No You Girls || 艺兴

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t h i r t y e i g h t

Sun returned to her hotel room with tears streaming down her face. As she entered the room and shut the door, she found Minnie atop her bed, video chatting with her boyfriend Isaac. The smile on her face was wiped clean off and was replaced by concern when she saw Sun's expression. Pushing herself up to a sitting position on her bed, she said something to Isaac in Spanish, which Sun could mostly understand as her excusing herself because she wanted to talk to Sun. 

Her boyfriend nodded from the computer screen and said goodbye, wishing her good luck at the concert later that night. Minnie closed her laptop and held her arms open for her group mate. Whenever they traveled away from Korea, Minnie and Sun were always room mates. Whenever they were back in Korea, Sun always shared a room with Sarang. They were her two closest friends in the room and the managers thought it was a good idea for the maknae to share a room with group mates who were much older than her. That allowed them to keep an eye on her and make sure she behaved.

The maknae quickly ran into her embrace and hugged her tight. 

"What's wrong?" Minnie wondered, rubbing her hands down Sun's arms in a comforting way. 

"The managers of SM and Pledis said they support my relationship with Yixing." Sun explained to her, burying her face into Minnie's shirt. She wanted to hide from anything, to ignore it until it could go away. But as Sarang had explained to her before--sometimes you couldn't have everything. 

Confused, Minnie asked, "Isn't that a good thing? I thought you and him were secretly dating..."

With everything that was happening, Sun hadn't yet had the chance to tell Minnie the entire story. As far as anyone knew, Sun and Yixing were still together. A few months ago, she might have lied and let Minnie believe that she was still dating Yixing. But that was the Park Mae who lied and hurt people with her lies. Her resolution now was to tell the truth and avoid hurting people who didn't deserve to be hurt.

With a sigh, she continued to explain. "Min--Yixing and I aren't together anymore. He got tired of all my lies and putting off our relationship. I think he hates me now..." She trailed off as she remembered when she talked to him just moments ago in the hallway. The way he had been so cold towards her, and all the songs he had written about their relationship, calling her out for being a bad girlfriend. There was definitely resentment in him, that much was for sure, what she had yet to figure out was if he still loved her or not.

Minnie frowned. "I wish you hadn't kept all of that to yourself."

"I know." Sun nodded. "I'm sorry."

Her room mate shook her head. "Its none of my business what happens in your love life, so I'm not mad at you for not telling me. But I could have helped you get through this. You didn't have to do it alone."

"I was afraid that you and the other girls would take it badly." Sun told her. And she had been right in the end. Most of them still resented her for lying to them about it. 

The other girls who had taken Bom's side were slowly learning to get past it, and now it was mostly only Ara and Bom who disliked her. But their relationships were never the same after that. There had been a division between them and there wasn't the same level of car or trust between all of the members anymore. 

"Mae, just know that you don't have to do this." Minnie said to her, her words calm and soothing. "They shouldn't make you date him."

"Maybe if I go with it, Yixing will learn to forgive me when we've spent all that time together." Sun thought aloud in a hopeful tone.

Minnie crinkled up her nose, showing her evident dislike for the idea. "I don't think he hates you. I think he's just hurt and needs his own space to think about things. Letting the managers force you two together doesn't sound like the best idea to me. I think you both might end up actually hating each other."