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[seoulstreet]

♡ starter  goes  to  @callingverity

❛  if  i  die,  delete  my  search  history.  actually,  burn  my  whole  laptop.  ❜

[seoulstreet]

 when  he  had  arrived  home  that  night  after  the  hangout.  he  had  made  sure  to  clean  his  room  so  it  wasn't  looking  like  a  mess.  making  sure  to  dust  the  shelves  and  make  his  figurines  look  nice  there.  even  vacuuming  and  washing  the  floors.  waking  up  early  to  make  sure  he  took  a  shower  and  looked  okay  and  smelled  good,  even  doing  last  minute  check  up  that  everything  was  clean.  now  all  he  had  to  do  was  just  wait,  nervous.  leg  bouncing  as  he  was  sitting  on  his  bed,  fiddling  with  his  phone  in  his  hands.  ❛  this  is  not  the  first  time  she  is  gonna  be  over  ..  just  calm  down,  it's  just  jihye.  ❜  he  shakes  his  head,  hand  moving  to  chest  as  he  empties  his  lungs  with  a  single  blow.  this  was  all  because  it  was  jihye.  his  heart  beating  fast,  no  wonder  why  he  was  so  nervous.  then  there  it  was,  the  doorbell  ringing.  bolting  up  and  rushing  to  the  door,  even  sliding  a  little  as  he  was  in  a  rush.  door  open,  smile  on  his  face.  ❛  you  made  it  !  come  in  come  in.  ❜  he  steps  to  the  side  and  lets  her  walk  past  him.

timeskip !

            ​​​​​​​to  say  she  was  nervous  during  the  entire  commute  to  kiha's  house  would  be  an  understatement.  even  though  she  had  confirmed  with  him  the  day  before  that  she'd  be  visiting  around  lunchtime,  the  anticipation  still  had  her  on  edge.  after  all,  the  last  time  they  hung  out  alone  was  years  ago,  and  this  would  be  her  first  time  visiting  his  house  without  their  usual  high  school  friend  group  around  them.  standing  in  front  of  the  door,  she  double-checked  the  address  in  her  memory,  hoping  she  was  at  the  right  place.  after  a  full-blown  internal  debate,  jihye  finally  presses  the  doorbell,  inhaling  deeply  as  she  waits  for  someone  to  answer.  why  was  she  even  this  nervous  ?  it  was  just  two  old  friends  gaming  and  catching  up  - nothing  more,  nothing  less  .  .  right  ?

[katrinawritesthings]

I’m really intrigued about R 🤗

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?

Kept forgetting to reply to this lol but

I think for fanfiction. The original original Inspirations were clix0 and mildiggy on the nick dot com avatar fanfiction message boards when I was 11 lmfao just with like the concept of fanfiction and what you could do with it

And then a lot of my early inspiration and writing style for when I first started writing suju fics and then the shines a few years later was inkin_brushes on livejournal like. The high school hanchul. bruh. The witness protection hanchul?? the kihae hot arms smut?? xmen au hanchul. A lot of hanchul lol. They really like gave me the realization that I could write gay little fanfics about my emotional support kpop boys and that they could be really good. And they introduced me to a lot of the little fanfictionisms and tropes and everything

And then I was shy for a while when I first started writing for the shines and didn't talk to anyone but then authors that I became brave enough to talk to like elle n squickz and bri and cely and wishyunew and all of them really helped me get a feel for just like. writing whatever self indulgent niche bullshit you want who cares lmfao

And for non fanfiction authors I think the first one I got like actual writing inspiration from was Kristen Cashore when I read Fire and I was like. I want to write books like this !!! with like cool women and disability representation and gay people and everything

A lot of my magic inspiration comes from tamora pierce in the way she does magic in her tortall books

My craving for fun and whimsy is at least in part from mr Bill Watterson. the Calvin and Hobbes guy. my beloved. Shel Silverstein also probably

And then more recently I read this book called Wilder Girls by Rory Power and boy howdy are those girls definitely wilder. Never read a book so Visceral. So I am about to start trying to go ham like her and in the same vein I just read Now Entering Adamsville by Francesca Zappia and I just really love the main character and how tough and no bullshit she is so much so that will probably start bleeding into my stuff soon lol. Same for Each Of Us A Desert by Mark Oshiro. The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera. This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron. Just read all the Sailor Moon manga.

