chapter 12

I wake up in D's room and smell bread-cakes. Does she eat bread-cakes every day? Then I can eat whatever she makes for an eternity. Me and Scarlett had a kind of argument at dinner yesterday. Where will I sleep? Even though most of the times: the guest sleeps in the empty room. D's room was a scary room for her. She heard stories of a grandma got murdered on the bed. Her spirit lives somewhere in that part of the apartment, that's why she wanted me to sleep on the same bed as her. DIANA YOU BITCH! WTH is you scaring my cinnamon roll? Even though there are actual spirits here, they don't scare anybody. They annoy me a lot. Ugh! I'm this close to make them disappear.

So we came to an agreement: I'll sleep here for today and tomorrow I'll sleep on the same bed as her. Tomorrow came, we are going to the mall for me. The mall is somewhere she rarely goes, but since I'm a runaway, she's going to waste her money on me. The PJ's she gave me that were too big for her are too small for me. So I'm going to go in the same clothes I ran away in. And guilty for using her money. I will repay her the money by getting a job.

So after eating bread-cakes, I wear the same PJ's. Even though I can make clothes appear out of nowhere, I don't want to make her suspicious of me. No matter what, I don't to blow my cover, since she thinks me as a mortal. She goes into her room. And she comes out wearing faded pants with a zip and a button mortals call as jeans and white full hand shirt. Dang, she looks cute while I look like I slept. I had combed my hair and brushed my teeth with a spare brush she had. I swore to god, if this was Diana's brush, I'm going to puke.

She locks the apartment, and I look around the door while she does it. Damn, this place's going to fall down in seconds. 'do you ever think to move out? This place is going to fall down any second.'

'no, this is the only place cheap for me to live near to the school I study in.'

'there aren't things like dorms?'

'that's only for boarding schools.' she finishes locking the door and walks towards the stairs. I follow her. Damn, even the stairs are going to fall down. 'do you ever think this place is going to fall down?'

'a few times, yes. But I've accustomed to this place.'

'but there's a ghost here!' I want to tease her a bit.

'that's stupid, there's no ghost here. Then how am I even living here? I have a huge fear of ghosts. Even if it's like a story, legend or a rumour, I wouldn't be staying here.' 'but yesterday you didn't want me in that room because there was a ghost of a vengeful grandma.' she says as if I'm trying to scare her and she ain't convinced. Did Diana do this? Diana, fuck you! First you scare the shit out of her and now you did this? Fuck you.

'I did that? I don't remember.' Ok Diana did this!

So we keep walking and Scarlett's awfully quiet. I look down and see her containing her laugh. WTH? That's funny to her? Her fear was something not fake. The way she gets scared of that room, even though it's D's room. 'why's that so funny to you?' I ask with my WTF face while we keep walking towards the bus station.

She pouts and says, 'you already found out. When you get confused, your face gets so funny.'

'so your phasmophobia is not fake?' I ask.

'no it's not! It started because of my friends at the fondling home would talk about urban legends. They always freaked me out. They even once tried calling one, and I passed out of fear.'

'wow they shouldn't have done that. They knew about your fear of ghosts but still did it.'

'no they didn't force me. They said I can stay since it scared me, but then I feared the ghost will come to me, so I went with them. I know it's lame thinking a spirit would come to me instead of the ones who called it.'

'no it's not lame.' Even I have fears, I didn't say that. It's better to shut up for a while. We reach the bus stop and see this part is not that suspicious at all. People are walking, no broken buildings, it seems like a place that people would live in.

'I've been saving money to find a place here, I work in that cafe by the corner. They give good pay for an hour.' she points at the painted place in the corner.

'let me guess, you work as the baker there?' Even though Diana owned it before, now it must belong to someone else by her spell. She charmed Scarlett that she's the baker in the cafe and she gets paid.

'yes I am. They pay 9 dollars an hour.'

'that's it? That's I guess enough for you.' THAT LOW?! I wanted to yell at Diana to make her think she earns that low!

'today's my lucky day. I have to not cover nobody's shift and I have nothing.' She has to do that? That's awful, and who the hell dares to use her kindness?

We board the bus and sit near the windows on the left. I sit near the window while she sits to the side. She takes out ear-plug things and attaches it to her phone. 'do you want to listen?' she asks me while handing me one of those ear plug things.

'sure' I say and do whatever she does with it. Attach it into my ear hole? Okay, then. I don't know how to describe this. A few seconds pass and I'm so into this song. Then boom! One thing goes in mind: damn! Who even made this!? This is art!

'you like it?' Scarlett asks me.

'yes I do! This is art!' I love this song. Damn! This is art!

'it's called "life goes on". I'm happy you like it.' Scarlett says. Life goes on? That's a deep title.

'it's by who?' I want to know this male band. I guess I never even checked that bands like this exist.

'it's by BTS.' she answers with a smile. Why is she smiling? It's getting creepy. 'stop smiling, you are creeping me out.'

'ok I won't smile. Can I play the album then?'

'yes please.' she plays the entire album. One speaks: how they just want to escape from life. One speaks: I'm done. One speaks: I'm sad. One says about some special person in a happy-happy vibe. One says how they can't see someone and it's sad. One speaks happy-happy vibes. Life goes on: deep AF about life. I love this album already, the meanings are so deep! How all their songs are then? Must be art then.

'how do they look like?' Scarlett shows me with a smile on her face. Even though I'm not straight, damn they fine as hell. In my career of being gay, this is the first time I'm saying men as good-looking. on the trip to the mall, I keep asking who's who. Scarlett isn't getting annoyed. She looks like she's enjoying this.

'who's the guy with plump lips?'

'he's Jin.'

'who's the guy with thin lips?'

'that's V.'

'who's the guy with no top lip?'

'that's Jungkook. Why do you keep asking who's who by their lips?'

'I don't know. Who's the happiness giving vibe guy?'

'that's J-Hope.'

'Who's the baby-faced guy?'

'that's Jimin, and he's not baby-faced. He looks like a doll.'

'who's the leader?' There's always a leader, but in BLACKPINK there's no leader.

'that's RM.'

'who's the cat-like guy?'

'that's Suga. And yes, he looks like a cat. Oh look, we came to our destination.'