▲ Challenged

A continuity of hours passed. The sun set down and complete darkness occupied the sky. She let out a small burp after taking her meal for dinner. “Oops.” She giggled covering . “Excuse me.”

Alone and lonely – that encompassed her night time, more like, her everyday home life. Her mother was abroad. Living independently was the only thing that will help her stay firm and bold. She took the picture frame that lay by the table on her front desk. It was a picture of her and her mother. “I wonder how it feels like to have you here by my side again.” She pondered pursing her lips before resting the frame back to its original place.

She grabbed the book she has yet to finish. Sliding her finger onto the page, she flipped it to where the bookmark was wedged in between. Horror stories – she loved them, very much.

As she reached the , her body began to tremble with fear. Goosebumps forming on her arms and she nibbled her lip, too engrossed of the story. Just then, a sudden blow of the wind hit her body causing her to shiver. Her head rose to look at the window and it was opened. She inserted the bookmark in between the pages and stood to close it. She carefully slammed the window and was startled by two hands pressed onto the window screen. She screamed on top of her lungs at the sudden action. But her fearful moment was replaced by anger as well as relief at the sight of Chanyeol. He knocked onto her window. She peeked at him and saw that he was sitting by the tree’s branch.

“What are you doing here?” She mouthed, clutching her chest as she felt like getting a heart attack earlier.

“Open the window.” He commanded.

“ert,” she mouthed before opening her window without hesitation. That was quite shocking for the reason that she usually declines him before agreeing. Perhaps, she was tired of constantly repeating ‘no’, when she’ll say ‘yes’ in the end.

He squeezed his body into the window to enter her room. Lucky for him, her window’s a bit big enough for his body to fit. As he managed to squeeze his body inside, he fell and was embraced by the cold wooden floor.

“Mind telling me why yo