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“Kim Chaewon! Come play with me!” Chaewon heard a loud voice calling out to her. So she yelled when she saw a brown haired girl running after her.
“Mommy!” Chaewon cried out, running, screaming, yelling, crying, doing anything to get away from that girl. Instead of taking the hint, the girl only laughed as if it was a joke.
Chaewon ran all the way to her mom in the kitchen, clinging to her leg behind her with now dried tears on her face.
The other girl came in soon after, a bright smile on her face like she didn't make another girl cry from just looking at her.
Chaewon's mother looked down, a confused expression on her face. “What are you doing, Chaewon?” She spoke.
“Mommy! Jennifer! Why is she here!?” Chaewon yelled, screaming again when the girl named Jennifer came closer.
Chaewon's mom only laughed, moving her from behind her leg and making her go closer to the other girl.
“How come you like Kazuha but you don't like Yunjin? You're the unnie now so you should be nice and play with your friends. Be nice to Yunjin and go give her an apology hug.” Her mother told her, pushing her closer.
Chaewon glared at Yunjin who only smiled at her. Some of her teeth were missing and it was her in general that made Chaewon get so upset.
“Don't worry, ahjumma! Chaewon unnie might not like me right now, but I promise that she will in the future!” Yunjin declared, opening her arms wide.
“Look at you kids, always talking about the future but never knowing what you want to do tomorrow.” Chaewon's mother laughed, stopping when she saw Yunjin still having her arms out for a hug, but Chaewon only glared at her.
“Go hug Yunjin. Or else you'll get in trouble for being mean to your friend. What did I tell you?” She scolded.
“Fine!” Chaewon wrapped her arms around Yunjin's neck, letting the girl hug her while she stood on her tippy toes.
Yunjin leaned down to match her height, placing a wet kiss on her cheek with a giggle.
Chaewon didn't like Yunjin all that much. Actually, record scratch. Now rewind. Chaewon hated Yunjin's existence all because of this one accident that they had.
Yunjin stole her first kiss right in front of her crush! Chaewon has a crush on this boy in her class named Sunghoon but on the day she finally gathered enough courage to talk to him, Yunjin had came and tripped over her feet and ended up knocking both of them over and kissed her!
“Stupid Jennifer…” Chaewon murmured into the crook of her neck.
“I already said sorry.” Yunjin responded without a single care in the world.
“Look at you cuties interacting, let mommy get a picture of this.” She took out her phone, snapping pictures from every possible angle to probably go show her friends at work how her kid is interacting with other kids and being so friendly.
Chaewon thinks that maybe she's trying to prove to this one lady at her job who swears that her child has the same anger issues and problems as her. She doesn't.
“Sorry doesn't cut it, give it back!” Chaewon whined, pinching Yunjin's mouth with one hand while the other hit her in the shoulder.
Yunjin only laughed, pulling away and running from her.
Chaewon screamed out in frustration, chasing after her and hearing her mom say, “Let me delete these not so friendly ones so that petty bitch can leave me alone…”
The two of them ran around the house, ending up in Chaewon's brothers' room. Sunoo was one of them, Felix was her other brother. Right now, they were in Sunoo's room.
Sunoo was startled and started to scream with Chaewon, not getting it until he saw Yunjin. “Stop this violence!”
“I said stop this violence!” He yelled again, going ignored by the two.
Yunjin ran out of the room laughing, a very angry Chaewon chasing after her and a stunned and speechless Sunoo left in his room.
“I'm gonna file a lawsuit again you and send you to jail, Jennifer!” Chaewon yelled on the top of her lungs
Well, this was their life.
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“Kim Chaewon, come walk with me!” Yunjin called out when she saw Chaewon exiting out of her house.
Chaewon groaned, walking faster so Yunjin couldn't catch up to her.
“Hey, I know you can hear me! Indulge in me for this one time?” Yunjin pleaded when she caught up to her, looping their arms together.
Chaewon glared at her despite knowing it doesn't have an affect on her.
“I'm gonna sue you for harassment and make them send you to juvenile, Yunjin.” She threatened.
“Getting sent to juvy by the Kim Chaewon? It'll be a pleasure.” Yunjin sighed in fake amazement, earning a kick to the crotch.
Chaewon smiled in satisfaction when Yunjin doubled over in pain, continuing to walk ahead while the girl struggled behind her.
“Well, damn,” Yunjin groaned out, standing back up and walking next to her with a limp in her step. “Where are Lix and the pretty boy?” She asked, rubbing the area where Chaewon kicked.
The girl in question gave her a look of disgust. “First of all, ew. Second, they both had a game today so they won't be attending school.” She answered, the look not going away until Yunjin moved her hand from the spot.
“First of all,” Yunjin mimicked her tone. “I was not touching anywhere near there, I was rubbing my thigh. And second,” She paused, looking thoughtfully to the right.
“They say people look to the right while thinking because they don't know what to say.” Chaewon murmured after a while. Yunjin directed her gaze to the left before shrugging.
“There is no second of all.” Yunjin ended up saying. For the rest of the walk to school, they stayed silent. Chaewon surprisingly didn't complain about Yunjin being in her precious presence, and Yunjin surprisingly stayed silent.
The days when it used to be horrible were the days when they were 5 and 6, now they are 12 and 13, attending the same middle school. Unfortunately for Chaewon, they had the same classes and sat at the same table.
They had their own friends that Yunjin wouldn't consider each other. Yunjin had a good three out of her popular circle. Minji, Hanni, and Kazuha. She doesn't know why Kazuha chose her over Chaewon in a way, but who is she to complain? She still loves Kazuha the same.
While Chaewon, she hangs out with Miyeon, Sakura, Sunghoon, and Garam. But Yunjin thinks that Chaewon talks about her in a bad way to Sakura because everytime she sees her and Kazuha together, she glares daggers at them. Kazuha never notices because she's always telling her about how she skipped yet another grade and almost failed last year.
Thankfully, her crush on Sunghoon went away after she found out he was gay and actually had a thing for her brother, Sunoo. But now she likes this guy named Choi Yeonjun and Yunjin has to say that he literally took her name and spelt it differently.
Yunjin also has to say that her taste in boys was disgusting.
When they both arrived at the school building, they still stayed silent until they went inside the school building.
“I'm gonna go join the others up there…” Chaewon broke the silence, sparing Yunjin a precious glance from her sacred eyes.
“Can I walk you, please?” Yunjin backed up a bit, holding out her hand. Chaewon stared at it in disgust but took her hand in hers.
Yunjin cheered silently next to her, intertwining their hands properly.
When they approached Chaewon's group, the surprise on their faces was too hard to even try to ignore.
“What?” Chaewon snapped.
“Woah, woah, woah. Calm down, Chae. We didn't even say anything yet!” Sunghoon said, and Yunjin gave him a look of disgust. She only wiped it off of her face when she saw Chaewon give her a look.
