Kyungsoo’s heart drops into the pit of his stomach when he sees that it’s you, recognizing you immediately. He follows your gaze over to the car pulling up, and suddenly his heart changes its residence to his throat. “H-how much is he paying?” He takes a step closer, even as the car comes to a stop, and he reaches out to grab your hand, stopping you from getting into the car. “I’m willing… just tell me how much…” he begs with his eyes for you to stay with him.
Behind him, baekhyun’s mouth drops open, eyes huge. He never thought that soo would actually take the intiative himself. “I was going to pay, actually. As a present.”
He only snorted with laughter when you grabbed his hand and told him not to go, that you’d pay more than him. He highly doubted that you were able to do so, that’s why he only pulled his hand out of your grip. “See you.” He couldn’t help but think how naive it was to think you would be able to afford the price this guy was going to pay. But it didn’t take long until Jongin forgot about the two boys anyway.
At the end of his work day, all he really wanted to do was go home and take a nap, but before he could even make it out the door his roommate had a hold of him. “Listen, you focus on your studies and work too much. You need to take a chance to relax a little, huh? I know just the thing for you, soo yah~”
He’s not given a moment to refuse before he’s pulled away and dragged all over the city (or so it seems to him) until finally his friend slows their pace and turns to smile slyly at him over his shoulder. Kyungsoo swallows thickly the moment he realizes where they are and begins shaking his head. “N-no, this really isn’t necessary, baek ah–”
Much to his dismay, his wrist is being grabbed again as he’s dragged over to a tall boy standing at a corner, and he tries to beg his friend to stop for moment, let them talk about this. But no, of course they had already engaged with the tall male, baek ah ignoring him while asking if the stranger “would be interested in my friend here”.
He had already handled a customer the moment you and Baekhyun came towards him. He turned barely around and eyes the two boys, Baekhyun more than he spared a glance for you since you were half hiding behind your friend anyway. His brows furrowed and he smirked lopsidedly. “Depends...” he said cooly, only to answer Baekhyun’s questioning glance with a nod, over to a chic car rolling around the corner, slowing down gradually the closer it came to them. “...if you can pay more than him.”
Honestly he would have preferred someone like you boys over that old fart waiting inside the car but he was one of his few steady customers and he always paid a little extra since he took a fancy on Jongin. His feet moved towards the passenger seat’s door of the car as soon as it had stopped. “You might come back later though, cuties.” he hummed before he got inside and the vehicle started moving again, disappearing somewhere at the next turn.
He wakes up not long after you, his small and doofy roommate waking him up by dumping a basket of laundry on top of him. “Kyungsoo-yah~ it’s time to wake up or we’ll be late to class~” he sing songs as kyungsoo groans, rolling over to throw a random t shirt at him. He glances at it long enough to see it’s an ACDC shirt.
“What the fuck, these aren’t even my clothes,” he mutters, sitting up as his roommate flees the room with a big laugh.
And so begins the rest of his day, off to classes, an hour break before his job at the cafe down the street from uni
Even though the day started later than usual for him he had quickly caught up on his daily routine and when he was done with dancing close to the park, earning enough change for a living (like his) for at least the next two days, he walked back towards ‘his place’, storing his money in a crack in the wall and covering it with a few loose bricks. You never knew if there wouldn’t come anyone to challenge him for the place, so he hid the only things he owned that had a worth here and there where no one could find them that easily.
Despite the fact that he now had enough money until tomorrow night, he rather wanted to be prepared and save up some more so in case that the weather would foil his business again this week, he still had enough bucks left. For that purpose though there was waiting a dirtier job. The red light quarter of Seoul wasn’t that far and he soon was encountered with his first customer too...
