ark [woosan]

seven: trees

san

the next morning I wake up to the sounds of intense grunting. I mess up my hair groggily, ready to go back to bed yet again, but curiosity kills me as I continue to hear the loud sounds outside. I groan and walk out to be met with wooyoung punching trees aggressively. I stand there for a moment, just to take in how idiotic he is. the tree that he's hitting is a small skinny one and is by no means anything impressive.

"ugh, take that bastard. how do you like that?", he glares at the tree, he punches it again, "that's right I did that, what're you gonna do about it?"

I almost start crawling as the tree snaps in half from the point woo was hitting it and the upper half flies into his face. I can't hold in my laughter and I start wheezing to the point where I can't even breath anymore. wooyoung looks at me and flushes as I pant.

"wh-what we're you even tr-trying to do?", I make out through my laughter. he pouts, "it wasn't that funny, was it?"
"do I need to remind you how you look right now? that was the funniest crap I've seen in my 20 years of life"
"oh right. but to answer your question, I was trying to build something"
my ears perk up in interest.
"build? how are you going to do that exactly? recall your past time bob the builder episodes and pray to god?"

he looks at me with a look which makes me believe he's going to run off into the forest and never come back.

"no, san. why would I ever do that, san?", he speaks, no expression on his face as his mouth is pulled into a straight line. I copy him, "oh okay, wooyoung. then how are you going to build, wooyoung?"
his mouth starts to form insults but then he makes an 'o' with it instead.
"wait shit, I can't believe I didn't tell you. oh my actual god, I am such a dumb bitch"
"tell me what? and way to state the obvious, you've been a dumb bitch since before birth"
"I'm just gonna ignore what you said right then and continue what I mentioned earlier. so basically I discovered something yesterday"
"oh? are you like dora the explorer or something now? or are we going indiana jones on this?"
"indiana jones, but without the aliens if you know what I mean"
"okay, I'm listening"
"so first of all", he pushes his arm in front of me, showing off a dazzling silver diamond imbedded into it, "this."

he nods happily, a look of hope boring into mine. I have to say, I am confused as f*ck right now. my eyes squint at his, "what?"
"what do you mean what?"
"what is that? are you actually dumb? you didn't explain crap"
"ah, I forgot that we don't have telekinesis, this is so sad"
"honestly that is so sad, but get to the point please"
"I was out exploring yesterday and a big ass bug landed on me so I hit it with a rock and it flew off so I hit my arm and this appeared so I clicked on it just because and it popped up a menu. there is no exit by the way", I close my mouth and he continues, "but turns out we can level up just like in the game and we can use our points from leveling up to learn blue prints to build things."
"and let me get this clear, you simply forgot to tell me this?"
"yes?"
"oh god I'm stuck with an idiot"
"well so am I so suck it up, baby"

I ignore the pet name he used as I process the information I was just given, "so, how do I get this fancy menu thing?"
woo shrugs, "I'm pretty sure you have to injure yourself right there super badly so the skin scrapes off to reveal it, but you kn-"
"oh nevemind that, I got it"
"wait what?"
"I scratched my arm a little and it appeared there like magic"
"I hate it here, god officially hates me"
"yeah, and I'm stuck here with you so I can say the same. but anyway, now that we have a way to upgrade we should get this started."