F O R T Y - T W O
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In the train, I sat with Frypan and Thomas. They were hyperactive as hell, while I just looked out of the window, fidgeting with the hair tie around my wrist a bit.

Telling Minho part of what happened was the best relief I felt in a long time, but it still hadn't changed how upset I was.

If Aiden was ready to send a friend that appeared to be a cop after me to get his money, he was going far for it. I was even more afraid for Greece now, mostly because I didn't want to lose Minho or my friends with all this drama.

I thought about all this, until Thomas tapped me on the shoulder so I could tell him what bag he wanted to buy looked better. I told him my answer casually.

Then his phone went off. "Hey, Mom." A pause. "Mhm. On our way to France. How are you doing? Great. I'm good, too. Excited for Paris." A longer pause. "Oh, really? Can I talk to her?"

I shared a glance with Fry, who shrugged and didn't seem bothered by who Thomas wanted to talk to.

"Hey, Nari!" He greeted cheerfully. "How are you? Really? That's so cool!" He gasped. "Oh, now I wanna go back to the US... yes, I'll be back in a while. How is it there? Good? Amazing! Huh, can you spell it for me? Ohh, wow. Grown? How long is it? What! That long? Holy, Nari!" A longer pause. "Yeah, okay. Bye! And bye to you too, Mom."

And he put the phone down again. Curiosity let me flop out, "Who was that?"

"Nari."

I palmed my face. "How am I supposed to know who Nari is?"

His mouth dropped open. "You don't know who Nari is?"

God, it only became more confusing by the second. I shrugged, "No. I don't."

"Does that boy ever tell you anything?" Thomas muttered to himself. "Everyone knows who that is. Even my parents... Aris, Teresa, not saying that they all met her, but they definitely know she exists. Why didn't he tell you? I thought you two were this super close couple or whatever!"

"Thomas, just tell me who she is. And who didn't tell me what?"

"Nari is Minho's girlfriend."

The color drained away from my face. I nearly choked on nothing. "What?"

"Yep. Sorry." He looked down, rubbing his chin as my heart dropped.

"His girlfriend?"

"No."

"What?"

"I was kidding." He let out a laugh. "Of course it's not his girlfriend, jeez! Ah, your face!" He chuckled.

I wanted to kick him where the sun didn't shine.
"But who is she?"

"Minho's sister!"

Now it was my mouth's turn to drop open. No way. Minho had a sister and he didn't even bother telling me? In shock, I stared at Thomas.

"Yep, Spider-Man, he has a sister. And she's so cute!" He peeped.

"How old is she?"

"Hm." He looked thoughtful, frowning. "Pretty sure she turned six a while ago."

"That's... some age difference." Was the only thing I managed to say.

"Well, sometimes I think I might've been an accident too because it's quite clear that the wrong cells broke in." Thomas shrugged a bit.

An awkward silence fell as Frypan and I stared at Thomas, flabbergasted.

"Anyway. Nari told me she could write my name neatly now. And her hair grows all the way to her waist!" The brunette was so excited about the kid that it seemed like it was his sister.

I asked my next question. "Was she with your mother?"

"Yeah. She's in our house a lot. Her and Minho's parents aren't home most of the time, because of work, and Minho convinced them having a maid would be weird, so my parents offered to babysit sometimes. I think it's amazing."

A smile was slowly growing on my face. This all sounded very cute, indeed. "But why didn't Minho tell me?"

"He doesn't share crap about his family or home most of the time." Frypan replied, more of a sad smile on his face.

"And he doesn't try to contact Nari like Thomas just did...?"

"No." Thomas's smile turned sad too now. "Look, I don't know much, because as Fry said, Minho doesn't share a lot, but so far as I know he doesn't dare to call Nari when he's out of town for work."

Those statements did not really connect in my mind. "Huh?"

"Because he misses her too much!" Thomas continued. "I think that when he hears her he'll miss her or gets emotional... which is forbidden territory for that boy, I swear to god. Has he ever shed a tear?"

"That's kind of sad." I realized under my breath.

"Yeah, well, it is how it is. I ain't gonna force that guy to call her." Frypan sighed for a long time. "But other than that, they're the cutest siblings ever. Minho takes care of her like she's his own child or something. Puts all his work away and declines our suggestions of going out when he has to take care of her."

"Ahw." Now I was glowing from a load of happiness again. "I wanna see that."

"You will." Thomas promised. "You definitely will. She'll like you."

"I hope." I smiled brightly. "Will Minho be okay if I ask him about her?"

"Yeah, I think so." Frypan folded his hands on the table. "Pretty sure he would kill Thomas if he asked, but you'd be able to and he'll answer happily."

"Uh, alright." I scratched the back of my head. "Ah, now I really want to meet her."

"I think she'll love to meet her sister-in-law too." Thomas dramatically lay his head on my shoulder. "Ya know, you still have to spill more tea on what happened with the one bed trope!"

I gave Fry a dirty glance. He just encouraged me to say it.

"There's nothing to say. He slept on the couch, I got the bed."

"Bullshit!" Thomas was close to yelling when he said that word. "I video called you and Minho was right next to you."

Frypan gasped in excitement. "It worked! What happened? Tell us!"

"Now!" Thomas added.

I groaned in embarrassment. "Well... I had a nightmare the second day. When I woke up he stood by my side, helped me calm down, and then asked if he could join. I said yes... and we kind of cuddled."

Thomas yelped and Frypan squealed.

"Next day we slept in the same bed, but with a pillow wall between us. In the morning, it was gone and we were cuddling again. That's when you called."

Thomas's face bursted with excitement and Fry whooped a cheer, as my whole face was just bright red.

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A/n: I, just as Quinn, can't wait to introduce Nari to the story either, ahh!!

Still wanted to publish a short train chapter :)

x Vera