao pouts Kris smiles at the boy, 'cute' he thinks, admiring the way Tao's lips spread 

'I heard that' Tao's voice rings in his head

"Ah don't do that!" Kris shouts, smacking the side of his head, trying to get the spirit out of his mind

"Sorry" Tao replies sheepishly.

Kris rolls out of bed early Monday morning to begin getting ready for work. It's technically his first day but he had interned at the magazine for over two years, it was hardly different in the sense he knew everyone around him and how things ran in the office. The only significant change was that instead of running around doing errands for other workers, going on coffee runs he was now a junior writer/photographer and was actually being paid this time around. He shrugged on a light sweater and slid to the front door, Tao was seated on the couch, eyes glued to Entertainment Weekly playing on the TV. "There's so much juicy goss I missed this past year. Thank god you moved in or else I would never have found out that Sistar disbanded! Which I'm a little heartbroken about to be honest" Tao sighs

Kris rolls his eyes "Well you have all day to catch up on celebrity drama" he muttered, slipping on a classy pair of leather shoes

"Well have fun, make lots of money for me!"

"Get a job you bum" Kris shouted before walking out of his apartment. He chuckled under his breath as he heard a muffled 'Don't make me scare you into ting yourself, Wu Yifan' from inside his home. He didn't have to ask how Tao knew his Chinese name, damn ghosts know everything.

Throughout the work day, thoughts of Tao lingered on his mind. What would the ghost busy himself with this afternoon? Maybe he should get a dog so the ghost won't be lonely during the day. 'What am I talking about? He's been essentially alone for the past four years' Kris sighed as continued typing possible ideas for future articles on his computer. He was reading over his list, trying to decide which topic to use for his first article when an intern with artificial orange hair came knocking on his office. "Come in"

The intern was a tall and unarguably handsome young man with sharp features "Hi Kris Sunbaenim, I'm going to be getting lunch for everyone at Sushi 101, what would you like?" He bowed before producing a phone where Kris assumed he would be writing his order down

"Hyung, Kris hyung" he corrected with a smile

The intern gratefully bowed "I'm Sehun"

Kris gulped nervously 'He can't possibly be the same Sehun' he thought before replying "Nice to meet you Sehun, and I'll have a spicy tuna"

Sehun nodded and typed away at his phone "Well you where the last order for me to get so I'll be on my way" he turned to exit the office

"Wait-" Kris stood up, remembering himself running to the same exact sushi place to get an enormous bundle of food only to lug the heavy bag all the way back "Do you have a car?"

"N-no I just got out of college" Sehun looked at him quizzically

"I'll go with you, it can be a a real to carry that much sushi all the way back here" Kris grabbed his keys from his desk and shrugged his sweater on

Sehun's jaw dropped slightly and Kris chuckled lightly "I was the intern before they finally actually gave me a job, I know your pain Sehun-ah"

The intern grinned "Thanks Kris hyung"

"So where'd you go to college?" He asked Sehun, with the knowledge of where Tao went before he died

"University of Korea" Kris tightened his grip on the wheel "I uh have a friend who went there" he muttered, in response to Sehun's worried glance.

"Oh, you don't look like they where your friend"

Kris shrugged "Anyway what made you want to work with a bunch of stuck up fashion geeks?" He snorts

Sehun giggles softly "Ah my friend wanted to work in the fashion industry and I didn't really know what I wanted to do." His smile is melancholic and Kris knows exactly why "He passed away and I guess I wanted to.. I don't know do something that reminded me of him"

Kris's heart twists in his chest, because this boy has decided to live on whatever sort of dreams Tao left behind and Kris can feel how much Sehun misses him. "That's very honorable" he whispers, parking in the back of the restaurant.

Sehun just nods in response, Kris debates telling the intern that he lives in his dead friends old home and that said friend isn't exactly alive but he's most definitely around. He decides against dropping such a load on the poor kid and just follows the orange haired twenty four year old into the restaurant. "Pick up for Oh Sehun" he informs the hostess.

She nods and hands him the receipt, reading over the extensive order. He pays with a company credit card and signs, it'll take 10 more minutes. The two coworkers sit on the waiting chairs, continuing to talk about work related issues. Kris steers clear of any conversation about the deceased and old friends. But when Sehun asks Kris how long he's lived in Korea, the older of the two goes into a long ramble about his freshman year of college and living in a god awful dorm room with a smelly guy named Jongdae before rooming with some neat freak named Minseok who pretty much gave him his internship two years ago, he lands into risky territory, his apartment.

"And now that I'm out of college and done with weird roommates, I have this real nice place on 23rd and Lennings" he finishes

Sehun's eyes suddenly focus on his hands "D-do you perhaps live in Seoul City Apartments?"

Kris knows exactly what he's getting at but he feigns cluelessness because Kris certainly cannot say he knew the Tao that was alive and breathing and he hardly knows dead Tao whose kind of alive and most certainly not breathing. "Yeah, why?"

Sehun gulps "What apartment?"

"320" he lies, it's just a door off but he thinks it's the right decision when he see's the look of relief on the interns face

"Oh that's good" He sighs

Kris doesn't ask why and just gestures to Sehun that their order is ready. He decides to keep quiet about anything Tao related, the look of pain that passes Sehun's face makes Kris feel like beating the ghost up for leaving such a sweet kid behind to deal with a friends suicide.

When Kris returns home, he immediately calls out for the spirit inhabiting his home. "HUANG ZITAO GET YOUR SPOOKY OUT HERE!"

Tao appears, leaning against the wall in front of Kris "How was work?"

"Why did you leave Oh Sehun by himself?" He pesters "That kid is so sweet and he's working in fashion for you and I-I" he stops, his words getting caught in his throat, he didn't realize tears where rolling down his cheeks until Tao wipes them away with his thumbs

"Calm down"

Kris tries to slap Tao but his hand passes right through his body, like a mirage. "Tao, he misses you so much" he cried, continuously trying to hit the ghost, when he finally does get to actually strike Tao he stops. "Why can I suddenly touch you?"

Tao shrugs "You look like you need to vent your anger out, might as well give you something solid to hit"

Kris groans and walks to the couch where he collapses "Are you gonna tell me?"

"No."

Kris can't say he's surprised but he continues telling Tao all that he found out about Sehun today from the fact that his hair is orange to his status as an intern. Tao just grins stupidly at everything Kris says and it makes him forget about being angry. Besides, he can't stay mad at a dead boy, especially one as cute as Huang Zitao.

A/N: IM MAKING THIS SO MUCH SADDER THAN I INTENDED BUT I CANT STOP BRING DEPRESSING LMAO IM SORRY DONT HATE ME. ANYWAY INJUST WANNA SAY HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS YOU'RE SO VOCAL AND COMMENT SO MUCH AND BABYPEACHTAOZII YOURE SO SWEET THANKS FOR PMING ME BC THAT MADE ME WANT TO UPDATE MORE. IM SO GLAD YOU GUYS ARE READINGAND I HOPE I DONT DISAPPOINT!!! THANK U I LOVE U GUYS!!! -Zozo