SUNNY DAYS // KSW

O3 - riddled minds

O3
─ RIDDLED MINDS

N O V E M B E R 16, 2 0 1 5

SOMETHING IN Jindeok told her the night would end up badly, but nothing could have ever prepared her for how ridiculously it ended.
After much internal struggling, Shinwon and her agreed on going to a bar for a short while, just have a few drinks and leave. Well, they did have just a few drinks and left, but not exactly how they planned.

Shinwon had a thing for picking battles he couldn't win, and he just had to make his opponent the man sitting next to them, who just so happened to be twice his size.
He claimed the guy kept eye-fucking Jindeok the whole time and that, as a good best friend, he couldn't just sit and watch. Jindeok didn't know whether to laugh or smack him on the head, instead she just dragged him out of the bar before he left in a coffin.

Shinwon whined he was only on his first drink (which was true, despite Jindeok going on her second one) and that he hadn't even been 'able to breathe in the cigarette smoke filled air you just had to hate so much you began growing accustomed to it', as he said. Nonetheless, he let Jindeok drag him along the practically empty Cheongju night streets as she lectured him on how he should start picking his battles more wisely, or better yet, don't pick them at all.

Waking up and remembering the night just made Jindeok smile as she muffled a laugh with her pillow, the ready to fight look on Shinwon's face still clear in her mind. Now, it surely did look less tragic than it did at the bar, and, most certainly, a few years from then on she'd look back on that memory and get a good chuckle out of it. She had to thank her friend for that.

Setting her sock covered feet on the floor, she recalled going back to her house with Shinwon, after wandering around town for a while, and she looked around, searching for any signs of him having been there in her room.
But there was nothing indicating Shinwon's presence there, which she found rather weird, because he'd never pass on an opportunity to sleep on her bed, claiming it was the most heavenly mattress he had ever laid on. Sometimes she wondered if he was only her friend to sleep on her bed (she didn't really think that, she just used it as a way to pick on him).

As she walked into the living room, she noticed one of her blankets on the rug, and as she walked closer, she saw Shinwon sprawled out on the floor, holding onto a pillow, only half covered by the blanket, as it was hanging off the couch.
She then remembered he had chosen to take the couch that night, which she found odd, very odd, but didn't argue with him, and just gave him all her blankets and pillows. He must have thought the couch wasn't enough, though, and rolled off to the floor.