A Beautiful Accident ✓

41.

"Men are trash."

"Period."

"Agreed."

"Except Seokjin."

Three sets of eyes turned towards the woman who had spoken up. Sehee shrugged slightly just as Aera lifted her hand and smiled dreamily as she said, "Taehyung too, he's such a sweetheart."

Anika giggled looking at the younger woman while Heejae rolled her eyes. "I have to agree, Taehyung is sweet, so is Jungkook," Anika said, picking up a piece of fruit Heejae's mother had left them.

After Yoongi had turned against her wishes, Heejae had stormed out of his apartment. She couldn't crash at Anika's since she didn't want to put her in danger, nor did she want to see her annoying brother's face. That had left her with only one choice and when she called her mother requesting her to pick her up, she was surprised to see how fast Hei Ryung had come.

The women had shared few words, the air still awkward between them but a call from her distraught son had told the mother enough. It wasn't just any woman these boys were trying to coerce, she was her daughter and if she had done anything right as a mother, it was to teach her daughter that she didn't need a man nor did she have to listen to anything she wasn't willing to listen to. Hei Ryung was more than happy to have Heejae back even if it was for a short time.

"What about Jimin?" Sehee asked with a teasing smirk as she looked at Anika who gulped hard. "I-I guess," she stuttered as she quickly added, "so are Namjoon and Hoseok."

"I get it!" Heejae suddenly exclaimed, stabbing one of the fruit pieces with the fork in her hand. "They are all nice except Yoongi." A chorus of agreement rang through the room, none willing to argue with the enraged woman.

"But what exactly happened that made you so angry?" Sehee asked calmly, "According to Yoongi, he only agreed with your brother since he made sense that you would be unsafe with him."

Heejae scoffed, her hurt clear on her face as she blinked back tears. "Come on, Sehee. Do you really believe that's all there is to it? Both of them teamed up against me and showed as if I didn't have any other choice. I mean, why? Why should I follow their every word while they were unwilling to listen to me?"

She then looked at her friends, the three women she had unexpectedly befriended and implored, "If you girls were in my shoes, you would have rebelled too. Aera and Sehee," she said looking at them, "you guys know the risk, even now you guys are at risk but would you be willing to leave your men just because some delusional people think they have a say in our lives? No, right? Then who is Yoongi to make my life choices?"

The women sat silently as they mulled over her words. Aera could see where she was coming from and she found no fault in her reasoning but...
"Did you tell Yoongi all this?" she asked the older woman, her brows knitted as she thought about it. "I did mention how I would like to stay together since the news is already out."

"But did you fight with him?" Aera asked again, her eyes sparkling as she now understood the whole ordeal. "I'm guessing you just stormed out of his apartment, that's what he told us. If you were so angry and you didn't want to leave him, why did you do the opposite? You should have fought and made him listen."

"Exactly!" Anika spoke up this time, "You do have a habit of getting out of an argument without really letting the other person know what's going through your head. It doesn't happen at work but you do it with people close to you. I still remember how I used to be the first one to approach after you left mid-argument and I had no idea what you exactly wanted."

Sehee hummed thoughtfully along with her too, her finger stroking her chin. "Communication is the key. No matter how angry you are or how close to tears you feel like, if you love him enough, you should stick around and fight. Walking out like this is almost like you are letting go of him. Are you Heejae?" She looked up at the said woman and asked, "Are you letting him go?"