[AQ] If you want a book, RUN FOR IT. [Rai/Ji-Soo]

[rai]

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{Spoiler}The Heart’s Egg
+ Description: There’s a book on campus about all this egg business… it’d help you out a lot if you could find it to learn about everything. It might be in the library, or left in a common room; someone else might be looking for it though, or maybe you could look for it with a friend--maybe a friend even already knows about it and its whereabouts!
+ Follow Prompt: +1 Guardians, +1 Faberge, +1 Roost
+ Requirements: None
+ Submitted by Pai

    It was Tuesday, which meant practice. It might've been a little too hot outside and there might've been some people complaining, but to Rai, it was still practice. The sweat was barely beading on her forehead as she ran at the front of the small group, but that was mainly because she abandoned her track jacket back where they started in front of the school building. By now, she was down to a t-shirt and running shorts, keeping a steady pace ahead of the group as they rounded the dorm building. The sun was still beating down and Rai could tell the others were falling behind. 

    She cursed under her breath. This was why Kouya was supposed to be around. She could bark and holler at them all she wanted, but if someone wasn't covering the back of the group to make them hurry the heck up, it was pointless. She was starting to regret letting him stay at her place for so long. Asshole. There was nothing to be done, though. Might as well keep on running. They had another hour of exercises, but they were almost to the athletics building where they could stop running. It irked her how short the run was, especially since she still had just so much....adrenaline or something in her. Gah, whatever, she'd go jogging after she finished her work. She needed to get her mind off things.

    They came to a slow stop in front of the athletics building and Rai checked her watch for their time, tsking her tongue just at how long they took. She kept her groan quiet and turned back to the team, shouting out commands and exercises in a voice loud enough to be heard over the groaning and whining of the others. 

[Ji-Soo]

It was Tuesday, and like any other day, a long finger scrolled down the twitter feed on his phone. Math, ocean science, happy students; but still no sign of his roommate. The black-haired boy had spent the last week attached to his phone, waiting for any message, any sign from Kouya, but there was no luck. One thing did catch his eye though -- track. Regardless of how lazy his roommate had been about everything else, running was the one constant thing he never failed to do. It seemed that the track captain had started becoming active on the school's twitter feed and she might just be a lead.

He had waited that Tuesday in front of the gym area for the sole purpose of tracking this girl down. She had to know something. Using someone though left a bad taste in Ji-Soo's mouth, but he would figure something out; he was desperate after all, even if not many people could tell. A group of runners was heading in his direction and it was now or never. With two firm steps, Ji-Soo planted himself in the pathway of the runners with arms outstretched, holding the sketchbook in front.

"IS 1 OF U TSUKADA, RAI?? I NEED 2 TALK 2 U.", the words splayed in big font on the otherwise empty page.

[rai]

Rai veered left as Jisoo walked right in the group's way. As slow as they were actually going, the group was still taken by surprise at a person getting in their way. It was like watching water breaking on a rock, the track team trying to run around Ji-Soo and not trample him. No one stopped to read the sign. The only reaction the team made to Ji-Soo was a chorus people wheezing out, "Get out of the way!".

By the time everyone slowed to a stop, Rai was already storming her way towards Ji-Soo. She looked...furious? Fuming? It was hard to read her expressions sometimes, but it was clear that she was at least quietly angry. Whoever thought that they could just interrupt her team's practice had another thing coming for them. As she got closer to Jisoo, looking about ready to say something she paused just long enough to read his sketchbook. 

Whatever she was about to say was held back for a moment as she looked at the boy and his face. She coulda sworn that she'd seen him before in one of the second year classes. And from somewhere else, but she couldn't put her finger on where. 

As she was directly in front of him, she turned her head back to the team and hollered out a quick, "10 minute stretch down!" before turning back to Jisoo.

"I'm Tsukuda." she replied tersely, crossing her arms.

[Ji-Soo]

The girl didn't seem happy when she walked his way, stride confident and powerful. Her walk alone spoke volumes about what type of person she was; one with walls he had to jump over, but at least not someone that seemed underhanded or conniving. Yet, he knew this was to be expected when he stepped out in front of the group. If practice for his team was spontaneously interrupted as well, he would probably react similarly all things considered. However, desperation called for risky actions.

Ji-Soo knew with what he had done, he would have to work fast. His window of opportunity he had bought with that stunt was small. Flipping the sketchbook over, he quickly scratched out two sentences far less neatly than the original message had been. "I'm srry to interrupt ur practice, I need 2 ask bout 1 of ur members - Kouya. Do u know if he is ok?" The question really should have been if she knew 'where he was', considering fiasco in his dorm room a week back. But Ji-Soo knew deep down that first and foremost, this was what he wanted answered. The second line beneath had been added in as an after thought, unsure as to whether she would willingly help him or not; collateral "I can help u out in return? Maybe w/ eggs or something?"