The running theme is I keep reading books about girls that are brutal and headstrong and devoted and compassionate and I'm kind of going feral about all of them

Did not mean to write an essay lol

[toldnews-blog]

New Post has been published on https://toldnews.com/sports/what-happened-next-after-north-and-south-korea-unified-on-the-ice/

What happened next after North and South Korea unified on the ice

From the public address system, a voice issued a warning in English, reminding the media of the importance of the occasion, of the stature of the dignitaries who would be present in the arena they were about to enter. Equanimity, they were told, had to be maintained at all times.

There is always brouhaha when history is made. But when the world has time to foresee a momentous event, when sport and politics collide, anticipation builds into a chaotic crescendo, the intensity burning like a red-hot flame, as it did on the south east coast of South Korea when a unified Korean ice hockey team made its Olympic debut.

And so, on the grandest sporting stage of all, sport became secondary.

Given just weeks to train together, to assimilate and to bond, little was expected on the ice of the hastily-assembled group of 35 players. Then again, this wasn’t about winning.

The team was part of a political message, a tool for rapprochement in an attempt to slow down the North’s nuclear program and the outcome of a plan cobbled together by representatives of both governments during discussions at the demilitarized zone that separates the two countries.

Creating an inter-Korean team was a controversial move — many in South Korea protested against it — but what was it like to be on the team, at the center of a geopolitical drama?

READ: Winter Olympics a ‘tension reducer’ for North & South Korea

‘I thought it was a scam email’

Growing up in Canada, Caroline Park was obsessed with ice hockey. She would watch her older brother Michael play with his friends on the street and feign illness before piano lessons to join them.

One day, when watching a segment on the news about South Korean ice hockey, Park dreamed big like every child should. “It’d be so cool if one day I could play for them,” she marveled.

As the years went by, Park continued to play, her mum accepting that her daughter would not become a pianist or a gymnast, but over time aspirations of sporting stardom were replaced with ambitions of becoming a doctor.

It was while working as a clinical research assistant at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City in 2013 that the Princeton graduate received an unexpected email from the Korean Ice Hockey Association.

“I initially thought it was a scam email,” she says, laughing before continuing the story.

“I texted my dad and asked: ‘Did you send this to me?’ I know we joked about it when I was young but it’s not really funny.'”

Her father, Sandy, persuaded Park to reply and a week later she flew to Korea for the first time for a two-week tryout in the country of her parents’ birth which led to a place on the team.

Unsettling, distracting, mixed emotions

There is not much passion for ice hockey in South Korea. The women’s team was formed in 1999 and lost its first international, against Kazakhstan, 17-1.

Neither the men’s or women’s team had competed at a Winter Olympics prior to 2018 but, as hosts, South Korea did not have to qualify for PyeongChang 2018.

To avoid humiliation at a home Games, the Korean Ice Hockey Association (KIHA) searched the globe and recruited several North Americans of Korean heritage — Park was one of five on the roster — and backed the team financially.

The investment paid dividends. In the years leading to the 2018 Olympics, both the men and women improved, with the women climbing above Italy, Great Britain and the Netherlands in the world rankings and winning a second-division world championship tournament. But then came upheaval.

Just over three weeks before South Korea was to take on Switzerland in its opening match of a home Games, it was announced that North Korean players would join the ranks.

After years of creating a sense of togetherness between South Korean-born players and those of Korean heritage, now there was disruption and dismay as athletes who were largely a mystery had to be integrated.

“I actually heard about it from some of my friends who read about it in the New York Times,” says Park who, by this time, had been accepted to Columbia medical school and was taking a year out to focus on the Games.

“I didn’t really know what was going on because at that time we were on a break from a training camp, so I was back home in Canada. The day I was flying back to meet the team, that’s when the news started trickling in.

“There were a lot of mixed emotions, especially as we didn’t know how logistically everything was going to work out. It was pretty tough.

“We had been a unit, a team which had been training together, competing together at World Championships, seeing each other every day, and this was weeks out from the biggest competition of our lives so it was a little unsettling and definitely distracting.”

‘I don’t think people realize how close our team got’

The International Olympic Committee allowed the Korean federation to expand the team’s roster to 35 players, which meant 12 North Koreans could be incorporated without any South Koreans being dropped.

But only 22 players could be involved in each game and at least three North Koreans had to take to the ice.

Randi Griffin, the player who would score the team’s first Olympic goal, described the unification as an “invasion of our autonomy,” while starting goalie Shin So-jung told the newspaper Chosun Ilbo that the team was “devastated.”

