Between The Hidden World And Ours... - [YEONGYU FF]

Chapter 13

Until a light bulb suddenly went off in his head.

"The bat."

A bat keeps on appearing in all of those paintings, and the humans seem afraid of it, or are running away. But why?

"Some mysteries should be asked to Google."

Yeonjun instantly typed into the search bar meaning of bat. But the first thing that popped up was some info about baseball bats.

"You're kidding me right?"

Google can be so dumb sometimes.

Sighing in frustration, Yeonjun typed 'animal' next to 'bat' and hit search. And finally got somewhat of an answer.

He clicked on the first tab.

"The bat represents death and rebirth?" Yeonjun read out loud.

In the first two seconds that followed, the scientist just sat there, blank. But then, suddenly, all kinds of theories started spilling out of his mouth.

"So if these humans are afraid of the bat, because it may mean death, then no wonder they're running away; they're afraid of it. After all, bats are considered to be nasty creatures and are seen negatively."

He nodded his head.

"Ahh... that makes sense— wait no."

Yeonjun reread the sentence again.

"But if bats also mean rebirth, then why are people so afraid? Even if they die, then they are reborn, right?"

"Not everyone believes in reincarnation," a voice drifted inside.

Yeonjun nearly jumped, not expecting someone to come inside at that moment.

"Already back from the ocean?"

"Mhm. I wanted to check up on you, but I heard you talking, so I decided to leave and work on some things. Until I realized you were talking to yourself, not your friends, and I just wanted to check up on you," Beomgyu explained.

"Oh."

Yeonjun chuckled, embarrassed.

"It's just I came up with some theories with the paintings after searching something up on Google that made me curious."

"Can I see?" Beomgyu asked.

And then out of all people in this room, Yeonjun bit his lip.

What if Beomgyu thinks I'm crazy? What if I make a fool of myself— What are you thinking Yeonjun?! Beomgyu is the last person who'd judge me, he knows how horrible it feels to be judged for your work!

"M-Maybe later. I think we've done a lot about me; how about we take a look at your work for once?" Yeonjun suggested.

That was just an excuse to avoid possible compliments to make him blush.

"Fine by me," Beomgyu said.

🎶: "Free" by Rumi and Jinu

Beomgyu guided Yeonjun into his bedroom, shutting the door behind him. The older male sat down on a stool next to the desk, while Beomgyu sat in the main chair.

"So, what should I show you?" the younger male asked once we were seated.

"Anything you want."

"Okay."

The ravenette unlocked his laptop and then opened his iCloud Drive, revealing all of his files sorted according to title.

"Oh my!" Yeonjun exclaimed.