Letters Across The River | j.h.s. Short Story

19 February

Dear Essie,

My head hurts so much, I can hardly think properly. As you know, my birthday was yesterday so the guys all took me to this new club that opened up downtown. We spent all night there. The music was tacky, the dancing horrendous, and it was way too loud. I wanted to go home within the first 20 minutes but they convinced me to stay 4 hours because one of our new dancers, Jin, was being swarmed by girls and guys flirting with him...it was funny seeing all of them trying to dodge the people asking them to dance, buying them drinks, and trying to hook up with them. But all I could think of was that I wanted to visit you so we could spend my birthday together, just like old times. I usually don't hate my birthday but ever since we started attending different universities, I've hated that mine is right in the middle of the semester. I can't see you and that makes celebrating it so boring.

Well, I've got a term paper to start writing and I need to stop procrastinating (probably never gonna happen though). I'll visit you soon.

Hungry and hungover,
Hoseok