Do Come By Again | Hong Kong x Reader 2

"But do come by again." 

Her words echoed in his head as he scribbled notes on the chemicals used in the digestion process. God, did Leon hate biology and his teacher seemed to know it. Always calling on him to answer a question when he didn't know the answer to; he almost hated his teacher as much as he hated his half cousin, Yong Soo. 

He he sighed and leaned back in his chair with a creak of old wood.

3:45.

Almost there, just a short half hour until his last and most despised period of school ends...

...

why couldn't he have been born an animal instead.

Leon was walking back to the apartment he shared with his older brother, his head angled towards the concrete sidewalk, when he saw out of the corner of his eye, a figure waving at him through a window. This momentarily confused Leon as he didn't classify any of his classmates as 'friends'. So who was waving at him?

And then he remembered. It was that smiley girl with the glasses from the flower shop he walked into yesterday. He looked up at her only to see her still grinning widely and waving to him as if she had spotted a long lost friend.

He gave a quick nod of acknowledgment and continued on his way home. As he walked away he could see her smile fade and disappear the further he walked from the colorful shop window, and he had to admit, she looked better smiling. 

"But do come by again." Again those words haunted him as he stared restlessly at the ceiling of his small, compact room. The workload hadn't been as heavy today as most days and he had made easy work of it but when 10 pm came he realized he didn't feel any more tired than he did 5 hours ago.

The plain white walls of his bedroom was covered in posters from recent rock stars and ads for new movies to martial art legends like Jackie Chang and Bruce Lee. The small oak nightstand stood next to his metal frame bed like an attentive servant, straight and still with it's miniature lamp turned on.

As much as the light hurt Leon's eyes in these late hours the idea of sleeping in complete darkness subconsciously scared him. It wasn't as if the dark could hurt him but he still faced the idea with outmost reluctance. 

He groaned in annoyance and flipped onto his side, away from his window which betrayed the city lights shining from downtown.

Seriously, the one time he had the chance to get a decent amount of sleep his brain goes and decides it's absolutely necessary to rewind and repeat the events of 24 hours ago, just to annoy him.

Sometimes he wished he could switch off his brain for the day but unfortunately it would result in him leaving this world and as much as he says he hated his life, sometimes it wasn't so bad. 

He could feel the minutes ticking away as a dozen images flooded his mind, one at a time.

The gray sky.

The pouring rain. 

The clichéd red and white striped awning. 

The petals of a thousand kinds of botanical decorations assaulting his eyes with color.

Her eyes.

The cartoony elephant watering can.

Her smile.

"Godammit just let me sleep!" He shouted at no one in particular. 

"What??" Came his older brother's voice from the hallway. Leon chose to ignore his brother's unwanted interjection and closed his eyes in hopes of finding peace in the dark. He didn't even know why his brain chose that day in particular to bother him with. He hadn't even been in that store for 10 minutes and suddenly it was important enough for him to lose 2 hours of sleep for? 

It was nearing midnight and he could finally start feeling the effect of those precious, lost 2 hours of sleep as he drifted off in a feeling of perpetual calm but not before came the whisper and a faint laugh was heard ringing in his head,

"But do come by again."