tough.

co-starring the unsuspecting @dhweunbyeol​:

danbi doesn’t get many opportunities to practice. while she much prefers getting use of her lockpicks, the residences she’s most curious about sneaking into have long abandoned keys in favor of passcodes. which… is fine, really. danbi couldn’t accomplish as much as she has by only getting in through the intended entryways. she simply feels a greater sense of pride wielding her prized tools to get through a door, as opposed to the more brutish task of prying or breaking a window open.

all of this is to say: danbi needs to work on bypassing those blasted keypads. luckily for her, the building she lives in uses those keypads. and there just so happens to be a promising room one floor down for her to test her methods on.

she thought about going for a vacant apartment, in the early stages of this particular plan. it would cut out the potential for getting caught entirely, as long as she timed her attempt right. but the longer she thought about it, the more danbi’s interest turned to her fellow tenants; she makes sure to time things, regardless. might as well pick someplace lived-in, and take a little souvenir of her success.

so one afternoon, she heads out for a stroll. buys herself a jacket that looks so nice, she can’t help but change into it before heading back home. steps off the elevator right before her floor, stops at a door that’d be right before hers, and takes out her phone as she sets her fingertips on the keypad. it’s not so hard to guess a passcode for one with a social media presence like this girl. danbi bites back a smile as she slips inside, not even sparing a glance around her; she’s more interested in gauging the worth of everything in the immediate vicinity as she closes the door. a cursory glance doesn’t reveal much, though, so she flips the switch as she walks in— and stops short at catching a sound besides her steps. a soft, even sound that she wouldn’t have noticed, if it didn’t suddenly change with her entrance.

     honestly? if she’s really, really honest?

     eunbyeol hasn’t moved from her spot in bed in maybe three days. of course, she’s gotten up to use the bathroom and also to eat some chips in lieu of an actual meal but she hasn’t left her bed in probably the full three days. thank god her friends are all occupied in some way so she can get away with depression napping for days. 

     she’s pretty sure that someone will either come barging into her apartment or calling eventually when they find out that she’s skipped three days of class in favour of just laying in her bed and not doing anything. she can’t even explain how the last three days have passed by, because she doesn’t recall doing anything important aside from taking multiple naps a day and watching a lot of videos on youtube. 

     but when she hears the sound of the keypad, she doesn’t react more than just giving a groan aloud and burrowing deeper under her blankets. she’s sure that whoever it is will come in and yelling her full name, forcing her out of bed and probably into the shower or something and she doesn’t particularly want to deal with that right now. maybe if she pretended to be asleep?

     or maybe she should just go and try to kick them out. 

a starter for @dhweunbyeol !

     if there’s someone normal he can usually get away with spending time with, it’s eunbyeol. that’s mostly because they’re both on campus a lot and his parents only ever see him posting food photos with her — not that junhee posts all that much. he just kind of lives in his instagram story. posts are too much commitment, in some ways — he always feels obliged to put some kind of caption. as eunbyeol would probably say, though, that sounds like a him problem. 

     his parents have gotten a little more relaxed as time passes by (his sixteenth birthday had come and gone with very little incident), and he still hasn’t met whoever is reincarnated as maleficient. he’s starting to think that maybe, just maybe — maybe they’re not meant to live in this lifetime and that’s why nothing has happened quite yet. so he’s been allowed to go out on his own more often, although he hasn’t really been very adventurous with his time, instead mostly spending it at the same places he always has. 

     just more often!

it’s also nice that he usually pays.

(usually, she would go ugh, rich people here but she’ll let junhee be the exception this once. because he’s a nice rich person. who knew that could exist?)

“cake,” eunbyeol answers without looking up from the pastry display, eyeing the different cakes and slowly walking along to take in all of them. most of them are the cakes that are regularly stocked at the cafe anyway, but she’s looking for the special that they had posted about online earlier that day. hopefully it wasn’t sold out.