she wasn't the type to make friends. wait, let's rephrase that. she wasn't the type to feel comfortable while being friends with someone, anyone. all the people she'd been friends with, they'd always made her feel like she was a bird in a cage, she didn't have any freedom. was that friendship? she couldn't bring herself to ask anyone.
so when her classmate, jaebum, asked her if she wanted to be friends with him and a few other people, it's reasonable that she was hesitant. yes, they were classmates, but they never talked to one another outside of her asking what time it was, and him asking her some questions. they rarely even looked at one another, so it's okay to say that she was shocked to have him even talk to her outside of school.
"wait, me?"
"am i looking at anyone else?"
"jaebum, we're in a park. who the heck knows whether or not you're looking at me?"
jaebum sighed exasperatedly. "hey now, please. take it or leave it." he replied, extending his hand to show a small of piece of paper. she tilted her head slightly, slowly taking the paper that was in his hand. she looked at the paper, then looked at him with an 'are you kidding me' look.
'don't forget to add @/sseunie on #### to have more friends!!'
"this is kinda offensive."
"yeah, well don't blame the messenger."
she sighed silently. "fine. i'll add this 'sseunie' dude. who knows, maybe i know him or something," she muttered, looking at jaebum who raised his eyebrow.
"we're the same age as him, we're supposed to know each other."
"i don't remember a dude named sseunie, but fine."
"well," jaebum started. "see you later, then." after that, he walked away to some place- is that a café? she couldn't tell. she sighed, placing the paper to her pocket as she walked to the gardens. she wondered what a life with friends would be like, maybe this time she wouldn't be so scared of them leaving her.
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name: lin chunbao (琳春宝)/im junbo (임준보) birthday + age: 6 march 1994 + 22 birthplace + hometown: xīnjiāng, china + seoul, south korea blood type: B height: 150 cm weight: 48 kg nationality: chinese-korean
as jaebum stepped inside the café, he sighed. "hyung, why do you have to be sick?" he muttered to himself while waiting in line. he looked around the café out of boredom, tapping his foot to the floor. he felt his hunger subside, so he got out of the line and went to exit the café when he accidentally bumped into someone and fell to the ground.
"holy moly guacamole, are you okay?" was what he heard after he fell. he closed his eyes when fell, for reason he didn't know. and when he opened his eyes, he looked up to see a girl with a shocked expression while extending her hand, with a cold drink in her other hand. when he took her hand she placed her drink on a table, helping him stand up with both hands. "sorry about that, i wasn't looking."
"no, it's fine, i wasn't paying attention either." jaebum replied, trying to make the person in front of him stop apologising. because really, she might have been apologising 50 times in a minute. "wait, do you know jackson?"
"jackson? that surely does ring a bell."
"jackson wang, student of university of seoul. surely you know him if you're also around that area, at least." jaebum explained, only then to have the girl snap her fingers muttering 'oh, jackson!'.
"yes, what about him?" she asked, sipping her drink.
"to put it simply, he wants more friends. 7 more, to be exact. and one of the people he wants to be friends with, is you."
she choked on her drink.
"i'm sorry, what? really?" jaebum only nodded to those two questions. "huh, i wonder how he knew me. but sweet! how do i be friends with him?" jaebum handed her a piece of paper, the same of piece of paper he gave to chunbao. "... hard to believe he's older than me when he's like this, right?"
"well, he's jackson."
"yeah, you're right."
"well, i better get going, see you in the groupchat, then?" he asked. before she could even ask, he already waved and she waved back. the bell that rang signalled that he was out of the café.
"wait, groupchat?"
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name: park nari (박나리) birthday + age: 17 july 1997 + 20 birthplace + hometown: ulsan, south korea blood type: b height: 154 cm weight: 45 kg nationality: korean
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"... should i tell minchae about this?"
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@-jaebummer- eyyy congrats me for making it into the af :') i'm proud of you man
