"You look beautiful. You look beautiful even without makeup, anyway." Yeji said.
Ryujin rolled her eyes before looking at herself in the mirror, leaning closer to take a closer look.
"I look like a rip off version of a barbie." Ryujin said.
"Yeah, exactly. Beautiful." Yeji said as she tidied her makeup away.
"Yeah whatever." Ryujin replied.
"Okay, you can piss off now." Yeji said, moving her hand in a kind of 'go away' motion.
Ryujin rolled her eyes and stood up "gladly" she fired back before she left, slamming the door behind her on purpose.
Yeji just cracked into a smile.
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9:30 pm
It was dark outside, and cold.
Ryujin was chilling on her bed, scrolling through her phone. She decided to get up. she was still wearing her black trousers and grey hoodie, which is extremely warm.
She left her room, going downstairs. She slipped her shoes on and bent down to tie them up.
"Where you going?" chaeryeong asked.
Ryujin stood up once tying them and turned to her with a small smile "no where in particular. Just gonna wonder."
"Mmm, okay. Stay safe."
"Will do," Ryu said putting her thumbs up. She then left, shutting the door behind her.
She remembered yeji left the cabin around half an hour ago. But she wasn't going out for her, she was only going to walk around and explore.
She put her hands in her hoodie pockets and began walking.
She went to the lake, she sat at the end, her legs dangling down. She smiled, swaying them backwards and forwards.
Maybe it won't be so bad after all.
Suddenly she heard a loud noise, making her look towards the direction.
Looks like there was a small fire.
Ryujin remembered what chaeryeong told her.
"Sometimes people have little camp fires late at night. So if you see a small fire, it's nothing bad."
She heard faint chattering and laughing.
Maybe yeji's there.
She didn't wanna move, but she stood, and slowly walked over.
The sticks and leaves crunching below her feet.
She stopped behind a tree and peeked round, just in case she didn't know them, so she could leave.
She noticed something.
There were a massive group of girls, some sitting down on logs by the fire, others standing up.
There were four girls standing up, the others sitting down and watching with smirks on their faces.
One girl was stood in the middle, two girls behind her and another girl in front of her.
She couldn't see who the girl in the middle was, cause the one in front of her was blocking the view.
She didn't know what was happening, but she soon figured it out once the girl snatched a book out the other girls hand and threw it in the fire place as the others laughed.
She suddenly grabbed the others girls neck while they all laughed their asses off.
Ryujin didn't know who they were, and didn't know for sure what's happening. But she wanted to stop this.
Bullying.
I mean, yeah, ryujin has been in loads of fights, and always rude to people for no reason. But watching it happen just snapped something inside of her.
Suddenly the other girl threw the girl to the floor by her neck.
This has to be bullying, no way this is play fighting.
Suddenly the girl weakly stood up, but the girl just pushed her back down again as they all laughed.
Ryujin couldn't see the girl, which annoyed her.
She sighed.
I should just leave. I don't wanna get involved.
She backed away and turned round, she slowly walked away but she stopped. Hearing what one of the girls said.
"You gonna cry, yeji? You gonna cry? Ahaha." Someone said loudly in a mocking tone, followed by loud laughter.
Yeji
Ryujin gulped, she turned round and quickly walked back over to the fireplace. She stood behind the tree again and listened as hard as she could to try hear what they were saying.
But they were so quiet she could barely hear.
"How would you feel if I just picked you up and threw you into the fireplace yourself? Huh?" The girl said. Ryujin looked round and watched.
The girl grabbed yeji's collar and pulled her up, yeji still laying weakly on the ground.
"Leave me alone." Yeji argued back.
Ryujin widened her eyes and quietly gasped after what happened next.
SLAP
"Shut up you brat." The girl said, kicking yeji in the face with a smirk, as everyone else laughed and clapped.
Ryujin gulped, no way she would walk away from this.
She walked over, angrily.
Everyone turned their heads round, except yeji who was laying on the floor with her eyes closed in pain.
Ryujin stopped once she was close enough and widened her eyes.
The girl that was hurting and bullying her, looked so awfully familiar.
Ryujin gulped, her body loosened.
"Ryujin?" The girl said quietly.
Yeji managed to hear as she turned round, her eyes wide as she slowly sat up.
"Wonyoung?" Ryujin said. Her teeth clenched once the girl named 'wonyoung' slowly smirked.
"Never thought I'd be seeing you again in my life. How have you been?" Wonyoung asked as she walked over, putting her hands around ryujin's neck.
Ryujin pushed her away.
"What are you doing with yeji?" Ryujin hissed.
"We're just playing around, right yeji?" Wonyoung asked, looking round at yeji who was sitting on the floor, tears streaming down her face with her nose and lip bleeding.
She gulped "yeah.. j-just playing around."
Wonyoung then looked back at ryujin with a smile "see? Playin around."
"That's not what it seemed like to me. I heard and saw everything." Ryujin said angrily.
The others around just watched, while yeji kept her head down. Not daring to look up and make eye contact with ryujin.
Wonyoung went silent.
Ryujin then grabbed her shirt "I won't hesitate to fucking beat you up in this spot. You know me very well from the past, so you should know what I'm capable of doing."
Wonyoung gulped.
"Don't hurt me, ryujin. You don't even know what yeji did to me."
"What the fuck are you on about? Are you insane? I just saw what you did, I just heard what you said. You throw her book into the fireplace, you throw her to the floor, you slapped her and pushed her, told her your gonna throw her into the fireplace. Are you nuts?" Ryujin said, her grip tightening.
"Ryujin I'm sorry." Wonyoung said, looking upset and terrified.
"Yeah? Well don't say sorry to me, say it to yeji." Ryujin said.
"No."
"You better not go near her again, you understand you little prick. This is a warning. If I see or hear you near her again, I'll fucking break your nose." Ryujin said, she then pushed Wonyoung away from her.
She staggered backwards, her two friends rushing over and catching her before she ended up in the fireplace.
Ryujin walked over to yeji, she then picked her up bridal style which confused them all.
And it confused yeji the most. But she'd be lying if she said she didn't like it.
Yeji buried her head in ryujin's neck and gulped, closing her eyes.
Ryujin gave everyone a death glare before she walked away.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YUNA