It's been a long time since I've written anything about JeongHyo. I went through a big shame phase and took down shipping stuff of social media but today I got the urge to post so i founud this in my files. If you have any comments or questions feel free to ask me. hope you enjoy.
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Here I am again, after hours behind the school on the floor all bloody and bruised after getting beat up by her again. I just stare up at the sky hoping that the pain will go away soon. Today was worse than normal, longer too, they even used a thick branch to hit me this time.
But what could I do? I can't stand a chance in a fight when it's three against one. She always has her friends with her, I have no one. Well that's not totally true but they always find me when I'm alone. Maybe it's my fault, maybe I should avoid being alone.
"Maybe I'm just a fucking idiot"
I say out loud to no one but myself. 'I should probably get up now' I think to myself.
I try to push myself up from the ground but miserably fail as soon as I feel the paint in my stomach intensified.
"Fuck"
I whisper under my breath and close my eyes.
I hear the sound of people running.
"Jeongyeon! Jeongyeon! JEONGYEON!"
'Crap, they're gonna see me like this' I try to get up again but I'm only able to roll over.
"Come on Jeong, where are you?!"
I try again, I manage to get on my knees.
"Guys! I see her!"
I hear Rosé call out.
'Come on Jeongyeon, don't be so weak, get up!' I try again but fall over due to my arm giving out. But as soon as I'm on the floor I feel Rosé pick me right back up.
"Jeong! What happened?" She asks me while she pushes away my hair from my face.
Before I get the chance to answer her, Jennie, Lisa, and Jisoo kneel in front of me.
"What happened?" They all ask at the same time.
"Nothing much really" I answer with the best smile I can give trying to make light of the situation.
"Aren't you the funny type?" Jennie says while rolling her eyes trying to look annoyed at me but her voice is shaky.
"I try my best you know-" I cough before I can finish what I was saying. I haven't noticed how dry my throat is. I feel a hand on my knee.
"Who did this?" Jisoo asks me with a stern voice and a serious look in her eyes, it would be more intimidating if she wasn't so close to crying. I look away "please, please tell us" she begs me.
"Kang...Danielle" I hesitantly answered her.
"What? There's no way Danielle would..." Jisoo looks completely shocked by my answer. Almost like she's been lied to like the answer hurt her feelings.
"I'm gonna kick her ass" Lisa's whisper is enough to get everyone's attention.
"Good luck with that when she has so many friends with her" I tell her, and unexpectedly they all freeze.
"It wasn't just Danielle?" Jennie is almost scared to ask me. I nod to give her my answer.
"Let's get out of here," Rosé says while helping me get up from the floor. But before she has the chance to pull me along to the car I stop them, there is no way I'm going home like this.
"I'm not going home like this," I tell them as I look at my dirty clothes and scratched and bloody hands. "I look like shit"
"It's fine, we'll go to a Cafe and clean you up" Rosé holds my hand and smiles at me. "It'll be ok, we promised"
At the Cafe
We finally get to the Cafe and they make me sit in both and wait for them to order me something. Water would be amazing right now, my throat feels like sandpaper. It's almost painful.
I take out my phone 'at least it didn't break' I turn it on and as soon as I do in greeted by fifty-five unread messages from the girls 'no wonder they sounded so desperate earlier'
I put my phone down and looked around the Cafe.
It's pretty empty, two people at the tables and- 'Wait...is that Chaeyoung and- Fuck! They're all here!'
Before I can look away, Chaeyoung makes eye contact with me. I panic as soon as I see that she notices me and tells the others.
My heart starts racing and I look away panicked. I feel my instinct tell me to run away, anything to get away from them seeing like this. My hearing starts to act up as if I can hear everything and I can hear what they're saying along with everyone in the cafe.
"Guys, it's Jeongyeon" I hear Chaeyoung
"Holy shit! What happened to her?" Nayeon, I can hear Nayeon.
"Maybe we could ask her" I hear a quiet and sweet voice, it's Mina that I hear, it was to be.
"Yeah, come on guys" I hear Jihyo next and the sound of them sliding from their chairs follows right after.
I feel panic starting to settle. I look for somewhere to hide, I look up and see that the girls are coming over with my drink.
I stand up and walk to them.
