drabble dump: jungli
and try as i might i cannot love you less
krystal/sulli, general au
drabble; pg; 363 words
"Promise you won’t break my heart?" Soojung had whispered over a shared milkshake - one straw, not two, with crunched candy cane sprinkled over it’s thick whipped cream topping. Jinri had always mentioned her dislike for peppermint (she was more of a “spearmint" kind of girl), but she’d made an exception for “her girl".
Jinri had smiled the brightest of smiles. “Don’t be silly, you…," she’d trailed off, bringing Soojung’s peppermint up toward her lips, tailing soft kisses from one finger to the next. "… are my morning, afternoon, night, better than that one lame song I had stuck in my head last week and… a million times more delicious than this milkshake, which is saying a lot -because it’s pretty great."
Soojung had cringed. “You’re… disgustingly cheesy."
“Well, it’s because I love you, duh."
Those three words had been enough to brighten up her world, to send her stomach into a spin cycle, to knock the wind completely out of her.
But…, "were they ever really enough?" Soojung found herself whispering, fingers wrapped tightly around Jinri’s wrist as she stepped onto the platform leading to the train that would take her out of the city, out of her life. Jinri froze under her touch, eyes glazing over with emotion she’d promised herself she wouldn’t become weak to as she pulled back from the other girl, cold and rigid.
"I don’t know, you tell me," she murmured as she the train stopped in front of her, turning her back toward Soojung as her sniffles slowly (but surely) turned into muffled sobs. She bit down onto her bottom lip as she stepped through the opening door, doing all she could to keep herself from looking back again as the door shut on all that happiness, all those memories.
She did love her - but love didn’t pay the bills, love didn’t kick start your career, love didn’t do anything for you that you couldn’t do for yourself already. (At least, this is what Jinri tried to convince herself as the train pulled out of the station - hand gripping the pole in front of her to keep everything from falling anymore apart. She could do this, she could be strong…, maybe.)
give her the time, she'll know you mean it
krystal/sulli, boarding school au
drabble; pg; 664 words
"Qian unnie suggested that we..," Jinri trailed off as she tried balance a stack of textbooks in one arm and shrugging the strap of her backpack to a more comfortable position on her shoulder. Soojung grinned at the awkward air her classmate gave off (it was cute, she was cute) as she reached to grab the stack of books from Jinri.
"That we pair up again for the next project?" Soojung finished off Jinri’s sentence, earning a small nod and smile from her. “I agree," she continued, finger trailing across the spine of the book book in the stack as they made they toward… “Wait, where are we going right now?"
"We?" Jinri raised an eyebrow, turning the corner of the seemingly never ending hallway they’d started down. “Well, I was going to… go to the library; don’t feel obligated to come with me or anything though, I’m sure you have better things to do."
“Cooler things”, Jinri wanted to say but she held back. It wasn’t like the notion wasn’t already hanging in the air, anyway. Soojung was cool, far cooler than she ever could’ve hoped to be. It wasn’t just in the way she looked (that brilliant hot pink hair that she’d gotten slammed for dying a week weeks prior during a holiday back home, that grin she gave to everyone, how she stood when she… did that cool breathing thing she did), but in the way she held herself. Jinri could tell how confident the girl was in everything about herself, in the way she spoke, in her intelligence, just… in herself.
Jinri was far from confident, even more so than she was from “cool", but for some reason Soojung had decided to stick to her like glue after they’d been paired together a few weeks earlier.
"Nope," Soojung shook Jinri out of her thoughts with her reply as they stepped up to the entrance of the library, pushing through the swinging doors.
It was empty for the most part - no one ever came to do studying during their lunch break, never. Jinri usually didn’t either, but she had to today ("Science”, she shuttered at the thought). She just hadn’t expected any… company, minus the library and maybe a teacher’s assistant like Qian (who insisted her students refer to her casually) making photo copies for the next hour of classes.
Jinri remained quiet as Soojung started to walk faster, following behind her without absentmindedly until they reached the furthest end of the library. Soojung discarded of the textbooks onto the surface of a nearby table before grabbing hold of Jinri’s hand, gently beginning to tug her in the direction of a nearby bookshelf. Jinri’s backpack fell off of her shoulder as she fidgeted in surprise, hitting the ground below them with a “thwack”.
"Soojung, what are you doi-…"
"Jinri," Soojung interrupted her, placing a finger against the center of her lips in an attempt to “shush" her. (It worked) “I haven’t really been able to… figure out what kind of game you’re playing at here, but I have to admit, it’s working."
Jinri’s face contorted in confusion; lips pulling into a thin line, eyebrows furrowing. “G-…game?"
“This entire… hard to get thing," Soojung shrugged. “All the shy smiles and bumping into me during our studying sessions. Come on, that can’t be all you."
"It is?" Jinri’s reply came out sounding more as if it were a question than a comment, Soojung raising an eyebrow. “I swear, I wasn’t trying to do…"
Jinri was silenced as a pair of soft, thinner lips captured her plumper. Her eyes widened in surprise for a moment before quickly settling back down, clenched together as Soojung gave her bottom lip a firm suck before pulling back.
Jinri open one eye back up to a smiling Soojung. “I like you, okay? Even if there was a chance I was reading… whatever wrong, I still like you," she paused. “There’s really something about you, you know? I don’t know what exactly, but… it’s there. I like it, it’s… sexy."
