Childhood Days (1/1)

Jieun-ah! Over here!" A little boy shouted while waving his little arm to a girl. The little girl looked at him with a smile and ran to him. When they were just 1meter apart, little Jieun locked her hand with the boy's hand. "Let's go home, Baekhyun-ah.""Jieun, your hair has flowers on it. Let me get rid of them." Baekhyun was about to do it but Jieun prevented him from doing so. Baekhyun asked why.Jieun fixed her hair, making sure no flower was dropped. She looked at Baekhyun. "This is a flower crown. The girls and I found pretty flowers so we made this! And they gave it to me. Isn't pretty?" She showed her hair at the boy. But poor her Baekhyun wasn't impressed at all. "It looks messy.""Aish, you don't know style."Baekhyun scoffed then put his hands on both hips. "I am the king of fashion." But he was punched playfully by Jieun who laughed loudly. "Oh, I almost forgot. I saw some pebbles by the river yesterday. There were... five or more but I took three only. Hehe."She slid her hand into her pocket to find the so called pebbles. "You're wearing the same trousers?""Shut up-ahah! Here, look at them." She showed to Baekhyun who felt attracted to it. Jieun felt Baekhyun's attention. "See, aren't these amazing?""Yeah, this one looked like a star, this looks like a love shape. Oh, this one looked like a full moon!""Right? We'll talk later, let's go home now." She put back the pebbles and held Baekhyun's hand again.While they were walking slowly, another boy came into the scene."Sungyeol-ah!" Jieun's smile went wider. So did Baekhyun's. They waved their locked hands at Sungyeol who was running towards them with his big bag behind him. He bowed apologetically. "Jieun, Baekhyun, I'm sorry!""Why Sungyeol?" Baekhyun tilted his head cutely. Sungyeol scratched his head. "I need to go somewhere else! I need to go now. Bye bye!" He ran away before they could respond.Jieun started to cry but Baekhyun shook her shoulders. "Don't cry Jieun. Baekhyun is here to accompany you!" He said proudly. Jieun didn't cry instead she giggled. "Thank you. Let's go home now. Omma and ahjumma will be mad at us." She took his hand and started running to their own home. Good thing they were neighbors. Baekhyun gazed at the hand holding him. His heart started pounding. What is this feeling?Baekhyun went to his room.He looked at his left window and saw Jieun's silhouette, cleaning her room. After a while, Jieun was seen waving at him. Baekhyun felt his face getting red. He held both cheeks and ran to the upper living room which was just outside his room. Jieun just stood there, dumbfounded. Baekhyun walked to the balcony and found Sungyeol's room still dark. "Sungyeol's not home yet? Jieun will be worried if she knows about this." He stopped. "Ah, why do I feel like my heart is beating so fast?!" He shook his head vigorously. He ran downstairs, searching for his mother. "Omma, I think I'm sick. My heart is beating so fast. Dup dup dup dup!" He added a slight action with his chest. His mother chuckled looking at her son's action. She ruffled his hair. "You'll be fine. See? Your temperature's normal. Go to your room, or else Jieun's going to be lonely.""No, I don't want her to be lonely but every time I am with her, I feel weird. Ma, I'm not weird, am I? Right? Right?" He moved his face closer to his mother. His mother just grinned. "I'll tell Jieun you're busy. Go rest in your room."Baekhyun nodded. "And tell her I'm sorry too!" His voice faded as the boy ran to his room. He peeked at his left side. He took a pillow and hugged it tightly. "I don't like this feeling. I feel weird." He squashed his face with the pillow until he fell asleep.Of course a five-year-old kid would never understand that. But that was 11 years ago."Baekhyun, Sungyeol and I will go first. You're so slow." Jieun stuck her tongue playfully while Baekhyun rolled his eyes. They were in Sungyeol's house. His parents had already went for work. Jieun, Baekhyun and Sungyeol had been taking turns to use their house for the others to visit slash use before they go to school. So this time, it was Sungyeol's turn. Jieun looked at the person next to her, waiting for his approval. Baekhyun who was in front of her frowned."I think we better wait for him." Sungyeol said while looking at Baekhyun. Said boy looked at Sungyeol with full of admiration. "Sungyeol-ah, you're my hero!" He showed his teeth which had a tomato sauce on them.Sungyeol rolled his eyes while taking out a tissue. He passed it to Baekhyun who shyly grabbed it while being laughed by Jieun. Suddenly, a bell rang. Jieun looked at them, confused. "Who's that?" Sungyeol smiled and went to the living room. He turned to them before opening the door."It's Myungsoo."