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There is something I want to show. There is someone I want to show it to. That's why we live,


I: Jennie Kim


Tiptoeing through the crowded hallway, she tries to find the person she stopped everything for. When she turned to the left, which seemed like it was the ninth time she had done it today, she finally found her, the girl she once hated.

"Chaeyoung !!!" she exclaimed.

Just when she had called out the girl, she heard a conversation of some students that was apparently about her. "Is that Chaeyoung's friend ?" whispered one of the students with big round glasses that made him look like a spectacled bear. "If she was Chaeyoung's friend we would know, a face like hers can't be forgotten." huffed a small girl looking amazingly identical to the boy with glasses. The last student who talked had long black hair, making it hard for her to identify the person even though she knew no one in this high school. "What if she's her girlfriend?After all... Chaeyoung is just a nasty useless lesbian."

Hearing how she guesses Chaeyoung's classmates, talk about her, it takes her no longer than two seconds to storm in front of them gazing with her menacing cat eyes. "First of all you stupid ass homophobic goth, I'm not her girlfriend just an old classmate! and second of all, if you don't fucking apologize to her when you see her I'll make you swallow those long black hair of yours by the back door of your tiny body understood ??!" Scared for their lives, the teenagers just run away, searching for Chaeyoung to apologize, not seeing the latter behind them.

The world seems to stop when the two teenage girls meet their eyes. Everything disappears behind them, the wind blows swiftly on them. Chaeyoung stands still, eyes widened, she doesn't know what to do. The other girl just tries to contain all her emotions and not let a teardrop. Chaeyoung ends up breaking the awkward atmosphere by giving the latter a small smile, when she gets a smile back her eyebrows raise in confusion. She detaches her gaze from the cat-eye girl's face and stares at the ground for a few minutes fumbling with her fingers.

Run. That's what her mind tells her. And that's exactly what she does. "Wait! Chae-" The smaller girl starts to chase her, trying to catch her pace. "Don't you remember me ?? Chaeyoung it's me come on! Don't go please!" she shouted in the staircase breathlessly. "It's me! Jennie. Jennie Kim from sixth grade!" She stopped on the verge of collapsing, it's way too much and fast running for today, she thought."Don't you remember me..."

The taller girl quickly closed the door of the janitor's room when she saw the brunette hadn't followed her until here. Jennie...Why are you back...


Throwback six years ago...

"I give up! I give up girl!" Ho-yeon croaked, slumping to the ground in defeat. Chahee smoothly backed up and waved an imaginary white flag for peace, as she inquired "Why don't you go first uh?" Hiding behind her friend Ho-yeon urged still a bit shaken. "True, why don't you jump first Jen??" Examining the distance between the bridge and the river Chahee adds "From this height, girl you're gonna break your neck!"

"Well, we don't know until we try!" Beamed Jennie while removing her top. Once her shirt is removed her two friends don't even have time to prevent her from jumping, she's already upside down in the air, ready to face the water. "Let's goooooo!!!" Ho-yeon and Chahee blink at each other mouthfuls. "Oh my god, she did it!" They keep track of their friend who's underwater by faking binoculars with their hands. "One of the days, she'll end up crashed like a fly." When Jennie finally shows up to the surface the girls ask her if it hurts before joining her. "It totally hurts you bitch!"

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