So-mang: "Hello!"
Hao Xian: "We know you are home, answer the door!"
So-mang: "Hao Xian, you think he'll ever answer?"
Hao Xian: "Yes, we told him that we would be coming, and I even brought my sister with me...."
Hao Xian's Younger Sister: "Brother, how long are we going to wait for this friend of yours?"
Hao Xian: "For as long as it takes, sister."
So-mang: "Indeed, we shall make him answer the door by continuously knocking on the door."
Hao Xian's Younger Sister: "We should not force him, though."
Hao Xian: "Do you think he heard us knocking? We've been at it for ages!"
So-mang: "If he's home, he definitely heard us. Maybe he's just ignoring us."
Hao Xian's Younger Sister: "Maybe he's busy playing video games or something. That's what my friends do when they don't want to be bothered."
Hao Xian: "No way, his mother doesn't allow him to do that in the early morning."
Hao Xian's Younger Sister: "Ohhh okay then.....but still isn't it wrong to force him to come out if he does not want to?"
So-Mang: "No way, why would he even stay at home every day, always boring, and his mom told us we are free to use force as long as we get him out of the house."
Hao Xian's Younger Sister: "What kind of mother does not respect the privacy and choices of their child?"
Hao Xian and So-mang were about to retort to the young girl when the door creaked open, and an older woman who was not the young boy's mother and a little girl came out.
They had initially thought that the little girl was his sister, but the young boy mentioned he had no siblings.
The Older Woman: "Ohhh my, who are you, boys?"
The Young Girl: "Y-yeah, w-who are y-you?"
The mother was standing there while the daughter hid behind her, feeling shy about meeting new people.
The two boys then stared at each other, and their faces were a mix of confusion and shock.
So-mang and Hao Xian, along with Hao Xian's younger sister, whom He is gently pulling along, began to huddle together.
Hao Xian: "You think she is some trespasser posing as someone who lives here?"
So-mang: "No! But we probably got the wrong address."
Hao Xian: "Calm down, So-mang!"
So-mang: "Sorry, she just reminded me of my sister."
Hao Xian: "So, what do we say to her now?"
So-mang: "You think we should call the police on her?"
Hao Xian: "Yeah....we need to make sure."
Hao Xian's Younger Sister: "Do not call the police!"
So-mang: "Your sister is cute when she is mad."
Hao Xian: "Now I know how Takehiko feels...."
So-mang: "What does that mean?"
Hao Xian's younger sister then dispersed from the huddle and went to her mother's daughter.
Both the younger sister of one of the boys and the daughter of the mother looked into each other's eyes, then decided to approach each other.
"Hello....my name is Noemie"
"Hi...I am Ningyi"
The two younger girls both introduced themselves to each other with a nervous tone and a calm expression, then they both shook hands.
The Older Woman: "Wow....Noemie, you have made another friend.....ohhh, why are you hiding again after I said that.....hehehe, my cute daughter is so red."
Noemie: "Mom! Stop teasing me!"
The older woman then cleared her throat and spoke
"I am Lunette, and you must be his friends."
"Yes, I am Hao Xian. Nice to meet you, ma'am."
"I am So-Mang, and who are you to him?"
Lunette: "I am his next-door neighbor, and this here is my daughter."
Hao Xian: "Ningyi here is my younger sister, she was a little bit shy though, seeing her now..."
Noemie: "Come in! Ningyi, and you two as well!"
So-mang: "Will she ever want to hear our names?"
Hao Xian: "She heard it already when we introduced ourselves a while ago. Now, let's go!"
Noemie's voice sounded so cheery and excited with them, unlike how she acted with the young boy.
They went into the house, astonished by how clean it all looked, then they all sat down in the living room, and Lunette urged Hao Xian to talk about his sister.
Lunette: "So, is she your younger sister then, Hao Xian?"
Hao Xian: "Yes."
Lunette: "Ohhh."
Hao Xian: "Ningyi is my third sibling. Since she is the first daughter of my family, she was coddled a lot but not spoiled, more like it was impossible for her, as her younger brother Xiang would always mess with her because of his energetic nature. This trait of his annoyed her, but she is unable to tell our parents because of how much they are supporting her second-oldest brother, Haoran, with his shows since he is a child actor.
Noemie: "Ohhh, what, your brother is an actor!?"
Ningyi: "Yes."
Hao Xian: "Yes, well, anyway, Ningyi here has a kind nature, and she seems to look up to me as, in her words, I was always kind and caring to her."
So-mang: "It is true, Auntie Lunette, Hao Xian here likes to be the doting big brother with all of his siblings, but he especially coddles Ningyi, always protecting her from Xiang's antics."
Lunette: "Hahaha."
Hao Xian: "You are laughing too much, ma'am."
Lunette: "No, sorry, it is just nice to hear about siblings....I have not seen my sibling in a while. She is alive, do not worry, but is just out of the country."
So-mang: "Ohhh?"
Lunette: "Yes, she has gone abroad elsewhere....she is a teacher."
So-mang: "Ohhh!"
Hao Xian: "I see, I see, I see....well, good for her."
So-mang: "Yeah, I mean good for her indeed, all the teachers in our school just yell at the noisy students and act all strict with us."
Lunette: "Well, you are attending that school, so of course they are training you, although harshly."
Hao Xian: "Yeah, but they could at least....."
Bam!
Goes the upstairs door, and all five of them shoot their eyes onto the oncoming presence.
"Auntie Lunette...yawn....good morning, have you seen...what!?"
The young boy who had bed hair, still wearing his pajamas, and looked as if he had just woken up, has arrived, coming down the stairs.
He was then shocked to see Hao Xian, So-mang, and Hao Xian's sister, Ningyi, already sitting down inside his house, inside his living room, talking with Auntie Lunette and Noemie.
Then he thought back to the day before yesterday.
That was the day he met up with So-mang and his siblings.