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⌇ ❛ bibbity bobbity boo, seven artworks
⌇ coming true, but don't forget that
⌇ reality's cruel too ❜ ─── in which
⌇ five student had an art project to finish,
⌇ only to have their artworks dis...
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( i fudging give up try'na give suji fancy lines— lmk for any mistakes tho )
JI SUJI hummed to herself, biting the tip of her thumb as she stared intently at the rows of books lined up neatly before her. Every stroke and curve of the titles embedded on them had such an alluring aura around them, Suji felt like she'll once again break the promise she made to herself to pick just one.
"Mom, which would be more worth my dying purse right now?" Suji questioned while jutting her bottom lip as her eyes went back and forth between two books, her mother looking down at the crutched Suji from her own book.
"Aren't those the same fairytale stories I read to you when you were little? We just gave those away months ago, why buy them all over again?" her mother reminded, although she pretty much knew the answer to it already.
"I know, but they're calling out to me to bring them back home again." she mumbled, desperation etched on her face as she glared at the books intensely.
Her mother merely chuckled, "Well, it's your own pocket money you're using." was her answer as the elder woman started heading to another section.
"Aw, won't you spare me at least a few more extra won?" beseeched Suji, looking up to her mother with begging pupils. "I have enough for both books, but I'm trying to save my money for that sweater I saw with STITCHED DREAMS the other day."
"Well sorry hun, but you were already given an extra allowance by your sister last week. You either have to pick one book or wait a bit longer for that sweater." was the dissatisfactory reply right as her mother went off to another corner.
Suji huffed in disappointment towards her mother, then returning her focus to contemplating which decision to make. The two books she was pondering on were both classical children fairytales, the number of times her mother read them to the six-year-old her was beyond countable. Due to how much her shelf was suffering from the weight of books, Suji reluctantly gave the childhood bedtime stories away for charity. However, like how she does with all childhood books, here she was now, trying to decide whether The Tale of Pinnochio or Beauty and The Beast would be more worthy of replacing the old ones.
Why specifically those two fairytales? Well, after brainstorming the story she wrote earlier in SKIPPING STONES' place, her writer's spirit urged her to continue it in more detail, saying the using The Tale of Pinnochio would help provide inspiration and prevent writer's block. Of course, she could've just look up the book online, but the Japanese term tsundoku was the word which best described her room: forever stacking up books, however never finishing them all.
