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like the children they are;

[ @hgdjongin ]

The last time she stepped into the pool was last summer, when she gave herself a day off from her job. She liked the water, liked how people were able to float in it and feel weightless. She liked how movements of their limbs can push them across the surface, how easily it was to get lost and find themselves hours later with a pleasant soreness in their muscles. Honestly, Jihyun did know how to swim, knew how to tread water and kick her feet to get from one side of the pool to the other.

Things like back strokes and butterfly strokes in open water was something she was inexperienced with but thought would be nice to learn. Thankfully, she knew someone who did know. And according to him, the last time he visited a place like this was even longer than her. But how was that when he was an expert at it in her eyes? That was like being a dolphin out of water (dolphins fit more given that they were mammals and fairly intelligent. She patted herself on the back for thinking of it).

It didn’t take much convincing on her end to drag him back to his ‘natural habitat,’ she liked to tease. It was covered up as a personal swimming lesson, asking Jongin to be her personal trainer to further boost his inflated ego. Really, it was that easy with him, with them, being persuaded so easily by the other.

Jihyun donned a pair of swim shorts and a swim shirt, one making her hydrodynamic while the other was for fashion. Eh, it wasn’t like she was on some sort of swim team for her to have professional swimming gear. Jongin, on the other hand, might be a different story, if he still fit into his gear or even brought it with him. Now that she was at the pool though, she placed her towel on one of the benches, close to the other’s to keep their things from being misplaced.

“Alright coach,” she emphasized with a chuckle. Her arm stretched across her front as the other one pulled it close, feeling the pull of her muscles. “Why don’t you show me the basic stretches first?”

#hgdjongin #p:like the children they are #l:para #( i haven't lost muse for her! )

that awkward moment;

[ @hgdxchorong ]

How was she supposed to know that she was talking to the cafe owner directly? Or rather, how come no one decided to correct her when she went on about how Infinite Love’s pastries and drinks weren’t to her tastes? That's not to say that Jihyun had really high standards for cafes; she knew what she liked while she grew up seeing them come and go in Hongdae and knew that not everyone had the same opinion as her. There were many that she frequented and were sad to see go for one reason or another, but with the abundance to choose from, she felt like she had a good prediction about whether a cafe would gather a lot of customers or not. Still, it was a little irritating that no one tapped on her shoulder or anything while she talked.

She felt terribly sorry once someone did mention it to her after, really. She didn’t know how to run a cafe, but she already had an idea of what would be needed to do it (thank you, time management phone games. And for other friends who owned cafes too. That one was most important.). The last thing Jihyun would ever want to do to a person is offend them with her words, and being the person that she was, wanted to make it up to her for it.

If Chorong was working now, Jihyun made an effort to come visit her at the cafe as a chance to be able to apologize and explain her actions.

#hgdxchorong #p:that awkward moment #l:para

come at me, bro;

Jihyun was bored.

When such an occurrence happened, that could either mean a good thing or a bad thing for the people around her, but it always meant she was thinking of potential things to do. A new video skit? Maybe she should look back at the plots of stories she hasn’t outlined yet. Or maybe she should take a break from editing her video to think of what to have for lunch.

As these thoughts went through her mind, she heard the door to one of their bathrooms close. Usually at this time of day Jonghyun would be taking a shower, and she checked the clock on her computer to make sure of that. Eventually the sound of the shower-head running water confirmed her suspicions.

Well, maybe she should leave a little surprise for him for when he returned.

Jihyun hopped off the couch right when the inspiration hit her and snuck into her brother’s room to find his phone resting on his desk. This was the only time she could do this, seeing as taking the dependable piece of technology under running water would be kind of dumb. Quick, she didn’t have a lot of time to work with. Thankfully she knew his password, and now it was time for her to leave her gift.

