Lost

            Wednesday put me in the charge of Sehun who had to be kicked out of the house by Suho because he was absorbed in the new game system Suho had installed.

            “How come Luhan hyung gets to stay in and play,” He grumbled as we waited at a bus stop.  “What am I supposed to do with you?”

            I stopped reading the ads on the sides of the bus shelter.  “I don’t know, what do you guys play when you are out and about.”

            He scowled at me.  “We aren’t just playing when we go out.”

            I went back to reading the ads.   Gosh, it was awkward being around Sehun alone.  Sure he was my age, but I didn’t seem to be able to relate to him at all.  He only glared at me, except when Luhan was around.  Then he just ignored me.

            “But, how would you like to play that game that we do play when we go out?”  Sehun was smiling slightly now.  He didn’t show his teeth in his smile, which he did when he was with luhan.

            “Sure, how do you play?”  I ask, curious.

            “Well, it’s like hide and go seek mixed with tag,” He smiled at me.  He had a really attractive face, even when he scowled.  It was really kinda cute when he smiled at me.  “Everyone breaks into pairs.  One of each pair runs off and hides and tries to blend in, they have twenty dollars with them.  The other then has to find them.”

            “In the city?  Isn’t it hard?”

            “Well, if you’re bad at it.  I happen to be pretty good,” He straightened and looked around.  “It’s all about trying to anticipate where the other would go.”

            “And you think you can predict where I’m going to go?”  I ask, accepting the challenge.  “Where will I go first?”

            “Well, since it’s chilly out and you’re a girl, you’ll probably take the bus and go window shopping in some indoor mall.”

            He actually read my mind.  I was planning on checking out a music store, looking at some more clothes, and if I got bored, chilling at a coffee shop with a good book or the newspaper.  Shoot.  “Well there goes that plan,”  I admit.

            “Instead, you’ll probably go to a library and immerse yourself in the stacks.  You don’t think that a college age student would think of looking for another college age student in such a boring place.”

            “There goes plan B,”  I sigh.  He was good.  I was going to have to think outside of the box.  “No more saying where I’m going to go, at least give me a bit of a head start.”

            “I’ll give you an hour,” He said, smiling and pulling out his wallet.  “Here’s twenty dollars to go disappear with.”

            “Okay, thank you.”  The bus was pulling up.  “And I hope I don’t see you soon.”

He waved goodbye as the bus pulled away.

            I went to the nearest subway station.  I bought a ticket and rode until I there were completely new people in the car with me.  Then I got off.

            This was my strategy.  If I didn’t know where I was going, there was no way he could know, right?”

            When I emerged, the sun was high in the sky and I was near a marketplace.  I figured he wouldn’t find me for at least a few hours so I wandered into the maze of stalls.

            They had everything you could want and not want.  And lots of people telling you it was the best stuff that you should buy now!  I only bought a banana and just walked around.  There was seafood and cheap Chinese key chains.  Nothing really interesting.

            I left the market in a different place from where I entered it, and figured that if I walked around that I would come across another subway entrance.  I wandered down the streets.  There were homely looking restaurants and old looking apartment buildings.  I wondered what part of town I had wound up in.

            The road had potholes and the sidewalk was cracked and had weeds growing through it.  Sehun would never guess that I would end up here!

My stomach was grumbling again, so I stopped into one of the restaurants and after waiting for five minutes and ringing the bell repeatedly, I ordered some ramen noodle soup and sat down to eat.  The shopkeeper wasn’t very friendly and went back to whatever part of the building she had been in before I arrived before I could ask where I was.

            The soup was nice and warm, if not too tasty.  Looking at the clock on the wall, which I guessed was probably set properly; I saw that it was four o’clock in the afternoon.