swxtched. | jhs

PARASITES

❝ i can't believe i waited all this time to figure out what's missing. ❞

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GREEN FINALLY TALKED with her brother more, after her grudge against him for not being there for her during the summer loosened and faded away.

She found it in her heart to finally forgive him, after he apologized so many times to her. To think that she held this against him for this long— she felt immature. Yoongi was busy trying to survive in the music world, finding a name for himself, chasing for it, so he couldn't help but hear nothing from her or her parents about her amputation.

She had other friends, even though she didn't anticipate it or plan to. Jungkook, surprisingly, was the closest to her out of the three boys in the dance studio, but that was mostly because he wanted assurance and advice every step of the body-switching journey he suffered through.

Green learned that Taehyung really loved children and animals. She once helped him babysit his cousin's children and dogs, and she also quickly learned that children and dogs hated her.

But that's okay— they had Kim Taehyung.

Jimin went on the strangest diets. Sometimes, he'd lose a lot of weight at once, and Green was the only one scary enough to shove him back into stuffing his face with ramen and chips like a normal person.

Green loved spending time with Hoseok's sister, Jiwoo. She was her fashion advisor, had a great personality, and was like the ideal older sister she never had. Her unnie, her sunshine #3 (Jimin was self-proclaimed #2).

Even though she didn't see or hear from Seokjin in a long time, Yoongi promised her that she'd definitely see him come to her graduation, and there, the two could catch up. Jin was also busy, taking up a lot of classes in the semester to stay strong and hopefully take less classes in the future. He was also helping Yoongi in a project— a music project Green wasn't allowed to know the details about, apparently.

And Namjoon.

One day, while hanging out at a fast food chain, she asked him about his thoughts on science fiction ideas such as time travel, which led to the conversation on body-switching.

"I mean, it's quite impossible," he chuckled, shrugging and taking a sip of his drink. He flicked the straw lightly in thought. "Funny, our English classmate Jinyoung-ssi brought this topic up to me a couple days ago."

Green froze. Jinyoung wouldn't do that, she thought, which means that maybe... Jungkook did.

"He was acting so strange that day," Namjoon mumbled to himself, which solidified Green's suspicions nicely.

"What did you two talk about with the body-switching?"

"He asked me that if it was possible, if any scientific theory in existence could possibly explain even a small bit about the concept of body-switching," he responded. "See, even if two people had a brain transplant and switched whole, entire brains, there are millions of neurons in the body that must connect with this new central nervous system and that is just not possible."

"What about copying a brain?"

He tried not to laugh to be polite, but he had to practically snake a hand to his mouth to force it down. "What are you talking about?"

"Like, copying the memories and personality and just everything in two people's brains, wipe out their brain entirely with something— amnesia stuff, something like that— and then somehow implant each other's brain content in."

He burst out laughing, causing Green to internally cry.

"Okay first of all," he started, wiping a tear from his eye, "that sounds really vague. Second, that sounds completely fictional, I almost want to laugh at your attempt at explaining it."

"You already did, har har," she sarcastically laughed. She was hesitant to suggest, "And supernaturally-speaking?"

"Supernaturally?" he echoed, chewing on a fry. "You believe in that stuff?"

"Well, not ghosts and superstitious things like that, but I don't know. I've had a couple insights on supernatural happenings from people I personally know."

"Is that right? Well, I don't believe in the supernatural," Namjoon admitted. "You can say I'm a bit more on the abstract but factual side of viewing the world. If there's not enough reliable evidence that doesn't contradict already-reliable facts, then I choose not to trust it."

"Like gossip?"

"Knowing weak information with little to no evidence is like inviting a parasite to your belief filter and corrupting it," he wisely stated, swirling another fry in his dip and slowly bringing it to his mouth. "That's what I think."

"You should be a philosopher," Green seriously said, leaning back on her chair. "Conversations with you are almost always so profound. You sound old."

"I can speak in young and stupid too."

"I'm sure you can," she laughed airily, taking a handful of his fries and nibbling on them one-by-one like a rabbit.

"No but, why the interest in body-switching?" Namjoon decided to swing around and ask, chin resting in his palm as he observed her. "Do you want to switch bodies with someone? You should stay you and love yourself. You know the trouble people get into when switching bodies in the movies."

"I'd rather not, but if they could lend me an arm that'd be great."

"You think it's possible? The switching, I mean. Not the arm."

"Like I said," she shrugged, "I heard accounts of it from people I personally know, and they're not the pranking type."

"It almost sounds like you've personally experienced a supernatural phenomenon yourself."

She nearly choked. "Oh, that's— no, that hasn't happened to me."

"I was just kidding."

She glared.

"Anyway, I saw Hoseok-ssi once writing with his left hand. That wasn't you?" he teased. Or at least she hoped he did.

Green was ready to tease back, but then she remembered something. Her neighbor Heechul told her about it, which got passed the "curse" onto her through a spark, or that's what she was choosing to believe. Jinyoung overheard them and believed, which gave him a spark.

With Yoongi, she wasn't so sure. She hoped to God nothing would happen to him.

As for Namjoon's sake, she wasn't going to tell him the truth even if it was unbelievable, just to be safe.

"Stop playing with me," she scoffed, stealing more of his fries. "Hoseok's actually more talented than you think."

"So you're telling me that he's ambidextrous like you?"

"Sure he is."

"Sure he is."

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❝ i finally see the beauty in everything we are. ❞
『 written on 2017.10.31. | 2017.11.20. 』

【 NOTE 1—i did zero research on if body-switching is actually scientifically proven to be possible in the future or something. well
i sound dumb in this chapter eughck help
NOTE 2—THE AMAS MADE ME CRY I REPEAT THE AMAS MADE ME CRY 】