The club was loud in a way that stopped feeling fun after about five minutes.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEu3tMnjQVC
Not just music loud, like full-body loud. Like the bass was actively arguing with your thoughts and winning.
Jiho didn’t really remember agreeing to come. He just ended up there, pulled in by his friends; it was already decided and he was the last one to find out. Someone shoved a drink into his hand almost immediately, laughing.
“Just drink one,” they said.
Sure.
That’s how it always starts.
The first shot burned. The second one didn’t really register anymore. After that, I stopped counting. Soon, everything started feeling like it was happening slightly out of sync with me. 61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9udlJfa4Qj
Like the night was moving at a different speed, and I was just trying to catch up. People were talking around me, but it turned into noise. Faces got blurry. And it was as if time stopped ticking properly.
At some point, someone said my name.
Everything else got muted for a second, and only that calm, warm voice cut through.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfT29vYB1V
Seowoon.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwED53cRw2h
“Are you okay....Why are you drinking?” Seowoon asked.
Jiho looked at him for a second too long. “I’m doing research.”
The people around them burst into laughter.
However, Seowoon didn’t laugh.
That was always the thing about him. 61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ924UVxQbKW
He never really acted like he was surprised by anything.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFYdPc0YF1E
More shots appear in front of Jiho without him remembering asking for them. 61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrahtenJjj
People were laughing, bumping into each other, yelling over music that felt like it was getting louder even though it probably wasn’t. 61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiz6HvVrEaq
His phone was somewhere on the table, but he stopped checking it at some point because even looking at it felt like an effort.
Seowoon talked next to him, close enough that Jiho could hear his voice through everything else. He remembers that clearly. Not the words, just the sound of them. Calm. Extremely normal for how everything else feels.
Jiho tries to respond a few times but nothing really sticks. Like his thoughts are arriving late and leaving early.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxoQrddA9Le
Present Day - Jiho sits in the interrogation room and looks around before trying to pick the lock on his handcuffs.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9LTGdR4LG
Flashback - Then strange things started happening to Jiho, like standing up and not remembering why. Sitting down and not remembering when. Someone grabs his wrist like they’re in a hurry. The world slanting slightly.
There’s a stairwell. Then cold air hits his face. The club noise drifts away behind him and suddenly everything feels quiet.
Myeongdo is there.
Jiho doesn’t remember when he arrived. That detail just exists in the memory like a glitch that refuses to explain itself.
He says something about going inside.
About time.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZmRSxmQjN
About remembering the plan.
And Seowoon.
Jiho remembers laughing once because none of it sounds serious enough to make sense.
Seowoon is somewhere inside the building after that. Jiho remembered that part vividly. The rest of it refuses to stay in order.
A door opening.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJYhmUftRGB
Someone pulling him forward.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsZIYFJefJ
Voices overlapping.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MVne1oJNW
Seowoon looking at him like he’s already disappointed in something that hasn’t fully happened yet.
And Seowoon saying his name once.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1O13uZ08M
After that, it stops being a memory/telling a story and starts being pieces. Pieces that don’t coordinate with each other. Like that, the night is being played wrong every time he tries to remember it.
Because the part isn’t that Jiho forgot what happened.
It’s that every version he remembers doesn’t match the previous one.
And Seowoon is always in the middle of it.
He’s the only thing that night that refuses to come clearly.
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and then Add to home screen.