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[ x ] smoked
[ x ] consumed alcohol
[ x ] slept in the same bed with someone of the opposite sex
[ x ] slept in the same bed with someone of the same sex
[ x ] kissed someone of the same sex
[ x ] had sex
[ x ] had someone in your room other than family
[ x ] watched porn
[ _ ] bought porn
[ x ] tried drugs
TOTAL: 9
[ x ] taken painkillers
[ x ] taken someone else’s prescription medicine
[ _ ] lied to your parents
[ _ ] lied to a friend
[ x ] snuck out of the house
[ x ] done something illegal
[ x ] felt hurt
[ x ] hurt someone
[ x ] wished someone to die
[ x ] seen someone die
TOTAL: 8
[ x ] missed curfew
[ x ] stayed out all night
[ x ] eaten a carton of ice cream by yourself
[ _ ] been to a therapist
[ _ ] received a ticket
[ _ ] been to rehab
[ x ] dyed your hair
[ x ] been in an accident
[ x ] been to a club
[ x ] been to a bar
TOTAL: 7
[ x ] been to a wild party
[ _ ] been to a Mardi Gras parade
[ x ] drank more than three alcoholic beverages in a night
[ _ ] had a spring break in Florida
[ x ] sniffed anything
[ x ] wore black nail polish
[ x ] wore arm bands
[ x ] wore t-shirts with band names
[ x ] listened to rap
TOTAL: 7
[ _ ] dressed gothic
[ _ ] dressed girly
[ x ] dressed punk
[ x ] dressed grunge
[ x ] stole something
[ x ] been too drunk to remember anything
[ x ] blacked out
[ x ] fainted
[ _ ] had a crush on a neighbour
TOTAL: 6
[ x ] had a crush on a friend
[ x ] been to a concert
[ x ] dry-humped someone; been dry humped
[ x ] been called a slut
[ x ] called someone a slut.
[ _ ] installed speakers in a car
[ x ] broken a mirror
[ x ] showered at someone of the opposites sex’s house
[ x ] brushed your teeth with someone else’s toothbrush
TOTAL: 8
[ _ ] considered Ludacris your favorite rapper
[ x ] seen an R-rated movie
[ x ] cruised the mall
[ x ] skipped school
[ x ] had surgery
[ x ] had an injury
[ _ ] gone to court
[ x ] walked out of a restaurant without paying/tipping
[ x ] caught something on fire.
[ x ] lied about your age
TOTAL: 8
[ _ ] owned/rented an apartment/house
[ x ] broke the law in the police’s presence
[ x ] made out with someone who had a GF/BF
[ x ] got in trouble with the police
[ x ] talked to a stranger
[ x ] hugged a stranger
[ x ] kissed a stranger
[ x ] rode in the car with a stranger
[ x ] been harassed
[ x ] been verbally harassed
TOTAL: 9
[ x ] met face-to-face with someone you met online
[ _ ] stayed online for 5+ hours straight
[ _ ] talked on the phone for more than 4 hours straight
[ _ ] watched TV for 5 hours straight
[ _ ] been to a fair
[ x ] been called a bad influence
[ x ] drank and drove
[ x ] prank-called someone
[ x ] laid on a couch with someone of the opposite sex
[ x ] cheated on a test
TOTAL: 6
GRAND TOTAL: 68
If you have 00-10 … write [I’m a goody-goody]
If you have 11-20 … write [I’m still a goody-goody]
If you have 21-30 … write [I’m average]
If you have 31-40 … write [I’m a bad kid]
If you have 41-50 … write [I’m a very bad influence]
If you have 51-60 … write [I’m a horrible person]
If you have 61-70 … write [I should be in jail]
If you have 71-80 … write [I should be dead]
If you have 81-90 … write [I got a ticket to Hell]
He can’t stop himself from smiling. Maybe he was a touch sadistic, since it’s your confusion and bewilderment that’s making him so amused. “You’re sure you want to remember?” He mumbles to himself after you vanish. “It’s a lot to take in…”
He lays by himself, unworried by your disappearance. A family member or someone probably woke you up. The thought makes him groan, wondering when he himself would be woken up by his roommate to get ready for another day of classes.
For the time being, he lets his thoughts wander as his gaze travels the night sky, just biding his time until the inevitable happens.
HIs answer would have been ‘yes’. of course he would want to remember. But the moment he woke up, he didn’t even remember anymore that he dreamed at all. Jongin just wondered what made him sleep for so long; he hadn’t been that tired and didn’t go to sleep super late either. Usually he never had a problem with waking up early; the life on the street taught him.
