Monachopsis
meme accepting! directed @seungrixblv! | the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
She didn’t remember when they first met, but the pieces of their first meeting were still sitting in her room in form of a laptop he had so kindly looked at when its harddrive had given up on poor Hanna who was stressed out with finals, and the amount of essays that had to be written was no joke hence the utter feeling of helplessness that settled in when the screen faded to black, and the laptop refused to turn on again.
Seungri was a friend, not a close one but a friend nonetheless and he offered to take a look at her device because he knew very well she wasn’t capable of affording for a real technician to look at her laptop. But twenty minutes into checking up on her device, he could already tell the fault and with the help of a few friends here and there who kindly enough offered him the needed pieces to restore her laptop to its former glory, Hanna was receiving her equipment sooner than anticipated and still managed to finish all of the essays that were due within the upcoming few days, even if that meant having to pull a couple of all-nighters to meet the deadline.
❝You know I owe you, right?❞
And she did. Hanna was kind and she gentle, and she didn’t take things for granted. What she couldn’t repay with money was given back with what little kindness was left in herself, so it would grow to be a norm that Hanna would end up looking after the male the way a little sister would. They were friends, sure, but they had never been close enough to spend much time with one another and things weren’t about to change at first, but with time and a lot of persistence she’d eventually grow into the role of a good friend.
Things happened slowly, but they did nonetheless and time was working in her favor when it came to this.
❝Are you staying here for the holidays, or are you going to go back home? Because if you’ll stay, I’d like to invite you to a small gathering. A few friends of mine that won’t go home for Christmas will gather at my place and we’ll have a Christmas dinner with everyone, so if you want to come too, I’d like that very much.❞
Maybe she didn’t always need to feel out of place, and maybe he didn’t need to feel that way either. Friendship was a beautiful thing after all, wasn’t it?