Certainly there were difficulties in integrating players from beyond the 38th parallel, especially as they slept in separate dorms and traveled on different buses.

A three-page dictionary was produced to help ease the linguistic differences between those from the North and South. Adding to the language problems was the fact that English was the team’s lingua franca, mainly because the coach was 29-year-old Canadian Sarah Murray.

“We had to put up translations in our team room and took it upon ourselves to adapt to them and they made an effort to adapt to us,” explains Park, adding that the squad did not do anything “out of the ordinary” to accelerate the bonding process. Indeed, according to reports, the team bonded by dancing and singing to K-pop in the dressing room and also ate dinner together.

“Our dynamic was pretty natural and even with the import players like myself, and a few of the others who have a language barrier, it was pretty incredible how close we were able to get to them and the bonds we were able to form with them. You can’t really force that. They were actually quite outgoing and very friendly.

“When I look back on it, I actually think it made our team dynamic even better or stronger.

“I don’t think people realize how close our team got between the North and South Korean players. People didn’t see us in the changing rooms or during meals so I don’t think they really understand how strong our dynamic was.”

Protestors, supporters, being overwhelmed

Being a political experiment has a tendency to thrust a team into the spotlight. Suddenly, interest in women’s ice hockey elevated around the world.

According to the New York Times, the approval ratings of President Moon Jae-in — a vocal supporter of the inter-Korean team — took a dip when the announcement was made in January 2018.

A petition against the unified team was formed and when the women came together for the first time on the ice, losing 3-1 to Sweden in a friendly, before a capacity 3,000 crowd in Incheon, protestors and supporters faced off outside the arena, chanting “Peace Olympics” and “Pyongyang Olympics,” depending which side of the fence they were on.

Neither Park or her teammates received formal media training but, she says, they were aware they needed to use their words carefully. Not only were they now Olympians but diplomats, too.

“At the beginning, when we were at the training camp it was fine because we were still secluded from everything so we knew it was big deal but we weren’t really exposed to the outside world,” she says.

“I think it was a week out, before we went to the village and we went to Seoul, that we recognized how big an impact it was.

“There was so much media, a lot of public protestors, and people who were supporting it, coming to our exhibition games. It was pretty overwhelming at the beginning.

“Any time there’s that much attention on you, it’s only natural to try to be a little bit more careful about what you say because it can get blown up quickly. Personally, I don’t think I said anything I didn’t mean.”

The power of sport

Athletes from the North and South had not played on the same team since an international table tennis championship and youth soccer tournament in 1991.

Why was the women’s team, ranked 22nd in the world at this point, sacrificed?

The South’s sports minister, Roh Tae-kang, was criticized for saying it was okay to merge the women’s teams because neither had any hope of winning a medal.

Nevertheless, through discord came political unity.

Before the team’s opening match against Switzerland on February 10, Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, watched the match alongside South Korean president Moon Jae-in. It was the first time a member of the North ruling family had visited the South since the armistice agreement in 1953.

“Before you even got onto the ice you could hear the crowd,” says Park. “It was a lot to take in. Stepping onto the ice for the warm-up, it sent shivers down your spine.”

The team went on to lose 8-0 to the Swiss and were defeated by the same score to Sweden three days later. There was little to cheer on the ice, though that did not dampen the spirits of the North Korean cheerleaders, a troupe of over 200 women with tight-lipped smiles who captured global attention during the Games for their choreographed, often mesmerizing, routines.

“They stole the show,” a South Korean player once said, but for Park they were not a distraction.

“It was when I was watching highlights of the game or sports coverage on the news that I was able to take in what it looked like,” she admits.

Tearful goodbyes

The team lost all their matches at PyeongChang 2018, but did find the net in a 4-1 defeat by bitter rivals Japan. That puck is now at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Canada.

By February 26, the unified team’s 33 days together had come to an end and early that morning, at the athletes’ village, it was time for the players to say their farewells.

There were warm embraces and tears, and as the North Koreans boarded their bus, they opened windows and reached their arms out to prolong the goodbyes.

“At the end of the Games it was disbelief that it had come and gone, it felt like it had gone by really quickly,” says Park.

“Looking back now, [I’m] so much more fonder of the experience. In the moment, so much had happened leading up to it, especially a month before the Games when we found out the team was going to be unified. I feel that everything was such a blur at the time.

