Narrator
"Are you sure this is alright?" Hanni asked Yunjin.
"Yeah, it's just for a few weeks anyway. I'll be back after break. Plus, it'll give you time to find a more permanent place," Yunjin answered her closest friend.
"Alright," Hanni was still a bit skeptical about it all but she had no other choice.
- Hanni POV -
I felt uncomfortable living in Yunjin's place for the time being. Especially because she would be out of the country the entire time.
I wanted to go home for break too, but it was too expensive for me to do that.
Usually, I stayed in the same dormitory each break but this time I took too long to submit my application.
"Jeez, do they not eat rice in this house?" I talked to myself as I looked through every cabinet for rice.
I was trying to cook a yummy meal to thank Yunjin's roommate for letting me stay at their place.
"Ah, here we go!" I found just enough rice for the night, tucked into a back corner of one of the cabinets.
I gathered up all the ingredients and prepped everything I needed. I was barely starting to cook when Yunjin's roommate suddenly walked into the apartment.
*YAWWWNNN*
Yunjin's roommate looked tired.
"Hey, I'm making dinner for us tonight!" I tried to greet Y/n.
Y/n and I hadn't officially met. I had just heard a lot about them from Yunjin.
*YAAWWNN*
Y/n just ignored me, walking over to their room as if they didn't hear me.
I tried not to pay too much mind to it and continued cooking. When I was finally done, I walked over to knock on Y/n's door.
*KNOCK, KNOCK*
"Y/n, I made dinner for us!" I yelled through the door.
I got no response.
"It's a thank you dinner for letting me be your roommate. I promise it tastes really good!" I yelled again.
Still, I got no response.
*KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK*
I tried knocking again.
"Y/n, I'll be waiting for whenever you're ready!" I yelled once more before deciding to just wait at the dinner table.
I patiently waited for a bit.
Eventually, an hour went by and the food had gone cold. The excitement from my first day faded and I wasn't even hungry anymore.
I put everything away and headed to bed.
For the next few days, I hardly saw Y/n around the apartment. It almost felt like I lived alone. Even when I did see Y/n... Y/n would just ignore me... it's like I didn't exist.
Almost two weeks went by and Y/n never acknowledged me. I was starting to think that they were just a jerk.
Until one night, Y/n walked out of their room and asked... "Who tf are you?"
- Y/N POV -
I had managed to not sleep all day for once and got up to go get something to eat before I got all lazy again.
I put my jacket on and put on my headphones.
I made my way out of my room, yawning like always, and noticed Yunjin sitting by one of the windows.
Yunjin had mentioned that she'd soon be going on a trip back home. Though for some reason, I thought she would've left by now. I was starting to think that maybe she changed her plans or something.
I got a hold of my yawning and started making my way out of the apartment, but when I passed Yunjin... something seemed different about her...
I stopped in my tracks and did a double-take.
I was thinking that maybe Yunjin had dyed her hair again or something, that's why she looked so different, but when I got a better look...
I realized that wasn't Yunjin.
"Who tf are you?!" I asked all confused.
The girl suddenly turned to look at me and I froze for a second.
"Have you been here the entire time?" I asked the girl all choked up.
The whole entire time, I thought it was Yunjin walking around the apartment. I was kind of spooked to find out that it was some random girl I'd never met before.
"Umm, yeah...," I girl answered with a bit of attitude.
"Okayyy," I answered still confused.
"So, who the hell are you? Why are you in here?" I wanted answers.
"I'm Hanni. Yunjin said I could room with you while she's out of the country," The girl looked at me like I was stupid.
"What?" I was starting to think I lost my mind.
"Didn't she tell you?" The girl raised an eyebrow at me.
"No!" I answered in a high-pitched voice.
I had no idea wtf was going on.
"Aahhh, that explains a lot!" The girl suddenly started to laugh.
Suddenly, she got up from the window ledge and extended her hand for a handshake. "I'm Hanni. Yunjin's friend. She said I could use her room during break," The girl introduced herself.
"Umm, I'm Y/n," I shook her hand all dazed.
I couldn't believe there was a whole fucking stranger in the apartment and I hadn't even noticed.
Granted, I did just sleep most of the time.
"Umm, anyway. Welcome to the house. Don't break anything and try to keep the noise down. I don't like to be bothered so try not to need anything," I tried to gain my few brain cells back.
"Umm, okay..," The girl furrowed her brows.
I began to yawn again and made my way out of the apartment before it was too late.
- Hanni POV -
While it was nice to find out that Y/n wasn't just being a jerk, they simply just didn't know we would be roommates... it wasn't too nice to find out that they were an annoying roommate.
"Y/n, turn it down!!" I kept banging on Y/n's bedroom door.
Y/n had been blasting music since 8:00 AM.
