Rose ↬ SinRin

twentyone

"Everyone, wake up!" the teachers knock on all the doors of the hotel, "we have things to do today!"

I groan and sit up. Yerin was in the bed next to me sleeping soundly. I nudge the girl to wake up as she opens her eyes to the bright sunlight. I walk over to the bathroom and wash my face and brush my teeth. Soon Yerin gets out of bed and into the bathroom. I dress up into a red-orange striped shirt and black shorts. Yerin comes out in a navy blue dress. 

"You look pretty today," I smile, "I-I mean you look pretty everyday but really pretty today."

Yerin giggles and kisses my cheek, "thanks, you too."

Together we leave the hotel room with our bags and met with the other students in the hotel lobby. 

A teacher clapped her hands together, "alright. Today we are lucky enough to have made it to Japan."

The students around clapped and whooped. The teacher continued, "we are also lucky enough to have tour guides take us around the city of Tokyo. Now everyone gets into your groups and we will give your assigned guide."

Yerin and I find the rest of our friends as we wait for our tour guide to come and meet us. Soon we saw a small girl with bangs, "hi, I'm Umji and I'll be your guide for today."

"Hi," Yuju smiles. 

I nudge her arm, "don't fall too in love with her, you're only visiting Japan."

"Shut up," Yuju hits my arm.

I laugh and pay attention to what Umji is saying to us, "alright for this tour I will be taking you guys around to the shops first and we will start from there."

Soon groups are taken out of the hotel as we were the last ones to get out. Umji walks to our first destination.

"You look pretty young, what year were you born in?" Eunha asks.

"Oh, I was born in 1998," Umji says, "I know, I'm pretty young for a tour guide."

"But not too young for Yuju," Sojung teases.

"You guys need to shut up!" Yuju says.

"Over my dead body," I say.

Yuju rolls her eyes and we arrive at a small cafe. Umji holds the door for us, "I figured you guys haven't eaten yet. Meals our on me."

We are seated at a table and watch as two seniors collapsed, I flinch but think to myself that it was going to happen anyways. I ate some pancakes as Yuju slipped some looks at Umji. I couldn't blame her though, Umji was a pretty girl. Soon after eating Yuju and Umji get into argument about paying. Yuju ends up paying as Umji blushes at the girl.

"Bet you by tonight, they'll be in the same room." Sojung jokes and Eunha laughs.

We leave and Umji takes us to the shops, "here are some popular stores that many people come to. You guys can shop if you want to."

"We aren't going to waste your time are we?" Yerin asks.

"No, it's fine anyways," Umji says, "I actually barely know anything about Tokyo."

We all laugh as we enter the stores. Yerin and I go one way as the others go their separate ways with their love partners. We planned on having a photoshoot with us six in the city of Tokyo as memories before we leave. I get white pants with a neon green sweater and a black top. Yerin gets a bright pink turtle neck and black coat with a belt. Yuju buys a black dress with a grayish coat and a tan strings skirt. Sojung and Eunha both get checkered shirts and Sojung gets black pants and Eunha a black skirt. Lastly, Umji gets a light pink shirt with a tan coat and printed skirt. 

Finally, we get out of the stores and make our way to the place we were going to take pictures. It was a vacant tunnel. The woman taking our pictures was very nice. We laughed with joy and took pictures. I stood in between Umji and Eunha as we skipped throughout the tunnel. Our smiles were brighter than the sun shining outside. We didn't care about anything in the world right now, not a single thing. We enjoyed ourselves for once and let the stress flow out of our bodies. How could someone be so brutal to kill everyone when we had people who love us and who we love. 

Laughter filled the empty tunnel and bright flashes covered the walls from the camera. We were almost at the end of the tunnel and we all ran back to the other side. Smiles on our face and not a single person gave a single fuck that moment. 

"I love this," Yuju laughs, "I love of you guys."

We stop, smiles still on our faces, Yuju had started crying. 

Sojung hugged the younger one, "why are you crying?"

"B-Because, look at how happy we are!" Yuju said, "we're so happy about everything but at the end of the day one of us will die!"

"Don't think that way," Umji hugs Yuju, "we'll survive, I bet you we will."

Suddenly there was a change in Umji's voice. She sounded as if she was about to cry. But why? We had just met her today and she was tearing up. Did she know something was going to happen to us? I ignore the thoughts and hug the two crying girls. 

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Our photoshoot ended as we waited for them to come. We ended up eating at a small restaurant, this time Sojung paid. 

"So what are we going to do tomorrow, Umji?" I ask.

She looked at me and smiled, "it's a surprise."

"What kind of surprise?" Yerin asks, linking her arm to mine.

Umji looks at our arms, her smile slightly fades and her eyes look teary, "a very big one."

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2019.04.20