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Soyeon sat on her bed, scrolling mindlessly. It was the usual, some random posts her friends had uploaded in the past few weeks, which she usually liked because she wasn’t a stalker or anything but she was fond of knowing what her friends were up to.
@ning2
“happy 2 mannn”
[photo]
Hey— that didn’t look right. Ningning and Jay.. obviously were together. But she didn’t know Karina was seeing people. At least not that her top pick was her boyfriend?
Soyeon bit the inside of her cheek and tears filled her eyes. The post got blurry and all she could see was 4 silhouettes and one with dark, but noticeable red hair.
“Why is it always me?” She mumbled to herself, her voice soft and almost inaudible. “Why am I always the one with bad boyfriends?” Soyeon’s voice cracked and she started crying quietly. She didn’t even think before she dialed mina’s number into her phone.
”Mina? Where are you?”
”Just at the cafe, why?”
”Heeseung cheated again”
”Why did you even give him a second chance? Didn’t he cheat on you with her best friend Giselle? Is that just what those girls do? Pick the men who are taken?” Mina’s voice was thick with irritation, not at her just at heeseung and those girls.
”I don’t know I just wanted to stay with him”
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Mina and Soyeon were in the dorm, dried tears glistened on her cheek in the dim lighting. Mina clearly wanted to distract her, asking if she had her nails done yet or if she wanted to impulse color her hair.
”Let’s distract ourselves. Do you want to dye your hair?” Mina grinned in excitement “Or we could do your nails! I recently got a whole nail tech kit from my mom because I told her the nail salon was so expensive.”
Soyeon sniffled and smiled gratefully. “Actually I’ve been meaning to dye my hair. And do my nails.”
”Then we do both!”
Soyeon’s smile reached her ears. Nothing was better than this— at least to her.
While Mina massaged the cherry red hair dye into Soyeon’s hair, she got a call. It was from a group chat with random phone numbers and Intak.
(by now Mina and Soyeon are friends w Intak and all of them)
Mina yelled at her Siri to answer the call until Soyeon just had to press answer because apparently Siri’s abilities are below that.
“Hey!”
Intak shouted to the phone.
“Who’s in this call? Is keeho in the call?”
Theo immediately asked.
”Yes. I am. Don’t cream your pants.”
Keeho retorted almost immediately.
”Whats going on with those two?” Mina asks.
”Think of you and Sana. It’s basically just that but they’re guys.”
jongseob said.
soyeon gigged before she spoke.
”so they pretend to be enemies but they’re probably secretly hooking up?”
Mina lightly smacked her, immediately disagreeing.
”What?! I do not hook up with that hoe!”
”you could’ve fooled us. Anyways can we come over because they’re cleaning all of our dorms for a few hours? Yes? Ok thanks.”
Keeho laughed at his own ‘joke.’
”it’s not like we can say no”
Soyeon replied.
within 15 minutes there was a knock at the door that didn’t even give them a second to stand up before Intak just opened the door. It was a lot more than just Intak, Keeho, theo, jiung, jongseob, and Shota.
“hey!”
Intak called out as he walked in. Another guy followed behind him, and he looked scarily alike to Mina, but nobody said anything. At least until Mina spoke up.
”you know Riki? How do you guys know Riki?”
riki smiled with that annoying little brother grin, the one where you knew he was about to say the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard, or the deepest, most philosophical statement. Clearly this was neither.
”hey Mina. Didn’t know my friends were also yours.”
”now you do.”
Keeho raised a brow.
“You guys know each other?”
”yeah. We do.”
Mina replied, mouthing something to Riki.
”twin brother. It’s unfortunate, I know.”
intak gasped dramatically— despite being serious.
”is that why you guys look so alike?”
”let’s use our thinking caps, huh?”
Soyeon walked out of the bathroom, her hair clipped up and soaked in hair dye. Riki still had that annoying (but cute- to soyeon) smirk, and it only widened ever so slightly when he saw Soyeon.
“Are we witnessing a drama in real time?”
the dryness in theo’s voice made it so much funnier than it was, even keeho hid his smile. Mina, however, could not. She burst out laughing so hard she had to hold onto keeho’s forearm.
“probably. soyeon was telling me about some cute guy she saw on instagram who was japanese, and im pretty sure it was just riki.” jiung’s lips curled into the slightest of smirks as he said that.
soyeon smacked him in the gut in return and mina made her way to the cluttered, broken vanity they call a desk. she opened a macbook probably half her age and the lock screen was a family picture, and riki was for sure in it. it was from probably 2017, 2018? the twins were 13 and there was a little girl, but she honestly looked like she was a random kid on the beach who photobombed them. but no, that’s hikari, their sister who is now 12.
“you guys have a little sister?” keeho asked, now intrigued.
riki nodded, parting his lips to speak. “i wish we didn’t. she’s insufferable.”
mina looked personally offended and threw an old bleach brush at his shirt, scowling at his words. “hikari is objectively much better than you! at least she knows how to take care of herself, you’re 20 and you can’t even do the dishes.”
riki rolled his eyes. he could not argue.