Step one: change his unlock password. Step two: search for a picture of a monkey butt and save it as his lock screen. (seriously, those baboon butts are so red and big) Step three: change as many kakaotalk contacts as she could to animal names. (she managed quite a few: prairie dog, fennec fox, snapping turtle, common frog, sugar glider, and so on)

She’s not sure just how much time passed since the start of this plan, but once she heard the water stop running, she put his phone to sleep and placed it back on his desk like it wasn’t touched at all. Her steps were light as she retraced them and left everything the way it was before. Jihyun sat back on the couch with her laptop on her lap once again.

[ @hgdjonghyun ]

#hgdjonghyun #p:come at me bro #l:para

blue orb: jonghyun’s leave;

It’s been six years now, four years since he returned.

She remembered that day well, when Jonghyun finally went about his mandatory military service. She saw him off along with their parents, standing around the area where all the other sons who were entering the same time he was were. Jihyun teased him about his shaved hair, how he looked better when it was longer and styled up. Of course that was what she was used to seeing him as. He could go back to that style when he came back after two years.

Two years wasn’t a long time, she told herself. She wouldn’t even be finished with university by the time he came back. She could distract herself with classes, go out and meet new people, walk around to think up new video ideas and not about how there wouldn’t be someone she could bother constantly when she came home. She wouldn’t think about someone not being there to pick up the guitar and string notes together until inspiration finally hit. She wouldn’t think about how there wouldn’t be someone to walk around with, switching from normal conversation to quizzing each other about what movie/anime/show a quote came from. She wouldn’t think about someone not comforting her, the person who knew her best and who’s been with her through thick and thin whether they liked it or not. Because if she did, her heart would hurt a lot.

He was going to be a man now, going to shape up to be a soldier and serve their country. Jihyun could let him slide for that.

It was just one long hug from her among the string of jokes to keep the mood up, but she already felt it, the tears welling up the longer they didn’t want to pull away from each other. It was getting harder by the second but even harder for Jonghyun, she knew. She was sure that the tears were already falling for him, but one of them had to remain strong or else both of them would be a bawling mess.

“Don’t miss us too much, yeah?” she said with a pat on his shoulder and a smile too wide to control her sadness. A ‘you look ugly’ was thrown in there somewhere although there was no guarantee of which twin uttered it.

They had to let him go eventually; Jihyun and their parents didn’t leave while he was walking away, staying until they couldn’t see him anymore.

The coil that trapped her heart and squeezed it didn’t loosen until she let her own tears fall in the comfort of her own room. She was going to miss him more than she realized.

#p:solo #solo:blue orb #( because this was a big step in her life )#l:para

기싱 꿍꼬또;

[ @hgdhwasa ]

This was evil. No, it was beyond evil. This was torture. Her friends knew just how much she didn’t like using aegyo on anyone. It was a high-stakes game of pictionary amongst her friends as they played played in teams. Needless to say it got very heated, and at one point of the game, they were neck and neck and throwing friendly insults at each other.

It still ended up with Amber failing to recreate a drawing of a beanstalk. However, a punishment is a punishment, and Jihyun was not one to break that kind of deal even when it wasn’t in her favor.

Thankfully this was something that she wasn’t recording for the camera; it was just a nice day of hanging out and spending time with old friends. Still, that didn’t mean she wanted to do it. Jihyun looked through her contacts and called one of the first names her thumb landed on when she swiped down on the screen. Since it was something that everyone needed to hear, she pressed the button to listen to the conversation on speaker, anxiety building once she heard someone pick up the other line.

#hgdhwasa #p:i saw a ghost #l:para #( hope this is workable! )

impromptu home ec;

[ @hgdxyongguk ]

People should believe Jihyun when she says it’s not often that she brings strangers home. This person wasn’t a stranger per se; he did give her his name and all, and they had seen each other enough at the grocery store to at least call him a friendly face. It was the reason why Jihyun finally had to ask the question, almost always seeing him down and adding different instant ramyeon packages in his bag: does he really eat all of those?