Jinri blushed.
krystal/sulli, general au
drabble; pg; 363 words
"Promise you won’t break my heart?" Soojung had whispered over a shared milkshake - one straw, not two, with crunched candy cane sprinkled over it’s thick whipped cream topping. Jinri had always mentioned her dislike for peppermint (she was more of a “spearmint" kind of girl), but she’d made an exception for “her girl".
Jinri had smiled the brightest of smiles. “Don’t be silly, you…," she’d trailed off, bringing Soojung’s peppermint up toward her lips, tailing soft kisses from one finger to the next. "… are my morning, afternoon, night, better than that one lame song I had stuck in my head last week and… a million times more delicious than this milkshake, which is saying a lot -because it’s pretty great."
Soojung had cringed. “You’re… disgustingly cheesy."
“Well, it’s because I love you, duh."
Those three words had been enough to brighten up her world, to send her stomach into a spin cycle, to knock the wind completely out of her.
But…, "were they ever really enough?" Soojung found herself whispering, fingers wrapped tightly around Jinri’s wrist as she stepped onto the platform leading to the train that would take her out of the city, out of her life. Jinri froze under her touch, eyes glazing over with emotion she’d promised herself she wouldn’t become weak to as she pulled back from the other girl, cold and rigid.
"I don’t know, you tell me," she murmured as she the train stopped in front of her, turning her back toward Soojung as her sniffles slowly (but surely) turned into muffled sobs. She bit down onto her bottom lip as she stepped through the opening door, doing all she could to keep herself from looking back again as the door shut on all that happiness, all those memories.
She did love her - but love didn’t pay the bills, love didn’t kick start your career, love didn’t do anything for you that you couldn’t do for yourself already. (At least, this is what Jinri tried to convince herself as the train pulled out of the station - hand gripping the pole in front of her to keep everything from falling anymore apart. She could do this, she could be strong…, maybe.)
give her the time, she'll know you mean it
krystal/sulli, boarding school au
drabble; pg; 664 words
"Qian unnie suggested that we..," Jinri trailed off as she tried balance a stack of textbooks in one arm and shrugging the strap of her backpack to a more comfortable position on her shoulder. Soojung grinned at the awkward air her classmate gave off (it was cute, she was cute) as she reached to grab the stack of books from Jinri.
"That we pair up again for the next project?" Soojung finished off Jinri’s sentence, earning a small nod and smile from her. “I agree," she continued, finger trailing across the spine of the book book in the stack as they made they toward… “Wait, where are we going right now?"
"We?" Jinri raised an eyebrow, turning the corner of the seemingly never ending hallway they’d started down. “Well, I was going to… go to the library; don’t feel obligated to come with me or anything though, I’m sure you have better things to do."
“Cooler things”, Jinri wanted to say but she held back. It wasn’t like the notion wasn’t already hanging in the air, anyway. Soojung was cool, far cooler than she ever could’ve hoped to be. It wasn’t just in the way she looked (that brilliant hot pink hair that she’d gotten slammed for dying a week weeks prior during a holiday back home, that grin she gave to everyone, how she stood when she… did that cool breathing thing she did), but in the way she held herself. Jinri could tell how confident the girl was in everything about herself, in the way she spoke, in her intelligence, just… in herself.
Jinri was far from confident, even more so than she was from “cool", but for some reason Soojung had decided to stick to her like glue after they’d been paired together a few weeks earlier.
"Nope," Soojung shook Jinri out of her thoughts with her reply as they stepped up to the entrance of the library, pushing through the swinging doors.
It was empty for the most part - no one ever came to do studying during their lunch break, never. Jinri usually didn’t either, but she had to today ("Science”, she shuttered at the thought). She just hadn’t expected any… company, minus the library and maybe a teacher’s assistant like Qian (who insisted her students refer to her casually) making photo copies for the next hour of classes.
Jinri remained quiet as Soojung started to walk faster, following behind her without absentmindedly until they reached the furthest end of the library. Soojung discarded of the textbooks onto the surface of a nearby table before grabbing hold of Jinri’s hand, gently beginning to tug her in the direction of a nearby bookshelf. Jinri’s backpack fell off of her shoulder as she fidgeted in surprise, hitting the ground below them with a “thwack”.
"Soojung, what are you doi-…"
"Jinri," Soojung interrupted her, placing a finger against the center of her lips in an attempt to “shush" her. (It worked) “I haven’t really been able to… figure out what kind of game you’re playing at here, but I have to admit, it’s working."
Jinri’s face contorted in confusion; lips pulling into a thin line, eyebrows furrowing. “G-…game?"
“This entire… hard to get thing," Soojung shrugged. “All the shy smiles and bumping into me during our studying sessions. Come on, that can’t be all you."
"It is?" Jinri’s reply came out sounding more as if it were a question than a comment, Soojung raising an eyebrow. “I swear, I wasn’t trying to do…"
Jinri was silenced as a pair of soft, thinner lips captured her plumper. Her eyes widened in surprise for a moment before quickly settling back down, clenched together as Soojung gave her bottom lip a firm suck before pulling back.
Jinri open one eye back up to a smiling Soojung. “I like you, okay? Even if there was a chance I was reading… whatever wrong, I still like you," she paused. “There’s really something about you, you know? I don’t know what exactly, but… it’s there. I like it, it’s… sexy."
Jinri blushed.