❝ boy , its cold ❞

      as luck would have it, one of changwoo’s cats manages to escape his cafe and now he’s chasing after said feline in the pouring rain. he loses sight of the cat once it turns the corner and groans to himself as he takes another few steps before stopping just a few feet away from the flower shop. changwoo takes a few moments to collect himself and stand under a nearby awning to hopefully dry off a little bit when he takes notice of the young woman crouching outside the shop entrance. “hey, miss? are you okay?!” changwoo shouts over the pouring rain as he waves frantically to hopefully get her attention so he could perhaps talk to her and help her out. contrary to what people say when they meet changwoo, he is attuned to other people’s emotions and can tell very easily how their feeling.

             WITHIN THE RAINFALL she heard someone calling for her . Aera stays there drenched inside the rain as her face void of emotion , looking up at the sky crying tears of rain that hits her standing in the middle of it . “ I’m sorry -- everyone . . .” she apologized , the guilt inside of her still visible after so many years . Aera could never forget the burden of being alive . Aera heard the voice once again calling and so she stands up and turns around , only to be greeted with a stranger looking towards her . She walks towards him in the rain not caring to find a shelter , in fact she prefers the rains even more . “ . . . did you say something ?” she asks out , unable to hear the male from where she was before .

      as a music producer and occasional songwriter, yeongsu likes to get out to bookstores to hopefully find some inspiration – whether it’s from a book itself or it’s from what is happening around him. he enters the book shop, greeting the clerk with a small smile as he enters and deposits his umbrella into the rack in the entryway. the pureblood takes a moment to adjust to the scents inside the book store and then begins by walking down a few rows - eventually getting lost in looking over every book that has caught his attention. he turns the corner and bumps into someone bulky and he immediately says, “i’m sorry - i got lost in thought and didn’t realize i bumped into someone,” and he looks at the human, a sincere look on his face as he says this. “i tend to get lost in thought when i’m in book stores and go into my own world.”

            HE ALMOST SPILLS his drinks on the ground when someone bumps into him by accident . Ilsung is ready to fight anyone that disturbs his peaceful time inside the bookstores and moreover almost causes him his books . He wasn’t going to let it go easily , Ilsung turned around ready to shout but stopped half-way as he saw someone that gave the same vibe as him . “ You should have been more careful . . .” Ilsung only scolded the stranger politely , and bows somehow towards the other . “ I do get clumsy at times too but I prefer here to be the place with less mistakes I make . . . .” added Ilsung , as he heaved a sigh of relief . 

 ❛  thank you , you didn’t need too but thanks .   ❜  he hums as he takes the bag in hand , laughing to himself with her words as he peeks inside to take one of the drinks  .  it’s still    warm    to the touch as he pulls out the plastic cup. ❛  you’ll be having me bouncing off the walls by the end of the night , soojin .  ❜  he states before handing her the cup that seemed to be a little lighter color than the pitch black one .  the smell of caffeine hits him hard and it’s one he enjoys as he pulls out his own cup before bringing  it to his lips to    establish   some energy into his system .    ❛ burgers then ?  ❜  he didn’t mind her suggestion , in fact that thought had his own stomach growling as he inhaled the reason behind the choice of food for the night .   ❛  i don’t see why not . i can go for maybe two burgers if i do say so myself.  it’s been a while since i’ve stuffed my face with junk food.   ❜  recently taesung had taken upon himself to begin living a healthier life style , one that already took over his life as the tattooed man offers the woman a  (  subtle   )  grin before he’s taken back by her words.  

   ❛  caught by my own words , youre  good miss soojin .  ❜ there’s a hint of     playfulness    within his eyes as he shakes his head once baffled on how he had been trapped with his own sentence .     ❛  there’s a good burger place by my loft if you wanna head to that one and it’s not far from here neither .   ❜ suggestion he gives as he finishes his drink , tossing the empty cup to the nearest bin before walking back to her with a simper upon his tiers .     ❛  the walk isn’t long from there to my place , discounted price too  .  i’m good friends with the owners .   ❜ one of the few people that treated taesung well despite of being aware of his criminal record .  the elderly couple had taken a liking towards the   ex-convict   and often visited him when he had not stopped by .    ❛   we can take the small walk to catch up .   you can tell me about your day , soojin .  ❜  always his friend’s first  — with the very few he had ;  he gave them all the attention he could much like now how his gaze did not drift from the petite beauty as he began taking a few steps backwards ;    beckoning   her gently to follow him as his hand lingered up to push his glasses up the bridge of his nose .      ❛ i’m sure the life of a teacher is more amusing than a tattoo artist .  ❜