“In the moment, we were just so caught up in terms of practicing and adjusting to the new dynamics it was hard, at least for me personally, to grasp how big a deal it actually was.

“Overall, in terms of Korea and ice hockey, I think it was a huge stepping stone in opening people’s eyes in Korea to ice hockey.”

These days, South Korea — a country with 365 registered female players among a population of 51 million — and North Korea’s women’s teams are ranked 16th and 28th in the world rankings respectively.

A catalyst for change

Two months after the Olympics, Kim and Moon met for inter-Korean talks, the North Korean leader crossing into the South for the first time since the Korean war. There weren’t just handshakes between the two leaders but hugs, too.

In a joint declaration, the two men said “there will be no more war on the Korean peninsula and thus a new era of peace has begun.”

There were two further summits in 2018, with Moon becoming the first South Korean president since 2007 to travel North, and, in June 2018, a meeting was held between US President Donald Trump and Kim in Singapore — the first summit between the sitting leaders of their two countries.

Washington and Pyongyang have hammered out details of a second summit later this month, while economic, cultural and personal exchanges between the North and South have also since followed the Winter Olympics.

“I would like to think we played some part in it. I’m sure it was a small role, but it definitely kind of helped to some extent,” says Park of the unified team’s part in the political developments of the last year.

Park does not anticipate there being another unified women’s ice hockey team at the Winter Olympics in Beijing in three years’ time, though Michael Madden, visiting scholar of the US-Korea Institute at SAIS-Johns Hopkins University, tells CNN Sport that it should not come as a surprise were the countries to unify in a sport at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo next year.

They may even walk together in the opening ceremony, he says, just as they did for PyeongChang 2018.

“It did facilitate increase contacts and cooperation between the two Koreas following the Winter Olympics,” says Madden of the unified women’s team, pointing out that there were those who had wrongly predicted that the team would create a wedge between the US and South Korean diplomatic, political and military alliance.

“Thinking about it retrospectively, it was important because a lot of serious think tank people commented to a lot of serious media organizations in the US about this. These were all vested in the Olympic Games splitting the alliance.

“The Olympics were a critical event. The Koreans picked this for a reason. If we look back on it historically we’re going to find that the Olympics galvanized a lot, and for North Korean and South Korean policy makers it was a conscious intention because it was the global stage.”

[seoulstreet]

 ❛  but  i  do  pay  attention  in  class  ..  i  always  do,  if  i'm  doing  something  else,  i'm  still  listening.  ❜  he  says,  defending  himself.  he  does  suddenly  feel  guilty,  not  wanting  to  seem  rude  to  the  teacher.  he  sighs  out,  nodding  his  head,  letting  out  a  small  hum  before  speaking.  ❛  i'm  not  trying  to  be  rude,  teacher.  ❜  he  says,  his  gaze  down,  looking  at  her  shoes  before  then  looking  up,  but  suddenly  making  a  face.  ❛  too  old  ?  you  do  know  that  anime  can  be  really  messy  like  ..  some  of  those  aren't  even  for  kids.  ❜  he  says,  scoffing  out.  ❛  when  was  the  last  time  you  watched  something  fun  ?  you  should  come  over  to  my  house,  i'll  show  you  all  the  good  anime  i  watch.  ❜  and  then  he  stops,  his  cheeks  warming  up,  that  for  sure  was  weird,  why  would  he  be  inviting  a  teacher  to  his  house  ?

"What...else?" Areum felt her face pale. Clearly she wasn't good at holding her class together and just as bad as confrontation, trying to find a loophole for the student where she'd find a good excuse. She regretted saying anything -- the professor ignored all the other students on their phones, why did she have to say something?

"Maybe you could pay attention in class," she mumbled, looking down at her feet instead of his casual posture sitting on one of the desks. Useless. He was already in the top three of the class, what reason did he have to pay attention if he'd already finished his work? "Don't you think it's rude to ignore me during lecture to focus on your show? Aren't you a little old for anime?" she suddenly shot out, unable to resist a personal jab since she was losing her other argument.

