Kiss Of The Rabbit And Tiger
Prologue
Jenny
it's a Vminkook this time let's start
A ghost of me, a seed, like a corpse long buried. This is all they seem to be. Green rememberings, as I, in dappled sunlight, sleep and breathe
They are my tree, and I, in endless waking sleep, lay beneath their boughs and leaves. Too far grown to reach, yet climbing them, a sweet, sweet memory
My hands stretch high but I cannot grab on. Twisting carpentry, toes gripping bark, fingers long. Wooden eaves, our days past, aloft. I leap, I fall
Jimin
I lose a friend as soon as they obtain my number. I don’t know why it is that way, but it is. In the end I avoid their asking altogether. I make face-to-face friends. So much richer, yet weightless. No definite ends.
Tae
But there’s always something sad about losing those golden few. Those who never demanded access to me yet valued “us”. Those who never needed my attentions through a screen to be enough. But that love comes with growing pains. The seasons shift and change—their motions toss us up, our roots laid in vain effort.
Jimin
Missing them in class. Missing class. Finding they’d shown up a week before, the week you were sick or out of town. Vanishing. Always to wonder where they are and how okay.
Tae
Somehow I’d rather them disappear than find I’m left on read again. Sometimes I find easier “how things could have been” rather than facing fake smiles; the hollow “hello” of an almost-friend. That missed call, a dagger in my chest, while our missed meeting a mere fleeting, wistful regret.
Jimin
I hope something might change one day—that I might change. Hope to find one with whom I can grow. For every empty seat, last-minute group of three, I think of them. I think of home.
Jungkook
There is a bird in your chest. He flails wildly, crashing into your bones. He beats against your shoulder blades, attempts to open your wings. Screams "how can something that used to be so free now be so trapped". He does not speak of himself
Jenny
Try to understand their character
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