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Jiyong was a clean freak and has tendency to keep his stuff neat and at proper place. But since Seungri came to live with him, his apartment didn’t look like his own anymore. His always cleaned apartment was now always messed when he was not around. He always has to clean his apartment when he got back from work because Seungri just simply didn’t know how to keep his home mess free and it makes him more tired because of his hectic office hour but he didn’t complain to Seungri yet.

Seungri treats Jiyong home as his own and throw stuff here and there like he normally does at his own room but there he had Jinwoo, who cleaned his room and here Jiyong do it all. He stays whole day at home when Jiyong goes to office. He cook instant noodle when he feel like eating, creating mess in the kitchen and he never clean afterward. He was having a great time without anyone to nag at him. He was oblivious to the fact that he was at some other’s home and his presence makes a great deal in Jiyong’s peaceful life.

It has been around a week and Seungri was still ignorant to his surrounding and Jiyong’s patients were running loose day by day. He started thinking how could Seungri live his life like that without any care and worry despite being kicked out from his home with an empty pocket. Yet he still takes care of Seungri because for him Seungri was great friend but very childish.

One day Jiyong had a rough day in his office because his department head was being hard on him and he was so pissed off when he returned. He went inside and saw Seungri was lying on his bed with a total mess around. There was a dirty plate besides him on the bed, few books were scattered on the floor, and dirty coffee cup was lying on the floor nearby few empty chips packet.  He went to kitchen and it was totally disaster. The kitchen sink was filled with dirty dishes, stove was dirty with soup stain or was that instant noodle stain, and kitchen counter was all stained with coffee and soup.

“Seungri-ah, do you even know the meaning of cleanliness? How could you make such a mess when I try my best to keep it clean?  This is not your home where you make mess and your help boy clean it. This is my apartment. Here I have to clean it every day and I’m not your help boy; if you can’t help me then at least try not to make mess. I work whole day in office and I can’t venture my time cleaning the mess that you made when I’m already too tired. I can’t even think how irresponsible and childish you could be at this age?” Jiyong couldn’t hold his anger this time when he saw all the mess around his apartment.

“Jiyong…I...” Seungri was taken aback to see Jiyong’s reaction and he tried to say something but Jiyong cut him off.

“Clean it… I can’t live in this mess…” Jiyong said and left the apartment.  He neither changed nor did he freshen up. He was too furious to even think about those.

Seungri was dumbfounded and kept on looking at the closed door for a while. He tried to rewind what just happened. It was totally unexpected. He was reading one of Jiyong’s magazines and all of a sudden Jiyong came, yelled at him and left his own apartment god knows where.

He processed what Jiyong had said and those words hurt him but it was all true. He knew it. He looked around and saw all the mess he had created. He didn’t know what to do. He never cleaned his room before. It was always Jinwoo who cleaned his all the time messy room. He started with the bedroom living room first. He picked up those empty chips packet and dump in dustbin. Then he picked up the dirty plate and coffee mug and took those to kitchen. It took him two hour to clean. Then he went to kitchen to clean. First he washed all the dirty dishes, then he scrub those stains on stove and counter. After that he mobbed the floor and cleaned it perfect. 

It was 11pm when he was done with all the cleaning, not only bedroom and kitchen but he also cleaned their bathroom. Actually he was little scared of Jiyong that he couldn’t leave bathroom unclean. He never saw Jiyong in such anger before and it made him think about his own behavior around him. He always takes granted of everyone who is close with him. For example, Hara, she done his assignment all his college life and till now he never said a proper thank you to her. Jonghyun, whom he fought for passing exam, always accompany him without even a question and always save his from getting caught by his parent about his nonstop club visit, yet he accused him for betrayed. And Jiyong, whom he met few days ago and became friend in such a short time, provided him a place to stay when he had none, yet he didn’t say thank you but he made his life more difficult. He felt terrible.

He waited for Jiyong whole night but Jiyong didn’t return. He didn’t even know where to go and look for him. He didn’t even have mobile to call him so he couldn’t do anything besides waiting for him like a pet waiting for his master.

Jiyong was back the next morning and he was surprised to see his apartment all cleaned. He saw Seungri sleeping on the couch but the posture tells him he fell asleep waiting for him because he didn’t laid down on couch rather he slouched. Seungri look so innocent while sleeping and he couldn’t help but to cares his sleeping face. It woke Seungri up from his slumber. Seungri looked at him like he had first saw him and it made Jiyong to giggle.

“Go and sleep on bed... You look uncomfortable slouching like that…” Jiyong said gently making his way towards his small kitchen.

“Where were you last night?” Seungri asked. He waited for him till he fell asleep.

“Downstairs...” he said from kitchen. Actually there was no partition between kitchen and main room, so they could easily talk.

“Downstairs?” Seungri asked rubbing is eyes.

“At Cherin...” Jiyong said. He was brewing coffee.

“I didn’t know that you are close with her.” Seungri said with a hint of jealous.

“She is a nice girl once you know her. You guys will get along well. She is just like you, carefree from this world.” He said. She was that hot girl who handed them apartment key when they came to look for it.

Seungri didn’t say anything after that. He just crawl to bed and slept.  He didn’t have sound sleep on that couch.

Hara came to look for him that day with his belongings. Apparently his mother called hara and asked her to deliver those things to him. He was so happy to see his camera, his MAC, his play station and his mobile phone. His mother had also sent him his wallet filled with few thousand won.

They talked for a while. He was feeling little low because of Jiyong’s words and also how Jiyong left him last night on his own. Hara cheered him up like always and for the first time he thanked her sincerely.

