Cellophanecity @ LJ

Ailee sighed with comfort at their tangled state as Amber leaned over her. She dropped the thick textbook she had been pretending to read to her chest, her turned head resting against the soft solidness of Sunyoung’s stomach so her breath tickled against the bare skin of her thigh. The black school skirt bunched high at the junction of hip and thigh and the red lace edge of her boy leg underwear peeked out from  underneath. Ailee felt the shiver of Sunyoung's body, saw the goose bumps rolling across her skin, and was completely satisfied with the day. 

Amber rested her hand on Sunyoung's knee, fingers fanned and thumb stroking, using it as to prop to look around her, blinking lazily under the bright summer sun. In the distance she could see three bodies drifting in their own clouds of smoke and laughter, climbing over the fence to the field behind the forest, knowing just how to avoid the itchy scratch of the barbed wire that dared try to keep them out.

'They’re finally here' Amber motioned, jerking her head to the distance as the sound of laughter grew closer. ‘Jinri too.’

Sunyoung made a derisive sound in the back of her throat, pushing smoke from between her lips and passing the cigarette back for Amber to snub out. She had been hoping it would remain like this for just a little longer. The illusion was truly broken as Ailee sat up and wriggled up beside Amber instead, making room for the intruders of her fantasy.

Soojung and Victoria jostled Jinri between them, grass crunching beneath their hard soled standard issue shoes as they knocked elbows into ribs and laughed. They flopped themselves down, throwing long, slender limbs into the pile and kicked their black shoes off, their pristine white socks touching the warm green grey earth. Stains they would probably have to scrub out later under the stern eye of their headmistress, but more than worth it at the time.

'We met jinri's new oppa. you know how the last guy was an atheist, this guy drops her off in front of us, kisses her cheek all sweet and drives off with a 'god bless you' to all of us.'' Soojung snickered, propping herself up next to Sunyoung and taking her hand into her lap.

'He’s really hot,' Jinri said and, kicked Soojung before Victoria flopped down into her lap. 'I like a man with convictions.'

Victoria dropped her backpack on her stomach, using it as a prop as she emptied and passed out sealed containers of snacks via Soojung. 'I guess we should be glad to see you.' Sunyoung half teased, as she helped pop open containers and spread them out them in reach.

'I thought you liked Heechul oppa.' Ailee said, plucking a crisp from the container Sunyoung held out to her and Amber, who took a handful for the both of them, spreading them in the well of her untucked shirt.

Ailee didn't know Soojung, Jinri or Victoria as well as she did Amber and by extension, Sunyoung, the others away in other dorms and classes. In the two months she had been on campus, they had told her enough about their other friends, boyfriends, during warm nights when they could not sleep, and Ailee's cold hands were balms against Sunyoung's summer sunburnt arms and Amber's freckled shoulder and kisses were just like home.

'He was too old,' Jinri huffed, 'and I swear he was cheating with one of the girls in town.' she then opened her mouth, letting Victoria push a sweet between her lips.

'I think that means you owe me, Soojung,' Amber said, and leant over to pinch her arm, flashing her widest grin, and starting a commotion that would end with Jinri throwing hard candy with disturbing accuracy.

'I don't know where you found this guy.' victoria puffed, twirling the pendant around her neck between her fingers, a present from her boyfriend, boarding at the boys campus down the road.

'Bible studies.' jinri replied, preening her hair, down and styled in a way that headmistress would never approve of, her skirt those inches shorter than the rule.

'You went to bible studies?' Sunyoung laughed. She had roomed with Jinri when she had first arrived at the school and Jinri had raised many an eyebrow to Sunyoung’s devotion.

“I did. He was taking the class.” Jinri said, closing the conversation by stuffing kimbap into Sunyoung’s mouth.

The summer passed too quickly for Sunyoung’s taste