"Alright, now just throw the phone in there and I'll do the rest." Jihyo commands.
"Are you positive you wanna do that? We won't take responsibility over whatever you see in there." Mina tries to dissuade her friend.
"Just do it. I'm sure of what I'm doing." Jihyo groans, tired of this arguing.
"Alright, your funeral. Just know we warned you." Tzuyu gives in, taking the phone and heading to Chaeyoung's studio.
The girls had been talking for a while now, and Jihyo was running out of time, so she told the girls to throw the phone in the studio and she would take care of the artist. The duo had explained Chaeyoung had gotten into this project of hers, whatever it was this time, yesterday afternoon, even skipping school that day. Jihyo was not about to have this bullshit, it was alright for Chae to work on her art, but skipping school was NOT okay at all.
So Tzuyu does. She tiptoes to the studio door, some dark aura emanating from the place. Jihyo had gone silent, as the youngest one asked her to not make any noise. Jihyo had to admit, se was very curious about what Chaeyoung was like to get the two biggest badasses (not really) from their group to be that afraid. Honestly, it was imagining being threatened by a bunny mochi (those you spank with a spoon). Just a cute, sweet little candy, maybe trying to glare at you and failing miserably, Jihyo was very interested. The two had warned her about it, and that she would never be able to see Chaengie the same way again.
Tzuyu opens a crack on the door and slides the phone in, closes it again and runs back to Mina. There is loud screeching, some shouting (they couldn't tell from whom) and then, silence. The two thought it was silence, they weren't willing to get any closer to find out. After what seemed like hours, really just a couple of minutes, the door opens, a very ashamed Chaeyoung comes out, holding the phone limply beside her body, the call seemed to have ended.
"Micchan, Yuyah, I'm sorry." Chaeyoung says in a very small voice.
"What?" Both girls ask at the same time.
"I'm sorry, I got too focused on this project, and was being very selfish and you two deserve better. I'll do better, I promise." The smaller one cries out and starts sobbing.
The slightly stunned duo was trying to get their heads around what was happening, but took their little partner in their arms and let her cry it out. Nobody would ever know what happened in that room, Chae would get slightly scared when asked, and Jihyo would just smile and never say anything. The entire group would die curious, but never have the guts to further question about it. All in all, it was a great day for Mina and Tzuyu, who got their girlfriend back and none of that artsy shenanigans.
Next morning, the trio headed out for a walk in the park, before going off to the Chous, as Tzuyu's sister would be coming the following week, and the youngest wanted to clean her room before that, so they decided for date morning, lunch and then an afternoon or hard work (Mina and Chaeyoung knew they would end up cleaning Tzuyu's and Chou senior's rooms that afternoon). The three would drop by Mina's house for her to get some clothes and for them all to talk to mr and mrs Myoui a little, they had stayed over at Chaeyoung and a fresh change of clothes was mandatory at that point.
So they did just that, which resulted in Mina throwing the younger ones to her parents and disappearing to shower. She loved her girlfriends, don't get her wrong, but her parents were the talking type, and she really wanted to go on a date fast, so stopping to talk to them wasn't an option at that point. Plus, if her girlfriends couldn't save her from talking the morning away, nobody could. Later she was informed that Tzuyu got super excited talking about her sister and mama and papa Myoui just dismissed them already.
"Are we ready to go?" Mina asks as she comes back down.
"Sure we are. I want a good walk in the sun, we all should get some more vitamin D, Yucchan is looking sickly lately." Chaeyoung agrees, as she runs away from her taller girlfriend.
"Alright, girls, are you all going to stay at the Chous tonight?" Mr Myoui asks.
"Very likely, Yu wants help with cleaning her room, that means it will take much much longer than it should. Chae always gets distracted with the things we find and we end up stopping to play with whatever it is." Mina tells as they say their goodbyes.
"Great, so your dad and I are going to have date night. Call if you want us to pick you up, though. No walking late in the night by yourselves. Now go and get some color on your cheeks, you three are too pale to be missing out on sunlight like this." Mrs Myoui dismisses the girls as she takes them to the door.