“Exactly, yet.” She murmured, turning to Yunjin and letting go of her hand. Yunjin let out a disappointed sigh and let Chaewon push her back into the lockers.
“Here we go again. You just had to say something and mess it up for me, huh? Watch your back, Park Sunghoon.” Yunjin said in all seriousness, looking like she wasn't joking for the first time in forever.
“Jennifer,” Chaewon quickly interjected, lifting up a hand to place it on Yunjin's bare arm. The girl immediately softened up and looked at her eagerly. “Walk with me to class later?” She asked in a soft voice.
“Sure! Anything you want. What period?” Yunjin stood back to her full height, placing her hands on Chaewon's shoulders.
“For the rest of the periods, and if we aren't late at all, I'll watch your soccer practice today and cheer you on for the big game next week.” Chaewon bribed, hearing familiar voices come from the side of them. She could tell Kazuha and her other friends were about to walk in on them.
Chaewon made a dirty move, and she herself knows it. She's making Yunjin choose between hanging out with her friends because she has no practice after school, or completely ditching them to entertain her right now.
But Yunjin is a smart dumbass and never takes her words into consideration, that's why she even tried. She groaned inwardly.
“I don't have soccer practice after school, though…” She frowned, visibly disappointed. “Sorry, but I can still walk you to class?”
Deciding that she played with Yunjin enough, Chaewon nods. Yunjin jumped in joy and opened her arms wide for a hug. Chaewon glared at her but wrapped her arms around Yunjin's neck.
“You're an idiot…” Chaewon murmured into the crook of her neck.
“You still put up with this idiot.” Yunjin replied, slowly letting go of her when people started to stare. “Catch you later, Chae!”
“Alright, don't trip and fall!” Chaewon called out with no actual worry in her voice.
“Fall for you? Already did!” The Yunjin pretended to trip and almost fall, earning a humorless laugh from Chaewon as she turned back to her friends.
“Okay, explanation is needed now. What's up with you two? Did you finally confess your secret feelings for her and she accepted you?” Garam questioned, the rest of them starting to surround her.
“You need to make up your mind, Chaechae. Do you like her, or do you not like her?” Sakura said, taking the place beside her.
“What she said, are you guys dating?” Miyeon chimed in, a hopeful look in all of their eyes.
“Please tell me you finally got your head out of your ass and somebody confessed.” Sunghoon added, clasping both of his hands together.
“Nobody confessed, let's clear that mess up.” Chaewon glared at all four of them, earning a bunch of groans as they moved away from her. “Why would anybody confess, anyway? It's not like I like Jennifer like that, and she doesn't like me like that either!” She added. This time, Chaewon earned a bunch of glares back.
“Oh my fucking—Yunjin likes y—” Sunghoon started to say but got hit in the back of his head harshly by Miyeon, making him stumble over and hit his head on the lockers.
Chaewon gasped, rushing over to help him. “What the hell was that for!?” She yelled out, a few students starting to murmur while Sakura and Garam only tried to hold in their laughter.
“Sorry, not sorry. My hand slipped. You know how I get when you guys start to use big curse words around little ole' me!” Miyeon said with a blank smile, checking her wrist as if she had a watch on it. “Well, won't you look at the time! Let's head to class. He can walk it off on the way there.”
“It hurts…”
“You'll be fine, baby boy.”
“I'm in so much pain.”
“Actions have consequences.”
“Help me…”
“What was that?”
“…”
“Good boy.”
The two disappeared down the hallway, Sakura muttering a quick goodbye before taking Garam with her.
“You two don't even have the—” Chaewon's voice faded as they disappeared off into the crowd. “—same classes…” She stood there confused. What was Sunghoon going to say that was so important for her to not hear that Miyeon shut him up forcefully? Miyeon of all people. Yunjin likes what? Who?
Yunjin likes yarning? Yearning? What are other words with Y?
Yarn, yearn, yodel, you. There's a lot that she can't think of. It has to be a thing and not a person, right? Right.
Speaking of Yunjin, here she comes with Kazuha right next to her, a laid back expression on her face.
“Am I late?” Yunjin asked, “Hope you don't mind if Kazuha joins us? She shares the same class as us, if you didn't know.”
“I do know, and it's fine. Let's just go.” Chaewon sighed, half expecting Yunjin to hold her hand or loop their arms together. But she didn't, she only let Chaewon walk ahead, and stayed back with Kazuha. She tried to not let her disappointment show on her face.
“So, Jen, what are you doing after school?” She heard Kazuha ask her.
“Chaewon, why?”
Both of them gasped and stopped walking. Yunjin bumped into her, wrapping an arm around her waist to keep Chaewon steady. “Why are we stopping?” She asked.
Chaewon turned around slowly in her arms, glancing at Kazuha. She saw the girl having a strained look on her face, looking like she was trying to hold back something similar to a laugh.
“Was it something I said?” Yunjin tried again.
Chaewon just shook her head towards Kazuha, the girl only nodding her head in a silent agreement.
“Why are you two communicating silently?” Yunjin pulled away from Chaewon with a frown, bumping into a student and giving a short apology.
“Nothing,” Chaewon coughed, feeling her face heat up. “It's nothing.” She repeated.
“What she said, I think she just saw that student kissing somebody like I did and we both were shocked!” Kazuha said, scratching the back of her head.
“You always see Yuri and Minju kissing each—nevermind.” Yunjin backed away from the both of them, her once happy demeanor now gone.
Kazuha gave Chaewon a confused look, earning a shrug in response.
Yunjin walked ahead, looking disappointed that she wasn't let in on whatever was going on.
For the rest of the day, Yunjin walked Chaewon to her classes, staying silent each time. But who was she to question her behavior? It's not like they were dating or anything. So she let Yunjin be.
But Chaewon was left with a newfound feeling that she didn't want to discover.
Why did her heart flutter when Yunjin said that and then held her like that? She had been holding her like that for how long? It must've been what she said that flustered her momentarily. Not Yunjin in general.
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Chaewon sat in Yunjin's room, laying on her bed, in her clothes, and playing on her phone at that. She was comfortable, what can she say?
After they graduated from the 8th grade, they all separated during the spring break. During that time, everyone had changed in a way.
Miyeon and Sakura came back blonde. The only difference is that Miyeon has kept her hair long, while Sakura went short. There was a noticeable difference in the colors, though.
Sunghoon had came back somewhat similar. He got taller, buffed out, started wearing more boyish clothes to the point where they thought he became straight. His hair grew longer, and he looked more like an actual boy than the twink they met during kindergarten. But he kept his hair black, and his voice got deeper.
Kazuha didn't do much to her appearance, but she also got taller and Chaewon could see the difference in her build. She was more athletic than when Chaewon used to play tag with her in her backyard when they were just kids. But Kazuha has always been fast. She became more silent than she usually is, but other than that, she's still Kazuha. A hot goofy loser.
