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Harry Styles' third album fills the atmosphere of the dorm through the vinyl player, the members all choosing their individual ways to relax after a long working day.
"Look at her." Yeji, who stands in front of a still Blakely Kim on the couch, holds up her phone to show her behavior.
"Oh yeah, she's mad." Liam's voice sounds out, the man immediately noticing his sister's habit of staring up the ceiling when in a down mood.
"Blake, where is your phone exactly ?"
Blake had ignored her phone the whole day. She wished she could put it on airplane mode, but her manager disallowed that idea for obvious work reasons. So instead, if a call or text came through that wasn't from either her members or manager, the person reaching out would instantly be ignored.
"Teetering on the edge of the balcony."
"What !" Chaeryeong jumps up from her previous laying down position on the opposite couch, and rushes out to the balcony.
"And I'm silently hoping it will ring again so the vibration could send it falling to the cement." Blake breaths out, still staring up at the cream ceiling with her hands clasped into fists tightly in her lap.
Sighing with a deeply worried feeling in her chest, Yeji tells Liam she'll get Blake to call him later, before ending the FaceTime and setting her phone down on the coffee table. She plops herself down beside Blake, rest her head on it's side so she coulf stare at the younger. With her pointed finger, she pokes it to Blake's temple and gives her head a slight push, causing Blake's gaze to stare directly the light.
Immediately pinching her eyes shut with a yelp, Blake puts a sleeve covered hand over her shut eyes with a groan.
"Do not panic, she's safe !" Chaeryeong returns to the living room, Blake's phone held up high in the air, a smile on her innocent face.
It's quiet for a moment, until the phone starts vibrating in her hand. The sound pulls an annoyed groan from the owner of the device, her fists balling up over her eyes. Chaeryeong looks from the caller ID, before she meets Yeji's questioning gaze. She mouths a name, causing the older to shake her head with a sigh.
"Jinyeong-ah, you're going to have to talk to him sooner or later."
Pushing herself up from the couch, she swipes her still ringing phone from Chaeryeong's grasp, before declining the call and throwing it under the couch pillows. "Later." she answers Yeji, before sitting back down with an even more sullen look on her face than before.
"B," Chaeryeong now sits on the other side of Blake carefully, and takes Blake's hand in hers. "You've been ignoring Jiung for the past week."
"I am aware."
Yeji's gaze narrows. "And we were understanding at first, but now you're just being childish Jinyeong."
Suprised by the leaders words, Blake's eyes round when she looks at the olders sharp gaze. "I..." but her words fail to form, because deep down she agrees, but her more stubborn side refusing to admit it.
"Did you guys have another fight ?" Chaeryeong asks, hinting to the last conversation they had about Blake and Jiung's relationship, which was the same day she hung out with Hyunjin and Changbin.
"No..." Blake's voice is small as she leans her head back, one again staring up at the ceiling. "I think,"
She gulps, her gaze suddenly bluring as the thought she had been pushing away with all her might makes a comeback, and this time, she decides to voice it, instead of just letting it eat away at her heart.
"I think I've fallen out of love with him."
Just as the words leave her lips, a tear slips past her eyelids, and it slides down her chin to find home on her peache hoodie.
Instantly the two girls frown at seeing their member beginning to cry, and they simultaneously scoot closer until Blake is sandwiched between them, and their arms envelope her warmly. Yeji rests her head on Blake's shoulder, allowing the latters head to snuggle into the olders. Chaeryeong has her cheek pressed to Blake's chest, her heartbeat a racing rhythm in her ears.
Although all of Blake's tears seep into Yeji's hair, the older pays it not mind, as she all she cares about it is providing her member with comforting warmth, letting her know that she'll be okay as long as Yeji lives and is by her side.
"Feelings are one of the few things we can't control Blake," a new voice enters the moment now, and Blake sniffles as she opens her eyes to see Lia striding in with a tray in hand.
She sets it down with six piping hot cups of hot chocolate, marshmallows already melting deliciously on top. They may be entering Summer, but it's never too late for hot chocolate in the Itzy dorm.
"Feelings can disappear just as fast as they appear," Lia settles down on the carpet in front of the three girls. "Feelings can also settle within for a long period if time, before slowly fading." Lia begins to hand out the drinks, Blake taking it gratefully as she sniffles and wipes her face with the sleeve of her hoodie.
"When feelings fade Blake, do you know what means ?" Lia's honey-like smile brings a sense of comfort to the youngers melancholy heart.
Her voice is shaky as she speaks. "That I no longer feel the same way ?"
Lia chuckles softly, nodding, although it's not quite the answer she had in mind. "Yes, but it also symbolizes growth."
"Although it hurts, Jiung could just be someone you needed in your life for period of time, but he wasn't meant to be forever." Yeji adds in a gentle tone, her gaze softer now as she eyes Blake.
"But that doesn't mean he has to be completely booted from your life, if that's what you want of course." Chaeryeong quickly says, her eyes downturned as she still held one of Blake's hands.
"Also B, there's a chance Jiung feels the same, and he's just been constantly reaching out because he knows exactly how you feel." Ryujin now says, her and Yuna dresses in the pajamas and coming to sit by the coffee table as well.
"You're scared ?" Yuna asks as she takes a careful sip of her hot chocolate. Blake nods. "Then there's a chance he's definitely scared too unnie."
Blake tilts her head as she processes Yuna's words, a feeling of guilt suddenly starting to set in. "Huh, I guess I didn't think of that."
Blake makes to get up and retrieve her phone, but she barely lifts her butt from the cushion when the device gets handed to her by Chaeryeong, who somehow in the midst of everything managed to dig it out without Blake even noticing.
Chuckling softly, she quickly takes it to send Jiung a text promising that they could talk in person this weekend. After, she sets her phone back down, and gives her members a immensely grateful look. She doesn't really have to voice her gratitude, and instead she smiles brightly at them all.
"Can we watch the drama now ?"
"Yes !" the chirpyness returns to Blake's voice at Ryujin's question, as she remembers that she successfully was able to convince her members to finally watch 'Love Between Fairy and Devil'.
"I need to see more of Dongfang's glare that somehow makes my heart race."
At Chaeryeong's words everyone laughs and the light atmosphere is brought back into the room, all the members now cuddling up on the couch, Blake perfectly content being sandwiched in the middle.
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this isn't proofread to I apologize for any mistakes ! thank you always for reading <3
