Broken

67

"Can I get some water, please?" Jihyo decided to give the couple a while to digest things a bit. "And another tea, if possible?"

"Everything alright?" The woman at the counter, Youngsun(?) asks.

"Just a conversation that's long overdue, but it's fine. I just thought they needed some time to take everything in." Jihyo smiles.

"They are good kids, you know." Youngsun offers with a smile.

"I know. I just think I gave them too much to think about." The girl smiles back. "I'm just trying to give them some time to compose themselves better."

"I'm sure you are thinking of the best for all, just don't be too harsh with them."

"Promise I won't. But I know they can take everything I'm throwing at them." Jihyo nods before taking her order and heading back.

The girl finds Sana cradling a still sobbing Jeongyeon to the best of her abilities, given the tight space the booth provided. She smiles a little saddened, but she needed to tell them, this had been put off long enough, they deserved to know as much as she had the right not to tell them, and, despite the pull of their mates bringing her to the other two, her heart was somewhere else entirely, with someone(s) else entirely.

"Are you two better?" The smaller one asks, handing out the water bottles.

"As good as we can be right now, I think." Sana seems to be the only one able to talk. "Jeong is always the soft one." Said girl lets out a wet chuckle.

"She does look like that. To think the school girl crush, Yoo 'ms Steal Your Girl, and Boy, and Dog if you let her' Jeongyeon is just this huge pile of fluff... Honestly, this is kind of a turn off." Jihyo teases and it seems to take effect instantly.

Jeongyeon ceases her silent moping, looking offended to the nth level, and only gets more irritated when she sees Sana shaking, failing miserably to hold her laughter and Jihyo sporting the biggest shit-eating grin she had ever seen in her life. That gets the taller girl's blood to boil and she finds it difficult to even form proper sentences at the moment.

It stays still for a few minutes, it felt like seconds to Jihyo, who already had an arsenal of teasing to throw at the older one, slow minutes to Sana, who was fighting for her life trying to hold laughter, she still wanted to snuggle her girlfriend to sleep that night, and hours to Jeongyeon, who had lost all capabilities of coherent thought and was struggling to remember how to keep herself standing up. Then everything breaks, just because Sana let a small splutter escape her.

"Okay, what the hell are you saying? When did I ever become that popular?" Jeongyeon seethes.

"You sweet, sheltered, desired girl. You and ms Minatozaki 'Osaka's Greatest Gift to Humanity' Sana over here have been breaking hearts since you set foot in that school."

"What? That doesn't even make sense! Are you just making things up because we kind of ditched you?" Jeong immediately regrets her words, but relaxes when she sees Jihyo is unbothered.

"Sweetheart, I'm not the one thirstying after someone here." Jihyo cuts the taller one, who was about to protest. "No need to be shy about it, I know I'm hot now. And answering your question, the best way to know about any school is spending time at the student council's office, especially if you manage to make yourself invisible."

"No." Is the only thing Jeongyeon manages to say after standing still and opening and closing her mouth for a while.

"Okay, please stop breaking her, I still need cuddles tonight." Sana pulls her girlfriend down, having managed to stop her boisterous laughter.

"Alright, but I do have a lot of good ones, though." Jihyo sits back, looking like she won the biggest bet of her life. "Glad it worked." The last part is whispered, but the look on Sana's face tells Jihyo she caught it.

"Jihyo." Jeongyeon blurts out. "If it's alright with you, and with your boyfriend and girlfriend, is it-"

"Yes, we can meet again, Jeong." Jihyo decides to cut the rambling, smiling to the couple. "They have been wanting to meet you two as well."

"Oh, good. That's good." The older sighs in relief. "So-"

"Can we have your number, then?" Sana cuts in, knowing another rambling is coming. "We are fine messaging through Nayeon and all, but we would like to talk to you every once in a while after you go away again."

Jihyo ponders, they ARE her soulmates, but she still isn't sure about it. This would mean opening communications, at the same time, she already has the ones she loves by her own choice, not some universal plot to get her together with anyone. Sure, the pull of her soulmates exist, but her heart is not with them. Her hesitation seems to have shown, because Sana is about to speak again, when Jihyo stops the girl.

"Sure, give me your phone." And Sana does. "Here you go, you can send it to Jeong later, I don't wanna touch her phone, it's probably all sticky and all, if the rumors about her libido are true."

Jeongyeon springs up again, but doesn't say anything, just looks upon the girls laughing at her expense, sure she may or may not be a bit...... needy? but that doesn't mean she doesn't clean her phone after. And, how dare Sana not defend her, fine, Sana picked up her phone by mistake and got her hands sticky, but that was ONE time! They decide to end their little meetup, Jihyo calls Nayeon to see where the girl was, turns out, the three had been lurking nearby waiting for her call for about an hour already.

Sana is the first one to bid goodbye, Jihyo said she was okay with hugs, but the girl decided to settle for a side-hug, not ready for that much contact yet. Jeongyeon manages, a painfully awkward semi-hug, that was really just a pat on the shoulder a little closer to each other. They go their separate ways, Jihyo just wanting to be held by her lovers, not at all in the mood to talk, the couple heads to the Yoos knowing they had a very long night with a very long conversation waiting for them.