Just two more days till Jimin's flight to France and she decided to pack her things in her apartment to move out as well. There was no point in living there since Minjeong already moved out to live with her mother.
It got boring.
In the meantime, she'd go back and live with her brothers back at the mansion until that very day comes. Moreover, her college term is about to end and this will most likely be her last day on campus.
Jimin didn't feel that sad thinking about it, rather was thankful for the good memories spent along with her friends for the past few months.
Minjeong and her got back to being friends too. Last night was a rollercoaster for Jimin, after that warm embrace the two girls shared, the shorter ended up staying the night in her apartment.
She didn't even sleep and requested Jimin to tell her some good moments they had spent together. Of course, the latter agreed but didn't tell and instead took out the camera Minjeong gave her and plugged a particular USB into the tv's port.
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Both sat down on the couch next to each other, but not too close. Jimin sat at the very end while Minjeong was on the opposite.
The taller didn't want to make her more uncomfortable after that sudden embrace outside.
"When we were in high school, we decided to record our everyday lives and do a mess of weird things. I stored them in that USB just because..."
Jimin didn't continue and grabbed the remote to turn on the tv. Minjeong was curious about what the girl was about to say yet didn't push and focused her gaze on the screen.
"Why were we recording them?"
"Hmm, we were both depressed girls and settled with recording them to escape from reality," Jimin said as she chose a certain video to start playing.
The video showed the very first moment they've recorded and Minjeong was immediately invested. The tiredness in her eyes seemed to have disappeared as she followed every movement on the recording.
She stayed like that for a very long time and Jimin was not able to suppress herself but stare. Her lips curled up slightly. Seeing Minjeong inside her apartment for the first time in a while was such a sight to take in. She missed it so much.
And before Jimin knew what was happening nor how long did she stare at the girl. Her consciousness gave up on her and drifted to sleep.
Minjeong however, ended up watching everything within the USB's contents and only finished very early in the morning— she didn't sleep.
It was 4 a.m and she didn't notice the time until she looked at the clock attached to the wall in front of her. Promptly, she turned her head to look at Jimin, only then did she realize was sleeping soundly.
To make sure, she scooted a bit closer and looked at her sleeping face. She thought the girl was really beautiful and unconsciously moved the strand of hair that was in the way.
Then with a yawn, she carefully snatched the remote that was in the latter's hands to turn off the tv. She was going to tap on her pockets to check on her phone though found nothing.
That's when she recalled how Yuna took her phone and must've been the one who called Jimin. Thus, why her eyes landed on the sleeping girl's pockets and indeed found a rectangular bump.
Minjeong didn't want to do it but still needed to. Who knows what'll happen if she decided to leave the phone in Jimin's hands— many thoughts popped into her mind, causing her to get nervous.
The phone had no lock screen whatsoever and the seven drafts that were left unsent on Jimin's contact info were a great threat to her. Minjeong didn't wanna think about it and facepalmed at herself.
So without much consideration, Minjeong kneeled on the floor and began carefully sliding her hand into Jimin's pocket to snatch the phone. Leaning ever so slightly to get a clear look.
And failed when Jimin suddenly held her wrist.
"What are you doing?" she asked tiredly with her eyes slightly open.
Chaos then filled Minjeong's mind. Her hand was stuck into the girl's pocket and soon realized the very close distance they had when turning her head to look. Jimin's breath was repelling against her lips at this point and the shorter felt her vision spinning around like crazy.
Thankfully, Jimin pushed the latter's hand away from her pocket and sat up whilst rubbing her eyes. "What are you doing?" she repeated.
Immediately, Minjeong stood up and coughed a few times. "My phone, I was going to send you a text before I leave but you had it."
Still half-asleep, Jimin fell her back onto the backrest and looked at the shorter. "You know, you could've just woken me up."
"I didn't want to wake you up."
"But isn't that just inconvenient?"
"I have my..." Minjeong yawned, "...reasons."
"You look tired as hell."
"I watched everything."
"I see I see."
Jimin yawned as well. She was too sleepy to think of anything and nonchalantly pulled out the shorter's phone to place on the coffee table. Also forgot the fact that this current Minjeong wasn't her Jeongie and swiftly walked into her bedroom to go back to sleep.
Minjeong was left in the living room in shock that was coupled with confusion. She didn't know what just happened and released a small peal of laughter.
Later she picked up her phone and opened the drafts she left in Jimin's contact info. She looked at it with embarrassment and scrunched her face.
〈Hello!〉
〈Heya, about that time. I'm sorry, and I just wanna ask if〉
〈Yo, this is Minjeong. I got a new number.〉
〈This is Minjeong. Can you help me with something?〉
〈What was I like when I was with you? What was love like?〉
And two more which Minjeong couldn't seem to look at and instantly deleted them. Now that's out of the way, she tucked back the phone into her pocket and looked around the living room before leaving.
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"Jiminie? Hellloooo?"
Kihyun was waving his hand in front of his sister's face the whole time and it took Jimin a moment before snapping back to reality, flinching.
"You alright?" he laughed. "You seem to be out of it."
Jimin chuckled nervously, "I was trying to remember what happened last night and earlier this morning."
"What did you remember?"
"Fetching Minjeong at that party, hugging her, then her spending the night here... the rest... I'm not sure, it's so vague," she answered with her eyes squinted.
Kihyun's eyes widened, "Minjeong was here? And spent the night here?"
"I think. Well, maybe it was just a dream, I don't know." Jimin snickered, "Felt like I was the one drunk."
"You two together again?"
Jimin frowned her lips, shaking her head. "Only friends."
"Pfft, ain't that too bad?" he gagged.
"Hello, you're supposed to be a good brother and comfort me."
Kihyun cleared his throat and patted his sister on the back, "There there... I'm sure you'll be able to get her back later on."
"Mmm, I don't think I will-"
"Wait, am I hearing this right?"
Jimin sighed, "It's been decided that I'm going to France and the papers to drop out from college have already been sent to the principal. I don't know how long I'll be gone. I still love her, yeah, but getting her back now is out of the question."
"Eh, Are you sure? Aren't you worried that she'll get snatched away by someone else?"
"I thought about it— I'm just glad that we're on good terms. It doesn't matter if she came to like someone else, she wasn't the Minjeong I knew and that won't come back. I think it's better to let her explore herself, a lot of things happened after all."
Kihyun stared at his sister for a moment before nodding his head in understanding.
"Not now, but later... then also, maybe not. I'll let fate decide."
Jimin said as she dropped her luggage in front of her brother in an indication to help her with it. Kihyun rolled his eyes, grabbed the luggage, and rolled it out with him out of the apartment.
Just as when Kihyun disappeared within her line of sight, a crumpled piece of paper dropped from the luggage. The girl tilted her head and crouched to pick it up, only to find out that it was the contract from months ago.
Jimin eyed it for a while and smiled. When standing up, she approached the trash bin and ripped the contract into pieces leaving no chances of it being reattached.