Girl, Get up.

Chapter 5

"Yo Minji, can we go get food before we go to your place?" Chan says to break the tension that seemed to have enveloped both groups.

"Oh yeah that's a good idea! That new Cafe just opened up and I want to try their coffee, I've heard good reviews from there so far" Chaewon says to steer the conversation elsewhere.

"Yeah sure let's go" Minji says as she stands up from the steps. She gives Hyein a small smile and nods at her friends to signal them that they were leaving.

"I guess we'll see you guys later" Hyewon says as she walks past Hyein. Felix gives her a slight smile and follows his group.

Haerin walks up to Hyein and ask her what that was all about. Hyein just shrugs and waits for Taecyeon to come pick them up. Ni-ki stayed with them throughout the wait, he kept flirting with Haerin and they kept giggling to themselves. Hyein and Dani we're talking about the latest gossip at school.

"Hey, is it true that Jennie and Taehyung are engaged?" Dani asks Hyein. Hyein darts her eyes at Haerin but Haerin doesn't see her as she's too busy flirting with Ni-ki.

"Uhh where'd you hear that from?" Hyein asks nervously. Seriously, how does news travel so damn fast at this school?.

"Oh, I heard my parents talking about it the other night. They were talking about a merger and said that your family's company and Haerin's parents' company are already in talks of the biggest merger in the country. Something about their kids tying it all together to show the other companies that they are not to be messed with." Dani says nonchalantly, she looks at her fingernail and notices that she broke one of her nails today and definitely needs to fix it soon.

"Wait what makes you think they were talking about Jennie and Taehyung?" Hyein inquires, her brows scrunching as she tries to find ways to change the topic. She knows Dani has a crush on her brother and doesn't want to really get into any more detail.

"I just figured it was them since they're at that age, they're going to graduate soon and i heard my parents say something about when they go into college is when the plan is to set in motion." Dani says, her attention fully back to Hyein.

"I don't know man, they could've been talking about Haerin and Minji" Hyein says as she smirks. Haerin's ears perked up as she heard her and Minji's name. She pushes Ni-ki off of her and goes to her two friends who were giggling.

"Over my dead body" she screeches. Haerin has her hands on her hips and looks at her friends disapprovingly.

"What? Dont you think you guys would make a cute couple?" Hyein teases her. Haerin makes a face of disgust and Ni-ki frowns at the question.

"Well now that you say, I do think they'd make a cute couple. Like one of those dysfunctional but cute couple" Dani says as she laughs. They could see that Haerin was getting annoyed and Ni-ki was feeling uncomfortable. They continue to tease Haerin and make kissing noises at her. Before Haerin could retaliate, their ride shows up. Taecyeon opens the door for the girls and greets them.

"Good afternoon girls, ready to go?" Taecyeon asks, the girls nod and climb in the car. Before Taecyeon could close the door, Ni-ki stops him and looks at Haerin sitting inside the car.

"I hope you can think about what we were talking about earlier today, i'll be waiting for your reply" with that Ni-ki smiles at the girls and nods at Taecyeon as he walks away.

"WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT" Dani yells as the doors fully shut. Haerin already knows that her friends aren't going to let this go. She decides to tell them the truth.

"He asked me out." Haerin says as she stares out the window. The drive was smooth and there was no traffic today. She sees a group of students from their school crossing the crosswalk. She spots her sister amongst the crowd. She saw Bang Chan carrying Minji on his back, and they were laughing together. Felix and Chaewon trailing behind them pretending they don't know them. Hyewon was already on the other side of the street waiting for her friends. Haerin looks away. Seeing Minji so happy pisses her off. She doesn't know why but ever since their big fight two years ago, anything that Minji does pisses off Haerin. She can't stand being in the same room as Minji. She blames it on the fact that she's probably still upset that Minji had unintentionally gotten her hurt. Yeah that's it. She's still upset at Minji. She never accepted her apology, her parents accepted it for her. Haerin, still lost in thoughts, completely ignored her friends' questions until she felt them shaking her whole body.

"UM HELLO? WERE YOU EVEN LISTENING?" Dani and Hyein ask simultaneously as they look at her with wide eyes and are even closer to her face than before.

"Oh my god, please give me some space" Haerin says as she slumps further back into her seat.

" sorry. Anyway, have you thought about it?" Hyein asks as she backs away back to her original seat. Dani was still holding onto her shoulders and was looking at her expectantly.

"No. I haven't. I haven't really thought about any of that. I know he's had a crush on me for a while now but I didn't really expect him to ask me out yet, yknow?" Haerin says coolly.

"Besides, I'm not ready for that." Haerin says as she looks out the window again, Minji and friends are long gone and they are nearing Hyein's house. The conversation about Ni-ki ends and the girls change the topic on what they plan on doing that night. Dani and Hyein were talking about baking cookies and Haerin was thinking about just laying on the bed and playing on her phone.