I'm back!! Hope you are enjoying your hiatus!! I've returned to an even more devastating chapter!! 😭
I'm glad she got/accepted the job from her internship!! Yuri and Soohyun, ugh I feel for them so much. Watching one of their closest friends self destruct and if they try to say anything, it just gets worse. And then being confronted by Changbin leading to a perfect storm of MC blocking and running off. 😭 AND she's moved (I'm assuming without telling them) so they can't even try finding her in person?? 😭😭 I hope MC is able to find the courage to reach out on her own, or the boys or her friends are able to break through to her!
Some quotes I liked from this chapter:
“I’m just craving something that’s only going to hurt me,”
" You still hate seeing your reflection there, trapped in her pupils, small and timid."
Very interesting self reflection
"…she doesn’t even know them—"
One of the few quotes that gives me hope (though I know this story ends well) Despite her current feelings, she still feels defensive about them…
"Some part of you still wants them to break your heart instead of you breaking theirs"
I'm so sad, because I completely understand her POV. Why bother talking about it when you know you're going to say no to the contract, which in turn also means saying no to the whole relationship? BUT I still wish she would have brought it up with them directly, instead of assuming they didn't care enough about her and just had their manager discuss it with her 😭
And basically the whole section from "It’s over." to the end of the chapter. Love the way the bird metaphor keeps being used in different ways to describe MC and her feelings, this time in her personality of not wanting to let things go, to the point of not wanting to get confirmation if the bird was actually alive or dead, because knowing would force her to let it go. 😔
OK, time to read some more post RON drabbles 💔 A happier question for you: What is MC and the boy's favorite part of Seollal??
I really love writing confrontation so this past chapter was so fun for me, I hope it was fun to read too... I love Soohyun and Yuri a lot, they're such complete characters to me, and the places where they and MC just mash into each other sometimes like when you really want a puzzle piece to fit and it doesn't is just-- Ahhh 💛 I love it I love it. I felt like I put together all the things that freak them out and hit every button at once
"she's moved (I'm assuming without telling them) so they can't even try finding her in person??" Laughing evilly and kicking my feet 💛💛
"Why bother talking about it when you know you're going to say no to the contract, which in turn also means saying no to the whole relationship?" Yessss! The hopelessness!!! The 'what's the point'!!!!
Awwww Seollal! Off topic but I wrote a Seollal scene semi-recently that I don't know whether to keep or not 😆 Do I want to dunk my readers into more heavily cultural/spiritual elements without explanation.... (At the moment the answer is feeling like noooooo! I should probably slash this scene into ribbons and retie it)
I honestly think for the boys it's probably just the vacation LOL. Seollal seems to be one of the only times they get consistent uninterrupted time off. And I'm sure seeing family and all that too! But, you know... sleep.... Also fruit... and sweets.... And girlfriend time, in the future, maybe 😊
And for MC I genuinely think what she looks forward to is... japchae....... 😭 My cast has simple wants(?)
I hope you have fun on your drabble rereads! Remember there are happy times ahead (eventually)!! Thanks for the ask!!! 💛💛💛