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{Text Chichi} Let’s go to the carnival together!

{Text Chichi} It’ll be a lot of fun 

{Text Chichi} I’ll meet you there in an hour 

Yongguk sent the text back to back. He was still using the burner phone when texting Koichi but he still didn’t mind, he did want the mafia to find out he knew of the other’s whereabouts anyways. 

He had been hearing all week about the carnival and how much fun it was from the kids and nurses who went on a day trip. He was forced to stay with the kids who were too sick to go with a promise that it was an academy carnival and not just anyone could attend. He was still worried that he couldn't go and protect the kids but they all came back safe and sound. 

But with the following day off Yongguk wanted to go have some fun. He arrived a little early and the colorful lights and sounds attracted him to one of the games. Easily winning a ringtoss game he was rewarded with two tickets to see a movie…he would of much rather had one of the hanging stuffed animals but he instead had 2 pieces of paper shoved in his face. 

When he spotted the other by the entrance he grinned waving over the tickets above his head. “Hey! I just one some tickets lets go watch a movie together!” He yelled using his other hand to beckon the other over. 

Jinki wiped the bar white his rag for what seemed like the thousandth time. The bar was squeaky clean but the Shigofumi didn't know what else to do. Being alive for so long you make connections with people. He remember the young Guk coming into his bar when it was in Japan in search of his sister once he found out just how many years the other had been alive. Jinki tried his best to help but he didn't have much to go on.

Jinki was already planning on moving his bar to the academy, he wanted something knew, so he told the human about it offering him a job or a place to stay if he ever decided to check it out. After telling him he had no way of leaving the country Jinki had to help since he couldn't help before.

Everything was set but then he gets a call from Guk telling him that he now had a friend he had to help too? of course Jinki couldn't say no so he got to work letting the people who were smuggling them into Korea that they had another.

They were supposed to get to the academy that night but he's gotten no word so he began to worry.

The thought was fleeting as he heard the front door of his bar open with a ding. The two came hurling in and to his surprise they looked out of breath.

"Did you guys run here? Come in come in, just lock it behind you!" Grabbing two water bottles he placed it on the counter "Please come sit"

He looked over when Guk began to speak saying that he was going straight to the orphanage, he had to see if Oparu was there. Jinki understood throwing him the water bottle which the human easily caught and with that he was gone. "You're welcome" Jinki grumbled under his breath with a roll of his eyes.

Mid eyeroll his eyes landed on the other person he helped smuggle into Korea. "Do you have somewhere to go? are you okay?" He looked at the other worried, He didn't even know his name. Realizing the stranger might not understand Jinki switched to Japanese, a bit broken but he tried his best asking the questions again.

She had loved him. Belle-Lilith’s heart was big and full of love for other people. He had been special though- the long nights where they had been studying together and chortling when the giggles took them over as lights dimmed everywhere and they were still studying vertebrae of Nagini and humans. She never had a friend like him during her studies and he had been her bestie.

“Do you promise Koko?” she held onto his hands and then linked their pinkies. “Pinkie-promise okay? We will graduate together and then start at the same hospital. I can get you a job where my dad works.”

Perhaps it had been silly of her to place so much on a promise made in the middle of the night, drunk on a lack of sleep and having nowhere to go but to each other.

It had been the incident, the horrible incident that had her made back away from the other. She had seen him in a new light and had been unwilling to listen or even give him a chance after that night. Closing herself off from the other and just shaking her head no at any question that came her way. She picked different classes and quickened her step whenever she passed him in the hallways. Not wanting to even look at him because the betrayal- how she saw it -hurt too much.

Belle-Lilith had experienced heartbreak before, but never like this. Studying became a solo-activity mostly. She sat with some other friends and always with her back to the other. Never speaking to others about what had happened that night. She did not want him to become a paria but the snake herself did not want to talk to him anymore.

It was a long time ago now it seemed- it all rushed back to her as she stood in front of the man in her favourite supermarket. And there in the canned fruits isle she stood in front of the shadow of her past. The can of canned mango slipped from her fingers as she stared up at the man. Eyes wide and filled with surprise and shock.