Shaking off this thought he went to his daily routine, trying to pull through with it quickly so he wouldn’t waste anymore time. He left his clothes which had been drenched by the rain last night at a local self service laundry, putting them into the dryer right away since he couldn’t afford both washing and drying before he visited the public bathhouse, taking a shower (almost) for free since the staff there had his eye on Jongin, and dressed up then in the now dried and still slightly warm clothes. His feet dragged him to one of his favorite places, close by the park but with a lot of office building nearby. Around this time a lot of people would pass by so that chances were high to get more change than elsewhere.
“Not in this life,” he whispers, eyes glinting in excitement, “but a past life, or a future life, or what have you. Time works in a weird way, compared to how we think it does.” He wets his lips, rolling over onto his side to better look at you, eyes wandering from various points of your face. “Your soul remembers it all, even if your brain doesn’t. Every single life you’ve lived, every single dream you’ve had- which is actually just a step into a different reality.”
Pressing his lips tight together to keep from grinning, he cocks a brow and asks, “Would you like to remember me, Jongin?” He licks his lips again before allowing himself a small smile. “My name is Kyungsoo,” me mumbles before rolling onto his back again. He stares up at the sky, willing the clouds to part so they can see stars just beginning to show their light in the purple sky. “…this is actually one of my favorite realites to visit, you know.”
“This sounds so unreal, I can’t believe it...” he whispered softly, furrowing his brows, his gaze still on you. He was kind of sure he wouldn’t remember your or his dream at all, once he would wake up. At least he thought this was a dream. Or wasn’t it? He closed his eyes and let the gentle breeze wash over him.
He cracked his eyes back open only to look at you again, smiling and nodding small. “Yes, I’d like to.” His words were honest, because they came from heart. It felt like it wouldn’t matter who he was or where he’d come from. He nodded small, trying to keep the name in mind. “Kyungsoo.” he repeated slowly after you, his lips curling back into a smile as he looked back up at the sky. “It is really beautiful here, I can understand why you like-” he was about to say but the next moment he was gone.
He woke up to a loud thumping sound and when he opened his eyes he realized that it was already late. The sun was shining brightly through the cracks in the walls which meant it must have been around 10 am already. He quickly got up and stuffed his belongings into the space beneath the rack again, grabbing his backpack and leaving the building as quick as possible. He couldn’t remember that he had a dream, let alone what he had dreamed of this night.
He can’t help but giggle, finding the way you initially flail on the inside extraordinarily amusing. He hums and nods knowingly at the statement that this is all new to you. “You wanna know something interesting, though? Your brain can only give you images that you’ve already seen. In dreams, you can only experience that which you’ve experienced already before. So technically…” he trails off as he steps between you and the sand castle, then continues with a warm smile, “you -have- seen something like this before.”
This time, he tries to hold back his laughter as he has another force of wind whisk away his work, then holds his arms open and falls backward into the sand. It catches him like a pillow, easing his descent, and he waves for you to go ahead and do the same. “You can only ever dream of a face that you’ve seen before, even if it was only a nameless face in a crowd. With that logic, then, we already know each other to a degree.” Closing his eyes, he lets out a slow breath of air. “So what’s your name, Earthling?”
He frowned upon the news when you told him that at some point in his life he already had seen this but shook his head slowly in disbelief. “No... I am pretty sure I’ve never been to the beach before in my life...” He chewed on his bottom lip before he turned back to you after you had let the sand castle be blown away by the wind again. He watched you falling backwards before hesitantly doing the same, letting his feet lift off the ground and his body meeting the gentle breeze of air and sand which caught him like a pillow.
“I would have remembered a face like yours... I am sure.” he replied softly as he analyzed your features all over again; the soft, milky white skin, the plump, heart shaped lips, the round innocent eyes and that smile which was literally infectious. “Jongin.” he said after a while then, upon your question of his name. “My name is Jongin. And yours?”