"Y/N, TURN IT DOWNNN!!" It's like Y/n was purposely trying to piss me off.
That wasn't the only thing that pissed me off in the week either.
"Y/n, take your clothes out of the dryer!!" It was like banging on Y/n's door had become part of my daily routine.
Another day it was my food.
"Y/N, DID YOU EAT MY SANDWICH?!?" I yelled through the door.
I would never even get an answer. It was useless for me to bang on Y/n's door every freaking day. It was like Y/n liked to piss me off.
Eventually, one day, I lost my patience.
"Fucking leaving their clothes in the washer and dryer this fucking time," I mumbled under my breath.
I rolled my eyes in annoyance and walked over to bang on Y/n's door again.
"GET YOUR FUCKING CLOTHES OUT THE DRIER!!" I yelled in anger.
I got no response.
I walked over to the laundry room and grabbed all of Y/n's dried clothes. I then marched over to Y/n's room and abruptly opened the door.
I was actually surprised that it wasn't locked, but I was too upset to get distracted by something so small.
I walked over to a laying Y/n on the bed and threw their dry clothes all over them. "CHANGE YOUR CLOTHES OUT THE FUCKING WASHER!" I yelled.
Y/n suddenly jolted up from the bed. They looked startled... but I didn't fucking care...
"Wait- What?" Y/n asked like an idiot.
"Get your clothes out of the washer," I coldly answered.
I then angrily made my way back to the laundry room and waited for Y/n to do as I asked.
Surprisingly, Y/n did as I asked this time.
Not like they really had a choice.
"Sorry about that," Y/n tried to give me a smile.
I was too annoyed to accept their weak ass apology.
"All yours!" Y/n said once they were done.
I put my things in the washer and started to notice Y/n going back to their room. I quickly finished up what I was doing and went to grab a hold of Y/n.
"Nuh uh, sit on the couch and wait for your clothes to dry. I don't wanna be yelling all day," I pulled Y/n to sit in the living room.
We both sat in the living room, waiting for our clothes to finish up. When I suddenly noticed Y/n starting to doze off.
"Don't fall asleep now. It's almost over," I elbowed Y/n.
"Huh? Yeah," Y/n looked tired.
A few more minutes went by and Y/n was slumped over again.
"Wake up!" I snapped my fingers.
"Huh?! Sorry, I sleep a lot," Y/n shook their head to wake up.
"I can see that," I rolled my eyes in annoyance.
After a few more minutes, our clothes were finally done. Y/n grabbed their things and I was finally left to do my laundry in peace.
"Oh, if ever need anything, don't hesitate to walk into my room to get me," Y/n suddenly walked back to tell me before heading back to their room.
I took a deep breath in frustration. "If you just opened the door when I need you then I wouldn't need to go into your room," I mumbled under my breath.
The following week wasn't so bad.
That's until the weekend came around and I had accidentally locked myself out. My dumbass had forgotten the code to the front door and I had to struggle to get in for an hour.
I had called Y/n's phone 27 times within that hour.
I was so embarrassed at first because Yunjin had given me Y/n's before she left but Y/n didn't even know who I was yet.
But my embarrassment soon turned into anger because Y/n didn't pick up any of my calls.
You would think that when an unknown number calls you numerous times you'd pick up at least once to tell them to fuck off, but I got nothing.
Once I finally managed to get in, I stormed into Y/n's room and bumped into them on my way in.
"Oh, Hanni!" Y/n noticed me for once.
"YOU CAN'T PICK UP THE PHONE?!" I yelled in anger.
"Huh?" Y/n looked at me stupid.
"Did you call? I'm sorry. I was asleep," Y/n awkwardly answered.
"No surprise," I decided to just drop it.
It only took less than an hour before Y/n pissed me off again. This time it was their phone alarm going off for 30 fucking minutes.
I stormed into Y/n's room and smacked them.
"Oowww!" Y/n suddenly jolted up from their bed.
"Turn that off!" I was pissed.
"Huh? Oh, my alarm. Sorry. I had fallen asleep," Y/n yawned.
"Why are you always fucking sleeping?!" I asked in annoyance.
I swear Y/n was the laziest person I had ever met.
"Umm- I just am," Y/n groggily answered.
I shook my head in annoyance and suddenly noticed something on Y/n's nightstand.
It was prescription bottles.
"You take medicine?" I asked a bit curious.
"Huh? Oh yeah, I started a new medication a few months ago but I'm having a hard time adjusting to it," Y/n nonchalantly answered.
Things started to click in my brain and I started to feel like an asshole.
"Does your medication make you drowsy?" I asked a bit embarrassed.
"Yeah, it makes me sleep for 12+ hours sometimes. Sorry about my alarm. Usually, Yunjin comes to wake me up when she hears it," Y/n finally turned off their alarm.
