/ * in the weeds.
yhboonyi:
(...)
all the reason for her nostalgia was clear as the morning shining bright through the windows of the coffee house right into sujin’s face, making her seem younger, more vivid and yet so… annoyed? of course, that isn’t exactly how you expect to greet your childhood friend after such a long time. or just how you expect to greet them at all! boonyi darted all of a sudden holding back herself from speaking, getting smaller and smaller until she was just a kid again.
there’s not much sujin wants to remember when it comes to her childhood.
when she thinks about those times when she was younger, she sees a bright little girl who used to look at the world through rose-colored glasses. she would like to believe that the little girl was once happy, that she once knew how it felt like to be content with what she had and not question about things. she grew up in a middle class family so they didn’t have much to begin with, but they were happy nonetheless. sujin was happy, or at least that’s what it seemed like until she could no longer bear the pent-up anger in her small body, and now she doesn’t know how to stop it from taking over her.
sujin wouldn’t consider herself a morning person — if staying up late at night until early morning is what counts as a morning person, then maybe she is. but thanks to her training routine since seven years ago, waking up in the morning doesn’t feel as challenging to sujin by now. unless she’s had a pretty eventful night (not the kind where she feels overworked to the point she just goes straight to bed after getting back to the dorms, but the one where she manages to sneak out to the clubs and come home with her ass drunk at 3 am), sujin always finds herself wide awake at the same damn time in the morning, even if she already planned to sleep in for the day.
today is just one of those days. she’s awake early, somehow blessed with some good sleep last night, so she’s out by herself now (she could have dragged one of the girls with her, but considering how quiet the dorm was when she woke up, she decided she would just go alone) with nowhere in mind. perhaps she would just take a walk for now while she thinks of a plan, but after 10 minutes in her growling stomach reminds her that she hasn’t eaten breakfast yet, and what’s better to get in the morning than a cup of coffee and whatever she feels like eating at the coffee shop, right?
well, she certainly doesn’t remember saying she wants coffee all over her clothes, but that’s what she gets as soon as she steps into the place. ah, there goes her good morning. had she been a little out of her mind, she would have let out a what the fuck? when things like this happen, but for some reason she manages to remember she’s not supposed to curse in public, so instead she lets out a loud sigh, shoots the other person an annoyed look because this is absolutely not her fault in the slightest, not when she’s the one who has coffee stains on her favorite denim jacket right now.
is this a sign that she’s about to have a bad day? and as if this is not bad enough for sujin to deal with, she has to find out that out of all people that could have spilled their coffee on her today and ruined her morning, it has to be none other than miss kim boonyi. kim boonyi? finally showing up in front of her after all these years? sure, she’s mad boonyi just disappeared out of her life when she suddenly became an actress, but sujin wasn’t making efforts to reach out to her either back then. maybe it’s not fair to put the blame on boonyi alone, but knowing sujin, that’s the only thing she does when she's angry, so she dumps all the anger on boonyi and makes her the bad guy.
what’s worse about all this is that this is totally unplanned, and sujin isn’t quite sure how to react in this situation. perhaps she would have yelled at boonyi if they weren’t surrounded by so many people here, but she’s not that heartless, is she? not when it comes to boonyi, who is the only person who knows the happy little girl she used to be, who makes her childhood a little less lonely. boonyi was the reason she was even happy back then, but after they suddenly grew apart, it’s like sujin lost a part of herself and it changes her into this bitter person, and right now that’s who boonyi’s looking at.
she should’ve said it’s okay or this is nothing and maybe i can fix this, but instead she goes with, “are you for real?” sujin could tell this is not a dream, that she’s wide awake, that everything about this is real, and maybe that’s a stupid question to ask to your childhood best friend when you haven’t seen them for so long, but she just couldn’t help it. she’s bitter, and the more she stares at boonyi the more she wants to scream at her right now. “you should be careful next time,” she says, her tone quiet. “i’m just, uh, i think i’m gonna go clean this up.” god, maybe she should have just turned around and leave while she has the chance, but then again she would rather lock herself up in the restroom for a couple more hours if it means she doesn’t have to see boonyi again.
please, please, please don’t follow me. i don’t really know how to face you like this.
















