The Reason? - Yoon Jeonghan

Chapter 39

Ophely stood wet at the front door, wet bag at her feet and tears streaming down her face. Her hair sticking to her cheeks in tearful swoops.

"Are you okay?" Jeonghan ran over to the teenager, cupping her face and rubbing the tears away from her eyes, but they still fell. "Do you think you did badly? You studied a lot, I'm sure you did well." She only shook her head at his constant words. Water droplets escaping her hair and falling on the clean flooring. "Do you feel unwell? Is there anything I or the boys can do for you? Do you want a change of clothes?"

Silently she spread her arms and engulfed the idol in a hug, a tight one. Transferring water from her wet clothes to his own. He didn't care but engulfed her in a tight embrace too.

"I finished them all." She sniffed into his crinkled shirt, "I don't want to do it again."

"It's okay." He rubbed her back soothingly. "We know you did well. There's no need to worry about repeating all this unless you want to."

"Though we were thinking, with the boys, about doing something fun tonight to celebrate the end of your exams."

"But we still don't know if I have graduated or not."

"That's not even a question knowing you." Jeonghan pulled away from her, tried again to brush the tears away, this time making it work for a little longer. Though they still fell, they were fewer. He smiled down at the girl, giving her the courage to do the same. Ophely mustered a small lift of the corners of her lips before her eyes prickled again, this time in gratitude towards the boys, though she still wasn't close to most of them, their support had still been palpable in the previous weeks.

"Thanks."

"No worries." The angel-like man pulled back from her and helped her take her wet jacket off and guide her out of the cubby. She took off her shoes before following him inside as he made his way towards their current bedroom.

Jeonghan turned his back towards the girl and the bathroom, letting her get out of her wet clothes. He guessed that she had been caught in the rain after leaving the exam hall, and was way too stressed to bother with the bus. He didn't comment on it. "What do you want to wear?" He asked her, standing in front of the nearly fully packaged moving boxes.

"Cosy stuff." She said back from the bathroom, closing the door behind her.

While she took her shower, cleaning herself and warming up her cold body, Jeonghan left the clothes he had pulled out for her on the counter. He then went back to putting everything back inside of the boxes. They were set to be moving right in the middle of their comeback, clearly not well organised by the company, but they couldn't do much about it. It was 2018 and it was time that they get an update in their dorm, especially with Ophely in the mix. Actually, most of their belongings had already been moved to the other dorms, and what was left was what they needed for the month on weird days like this one where they stayed in the old dorm.

Cue for Ophely to get confused with it all. Though the boys tried to explain it, it was not in line with what she had been told about people moving in South Korea. She just put it aside with the fact that the boys were public figures and their schedules were already filled enough for them to be free and have time to pack and move everything in a single week. Yeah, no. So that's why she thought that it had been scheduled that way.

"We ordered Pizza for tonight." Jeonghan called out from the bathroom as he heard the girl getting dressed. "That's good with you?"