What the heart wants

Chapter 20

Chaeyoung is sure she's going to find places to dispose off Jeongyeon's body if she continues to annoy her like this. But a part of her also knows she'd miss her annoying arse the moment she buries her.

"Why do you always sit on me?" She tries to push her away but Jeongyeon just settles down more comfortably.

Jihyo turns to the both of them and shushes them loudly. Chaeyoung gives up hope of getting the girl off her so she leans to the side a little to watch the film they've put on in their television in the living room.

Her shoulders grazes Mina's and she feels her tense a little. She goes to lean away but stops when Mina loops her arm around hers and rests her face on her shoulder.

"You're going to scare Momo if you keep grinning like that." Jeongyeon whispers in Chaeyoung's ears and whines loudly when she pinches her side.

"Can we watch a film once without you two bickering?" Tzuyu is quickly losing patience.

Jeongyeon and Chaeyoung always find something to argue about. She doesn't know why they love winding up each other.

"Where's Nayeon?" Sana'a eyes search the room.

"Retired to bed early because she said and I quote 'handicap rights bish' " Dahyun states and the girls break into fits of laughter because Nayeon can be really quirky and adorable sometimes.

"Can someone grab the boom box from her cupboard? The speaker on this television suck." Jihyo asks as she is too tired to move.

Mina sighs when all the eyes in the room turn to look at her. They all know she's the only one who's not going to say no.

She steps quietly into Nayeon's room and turns the lights on. She pauses mid step when Nayeon stirs a little and holds a bated breath. She smiles when Nayeon mumbles something incoherent in her sleep and turns to sleep on her stomach.

The door to the wooden cupboard opens making a soft creaking sound and Mina looks over her shoulder to make sure that it hasn't woken up the sleeping girl on the bed.

She sees a white box and grabs it assuming the boom box is in there. The box is surprisingly light. She frowns to herself as she tilts her head and looks at the box.

Her heart clenches painfully in her chest as she looks at the words that's written on the box.

OPERATION MICHAENG

She opens it with trembling hands. Inside the box, there are notes and plans perfectly listed in Nayeon's handwriting about all the dates Chaeyoung and she has had. There are even lines, lines that she thought were honest and tugged at her heart scribbled neatly across the papers.

Her eyes squeeze shut as she lets a hundred questions wreck havoc in her.

Did Chaeyoung fake liking her? Did she fake being hurt by the rejection? Was she a fool for how guilty she felt for hurting the girl? What kind of sick joke is this?

The web of lies surrounds her, threatening to strangle her, suck out all the breath in her body. The reality slaps her across the face.

She had only been a game, a challenge to someone she loved with all her heart.

Her world topples over knocking her off balance. Everything around her fades as she feels dizzy. She leans a hand on the cupboard to steady herself.

The box drops from her hand making a soft thud on the wooden floor.

"Mina."

Nayeon wakes up to see the girl standing in her room, eyes closed, lips quivering, hands shaking by her side. She sees the notes that's spread on the floor fluttering in the gentle breeze that's coming through the open window.

"Did Chaeyoung ask you to do this?" Mina's voice is low and shaky as her eyes blink back the tears. She looks pained, miserable and Nayoen tries to take a step towards the girl.

The younger girl lifts her hand and shakes her head.

Nayeon stops.

"It's not what you think." She begins weakly.

"Explain walk her home after the date, kiss her at the door." Her voice is calm and controlled, but her tone is full of anguish. "She'll definitely kiss you back. You know Momo was only joking when she called me a hoe, turns out you really believed it!"

Nayeon winces at the words that cut her like a knife. She hangs her head. There's nothing she could say to defend herself.

"Did you have fun psychoanalyzing me?" Her voice cracks as she muffles a sob. Tears roll down her beautiful face. "I never thought Chaeyoung could do this. Not after what she saw me go through with my anxiety."

"It isn't Chaeyoung. This is all me."

Mina diverts her gaze to look at the distant clouds and lets out a pained laugh.

"Of course, it's all you."

Nayeon doesn't know how to respond to that. She watches as Mina quietly leaves the room, not sparing another word to her.

She drops to the bed and hates herself a little for the pain she has caused.

At the mess she has created for Chaeyoung.