 His mood lightened when he started playing with his camera. He clicked Jiyong’s apartment from head to toe. He went to terrace after that and took lots of picture of Seoul city. He didn’t even know how the time passed.  It was already evening.

When he went back, he saw Jiyong’s shoe on the door. He sneaked inside quietly because he was still little scared of Jiyong since his outburst and there he saw Jiyong taking nap on the couch without even changing his attire. It seems like Jiyong had a rough day with his facial expression and he felt bad. He realized how brat he was towards Jiyong in these last few days. He clicked few picture of Jiyong from every angle and after that he cover him with a thin blanket causing Jiyong to smile in his sleep.

He wanted to prepare proper dinner for Jiyong since he looked so tired, but he didn’t know anything besides instant noodle. So he ordered take out from the money his mom sent him. Their dinner came in half an hour but Jiyong was still sleeping. So he didn’t wake him up. He kept the dinner on dining table and he sat there looking at all those pictures that were saved there from long back.

After a while he heard the bathroom door being opened and then closed so he peeked at the couch and found Jiyong was already woke up. He heat up the soup and set the dining table nicely. He went near couch and wait for Jiyong. Jiyong came after few minutes in his home cloth all fresh up.

“Come have dinner… its getting cold…” Seungri told him

“You shouldn’t have cooked… Aish my kitchen…” Jiyong was sure that his kitchen looks disaster and he has no strength to clean it now but he was surprised to see all neat and clean. Not even a single stain. He looked at Seungri and Seungri passed him a smile.

“Don’t worry I didn’t cook. I heat the soup little though, but I wipe the stain on stove.” Seungri was proud of his work.

“You really took my word to your heart huh…” Jiyong said. Actually he felt bad for yelling at Seungri last night.

“You were right anyway.”  Seungri said while serving Jiyong.

They ate their dinner in peace. No hard feeling for what happened last night. It was forgotten for the best. Jiyong told him his office and his department head and Seungri told him what he did whole day.

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It has been around month since he came to live with Jiyong. They get along very well despite being totally opposite of one another. Since Jiyong’s outburst, Seungri behave very well. He even helps Jiyong for laundry and dishes. During week day Jiyong goes to office and he goes with Jiyong till his office to send him off and then he wander around Seoul city taking lots of picture. During weekend they go to outing, grocery shopping and movie. Jiyong even introduced him to Cherin and they become very good friend. He was surprised to find that she was younger than him but a lot mature than him. She taught him to make basic dishes like omelet, toast, sandwich etc. she was a rookie model so he helped her to take photo for her portfolio.

He was having fun but something was bothering him. From last few days he was feeling like something is missing or something is incomplete but he didn’t tell his worry to Jiyong. In front of Jiyong he forgets everything. Jiyong became such an important part of him in this short time without even realizing.

It was late at night when both of them were sitting on terrace with a cup of coffee talking. Jiyong was telling him about his department head but Seungri seems to be lost in his own thought.

“Are you even listening to me…” Jiyong poked him on his cheek.

“Sorry… What were you saying?” Seungri asked him. He was in his own world thinking about his life. It was the first time that he ever thought about his life and realized he was nothing.

“I was saying that my department head asked me out tomorrow to watch some jazz band.” Jiyong said

“You never told me that you like jazz.” Seungri said feeling little bit uneasy to hear Jiyong going out with his senior.

He heard about that Choi Seunghyun, department head a lot from Jiyong. He always tells him how he replied in only one or two word, how he makes Jiyong to work nonstop and lastly how handsome he is that Jiyong had a slight crush on him from the day one.

“No… I don’t like jazz but he asked me out and I couldn’t say no.” Jiyong said while blushing like a girl but thank god it was night so Seungri didn’t see.

“So... finally you are going to date with your crush.” Seungri said and laughed at Jiyong causing Jiyong to blush even harder. He was not jealous but he felt little bit uneasy though.

“It’s not a date… just one show and probably a dinner…”Jiyong said

“It’s called a date Jiyong…” Seungri said

After that he didn’t say anything and Jiyong had a feeling something was not right with Seungri. The talking machine was not talking and Jiyong couldn’t help but to looked at Seungri longer than he ever intended to do. Seungri was looking at the view and the moon reflection on Seungri makes him so innocent that Jiyong couldn’t help but to mess his hair to remove the awkward silence.

“Tell me what happened?” Jiyong asked

“Huh…?” Seungri looked at Jiyong with confused face

“What’s going in your head? Tell me...” Jiyong said

“What happened to me?” Seungri asked. He didn’t know what Jiyong was talking about.

“You seem kind of lost. Something must be going on in your mind. Why don’t you tell me and I promise I won’t judge you.” Jiyong said while taking one of Seungri’s hands in his own and cares with his thumb.

“Hmm…” Seungri thought how to elaborate what he was feeling…“I want to do something but I don’t know what. I thought about my life and I felt like a loser. I realized that I’m nothing. I have nothing so that I can be proud of.” Seungri said. It was first time he ever shared his feeling with someone and somehow he was happy that it was Jiyong.

“Don’t say like that. You are an amazing friend and a great person. I know why you are feeling all these. You were doing nothing from last one month beside sleeping and eating so it made you feel isolated from this world. Why don’t you start working? It will be fun.” Jiyong suggest.

“Working… I never thought that in my life… even though I wanted to do something in my life, I don’t want to work in office. I have five days experience in my dad’s office and I was never depressed like those five days in my entire life.” Seungri said with a little laugh.

“You are good with camera… Why don’t you pursue in photography?” Jiyong said feeling all excited. Yes he was damn sure that Seungri could be best photographer in their country if he pays little focus