<strong>Jeong Soo-Jin</strong><br/><strong>Location</strong>: Jeong household<br/><strong>Tag</strong>: Maggie<br/><hr/><br/>Frowning slightly, Jin pulled her cellphone away from her ear to look at the screen, checking if the call had been disconnected after not hearing anything back for a short while, but then she heard a vaguely familiar voice and put the device back to her ear. With Maggie's voice being slightly distorted by the phone, Jin failed to quite place it until the other girl introduced herself.<br/><br/>Despite not being close - even saying that they were distant friends might have been a stretch - she and Maggie did end up seeing quite a lot of each other. Jin was pretty much a regular at<em>The Fresh</em>, and then they also shared running practice and several classes together, but apart from that they were nearly complete opposites and had never exchanged more than a few words.<br/><br/>Well, except for last year when Jin had helped Maggie out with algebra. it hadn't been solely out of the goodness of her heart - some of it was simply because she'd already progressed past the material being presented in class, so helping Maggie out represented a distraction and a new challenge. Getting perfect grades for herself had gotten trivial to the point where Jin barely got any satisfaction out of it anymore, but raising Maggie's grades had felt like an accomplishment. And then, yes, there was also the fact that she was just genuinely happy to help.<br/><br/>Contrary to what most people might think based on first (or second or third) impression due to her overachieving and direct nature, Jin wasn't a cold person. She was possibly even more sensitive and empathetic than most, she just happened to be rather introverted about it the same way that she was introverted about most of her feelings and emotions. Except maybe her anger, which Jin often had less-than-stellar control over.<br/><br/>She realized that something was wrong the moment that she picked up on Maggie's voice breaking, not that receiving a call from her in the middle of the night wasn't already a pretty solid hint. "It's fine, I wasn't even sleeping," Jin replied, trying to at least not make the other girl feel bad for calling. She might have been a little annoyed had she actually been asleep, but that wasn't the case.<br/><br/>"What do you mean everyone is gone?" Jin asked for clarification. That statement could have meant anything. Was it Maggie feeling lonely and overreacting because her family had gone on vacation without her, or was she literally saying that they'd just disappeared...or was she talking about something else entirely? Jin's redheaded classmate didn't really strike her as the type to lose her cool and get dramatic over nothing, however, so she was kind of expecting it to be something more on the serious side. "Can you explain exactly what's wrong?"<br/><br/>It was while she awaited an answer that Jin got to thinking how odd it was for somebody to call her out of the blue in fear that she might have been 'gone' just a few minutes after she'd gotten that unexplainable urge to just go far away. To make herself gone. She got out of bed and took a few steps, crossing an arm over her belly and propping up her elbow from her other arm that was holding the phone against it.<br/><br/>The last words that Maggie had spoken continued to echo through her head, and before Jin knew it, that intangible feeling of being small and alone had crept up on her. That feeling when you just<em>know</em>that you're alone in a big empty house without even having to confirm that nobody else is home.