fingerprints

by pinkfen

Status: Completed (One-shot)

Summary: 

Minjeong races back to school like a nitwit, dry, heart thumping in . It’s that hour of noon with the fading light slanting in, dust motes illuminated. Jimin’s favourite.

Under that flattering light, Minjeong sees the six pictures one by one. She stops before the final picture. It’s rendered black and white, artistically noir, and a flicker of bewilderment grips her before she realises why it looks so familiar: It’s her picture -- the one she texted Jimin -- but transformed subtly. The juxtaposition changing everything about her shaky phone photo. Another hand superimposed in, almost, barely touching her fingertips. A matching tattoo that looks realer than real, still fresh, on the inside of the other person’s ring finger. Yes, Minjeong reads the Hangul of the single word with bated breath, then lowers her eyes to the title of the photograph beneath it.

Answer.

In which Jimin is a photographer and Minjeong is an Instagram model, and they meet in college in Taiwan.