He takes in your reaction with a faint smile, eyes crinkling as you voice your amazement. “I already told you, this isn’t the physical realm.” Coming up behind you, he shoves you playfully so that you fall into the ocean’s waters, but miraculously, you don’t feel wet. None of the water droplets cling to your skin, linger in your hair, dampen your clothes. “Have you ever heard of lucid dreaming? That’s how I’m doing all of this.”
After helping you stand back up, he spins you around to face the beach, his hands on your shoulders. Grains of sand all come together in a rush, a gentle wind guiding them into larger and larger piles, until finally there stands a huge sand castle before them. Its towers reach higher than his or even your head. “Once you realize that you’re not held down by the law of physics, you can do just about anything.”
He gasped a little when you pushed him into the water; he never wanted to get so close since he never learned how to swim. But it showed that he doesn’t need to know, his body literally floating in the water. Neither did it feel like water, his clothes not being drenched, his skin not feeling cold nor wet. Jongin let you pull him back onto his feet, watching in awe how the sand castle built itself right in front of his eyes. “This is … crazy.” he laughed and reached out his hand to touch the castle made of sand. “I’ve never seen something like this before.” he stated matter of fact. He wondered initially if he was dreaming but now was sure he did. Nonetheless his dreams never had been like this before. It felt way more unreal than usual.
“Oh, it does,” he reassures you with a quick nod, his tone that of someone who knows something for a fact. “Life exists just about everywhere, if you look hard enough. Even bacterium are fairly easy to come by, so long as you’re looking on the right planet.” Humming a little, he tilts his head from one side to the other in a repeated fashion. “There’s a different kind of life on other planes, too, but,” he waves his hand in dismissal, glancing downward with a small smile. “That’s something else entirely.” Shrugging, he casts his gaze upon the nothingness, lips pressing into a firm line. “You don’t mind if I change our setting, do you?”
Within moments, light filters through the blackness, revealing soft waves in the distance, the sky purple due to the setting sun. Kyungsoo wriggles his toes into the cool sand, breathes in the salt air, and smiles softly at you. “There, that’s better, isn’t it?” He blinks at your words and allows himself a gentle laugh. “Nah, it’s not crazy. We’re just not in the physical realm anymore, is all.”
He laughed a little since he knew there were probably bacterium everywhere, even on the farthest planets. But human-alike-life? He highly doubted that. At least as long as he has not seen it with his own eyes. He frowned a bit when you asked to change the setting and within the next few moments their surroundings started to change indeed, the ground beneath his feet now sand, the sky dyed in a purple blueish color, the last rays of sun shining through the clouds and the sounds of the ocean reaching his ears. He perked up and looked around, mouth gaping open, as if he couldn’t believe it. He has never been at a place like this before.
“This is beautiful...” He was so mesmerized that he didn’t hear your last words anymore before he kicked off his shoes and walked barefeet through the sand towards the water. Jongin couldn’t put into words what he was feeling as his toes dipped into the sea, the gentle waves tickling his skin. “How did you...”
He laughed a little upon your weird behavior, nodding his head. “Of course I come from Earth. I never heard of existing life on any other planet.” Jongin pursed his lips as he watched you, furrowing his brows. “…or do you-?” But you looked just like him, not any different, no weird ears or skin color, no additional pair of arms or legs. The only difference between them probably was their height. And that your face looked rounder than his own, your skin white as porcelain. But this wasn’t surprising him since he had always been a darker shade than everyone else he met. He sometimes even wondered if one of his parents wasn’t Korean but came from somewhere else originally.
He pouted his lips when you shifted away from him, pulling his hand back. “It looks like nowhere, indeed.” He said before he actually looked around. Until now his gaze was kind of fixed on your figure. His mouth gaped open a bit when he saw that around them was literally nothing. He couldn’t even tell where they were. There was nothing but … air? Was there even air? There wasn’t even a ground, at least not that Jongin could have told. “This is crazy.” He said as he took a step forward, seemingly walking on nothing. It neither felt hard nor soft. It almost felt like if he was dancing, when his feet barely touched the ground and gave him the feeling of flying.
