Sunoo

"Where is he?", Jay looked at his phone for the tenth time. "Maybe he is with friends?", I said to Jay. "But then he would have called or written that he would be late!", Jay hyung stood up and started pacing back and forth. "How about we wait a little longer, maybe he'll be here soon and he missed the bus or has something to do at school?", Jungwon tried to calm Jay down as I did, which didn't work very well. "Okay if he missed the bus he should be here in half an hour.... If he's not here in half an hour, we'll go to school. Okay?", Jay stopped in front of us. "Deal!", Jungwon and I spoke at the same time.

"I'm back!!!!!", Jake came around the corner and our joy went down the drain we had gotten when he had shouted 'I'm back!". "What's going on?", Jake looked at each of us in turn. "Riki's not here yet, even though he should be here by now!", Jay got a little louder. "The half hour is over in 4 minutes, then we'll go to school," I looked up from my phone. "When are Heeseung Hyung and Sunghoon coming anyway?", Jake interrupted the 3 minutes of silence. "I don't know... Do you want to come?", Jay walked into the hallway. "I'll stay here. Maybe he'll come and then I can text you that he's here.", Jake Hyung walked into the kitchen.

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Ni-Ki

Now only Jake Hyung was here. I started talking to Taki in sign language. "Should we go out in 2 minutes?", I said to him. He answered in the affirmative. Jake went to bed and turned on the shower. We used this to get out of the closet and into the hallway. We were just taking off our shoes when Jake Hyung came out of the bathroom. "Ni-Ki where have you been? Jungwon, Sunoo and Jay Hyung are looking for you!", Jake got louder at the last sentence. "Hello to you too Jake," Taki sounded a little offended. It was only now that Jake noticed Riki. "Oh. Hello Taki" "Jake Hyung you're getting everything wet with your hair", I tried to distract from the actual topic. "I still don't have an answer Ni-Ki!", Jake ignored what I had just said. Briefly, I looked to Taki. "I was with Taki at another friend's house.... Sorry for not letting you guys know. I forgot...", I was quiet while talking. "It doesn't matter now. Go ahead to the kitchen, I'll be right there," Jaehyun Hyung explained to Riki and me. Riki and I went into the kitchen but stood close to the door to listen. "Ni-Ki is here and he has Taki with him, you can come," Jaehyun was talking to someone on his cell phone. Quickly, Taki and I sat down and pretended to talk about school. "The others will be here soon. Do you guys have homework up?", Jae came into the kitchen. "We already did homework," Riki was quicker than me with the answers. "What did you have to do?", Jake started putting things out of the fridge. "Picking out pictures for art", spoke me this time. "What kind of pictures do you have?" "I took a picture of Jungwon and I and Taki has a zen from Drunk-Dazed," I beat Riki to it. "Nishimura Riki!!!", Jay hyung stood in the doorway. "Where were you!!!" "Jongseong hyung calm down a bit!", Jungwon hyung came over to me. "Where were you NiNi?" "At a school friend's house with Taki. Sorry I didn't let you know...", at the part 'with Taki' I pointed at him and at the last sentence I looked at my hands. "Hello Taki!!!", Sunoo jumped over to Taki. "Hello Sunoo," Taki had to laugh briefly at Sunwoo's behaviour. "Come here a minute Riki?", Jay was already leaving. "Which Riki?", Taki and I had to be careful not to laugh. Jay turned back to us on his heel. He looked first at Riki and then at me. "Ni-Ki not funny and now come on." "I wasn't joking... Taki's first name is also Riki, right?" "Yup!", Riki nodded as if he was giving himself duties. "Oh I didn't know that... Then how did you know?", Jay knew that Taki and I were classmates but not how I found out.
"He told me once" "Really? How?", I had gotten everyone's attention.

"Ni-Ki, Ni-Ki, Ni-Ki!!!", Taki ran up to me. "Hi. What class are you in?" "In class 10.2-4, why?" "I'm there too!!! Shall we always sit next to each other then?", Taki was happy to know someone. "Do you think K is in our class too?" "Don't think so...," I was unsure. "But now we're going to the introductions. So come on Taki!" I walked forward into the large auditorium. There we met K who was standing with another boy. When he saw us he waved at us and we ran over to them. "Hello Taki and Ni-Ki. This is Riki. He's an old friend of mine." Riki waved at us shyly. "My name is Riki too," I said. K and Taki looked at me. "Why didn't we know that?" "Although... My name is actually Riki too." Now it was K and I who looked at Taki and said. "Why didn't we know that?" "You can call me Taki though," Riki held out her hand to Riki. "Nice to meet you." "Ni-Ki," I copied Taki. "Then you can call me Maki!"

"That's how I found out we both have the same name," I finished the narration. "What time is it?", Taki asked around the room. "Six o'clock. Why?", Jungwon stood up and took the things Jake Hyung had taken out of the fridge before. "I'll say goodbye then. See you tomorrow Riki!", Taki got up to leave. "See you tomorrow!", I waved at him. "Ni-Ki Do you want to help me?", Jungwon looked at me. I nodded and jumped up to help him. "Where are Heeseung Hyung and Sunghoon Hyung?"