serendipity,
starter for @idhyunjin september, 2018
“oppa,” eunju prompts, drawing out the vowels until her tone is appropriately bratty and attention-grabbing. it’s back to business now that kcon has come and gone, back to endless hours of practicing and training and pretending that the rules don’t exist in her transient existence as a trainee-turned-survival-show-contestant. but as it stands, eunju’s schedule is clear for what feels like the first time in months, years, even, and she intends to make the most of it and the most of anything quite usually involves tugging on the sleeve of whatever galaxy member had been unlucky enough to be on the receiving end of her boredom. the victim of the day, one she’s particularly fond of, is seo hyunjin.
he’s a bit uptight on the best of days, sure, but he’s been a constant in her life since she became a trainee. she feels kind of lucky, really, that things hadn’t changed much at all following his debut with galaxy, her tendency to cling and follow surely serving as a guarantee of that. she makes friends everywhere she goes, makes sure of it, but there’s something in the assurance and constance that hyunjin brings that’s made him someone she intends to keep around for as long as he’ll let her.
not that she’d ever let him not let her stick around, but the sentiment remains: hyunjin is like family to eunju, her home away from home that had long since helped with the loneliness of life on her own and had just as firmly reminded her the importance of chosen kin.
it’s luck alone that they also happen to be forced to live in msg sanctioned dormitories.
as it is, she’s let herself in with the intention of catching up with him after a long time of little contact bar seeing each other in passing at the after party and making faces at each other over rows of seats before the plane took off back home for seoul. it’s been weeks since then, most of which have been spent filming for the final episodes of the produce project. “hyunjin oppa,” she says again, already beelining toward what she knows to be his room. “i literally don’t care if you’re naked, you’re legally obligated to spend time with me today.”