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Curious Days of Youth
After the traumatizing events from this morning, Minhee took to social media and announced the death of her beloved phone. To this, several of her friends gave real condolences while others gave light mockery and Taehyung left a comment asking if she had let it sit in rice overnight. Later that night she suffered through a dinner with her mother and Namjoon and wondered how much longer her father would be taking care of business overseas. Everything was as per the new usual until the next morning when the girl overslept. It was half past noon and her first thought was as to why her mother hadn’t awoken her. She clambered out of bed with a wild bush of hair and open the bedroom door to walk into the hall. Only thing was the door wouldn’t budge. She turned the knob harder and push against the wood with all her weight but nothing came from it.
“Mom?” she yelled out and waited a moment, earning no response. Her phone was obsolete so she couldn’t call for help. Minhee dropped to the ground and peeked under the sliver of a crack and saw nothing but the common sunlight illuminating the rest of the apartment. She was far to small to break down the door, so she looked at her window. They were on the fifth floor, but if she angled herself right, she would be able to drop down to the fire escape and climb down the rickety metal stairs. If she brought her house key, then she could go back into the building through the main entrance and come up to her apartment through the front door and see if something had barricaded her room or what. The girl walked over to the window and turned the latch to open it, using all of her strength to lift the glass, but it wouldn’t raise. Minhee felt tears prick the back of her eyes as she began to feel hopeless. Maybe this was all a bad dream and she could just lay down and go to sleep, wake up and things would be normal. She laid back down in her bed and closed her eyes, but the lingering feeling of something wrong kept her from being at ease. The girl sat up and looked to her pets for reassurance but didn’t see any laying out in the wood chips. She got up and made her way over to peek inside the small huts and saw them resting in the dark. After taking off the lid, she lifted the largest wooden hut only to see a few of their lifeless bodies flop and roll due to the wall b
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