Ahra put the last box on the back of the pickup van. She wiped her forehead and took a deep breath. There were four huge boxes altogether; two for her clothes and shoes which weren't much, one for her books and school stuff and the last filled with photo albums, dolls and some old small decoration for her new room. After handing back the house owner her keys and paying her last month's rent they left for her new house ;Ahra, Sora and her brother SoHyuk in his van. It didn't took them long to reach their destination and SoHyuk dropped them off as Ahra had refused his help.

 

"Thank you for dropping me off and helping me move my stuff. I'll treat you something later." she said as SoHyuk started the engine.

"Keep your words" he smiled and drove off.

"Hei!! You should pick me up later!!!!!" Sora yelled in her loud voice as the car disappeared around the corner.

"He's so annoying. He pay that much attention to you and he treat me so differently." she sulked.

 

Ahra just gave an understanding laugh as she struggled to carry to huge boxes in one by one. She settled everything with the owner after she paid her for the month's rental. She unlocked the front door and the warm feels welcomed her once again. How she loves everything; the snug living room with white sofa and cushions, the neat kitchen, the small patch of garden under her veranda and her bedroom. 

Now everything is hers. Hers and twelve strangers' to be exact. It took her some time to put everything together, arranging her closet and putting the small things on her desk and bathroom. She didn't forget to put the gold framed family photo on her desk and post some polaroid photos of her and Sora on the wall. Everything was set in order and she couldn't have hoped for a better result. 

 

"I'll treat you tteokbokki now.. For helping me search for the house, with the move and help me set everything up." Ahra linked her arm around Sora's and they headed down the stairs. 

 

As they did Ahra couldn't help but admire the size of the house and the number of rooms there. She was really curious whether they had arrived, the other twelve tenants she'll be sharing the house with. So far there is just no sign of them at all. No shoes at the doorstep, no mess and no noise. A big part of her just wanted to make friends with these strangers.

"This can be a new challenge for me. Living in a house with twelve boys that i know nothing of. Should be interesting." she grinned looking back at the empty house before locking it.

 

Sora and Ahra were sitting in a small street food stand, eating ttokbokki and deep fried mandoo and veges. They had spent around an hour sitting there and chatting. The snack was fulfilling and definitely cheaper than hanging around in cafes or coffe shops. They then decided to go to Sora's house and do their group project. Ahra just love fridays where she can stay late until night without worrying about waking up early the next day.

 

They were working up on their project when Sora's mother appear with some juice and snacks for the two girls.

"Ahra i heard you already found a place.  Living alone must be lonely. You can always stay here with Sora if you feel bored or alone." she gave her a sweet smile as they  helped her put the juice glasses on the table.

"Thankyou, i always like coming here for sleepovers. It was never boring." she grinned.

"I know. Sora too. I'm glad you left your place. I heard there are lots of drunkards at night. Never a safe place for girls like you." 

"Yes there are lots of them but normally i was able to avoid them." 

 

When her mother left Sora took a glass of juice and drank it.

"I actually met a drunk gangster yesterday in front of the house." she confessed to her friend almost making her choked up.

"Wait. What?? Really???? What time did you returned home yesterday ?? Ithought you directly went home after i took the bus."

"Well i needed the cardboard boxes in the bookshop. But two unknown guys came and helped me."

"Two guys? Who?"

" I'm not so sure. I've never met them before. The weird thing is that they had this blue green eye that's just... I don't know i never seen something like tht.."

"Contact lenses??" 

"Maybe? I'm not sure." she shrugged.

 

 

The time showed ten at night. Ahra decided to end the day and return home. She was drained after so little sleep last night and wanted a good night sleep in her new bedroom. As she approached the house she could see the light in the living room was on. 

"I thought i turned eveything off before i left." Ahra stopped infront of the house. "Has they arrived?" 

A mixture of excitement and anxiety was building up inside her. She's only a few steps away from meeting the other tenants that she will be sharing the house with. She took a deep breath and relaxed herself before finally pressing the code and unlocking the front door

 

Ahra was expecting lots of noises and scattered shoes on the doorstep but it was not what she saw. There was now a huge shoerack near the entrance that she couldn't remember seeing when she first arrived nor when she left the house this afternoon. Dozens of clean shoes were arranged neatly in the racks beside each other. There were lots of black boots but there were also running shoes and others. 

