"This is crazy. We shouldn't be doing this yet. She shouldn't be doing this yet," Donghae moaned, his knee bouncing up and down as he sat in the wooden chair.

Yuri observed the seated crowd outside the window. Everyone was ready for the ceremony to begin and they were getting fidgety with how long it was taking. The sun was shortening their ( Read more... )

Yuri blinked open her eyes to a darkened room, empty and quiet. She tried to sit up but that felt like someone hit her ribs with a baseball bat. Her body immediately recoiled and sent her flat on her back. She put her hand to the bruise as if she could physically touch her sore muscles and damaged tissue and looked there.

Her eyes scrunched at ( Read more... )

It looked horrible, Yuri's bruise. It took up almost the entire left side of her torso, the colors reminding her of vomit. She tried twisting her body to get a better view of her back but the pain knocked the air out of her lungs. She leaned on the sink, knocking over her pain killers. The capped bottle rolled back and forth in the sink, rattling ( Read more... )

Tiffany always made a point of leaving Jessica's apartment before Jessica awoke early in the morning. Sometimes she'd even slip out at night, sometimes noiselessly, sometimes loudly if she was in the mood for a confrontation, or sex. However, Jessica never seemed to be in the mood for confrontations like Tiffany was (although sex was another story ( Read more... )

Yuri adjusted the Velcro band on her gloves and eyed her surroundings. The racers around her were people she hadn’t seen before but that was probably due to the suddenness of the race. Taek’s text had been ingrained to memory already, the shortcut for this race a clear highlighted route in her head.

As exciting as it was, it was incredibly nerve- ( Read more... )

Title: who i was, from the start
Characters: Yuri, Yoona
Rating: pg13
Disclaimer: still about as real as a straight tower of Pisa.

( chapter 31: the past is told by those who win )

Title: who i was, from the start
Characters: Yuri, Yoona
Rating: pg13
Disclaimer: still about as real as a straight tower of Pisa.

( chapter 30: if cupid's got a gun, then he's shootin' )

It takes about a second. Sometimes a few milliseconds less, sometimes more. Depends how dramatic you want it to be.

A lot of stuff can happen in a second. That twitch you get in your lip occasionally. You can trip. You can fall. Someone can tell you hi. You can say hi back.

Then there's that stuff that can happen in a second that can mess you up ( Read more... )

Yuri lied on her back and stuck a hand under her pillow. A thicker shadow of branches spread across her ceiling and she watched, the movement a much needed diversion from the phone resting on her belly. It was set to vibrate in precisely three minutes. She lifted her head an inch to look at Yoona, the sleeping girl oblivious to what Yuri was about ( Read more... )

It happens in Starbucks, while they're waiting in line, Taeyeon and Sunny bickering whether frappucinos or iced coffees taste better behind them. Jessica is wearing sunglasses but Tiffany doesn't need to see her eyes; Jessica's mouth barely moves as she says the words, like even her lips are bored.

"I think it's time we end it."

Then they're up ( Read more... )