Chaewon herself had changed since middle school. She cut her hair short and into a bob, then she dyed it back to black and dyed a few strands blonde to test out colors. It was easier to maintain in a way, so she decided to keep it like that for a while.
But Yunjin, she had dyed her hair red, she got taller, and she overall looks like someone's gay and straight awakening. Chaewon hates how tall she is sometimes, only because Yunjin knows how to manhandle her in all the right ways that she refuses to say or admit to. Maybe it's the teenage hormones. Other than that, she learned how to tolerate Yunjin more now that they were all mature.
Gram didn't change that much from last year despite dying the hair black and losing some weight. She had been taking acting classes and started to pursue her career as an actor. But Chaewon wants to know what is up with everyone going with black hair. She wants to change hers now.
Hanni and Minji were different cases, the two of them came back announcing that they were dating. She supports them, but she worries for Hanni because she had decided to take up soccer this year and leave the dance club behind. Yunjin had insisted on training her, so she has every right to worry about them. Yunjin is reckless on the field. Her and Kazuha. She still doesn't know how they made it as the best players.
So here she was now, laying in Yunjin's bed, wearing her clothes. It was an oversized shirt, but she took off the pants earlier.
Why was she playing on Yunjin's phone? Because the girl in front of her gave it to her while she went to go change into something more comfortable and she just happened to know the password.
Speaking of Yunjin, here she comes.
“Kim Chaewon.” She groaned, grabbing her by the legs when she crawled up from the end of the bed, pulling her closer which resulted in Chaewon having to spread out her legs to wrap them around Yunjin's waist.
“Why do you always get into my bed without any pants?” Yunjin said, reaching for her phone.
Chaewon moved it out of her reach. “Is that complaining I hear, Huh Yunjin?”
“Complaining about the Kim Chaewon? I could never.” She reached for her phone again, whining when the older girl pulled it out of reach.
“Why are you trying to take it? Got something to hide, Yunjin? Secret boyfriend? Secret girlfriend?” Chaewon teased, squeezing her legs that were wrapped around Yunjin's waist tighter, earning a hiss of pain.
“I'm convinced that you just like seeing me suffer. And I would never have anything to hide besides those fanfics you always catch me reading.” Yunjin admitted, stopping the one-sided battle to get her phone and pulling back, only to be brought back closer until she was hovering over Chaewon.
“I wonder what would happen if someone caught us in this position…” Chaewon murmured, grabbing Yunjin's hand and wrapping it around her neck. “I could file a harassment lawsuit and have you sent to juvenile, HEL—” Chaewon started to scream, only to get her mouth covered by Yunjin.
“Oh my fucking God, Kim Chaewon!” Yunjin snapped, grabbing her phone and putting it back in the safety of her pocket before she got off of Chaewon, grabbing her blanket and wrapping it around the older girl in a cocoon. “File me for that!”
Yunjin walked to her closet while the girl struggled, searching around for pants and ignoring the muffled screams.
When the screams stopped, she took it as Chaewon just giving up her fight until it got too silent.
“Chaewon? You okay in there?” Yunjin called out without turning around, too engrossed in the task in front of her.
“I'm okay,” Chaewon said from behind her.
Wait, behind her?
Before Yunjin could react, she felt her vision go dark as she struggled against the blanket, falling to the floor and wriggling around in what should've been Chaewon's cocoon.
“That's dirty.” Her muffled voice came out while she struggled.
“You did it to me first, so your dirty.” Chaewon kicked her in the side, earning a muffled grunt. She smiled in satisfaction.
“I'll help you out once I invest in a pair of pants.” Chaewon stepped over her and walked into the walk-in closet, taking her time to find a pair of shorts before putting them on, walking back over Yunjin's resting spot and heading towards the room door.
“Wait, I think I forgot something. What was it? Maybe it was downstairs. Where is Yunjin, though? Jennifer! Did you leave already!” Chaewon stepped out of the room and closed the door behind her, hearing a bunch of muffled screams coming from behind the closed doors before the sound of something falling mixed with another grunt.
Chaewon only laughed and headed downstairs. She was surprised to see Sunghoon, Kazuha, Sakura, and Hanni all sitting in the living room already.
“When did you guys get here?” Chaewon questioned, fixing her hair and sitting down in the single chair with a satisfied huff.
“Oh, Chaewon! You're already here, that's a first. But Yunjin invited us over today since her parents went away on vacation.” Sunghoon said, his cheeks stuffed with what she assumes are the bag of chips in his hands.
“She did, didn't she… anyway. I slept over here two days ago and I've been here since.” Chaewon stated bluntly, taking some snacks off of the table. “Me and Yunjinie live right next door.” She added after a while, seeing them all groan in disappointment.
“Where is Yunjin, anyway?” Hanni asked, glancing towards the stairs.
“Go into her room and you'll find out.” Chaewon said with a proud smirk, leaning back into her chair.
“Okay…” Hanni said slowly but didn't make a move to get up, “She might have intentions to murder me specifically, Kazuha, you go.” Hanni nudged the girl who was sitting next to her.
“But what if she knew that I would go for you, and actually is out to kill me? Hoon, you go.” Kazuha threw a chip his way, which landed in his hand.
“Hear me out, what if she knew this would happen and actually wants to kill me? Sakura should go.” He nodded his head towards Sakura, eating the chip in his hand.
“Imagine if I was the target, you should go and die for me, be romantic or something.” Sakura kicked her feet up, snatching a chip bag from Hanni.
“You're the man, Hoon, go for us.” Hanni encouraged.
“Oh, but I was the twink in daycare, the gay twink in middle school, and now I'm a man? How time changes.” He grumbled but still got up, making his way towards the stairs.
“I dunno where you guys get these delusions from, but if I had intentions to kill you, I would announce it so proudly like,” Chaewon paused, waiting for Sunghoon to reach the stairs. “Sunghoon, when you go upstairs, expect a hitman that I hired to kill you, Jennifer is actually dead.”
“Well that just does everything to ease my worries?” Sunghoon said sarcastically but went up the stairs anyway.
“So now that he's gone, who's dying?” Kazuha leaned forward in all seriousness.
“You are, I just needed the strongest one gone so I can take you all out.” Chaewon responded with the same expression, slowly guiding her hand to her side.
As if in cue, a not so manly scream was heard from upstairs right when her hand reached her pocket, making the three girls scramble up to run away and start screaming.
Hanni grabbed Kazuha, dragging the girl with her to use her as a shield. Sakura was grabbed by Kazuha, being lifted off of her feet as a human barrier.
“Guess what, Yunjin wasn't dead! She was just—I leave for one minute.” Sunghoon jumps down the last few stairs, a rough looking Yunjin followed right behind him.
They watched the sight of Chaewon laughing in silence while the other three scrambled to get up, poor Hanni being squished between the both of them.
