☨ pomegranate ; jr
( / . . . well, it wasn’t his intention to shove his roommate out the window.
after all, these things have a tendency to happen.
although – and he presses his lips together during this interval – that is most definitely a lie. and conjured for what purpose? to protect himself from a single perspective on the frivolous murder? curse these inexplicable thoughts interrupting him during the time of disposal, couldn’t have vultures and crows outside his dorm disturbing the silence so rare to the school. noise became a airborne infection, spreading since asked to write a single worded answer, so, what is one more dead bassoon when it was out of tune in the first place?
or is this, perhaps, a disguise to repress the wrath dehydrating him, invented to prevent hundreds of skeletons broken, more glass statues littering the lawn in their frosted fragments . . . crescent shapes scar his palms, clutched fists that had broken skin, jonghyun assigned to room with a papier-mâché girl, hollow and worthless – should send her to an early grave as well but decided against it after the paper clip fulfilled its purpose, this ‘kwon mina’ woman absent and frankly for the best, the termite anxiety subsiding, electroconvulsive therapy beginning . . .
but the gap in sentience is transitory, a void swallowed by confirmation, chest shrinking now that it’s all in reach ) “ jonghyun. ” ( / oh that authoritarian voice, is it necessary? should have held back, yet the name a guillotine and his timeline is a singular linear sting of gravitational events – strides over to where the boy is lounging and jams arm underneath legs. no warning, not when there’s microscopic woodpeckers on clockwork, or clockwork made from of mechanical woodpeckers . . . fog in his corneas, toadstools growing in his lungs . . . and his other arms slides around jonghyun’s back and the fingers curl, claw-like things of cast iron, and he lifts, raises him from his lethargy and balances him against his chest –
it is, in fact, mutual possession )“ i’m stealing you away. ” ( / yes – that explains it, but he certainly cannot permit jonghyun to live in the company of another, to inhabit a dwelling so far from his own, where he'd face the abhorrent night terrors . . . the sheet elucidating their dorm assignments could burn, and the hands of those that arranged it can burn as well )
