MANIA

Part 25

The next day, Y/N ended up sleeping in later than usual. When she wakes up, she feels slightly more groggy than normal, movements sluggish as she pulls herself out of bed.

Heading towards the bathroom, Y/N freshens herself up a bit before trudging out of her room and down the hall.

Blinking a few times, Y/N brings a hand up to rub at her eyes, a yawn escaping her lips. Though, as soon as she reaches the main foyer and her gaze refocuses, her eyes nearly bulge out of her head.

"What the fuck!" Y/N's voice ringing out, loud and clear, echoes throughout the room.

In an instant, all eight girls are surrounding her, worry on all of their features. Y/N can tell some of them seemingly also had a late start to their day, toothbrushes hanging out of both Irene's and Rosé's mouths, while Sana still looks like she's in her pyjamas.

"Why? What's wrong baby?" Sana takes a step towards her cautiously.

Y/N blink, caught off guard momentarily by Sana's newly oranged dyed hair. Though, from the looks of things, she's not the only one who's suddenly changed

Both Jennie's and Jisoo's sport pink strands now. Jisoo's is more of a pastel shade of pink, contrasting her stark black hair Y/N had become so used to on her. Jennie, on the other hand, is a bright hot pink, pushed slightly away from her forehead for the moment with a headband. Even Nayeon sports are almost red, her locks are shorter than they were when Y/N saw her last night.

One thing is for sure, though. They all look good.

Y/N swallows the sudden dryness in her throat, shaking her head to clear her thoughts in the next second.

Then, Y/N motion to the ground before her feet. "Why are there drops of blood everywhere? Are you all okay?"

This time, it's their turn to blink at Y/N. Their mild jealous anger that still lingers from last night almost dissipates completely as they hear the concern clearly in her voice.

Truly, Y/N have no idea what this means to them - for her to worry about them like this. Warmth floods their chests as soft smiles paint their features.

"What happened?" Y/N continue to scan the gaze over the area, seemingly paying no mind to how fond they're looking at her so suddenly. "Is this why you girls were so late getting back last night?" Then, as if realizing something, she practically freezes in her spot. "When did you guys get back last night?"

"The council meeting took us longer than we thought it would." Jennie is the first to respond.

"Did something happen?" Y/N's brow is furrowed as she looks towards the girl, and Jennie cannot deny the way that her heart races in her chest at having Y/N's concerned filled gaze be directed entirely at her.

"You could say that." Jisoo sighs, crossing her arms in front of her chest.

It's then that Y/N shifts her gaze to her, Jisoo's spine straightening slightly beneath that same look on Y/N's features now being projected towards her.

"I repeat," Y/N glance around at all of them, "Are you all okay?"

"We're all fine," Mina assures her with a soft smile painting her features