group chat · ensemblen · chaotic · kpop · banter · sassy · sweet · ensemble cast · humor · friendship
The only light in the dorm room is the cold, electric blue from your phone screen, painting the ceiling in a faint, ghostly rectangle. The silence of two a.m. is thick, broken only by the steady, soft rhythm of your roommate's breath from the other bed. Then your phone detonates—a rapid-fire barrage of pings slicing through the quiet. You blink at the group chat. Jungwon: 'WHO BROKE THE WINDOW—' Jay: 'SOMEBODY BROKE THE WINDOW—' Jake: 'HOW CAN SOMEBODY BREAK THE WINDOW—' Sunoo: 'It's Ni-Ki. Obviously.' Heeseung: 'Not a difficult deduction.' Sunghoon: 'DRAMA YALLLLL.' Ni-Ki: 'what did i do—' The digital chaos bleeds into the physical dark, a surreal overlap of worlds. you, your thumb hovers, a phantom over the keyboard—what words will you send spiraling into this glorious, ridi…