Love and War

Training

It's been 2 weeks since Irene and the girls accepted to train and become the power rangers under Jin. Today is a cool morning and the air is chilly. The girls are outside on the front lawn running their 77th lap.

"MOVE! NO TIME FOR REST!" Jin shouts from the center of the lawn as he sees Joy and Yeri slacking off a bit. 

"Ugh! He doesn't even let us rest for a bit!" Joy complaints.

 Seulgi laughs as she turns around while running and says, " Why? Too lazy to even run, Joy?" Joy fumes at her words and runs past Seulgi. 

"Hey! You'll regret racing me!" Seulgi turns around to run off to catch Joy. 

Yeri shakes her head and says, " Kids..." 

Irene and Wendy share an amused look as Wendy says, " You're a kid too, Yeri..." 

"Nope. They're a bunch of immature and I'm stuck with them..."

Irene laughs as her gaze trails off to Y/N running off in distance. Her eyes saddened. They haven't talked to each other since the incident. Irene tries to talk, but Y/N changes her route whenever she sees her. 

"Y/N..." Irene whispers. 

Wendy puts a hand on her shoulder, "She'll come around, don't worry." 

Irene sighs as they slightly slow their pace, "I don't know Wendy... She isn't even LOOKING at me... How am I supposed to talk to her."

Irene has been kind of heartbroken since that incident. She can't spend one of her days when she doesn't think about Y/N. She has this deep, guilty feeling. She feels like she is the one who put them in this situation.

Y/N, on the other hand, isn't working smoothly too. She is having a hard time deciphering her feelings towards Irene. She hasn't felt like this before. She is avoiding her since the incident, because whenever she sees Irene standing in front of her, her heart beats at an unexpected rate and her palm starts to sweat, usually. 

She's very confused about this. She hasn't told anyone about this. She can't. How will she describe what she is feeling even? No one will understand her. She's carrying this weight alone. Like she does.

"Okay! Time's up! Rest for a minute! Then we'll practice sword fighting!" Jin says as he claps his hands. 

Y/N stands near the girls as she pants heavily. She grabs her flask from the ground and gulps the water down in one go. Irene is staring at her, unknowingly. She doesn't know herself why, but her gaze always travels to her. 

No matter what. Y/N feels someone's eyes on her, she turns around as her gaze lands on Irene and they stare at each other for a moment. With the same erratic beat of her heart, Y/N looks away and moves towards the set of wooden swords sitting on the ground. 

She picks one of them as she holds it and swings it in the air making a swish sound.

"Still can't talk to her..." Wendy comes forward. 

Y/N turns around as she widens her eyes at her, "What do you mean?" 

Wendy laughs in low voice, "You don't have to hide anything from me... I know everything." 

Y/N was surprised for a moment as she shakes it off and puts on her flat face. "I don't know what are you talking about..." Y/N replies. 

Wendy leans closer to her as she whispers, "Didn't you both kiss in the hospital room--" 

Y/N puts a hand on Wendy's mouth shushing her. "H-How do you know that?" 

Wendy shrugs off her hand and says, "That doesn't matter... The thing that matters is did you talk to Irene? She is really worried about you... She thinks it's her fault that you don't talk to her."