[seoulstreet]

♡ starter  goes  to  @seoulvice

❛  what  do  you  mean  "  act  natural  "  i  am  natural.  naturally  suspicious,  but  still.  ❜

[seoulstreet]

 ❛  your  job  sees  so  easy  ..  don't  get  me  wrong,  i  know  dancing  is  hard  but  like,  you  get  to  escape  here  everyday.  ❜  he  says,  looking  around  the  dancing  room,  looking  at  the  color  of  the  walls  and  then  at  the  big  mirror  wall,  it  seemed  like  a  good  place  to  think.  only  to  come  back  to  earth  when  he  was  being  poked,  flincing  and  hand  quick  to  cover  the  spot  that  had  just  being  poked.  ❛  hey  hey  hey,  that's  not  fair  ..  i'm  ticklish  !  ❜  he  says,  suddenly  getting  an  idea,  feline  like  eyes  narrowing.  ❛  are  you  ticklish  ?  ❜  hands  in  air,  wriggling  his  fingers.  ❛  should  i  return  that  ?  ❜

"This is my job, I'm here almost every day. I guess you can come to the studio whenever you're free," Soobin shrugged, turning to look at the door her partner had stormed out of after he'd chewed her out. Her eyes narrowed as she thought about having to come back tomorrow and face him again. "If you want to kick him, just make sure it looks like an accident so you don't get in trouble." Soobin grinned seeing him stretch, waiting until he was in a vulnerable position to poke him in his stomach.

[seoulstreet]

 nodding  his  head  while  listening  to  her.  so  this  dude  ..  what  was  the  name  again  ?  minjun  ?  was  actually  a  decent  guy,  maybe  the  dude  was  just  really  spoiled.  shrugging  his  shoulders  just  like  the  female  had,  as  now  he  knew  that  he  had  nothing  to  worry  about.  he  doesn't  wait  until  he  was  already  eating  the  noodles,  almost  choking  at  her  comment.  ❛  why  would  i  be  weird  about  it  ?  i'm  not  a  creep  !  ❜  his  voice  raises  a  little,  being  embarrassed.  he  does  take  his  phone  that  was  sitting  on  the  table,  handing  it  over.  ❛  i  hope  you  won't  give  me  a  fake  number,  that  would  be  awkward.  ❜

            "  i  don't  blame  you,  he  looks  really  creepy.  he  almost  always  never  speaks,  too.  i  think  his  family  owns  this  place  or  something.  "  shrugging  her  shoulders,  wondering  why  that  coworker  of  hers  was  even  there  working  in  the  first  place.  looking  down  at  him  as  she  sets  down  the  tray  of  noodles,  watching  his  flustered  expression  when  he  makes  the  number  comment,  sunhee  couldn't  hold  back  a  grin  at  the  sight  of  his  red  face,  "  suppose  i'll  give  it  to  you  .  .  as  long  as  you  promise  you  won't  be  weird  about  it.  "  teasing  him,  she  holds  her  hand  out  as  if  to  ask  for  his  own  phone,  "  i'll  save  my  number.  "

[seoulstreet]

 turning  around  almost  dramatically  slow,  just  to  side  eye  the  older  male.  ❛  love  you  ..  since  when  ?  ❜  teasing,  just  to  mess  with  hyunki.  wanting  to  annoy  the  male.  ❛  so  you  are  saying,  you  just  want  me  in  your  tiktoks  so  you  get  more  likes  ..  and  i  get  ?  nothing  ?  sounds  really  fair,  hyung  !  ❜  he  laughs,  finally  turning  to  face  hyunki.  ❛  okay,  let's  say  i  will  do  tiktoks  with  you  ..  does  that  mean  you  will  pay  for  the  food  then  ?  ❜

            mumbling  something  incoherent  as  he  endured  yet  another  lecture  about  his  losing  streak,  he  let  out  a  dramatic  whine  when  kiha's  foot  nudged  him,  wriggling  away  from  the  contact,  "  stooooop  !  "  dragging  himself  onto  his  knees  before  finally  pushing  up  to  his  feet,  he  stumbled  slightly,  the  room  still  spinning  as  he  trailed  after  him.  "  aish,  can't  you  just  do  it  because  you  love  me  ?  "  he  pouted  before  flashing  a  cheeky  grin,  "  besides,  my  fans  love  seeing  you  in  my  tiktoks  .  .  i  get  more  likes.  hehe.  "

[seoulstreet]

