status: no longer accepting
⌛: the voicemail my muse leaves on your phone when your muse hasn’t been heard from for the fifth night this week
she stares at her phone in contemplation, her head rested upon intertwined fingers. “well, i don’t really know her, and i’ve only met her once–twice, but i don’t think her being drunk counts,” she thinks to herself. she lets out a deep sigh, “but, i mean, if i brought her to safety once–wouldn’t i have wasted my time getting her to safety if she’s dead now? then, i guess i’m calling just to confirm if i’ve wasted my time.”
jihye wouldn’t have been worrying about this if her goddamn teacher didn’t worry so much about her students.
“jihye, do you know of yeeun’s whereabouts? she hasn’t attended class for about a week now,” her teacher approaches her.
“uhm, no, i don’t think so–is something wrong?” jihye replies politely.
“it’s probably nothing, but could you just try to find out for me and your classmates? we’re quite worried for her safety,” jihye nods in response to this, quietly regretting that she had ever asked if anything was wrong.
why did their teacher ask jihye about it? her and yeeun weren’t exactly friends, so jihye wouldn’t have the slightest idea of where yeeun might be. jihye sure as hell wasn’t her keeper either, but she had always felt this odd sense to protect the other since the day she first saw her.
she quickly grabbed her phone, then took a deep breath before dialing yeeun’s number. she began to get some of her words together in the last few seconds that she had before yeeun picked up, but she pauses when she’s answered by an automated voice telling her leave a message at the beep.
“hey, this is jihye from art class. i haven’t seen you at all this week, and we had to write down a bunch of notes for the project. everyone in class is worried about you, so they told me to give you a call to make sure you’re alright. hope you’re not lying in a ditch somewhere. give me a call once you get this message, so i can let everyone else know that you’re fine.”