Death's Charmer // Sope

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"What's your name?"

"Yoongi Min."

The younger squinted his eyes. "And how'd you know my name?"

"Your bubblegum-headed friend mentioned it a couple times while you were investigating together." Yoongi shrugged. "Does my name not ring a bell to you?"

Hoseok shook his head, confused. "Is it supposed to?"

"Huh, I guess I wasn't as popular as Kook told me." The ghost mumbled to himself, the exister raising a questioning brow.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"My friend told me that I used to be a pretty big underground rapper at my time. Surprised you haven't heard of me." The older informed the male who hummed in response.

"Your friend told you? You don't remember being an... underground rapper?"

Yoongi pouted. "No. I don't remember anything about my existing days. Being a ghost is what all my memories are made up of now. It's weird because two of my friends remember everything, including how they died, but my closest friend and I don't."

"It must suck to be left clueless of your own life." Hoseok was starting to feel pity toward the ghost— and a little guilty for being too harsh on him earlier. "How old were you when you died?"

"27. Surprisingly the only thing I remember."

"Oh, so you're older than me."

"I would've been older than you even if I died a seven-year-old, Seok." The ghost scoffed with a grin, playfully untying the younger's shoelaces with only the look of his eyes. "I died decades ago— in the 70s."

"So you're my grandpa?"

"Ew, no. That's just weird." The brunet laughed when the older cringed through his words.

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Play this song while reading cuz it helps set the mood :)

It's up there too if this one doesn't work for you☝🏼

Song: Do you? (우리 사랑하기를) by Yiruma

Sorry, been kind of obsessed with listening to Yiruma's works. It's relaxing and stress-relieving 🙂

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Maybe the exister was enjoying the dead man's company a little more than he'd admit. It was sort of nice talking to someone out of his everyday life.

"So... the main thing I wanted to ask you—" Hoseok started, crossing his legs on the couch, arms clamped together. "Why'd you take the recorder? I recognized your voice in the recording. It had to be you."

Yoongi bit the inside of his cheek out of nervous habit. "I don't know." He mumbled to the ground, voice weak. "You said that if you got fired, then I wouldn't be able to see you anymore so I wanted to help out a little."

"You— wait... are you saying you helped me because you wanted to see me again?"

"Well if you word it like that, it makes me feel stupid." The older squinted his eyes but he looked far from threatening, making the brunet internally coo. "I just wanted to make a new friend, 's all."

Hoseok's expression softened, walls completely going down. He knew now that the ghost was completely harmless.

"Can I ask you something?" The younger questioned."

"You just did but you're more than free to ask another one."

The paranormal investigator rolled his eyes at that.

"Does.. does it get lonely?" He asked carefully.

Yoongi looked him in the eyes. The ghost wasn't really expecting such a melancholic question. "Maybe."

"But didn't you say you had friends with you?"

"Yeah... they do help a bit but it's not the same when they're all in a relationship. They're closer to each other than they are to me and I'm sure of it. Sometimes I just wanna have my own person to go to, you know? Someone that's outside of my everyday routine."

"'Cause living a routine is suffocating." Hoseok added subconsciously. "I get it."

"You do?" Yoongi's hopeful hazel eyes were enough for the younger to nod.

"Knowing that tomorrow will be identical to today, it's mentally draining—"

"And makes you want to question the purpose of it all— of why we live through this loop." The older finished for him. The liver nodded again.

It was unearthly shocking how much they understood each other's feelings despite living in two different worlds. Reassuring in a way.

"You're not as bad as I thought, Yoongi." Hoseok admitted, a faint grin on his tan face. "Hoseok Jung. My name's Hoseok Jung."

Yoongi smiled his gummy smile, proceeding to reintroduce himself. "Yoongi Min."

"I guess where's friends now?"

"I suppose. Not really sure how this shit goes between the living and the dead."

"We'll figure it out soon." The paranormal investigator laughed.

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I don't really have much to say tonight, sorry.

Just been mentally drained lately because of social media. Hope you understand.

But here's a Rant Of The Chapter I wrote a couple days ago to try to make up for my lack of emotions <3

ROTC:

5/28/20

I won a scholarship today! But that's not what made me really happy, it's the fact that the people who viewed my personal essay thought it was good!

I've expressed to some of you that I am insecure about my essay writing skills— English is my worst subject. Yes, I consider myself a decent writer on this platform but when it comes to essay writing, I completely lose all confidence. I have yet to receive an A or even a B on any of my writing assignments in any of my English classes and it's very discouraging in my part (barely passed my English class each year T^T). But this kind of gave me enough confidence to start applying for more scholarships.

I know this ROTC isn't as interactive as my other ones but just lemme have my moment 😤😭

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She's my best friend and she continuously supports me through anything I do 😔👉🏼👈🏼 her Jinkook book is amazing and word on the street has it that she has a Namjin book coming soon 😳