ESOTERIC | ˡʰᶜ

1.3

"sorry to ruin your sibling moment or something but...taeyong asked me to call you guys that it's time to eat" jaehyun said after knocking on the door and left right after he said that.

"is taeyong the leader or something? i thought it was donghyuck" haewon asked doyoung who was standing up from his position.

"he was the leader but then we don't know what happened between them, suddenly the leader was donghyuck" doyoung said, it was true, they didn't know what happened. it just magically occurred. 

they both went down and they saw chaos. 

chenle and jisung were fighting on who was getting the seat beside jaemin, while jaemin and renjun were fighting on who gets to seat beside jeno, meanwhile yuta and jungwoo were fighting over mark who was playing with johnny, and taeil was preparing food with jaehyun and taeyong assisting him.

"hey doyoung and..." johnny called as his gaze moved to the siblings "...aeyoung or haewon?"

"you can call me anything" haewon answered shyly while looking at the tall guy playing with her adoptive brother.

"okay anything" johnny answered sarcastically and mark laughed at him, practically dying out of laughter.

"JOHNNY" taeyong yelled as he threw his slippers on johnny's head.

"what? she told me to call her anything" johnny replied and mark was still laughing, now on the ground.

"she meant any of the two" taeyong said while cleaning the mess taeil had just made.

"oh, i'll call her haeyoung" johnny said as he gave haewon a sly smile and haewon just chuckled at his behaviour.

"what?" 

"it's the combination of haewon and aeyoung" he said before turning to mark "hey mark wanna switch bodies for a day?"

"weird but okay" doyoung mumbled and haewon laughed at his response.

"haewon, do you mind calling donghyuck?" taeyon asked haewon, hoping that she would somehow overcome her fear.

"hyung i think donghyuck scares her off" jaemin stated while playing with renjun's hair.

"that's why i'm letting her call him" he replied to jaemin and jaemin just gave her a face that basically says 'sorry i tried my best, you got this'

"okay" haewon answered and gave them her gummy smile in which all cooed to.

she walked, unsure of the direction but thankfully there were signs of which member's room it is. haewon then saw donghyuck's name and she took a deep sigh before knocking. the door opened and she saw donghyuck, whose hair was sticking out everywhere and he looked like he had just woken up.

not gonna lie, he looked good, he was indeed handsome but she couldn't tell him that.

"hey taeyong asked me to call you for dinner" she said in a soft voice and she received no response. instead, donghyuck just walked past her.

"i'm sorry" she stated while quickening her pace to catch up with the boy.

"what are you sorry for?" donghyuck asked, his voice was raspy but you can sense the coldness in his voice still.

"for your headquarters, i think you have a lot of memories there and now it's..." haewon paused, "gone"

"you know, saying sorry doesn't fix anything" donghyuck answered and his voice sent shivers down on haewon's spine as she chuckled dryly, she didn't want it to be awkward.

"i know that, i just wanted to say it to make you feel slightly better, hopefully"

"but i don't" donghyuck retorted as he glanced at haewon.