Jinki woke up with his phone vibrating under his back. The gloomy morning too cold for someone to be calling him. As he checked the screen, he groaned at the name flashing green.
“Please tell me it’s something important.” Jinki scurried underneath the blankets, the phone feeling cold against his cheek.
The person on the other end of the line laughed, “Guess what? I got the new parts in the mail today!” They sounded so chirpy as if they had nothing bad going for them. It was eight in the fucking morning, on a Saturday, Jinki almost felt bad for being the grumpy one.
“How many this time?” Jinki asked, pretending to be slightly interested.
“Just two. I don’t want to make the same mistake as last time.” Jinki yawned, slowly rolling over on
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He was crazy for thinking that his experiment was going to work. And if it did, what kind of life were they going to have? How could Minho be so selfish?
Jinki’s phone rang again, he finally got himself out of bed, dragging his feet as he entered the kitchen. He didn't answer. His coffee hadn't kicked in yet. A crossword puzzle laid on his small, cluttered kitchen table, only one word left to solve.
The phone rang again, and again, and it rang five more times
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At one in the afternoon, while he was cleaning the air ducts in his apartment, he heard the loud knocks at the door. When he opened, two men dressed in black greeted him with stoic expressions.
“Mr. Lee?” One of them asked.
Jinki thought for a moment, but he knew right away why they were there. But he played along. “Yes, that would be me.”
The two men looked at each other and then back at Jinki, one of them kept a hand on his waist, probably close to his gun. “May we come in, Mr. Lee?” The men should have tried to be more subtle.
“Sure, come in.” Jinki kept his voice low. He didn't want his neighbors getting curious.
“We are going to make this as clear as possible, Mr. Lee. Your friend Minho, he’s in some highly illegal stuff. What he is doing is not only going to get him in trouble with the law, but he will end up dead.”
Jinki forced a smile. “Is that a threat?”
For a heartbeat, the three men stared at each other. “Of course not. We only want what’s best for your friend.” The bulkier of the two agents paced around Jinki, eyes never straying away.
“I’m sure you do. Why are you here, then?” There was tightness in Jinki’s throat, and he couldn’t think beyond the fear welling inside of
“I don’t know” Phoenix smiled back “I was hoping maybe you’d stay up here with me while I go through some of it so I’m not by myself in case something goes wrong”
“So yeah, some people may have been approached to discuss the plan -it wasn’t us.”
“Talako, some of his friends, and I may or may not have gotten into a fight which resulted in the four of them on the ground.” I said and smiled as innocent as possible.
I take in my surroundings, as I feel my body getting numb from my toes on upward. After floating for hours, I spot a woodsy island I decide looks about a quarter mile away. I wade over to CJ and Jacob, noticing they are the closest people to where I was at. I watch as CJ pathetically hugs his only remaining plane carry-on, his baseball glove. He mopes the entire time it takes me to swim over to them, until he notices me, and he gives one last whimper before wiping his eyes and putting on a brave facial expression. Jacob smirks, knowing I had already seen CJ previously crying. My first instinct would have been to laugh at him, but now was not the time for that. We had fallen into the seas and had no idea where our luggage was, let alone where
“I believe that’s our business- not yours.” Rhett snaps - glaring both of them down.
Asami clambered out from under her sheets, the springiness reminding her that she had not, in fact, fallen to the floor. Her phone blinked arrogantly from her beside table, vibrating with every alarm note. Asami snatch it up, swiping it silent.
Lena’s eyes fell closed with a sigh. It was Kara’s phone and at this early hour, it was likely Alex. She opened her eyes to see Kara conflicted, not wanting to leave Lena unsatisfied but also unable to completely disregard the ringing. Lena nodded gently and tilted her head toward the sound. Kara gingerly leapt from the bed to answer the call.
She stormed off to the bathroom, leaving Lou to momentarily have his attention undividedly focused on her for the first time all morning. After a few seconds, however, he glanced down at the small phone in his hand, and began dialing the number he had memorized by heart. It rang twice, then a man answered
“I know what you’re thinking, but I told Liane about your condition and we agreed that if Eric were to do anything, then… we’ll do something.”
I step into the house. My phone vibrates. I had received a text from Ethan; it read:
“Why not? I killed myself and that guy in the pizzeria and that other dude whose name I don’t remember. And I almost killed eighty-six. Plus I also threw that old ladies off a bridge. That deserves smiting. Can you smite the dead? Huh. Extermination. Yeah, it deserves extermination”
Interrupting loud murmur of minds, I picked up phone and swiped screen to unlock. There were two calls from Annaya in the early morning I wondered whether it was for waking me up or had something urgent to me.
Joy almost tugged her hair out in frustration when all three of them huddled together and started whispering. Finally, after about two minutes, Joy got frustrated. Walking towards their little circle and hovering over them, Joy said loudly- “Can’t you break the law then? It’s not like you’re going to take it seriously,
He paled, ‘Keep your voice down, people outside might hear’, he shut the door behind him and stepped in the room.
“I could see that they were all very nervous, eyeing me up and down distrustfully.”