Clique (txtXitzy)

11. Day 26

"Good afternoon, Ryujin, what brought you here?" Hitman Bang asked her when he saw the girl get off a bus and land on the entrance of BigHit University.

"Good afternoon to you too, Bang PD-nim," Ryujin smiled at him, "I'm going to see Soobin today to create new choreography together because I had free time."

"Glad to know you're doing what you love. Have fun, Ryujin."

"Thank you, Bang PD-nim."

They were pretty much familiar with each other's headmasters. After all, Hitman Bang and JYP planned to debut the two basketball teams in the same year together, and thought about their future plans as best friends. It was annoying. At least, for the players who were making a rivalry against each other while their bosses hang out like brothers.

Ryujin and Soobin had grown rather close. It was partially due to the fact that they had made a confession to each other, that Soobin was a fan of Itzy and Ryujin was a fan of TXT. They know each other's dance moves, watch each other's interviews, learn each other's styles in basketball through YouTube clips, and well, enjoy watching replays of each other's matches. It was hard for both of them to admit, but when they did, it felt much less tense between the two. They would go to the bakery near the JYP school grounds before practice to buy some bread and share conversations together on their way back. Their discussions came very naturally, like they were meant to be friends in the first place. Ryujin was an extremely friendly and warm person, the kind that Soobin liked to talk to about anything and everything. Well, so far that's how it had been. About two days.

When Ryujin arrived at the door of the dance practice room that Soobin had told her to go to, she immediately came in without thinking to knock. It was quite strange to see Soobin video chat with someone and ignore her presence.

"Soobin?" She called out.

"Oh- Ryujin, you're here already?" Soobin nearly jumped in fright, hiding his phone.

"Ryujin?" A girl's voice asked from his phone, "What's going on?"

"Is that Arin-sunbae?" Ryujin asked back.

"Yeah, it is," Soobin decided that hiding things away would make it more suspicious so he showed his phone's screen to Ryujin. He lied, "We were rehearsing for tomorrow."

"That's cool, but if you're busy I think I'll just leave," Ryujin smiled.

"No, we're done anyway, right Arin-ssi?"

"Yes, actually we did it pretty quickly so I'll end the call," Arin replied from his phone and waved at Ryujin, "Good bye Soobin and Ryujin!"

"Bye," they both said before her face disappeared.

A thick silence filled the room as Soobin put his phone away and got to the centre of the room where Ryujin was standing, tying her hair up. Then they both sat on the floor to stretch before beginning.

"You're dating her, right?"

"W-what?"

"Soobin-sunbae, your members are good liars but you're not. Don't deny it."

"Liars?"

"Yeah, apparently there's a saying that goes: 'Don't trick a trickster.' It happens to be that my many years of experience with lying found it easy to spot when you guys lie to us. I just don't tell the others that your friendliness is fake."

"Hahah, just admit it's because you saw that the caller ID is the dolphin emoji and a lot of hearts behind it," Soobin laughed and clapped his hands.

Ryujin snickered as he rested his arm over her shoulder. She really loved his dimples. She really loved his wispy voice. She really loved, or just loved, or actually she only liked everything about him. His personality, his face, his fluffy hair and baby skin, his smooth receives and shoots, his body, his shyness, his entirety was adorable for her in many ways. But learning that he was already in a relationship with somebody else made her happy for him. At least, that's what a good liar told herself. She wasn't too surprised for some reason. Someone as decent as Soobin should already have a girlfriend anyway. Who was Ryujin compared to Arin? Nevertheless, she shoved those thoughts away and took his hand when he offered to get her on her feet to start choreographing a song together with a big smile on her face.