Yoo Jimin
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Upon entering the student council office, the officers immediately became mute, stopping their actions and watching her intently which makes her suspicious.
It didn’t take long for her to start to feel uncomfortable as Felix even pulled out a chair for her, as if they’ve been anticipating her arrival.
It’s so strange.
“ok, what’s up?” Jimin was dreading the possible topics that they may raise because of this, and the one she feared the most is this conversation being about Minjeong and why they’re suddenly distant.
Because Jimin couldn’t give a specific and comprehensible response.
“Minjeong got suspended today, bathroom duty” Somi decided to break the ice and speak for the rest of the group, this surprises Jimin but she didn’t know what to say.
She has a lot of questions running in her head because for the whole duration of her studying in the same school as Minjeong, not once has she ever committed an offense that lands her in suspension.
Minjeong is troublesome and has less than average grades, but she doesn’t go to that extent.
“she got in a fight with Yeji, we don’t know much about why but there’s some rumors going around” as if knowing what she wanted to say, Yuna decided to elaborate about this occurring issue. Jimin is worried, could this be because of her suddenly avoiding Minjeong? Could this just be the pent up frustration of work and school?
She wants to know, she wants to speak up but nothing is said.
“I believe you’re only hearing this now so I don’t think you have any involvement” Jisu concludes, sighing afterwards. Students getting suspended is a heavy blow on the student council as they’re the biggest influence within the students, and they’re the leaders.
Jisu is under scrutiny for this and it isn’t good that the person who’s suspended is involved with them.
“w-why is Minjeong the only one suspended?” Jimin spoke up in a soft voice, either in shock or guilt.
“…we don’t know. The counsellor was the one that decided regarding the matters and we’re yet to talk to Yeji or Minjeong” Yuna answers as none of the officers had the guts to speak up.
“where’s-” Jimin was cut off by a knock on the door, Chan was quick to get to the door and open it, revealing a very crestfallen-looking Kim Minju.
Chan immediately turned to Jimin with furrowed eyebrows expressing his concern, and the latter knew what Minju is requesting.
So she stands up and walks out of the door, closing it behind her.
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Kim Minjeong
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“ow! That hurts…” Minjeong winces in pain, retracting her face from Jihan’s ministrations.
“why’d you get in a fight anyway? And why’d you get in a fight with my bias wrecker?” Jihan sighs as she sat next to Minjeong, inspecting the bruise on her cheek and the cut on her eyebrow, suspecting that Yeji is one hell of a boxer.
“bias wrecker?” Minjeong questioned, only to yelp in pain when Jihan pressed the cotton ball lightly dampened with alcohol onto her bruising cheek.
“fighting isn’t nice. Look at you and Yeji sunbae-nim, both mad at each other and now you’re suspended- you’re not even supposed to be here! You said that you have bathroom duties!” Minjeong sighs, she knows that Jihan is only looking out for her. And it’s a shame because she and Yeji handled this in a petty way.
Specially Yeji, who’s the leader and rational, suddenly cracked under pressure.
“why are you even fighting?” Jihan questioned, slowly dabbing the cotton ball onto her cheek.
“are you fighting over one girl?” it sounds ridiculous to hear it from someone, it really does.
“yes” Jihan pursed her lips, waiting for Minjeong to feel ready to speak up.
“Yeji liked a girl before, she liked her a lot. The girl liked her too, but they didn’t date” Minjeong scratched the back of her ear, her bruises and cuts suddenly itching but Jihan sways her hand away from touching her bruises.
“but Yeji found out, in a bad way, that the girl didn’t like her as much. Because the girl liked someone else, and that hurt Yeji a lot, it hurt us too because we started becoming friends only to see her like that” Jihan nods, urging Minjeong to continue.
“what happened?” Jihan asked.
“me and the band, we’re close friends with her, specially me and Yeji. Only recently did she find out who the girl actually liked”
“no…” the younger girl reacted.
“w-was it y-you?”
“it was me”
“did Yeji sunbae-nim get mad because of that?” Minjeong turned her head towards Jihan, this sudden movement caused the cotton ball to barely press onto the cut on her lip.
“no”
“I got mad because I’m hanging out with this girl, and Yeji’s feeling a little betrayed about knowing the whole story. I felt mad because it’s like she kept it against me, I would’ve stopped hanging out with the girl if Yeji told me, so that she would have her closure”
“but she didn’t”
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Yoo Jimin
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She couldn’t look at Minju who had started shedding tears, Jimin couldn’t wrap her head around how severe the situation is regarding Yeji and Minju with Minjeong getting involved.
“she likes you but she doesn’t know it. She does-” Minju wails, and Jimin cut her off before she continued what she is saying.
Jimin doesn’t want to believe it, not with all these happening.
“please… don’t”
“this is the truth, Karina. I’m sorry”
Jimin runs, not caring where she goes because she doesn’t know why this is happening. She wants to see either Yeji or Minjeong to be assured that it’s fine, because Minju just told her about her feelings for Minjeong.
She wants this to be fine, that’s all she could think of as she sniffs and wipes her tears, praying that it is fine.
Then…
She stops.
Maybe it is fine.
Seeing as Minjeong is enjoying another woman’s company.
“Jimin! Wait!” but Minjeong caught up to her, too many things are happening at the same time. Minju’s confession about the whole ordeal, feeling concerned and desperate that it’s fine, seeing Minjeong enjoying another woman’s company is the last straw.
Jimin can’t bottle it up anymore.
“let me go!”
“please! I just want to talk!” Jimin turned around, prying Minjeong’s hand around her wrist aggressively while wiping her tears. They started with Minjeong feeling embarrassed and here they are now, Jimin is embarrassed that Minjeong even got to see her like this.
It’s not right anymore.
For her to feel all these things for Minjeong that she can’t understand, wanting to slap and hug the smaller girl, wanting to curse and love her, wanting to push her away only to pull her back.
It’s so difficult to understand these things when Minjeong isn’t making it easy for her.
“talk about what? I’m tired, Minjeong!”
“J-Jimin…”
“i hate the way you write all these songs and sing them to me as if they’re for me, I hate how you write them like you know how it feels to loved and be unloved, I hate the way you show up at my life like this and you go to the others when I want you here!” Jimin blurts out, all these pent up frustration from trying to understand how she feels.
How loving Minjeong feels.
It’s so difficult.
“I hate how you would call me pretty but then tease me next, I hate how I see you with another woman who’s better than me, I hate the way you are, I hate how you’re so dense!” Minjeong’s jaw went slack, unable to come up with a response as she hung her head low. Jimin watches her, guilt and pity building up inside her as she sobs.
There’s so much to uncover about loving Minjeong.
Too much.
“Kim Minjeong, you’ll never get it, won’t you? I fucking love you! I’m in love with you! And I hate how you sing like you know how it feels, I hate how you deny me of what I feel!”
“I want to hate you so bad!”
“I want to…” Jimin hesitates, clenching her jaw as Minjeong looked up with those puppy orbs staring right at her, it looks so sad and she can’t take it as she shuts her eyes tight and raised her hand.
And leaves Minjeong there, reliving the slap she received.
jaeayjae
well this took a turn, didn’t it? and also, I just wanna share how much ideas I have and they’re all so good on paper yet so difficult to apply and I know that if I continue doing so, I will have an enormous pile of drafts that wouldn’t make it out on the public.
so, I’m not so sure about the decisions I’m making about the development of the stories. though I have 2 that I want to put out, I just don’t know which one to develop first.
but for now, I’ll finish this one so I can focus on what I would put out next. that’s all 😀
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