Their morning consists on going to the dog park, watching Tzuyu roll around with the puppies, Mina fawning over any dachshund that comes around (on that particular park, there were many), and Chaeyoung laughing at both while she plays with whatever dog finds it's way to her. It was a pleasant morning, until they would have to shower later, that is, the sunburn would take it's toll soon, not that the trio was too worried about that at the moment.
"We should go get something to eat." Chaeyoung says, her tummy starting to bother her.
"We should. Rock, papers, scissors!" Mina answers, throwing rock, not in the mood to entertain the smaller girl.
"Oh, come on!" Chaeyoung tries to protest, but gets up and goes fetch Tzuyu anyways.
Mina chuckles, this habit of Chaeyoung's to always throw scissors first was very useful sometimes, it may or may not be the reason Tzuyu had forbidden her to ever mention it to the shortest one. That was a smart move, now that Mina thinks about it. Nevertheless, they all head out for lunch, coincidentally, where Jihyo used to work, running into a frantic Jeongyeon, trying to juggle seating the people coming in and managing the reservations her coworker messed up, according to herself.
"Welcome to- Oh, hey girls. Look, can you do me a solid and just hang around for a little? The floor plan is all messed up and I have no idea how Jeewon wrote down the reservations." Jeongyeon greets and asks in the same hushed breath.
"No problem, we'll wait." Tzuyu dismisses the girl with a chuckle.
"Thanks, you are great." The older girl quickly says, as she runs away, muttering something about murder.
"Now, this is interesting." Chaeyoung has an evil smirk.
"I think we should take our time with lunch, how about you two?" Mina questions with a matching smirk.
So they do, the trio sits down by the entrance, waiting to get a table, but the Jeongyeon show was just so entertaining that they didn't even notice the time going by. They just took their time eating, while watching the older girl all but multiply herself to handle the mess the restaurant was in when they arrived. After a while, Jeongyeon comes out without her uniform and plops down on the vacant chair on the girls' table, Mina is the only one with the decency to try not to laugh.
"You are lucky I'm too tired to kill any of you." Jeongyeon mumbles.
"Oh, don't be like that, you did a great job out there." Chaeyoung manages to say.
"It has been routine ever since Jihyo quit. We never really noticed it, but she did work for five." The older girl reveals.
"That sounds like our girl. But nobody was hired to replace her?" Tzuyu chimes in, having calmed down a little.
"I mean, yeah. Like I said, she worked for five, her replacement works for one, now we are four people down." Jeong says as she 'steals' Chaeyoung's juice.
"That's MY juice, and yall should step up your game." The smallest one remarks.
"My juice now. We've been trying, but it was a blow we weren't ready for. Manager-nim is trying her best, but still."
"You did good. Any plans for today?" Mina asks patting the sulking girl's head.
"Sana should be arriving soon, she said she was at the market and would come pick me up right after. We should spend some time at her place before heading to mine for dinner."
"Shouldn't you be, I don't know, trying to look a bit better, then?" Chaeng can't help but ask.
"What do you mean?" Jeong looks confused.
"Jeongyeon, you look really, really disheveled. Maybe brush your hair a little, and wash your face?" Tzuyu suggests.
"That bad?" The older one asks, the trio nods. "Alright, so, see you guys later. Don't be strangers."
They just laugh, and decide to call it a day, gather their things and start discussing who will pay today. Chaeyoung had forbidden rock, paper, scissors for those, she couldn't understand why, but she kept loosing and was not having it anymore, she wanted to pamper her girls too. So red ginseng it was, Mina won that time, they headed to Tzuyu's, all feeling a bit bothered with themselves already.
Cleaning went as well as Mina had expected, Chaeyoung had found some lightsabers halfway through, Tzuyu played with her for a while, then proceeded to try and get something done with the oldest girlfriend, while their little cub kept making saber sounds and jumping around, until Mina snapped, told them that, either they started cleaning or get the hell out. Also, something about cutting them both out from cuddles for the next week, so the two younger ones just get back on track and not provoke their penguin any further. Angry Mina was dangerous Mina.