 ❛  what  can  i  say,  i  was  born  electrician.  ❜  it  was  a  joke,  clearly  the  only  thing  he  could  actually  use  was  a  computer.  who  even  hired  him  to  do  this  kind  of  a  job  ?  he  was  absolutely  klutz.  wanting  to  throw  in  finger  guns  as  well  but  he  didn't  do  so.  ❛  it's  like  you  are  judging  me,  have  you  never  broke  anything  here  ?  ❜  arms  folding  underneath  his  chest,  brows  furrowing  together.  ❛  can  you  fix  it  or  no  ?  ❜

༊⋆｡˚                       oh , she was going to crack it alright .. ❛ i —- yah ! ❜ she didn’t know if the headache forming was from einstein over here or the lack of caffeine she ( now ) couldn’t have . ❛ i can .. wait , what do you mean it was smoking ?! ❜ she quickly shifted to look at the back of it , p r a c t i c a l l y clambering over before scrunching up her nose and sighing . ❛ the fuse has blown —- how have you even managed that ? ❜

[seoulstreet]

 ❛  dude  ..  homie,  you  have  no  faith  in  me,  i  don't  always  do  something  stupid.  ❜  he  keeps  a  dramatic  pause.  ❛  you  are  not  any  better,  it's  like  we  share  a  single  braincell  together,  if  not  even  just  a  half.  ❜  he  laughs  out,  shaking  his  head.  ❛  this  is  a  good  idea,  i  swear.  ❜

❝ with peace and love, brother, i trust you to do something stupid. ❞ a pause as he flashes the other a grin. ❝ stupid can be fun, though. ❞

[seoulstreet]

 ❛  maybe  ..  ❜  keeping  a  dramatic  pause,  even  looking  off  to  the  side  as  making  a  face,  then  looking  at  dante  again.  ❛  what  kind  of  a  trouble  are  we  talking  about  ?  setting  a  building  on  fire  ?  start  a  fight  ?  steal  ?  rob  a  bank  ?  i'm  too  cute  to  be  put  behind  bars.  ❜  hand  over  chest,  sighing  out.

"Isn't it why you brought me here? So we can cause trouble?"

[seoulstreet]

 maybe  it  was  obvious  he  had  not  been  ice  skating  for  years  at  least.  trying  to  balance  himself  but  looking  like  he  was  about  to  do  some  jumping  jacks  instead.  ❛  how  do  you  stay  up  ?  ❜  he  tries  to  move,  really  slow  before  suddenly  losing  his  balance,  feet  hitting  that  zigzag  and  finally  landing  on  his  behind  with  a  thud.  ❛  i  can't  believe  the  ice  won.  ❜

"I thought you've been ice skating before!" Yoomi exclaims, a hint of amusement showing on her facial features when she witnesses whatever is happening with Kiha and his ice skates.

[seoulstreet]

 he  would  make  sure  to  follow  her  channel  so  he  could  always  be  watching  her  streams  and  supporting  jihye  on  her  new  kind  of  a  job.  this  also  giving  him  more  time  with  her  and  seeing  her  more  often,  of  course  not  in  a  weird  way.  he  was  just  happy  to  have  her  back.  ❛  she  will  cook  the  whole  menu  for  you  if  she  would  hear  you  are  back  again,  just  be  ready.  ❜  he  says  and  about  to  answer  but  once  jihye's  boyfriend  butted  in  he  sighs  out  but  forces  a  smile  on  his  face.  ❛  we  were  just  talking  how  funny  art  the  clown  is,  he  is  so  goofy,  right  ?  ❜  he  says  and  as  he  looks  at  the  screen  somene  was  being  gutted  out.  ❛  see,  funny.  ❜  and  he  looks  away,  but  leans  to  the  side.  ❛  you  will  come  over  tomorrow  then  ?  ❜

            "  i  do  !  i'll  give  you  my  channel  name  later  so  you  can  follow  me.  "  wiggling  her  brows,  she  lets  out  a  snort  at  his  confession  about  raging  during  games,  "  i  can  totally  see  that.  "  grabbing  another  handful  of  popcorn  from  his  bowl,  she  nods  in  agreement,  "  yeah,  streaming  is  more  fun  and  way  less  stressful.  "  her  lips  part  slightly  in  surprise  as  he  mentions  his  living  situation,  "  you’re  still  there  ?  i  should  visit  soon  !  i  miss  auntie’s  cooking  so  much  ~  "  she  exclaims,  though  keeping  her  voice  hushed,  a  grin  forming  at  his  invitation,  "  i'm  free  tomorrow  ?  "  and  as  if  on  cue,  her  boyfriend  pulls  her  in  close  again,  asking  what  they  were  talking  about.  flashing  a  quick  smile,  she  smoothly  deflects,  "  oh,  we're  just  discussing  the  movie,  right  kiha  ssi  ?  "