"Bathroom," I say and walk to the bathroom trusting that they know what I mean. They always do.
"Jeongyeon, what's wrong?" I hear Lisa ask me and feel her rubbing my back.
"I-its-girls-i-instincts... panicked" I struggle to speak and it doesn't help that I can't breathe right.
'I don't want them to see me like this, not her...please'
I feel someone hug me tight. I turn around and hug her back.
"Here" Jennie offers me my hot chocolate "I know it always makes you feel better" she smiles at me.
"T-thank you" I take the cup with shaky hands.
"Here, let me clean you up" Jisoo walks to me "sit on the sink"
I do as she tells me and sit on the countertop and slick my hair back. She takes a hand towel from her bag and runs it underwater. She takes the towel and pats it softly on my face.
She cleans my face but when she gets to my neck I start to twitch "stay still" Jisoo says and tries to keep me still.
"It tickles," I tell her.
"Too bad, it's dirty so I'm gonna clean it"
As Jisoo cleans me and Jennie, Lisa and Rosé wait for us, the bathroom door opens.
It's Jihyo, Nayeon, Mina, Chaeyoung, Dahyun, Tzuyu, Sana, and Momo.
'Shit'
"Oh, hey guys!" Lisa greets them "what are you doing here?" She smiles at them and stands in front of me and tries to cover me from their view.
"We were just hanging out" Jihyo answers "Chaeyoung saw Jeongyeon bloody and dirty and I got worried" she points at Chaeyoung and walks forward.
"Oh, that's so sweet of you" Rosé chimes in.
The girls already know about my little crush.
"Isn't it Jeongyeon?" Rosé sends me a knowing look.
"Uh, y-yeah–"super sweet" Jisoo cut me off.
Everyone in the room was shocked, Jisoo is one of the nicest people that we know. But right now, her eyes are dark and angry.
"Did we do something wrong?" Chaeyoung asks, confused.
"Not you, but do you want to know what happened?" Jisoo asks and all Chaeyoung can do is nod.
"Jihyo's bestie happened," Jisoo says, plain and simple.
"What?" Jihyo asks "what the hell do you mean?"
"Kang Danielle and her little friends beat–" "Jisoo stop!" I cut her off, I don't need her telling everyone what's going on. I don't want Jihyo to be upset.
The room is silent, everyone stops and stares at me and Jisoo. Normally I would never raise my voice at Jisoo but I don't want the girls knowing that I'm a loser that can't stand up for herself.
"Why?" Jisoo asked, her voice raspy with anger.
"Just...don't" I looked over at Jihyo, her eyes confused and concerned.
"What did Danielle do?" she asks me directly, walking closer to me.
"She... was trying to help reach for something on a shelf after school ended and..." I let out a shaky sigh, I want to tell her the truth but I'm scared to "She accidentally knocked something over and it hit me on the face"
Jihyo and the girls look like they don't fully believe that that's what happened but they don't say anything. Thank God. The room stays silent, uncomfortably so.
"That's all, no need to worry" I hop off the sink and make my way towards the door "but I need to go now"
"Jeongyeon" Jihyo calls after me.
"Have a good night girls" I walk away and make my way to the entrance of the cafe, open the door and walk towards our car. I attempt to open the car but it's locked, I pat at my pants pockets 'Fuck, Jisoo has the keys'
Just as I look up, the door to the cafe opens and reveals Lisa, Jennie, Rosé and Jisoo. Jisoo looks upset.
"You should have told her" Jisoo takes the keys out and unlocks the car.
"Not today" I opened the car door.
"Then when?"
"I don't know" Jisoo looks at me with stern eyebrows "I don't know when, but just not today"
"Sure" Jisoo rolled her eyes.
Just as I'm about to climb into the car the cafe door opens again and this time Jihyo walks out and makes her way towards me. She seems both confused and concerned at the same time but when our eyes meet she seems calmer. She stops about two feet away from me.
"Listen...I know we don't talk as much as I would like to but" she stops for a second, her nerves take the better of her "If Danielle did hurt you please tell me the truth, I don't want to see you hurt"
'God she so pretty'
"Promise me that you'll tell me if Danny hurts you"
How am I supposed to say no when she's looking at me like that?
"Please?"
Her eyes shine with hope.
"I promise"