Chapter Six

You and Me: We're Dorm Buddies
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It was supposed to be morning but what is with this dark presence that loomed over my body? The touch of sunlight being fully covered by this dark, bleak aura. This is great. I had the urge to go back to my beauty slumber. Nonetheless, it felt unnecessarily strange and covered. Downright peculiar. My eyes twitched, gingerly opening my eyes when to my utmost horror, to discover a pair of glistening eyes staring intently towards my direction. My body to be precise.

“What the hell are you doing?!” I sprang up from my bed. My eyes widened at the awkwardness of the situation. “Dude, were you-“ My instinct reminded me about my identity, where I wrapped the blanket around my body in a panic manner.

“Watching me sleep!” I shouted, simply accusing.

Woohyun had an expression stamped across his face, one that I couldn’t read through. His lips were slightly apart, staring at me in my sleep-deprived state. My unglamorous state: bed hair (correction – awful bed wig hair), possibly having bad morning breath overwhelming the space, slanted black-rimmed glasses (I slept with it) and the unnamed.

In all, I looked awful. He raised a cocky eyebrow. His throat formed a knotted lump. “Lost lamb, how did you get in?” He cleared his throat. His hands were still dangled on to the metal frame of my bed.

“Last night.”

“You managed to sneak in? How did you do that?” He started bombarding me with questions and right then, I took noticed that he had a toy water gun in his right hand.

“Myungsoo opened the door.” I glared at Woohyun. Immediately, he stepped down from the double decker’s ladder to make way. It was my turn. I whirled my body to jump right off the ladder. I skipped a few steps. My feet settled nicely on the ground.

“He did?” Woohyun stated, clearly puzzled. He mumbled something under his breath, one that wasn’t audible to my ears. Woohyun smelled pleasant, as though he was up since an hour ago. All prepped up, with the school’s blazer, school tie being loosely released and that his hair was styled to a bad boy up-do.

I glanced at the dormitory's clock only to discover that it was already eight thirty freaking morning. I let out a high-pitched yelp. Woohyun stared back with a look of confusion.

“Why didn’t you wake me up? What time is class supposed to start?” I yelled, in my boy-like voice. “What’s that water gun for? Were you drinking baby milk right out of it?”

I trailed where my last sentence came up like a whisper, realizing that I had to control my inner wit. Patience, Park In-Na.

He smugly smiled, releasing the water gun’s trigger where he started spraying water across the room. “Class starts in fifteen minutes, lost lamb!” He snickered, pretty much engrossed into spraying water towards my face. He was clearly enjoying every single minute of my misery.

“Where are Myungsoo and Sungyeol?” I questioned, rummaging through my luggage for my school’s uniform. Due to the night madness of being kicked out by my own dormitory roommates, I didn’t have the time to unpack.

“They are in the boys’ toilet. It’s a little crowded right now,” he stated, tying his shoelaces.

Woohyun gave up in his attempt of annoying me with the water gun spraying. On a side note, I was actually thankful. That minimized the time to wash my face and to start paying close attention to something else. Say...hiding my womanly features and pasting the artificial sideburns to my skin. I grabbed the school tie from one of the clothes hook, my belongings wrapped close to me.

“Do you want me to bring you to one of the vacant toilets around here, lost lamb?” he initiated. His gaze locked into mine. I brushed that look away, nodding my head to his suggestion. For that matter of time, he didn’t appear anything like a jerk.

Just to keep a heads up, I wasn’t going to trust that easily.

“Woohyun, are you bipolar or something?” I pointed out, accuse-mode in full-force.

He chuckled where I was taken by surprise, “More like messed up.”

I snickered in response.
 

 

“T-the girl’s toilet? Why would an all-boys boarding school have a girl’s toilet right in here?” I shrilled, completely in disbelief. My mind stemmed to three distinctive thoughts.

First thought, Woohyun must have known right from the start. He shouldn’t know. He shouldn’t. Did my wig slipped off while he was trying to wake me up? This plan is bogus. Did he see right through my fake identity? Second thought, he was trying to help and this was the only vacant bathroom in the entire boarding school. Third and final passing conclusion, he has something up his sleeves against the “newly-transferred boy nerd.” I cringed at the thought, reminding myself to be on a constant look-out.

“We have part-time female teachers who dorms in here,” he shrugged. “So this place is usually empty when they chose not to stay in our school. Come on! Get dressed. You’re going to be late,” he urged, motioning me to the door.