“That was not a funny joke…” Sakura dusted herself off, sending a glare Kazuha's way, the girl only looked down.
“Remind me to never let Chaewon catch me off guard.” Yunjin muttered, walking over to said girl in question and pulled her out of her seat. Yunjin took over her seat, sitting back like a stressed teenager. Chaewon stood there dumbfounded before she sighed and sat in Yunjin's lap.
“We get it, you love each other.” Sunghoon dared to say, earning a slap to the back of his head.
“I've had enough of this—stop abusing me!?” He shouted, turning around to find the culprit of his abuse, only to be met with three innocent looking faces. “I give up.”
Sunghoon sat down with a frustrated sigh, Hanni sitting next to him. Kazuha took a spot next to Sakura, fidgeting under the girl's glare.
“Dear God, may this be the last time I interact with these delinquent kids.” Yunjin muttered, letting out yet another sigh.
“Stop harassing my ass, Yunjin.” Chaewon said loudly, earning a look of shock from everybody, including the target herself.
“Oh my God. I swear she's set on sending me to jail.” Yunjin groaned, not even trying to defend her case.
“Damn right, I am. You know I never liked you, right? I hate you so much that it hurts me to explain my hatred to you right now.” Chaewon opened her eyes wide while glaring at her, expecting some type of reaction.
“Yet here you are, explaining yourself to me while sitting in my lap. I'll never understand you, know that?” Yunjin only sighed once again, leaning back in the seat.
“How you two handled each other for years? I'll never understand.” Hanni swung her legs up until they were comfortably in Sunghoon's lap. She leaned back until she was laying her head in Kazuha's lap, staring dead into the girl's soul with intent.
“Please don't look at me like that. I'm not Minji and I'm definitely not into what she has you got going on.” Kazuha immediately said, looking anywhere but at the two girls staring at her.
“Minji has nothing to do with this. Do you have a crush on her or something? Are you trying to get into a threesome, Nakamura Kazuha?” Hanni rambled without a single thought in her head.
“Stop harassing Zuha and let her breathe. You know how anxious she gets under too much attention.” Yunjin tried to be the peacemaker, only getting a light slap to the face.
“Okay, no. Did you guys not see that? And she's the one that wants me in jail!”
“No one will believe you, Yunjinie. Absolutely no one.” Chaewon caressed her face, staring into those boba like eyes.
“Chaewon.” Yunjin started.
“Hm?”
“Don't ever just randomly fall for me one day, your taste is horrible and it would make me look bad.” Yunjin pleaded in all seriousness, earning another slap to the face.
“As if I'd fall for anyone like you. I'm way past your league, Jen.” Chaewon pointed to Yunjin's chest, drawing a heart over it.
“That hurt me and it wasn't even directed towards me…” Sakura grumbled, holding her heart as if she was stabbed.
“Imagine how much it hurt Yunjin if it hurt us without it even being said to us.” Kazuha added on, a visible frown on her face.
Hanni shook her head in disappointment, nudging Sunghoon with her foot.
“Huh? Oh, no seriously. If I was Yunjin, I'd want a proper kiss, like a full make out session as an apology!” Sunghoon held his heart, coughing dramatically, which sounded like a cover up for “Go along with it, you idiots.”
Sakura immediately understood the assignment, “Even I agree. I'd honestly expect that type of apology.”
“No literally, especially if they said that to me.” Hanni glanced over to gauge Chaewon's reaction, only finding Yunjin's face as red as her hair and Chaewon with a completely normal expression.
“Nevermind that. Lets get this show on the road! Yunjin, I know that you have Monopoly somewhere here.” Chaewon stood from her spot, leaning over to take out some board games.
For the rest of the day, the house was filled with laughter, screams, and yelling.
They all played and played and played and played until the sun went down. Even when it got dark, the settled on the couch and played a movie.
Kazuha was laid out on the first half of the couch with a blanket over her, while Sunghoon took over the other half. She had Sakura laying with her under the blanket to watch the movie because Hanni had purposely suggested that they all laid like this to get comfortable, but she ended up on Sunghoon and left Kazuha to deal with this girl who was constantly glaring at her.
Imagine how much it shocked her poor soul when Sakura just agreed without a single complaint.
Yunjin and Chaewon had gone back to their original positions on the single couch, with Chaewon sitting on her lap and the blanket covering their lower half after Chaewon wanted to take off her pants again.
Of course, they all took a picture before choosing the movie. Memories mattered.
They decided to watch the all famous All Of Us Are Dead.
It seemed like almost everybody was scared.
“Hoon…” Hanni whispered to him, earning a hum back in response.
“I kinda got an itch down there…” She admitted.
“You dirty—fine. I have to admit that my balls were itchy a few moments ago. But I didn't scratch it!” He whispered harshly, his eyebrows furrowing.
“My ass is itchy. Just letting you know before I scratch it.” She murmured, looking around the room before sneaking her hand down.
Hanni let out a sigh of relief once she got the itch, lifting her hand back up and sliding off of Sunghoon and on to the floor.
“Guys I'm gonna head to the bathroom to wash my hands. I just scratched my ass and it felt so good.” Hanni announced before disappearing down one of the multiple hallways downstairs.
“Oh, so that's what that movement under the blanket was. I thought that it was just Sunghoon rubbing his dick to get some motion.” Kazuha said suddenly, earning a bunch of surprised laughs from around the room, the movie momentarily forgotten.
Until Hanni bursted into the room, making them all scream.
“Shut the fuck up! Emergency soccer club meeting, now!” She shouted, making Yunjin and Kazuha perk up immediately.
“I'm a rookie in the soccer club, does that count?” Sunghoon asked, still sitting up.
“Excuse me for a moment, Chae.” Yunjin patted her thigh, making her stand to get up, then sitting her back down and making her way over to Hanni.
Kazuha took a moment to register what was going on before adjusting herself to get up without disturbing Sakura too much.
“Private ESC meeting?” Kazuha murmured, dragging Sunghoon with them upstairs.
They stood in Yunjin's room, Hanni walking over to the window and gesturing for them to come look.
Once the three stood at the window, there was a person dressed in all black, trying to break into the neighboring house next to Chaewon's.
“Hanni, you dumbass, that's Yunjin's house! Why would you bring us up here when we were the target? You left Kkura and Chaewon down there!” Sunghoon gasped, and Hanni covered her mouth with both of her hands.
“Wait, no. They were just over there!” Hanni pointed to the house on the other side of Chaewon's.
“Down there, coming here!” Yunjin slapped the back of her head lightly, earning another gasp from Sunghoon.
“Forget about where they're coming from, fuck that! We left those two idiots downstairs!” Kazuha reminded.
“Defenseless!” She added, earning yet another gasp from Sunghoon. “And one of them didn't have any pants on!” This time, she earned a gasp from Sunghoon and Yunjin.
