More angst but I truly believe Arisu has Chota and Karube’s phones after they passed. They stay plugged in, a fear of them turning off and never turning back on.
He scrolls on their phones sometimes, more often Chota’s because Chota loved photography. He learned of so many videos and photos of the three of them, together and separate, that he never knew the other took.
12 years together compiled in one phone, getting to watch them all grow up again every time he scroll his camera roll is something that hurts his heart to see.
For Karube’s phone it’s nearly impossible to use, the original cracks and shatters meeting the new ones from the impact make his screen hurt to scroll. He’ll never fix the screen, he liked the cracks so much.
But he’ll look through social media, seeing the girlfriends come and go but him and Chota a constant.
One day he’ll not need their phones, their cologne, their jewelry. But for today, Arisu keeps them close to his bed so he wakes up to them and goes bed thinking of them.
