village girl › nct 2018

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wasn't able to ask this.. but how does the new cover look shskdjs I LIKE THEM!
especially the covers for my park jisung ffs they look so cute together:')

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      MIN JAEYOUNG。

  . . .  s i x    y e a r s   a g o  . . .

"are you really going to go? you can stay, you know..." i mumbled as i watched seulhyo pack up her things. seulhyo is one of my best friends alongside miyeon. she also works at the bakery and lives with me, hyori, and mrs kang.

"apparently, i have no choice, my parents literally threw me away, injae-ah." i shut my eyes tight as i heard her call me by the nickname she made when we were younger.

we practically grew up together. we were like sisters.

"don't call me injae." i uttered and faced the wall.

"i'll always call you that—"

"don't. it just hurts me more that you're leaving, seul."

"i'm not going to be gone forever..."

"you are... i'll never see you again... you know the palace, they never open the gates for anyone like me."

"come on, injae. you know the royal family is just like us."

"i know that. but why you?"

"i'm going to be a servant, to help them, injae."

"i know... but..."

"injae, i'm going to come back, don't worry. it'll just be for a few years–"

"that's what they all said..." i sighed, remembering our classmates that got chosen to become maids for the palace. what does happen inside the palace anyways? to us on the outside, once you get in, it was hard to get out.

"i'm not like them, injae. maybe they have taken a liking inside the palace?"

"what's so good inside the palace anyways? i believe it's all just chaos."

"chaos? why do you even think like that?"

"not every royal family is like the royal family here in heflorescence, seul. why are they shutting themselves inside that palace? i feel so bad for them, they must've been suffering."

"the palace gates are open to everyone, maybe they are just a bit tighter because of that talk going around." seulhyo said, trying to convince me that nothing bad would happen while she's gone.

"what talk?" i raised a brow, now facing her. i've never really been interested with knowing about heflorescence at all. i knew some details, but they were the basics. i don't even know the royal family at all yet here i am doubting the words of someone who knows heflorescence by her own heart.

seulhyo chuckled, "you really don't care about news don't you?"

"reports said that there's someone from the infamous eastern tribe here in our district."

"eastern tribe... you mean... the tribe where the seven scimitars are from?"

seulhyo nodded and started zipping up her bag, "bingo! that's why the security by the gate is tougher, anyways, the carriage is here."

"a carriage? why a carriage, cars are like a thing now." i chuckled.

seulhyo hummed, "maybe so that we could go slow? enjoy the time we're still outside the palace?" she jokes while i glared a her.