unexpected hospital visits with @kwsuji !

     it’s been quite some time since he’d last injured himself on the ice. it’s not uncommon for ice skaters to suffer injuries, of course — it often ends up being one of the main reasons that professional ice skaters end up having to retire, after all. but this is the first time, in many, many years that he’s actually suffered a severe enough injury off the ice to warrant an actual hospital visit and a cast around his wrist for six to eight weeks. he’d fractured and broken things before when he was younger, but for the most part, injuries had been relatively few — perhaps that had been the benefit of being younger at the time. 

     there’s a reason that ice skaters retire when they get older. the stress that skating puts on a skater’s body is harder and harder to bear as time passes, and even though jinwoo has only been skating recreationally, it’s still evident that it’s probably also approaching the time for him to lay off the jumps, even though he had wanted to perfect them just so he could. 

        “for the last time.” 

   it won’t be the last time. he knows this, she knows this, heck even his cat back in canada knows this. it won’t be the last time that cory has had to say no to @kwsuji​ about some party she wants to go to. or was it a club? cory had stopped listening when she first approached him after dance practice that evening.  he had seen it in her expression, written in her eyes as she opened her mouth to speak and he cut her off before she could. 

     “i have a lot to do tonight, i can not go out and behave like a gremlin.” he continues, zipping up his bag and slinging it over his shoulder. only then does he look at her head on. a grimace on his face before he smooths it to a more even expression. to think she even believes he would be interested enough to ask. after he has told her before that he is not someone who goes to parties. or clubs. or any of it. 

one thing eden had learned about suji from all the videos he had watched on her youtube channel, is that the soon-to-be famous ( though in his eyes, she’s already famous ) purposely invites chaos wherever she goes. or at the very least, encourages the existence of it. eden would argue that this trait of hers is the leading reason why she’s so entertaining to watch, on top of her already bright and bubbly personality. still, sometimes the entertainment she provides comes with a price, usually at the other party’s expense.

today, that person might be eden himself.

in the middle of kyungwon’s legendary kitchen is none other than suji, a large pot carefully placed atop a stove—but from this angle, it looks like a cauldron just waiting to manifest the worst of poisons. in this case, suji must be the witch then. all she needs to do is wear a pointy hat and the stage would be complete. they’re not here for a halloween match-up though—actually, eden’s not sure exactly what he’s here for, now that he’s thinking about it. had suji even told him, or did she leave it mysterious for the fun of it all?

“so, what’s all this for again?” eden finally asks, gesturing to the piles of ingredients and condiments scattered across the kitchen counter with an eyebrow raised. maybe he isn’t too far off about suji intending to make poison. eden wonders whether he’ll survive today. “is this some new youtube challenge... are you going to record this?” he looks around as if searching for a camera somewhere.

“give me another rundown of what we’re supposed to be doing. and please don’t leave out the part where you might poison me, if that’s something i’m going to have to look out for.” he’s well aware that suji loves to pull pranks on her own boyfriend.

backdated to july 2021 with @kwsuji ! ♥

     this station is... geumnyeonsan station. geumnyeonsan station. the doors are on your right.

     his suitcase sits beside him as he rides the escalator up from the subway. he's a little twitchy with nervousness, thoughts scattered and mind racing as he steps off the escalator, suitcase rolling smoothly at his side. a ridiculous thought goes through his head — will he even recognize her? — stupid when she'd sent photos literally right before he'd boarded his short flight down.

     he's thinking like they haven't been talking every day for the past four months that they've been apart. but it's almost weird to him to think that they've been apart for two thirds of the time that they've been dating, and while he hopes that they're going to be just fine, there's a part of him that's still scared. it's been good the last four months even if he's missed being able to hold her hand and kiss her forehead and hug her. he thinks they're going to be okay, and he hopes that in the end, she missed him just as much as he's missed her.

     an excellent question, jinwoo thinks to himself. what exactly about suji had made him fall in love with her? it’s with a small smile and a contemplative look in his eyes that he replies slowly. 

     “you know, that’s an interesting question to ask,” his voice is a little amused. “i actually don’t know. i don’t know what made me fall in love with her. it kind of just happened. but i can tell you what i love about her.” try as he may, he can’t pinpoint the moment that he fell in love with noh suji. it had kind of hit him like a brick one day, the realization, but up until then? he’d been in love long before he could put words to it.