lotus || j.jk.

06

The weekend couldn't have come at a better time.

Song-hee barely slept last night; she tossed and turned in Yoongi's bed, her body pleaded for rest but her mind refused the demand.

Her thoughts were restless and relentless and, as a result, she's now completely exhausted.

Who knew it was possible to have nightmares awake?

It seems that her brother and Hoseok barely got any shut-eye too since they shared the same droopy eyes and dark circles in the morning.

After seeing the news, both men practically necessitated that Song-hee stay in their apartment for the night. Yoongi resigned himself to sleeping on the couch.

The thought of his sister going back home alone nearly gave him cardiac arrest and Hoseok evacuated to his room to call up his own sister, asking her where she was and if she was okay.

Song-hee closes her eyes and they sting from how dry her blank staring rendered them.

Her forehead furrows as she wipes away the moisture, the bag of chips in her hand rustling with her movement.

Her head throbs with a dull but persistent ache trying all morning to swallow another unbearable pill.

Another body was found. This time a Senior high school student from Konkuk University - she was only 17 years old. 17 years old.

What kind of monster...

At that, her chest twinges dreadfully and it's enough to contort her stone expression.

She's out of sorts and she really doesn't feel well.

Usually, when her mind gets like this and she's too overwhelmed with her emotions to know what to do, she keeps sane by wandering around Myeongdong.

She would stroll around her neighborhood until she felt better or when her head clears of the noise- no matter the weather, no matter how long it takes, no matter how tired she gets.

This method always seems to work when she needs to calm down. She's made some great discoveries doing this too, it's how she came across Jimin and the cafe he works at.

Back then, though, her problems were way more minuscule and selfish than what's bothering her now.

Earlier, Song-hee was so determined to make her rounds because she really needs to escape where her mind is at.

She was already convinced that her ritual would work, which was why she didn't mind heading out despite the freezing weather.

From the looks of it though, today may be the first time her bullet-proof plan leaves her defenseless.

Jeez. Even the delicious smell of street foods wafting in the air a while ago or the brightly packaged snacks in front of her face can't push her to feel even somewhat better.

She's just... she's just not sitting right in her skin today.

Jin hasn't replied back yet.

Her worry for him only adds to her already weary state. She aches terribly trying to fathom how he must be feeling right now - especially considering how beloved the university is to him since he is an alumnus of the school.

She really wishes he's alright.

Her breath exuding from her agape mouth, she looks again at the package of chips that are her friend's favorite.

It's really not much, but as long as it holds a possibility to help pull him out of his slump, she'll gamble.

Her bottom lip, made scratchy by the cold much to her dismay, traps between her teeth as she decides what else she could bring him when she goes over to his and Namjoon's place later.