            SOONJI SMILES looking at him filled with slight enviousness in her expression ; working as a teacher does have a much more amusing approach on life but the circle of friends they have is very limited . It is something that Soonji isn’t quite fond of ; the fact that the stress of working still circles around those whom she knows . Which is why when she got to know Taesung , her world brightened up a lot more , considering that her daily conversation with him seems to vary and not only focuses on the teacher part . That is also partly the reason why she constantly looks forward to meeting him during her off day or whenever somebody calls . “ I’m sorta jealous , you have so many friends . .” she chuckles as she utters the word . “ I don’t really mind going to a burger place you know . . .” added Soonji , before laughing at him . “ . . . I mean if you can confidently say things like you are able to stuff 2 burgers to consider it a full course meal then I’m done for it ..” she smiles encouraging the male to lead her there .

𝐒𝐎𝐅𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 ♡ | status : always accepting !!!

            NAHO CHUCKLES despite what the others have told her , due to certain events in her life she has long forgotten how to actually really laugh . Naho knows there was no malicious intent behind the commentary her friend made just now ; truth be told even she herself forgotten how she looked while smiling . “ I’ll make sure to smile a lot from now on . . .” Naho speak softly as she look to her friend . 

“oh! then it’s totally fine, you don’t have to show me.” he reassured hansung with a smile as he drank his latte, leaning back against his seat. “that’s nice… i think it’s really amazing if you’re able to take photos. i can’t do it.” jungshin admitted with a light chuckle, “i’m the worst when it comes to posing for a photo – professional ones, at least. i prefer more relaxed, goofy pictures.” the question made him widen his eyes a little, cheeks warming up at the bluntness of the other. “i, uh… well, i think you’re a nice guy. you’re quiet and sweet, but you have a certain charm and that’s nice.” he worded his description of hansung carefully so he doesn’t mess anything up on their first date, “i think you’re a great catch and anyone’s lucky to have you. and if this goes well then… i’d be the lucky one.” he smiled sheepishly as his fingers scratch at his jeans nervously. “what about you? what do you think of me?”

            HE TAKES A SIP pursing his lips before looking at Jungshin . He wonders how he should answer the question , Hansung is not fond of giving hundred percent truth on their first meeting . He heaved a sigh as he contemplated his own decision . Hansung tries to play it cool by answering another answer . “ No worries , Shin . I mean nobody is born perfect and that is perfection to me . Many others have their own perceptive but me in particular those bits of imperfection is just what I like . .” And then it comes again the real question he have been running away from . “ Actually if I’m allow to tell the honest truth , I never once notice you . Not because you didn’t stand out or nothing . It probably because I don’t really pay any attention to another human being . I was happy with my own life in some way . .” Hansung smiles at the others . “ Yet now that I met you , you seem like one of those good guy . . .” he idly commented .

untuk: @hbicold​ // daripada: sini

“Hello. I hope I am not interrupting the business like always.” Hyungshik announced his arrival in such manner (lively, he hoped) whilst his hand removing the sunglasses just to get a better look on the florist. “It’s been awhile Aera.” He smiled at the young lady, “You see, one of the actors had a food truck sent over to feed the shooting crew but.. there is a lot of leftover and I remembered that this shop is nearby.” The director then decided to alleviate the boxed food for the florist to see, “How do you feel about Udon and Castella? Weird combination?”

              AERA only finished with cleaning the desk after another session of flower arrangement with her customer today before the doorbell to her store entrance rang once again . “ Ah ! Please wait. I'll be right with you in a seconds . . “ she softly told the customer as she rearranged the flower about to be thrown away at the corner and rushed outside . She sheepishly smiles as she is about to greet her customer when she notices the familiar figure . “ Oh ! Isn’t it Hyungshik . . .” her smile only grows seeing the person she recognizes face . At the weird combination , Aera is about to decline but seeing that he takes the extra effort of sending it here makes it hard to decline the offer . She takes it and makes sure it isn’t an empty acceptance . “ I will eat it if you’ll stay and eat with me here . . . how ?” she offers . “ . . . I’ll close the shop for you . .” she insisted .

            HAEJIN walked down the hallway each hand on the side as he strode down whilst people bowed in respect to their superior . Within those emotionless faces , masked a rage that he doesn’t know how to be let known by the world . He was practically screaming throughout walking in the hall yet not even one human noticed his facial expression calling for help . He slows down his stride and takes a deep breath as he signals for his bodyguard to walk away from the suffocating hallway . He notices the restroom and quickly rushes inside it as he looks at the mirror which reflects his own face , it irks him further how he looks like a coward inside the meeting just now . Everyone was making fun of him being the illegitimate child and also his young age to run a company nor even become a company heir . “ What the fuck was that , Jin-ah ?” he call his own name in the empty restroom . He slaps the folder consisting of his minute meetings and some project papers from the meeting that have been declined and unfunded by the others , he throws it down onto the toilet tiles letting it scatter everywhere . “ Calm down . . . calm down . . .” he closed his eyes and took a deep breath , continuing each step as he tried to calm his irregular heartbeat due to the rage .

