Jejudo .

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Half an hour into the flight, a group chat was created with the name 'WE 💞 JEJU!!' and my brother's friend group, Haneul, and I were added to it. Although the heart symbol used in the group's name was incorrect, it still served its purpose. I checked to see who had added us and found out that it was Hyunjin. The group chat had many unknown numbers, but my brother sent a list of names along with their respective phone numbers, acting as the savior. He sent the first text in the group chat, starting a conversation that I did not want to participate in.

Haneul looked at me and suggested that I should text Felix, saying, "You should hit up his line." I replied, "You must be insane, Haneul. I am not going to text anyone's line here." She frowned and playfully hit my head, saying, "Just do it. Not now, but later. And be like, 'Oh yeah, I was just texting because..'" I raised my eyebrow, waiting for her to finish the sentence. Haneul could not think of anything else and said, "Shit! My brain turned off." "Exactly. I'm not going to text him just because." Haneul thought that Felix and I were a cute couple, but the girls he usually talked to would not think so at all.

Me and Haneul stayed gossiping the whole one hour and thirty minute plane ride to Jejudo. And most of it was about Lee over here behind us. We did decide to text about it just because of best friend things, and we were just too tired to communicate. We both woke up early at 5, called each other, and did everything on the phone together today so we could both tell why our social energy (in real life) was down. She texts me repeatedly about Lee, spamming emojis and smirking. I glanced at her and noticed that bright smirk on her face, she looked at me, and it wiped off almost immediately. She gives me a shoulder movement full of attitude, that just gave off What-are-you-looking-at? And I just laughed it off.

'Hannieee'

'Hannieee'
but anyways
like i was sayin
ya'll are HELLA cute tg
ndd if you guys became friends i'd totally ship

'Nariii pookie'
girl pls
its not happening
no but ofc we have to be friends
i cant js keep my circle closed
you obv know im social like that

'Hannieee'
cause why are you lying LMAO
ur the most antisocial person iv met.

'Nariii pookie'
ok js u wait han

She must think she scares me, seriously. Thirty minutes till I get off this enclosed hellhole and go to my room and sleep. And maybe cuddle with my bestie Haneul. You never know.

I get a text from a random number, thinking it could be spam. But obviously, I'm smart enough to think it could be someone from the Jeju groupchat, so I look for the number in the list. 2917... 2917... And Felix's name is plastered right next to this random number. So he just texted me? Shocker.

I go back to the text, looking at it. 'Hey! Hana, is it? Haha, you're the only person I don't have saved.' He types properly and doesn't use short words and shortcuts and weird stuff everyone else uses. His parents did teach him something. But let's not even get started about Miss Nari who smokes and shit. It's kind of crazy. I'm dying to know how this change happened. How could a sibling be this shining and sunny while the other is clouded with darkness, literally? Bags under her eyes, and smells like an addict, it makes me confused. I'm not bashing her for smoking though. Well, maybe I am.

I realize I've been thinking too much, i smile it off and look at his text again. Thinking what to write..

Oh haha, what you|

Stupid. Why would I ask what he's doing when he's sitting behind me? I'm looking for reasons to start a conversation.

LOL, same, thanks for reaching out.|

But I don't always type like this. Never typed like this. But should I send it anyway? I remove the periods and commas. It sounded more like me. I guess I shouldn't mask myself for him.

Oh my god? I just caught myself changing my typing for Lee. I sigh, and I immediately get a text from Haneul. She's curious why I'm thinking so much, my thumbs glued above my keyboard, just staring into the seat in front of me. I looked over at her and back at the notification her message had given me. 'Nothing. Some old friend shot a text to me and it gets awkward with him.' And she could already tell it was a lie.

I still stared at my message, and he read it but didn't respond. But he was still typing. I closed my phone and looked at the screen in front of me. It looked so much more interesting than texting Lee because I felt nervous like the bored butterflies in my stomach had finally found a reason to start fucking around in my stomach for the first time, in a very, very long time.

The screen had shown there was 10 minutes till landing, and I couldn't open the window because everyone had theirs closed and it would make me and Haneul feel like the center of attention if we brought light into this dimly lighted airplane. I look back at Haneul, and I guess she feels like talking now. But I feel like I could go fatigued any moment now. I'll wait till we get to the hotel. She whispers in my ear and tells me to look across from me.

There my brother and Sejeong are cuddling up, getting warm, probably asleep. I smile so brightly, kicking my feet when I look at how adorable they look. I take a few pictures, making sure I get Hyunjin's "good" angles because he doesn't like when he looks ugly in a picture but continues to say he's the god of looks. But Sejeong doesn't care, it's all for the memories, I guess.

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