"Yunjin just walks into your room?" I asked a bit confused.
"Yeah, I leave my door unlocked in case she needs something. Since I'm always dead asleep, she just comes to wake me up instead of having to wait around for me to wake up on my own," Y/n explained.
"That makes sense now," I thought to myself.
"Wish Yunjin would've told me that," I awkwardly responded.
"She didn't?" Y/n raised an eyebrow.
"Nope. She just said you were pretty easygoing and a nice roommate," I chuckled out of awkwardness.
"Hard to believe since she spends her time scolding me most of the time," Y/n laughed a little.
- Y/N POV -
Hanni seemed to have gotten adjusted to the apartment pretty quickly. I'm sure she felt lonely most of the time since I was always asleep, but she seemed to manage.
"Umm, sorry I woke you up," Hanni suddenly apologized.
"It's alright," I chuckled.
"I needed to get up to eat," I let her know.
"You need an alarm to remind you to eat?" Hanni raised an eyebrow at me.
"Yeah, well since I never know with my medicine, I need to wake up my body up to get some food in," I explained.
"Actually, speaking of food, did you eat my sandwich a few weeks back?" Hanni suddenly looked annoyed.
*AHEM*
I cleared my throat a bit embarrassed.
"I may have. Sometimes I wake up really drowsy in the middle of the night and just shove whatever I can find in my mouth before I pass out again," I awkwardly answered.
"Huh, that explains a lot," Hanni said with a bit of attitude.
"Well, if you want, I can go buy you one now that I'm up. But we should go like now before my other medication kicks in," I quickly got up from my bed.
"Fine," Hanni exhaled out.
By the way, she was acting, it seemed like maybe I had been causing her a lot of trouble recently.
Hanni and I got ready before heading out of the house.
"What kind of sandwich was it anyway? It was really good," I tried to make conversation while we looked for something to eat.
"It was a Vietnamese sandwich," Hanni lowly answered.
"So, you're Vietnamese?" I followed.
It wasn't hard to find a lot of foreign students at our university, but it was odd when foreigners didn't have a place to stay.
Usually, there were plenty of places for foreign students to dorm during long breaks or they had other arrangements made.
It was hard to find one that didn't have accommodations.
"I'm Australian actually," Hanni clarified.
"Explains the accent," I teased.
"So, how did you and Yunjin meet anyway?" Hanni suddenly asked.
"Long boring story," I chuckled in response.
It truly was just a long boring story.
Yunjin and I had met in America. We both found out we'd be going to the same overseas university and decided to just rent a place between us instead of having to pay for school housing.
The rest was history.
- Hanni POV -
Y/n ended up making up for eating my food. We ended up finding a Vietnamese restaurant nearby and got food to go.
We sat down to eat in the living room and watched TV for a bit. Up until Y/n was falling asleep mid-sandwich eating.
"Hey, you should head to bed," I shook Y/n awake.
"Huh!?" Y/n got startled.
"You're falling asleep. Go to bed," I explained.
"Right," Y/n groggily grabbed their food to put away before going to bed.
"Come get me if you need anything," Y/n mumbled before closing their bedroom door.
I just smiled to myself knowing I would rather be pissed off than continue to bother Y/n in their bedroom.
I finished eating my food and then headed to bed.
I was pleasantly surprised to have learned a lot about Y/n in the short time we interacted.
Y/n wasn't purposely trying to piss me off or being annoying at all. They were just struggling with something.
The few days to follow, I found myself getting adjusted to Y/n's sleeping habit. If I needed something, I made sure to go wake Y/n up.
Eventually, I got tired of having to bother Y/n.
Y/n could hardly keep their head up sometimes, so I felt really bad waking them up.
I started to just make extra food for Y/n to eat for whenever they woke up. The laundry was a big issue for me but I opted to just doing Y/n's laundry for them so I wouldn't have to yell.
Y/n did have energy outbursts sometimes.
That's where the loud music at random times of the day came from.
Eventually, we agreed that Y/n would wear headphones during those times. However, it wasn't working out very well either.
- Y/N POV -
"Will you shut up?!" Hanni suddenly burst into my room.
I took my headphones off and she started yelling like usual... "The point of you wearing the headphones was for you to keep the noise level down. Not an invitation for you to karaoke the hell out of whatever song you're listening to!"
"Oookayy!!" I sighed in annoyance.
Hanni was a lot more uptight than Yunjin.
Granted, Yunjin had to adjust to me too... but still...
Hanni would get annoyed at the littlest things.
"Come eat when you're done," Hanni huffed out before walking back out of my room.
I couldn't wait for Yunjin to come back. There were only two weeks left before she returned. At least with her here then Hanni could ease up.
