The Losers (Boystory Gou Mingrui FF)

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-3 months later-

"mom, I'm home~"

"Oh, my baby's home!"

she hugs him

"GeGe!"

his little sister ran up to him and jumped into his arms

"Oh! You're so big now!"

he puts her down and puts his bags down

"Come eat"

"Wait, I want to see Li Fang. It's been hard contacting her when on the trip"

"oh...GouGou..."

"What?"

"Lin Li Fang...She moved...She didn't tell you?"

"She what?"

"I thought-"

he ran outside and went to your door

"FangFang?...Lin Li Fang?..."

He was knocking on the door, but no answer. He tried opening the door, and it was unlocked. He walked in

"Li Fang?"

He was shocked to find everything gone. The house was completely empty

"L-Lin Li Fang?! Li Fang?!"

He rushes to your room

Everything was gone. Not a trace of you left behind. He ran outside and saw your other neighbor walk out of his house

"Ah, Sir? Mister?"

"Yes? Ah, Mingrui. Long time no see"

"Yeah. But have you seen Li Fang?"

"Oh, you didn't know? When you left, she went to go live with her brother. In Korea."

MIngrui was getting a little teary eyed

"oh, she asked me to give you something."

the man goes inside and comes back with an envelope

"Thank you"

he bows and walks away. he doesn't know where to go, so he started walking to Shuyang's house and decided to open the letter.

there wasn't just written. just word written right across the middle of the page

"I'm sorry, GouGou. I thought it was the right thing to keep it from you...but now I know I was wrong."

"Th-That's it?!"

he didn't know if he was angry or sad

he ran to Shuyangs house and started to knock

"Shuyang! SHUYANG OPEN THE DOOR!"

Shuyang opened the door

"Chill. What?"

"Did you know Li Fang left?"

"GouGou..."

"You...you knew?"

"She didn't want to tell you."

"Who else knew?"

"Hanyu and Zeyu..."

"They knew...and me...her boyfriend...was the clueless one?"

"We found out the day she left. Listen, there's nothing you could have done. Her mom wanted her to move and she just had no choice but to-"

"But why didn't i know! Why was I not allowed to know?!"

Mingrui was getting teary eyed again

"I'm sorry..."

"Shuyang!"

"Sorry...I gotta go..."

He goes back inside

Mingrui walked away not knowing where he was going, and he ended up at the park swings. He sat down and pulled out his phone to call you. To your surprised, you finally answered

"FangFang?!"

"Mingrui..."

"Where-...why-...w-when-..."

"We moves close to my brother in Busan...my mom wanted the family to stay close and so we can keep an extra eye on Hanyu in his first year of college...I...I just didn't want to tell anyone"

"Not even me?"

"Especially you, GouGou!"

your voice was cracking a little because you were starting to cry

"especially you...I didn't want to take anything away...you were so excited and I-"

"You did take something away, Li Fang!...you took yourself and just left..."

"I know...and I'm sorry..."

"Li Fang...I...I can't-...We can't-..."

"Mingrui..."

"I'm sorry..."

"So what? We're just over? Just like that?"

"Bye FangFang..."

"GouGou...please, wait-"

he hung up

he put his arms down and his phone slips out of his hand

his tears wouldn't stop coming down. He looked to his side and saw the wall. There's was a bunch of other graffiti over your work. he held onto the chain of the other swing next to him and looked down at the seat

"My FangFang..."

-9 years ago-

"hi, c-can I use this swing?"

you shrugged and the unfamiliar boy hopped onto the swing next to you

"So, what's your name?"

"G-Gou Mingrui"

"is that with or without the stutter?"

"sorry..."

"Well, I'm Lin Li Fang."

"FangFang..."

"Excuse me?!"

"Well, it's like my dog's name...FangFang"

"if you think about calling me that, you're dead!"

"whatever...you live right next to me, don't you? I saw you playing with a guy outside"

"so you're that new family making noise..."

"Sorry about that..."

"Hey, you need to stop apologizing. It gets annoying"

"Sorry...I-I mean okay."

"good. um, piece of advice, stay away from those boys over there."

you point to two kids on the slide

"Yu Zeyu and Ren Shuyang. They're weird. I swear I thought I saw them eating their boogers once."

he giggle

"gross."

"mhm"

"So...a-are we friends?"

"Best friends"

"You...you can call me GouGou"

he sees you smile

"You can call me FangFang."

-end of flashback-

he sniffled his nose

"I...I love you..."