Room 808 (Purinz/Chaewon x Yunjin)

The Apology Tour

It had been a week. An entire week that Yunjin had gone since she last spoke to Chaewon. Chaewon, who up until a week ago, she had spent every single day with. A week, nine hours, and forty seven minutes. Not that Yunjin was counting. At the thought, Yunjin drug her pencil down hard along the page and snapped off the tip again. Rather than dare to sharpen it, instead, she threw it down in a huff and hoisted herself onto her bed.

"Ooh, are you being a moody artist again?" Yeji asked from the other side of the room. Yunjin glared back at her. "Yikes, okay, sorry," Yeji raised her hands in defense. "So, just wondering in a completely normal non-judgemental way, are you planning on studying for finals at all?" She asked. Yunjin gave her a look. "I know you're upset and all, but come on, is it really worth ruining the semester over?" Logically, no, it wasn't. Yunjin knew that, but she also knew that moping made her feel better. "Come on, Yunjin," Yeji said, walking towards her. "I'm going down to Yeonjun's to study, you're welcome to come. We actually came up with this system where-"

"Hwang, I'm fine, really," Yunjin said. "I'm gonna study, I just-" she sighed. "I just need a break from all the school shit for a little."

"Fine, Yeji sighed. "But if you change your mind you know where to find me." She picked up a few textbooks and left, leaving Yunjin alone with the silence in the room.

She tried to take a nap, but couldn't get her thoughts to slow down enough to let her sleep. She was used to feeling like this; tense, distant, but this time it was worse. Everything beyond her room felt too far or too much. She glanced guiltily toward her desk where her textbooks lay unopened. Before she could coax herself into studying, there was a knock at the door.

Yunjin buried her head deeper into her pillow, ready to pretend she was asleep once Yeji came through the door. Normally, she would knock first, then look for her key, always complaining things get lost in her bag when Yunjin would reprimand her. Strangely, the knocking didn't end after a minute like it usually did. Yeji must have forgotten her key. Yunjin sat up, barely containing her annoyance as she crossed the room to open the door.

"Can you please stop leaving without your key?" Yunjin huffed into the hallway. Immediately, she realized the person in front of her was not Yeji.

"Hey," Kazuha said. "Can we talk?" She asked after a beat, frowning into the crack of the door.

"How did you get up here?" Yunjin asked with barely contained contempt. She hadn't forgotten about the mailroom. In fact, it's all she had been thinking about. She definitely hadn't forgotten Kazuha's role in all of it.

"We do still have mutual friends, you know," Kazuha sighed softly, picking at the paint on the doorframe.

"I'm not really in the mood to talk," Yunjin said quietly.

"I can do most of the talking," Kazuha shrugged. Reluctantly, Yunjin opened the door, widening it just enough to let Kazuha pass. "So, you're the final stop on the Kazuha Nakamura apology tour," Kazuha joked, clapping her hands down awkwardly at her sides.

"Apology tour?" Yunjin cocked an eyebrow at her. "I thought Kazuha Nakamura doesn't apologize to anyone." She said, mocking. She pulled out her and Yeji's desk chairs and turned them to face each other, gesturing for Kazuha to take one.

"Yeah," Kazuha sighed as she sat. "Well, as painful it is for me to admit this, I fucked up." The corners of her mouth were turned up, but her eyes lacked any hint of a smile. Yunjin didn't smile back.

"Why am I the last stop?" Yunjin asked almost accusingly. It was hard not to look at Kazuha and think about why Thanksgiving was officially her least favorite holiday.

"Because you're the most important," Kazuha said seriously. "Look, I'm not really good at this kind of thing." She sighed. "You have every right to be pissed at me. I put you in some shitty positions more than once, and I'm sorry," Kazuha frowned, glancing up at Yunjin's unchanged expression. "I never meant to hurt your feelings or make you uncomfortable. I just thought I was doing the right thing, you know? I thought it would all be fine and Jay could just come back and we would all be okay."