“Don't think I didn't see those bare legs Jennifer Huh.” Kazuha gave her a pointed look, and this time, she earned a gasp from all three of them.
“Wait, I'm so sorry for what I'm about to say,” Sunghoon fiddled with his pants, earning everybody's attention in the room.
“If you say what I think you're going to say…” Hanni warned.
“I'm gonna say what you think I was gonna say!” He whined, shaking her by the shoulders.
“What is he going to say?” Yunjin asked.
“Sunghoon, what are you going to say?” Kazuha added.
“He gets… where do you think Sunghoon goes during game days when he disappears a few moments before it starts?” Hanni ran a hand through her hair.
“He goes to the locker room to use the bathroom…?” Kazuha said.
“Why does he do that?” Hanni questioned.
“Because he gets nervous about t—oh my fucking God, Park Sunghoon. You don't.” Yunjin groaned, hearing a knock on the door downstairs.
“I do!”
“What does he have to do!?” Kazuha looked between the three of them. Yunjin exited out of the room, running towards the stairs.
“He gets… Sunghoon has to use the bathroom when he gets nervous.” Hanni explained.
“You fucking bitch, go use the bathroom in Yunjin's room. Hurry up.” Kazuha slapped his back, pushing him towards the other side of the room. Sunghoon nodded and ran off towards the bathroom. A few moments later, Yunjin came back into the room with Chaewon and Sakura. She sat them both on her bed, lifting up Hanni and taking Kazuha with her.
“Sunghoon's in the bathroom!” She called out to them before shutting the door.
Another knock was heard on the door when the three of them arrived downstairs.
“Look tired!” Yunjin murmured, messing up her hair. She set Hanni down, her and Kazuha already looking a mess from being dragged down here.
After a moment, Yunjin slowly opened the door to two strange masked people.
“Who is it?” She grumbled, rubbing her eyes.
“Babe, who's at the door this time…?” Hanni scratched her stomach, wrapping her arms around Yunjin's waist.
“What's going on over here, baby? You two need to come back to bed.” Kazuha pretended to come down the stairs, peeking her head out of the door.
Yunjin coughed into her hand, raising an eyebrow at the two strange people.
“This house belongs to Jennifer Huh, right?” One of them asked, reaching behind their backs.
Yunjin looked between Hanni and Kazuha, Hanni's hand shook as she reached over Yunjin and pulled Kazuha into a kiss.
A gagging noise was heard before the two of them pushed past Yunjin, Hanni making Kazuha pin her to the door frame while she wrapped her arms around Kazuha's neck.
Yunjin refused to look at them, a single tear falling down her face while she spoke with a strained voice. “Sorry, they get like this sometimes. But Jennifer Huh? I do know a name that goes somewhat like that.”
The other person glanced at Kazuha and Hanni, who were now full on making out on the door frame, Kazuha's hand going up Hanni's shirt.
“Tell us where she lives, now.” The other spoke, pulling out a gun.
Kazuha and Hanni didn't stop making out, Yunjin groaned inwardly. She couldn't take anything seriously like this.
“I said I knew a name, not that I knew her full information. Why are you asking anyway?” Yunjin wiped away a stray tear.
Before anyone could speak, a gunshot echoed throughout the house.
Yunjin got shot.
Kazuha and Hanni pulled away from each other, only seeing blood on Yunjin's shirt on her torso.
Hanni gagged, covering her mouth.
“Don't worry, it only grazed my side “ Yunjin's hand connected with the guy's face, a few professional and swift hand movements before the gun was in her hand.
“Well, let's see how you take a bullet to the side.” Yunjin said before pulling the trigger, making sure that she didn't just aim for the side and directly for the middle of the person's stomach.
“Oh my God. I'm never recoveri—hugh—” Kazuha ran outside, going to throw up in one of the bushes.
“Help would be nice!?” Yunjin shouted, throwing the gun to the side and attacking the other person who stood there, putting them in a chokehold and letting them struggle for a while before Yunjin pushed the person to the ground.
She stepped back a few steps before lifting her foot and licking the person in the head like it was a soccer ball. It instantly knocked them out.
She leaned down, taking off the mask. “Male for this one…” Yunjin murmured, stepping over the dude's now limp body to take the mask off of the other. “A female.”
Kazuha came back from throwing up in the bush, the shock evident on her face. “Holy shit, when did they get here?” She stared wide eyed, hearing footsteps coming from inside the building.
“What the fuck happened to Hanni?” Sunghoon gaped at the girl curled up into a ball on the floor. He bent down, patting her on the back.
“What the hell happened to Kazuha?” Sakura gave the roughed up girl a once over.
“Fuck that, why is Yunjin holding a gun and there's two strangers holding on the floor?” Chaewon watched as they all looked at Yunjin, who just picked up the gun she threw a few moments ago.
Chaewon walked over to her, lifting up her shirt. “Okay, the abs are still saved, we can rest in peace.” She announced, earning a few relieved sighs and a confused Yunjin. “But she is hurt.” Chaewon got a few groans in response.
“Call the police or something, I need to go purify myself and swear on my soul that I'll never speak of what happened here.” Kazuha sighed, going back into the house. Sakura took out her phone, dialing 119.
“This is the last time that my parents leave me home alone. Let me go watch that show while Kim Chaewon bandages me up.” Yunjin dragged Chaewon back inside, the girl going with no complaints.
“Police are on the way, who wants to pull an all-nighter before Yunjin gets grounded!” Sakura cheered, the house erupting in agreements, only one of them protesting.
“What about the bodies outside?” Sunghoon asked.
“Forget about it, let's get this party restarted!” Kazuha yelled, the house once again erupting in cheers.
Again, this was just their life.
—
Yunjin found herself sitting in the hospital lobby again. Not for her, for Chaewon.
After they all went into they're senior year in high school, they started to take school seriously and the once big group they had started to fade because they all stopped kidding around and started to focus on future careers.
Over the years, they all changed in a way.
First, Chaewon grew her hair out a bit more and dyed it blonde. Yunjin got extra affection for her compliments. The most that has changed about her is that she became a trainee at Blessing Entertainment. After deciding that she wants to follow after her mom's path of being famous, she started making Yunjin help her train and when the younger girl saw that she had talent for producing, she started making music.
Sunghoon had joined her in a way, because he became a solo Idol. He saw that soccer held no future for him, and gave up on it to become a singer. Though they barely get to see him anymore because of it. When he visited and saw that Chaewon had gone blonde, he decided to join her and went blonde himself. The industry and the fans went wild over it.
Sakura had dyed her hair brown and she told her that Kazuha and her started to go out during the middle of the first year, but now Sakura had been admitted to a mental hospital and she barely gets to have visits because of how strict that hospital is. Kazuha had been under the weather for a while, but she seems to be getting better after moving into an apartment that was meant for her and Sakura.
