The Way It Is

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Chapter 16

"Are you just going to let the weekend pass in your room?" Hyunjin knocked on Yiyeon's door, but she did not respond.

Slightly worried, he decided to turn the knob and enter the room. He sees Yiyeon seated on the floor. She was on the other side of the room. Her back was facing Hyunjin.

He wasn't sure about what she was doing, so he decided to get closer.

"Yiyeon?"

The girl hummed, "Hyunjin, I'm not hungry."

"The last meal you ate was last night's supper," he sighed and sat beside her. "You do know that I'm here to listen... right?"

She slowly nodded.

Hyunjin looked at what she was looking at. It was her uniform. They were scattered on the floor, and a white, powdery substance was covering them. He reached for the clothes as he touched the substance.

"Is this... flour?" He asked as he sniffed the powder. "Did you have baking class yesterday—wait, you don't have that subject," he said as he quickly threw a glance at Yiyeon.

"They could have done much worse," she muttered under her breath. "Why is everything suddenly a big deal? Hyunjin, I'm scared..." she said and looked down.

"They? Who did this to you?" He asked, totally alarmed. 

He then remembers what he, Yiyeon, Seungmin, and Felix talked about yesterday.

"Did Jeno's fangirls... did this?" He asked.

She shrugged, "It's hard to point fingers..." she sighed and laid down. "What am I gonna do?"

Hyunjin could not answer.

***

Being alone have her some time to think. Think about everything that had happened in the past months. Was I a bad person towards someone when I was dating Jeno? No, that's not it. That can't be it. I never did anything that would hurt someone in that way... I guess.

Yiyeon found herself sketching a picture of the basketball court--where she had first Yangyang. This also reminded her of basketball, a thing where Jeno excels at. 

"Yiyeon-ah!" The said girl looked up to see Jaemin staring at her worriedly. "Is everything alright? You haven't uttered anything since this morning..."

"I didn't?"

"Yes! You just nodded, shook your head, and shrugged to everything that we told you," Jaemin said and pulled his chair closer. "Renjun even said that he'd be confessing to his crush, and you didn't even spare him a single glance."