#lgctiger

"you can't miss me too bad while i'm gone." the sentence is followed by a giggle as she twirls around @lgctiger in the practise room. this was one of the last times they were going to spend any sort of time together for what feels like the longest they've been separated since becoming friends. the mission was the trainee showcase. a daunting task for ruby, who was only on her second year of being a trainee. she's not sure how it would go for her when she doesn't like singing.

she'd much rather do a co ed performance, if only that meant she had the comfort of her best friend being with her. she teases him, but the truth was that of the two, it would be ruby who would struggle with the distance.

Lights, noise, scent of smoke and grease - too much for most introverts, let along this one with a poorly trained nervous system.

Jinyi put a hand over his racing heart and bid it to calm. He told himself to not fight the current of discomfort and instead, to ride its waves and go with its flow. This was, after all, the life that he had chosen. Better to drown in stimulus than sit alone in silence again. Better to disappear into a crowd than to stand out as the solitary one on the sidelines. Even if he didn’t belong, he could at least pretend.

He ordered two servings of tteokbokki from the stand that had the most interesting options and carefully weaved through the crowd to get to the rendezvous point they'd agreed upon.