yeoreum never looks forward to reading her family’s letters. they have turned into scripts of broken records over the years – always asking about academics performance and other possible achievements, but never really about her. she’s used to it by now so it doesn’t really cause her a heartbreak anymore; what does bother her, however, is that she needs to reply every single letter and can’t just throw them out the window, because if she misses just one, her parents will assume that something horrendous has happened.
she doesn’t have just the slightest idea of just how different today’s letter is going to be when she’s opening up the envelope, barely bothering to do it nicely and just practically ending up ripping it all apart. she starts reading the too perfectly written words, already repeating the usual introductory mantra her mother usually writes her when– her entire body freezes just after the first sentence.
“i am most overjoyed to tell you, dearest daughter, that we have finished the preparations of your upcoming engagement with evan,”
pause. utter silence. the world stops. no, she must be reading it wrong. but when she rereads the first few lines, they’re the same.
they must be fucking kidding her.
without a second thought, yeoreum gets up from her spot (not even bothering to read the rest of the letter) and tramples over to her boyfriend sitting a few chairs away, ignoring the huge crowd surrounding them when she throws the letter at him. “why didn’t you tell me? just what the hell did you think?” ( @slythevan )