#tulipeia

Maybe he was being a bit too spontaneous but the stubborn bot was already at his neighbor’s door (not that it was much of a walk), and he had no intentions of backing out now. Not that he was nervous.. was he? He had no reason to be.. right? Dressed in the embellished, long red coat he only pulled out once a year, he knocked on the door and yelled out. 

“Tulipe, hun. Ya’ better put on somethin’ nice. I mean it ain’t like I haven’t seen more of you than I should have already.”  He chuckled to himself, lowering his voice. “ I was uh.. hoping you’d accompany me to the academy’s Christmas shindig?”

“Miss Tulipe-” Minwoo started and sighed as he stared at the teacher that was currently half laying over the bar in his night club. She had been yelling some obsceneties to the strippers about ten minutes ago but she had calmed down and now she was half laying over the bar. Since she was a member of staff Minwoo didn’t allow her to just be thrown out which what would have happened if she had been someone else.

He sighed, the bartender on shift had been panicky about it so he had come to help out. “Miss tulipe, it is time to go home. Don’t you have to work tomorrow?”

He stared at the woman, a little unsure of what she was doing. “I… I don’t know what you mean by that.” He said with a small frown as he watched her do… something. It was some kind of dance but it was nothing he had ever seen before so he was… confused by the whole thing,

“Tulipe, I am not sure if I can… do that dance I don’t dance… like… that….”

“Come on.” The water spirit said as she jumped without hesitation into the lake and disappeared for a moment before she swam up again, her body see-through for a second with a slight lilac haze before she turned solid again in front of the other woman, her long hair resting over her naked breasts and her lower body disappearing (literally) into the water.

“It is nice, the water. a little cool but fine.”

The grand prize of 100.000 was definitely the prize the woman wanted to win. She sat down for her interview. Everything was set in place. She would play herself, not wanting to catfish. Not wanting to lie.

“Hello.” She said into the camera. “My name is Merry, I am a marine biologist.” Smiling she laughed and shook her head amused. “People never believe me when I tell them I am a biologist because I am too pretty to be smart.” She snorted and then after a little while she got up. More video was shot before she was allowed into the large apartment building with her suitcase to start the game.

She was so excited and a little nervous about the gameshow. Her room was pretty and she walked in excited on her high heels. “Oh… I can’t wait to see what is going to happen.” She said as she sat down on the couch and activated the Circle. “Okay… for my profile picture… something not too much in your face.” She chose a cute photo that wasn’t too sexy.

“Now for the text… Okay Circle put as my profile Hey all! I am Merry and I work as a marine biologist. I just came back from a 4 month trip to the arctics where I studied seals and penguins. I love life and love love. Single, but also looking for a lot of friends! <3 Love!!”

Perfect. “This’ll do.” She mumbled as she waited for the other people to post their profiles.

Screw it

“Screw it! I will burn this damn place down right now” The Shigofumi yelled from the top of the bar counter. At the sound of his voice his crowded bar got quiet. It would never be something he would actually do but It got everyone's attention. Jinki grinned “Good now while I’m glad you guys are all here, it’s time to go. The last call was 2 hours ago and you’re all still here!” After speaking he climbed down off the bar with a sigh. As everyone began to file out he noticed a female trying to make her way into the crowd. The Shigofumi instantly recognized her face, she's the woman that helped him with his lavender plant. Jinki hopped over the bar and made his way over to her. “Yo make room, out of the way” He pushed the other customers aside to let her through. “Hey it's you again, Hello” 

The mirrorwalker turned around to answer the stranger. Yet something about the question had triggered a odd, distant, memory. His brows furrowed and he hesitated before speaking. “I... y- yes?” ~~

“Yah!” Seokjin ran toward the female with a giggle in his throat. “Give it back you freak!” Of course he meant this in the nicest way. Words like that often flew between the two of them with no intent of ill-will. It was an odd situation from the outside looking in. Somehow, a master and genie had managed to become the closest of friends.

By genie standards, Seokjin was quite young. It had been a few years since the two met yet they already knew everything about each other. During a time of depression and desperation, the genie had handed ownership of his item to a complete stranger. He had never expected they’d become so close. “I know you technically own it but I get to wear my bracelet while we’re together- that’s the rule! I know how much you hate ducks and I won’t hesitate to make my face a duck face to scare the pants off you!”

There was something about the junkyard that the boogey found sad, it was all things that people had discarded. Things that people once thought they wanted and then, in the end, it turned out they didn’t want it anymore. The boogey saw a lot of similarities between him and the discarded computer screen he was holding in his hands, looking at it sadly. It was one of the old ones from the nineties. The glass was broken but that might be perfect.

“Hey Tulipe?” He called out to the woman he had told that if she needed creative planters she needed to come here. “What do you think about just using like computer screens like this?” He asked as he trodded over to her “What did you find? Remember if you find anything to house a whole army of small succulents let me know. Namjoon might like those.”