Roseanne followed Hanbin with determination, she needed to get to Jennie either with him or before him to discuss the bombshell she'd just dropped at the dining table. She could hear Jimin behind her but whether she didn't care how it looked or she was just done with the whole charade she didn't know.
"What are you doing?" Jimin had yelled after her once in the house.
Roseanne didn't turn around, she could see the front door, she could see Hanbin slipping through and running off, she was nearly there.
"Roseanne!" he cried angrily and she had to turn around, somewhere inside she felt like she owed him that.
"What?" she shouted back at him.
"Why are you running after her?" He faded off at the end of his question. "Oh... oh!"
Roseanne rolled her eyes, Jennie deserved to not have things fucked up because she'd lost her head at her brother and shouted all the things she'd done to his fiancee.
"Cut it out, Jimin, I'm sick of you going over and over this." Roseanne glanced past Jimin's head, the rest of the family was starting to gather themselves up and come in to sort out the childish bickering.
"I'm such an idiot-" he groaned, holding his head with a look of agony.
"You're not," Roseanne said bluntly not moving to console him.
"For ever fucking trusting you I am!" he finished.
Roseanne folded her arms around her chest and glared at him, she was going to let him say whatever because she knew that in more than one way she deserved it. Really, she deserved it long ago to be screamed at, probably when she admitted to herself a year into her an Jennie's 'affair' that their passion wasn't just an old habit that needed to be quit like smoking.
Jimin pulled at his hair before letting his hands fall to the side. "It's always been you," he laughed manically.
Back in the garden Sue had stopped everyone from coming in, she was watching her children fight with the knowledge of what it was about and as much as it was tearing apart her family, she couldn't let it tear Jennie loose her own family.
Roseanne shook her head. "No, it hasn't."
"Yes it has!" Jimin said with angry enthusiasm. "She always cried on your shoulder, she always told you things first, even after that Christmas things always seemed to be able you."
Roseanne shook her head and laughed a small, ignorant laugh. "We were friends, we are friends. Stop making this into more than it is."
"Then why isn't she marrying me?" Jimin demanded, the lull in his anger had gone and slowly his cheeks were regaining their colour, ready for a new burst of madness.
Roseanne shrugged. "I don't know," she answered honestly, she thought it was a done deal and that love was dead and fake, something for fairytales and little girls.
"It's you! It's always been you, you're the reason behind everything Jennie does, she's in love with you!" Jimin shouted.
Roseanne clenched her jaw, but she felt like she had to show some kind of emotion. But she couldn't, not without letting the surface crack completely. So instead she shook her head and said quite calmly. "Then why's she been with you all along?" And turned around and stormed away.
Roseanne broke down when she got to her car. She cried into her hand and wished that she'd never confronted Jennie that day in bloody primary school, then she wouldn't be crying in her car like the lead in a rom-com. Jennie was the only girl she'd ever cried about, the only girl she had ever cared about, Jennie was all that really mattered to her. She had gotten her through school, through their uneventful hometown, she had been there through everything but now things had shifted and were slipping away. She didn't know what was going on apart from the fact that if Jennie decided not to marry Jimin and tell him the truth about everything, her family would be over. Her and Jimin were the glue keeping her parents together, she was a detective, she dealt with bored spouses and couples nearly everyday, she could see it in her parent's faces. They would be divorced in a month if their children turned their backs on each other, they didn't need to be together for the sake of 'family' if it didn't exist. Roseanne I hoped that Jennie would tell Jimin everything, she hoped that all the pretending could stop and everyone would start being genuinely happy. She may have wanted things to be spilt and everything left in the open, but she didn't want to live through it, she wanted to see the end result in a couple of months time when everything had calmed down. So just knocked on her car window when the months had passed and everything was alright again.
