Dangerous Waters

Chapter 5: A Fine Line Between Love And Hate

Summary:

Mina deals with a frustrated Nayeon.

Notes:

I suck at writing summaries. It's literally worse than the people who do those Netflix descriptions.

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Chapter Text

Mina woke up with Sana's arms and legs sprawled across her, allowing her little space to move. With bated breath, she carefully removed Sana's limbs from on top of her, trying to escape her grasp as quietly as possible. What time is it? She glanced around the room and saw that Tzuyu and Dahyun were still in deep sleep.

She quietly tiptoed out of the room. As elegant as when she dances ballet, and into the living room where curious eyes greeted her.

"Walk of shame?" Jeongyeon teased.

"No, that implies that it was actually somehow consensual," Momo interjected with a chuckle.

"You're right," Jihyo added. "Maybe Sana never learnt what the word 'no' is in Korean." Mina had just woken up, and it was way too early to be dealing with sneering hyenas.

Mina furrowed her eyebrows. "I- what are you guys doing up right now?"

"Uh, it's 11:45 a.m.?" Jihyo pointed to the clock on the wall.

"Almost time for lunch," Momo raised her eyebrows.

"What are you just doing up?," Jeongyeon paused, looking the girl up and down, "Wait- did Sana really have her way with you last night?" She put on a serious face, tensing the room a little.

"Wh-what are you talking about?," Mina chuckled awkwardly, "We only slept, don't make it weird."

"Slept as in... together?," Momo snickered along with Jeongyeon before being both smacked upside the head by Jihyo.

"Perverts," Jihyo rolled her eyes and turned to Mina. "Don't listen to them, there're some pancakes in the kitchen for you if you're hungry." Jihyo gave Mina a kind smile as she headed towards the kitchen, before staring down at the two hyenas laughing uncontrollably beside her.

"Ugh," Nayeon sighed softly as she tried to use her left hand to make herself another pancake. Her right hand was her dominant hand, but it was still very useless due to being bandaged up tightly, to the point where she can't use her fingers at all. The spatula wobbled as she weakly tried to flip the pancake on the other side. Her coordination was terrible. She somehow accidentally flipped the entire pan off of the stove instead, startling her as the scorching hot pan jerked towards her.

"Nayeon!" Mina's eyes widened as she dashed in to grab Nayeon out of the way of the hot pan. Nayeon yelped as Mina held her waist and whisked her away from the stove. Mina quickly turned off the stove and picked up the pan of half cooked pancake batter off of the floor. Nayeon remained silent as she fiddled with the loose ends of her gauze. Mina turned around to look at her before fixating on her right hand.

"What's-" Mina furrowed her eyebrows, reaching out to hold Nayeon's injured hand.

"I'm fine," Nayeon quickly waved her off, "it's nothing."

"It's not nothing, your hand- it's bleeding through the gauze right now," Mina reached out again as Nayeon kept dodging her. "What the hell? How'd this happen? When did this happen?" Mina's voice was more concerned than anything. "Let me see," she persisted.