She was kind of relieved to see some pairs of animal slipperties and school shoes on the lowest rack. She wondered whether they were the same age or some could be younger perhaps. She took some time to estimate the shoe sizes of the black boots. Some were huge but many were smaller. Atleast not all twelve are giants. 

"Wait why am i doing this? I look so creepy." She washed away all the suspicion and anxiety, preparing to meet the tenants. 

 

The house was empty.

The living room is empty like how she left it. Ahra walked towards the kitchen. It was also empty. Nothing was moved or added in the house except the rack and the shoes. She stratched her head and headed upstairs back to her room.

"Probably they only moved some stuff." she assumed as she threw herself on the bed. "I wonder when they'll move in. I hope it's soon. It's really lonesome living alone in a huge house like this."

There's a bit of disappointment in her. Secretly she wished to meet them that day. The whole time she was wandering whether she could make some new friends. 

 

Ahra is smart and dilligent but these turn against her most of the time. Constant praises from the teachers and her good scores arose jealousy from the others. Being smart doesn't guarantee her lots of friends especially the fact that her she's an orphan and came from a poor economic background. The rich hang out with the rich , forming the elite gangs and Ahra is not included as apart of them nor does she want to. The spoilt gang carying makeup pouches instead of books and spending their self study time gossiping. It's not as if she's hated by many but her busy schedule just stop her from really socializing with the others. After school she'll have to hurry and do her part time jobs , doing her homework duing the breaks and going home to do her chores. Loneliness always come by especially when she returned home. The idea of living with twelve other people under the same roof excites her. 

"I'll feel less lonely now if i can just make friends with them."

She closed her eyes and fell asleep on her bed.

 

Ahra opened her eyes and looked at the alarm clock beside her bed. Ofcourse it wasn't ringing. She didn't even set it on. 

Seven in the morning. Stretching her hands she sat at the edge of the bed and rubbed her eyes. She took a shower in her new bathroom. Ahra love te smell of the fruity soap and dressed herself up in a plain t-shirt and shorts. Her schedule is packed as usual. She have free time until around nine before she'll have to leave for her part time job in the bookstore then in the restaurant until lunch time is over. Ahra dried her hair with a towel and decides she should make herself breakfast before doing her homework. 

 

She stepped out of her room and...

 

"AAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

Ahra screamed at the top of her lungs. She covered her face with her palms and felt her cheeks blushing. It seem as if her hwart is pumping blood faster to her veins and arteries spreading heat all over her.  The guy who just came out of the toilet drying his hair jumped backward in shock and accidentally banged his head against the toilet door.

"What the..!" he rubbed his head in pain and bite his bottom lips hard as he tried to cover his topless body with his other hand. He pushed a bedroom door opened and slammed it shut as quick as he opened it.

 

Doors from the other room opened up and three guys appeared.

"What's the noise all about??? " the tallest one with huge round eyes appeared from the behind the door followed by two others.

They froze when they saw Ahra. 

Another two appeared from another room and did the same when they saw the teenage girl standing infront of the room with hands covering her whole face. She peeped  in between her fingers and looked back at all the staring foreign faces. 

 

"You must be the other tenant in the house." 

 

Ahra turned her head around in shock. It was another guy. He had a small face and light brown hair. He was not very tall but he had a pair of shiny black eyes and long curled eyelashes. The poor girl wasn't fully back to her senses due to the embarasment. 

 

She had thought about this before. On how she should greet them politely and introduce herself nicely to them during their first meeting. But instead of creating a nice first impression, she was stuck in the most embarassing scenario she could ever thought of.  Seeing a boy for the first time coming out from the bathroom with only a piece of towel wrapped around his waist. Not the first thing that she wanted to see after waking up in the morning.

 

The guy laughed at her awkwardness confusing the girl. Shouldn't he be looking at her weirdly and judging her? But he wasn't doing that. He was smilling at her and his eyes curved like crescent moon. 

 

"My name is Luhan. What's yours?" he asked her as they walked down the stairs. She didn't know whether it's his friendly voice or glittering eyes or probably his handsome face but she unconciously followed him down the stairs and into the living room.

 

"I'm Ahra." she couldn't help but felt embarassed at her shaky voice.

"I think i should call the others so they can introduce themselves to you." He gave her another heart warming smile and stood up. 

Ahra watched him climbed up the stairs opening the doors and calling the others out. She looked around the house and saw two people looking at her from the kitchen.  They approached her slowly.

 

"Hi. I'm Suho and this is Tao." the guy with black hair and friendly eyesmile introduced himself and the other one beside him. The guy called Tao waved playfully at her, "You can call me Tao Tao or Panda Tao if you like." 

