♤𝐓𝐨 𝐃𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫♤

18

Ryujin sighed, icing multiple parts of her body as she laid in bed, her third day away from school, still healing. The amount of times she's tried dialing Yeji only to get no response was worrying, but she couldn't get out of the house, she was so hurt.

But today must have been her lucky day, she finally got a response from Yeji after texting Yeji to please come by because she had an urgent emergency. This finally gave Ryujin the strength to get out of bed, she was ecstatic to finally see Yeji since last Friday morning.

When the door knocked, indicating Yeji's arrival, she rushed downstairs as fast as she could, opening the door with the biggest smile. But it instantly fell, Yeji looked hurt, like she had been beaten up by a gang, and she had a bunch of bags with her, Ryujin's bags.

"Take your shit back, never contact me again or else I'll kill you." Yeji spat, throwing the bags into the house before walking away and getting into her car.

Ryujin limped over, stopping her before she could drive off. "Ya, Yeji. Yeji!" Ryujin banged on the car door, forcing Yeji to roll her window down. "What the hell is going on? Why are you suddenly like this?"

"Don't play dumb with me. Fucking pathetic. I don't love you anymore." Yeji scoffed, shaking her head and backing out of the driveway in a rageful rush. Ryujin followed after the car, but backed away when Yeji nearly ran her over, she fell back to the asphalt, on the side of the road.

She couldn't stop tears from rolling down her cheeks as she quickly stood up and screamed after Yeji. She didn't know what she did to suddenly have Yeji abhor her so much.

Another car pulled up right next to her, the window rolling down, revealing Dosie and Yuna in Yuna's car. "What the hell happened? I told you it was a good idea to bring ice cream!" Dosie said, telling the last half to Yuna, the driver.

"I- I don't know!" Ryujin claimed, walking back to the house so the other two could park into the driveway without her being in the way.

Once Dosie and Yuna were inside, they had so many questions about both Ryujin's physical and mental state. She looked so hurt in both.

"I was attacked, someone broke into the house, beat me up, and then threatened me." Ryujin revealed, explaining her bruised and swollen body.

"By who? When?" Yuna questioned, lightly caressing Ryujin's face with a pout. She didn't like seeing Ryujin hurt.

"I don't know, they were masked, but it was Friday night. I wasn't supposed to be alone, but as soon as I got in here, I crashed on the couch and slept a lot longer than I thought I would. Then I woke up to someone hovering over me."

"Friday night... didn't Yeji's family have dinner with TBG that night?" Dosie pieced together.

"Majayo! Does Yeji know you were beat up?"

"She was just here, but she threw my bags into the house and told me to never contact her again or else she'll kill me."

Dosie and Yuna looked at one another, finding the behavior beyond unusual. They confessed their love for one another, how could that suddenly change?

"She told me she didn't love me anymore, but I don't know what I did to make her hate me so much. What did I do?" Ryujin cried, getting hugs from both her friends, who guided her to sit on the couch in the family room.

"She's being threatened." Yuna assumed, but Dosie stated a theory of her own.

"Or she's trying to cut ties with you to keep you from being a target. That's the only way she could've said that to you, there's no way she meant it. There's no way."