Yunjin had cut her hair short and dyed it to blue, she swears that it's going to be the last time she dyes it to let her hair rest in peace. But other than that, she had been hanging around this high schooler called Hong Eunchae.
Hanni didn't change that much, her and Minji are still together and she looks the same from those years before. Maybe she got shorter? Chaewon thinks she got shorter.
Miyeon hasn't been keeping contact that much because she also joined this K-pop group, while Garam had focused more on her acting career. Which is where Yunjin met Eunchae, she actually ended up pretending to be Garam's bodyguard because the pay was amazing and met Eunchae on the job and found out she was a rising actor at her age.
But why was Chaewon in the hospital? She was there because she overworked herself in the practice room and today was her release date. Yunjin had been interacting with books and studying for weeks for an upcoming exam in college. Life after high school was horrible.
So here she was, sitting in the hospital and writing down lyrics for a new song to give to Chaewon. Most of the songs she writes, she gives them to Chaewon. Her personal hits under her artist name, Jennifer Huh, were I ≠ Doll and Blessing In Disguise. While the hits from the songs she wrote to give to Chaewon were Love you twice and Raise y_our glass.
“Yunjin unnie, why am I here with you?” The person beside her asked. It was Eunchae.
“Because the girl that I'm coming to pick up hates me so much that if I'm caught walking with her alone she'd say I harassed her and file a lawsuit against me.” Yunjin said bluntly, not looking up from her book once.
“Oh. Really?” Eunchae leaned forward to look at her reaction. Yunjin closed her book and put it in her bag, giving the girl a firm nod.
“So serious.” Yunjin put on her backpack, getting to her feet and helping Eunchae up.
“The other reason is that I need to walk you to work before I head back home to rot in books.” Yunjin joked, earning a laugh as a response.
While the two conversed, Chaewon came into view, Yunjin stopping midway from what she was saying to look her way. “She's as beautiful as ever…” She murmured.
“Why won't you just confess already, unnie?” Eunchae asked.
“You'll see why.” Yunjin sighed.
“Yah, Huh Yunjin!” Chaewon glared at her, walking over to her direction at a rapid pace. “Why the hell—” She swatted at her, missing when Yunjin moved out of the way. “Are you interacting with a fucking—” She tried to hit her again, only to miss when Yunjin kept dodging. “Minor!” Chaewon kicked her in the crotch, making her double over in pain.
“I should file a lawsuit against you for real this time and have—” Chaewon started to say.
“And have me sent to jail. What is with you and wanting to send me behind bars, is that some sort of kink you got going on?” Yunjin groaned out in pain, earning a kick to the side.
“I hope your fans see how you treat me…” She wheezed out, using her arms as protection while Chaewon continued to harass her.
“Uhm, can you stop injuring her in a hospital?” Eunchae spoke, fully regretting it when she looked her way so she quickly added a very rushed, “I mean, I don't mind this behavior but I have to be back to my area in 30 minutes. It's a 10 minute walk but Yunjinie likes to buy me food.”
Chaewon stopped kicking Yunjin, letting the girl get up on her own.
Yunjin stood up, dusting herself off as if it was an ordinary thing. She wrapped her arm around Chaewon's shoulder, holding out her other hand for Eunchae to take.
Eunchae took her hand, a bright smile on her face as the walked towards the exit.
“Time to walk my favorite girls to their destination!” Yunjin pulled away to open the door for them, getting a mini bow from Eunchae and receiving the bird from Chaewon.
The day had went by semi quickly, with Yunjin buying Eunchae food as usual and walking her to her company building.
Instead of being Chaewon where she needed to be immediately, she spent most of the time walking with her until she took her back to Blessing Entertainment.
“Guess this is where we part.” Chaewon murmured, staring up at Yunjin.
“It doesn't have to be. I can walk you up?” Yunjin tried to offer, only getting a shake of the head.
“You know how I have a fanbase now?” Chaewon redirected the conversation and wrapped her arms around Yunjin's neck, playing with the baby hairs on her neck.
“Mhm. What about it?” Yunjin placed her hands on her hips, rubbing the clothed skin around that area.
“If they caught us like this, I could finally file a lawsuit against you and have you sent to jail. HELP M—” Chaewon started to scream, getting her mouth covered by Yunjin.
“I'm sick of your shit, Chaewon! My fucking god!” Yunjin lifted her up over her shoulder, fighting against Chaewon's kicking and struggling to get back down, ignoring the screams in her ear.
“HELP ME, CALL THE COPS!” Chaewon yelled, disappearing off into her company building. The onlookers stared in confusion, not knowing if to call someone or go on about their day. But people had lives to live and places to get to, so they ignored it.
Chaewon's screams died down when she got into her building, still being carried by Yunjin.
Yunjin got denied in the face recognition a few times before she made it in. She sent million dollar songs to the company, of course she's in the system.
On the way to the elevator, Chaewon acknowledged some of her coworkers and fellow teammates. The shocked looks on their faces almost made her want to give them an Oscar worthy reward.
When they arrived in her personal area, they saw a familiar blonde head typing on his phone while sitting on the couch in the small space.
“Hey, Chae—bro. Seriously, what is up with you two?” Sunghoon stared in disappointment while Yunjin placed Chaewon down on the couch next to him.
Yunjin sat on the other side of Chaewon, taking out her phone and squishing them all together. “Emergency picture.” She muttered, holding the camera up and posing with a smile.
Chaewon smiled at the camera instinctively while Sunghoon wrapped his arms around her, kissing her cheek and closing his eyes. Yunjin snapped the picture a few times, turning to Chaewon and kissing her other cheek.
“Perfect. You next, Hoon. Harass her.” Chaewon demanded, letting Sunghoon place her on his lap and pull Yunjin closer. The three of them posed for the camera with Sunghoon missing Yunjin on the cheek and getting a full body angle.
“I'm posting some of these on my private account.” Yunjin scooted away slightly, Chaewon just resting on Sunghoon's lap.
“Send it to me in private messages, I want to post them on my personal Instagram account.” Sunghoon placed a hand on Chaewon's waist and steadied her while she grabbed some snacks.
“Hoon, are you hard while I'm on your lap? You disgusting boy.” Chaewon accused, giving him her famous disgusted face since birth.
“Bitch, I'm not even close to hard! My dick is soft and do you not see me in this very tight stage outfit? I was doing a special performance before I got here and decided to stop by and wait for you. Didn't expect Yunjin to be here though. What'd you do this time?” Sunghoon retorted, eating some of the chips he just opened.
“Dunno if you heard the cries of help from all the way down here, but Chaewon has been trying to send me to jail since we were kids!” Yunjin snatched the snack bag, glaring at the girl in question.
“Not my fault that you fall for it every time just because it involves my legs being spread.” Chaewon looked her up and down, Yunjin letting out a groan of frustration.
“That's not the point! You catch me off guard every time with the promise of your legs being spread.” She shot back, earning a gasp from Sunghoon.
