Daylight // minayeon

VII: I hear the sound of my own voice, asking you to stay

The five days of staying in New York have been an exciting and refreshing experience for these four girls.

Many things happened to all of them, and all of those can be considered good or maybe bad. Depends on them.

But right now, Wendy doesn't know how to react to what she just see.

"Hey, Wendy?" Seulgi tries to call for her friend whose attention is fixed on her phone with widely opened eyes and mouth.

"She's frozen, guys. Bring the blowtorch here." Joy who gets along with what Nayeon said, goes to the cupboard in the kitchen and gets the blowtorch.

"Yah! Put that away." Wendy pushed the blowtorch away from her that is being held by Nayeon.

"What's the matter, unnie?" Joy sits again while chuckling.

The squirrel-like girl looks like she's still in the process of registering what she has just seen on her phone. She thinks that maybe it'll help if she spills it to her friends to ease the struggle.

Her hand shows the phone to the three girls, making them look at the screen with a message displayed on it.

"Irene?" Seulgi looks at her questioningly. Wendy nods like a child.

"I don't know if I should believe that it's her or if this is a scam, guys. I just suddenly received that message, so I replied back and asked who it was for certainty. Then that's what it said..."

All of them looked again to the phone and furrows in sync except that one tall girl. A grin slowly appears on Joy's lips.

"Uhm... unnie, guys." Joy called for them while raising her hand, the called girls bring their attention to the tall girl.

"I just remember this right now. I... gave Wendy's number to Irene yesterday."

As those words went inside Wendy's ear, it lingers and made her stop dead in her tracks.

The infectious silence affected the others while Joy is just smiling ambiguously, uncertain of what emotion is she going to express due to the lack of definite sensation from the other three girls, especially from Wendy.

Now, Joy is contemplating if she just said the wrong thing or the worse. But she also thinks that Wendy should be thankful to her for giving off one of her personal pieces of information.

Wendy looks like she was about to faint because of what Joy just said. 

"My goodness." Wendy sighs while calming her crazy beating heart.

"So, that's really Irene?" Joy nods to Nayeon's question.

Seulgi and Nayeon look at each other while grinning widely, seems like there's something inside these two's heads.

"Seungwan, treat that as a good thing. You should be grateful for two things. One, Joy did the work for you, and two, Irene does the first move." Nayeon couldn't agree more knowing that she and the bear-like girl are both on the same page.

Flushed cheeks are now on Wendy's face as she heard the name of the owner of that previous restaurant they went to. She just doesn't have any idea how to express this overflowing emotion that makes her want to puke.

Just when the four girls are in the middle of their bantering wherein Wendy is playing the role of the victim, her phone suddenly rang a notification, a message to be exact.

All attention shifts to the device's spot. Wendy rushes her arm toward her phone and snatches it as if it was being endangered.

"Omo! Irene just invites her to a date!" Nayeon squeals in happiness as she self-proclaims the "date" between Wendy and Irene.