BTS SMERALDO THE NOTES 1 (Edited & Translated)

Namjoon: 13 July Year 22

After Returning from the Sea
Part 12

I packed my bag and got out of the library. It had already been a month since I'd started doing night shifts at the gas station. By the time my shift was over I was exhausted. Whenever my alarm went off in the morning I'd just stare out the window in a daze. It wasn't like I was feeling impatient. I knew I had to go at my own pace. It wasn't as easy as I thought it'd be.

What was everyone else doing in the library? Would I ever be able to catch up my studies to reach their level? I didn't even know where to begin.

I leaned my head against the bus window. I took this bus from home to the gas station and the library every day. Would I ever be able to escape this tedious routine? It was impossible for me to even wish for a better tomorrow.

My eyes found a girl seated in the front of the bus. She sighed. I realized she was the girl who was handing out the fliers the other day. I'd seen her at the library a couple of times too. We had the same routine. We took the same bus every day. I'd never struck up a conversation with her. But oddly enough, we were very much the same. Our routines, our sighs after a long day,

She'd fall asleep studying in the library. Her nose bled sometimes as she got coffee from the vending machine. I still had that hair tie from the vending machine in my pocket. I'd gotten it after seeing her yellow hair tie.

We were close to her stop. When the bus stopped and people started getting off, she stayed seated. She must've fallen asleep. In my hesitation to wake her up, the bus moved on.

Bu the time the bus reached my stop, she hadn't woken up. As I got up I hesitated, realizing that once I got off, no one would even care that she'd missed her stop. She'd wake up later, many stops ahead of hers. she'd be even more tired.

I left the hair tie n her bag and got off. I remember seeing Taehyung's graffiti here a few days ago. Taehyung wasn't here anymore. The spray cans were still there. He'd been here recently. Maybe he saw me and left in a hurry.

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