With the amount of times Raiden had heard that phrase, it was no surprise that he no longer reacted to it. Everyone complained about being alone at some point but what was he supposed to do about it? He wasn’t exactly a fan of surrounding himself with people and even if he did, it wasn’t something he enjoyed. So, when someone nearby uttered the phrase he had heard all too many times before all he could do was sigh. “You’re telling the wrong person.”
Kibum tipped the rest of his drink back, having decided it was a good idea to pay a visit to one of Seoul’s more secluded, dangerous looking bars tonight. There was nothing different about it, nothing special. The drinks costed less than at the prestigious bars he frequented and the people here had less money stuffed into their wallets--that was all.
His vodka still went down hard when he drank, as did it for everyone else in the place as Kibum looked around. Maybe it was louder here, too. People had a reputation to uphold, after all. They have to keep themselves looking rough and tough, even if they were all really just members of the lonely hearts club in the end.
He had no right to talk, however, because he was here too, wasn’t he? Not that he necessarily wanted to be. It had just become habit, a nasty little part of himself that he was having an increasingly hard time sweeping under the rug recently. Sitting alone at a bar was his new aesthetic, it seemed.
“I don’t want to be left alone,” he murmured to himself, barely above a whisper.
When the man next to him replied, he sighed as well and ordered another drink, specifying to make it stronger than the last.
“Am I? I think I am. My apologies.”