             AHREUM wasn’t in the mood for anything . He doesn’t particularly feel like getting drunk , nor does he feel the need to have somebody by his side to follow him home tonight . He wants to be alone yet it mixes with some emotion within him that wishes there was someone . With a slight jump , he sat at the edge of the building rooftop as he scans through his messed up white shirt underneath his black leather jacket . He has been out doing his usual activity after some gang members decide to catch up on revenge while Ahreum just wasn’t having it . And he works hard trying to look good today only to be ruined with the blood stain coming from the nasty fight earlier on . “ Aish . . . all the effort . . . fuck it !” he curses .

            ILSUNG frowns plastered across his face as writer's block hit him hard ; at times like this he usually spent it by the Han River or inside the bookstores or even strolling in the nearby park around his apartment . Due to the bad weather condition today of constant rain , Ilsung decided to skip the park and go book browsing at the bookstores of his favorite that he often visited in his free time . “ Love . . . love . . . love . . .” Ilsung couldn’t help but mumble the topic he needed to write for his next project . When he found the corner he is interested in that would help him with lyrics writing he drags the tip of his index fingers on the row of books with a wide smile across his lips . “ I live so I love . .” a book caught his attention , as corny as a book title but it might actually help him . He picked up the book to browse through it . “ Hmm . . what should I make . .” he asks himself , in his own world .

“ One and only , love . .” he sing it slowly almost like a whisper .

             AERA stood there drenched in the rain before her own flower shop while holding onto a white flower on her right hand , she stood there silently in hoping nobody would notice the tears streaming down her cheeks . She thanks the rain for covering her weak self ; a part of herself that she wishes nobody would know existed . “ I’m sorry for not being able to save you guys . . .” she crouched down before the shop entrance and cried . It finally arrived the 10th Year since the loss of many lives in the orphanage house . And she couldn’t help but break down alone . “ In the end , I’m still so afraid of being left behind . . .” she utters in between her sobbing .

orion sometimes wonders what things would be like between them if he grew the courage to confide in byeol about how much it hurt to hear about her dates but he doesn’t want to risk their friendship ‘breaking up’ by doing so and not having her in his life, at all. if friendship is all he can get, he’ll take it. no matter how much it breaks him more and more each day. it’s beyond stupid but orion was always one to follow his heart over his mind. i want to hug you now. orion’s brain short circuits and his entire body freezes for a good few seconds. is he hearing thing? is this his brain’s new way of coping with the loss of his ex girlfriend? while they spend a lot of time together, orion has done his best to keep the physical contact to a minimum which has been a hard task for him, who’s affectionate as an overgrown puppy and loves physical contact. “i don’t think it’s a good idea.” then again, none of this is a good idea so what harm can there be in hugging? “come here,” he opens his arms for her.

            BYEOL EYES WIDEN as she didn’t expect that Orion would actually consider to hug her . Ever since they ended -- truth be told Byeol couldn’t help herself at time ; a hug , kiss , tight embrace , his voice , his jealousy . Byeol needed that in her life even so their relationship ended doesn’t mean they ended . “ He is a good guy , Orion . I really like him . .” she said in between throwing herself on him to wrap her hand around Orion , pulling him closer for a tight hug so she could inhale his scent . But he’s too good to be you , Byeol heave a sigh at her own thoughts . “ And he seems affectionate and loves skinship too . ..” she continued further . “ even goes as far as trying to kiss me on our first date ! It reminds me of us so much because I was so in love with you and how I wish I could kiss you all ove---” she stops on her track of words . No , this isn’t it . Byeol shouldn’t mistake the guy with Orion , nor that it will hurt him further , it will only prove that he is searching for someone that resembles him . And she doesn’t need Orion to know how much she still adores him , and how her heartbeat whenever he is in contact with her . “ Damn it . . .” she curses and locks her arms around him as she snuggles against the crook of his neck. “ It always feels so . . . hmm . .” she could only heave a sigh . Past is a past , she doesn’t want to be anything that could potentially hurt his view on love . “ I should get going before it be worse . .” she meant her heartbeat that somehow uncontrollably shaken up at their contact , she misses this so much . Byeol pull away and look for her purse , somehow nervous if her feelings are shown on her face .

things weren’t always as they seemed. a young woman stalks and wanders at night. she does this regularly as it was part of her job. the ones she worked for only did these things at the oddest hours of the day as the people she was searching for would also be outside at the same time. riyu both hated and loved her job. the thrill of the hunt, knowing that one less evil. of course, things have changed ever since she had met babylon, and there were bigger things at play, but the smaller jobs still gave her the money that she needed.

if it caught sight by another. it would’ve seemed that she had been following the guy a few steps ahead of her for quite some time now. the tension was thick, suffocating the air. they managed to find themselves in an alleyway that was the worst idea that the person could ever do, but there was no time for real judgment when there were other things to deal with.