[seoulstreet]

 ❛  you  stream  games  ?  ❜  that  was  perfect,  he  also  was  a  gamer  but  more  of  a  casual  one,  never  streaming  anything  but  that  could  be  a  good  way  to  spend  time  with  her  too.  ❛  i  also  game,  i  play  all  kind  of  games  and  rage  when  i  don't  do  good.  ❜  he  wanted  to  laugh  but  only  smiles,  shaking  his  head  a  little.  ❛  so  you  chose  streamer  life  instead  of  idol  life  ?  ❜  he  kept  talking  to  her  and  just  looking  at  her,  missing  half  of  the  movie  for  sure.  leaning  against  the  backrest  and  turning  his  head  a  little.  ❛  i  live  with  my  parents  still,  in  the  same  place.  ❜  he  chuckles  soft,  offering  some  of  the  popcorn  to  her.  ❛  you  should  come  over  someday,  we  can  set  up  a  gaming  dat  ..  day.  ❜

            carefully  placing  the  bowl  of  popcorn  on  his  lap,  she  flashes  kiha  a  bright  smile,  grabbing  a  handful  for  herself  before  sinking  back  into  the  couch.  "  i  love  them,  really.  i  play  a  lot  of  horror  games  too  when  i  stream.  "  letting  him  in  on  a  new  part  of  her  life  -  which  was  streaming.  so  much  had  changed  for  both  of  them,  jihye  was  sure  of  it,  yet  somehow,  the  way  they  interacted  remained  the  same.  she  remembers  their  friends  always  teasing  them  for  being  in  their  own  little  world  whenever  they  hung  out.  "  i  still  live  with  my  dad.  you  know,  especially  after  jihoon  moved  out  into  the  dorms  and  debuted,  i  was  worried  he'd  feel  lonely.  "  she  nods,  keeping  her  voice  low  so  as  not  to  disturb  anyone,  though  her  boyfriend  seems  too  immersed  in  the  movie  to  notice.  turning  her  attention  back  to  kiha,  she  tilts  her  head,  "  what  about  you  ?  "

[seoulstreet]

 side  eyeing  at  the  couple  beside  him  now  and  then,  maybe  it  was  a  little  awkward  like  this,  both  of  their  other  on  their  sides  and  them  in  the  middle,  being  sandwiched  like  that.  the  feelings  he  had  felt  for  jihye  back  then  never  had  left,  the  warm  giddy  feeling  still  there  lingering  around  him.  his  eyes  shift  towards  her  when  the  popcorn  was  being  offered.  ❛  yes  please.  ❜  he  leans  in  to  whisper.  ❛  do  you  like  these  gore  movies  ?  ❜  he  makes  sure  to  keep  quiet  so  he  wasn't  disturbing  anyone  as  the  movie  was  playing.  popping  few  of  the  goodies  in  his  mouth  and  then  leaning  over  to  get  his  drink,  to  take  a  long  sip  from  it.  he  was  having  hard  time  focusing  on  the  movie  playing  as  all  he  wanted  was  to  just  engage  in  conversation  with  jihye  instead.  ❛  where  do  you  live  these  days  ?  ❜  he  asks,  still  voice  low.

            this  was  definitely  an  unusual  situation  -  sitting  in  the  middle  of  the  couch,  her  boyfriend  on  one  side  and,  on  the  other,  the  guy  who  had  unknowingly  held  her  heart  for  most  of  her  high  school  days.  as  the  movie  begins  and  the  room  settles,  jihye  eases  into  her  seat,  subtly  leaning  against  kiha's  arm.  her  boyfriend  however,  pulls  her  closer  for  a  moment  at  some  point,  whispering  to  ask  if  she  was  cold.  with  a  small  smile  and  a  shake  of  her  head,  she  reassures  him  before  unconsciously  shifting  away  again.  stealing  a  quick  glance  at  kiha,  she  wants  to  talk  to  him  more,  but  not  with  everyone  else  around.  instead,  she  opts  for  a  smaller  gesture,  reaching  for  the  bowl  of  popcorn  on  the  table  and  holding  it  out  to  him,  "  popcorn  ?  "  she  offers  with  a  smile,  seizing  any  excuse  to  keep  engaging  with  him.