#xgeumbit

[ 📲 text: ]  i thought of something i want you to do to me tonight. [ 📲 text: ]  it’s too bad you aren’t here … [ 📲 text: ]  you can’t have me until tomorrow.

[ SMS ; HWAYOUNG ] ... yah, you can't say things like that when you know i can't see you tonight 😭 [ SMS ; HWAYOUNG ] i was trying not to think about it

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[ SMS ; HWAYOUNG ] what did you think of, though? [ SMS ; HWAYOUNG ] what do you want me to do, hwa?

❛ --- i'm glad you asked. ❜ her voice is teetering on down right giddy as she speaks, and mickey is quick to slide the bottle of wine across the counter ( carefully, to ensure that nothing breaks, of course. ) ❛ i finally booked my first big gig, ❜ she enthuses, smile stretching across her face. ❛ i've never been on a world tour, but i imagine it's just as kick ass as performing at festivals, and concerts. except it's just... nonstop. ❜ shuffling, she leans against the counter, hands clasped together. ❛ kinda sounds like the dream, honestly. ❜

🔥: Petties thing they've ever argues about... I wanna say naming their newly acquired pet. I think they both have it in them to be petty but neither of them ever actually mean any harm. They're playful — stemming from many many years of friendship. @xgeumbit knows what gets under Rumi's skin and isn't afraid to use those tricks to win arguments. It's hard because at the end of the day they're also both very "whatever baby wants, baby gets" about each other.

🧸 Ohhh well considering Rumi was the one crushing hardcore probably her. She'd be the more sentimental one just from that alone. It was probably a wrapper of a piece of candy or something that she tapped to her journal.

🧳 China? Maybe to visit family. Maybe to learn something spiritual that'll help them in one thing or another. It think they'd do well in Europe — hiding away between the old ruins of Rome.

🌸 Daddy. Hmm they call her baobai, Mimi girl, just mimi. She's called them an overgrown leek. lmaooo. Minnie. I don't know if she'd ever call them anything embarrassing. Maybe her calling him lao gong before they ever truly marry would be cringe for Mira and Zoey.

🌪️ ... I mean I don't know about chaotic. Rumi very much follows whatever Minsu's whims are so they end up in pretty compromising situations. I would say marriage cuz I see them sort of waking up one day and being like "yeah I wanna marry you today. Right now. I don't want to wait anymore" but getting married in S. Korea is a bit of a process. Idk maybe they grab Mira and Zoey and just tell them on the way there they're getting married. Ceremonies can happen after. Rumi just wants to put a ring on it STAT.

... quietly glancing about with furrowed brows. his nose has been itching all day [ ... ] is someone talking about him and he doesn't know it yet?

@xgeumbit && abby decided to break my heart

his eyes go wide at the question, panic, sudden and sharp, like shards of ice, grips his chest. for a moment he can't breathe, fears the guilt will crush him alive. “ i couldn't — ” couldn't let him have her, couldn't bear the way he saw the reflection of his mother and sister in her, echoes of his own betrayal so many years ago. he couldn't — she had trusted him, needed him, and just like his family, he had chosen himself, and then —

“ for the first time in my life... i needed to put someone else before myself. ”

it's not quite an answer, but it's the best he can give. he looks down at his hands, at the now-iridescent patterns he can't fathom he deserves.

x. ❝ just come here. let me take care of you. ❞ - for Minsu from @xgeumbit

For so many reasons, none of which she wanted to admit or confess to, Zoey found the concept of letting someone take care of her nearly impossible to palate. Not without providing something in return, not without doing something for someone else in some service of herself... because she'd never known or accepted kindness that didn't feel transactional in one way or another and needing to validate her purpose in someone else caring about her. Minsu wasn't the kind of person who ever expected anything in return, but the way they softly invited her to come toward them and let them take care of her none the less had her throat tightening with emotions she couldn't quite put a name to. She nodded, pathetically, feeling like a sullen child with tears welling up in her eyes and shuffling toward them almost begrudgingly. Her hair was a matted mess of wet tangles, her oversized hoodie drenched and draping over her as the sleeves hung too long over her hands making Zoey seem every bit as small as she was feeling in the moment. As soon as she made her way toward Minsu, she stopped short and simply laid her head against their shoulder before burying her face into his chest as soon as they made contact and her tears were already starting to fall before she could do anything to stop them.

haeun paints her image as one of manufactured innocence. she gathers her hair together, draping it luxuriously over one bare shoulder to accentuate the now-exposed, long slope of her neck. the demure expression cast to hwa-young is the mask she employs—carefully constructed and practiced.