10 cm apart ♧ jeongsung

We're on this new bed

the university festival happens once a year. where the students and faculties alike would be looking forward to a whole week dedicated to celebration of the school's foundation. it was hectic but fun, people are running around carrying their boxes and dragging thwir soles. events and booths were're installed and scattered everywhere. first days of the week long event is dedicated for preparation, and sportfest, while the final three days of the week is saved for the main events.

every organization, clubs and programs has their own project, has their own dish to bring out for menu's. games, cafes and other entertainment were set in place.

jisung declined every invitation of him performing for their class and department, as one of well known persona in the music department, people always seek him out and he has the luxury of options. only this year, he instead wanted to take his time and help out, maybe act as a zombie in their well thought out escape room. people are dismayed and sighed, it can't be helped, jisung can go rogue if he wants to and can never be bribed, the man was easy to convince before, but the shift on his activities and atittude was something very familiar to those who knew him.

jisung has the tendency to shut his own support system off when he's hurting.

each has gotten their task, all sunken on the floor of their dedicated room cutting out cardboard and plastering the walls with newspaper.

ryujin, jongho and jeongin is bickering with jisung as momo and sana, sank beside them.

"need some help?" momo said as she pleated her skirt before leaning onto jisung shoulder in his surprise. jeongin eyed the older who shrugged and scooted to give the new joiners their space. jisung just nodded but the smile in his lips never left and jeongin can feel the warmth in his voice, reconnecting with the two. the smile does look good on jisung.

sana smiled backand jongho handed a pair of scissors as they cut away layers of fabric that will be used as a costume, and drapery for one of the sets inside the maze that their are trying to build.

jeongin watched as jisung and momo exchanged few words almost into their own world with his former circle of friends and the fondness is there. the three stuck around even at lunch, leaving one member of his old group, seungmin, on his own.

the guy lingered around far away, not too close but being on the same department, the athlete is working with other acquaintances in the same room instead. sometimes being dragged away by his other jock friends. lost in thought, jeongin could've sworn to see the guy wanting to join in, but purses his lips and busied himself instead with the booth organizer.

jisung was livid. ryujin became more touchy and clingy on the presence of jisung's friends. she would hold his hands and squeeze them and jisung lets her. it would be suspiscious, it would be viewed on a different light as someone who is famous if yeji isn't clinging in the same way ryujin does to her. sometimes you can just tell if people shared their beds because the air of familiarity is different.

jisung isn't joking that the two ladies is rather carefree and enjoying his company in more ways than one. they even scheduled and asked if they could have a manicure day, with momo gasping on one side asking if she could come too. the girls teased momo that she can't and they started yapping around. jisung's laugh was contagious, saying they could just do it after the day before the festival.

it was playful and the jubilee didn't last long, the day was ending when jeongin noticed that jisung is gone.
he isn't there for quite a long while after saying he'll be smoking.

jeongin went and look for the older, only to find him at some back alley, sniffing, yelling with unfinished cigarette burning on the ground and that he isn't alone.