“Why is the spread of legs even a part of this negotiation? What have you two been discussing, actually? I won't tell anyone, I promise.” Sunghoon looked between the two of them, the only sound in the room in the random moment of silence being him crunching on some chips.
“No, let me explain myself. She offers it herself to spread her own legs for me like a slut just because she knows how it gets to me!” Yunjin defended her case for once in a blue moon.
“We're all adults, this is normal. Just because we're idols doesn't mean that we can't be horny or fall for things like that.” Sunghoon wrapped his arm around Yunjin's shoulder, pulling her closer.
“Yunjinie is a whole other case, I fear. I'll never admit that I like her until the day that I die and she'll be in jail by then!” Chaewon shook her head in mock pity.
A knock on the door stopped them from starting up another argument. The person who knocked came in a while after, probably a bit shocked at how close they were.
“I'm here to take Chaewon. It's time for you to change and go to the interview site.” The woman handed over a bag that probably had clothes in it, holding open the door. She probably thought they were going to get out.
“Don't worry about it, Manager-nim. This one is a good friend.” Chaewon gestured to Sunghoon, who waved shyly at the woman.
“This is Jennifer,” Chaewon introduced Yunjin, a flicker of recognition going through the manager's eyes.
“Ah, I understand. You have 10 minutes to get changed before I come back in to take you down to the lobby.” The manager told her before closing the door after she left.
“This one? That's low.” Yunjin murmured, crossing her arms with a pout.
“You're lower than me, accept it.” Chaewon scratched her chin like she was a dog, smiling in satisfaction when Yunjin leaned into her touch and hummed in agreement.
“Alright, we get it. You two are in love. Go change already.” Sunghoon pushed Chaewon off of his lap, getting a notification. “Oh! The pictures sent!” He got to work on posting them on his Instagram account.
“Who is we…?” Yunjin uttered while she watched Chaewon get changed.
“Me, myself, and I. Got a problem?” He said, not taking his eyes off of his phone screen. “Does this need editing…? Her picture taking is kinda good, though…”
“Right.” Yunjin didn't spare him a single glance, watching as the older girl made a whole show of slowly taking off her shirt. Yunjin couldn't help but nod in approval.
She took out her phone, pulling her eyes away out of respect and started to distract herself with her phone.
After a few more moments, Chaewon was finished getting ready, heading over to the small desk stand in the room to put on some perfume.
“What kind of scent is that? Spray me some.” Sunghoon stood up, walking over to her. Chaewon turned around, spraying it over him.
“Mix of strawberries and citrus. Brought it online when I was browsing just to browse.” She answered, walking over to Yunjin and spraying some on her, the girl accepting it with no complaints. “Like it?” Chaewon asked.
“Mhm, smells good.” Yunjin replied, putting her phone up to give her full attention to Chaewon.
“Smells like you…” Chaewon whispered.
“What was that?” Sunghoon questioned, now stripping out of his tight shirt and opening a bag that he pulled from under the couch.
“I didn't catch it either?” Yunjin stood up, walking over to Sunghoon to go through his bag.
“Nothing. Where did that come from?” She redirected the topic, joining them by the bag.
“My schedule is surprisingly free for the rest of the day and tomorrow so I'm crashing at Jen's.” Sunghoon responded, quickly changing into a simple black turtleneck and a pair of baggy blue jeans.
“When did I agree to that?” Yunjin looked at him in confusion.
“Just now? You don't want me to stay over in your singular lonely house? The way I get mistreated around here. Like, c'mon, I even brought extra underwear!” Sunghoon showed her the bag, which in fact did have extra underwear in it.
“Nah, I wasn't doing anything tonight but taking a break from studying and I might hop on the game too. I miss you anyway, haven't seen the group together in so long. Should I hit up Hanni and maybe Kazuha?” Yunjin patted him on the back, another knock on the door interrupting the conversation before someone walked in.
The two let Chaewon talk to the manager while they continued to make plans.
“You know it! Tell them to bring extra clothes and underwear because they're staying the night with us.” Sunghoon did a mini celebration, both of them following blindly after Chaewon when they saw her starting to leave.
“Let me text those losers right now actually. God knows how long Hanni is going to take to respond.” Yunjin groaned, taking out her phone and linking her arm through Sunghoon's.
“Right!” Sunghoon agreed. “I thought it was just me! Wait. Babe, I just had the smartest idea. Since Hanni always has time to respond for Minji, text the lover and make the lover text Hanni and ask her! That's how we get an immediate response.” He shook his head proudly when he heard a gasp coming from Yunjin.
“You smart boy, no wonder you made it out in the big world!” Yunjin praised, exiting out of Hanni's contact and going to text Minji's.
Delinquent: alr, I'll send it over next week.
3:19
.yeah, thanks Min
3:20am
?hey Minji can you text Hanni
and ask her if she wants to come
?over tonight for a sleepover
2:47pm
I gotcha. give me a min, she's
luckily over here rn.
2:49pm
she says she'll be there.
3:01pm
with extra underwear…?
3:01pm
👍.
3:02pm
“Hoon, we got Hanni.” Yunjin told him.
“Now we just gotta see if Zuha is free. Hopefully she is.” Sunghoon sat down on the couch when they arrived into the makeup area, making space for Yunjin.
“Yunjinie.” Chaewon suddenly called out, making the girl stop dead in her tracks and turn around to walk over her.
When Yunjin stopped in front of her, Chaewon made her lean down to her height. “I'm going to clear my schedule for tonight. Expect me to join you guys. There's also… something that I want to tell you.”
“Mhm, you have the spare key so just knock before you come in to let me know.” Yunjin let herself be pushed back over towards the couch, sitting down next to Sunghoon.
“Zuha says she's joining. Wake me up when she's done. Women take so long to get their makeup done and it's not even funny.” Sunghoon got comfortable, laying his head in Yunjin's lap and falling right to sleep.
Sunghoon wasn't kidding when he said it took women a long time to do makeup. She sat the and took a mini nap and Chaewon still wasn't done. It wasn't until another 10 minutes from when she woke up that she saw them about to leave.
Yunjin woke up Sunghoon, who surprisingly became more energetic when he woke up.
They walked Chaewon down to the car, watching her get in, and waving her off.
“We did a good deed, didn't we?” Yunjin acknowledged with a proud nod.
“Damn right we did. Did you bring your car or did you walk?”
“Both, I knew Chaewon would keep me longer than she wanted to so I brought it straight to the company and walked to do mostly everything else.” Yunjin took his hand, leading him towards the company underground parking lot.
She unlocked her car, which was a sleek black mini SUV, opening the door to the passenger seat for Sunghoon.
“How chivalrous.” He thanked her and got in, letting Yunjin buckle him in the seat that was covered in pink furr that contrasted to the gray interior of the car. When Sunghoon looked up, he saw a tag that said Passenger Princess. He scoffed.