"Stop acting cute Tao. Just call him Tao, plain Tao." another one who was sitting on the dining table rose up, "I'm Kris." he introduced himself. He was tall and had sharp pair of eyes. He got a few black earings on his ears and it reminded her of the gangster back in her old neighborhood. He seems like a very serious person and his short sentences and direct way of talking shocked her but didn't teriffied her at all.

 

Luhan climbed down the stairs followed by six others. 

The tallest guy with big round eyes introduced himself with a bright tone, "Hi Ahra i'm Chanyeol. It's really nice meeting you. I hope we get along well."

Another one with huge round eyes introduced himself as D.O. Ahra couldn't stop staring at his two huge eyes and the huge grin on his face. 

Luhan sat beside her, still keeping a distance away from her. He doesn't want to make her feel nervous. 

Ahra tried to remember their names. There was also Lay that she think looks very kind and Chen that introduced himself cheerfully to her. And there's this guy called Xiumin who was small almost the same size as her. He had plump cheeks that looked like dumplings She bowed repeatedly at them and she started to feel more comfortable and relaxed. The last one coming down was the guy that she saw just now. He had dark purple hair that she thought look very cute and unique. 

"Don't let the incident just now leave a bad impression of me on you. My name is Baekhyun." he scratched his head smilling at her. He was probably as embarassed like she was but the way he tried to sound friendly and calm to her made her felt better and soon forget about the awkwardness just now.

 

"...Einght, nine, ten. We are missing two here." Ahra secretly counted them and realized two of them were missing. As if he can read her mind Luhan explained to her, "You must be wondering about the other two of our youngest. They're away for now, I think they'll be back soon." he said ,his eyes glancing at the watch circling his wrist. Ahra nodded her head although she was kind of shocked. She tried not to think of how creepy Luhan is just incase he really is able to read people's mind.

 

The click from the front door indicate that it was opened. Two guys entered the house carrying a basketball and a bottle of mineral water each. 

 

The faces were very familiar to her. 

"There they are. They just returned from playing basketball." Luhan pointed at the two.

The two guys were sweating and the one in sleeveless was turning around the basketball while balancing it on the tip of his index finger. The other was one drinking from his water bottle. 

 

"The cap and hoodie guy." she wispered to herself.

 

They were busy doing their own thing that they didn't realize her sitting beside the others on the sofa in the living room. 

The guy failed to keep the ball balanced and it bounced on the floor. The white skinned guy close the bottle cap and that's when his eyes met hers.

 

"Oo Hi we meet again." the guy picked up his basketball and approached her seat.

"I'm Kai ~" he smiled ,again almost smirking. 

"Hey come here and introduce yourself to her. We didn't get to do it last time." he pulled his friend who was only looking from afar closer.

"I'm Sehun." He broke free from Kai's grip and sat beside Luhan.

 

Ahra wasn't sure what was wrong. Is it just how his personality is? To her he seems like he's trying to avoid her. But there's something that she find even weirder.

 

His eye color changed. It was no longer the blue green color of the sea that she remembered, it was dark brown. The deep mezmerizing color was too vivid in her mind that she was a hundred percent sure they were blue-green.

 

"How old are you?" Chen asked.

"I'm 17 this year." she answered no longer stammering.

"You're just a year younger than Sehun then. Also Kai and Tao. The three are the same age. And D.O is a year older than them. You all should go along well with each other." Suho smiled at her.

" I want to get along well with Ahra because she's pretty and nice." Everyone turned their heads towards Tao who was giving his biggest grin to the girl.

"Ahra don't really bother him, he's being random." Baekhyun snapped. He didn't want her to get the wrong impression of the them after the bathing incident.

Tao pouted at Baekhyun and sulked as the others nodded in agreement. 

"Tao is going to creep her out in no time." Chanyeol shook his head as Tao started arguing and defending himself. Ahra secretly smiled at them.

 

Her worries faded away as she looked at them argueing and fighting with each other. She is not sure when they'll be able to accept her as a friend. She had no idea if they will even like her but she likes them and she know her life will never be boring or lonely anymore. 

 

 

 

 

Author's Note: Hi there:)) we're now on the third chapter.. How do you think of it so far??? Sorry if there are wrong grammar and tenses or any other errors :p can you guess the main characters already?? I'm going to keep writing so keep on reading~^^~ Happy reading guyssss hope you guys like it;)