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"Of all people you can call out at 2 AM, you chose me." The younger quirked an eyebrow up. "And I can't drink too."
"You don't have classes later." She dryly chuckled. "Aeri has a quiz on Ms. Kang's class, she can't miss it."
"Wow, very considerate of you." Yizhuo uttered with sarcasm lingering in her tone. "How about my beauty sleep then? My health? My skin cells huh?"
"Shut up, you can always hibernate whenever you want kid." Minjeong frowned, tapping the seat beside her for the younger to occupy. "Besides, Jimin won't know...unless you snitch on me."
"Hell nah, she'll have me grounded in no time if she finds out I came here." Yizhuo frowned, taking a sit beside the older. "What are you doing here anyway? I thought you don't drink."
"Hm, can't sleep." Minjeong muttered, putting down her bottle down at their table. How long has it been since she last went out for drink? She can't remember, she just know that it's been a long time since then. She couldn't sleep after doing her plates that is due on Tuesday that's why she ended up taking a walk and ended up in her cousin's gig place.
"You should have shoved a sleeping pill-"
"And..." She cut the younger's words with a glare, she tried sleeping pills before and she does not like what happened after. "I miss her so much."
"Ew." Yizhuo frowned, she and Minjeong are close that's a fact but she's never used on her being blunt about her feelings. Minjeong loves playing around you see. "You were literally just together yesterday Kim Minjeong, how lovesick are you?"
Minjeong nearly rolled her eyes, right, Yizhuo doesn't know anything. She just closed her eyes and leaned on her seat, feeling a little drowsy as she already had more than two bottles that time. "Great, now you won't answer my question." Yizhuo whined. "After I came here, sacrificed my stable sleep schedule because of your whiny ass."
"Just shut up and drink with me Yizhuo." Minjeong shot her eyes open and gave a sealed bottle to the younger who immediately shook her head.
"Hell nah!"
"Come on, you say curse words to me you can do this." She drly snickered. "Besides, Jimin won't know."
Yizhuo quirked an eyebrow. "How are you so sure?"
Minjeong pressed her lips together. "She won't, I promise that." She uttered. Yizhuo was skeptical but took the bottle anyway. Minjeong smiled for the first time that day, and wrapped an arm around the younger's shoulders as she scooted closer to her.
[You dumbass where were you? You missed the quiz you know!]
"Yeah yeah I know." Minjeong chuckled. Right, she's blockmates with Aeri but she didn't care about everything related to school anymore, and Ms. Kang likes her so she knows she'll be fine. "How was it?" She asked, as she stared at her reflection, her eyes are swollen and red.
[Hard! I hate it here, I was looking forward because you're my seat mate but you ghosted me!]
"I told you I won't attend." Minjeong giggled and yawned, it was 11 in the morning and she just woke up. It was around 5 AM when Yizhuo finally managed to pull her away from the bottles and had her freshen up first at the playground near her apartment building before throwing her drowsy being on her bed, god she can barely remember anything from last night. "Anyway, what's our schedule today? Do we still have class or?"
[Of course we do so you better get your ass here now, Jimin is looking for you too!]
"She what now?" Her eyebrow quirked up. Wow, that's a first. "What does she need?"
[What do you mean by that? She said you promised to spend lunch with her today, are you okay Minjeong? Don't tell me you forgot about it?]
Minjeong pressed her mouth together. She could hear Aeri calling her out over the phone and she knows that the older would smack the hell out of her if she's beside her. She ended the call and threw her phone away, Jimin looking for her is a first this month. Her phone rang again but she chose to ignore it knowing that it could be Aeri, she doesn't want to have her poor ear to suffer again with Aeri's constant blabbers. Minjeong lazily rose up from her bed and walked to her closet. This day would be a long day.
"Finally! Where the hell were you huh?" That was how Aeri welcomed her with a smack on her arm. "Jimin went to have lunch with Yeji and her friends instead, man if you've seen how disappointed she looked you'll probably say sorry a thousand times- no, you really will, you're whipped."
"Psh." Minjeong snickered as she kept her hands in her pockets. "You had your lunch?" She knows that she have to apologize but for some reasons she does not have the energy to do it.
"Nope, Jimin invited me but I told her I'll join when you arrive." Fuck. "Come on, I'm hungry!" She was planning on avoiding Jimin today but Aeri was always off the timing, Minjeong tried to say no but the japanese woman pretended to not hear her and pulled her to the cafeteria with her.
Minjeong internally groaned, now, how is she going to face Jimin?