Once Yunjin got in, he scoffed again to make sure he was heard.
“What's with you?” Yunjin adjusted her seat to her liking, her hands grabbing the wheel that was covered in black furr.
“How come there's a passenger princess but not a prince?” He glared at her, crossing his arms while Yunjin drove from out of the parking lot.
“There's the backseat prince and a driver king if you would look around the car.” Yunjin informed, opening the armrest to grab some perfume and spray it around the car. When she finished, she put in back in and closed it back.
Sunghoon glanced around the car, noticing how the middle seat in the black was a darker gray and had a furr coating as well as a label on top of the seat that said Backseat Prince, then the drivers seat had black furr over it and a label on the top of the seat that said Driver King.
“Oh.”
“Yeah, oh. I'm not all about just the passenger princess, I treat everybody with the same respect mildly.”
For the rest of the ride, it was silent. Not an uncomfortable silence, just one where they got tired of talking and let the radio play a familiar song.
When they got to Yunjin's place, they both crashed into her bed after kicking off they're shoes, the long day and short naps encouraging them to fall asleep faster.
The sound of someone knocking on the door around 8PM was what woke the both of them up. Probably Hanni or Kazuha. Or both.
Not all that surprising when Sunghoon opened the door to Hanni and Kazuha together.
But what was surprising was Garam and Eunchae being right next to them.
Anyway, the six of them played for who knows how long. When Yunjin checked the time, it was past 3AM, and yet Chaewon still wasn't here.
She was starting to get worried.
“Hey guys, has Chaewon texted any of you?” Yunjin asked when they were seated around the table. Sunghoon and Hanni were already fast asleep, and she already checked the twos phone screens. Nothing.
“No? What do you mean, anyway? It's past midnight! Why would she be texting you?” Garam questioned, walking over to Yunjin.
“Because she told me that she would be here later into the sleepover.” Yunjin paced around nervously. Chaewon wouldn't just forget about it when she was involved.
“Chaewon wouldn't just forget about so easily it if Yunjin was involved. That's kinda strange.” Kazuha voiced out her thoughts.
Yunjin didn't waste any time in grabbing her keys, throwing a jacket over her pajama clothes and going over to the front door.
“Wait for us!” Eunchae ran after her when she left out of the house.
“Us? As in Kazuha, Garam, and—shit. Who else? I'm supposed to be the best friend, wait for me, too!” Kazuha grabbed Garam by the arm, dragging her outside the door with her.
The four of them ran through the empty streets, only a single car passing by in what felt like in every hour.
Yunjin stood next to bench with Kazuha, a very tired Garam and Eunchae sitting on the side next to them. Perks of being the best players on their past soccer team. Yunjin looked at her phone, seeing a few missing text messages from Chaewon and her location now on.
“She texted me. Wait, she texted me!” Yunjin shouted loud enough for the rest of them to hear, the three girls piling around her to see the message that Chaewon had sent just a some time ago.
Jagiya ❤️: hey Jin?
4:23am
Jagiya ❤️: remember how I said that
I wanted to tell you something serious?
4:23am
Jagiya ❤️: well… i'm seriously in love
with you. romantically. I want to be yours.
can't believe this day came so soon.
4:24am
Jagiya ❤️: I know that I've been nothing
but shitty, arrogant, and annoying, but
only you could bring that side out of me.
don't reject me, alright? indulge in me
just this once, like how I indulged in
you for all of these years.
4:26am
Jagiya ❤️: p.s. you were my gay awakening
once we entered high school freshman
year. I officially fell for you on the day
you specifically told me not to.
4:30am
Jagiya ❤️: I love you.
4:52am
(Jagiya ❤️ shared a location!)
4:53am
Then the messages stopped there.
Yunjin didn't bother to text back because she knew what this meant. She was supposed to feel happy, but all she felt was dread. Dread that she was too late, that she wouldn't make it in time. She also felt hatred. Hatred that Kim fucking Chaewon spent her last breath telling her those words and she might have to suffer to see it.
Chaewon's words from later today echoed in the back of her head. “I'll never admit that I like her until the day that I die and she'll be in jail by then!”
Yunjin felt a shake on her shoulder.
“Are you okay? What's wrong? Are you crying because she finally confessed to you?” Kazuha questioned, shaking her violently.
“This isn't happening. I'm not going to let her die on the day that she finally confessed her love! All I wanted ever since we were kids was for her to acknowledge me and want to love me in the same way that I felt for her! And now—now on the day she confesses… on the day she confessed… this is so unfair.” Yunjin's voice cracked as she shook off Kazuha's hand and pressed the location that Chaewon sent her.
12 minutes away. She has to make it.
So she ran.
She ignored the shouts of her name. She ignored Garam, Eunchae, and Kazuha chasing after her. Yunjin could only run. Run for her love—to her love.
It couldn't end like this.
When she made it to the location, it wasn't anywhere specific. Just a sketchy looking alleyway.
Yunjin felt a presence behind her. It was Kazuha.
They both shared a look, Eunchae and Garam following right behind them when they started to walk forward slowly.
The alleyway seemed to stretch on for what seemed like forever. Yunjin's heart stopped when she saw Chaewon's lifeless body laying limp in a corner.
She rushed over to her, holding her body in her arms.
Yunjin wanted to speak, but she couldn't. She struggled to breathe.
“Chaewon. Kim Chaewon… how can you confess to me like that and then do this to me?” Yunjin heard a couple of gasps echoing behind her.
“I should reject you just because of this. But I love you. I love you so much.” Yunjin looked over her features, lifting up Chaewon's shirt to find a gun wound right in the middle of her stomach and now that she looks. It looks like Chaewon was left to die.
The stab wounds on her neck didn't look that deep, only enough to make her bleed out so the killer could probably get away fast enough and leave her defenseless. While the gun aimed for her abdominal area. That much could only immobilize her, not kill her instantly. Was this on purpose?
That thought made Yunjin's blood run cold. Why does she get the feeling that someone is watching her?
“Yunjin—watch out!” Kazuha's voice rang out through the empty alleyway before all she heard was gunshots, all she felt was sharp sensations, and all she saw was her friend falling to the ground after being shot.
All Yunjin can think is Chaewon.
“Chaewon, did you expect this to happen?”
“Chaewon, did you expect for me to come running all this way to find you?”
“Chaewon, did you think I'd reject you?”
“Chaewon, did you hear my confession too?”
Those were the were the questions running through her head.
Well, she guesses that she'll be able to ask Chaewon when she sees her again. And the next time, she'll confess properly.
Yunjin wonders how Sunghoon, Hanni, Miyeon, and maybe even Yuri and the others on the soccer team will react. Maybe that girl named Ryujin from the library, too. Maybe that girl named Wonyoung that she bumped into.
Imagine waking up to find out that your friends are dead.
Yunjin feels sorry.
“Chaewon, I'm so sorry.”