–sigh no more ★☆ ssw & jsj
seungwan loathes being a lady. she loathes how her hair now has to be tied up well and pretty because she is supposed to and not because it gets in the way, and how she must always be the tidiest with her heels and fake smiles. she loathes the smell of blood coming from her and the monthly pains it brings, the too tight bras and how she must now take care of her figure because so is expected of her. but most of all she loathes this academy, its snow white walls and stuck up teachers, who themselves loathes little girls like seungwan.
in fact, she had arrived the place with intentions of making this a good – and short – stay, but her hopes have been constantly crushed since the first week there, when she was caught sewing a friend’s ripped and dirty shorts and was punished to kneel on tiny rocks for hours, until her knees were bloody and gross. they did compliment the stitches though, she tries to cheer up herself at the memory, but too sensitive thirteen year old seungwan, by then, only missed her home, mother, brothers and even father even more.
but the worst of it, she decides, it’s when they say she shouldn’t spend her time with dreams and stories, when she was by the window at economics class. the lecture then – and now -- is as long as it is dull, and even so seungwan hears it so many times people actually know her, even two years later, by the storyteller, as if it was something terrible, like a bloody corpse or a murderous mermaid (principal jung says they are terrible stories, and no lady should know them at all). in that manner, as the dreams become more vast and different and continuous, her friends list lowers miserably and the short female gets used to being alone.
yet, being especially disliked still leaves a bitter taste on the tip of her tongue even after she has brushed her teeth, and being around jung soojung often brings such feeling back to surface–which, apparently, has become something quite constant since soojung has been moved to the bed on the side of hers, and it’s not uncommon for seungwan to either write before falling asleep or when she has waken up – even if abruptly – if not both, only to find the girl staring at her.
“good night.” she greets the so said roommate one night before a big holiday, a smile of a lady on her lips despite the gall on her mouth and the burning of her stomach, as she casts one more glance at the pretty girl on the bed next to hers before taking her place on her own.