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Ch22: Open the door, and this place will wait

Hello! :D

This is hopefully a fluffy and soft chapter for this year, and the last I'll update in December.

Sorry for missing one week, I was busy and away for a 2-3 days outdoors camping.

But as always.

Enjoy!

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Choheun had just learned something new about the maknae-line as they spent almost four and a half playing games on the console.

They curse.

Like, a lot.

Jeongguk especially, which didn't sound too surprising to her considering he was still a nineteen-year-old teen, and teens these days loved to curse and swear online like they were born for it.

Yes, even many in Korea curse a whole lot. No one was too polite, that was a lie and not everyone was patient saints.

They were just more private and polite about it, maybe in their heads most of the time since it's incredibly disrespectful and rude. But if they curse aloud, it's usually with a smile on their face and a passive voice and then had the audacity to look surprised before apologizing for their 'unintentional' language.

Choheun was sadly one of them when she couldn't always hold it in. It was really hard not to utter a quiet swear word, or even fleetingly think about it mentally, when something like an accident happened anyway. Again, no one was a perfect saint and told themselves to never mouth a single foul word. If they were one, maybe they have cursed at least once in their life.

And curse all the way in their heads. At least that's what she would do sometimes.

It was everyday life, normal really. Especially now in 2016.

She still refrained from spewing them, though. Unlike Kaejji. At least he never cursed around older people, respect was important.

(He had no respect for others his age, saying they didn't know him and therefore didn't deserve his respect and politeness, especially when they were rude and rubbed him the wrong way. Seriously, Kaejji was so rude. Her rude, idiotic, but lovable dummy of a best friend she adored too much to actually care about his blatant disregard for formality... Didn't that make her a rude person too-)

Sure, she disliked curse words so much, used to be always aimed at her back then (however, it wasn't that long ago so many words she was scared to recall were thrown at her like painful rocks it hurt all over from the ones she trusted so damn much and then there's two in particular who apparently never minded reminding her she was a mistake-), but it's not like she was going to mention she didn't have not-so-nice memories with those vulgar words.

Choheun didn't want to trouble or worry any of them by her problems and slight issues with curse words used in a scary way. As long as it wasn't aimed at her emotionally and personally, she was going to stay silent and breathe.

And hopefully, no yelling directed at her doubled with those words (eomonie's yells and admonishes turns her into a frightened little girl and her abuji's strict and suffocating method for a five-year-old Choheun still scared her-). She would not react well when being yelled at because it-... It...

Just as long as she didn't cause trouble to provoke the words at her, she was fine.

Meaning, she found the maknae-line so hilarious when they curse and throw insults like cotton candy. Soft and sweet on the outside but secretly not at the same time, Jimin's annoyance showing It reminded her heavily of her three most favorite people in the world bickering like no tomorrow.