My Downfall | Killers List #3

Silence

"How does this look?" Umji walked out of the room and down towards Sowon like she was on fashion week.

"Umji you know you always look beautiful in everything so why does it matter?" Sowon rolled her eyes. One of the things she hated most was shopping for clothes, especially if she wasn't shopping for herself.

"Please don't be annoyed with me. I brought you because you have good fashion." Umji frowned. She really didn't want to bother Sowon. She would leave right now if it would make Sowon happy.

"I know just what you need. Follow me" Umji quietly followed behind Sowon's footsteps.

"I know it's not something you'd normally wear but I think you'll look fine as hell in it." Sowon wrapped the jacket around Umji and proudly smiled.

"Oh..." Umji looked in the mirror. She was a bit disappointed. She didn't expect this from Sowon. But she didn't want to be mean and tell her. "Don't you think it's a bit...it shows a bit too much of my skin" Umji felt a bit uncomfortable in the outfit. She wasn't like Sowon, she didn't like to show off her body, and it wasn't that Sowon did show off her body, she just wasn't as confident as Sowon.

"I thought you'd say that" at least Sowon simply complied with Umji's worries. "Here try this one then" Sowon handed her another jacket that was stylish but would keep her warm enough.

"I like this one a lot more" Umji looked into the mirror again and smiled this time.

"Maybe we should get matching outfits? I think that'd be cute" Sowon suggested. She didn't want to seem cringey, she was just trying to make Umji happy after hearing about Yuju.

"Yeah that'd be cool" Umji agreed.

"Let's look for something cozy but sexy" Sowon smirked as she searched through clothes.

"How about just cozy?" Umji hesitantly suggested. She knew Sowon wouldn't be very interested in that idea.

"Why not sexy? Try something a little different. Get out of your comfort zone and experience a little more" Sowon nudged her. Umji didn't like that Sowon thought of it to be funny that Umji didn't like wearing that kind of clothing.

"I'm being serious. Clothes like that make me uncomfortable" Umji admitted. It's not like it wasn't already obvious before that.

"You don't ever want to be a little bit sexy?" Sowon could never understand the way Umji thought. She wished she could spend a day in her head just to see what it's like.

"I'm not like you, Sowon. I'm not trying to be sexy, I don't care about that"

"You can't tell me you don't ever want to experience what it's like. What about you and Yuju?" Sowon wasn't sure if it was appropriate to ask such a question at a time like this.

"You and Eunha were dumb and took it too fast. I was taking it slow because I was being careful not to lose her, yet in the end I still did" Umji had the saddest look in her eyes. Sowon paused and stared at her for a moment before continuing.

"You should've took it fast if you wanted to get to that place in the relationship. Besides, I only took it fast with Eunha because I knew she was the one" Sowon explained. If only they knew.

"Not a single part of me was trying to get to that place in the relationship. I just wanted to love and receive love" Umji and Sowon were very different people. Both their personalities annoyed each other yet they still loved each other and always would.

"I understand. We just have different preferences" Sowon shrugged and grabbed a pair of clothes off the racket. "How about this one?" Sowon held it up. It was a mixture of what both her and Umji would like and accept.

"It looks nice. Do they have one in pink instead of green? The green looks a bit...weird" Umji looked at it up and down with a bit of a distasteful expression. The color definitely made it look ugly but other than that the clothing was beautiful.

"There is only red and yellow" Sowon was disappointed by the limit of color choices to the beautiful clothing.

"Red is close enough to pink. It'll look great" Umji grabbed two red pairs off the racket and handed one to Sowon.

"Alright lets see how these look" Sowon raced to the changing room. Umji slowly made her way there. She didn't care about getting to the invisible finish line.

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Umji and Sowon were silently waiting for the train to drop them back off at the train station where Sowon's car was parked. They decided to take a train to a different part of town just for a little adventure. It wasn't often that they rode trains.

Umji was reading a news article while Sowon was slightly bopping her head to the quiet music playing through the trains speakers. Everyone sat in awkward silence, it felt a bit strange to Sowon. Trains were normally quiet, but not this quiet.

"Umji" Sowon looked down at Umji's foot that was rapidly tapping the floor. "You feeling okay? You seem a bit stressed" Sowon tried to pull her attention away from the news article.

"Just trying to distract myself from the anxiety I'm feeling" Umji simply replied.

"Why do you have anxiety?" Sowon was trying to see if Umji was feeling the same way she was feeling.

"I don't know. Probably because it's just very quiet" Umji whispered. It was so quiet that everyone could hear there conversation if they spoke in a slightly louder tone.

"Yeah you're probably right" Sowon tried to convince herself that the silence was what was bothering her but she couldn't stop focusing on it.

Finally as her stress began to subside a group a teenage boys got on the train. Everyone else thought nothing of it at first. They were all minding their own business.

Then one boy began recording a video. Most people still continued to mind their own business. They were clearly annoyed with the group of teenagers though. Sowon's foot began to repeatedly tap the floor. She didn't notice it at first.

The train stopped to let passenger get on and off but no one had to get off at this stop or get on. The boys continued recording people and mocking them. It was still very quiet besides the loud boys slowly moving down the train, making sure to video tape each person.

They all sat there and waited for the train to start moving again. Right before the doors were about to close Sowon noticed an Indian woman quickly get off the train, she was suspiciously looking at the group of boys.

"Umji we should go" Sowon motioned for Umji's hand but the train already began to move. Now they couldn't get off for awhile.

"Alright listen up everybody!" A boy who looked to be about a nineteen year old American pulled out a gun from his backpack and fired it at the ceiling.

The boys began yelling at everyone to give them all their money and valuable items. They went in order of course. Sowon tightly squeezed Umji's hand and gave her a reassuring smile.