It's awkward, so awkward. She's sitting in front of Yeji who had Jimin beside her. Well, she looked fine, she was laughing over a joke that Ryujin said along with Chaeryeong. They were just together yesterday, but Minjeong felt like they were never- like they didn't see each other for months.
"Minjeong, you okay?" She looked up to Yeji who lightly tapped her knuckles. "You've been staring at Jimin for minutes now."
She didn't miss the worry evident on the older's tone. "Yeah I'm fine, was just thinking of some things." She lightly smiled and unwrapped her sandwich. Minjeong remained mum the whole lunch and watching Jimin as she spend time with her friends.
"You know, you're sus." Aeri broke the silence between them. "Are you and Jimin okay? You two didn't even spare glance at one another- oh well except you, you were blatantly gawking over her."
"We're..." Minjeong whistled and looked away. Aeri looked at her as a minute passed already and she still haven't said a word. She sighed, her best friend really is dumb.
"I knew it!" Aeri exclaimed. "You're not okay right?" She rolled her eyes. "My goodness Minjeong, what's happening to you? You're not like this at all. Are you having problems with handling Jimin now?"
"We're fine Aeri, I just didn't answer for a minute." Minjeong rolled her eyes and bit her tongue. "Don't worry about us, we're fine. We've just been busy, I'll make it up to her later- Hey!" She exclaimed when the older suddenly grabbed her phone, she glared at her but Aeri didn't care.
"No, you talk to her now and ask her to spend dinner with you later, it would be fine since it's Saturday tomorrow." Aeri gave her phone back. "Go, send her a message I'm watching you."
"You're stubborn."
"If I'm stubborn then what are you?" Aeri scoffed. Minjeong ignored her and looked at her screen, her last message was left unseen and that hurt her- she thought that she is already used to it as Jimin had been doing it for weeks but she was wrong.
To Jimin:
Min, want to go out tonight?
"Min? You call her Min now? What happened to baby?" Aeri's eyebrow quirked up as she gawked over Minjeong's screen, Minjeong frowned and moved her phone away from Aeri's sight. "What?"
"Privacy please?"
"Psh, your audacity to ask for privacy when you literally crash in my room anytime of the day." Aeri rolled her eyes but Minjeong once again ignored her as her phone vibrated.
Fr. Jimin:
no
"You two are totally not okay." She ignored Aeri once again, of course she knew Jimin would say no. She has no reason to say yes after all. She snatched her phone from Aeri and faintly smiled before pulling her to their classroom before she gets bombarded with questions from the latter who looked like she was ready to grill her.
Minjeong doesn't have the energy to talk about Jimin at that moment, not when her heart was breaking and the urge of breaking down was coming to her, heck she can even feel the tears forming as her mind flashed another image of Jimin which did not help at all.
Minjeong doesn't have the energy to talk about Jimin, she thinks- no, she knows that she never will.
It was supposed to be geometry class but Minjeong decided to skip, she jumped off the gate and looked around first to make sure that no one saw her before walking away to a nearby arcade where she could kill her time. She managed to escape from Aeri who really had no plans of letting her go until she spills her tea but unfortunately for the older, Minjeong was witty. She whistled as she walked further from their University, few more weeks and she'll finally be school-free...she used to smile at that thought but with what is currently happening to her, she'd rather have schoolworks pile up to occupy her mind.
"Yeji tell me, how slow can you go? Jimin's literally waiting for us my god!" Minjeong stopped on her tracks and pulled her hood up as her ears picked up Ryujin's voice from afar.
"So what? She's used on me being late anyway!" Yeji whined as Ryujin dragged her, Minjeong pressed her lips together as she followed the two from a safe distance.
'Great, I skipped to play games but here I am' Minjeong want to smack her head so hard. She already said it to herself that she wouldn't go anywhere nearby Jimin but here she is.
"Well she's with Minhyuk okay? You know how impatient that guy is!"
"Fuck off why is she with him? He's not even our blockmate?!"
"He ran into her and boom, he insisted to join her and now they are together and what's more is that Jimin did not even say no. What did you think was the reason why I dragged you out the University huh?" Minjeong's mood and face fell down and stopped on her steps, Minhyuk...does he know? Did Jimin tell him? Or did he feel the atmosphere between them and jumped into a conclusion? For the 4th time that day, Minjeong felt her heart drop. She took a deep breath before turning her back on the duo who were getting further away from her and took her phone out. She opened her conversation with Jimin and scrolled up, she doesn't even know why- maybe to hurt herself more? to numb herself? Because after finding a certain message, she kept on re-reading it.
7:00 AM
Fr. Jimin:
Hey, Minjeong
To. Jimin:
Yes?
Fr. Jimin:
I think we should break up.