❝ you caught me. but hold that thought. ❞ riyu was quick when she grabbed onto the shadow that had been right next to the stranger this whole time, making the demon appear like a bunny out of a hat, choking as she squeezed their windpipe. ❝ riyu... ❞ he was clawing at her gloved hand, begging to be released. ❝ time to go now. ❞ She ends it quickly with her blade, watch as they turn into dust before landing her eyes on the guy at the end of the alleyway. ❝ while I did, in fact, followed you around, you had something worse tailing you. you’re welcome. ❞

          IT IRKED HIM how the others react upon getting caught stalking him . Much more , she seem not bothered that she was caught . Jayoon follows her action as she clenches the air and he backs away into a defense mood , eyeing her intensely . “ Why are you here ? What do you mean by something worse tailing me ? . . . are you not alone ?” he reaches for his back pocket to pull his gun out but stay put to listen to her explanation of the story . Probably the weird act just now is she breaking the tailing device so she could make the very reason why she’s following him disappear without any proof . 

Who is she ? Is it someone or one of his victims ?

“You break it didn’t you? Evidence of you following me . . .” Jayoon tries again , his face full of doubts . “ Are you the daughter of someone I know ? . . . from one of the missing cases maybe . .?” Jayoon starts rambling alone before looking up to her to speak out even more . “ Why are missing children searching for me ? . . . speak up ! Are you those daughters of someone I killed ? Or someone I put to jail ? Threaten --- No! Jayoon shakes his head left and right .

open for: m/ f / nb ( mutual or not )

muse: inseol, thirty something, kinda human 

plot: hey, open your front door. i’m here with chips, pizza, ice cream, and your fav pastries. yes, i know it’s like 3am. but i’m your best friend and i know you’re sad right now and i am here to comfort you. LET ME.  ( from this plot list )

a very rare occurrence that inseol will drop by a friend’s place, albeit determined after learning that his friend is not having the best of their day. fresh from work and still in his medic uniform, inseol carries a bunch of comfort foods, kicking the front door of his friend instead of knocking as both of his grasp are occupied. “ i am here open up!”

            NAHO without much doubt confidently opens the door at 3 oclock in the morning that seems to be kicking her entrance door  . “ Eh . . .?” she tilted her head to the side half-only awake and confused with why he was here in the morning where he should be sleeping instead of coming over with so much food . Naho does feel slightly unhappy lately with her job and furthermore with her life in particular so she heave a sigh finally able to see someone that wanna pay attention to her . “Have you prepare yourself hmm . .?”

             JAYOON HISSED THROUGH his gritted teeth as he managed to catch up with him and pushed against the wall . It doesn’t sit well with Jayoon as he notices how happy Junseo is in meeting up . It weirded out Jayoon with his expression . He slams the male back on the rough wall concrete as Jayoon glares at him . He clenches his fingers against the male clothes , making sure the male doesn’t flee away in case his anger got the best of him . 

“ Fuck off , Junseo !” he curses at the male as his blood boils only at the mention of their supposedly friendship they have . He takes in a deep breath controlling his anger that could only rise up with this meeting . Jayoon if possible would like to avoid having to see anyone that becomes his past , and yet here he is before Junseo with their unsettled business . “ Oldest friend --- so does that mean you --- ” Jayoon scoffs at the nonsense twisted ideas of losing his money over Junseo's irrational thinking .

His other hand grabs locks of his hair , tugging on it as he whisper at Junseo’s ear . “ You bastard ! I trusted you , I fucking trust you ! And Junseo , you should have known better than to mess with me , Jayoon !” his anger spills out as he speaks on the other ear making sure his anger and words get through him . Jayoon takes out the small hidden baton underneath the back of his black shirt as he lets go of his hair . 

“ Now , money or no talk -- I need the money !” true , he needed the money for his medicine , if not these voices of people he killed during his job and his guilt  would haunt him at night . He needed the sleeping pills bought illegally from the black market even so he was a well known detective , yet he still had his connection intact from his undercover missions . “ Money…” he slams the baton right next to the wall beside Junseo face . “ I know you’re not that happy to see me , Junseo-ya ..” he calls the name affectionately before laughing full of sarcasm knowing how much both of them isn’t really fond of each other .