Lights Are Missing : beomjun/yeongyu ‼️

12.

I was graduating in a month. My only friends were graduating in a month too. What was I supposed to do? I had dreams, sure, over time I'd realized that I wanted to be a homicide detective, but that was a lot of schooling and years of my life I wasn't sure I really wanted to put into. Plus, the mental impacts that a job like that might have on me wasn't very appealing.

The only other thing I wanted to do was, and I knew that I was never going to actually follow through with this plan, but be a fire lookout. Something about the freedom I'd have being out there, away from the stresses of everyday life. I wouldn't have to worry about impressing people or keeping my boss happy. All I'd have to do is keep the campers happy and keep the bears at bay. Pretty easy right? Wrong.

Sure, the tranquility of it all sounds amazing. Pretty views and no worries. But, I'd never get to see anyone. Most of the time I'd be alone or just talking to other rangers over the radio. Plus, it would only really hold water in the summertime. But, what would I do in the other seasons? Go home? And do what? I wouldn't have a degree, which means I wouldn't have a job, which means I wouldn't have a house and I surely couldn't live with my mom and rely on her for the rest of my life like my sister apparently plans to.

I'd been sitting in my bed just thinking about my future for the past hour. It wasn't something I liked doing. I never liked to be stuck in my thoughts, but as graduation closed in, I had no choice. I hadn't even applied to any colleges. I knew I was going to have to. I couldn't keep waiting.

My hands found their way up to my eyes, rubbing them gently to keep myself from drifting off into an uncomfortably timed slumber. There was a deep pain in between my eyes. My headache had been getting worse and worse since I first woke up. I think Aera drugged those pancakes.

"We're going to the mall!" Taehyun burst through the door, causing me to jump slightly. I sat up with a panicked look on my face, thinking that maybe I really had fallen asleep because how did they get in my house?

"The mall?" I repeated as Kai and Soobin ran over to me, grabbing me and pulling me from off of my bed.

"Stop sulking and get ready." Yeonjun playfully rolled his eyes as he made a beeline for Honey's cage.

I rolled my eyes in retaliation, "I wasn't sulking. I was just thinking."

"About?" He snapped back as he pulled the door of the cage open, reaching in to pet my rabbit.

I shrugged as I stood up right, cracking my back before reaching down next to my bed to grab my shoes, "My future."

"So, sulking." Kai chuckled as he gasped.

"What?"

"You sleep with socks on?" He pointed at my feet as I sat down on the edge of my bed so I could slip my shoes on.

All of the guys were now staring at me with absolute disgust in their eyes. They were absolute idiots. The way they all stood, spread out, arms crossed, hands on their hips, shaking their heads in disappointment, just made me giggle a little bit as I put my second shoe on.

I stood up from the bed, shaking my head, "No guys. It's 1pm. I woke up hours ago and I just put my socks on because I was cold."

"Your feet were cold?" Yeonjun snorted out a laugh.

"So what if they were?" I retorted. Yeonjun just glared at me, giving Honey one final pat on the head before retracting his hand to close the cage door. Kai shuttered, causing me to raise an eyebrow at his sudden movements.

I elbowed him, "You good?"

"I hate bunnies."

"Why?"