pantomime.
@idkiwon​, private studio, late evening.
sometimes the building makes san feel too closed in. msg. it’s his home, more than any other building has been. but he’s given so much of himself over to them. the majority of his memories are lost to the halls. hang like ghosts, waiting to haunt him. sometimes it feels worse. sometimes it feels like a possession, a clawing of hands and overwhelming feelings underneath his skin. something he can’t escape. just stretching and aching and losing himself. his body. his lungs. a collapse underneath emotions he’d never learned how to handle. pressures he pretends he can cope with.Â
somewhere along the way, he’d started renting out a private dance studio room. a building not too far from his home. a set schedule, blocks of his own time. he has the money for it, and it’s somewhere empty. tranquil. can let his mind spill without the threat of a haunting. it can be easier to meet up with people, too. without having to explain why san needs to let his friends in to practice when there are no collaborations schedules for the nearing future.
san’s in a mood. the kind where he feels caged and overwhelmed. it’s harder than he lets on, the pressure in his company. from management, his mother. he’s been afforded so many opportunities, but it’s a mountain sloped higher. and he can to keep trekking forward. he can’t backslide. what if next time he doesn’t sell enough albums? what if he fucks up? what if he manages to push for something creatively and it’s a huge upset? what will his mother do then? and san thinks, at least milo might be happy then. but that idea feel like hot coals in his gut for reasons he won’t admit. so he sits here, simmering. it’d been why he called kiwon over.
kiwon has a way of distracting people. or, at least distracting san. they don’t always match up. but san wants to climb out of his own head, and kiwon’s usually pretty good about throwing him down a rope. “teach me your new dance,” san asks as soon as kiwon’s in the room and dropping his things to the floor. san’s slumped in a corner. his shirt’s dotted with sweat spots. his legs ache. he probably shouldn’t dance anymore. but it’s his go to. overwork, to reach pain. to collapse into it. and then, into nothingness. a dreamless sort of sleep, and that’s what san’s been deciding lately counts as happiness.Â