His answer was yes, which shocked Jihyun and wondered how his heart hadn’t stopped yet because of the high sodium intake (jokingly of course. Though she would know what would happen; her dad’s a doctor). As an alternative, she suggested that she cook him a simple and homemade dinner tonight in hopes that he could take the recipe home and make it himself in the future.

Whether or not he went back to his place first to drop off his own groceries/ramyeon, they eventually settled in Jihyun’s home. Her other groceries bought were packed where they were supposed to go and ingredients for kimchi stew laid out on the counter.

“All of these are really simple to get and prepare. The meat takes the most time because it needs to marinate, but everything that goes in for the stew are just thrown together anyway. Easy, right?” She looked at him with a smile on her face. “Well it should be because you’re gonna help me with it. How spicy do you like your food?”

#hgdxyongguk #p:impromptu home ec #l:para #( hope it makes sense )

tell me your life story;

When their mother told them that one of her family friend’s son was moving to Korea, Jihyun and Jonghyun were more than happy to offer their help on getting him settled in. The name Angelo did seem familiar, maybe from meeting him at one point or another when they visited the US with their mother, but unfortunately for Jihyun that was but a distant memory.

She was happy to make new ones, however, already making plans on where to take him, then showing him the places that she liked going to. She went to the lengths of introducing him to some of the store and restaurant owners she and Jonghyun knew so they could also treat the newcomer nicely. But after Angelo said that in all the times he’s visited Korea that he’s never gone to the touristy spots in the city, Jihyun’s options opened up tenfold. Meeting him and showing him around didn’t happen as often as she would have liked, and tour guiding a friend around while her brother was taking classes or another didn’t seem as fun even if he gave her permission to go without him.

So, on this rare occasion where they all had time to spare, the twins took him out to Seoul’s shopping district in Myeongdong. Any street foods in the area that Angelo wanted to try was paid by either of the older siblings, as well as one or two items that maybe Angelo had his eye on but hesitated to buy for one reason or another.

Today’s main event came around a walk away when they took the cable car up to the tallest mountain in the city. It was a beautiful spot right when the sun was going down, and she made sure to take pictures and videos, along with buying him a padlock they could all write on to add to the growing collection on the mountain’s peak. That’s what Namsan Tower was famous for anyway.

After exhausting all they could, a comment was made about being hungry and suggestions of what to eat following. They were on the subway an agreement later back to Hongdae for some barbecue and drinks (Jihyun was thankful that Angelo wasn’t a stranger to social drinking), and found a restaurant to sit in where they ordered samgyupsal and a bottle of soju.

“I don’t know about you, but I noticed that people back in the US don’t really walk as much as they do here,” Jihyun quipped as they waited for the raw food to come, smiling at the younger. “How are your feet? Was today fun?”

[ @angelohgd + @hgdjonghyun ]

#angelohgd #hgdjonghyun #p:tell me your life story #l:para #( omg don't feel obligated to write this much )

favorite song;

[ @hgdxnichkhun ]

Aside from braving the crowd and expending the energy for hours looking around and walking, a hard part about shopping is carrying around the bags of their bought goods. Jihyun was glad that most of the gifts she has so far were small enough to fit into one bag. She can’t even imagine how people would be able to make a day out of it when they don’t have a car to come back to.

She hasn’t taken the perks of her profession for granted, but it sure has made her financial problems the least of her worries, already having something for her mother, something for her father, and something for her brother as well. It means that she doesn’t have to stop at buying gifts for her family and a handful of her close friends. Or it can just mean she could let her generosity and her friends requests guide her. That is, if it was within reason.

But as unbiased as she tries to be, there were some people who she wouldn’t mind to spend more on because they were worth it.

“Oppa,” she addresses her friend. They’re in another store looking around, and Jihyun reads through the greeting cards to find the best one for each person she knows. “What kind of gift giver are you: the one who would buy similar gifts for all your friends so they each can have something, or would you take the effort to make it individually special?”

#hgdxnichkhun #p:favorite song #l:para #( wanted to make it a song title so... )