Friends? • ATEEZ P.SH ✅

~Chapter Three~

(1st March, 2003)

"Eomma, you won't be there with me, right?" I asked as Eomma brushed my hair.

"No sweetie, but I'll see you after school is finished!" Eomma said, tying my hair into two cute pigtails.

(A/N: what would happen if it was a ponytail...? 😂. Imagine tiny Yeosang dancing...)

"But won't I be lonely?"

"You have Hongjoong and Seonghwa! You might make new friends too!" Eomma smiled at me, holding me gently by my shoulders.

"Ok! But Eomma,"

"What is it?"

"Why aren't the others going to school this year?"

"You mean Wooyoung, Yeosang, San, Mingi and Yunho?"

"Yeah."

"They're a bit too young to go. They'll go next year, so don't worry."

"Okie dokie, Eomma!"

"C'mon, grab your bag and let's go call the others."

I did as Eomma said and we went to call Tteonghwa and Joongie.

"All ready?" Aunt Cho asked.

"Yup!" I smiled.

"Y/N, can you please go comfort Seonghwa? He's been crying for the last 10 minutes..." Aunt Cho asked.

"Haven't you tried to comfort him, Aunt Cho?"

"Yes, I have but he thinks you might make new friends and leave him alone."

"But I'm here too, Aunt Cho!" Joongie said, letting go of his Eomma's hand and standing beside me.

"He said the same thing about you, Hongjoong..."

"Well then, let's make sad Hwa a happy Hwa!!" Joongie jumped.

"Let's go!"

Me and Joongie went to the living room where we saw Tteonghwa curled up in a ball, crying and sobbing into his knees.

"Hwa?" Joongie said as he rubbed Tteonghwa's back.

Tteonghwa jolted his head up and tried to wipe his tears quickly.

"We won't leave you alone, Tteonghwa! Even if we make more friends, you'll still be our best friend!" I hugged him and soon Joongie joined.

"O-Ok...Thank you..." Tteonghwa tried not to cry more.

"Wash your face. You wouldn't want to look bad on your first day of school, do you Seonghwa?" Aunt Cho said, coming towards us.

(Yeosang: Wash your face and eat breakfast and, Um, go to... um... school, or company or...ATEEZ! Yeah!)

Tteonghwa nodded before going to the sink to wash his face.

When Tteonghwa finished, we all started walking to school, holding each of our Eomma's hands.

Our school was only a few minutes walk.

"We're here!" Aunt Hyojung, Joongie's Eomma, said as we entered through the gates.

There was a big playground, and there was a huge building too!

"Your classroom is most probably here, kids!" Eomma said as she led us to our classroom.

"Let's sit next to each other!" Joongie said.

"You sit over there Joongie, next to the wall. Tteonghwa, you sit beside Joongie, and I'll sit beside you!" I said as they sat down.