After a few hours, I had finally rearranged my room for the second time in the month.
I took a shower and then headed out to eat whatever Hanni had left out for me.
"It's cold now," Hanni looked upset.
"It's alright. We have a microwave for a reason," I tried to ease her mind.
"It's not the same," She huffed out and stormed off to her room.
I really didn't understand Hanni's problem. She didn't have to make me food. She could just ignore me until she needed something like Yunjin did.
"Thanks for the food!" I yelled once I was done eating.
- Hanni POV -
I was getting tired of doing things for Y/n.
Y/n never seemed to appreciate anything. It was always "I can do it myself" or "You don't have to".
Luckily, I wouldn't have put up with Y/n much longer since Yunjin would be coming back in a week.
*THUMP*
I suddenly heard on a random night. Followed with a loud, "Ooowww!"
I quickly got up from my bed and ran over to check up on Y/n.
Y/n had fallen off the bed.
"Damn, are you alright?" I walked up to help them up.
"Yeah," Y/n's whole weight suddenly fell on me and I fell back on Y/n's bed.
"Uurrgh, get off of me!" I groaned in annoyance.
"Mmmm, my arms ache too much!" Y/n whined.
"Well, they wouldn't hurt if you didn't sleep so much!" I pushed Y/n off of me.
"Not like it's my fault!" Y/n huffed out.
I rolled my eyes and dusted myself off. "Whatever, goodnight," I scoffed before going back to my room.
For the next few days, Y/n had a shift in their sleep schedule. Well, more like Y/n found new places to fall asleep in.
"Go sleep in your room!" I tried to pull Y/n off of the couch.
Y/n was taking off all the space.
"No," Y/n groggily sat up.
"You told me to stop sleeping so much. So that's what I'm doing," Y/n yawned.
It was surprised by Y/n's words.
Although it was honorable that Y/n was trying, it got a bit much when their sleepy head would land on my shoulder.
"Hey, go to bed," I kept shaking Y/n awake.
Y/n would refuse each time.
I eventually just let Y/n rest on my shoulder for a bit. There was something oddly satisfying about being used as a pillow.
At least I knew that Y/n was right there if I needed something or got annoyed.
Eventually, my shoulder got tired and I had to wake Y/n to actually go to bed this time.
"Hellooo, it's bedtime!" I shook Y/n awake.
"Mmrrrmmhh, okay," Y/n hummed.
Y/n was struggling to get up a bit, so decided to help. I tried to pull Y/n up from the couch but they were so heavy that we fell back.
I froze when I realized Y/n's lips had landed on mine.
It took me a second to process what had just happened and quickly pushed Y/n off me.
Y/n just dropped dead on the floor.
"Oops!" I quickly got up to pick Y/n up.
It took me a while, but I eventually managed to drag Y/n to bed.
- Yunjin POV -
I landed back in SK and my phone immediately started going off with hundreds of texts from Hanni and Y/n.
It seemed like Y/n was really confused, while Hanni was really annoyed.
Although there were hundreds of messages, they suddenly stopped on a specific day.
"I wonder what happened?" I thought to myself.
I took my cab home from the airport and soon found out why Hanni had stopped texting.
Hanni was collecting Y/n's clothes from their bedroom floor. She was even placing Y/n's clean clothes back in their closet. All while she stole glances in Y/n's direction.
Y/n, on the other hand, was as dead as ever.
"Not falling in love are you?" I teased.
"You're back!!" Hanni squealed and ran up to hug me.
"How was Y/n?" I chuckled.
"Annoying," Hanni huffed out.
Her mouth said one thing, but her eyes said another.
"Why are you handling Y/n's clothes anyway?" I was curious on if my suspicions were correct.
"Y/n can't seem to do it themselves sometimes and it bugs me when they leave their clothes in the laundry room," Hanni scoffed before returning to what she was doing.
"Not going all Florence Nightingale on me, are you?" I raised an eyebrow.
"Don't be ridiculous. I'm just trying to make life easier for me," Hanni laughed sarcastically.
I leaned against Y/n's door frame and crossed my arms. Watching Hanni as she masterfully maneuvered her way around Y/n's room.
"Trust me. That dead pile of bones and clothes has eyes for nothing more than sleep and food. It's a moot point to try to make your life easier this way," I chuckled a bit.
"What are you talking about?" Hanni awkwardly laughed herself.
"I'm just saying that I was where you are at one point and it was pointless. Falling in love with Y/n is pointless. It's not just the meds, it's their whole psyche," I warned.
"Still have no idea what you're talking about?" Hanni furrowed her brows at me.
I took a deep breath and let it out.
"Just don't fall in love, is all I'm saying!"
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Author's Note: Is Hanni suffering the Florence Nightingale effect? :3