The Reason? - Yoon Jeonghan

Chapter 26

The two girls stared at one another for some time, unsure of what to say. The darker haired girl was the one to speak up first.

"Who are you?" She asked, coming out of the entrance lobby and dropping her bag on one of the chairs close to her. It seemed to break the other one from her frozen state.

"Ah, I'm sorry. I am Ophely. Nice to meet you, you must be Soobin." She said, coming down the last steps. "I am a friend of Joenghan's, he and your parents are currently gone shopping for tomorrow." She tried to explain as best as she could. Though she knew that Joenghan would have done that much better than her. It was then that Ophely looked more closely at the elder's face, noticing something familiar.

She had similar features to Jeonghan, that was a given because of the fact that their parents were the same, but something else too. T didn't take long for Ophely to remember where she had seen that face.

"I was the one instead of Jeonghan that night in December." Soobin had been that girl she had woken next to. The one she had scared of and the one that had called Joshua. "You called Joshua because wasn't the same. It was me."

Well, that wasn't very comforting. Coming home after school to find your house empty with, instead, a foreign girl her age claiming to have been there when her brother had a total freak-out when she had gone to meet him the previous month. When the girl continued to look at her asif she was crazy, which she sounded like, Ophely took out her phone and called Jeonghan.

"Hey," She said once he picked up. "Your sister is home, I don't know what to tell her."

"Ah," Jeonghan quickly told his parents that he would answer the call outside of the small shop, "Can you give her the phone? I think that me explaining will help her understand." Ophely did agree with him, if it was her brother explaining, then it would seem more believable than a complete stranger that she had never seen before.

"Soobin." Was the first thing he said once Ophely had given the phone to the older girl, "It's Jeonghan." As apprehensive as the girl had been, his voice was the thing she needed to relax.

"What was the name of the natural science teacher at the academy?" She wanted to make sure that this, on the other line, was really her brother.

"Bo Namhyun?" He answered, unsure of the answer. He hadn't spent as much time as his sister in that academy. Soobin looked down at the phone, still sceptical that this was her brother, but his answer was right. However she didn't answer because she had looked at the name of the person being called on the phone.

윤정한 - body stealer

"What does 'body stealer' mean?" She asked him, knowing that it was her brother on the other side of the line.

"It means that we sometimes steal each other's bodies..."

"She said that she was in your body when you had your freakout in December."

"That's true." He tried to explain, but doing so over a phone wasn't as easy, as he couldn't see the other person. "Ophely was in my body back then. And I ended up in hers. We don't choose to do so, it just happens and we still don't know how to stop it. So that is why Ophely is currently with us, because we just exchange bodies from time to time." Soobin looked from the phone to the foreign girl sitting not far from her.

Ophely had preferred to stay in her line of sight just to appease her, knowing that if she had left back to Jeonghan's room she wouldn't have felt at ease in her own home. "And why does she have my slippers?" Her question slipped out of her before she had even finished thinking about it.

Ophely immediately looked at her feet and laughed, she heard Jeonghan doing the same from the other side of the line.

The entire situation seemed to have been forgiven. Soobin also cracked a smile when she realised what she had done. She thanked her brother for the explanation and turned to Ophely to give her her phone back. She smiled shyly at her. Finally looking at the girl for what she was instead of an intruder.