I smiled, shutting the front door of the bathroom. “See you in class.”

“See you and don’t get caught, lost lamb,” he advised as his figure retreated for the exit.

“Sure,” I hollered back, guarding myself. The last thing that I wanted was to be accused of being a hormonal nerd-boy, caught bathing inside the girl’s bathroom or worse - accused to be confused of my orientation.
 


“What the f-“ L.Joe shrieked, pulling my hand towards him. “You’re rooming in with three freaking guys? Not one but three?” I caught a look of incredulousness smeared across his face. He ruffled his blonde hair, kicking the brick wall in annoyance.

“What is with you pretty boy?” I nudged him, pulling a book right out from my backpack. To blend well with my studious image, I have to make sure that the props were right in place. “I expect impressive reviews from Woollim...Blah blah blah” I muttered, annoyed that the headmaster’s words were stuck to my skull.

“How can’t I be paranoid? Three hormonal boys! What if they do anything explicit to you? God dammit, you’re a girl. You wouldn’t understand.”

We walked towards homeroom class, and alongside, L.Joe was behaving like a nagging old hag.

“Wrong. They didn’t read through me. They kicked me out upon arrival,” I hissed, still bearing some form of grudge towards my roommates.

“Can’t you ask for a room t

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CMR_1234
#1
I'm grateful I had the chance to witness this story begin and end before my eyes, and to be able to read it. Not only did these stories perhaps awaken this soul inside me who later on has her eyes opened and saw life and the world differently, then yearned to write; about the uglinesses of everything that exists and doesn't; about anything that revolves around themes of angst and slice of life — it kindled that dreamer in me who failed and made that her fuel to write. This helped me find what creations I wanted to contribute to the world; this was the key to door, the awakening of how later on I would write about miseries and sufferings and pain and struggles, in a way that I can believe only I can do.

Lost Dreamers and Dorm Buddies will eternally hold a very special place in my soul, so will you. Thank you.

And also, thanks to you, I was intrigued enough and watched Amélie which became one of my few favorite films, and, like your stories, hold a dear place in my soul.
kpop23
#2
ahh i've read this like 4 times and every single time i read it i just fall in love more and more!! this is so beautiful and well-written
--bwoyaaaa
#3
Hi there! Coming back to this story after years of being away from this site. I remember following every single chapter of this story and admiring the beautiful cover which I, later tried to kinda copy into making my own cover, but unfortunately failed hahaha
Shinigamirukiasr
#4
Oh my gosh I didn't know this was complete! I used to read this story and loved it, gonna have to reread it all from the very start ♡
kyuack
#5
Chapter 5: I'm new to your story and I'm loving this so much like gosh your writing style is so on point
asiannn_
#6
Chapter 59: truly hope all goes well with both teen top and l. joe. i hope that there won't be animosity between them.
blondesakura
#7
Chapter 59: I love him and truly devastated by this news, because i love his friendship with the other members. but i support him going after his dreams. it must've been really difficult for him.
your story is one of the stories ive kept very special in my heart. i read this when i was very young & starting to learn the hard things and sadness life could bring. now, I'm almost 20 and i've experienced too many painful things that I'm surprised I could still continue living.
I came back here after years of not really active reading fanfics like i used to, just to see your story again. I've lost inspiration, motivation for the past years ( i was lost, because of a difficult phase in my life) , I came here to read your story again , just to feel what i felt years ago . i had sparks of emotions when i read your story. i just wanna say how special your story is to me :") you're really inspiring authornim. thanks for being one of the reasons why i am who i am today .
CMR_1234
#8
Chapter 59: I was very shocked when I saw the news also, but, it's his decision. And if he wants to pursue his dreams, I have nothing against it even though I can't help but be sad since there would be no more ot6 Teen Top like before but I'm very willing to support him no matter what.
I kind of feel nostalgic since I read your fan fiction back on 2012 too. Right when you were just starting to write this and I so agree on what you said, that's what I also thought when I was reading this and maybe that's one of the reasons your work really got me hooked up. Ljoe really does suit the kind of character you wrote. This is a work of art. It's just so, so beautiful. Your writing style is just-- I don't know, I can't explain it in words but you really do have the talent. I think I would always remember the OT6 moments whenever I would read this story and thank you for that. I feel so nostalgiiiiiiiiic, gah. :(