cliff • kpop au

seven.

⚠️ warning: mentions of rape ⚠️

"Jisoo?? What...what did you do to your hair?" I blinked, her new short hair throwing me off completely.

"I cut it! Why, does it look bad?" She asked, and I saw her lips start to form a frown as she reached up and tugged at the short locks of hair.

"N-no, it looks great! I'm just....wh-why did you decide to cut it so soon? I remember you saying that you would never cut it this short back in sophomore year..."

"That was sophomore year, silly. I'm a whole new woman now!"

"Well what did your parents think about it?" I asked as she opened the door wider for me to step into her home, hanging my jacket up on the rack.

"They...definitely didn't expect it," she chuckled, closing and locking the front door. "But I'm sure they'll warm up to it soon!"

We made our way up to her room in silence. Not an awkward silence, but the type of silence where two people are in their own heads, thinking about things. Things that may be difficult to express out loud.

I didn't know how to bring up what happened at school today. The thought of telling her had been eating away at me ever since earlier. I was scared. I didn't want to upset her when I knew she already had to be hurting so much on the inside.

She opened the cracked door of her room to reveal a slightly different set up. A new bed, and two new drawers to match it. A few new posters up, most of them from generic pop bands and tv shows she liked to watch.

It seemed like every time I came over here something else was different about her. I didn't want to see what would change next.

"You like it? A few minor changes but I wanted the room to have a different vibe. Plus I've had that childish princess bed for like ten years now, I couldn't wait to get rid of it."

"Yeah yeah, it looks great Jisoo." I smiled and moved to her desk, sitting in the chair neatly placed under it. I watched her smile and walk over to her window, opening the maroon curtains to reveal a bit more sunlight. I figured this time would be the best time to bring it up, so I let out a breath that was well overdue and began to speak again.

"Listen Jisoo...I was at school earlier and, something happened..."

I saw her visibly stiffen a little, but she seemed to regain her composure directly after.

"What happened? Did you get into another fight? Got another teacher's panties in a bunch?" She asked jokingly, but when she turned to face me her smile dropped a little, as she saw I was serious.

"N-no, uhm...I went to the breakfast line in the caf and was behind these douches...they started talking about this girl they had sex with, at first I was just disgusted by them talking about it so proudly, but then they started referring to the girl as 'Nerd Girl' and I got a little curious, so I continued to listen...then they said that Jennie apparently bribed them to have intercourse with that girl...or maybe she threatened them I don't know...but they way they were describing that girl...she sounded too familiar," I looked up to meet her eyes, but she avoided the eye contact and looked down at her fingers instead, picking at the skin of them.

I continued, "They described so vividly how they were raping her...they were laughing about it, it was so repulsive...unfortunately I got so caught up in my thoughts that I bumped into one of those idiots. He immediately knew who I was, because he called me 'the Nerd Girls Bestfriend'..."

I stopped talking momentarily to see what she would say or do in this moment before I dropped the bomb on her. But from the nervous look on her face, the way she started picking at her fingers with more force, and how she still couldn't looked me in the eye, I knew she already guessed what I was going to say from the beginning. She kept silent, so I just continued.