The Last to Leave || Ryeji ff

- Chapter 1 -

"Wait, what?" Hwang Yeji shook her head at her phone, sure she must have heard her best friend, Jisu, wrong.

"I said, Soobin won a trip for four to an all-inclusive resort in Cabo, and we want you and his best friend from college to go with us."

Ah, so that was the catch. Jisu was always trying to set her up with one of Soobin's friends. It didn't even make sense anyway since Jisu and Soobin lived on the opposite end of the country so it wasn't like the four of them could go on double dates if she ever ended up hitting it off with anyone. Something that never happened anyway.

"So, what's he like?" Yeji asked as she held in a sigh."

"Who?"

Yeji rolled her eyes. Were they really going to play this game? "Soobin's friend from college."

Jisu laughed as if this was all some big joke. "Well, first of all, he is she."

Yeji breathed a sigh of relief. "And you're completely cool with Soobin having a female bestie?"

"Obviously. I'm a strong, confident woman who knows my man only wants me. Plus, she's super gay."

"So, this is a setup," Yeji said with a groan.

"It's not. I promise. It was all Soobin's idea to invite you two. He was actually insistent that it has to be you two who come along. You know I'm the one behind all of the matchmaking endeavors."

This was true. It not being a setup actually piqued Yeji's interest. She put Jisu on speakerphone, then pulled up her Facebook app, prepared to do some stalking. "So, what's her name?"

"It's Shin Ryujin. She actually-"

No. Absolutely not. This had to be some strange coincidence, right? There was no way Soobin's friend Ryujin was the same Shin Ryujin she knew. Except, the Shin Ryujin she knew did go to school in California. Stanford to be exact. Yeji could never forget how her biggest rival, the absolute bane of her existence, attended a college with an acceptance rate of just four percent.

"Wait. Remind me once again where Soobin went to college."

Jisu laughed. "My sexy nerd went to Stanford."

Shit. Yeji sat her phone down on her kitchen table and crossed her arms over her chest. "Like you can talk. We didn't exactly slum it by going to UPenn."

She felt an anger that she hadn't felt in years as she remembered finding out that even though she was going to a school that was one of the top ten in the nation, Shin Ryujin was going somewhere ranked even higher.

"I'm not going, by the way."

"Wait, what?" Jisu asked, sounding exasperated that Yeji would turn down a free trip to Cabo.

"I know Ryujin," Yeji said, offering no other explanation.

"I wondered if there was any chance you would when I realized you guys only live about a half hour apart."

"We do?" Yeji laughed incredulously. This had to be some sick joke. "I had no idea. She went to my rival high school."

"In Maryland? Wow. What a small world.
Maybe it's fate."

"Trust me, it's not fate," Yeji said through gritted teeth. "She's awful."

"Please don't tell me this is about some high school rivalry you can't let go of."

Yeji opened her mouth to argue, but closed it when she realized that's exactly what this was about. Jisu wouldn't understand though. She never played sports. She didn't get it.