Boys and Girls

Narina

Chapter 1 : May of 2016

Pyo Nari POV :

We were at Choi Tae Joon's apartment playing video games. I was beating Zico when he stopped to look at his phone.

- Ya Jiho ! Can you concentrate on the game please ? I shouted immersed in the game

- Take my place, he said to Tae Joon without raising his head from his phone

Tae Joon nodded while Jiho went to the corridor putting his phone toward his ear. This is hard to be best friend with someone as busy as him...

- I'm gonna kill you, said Tae Joon to attract my attention toward the football game

My competitive side forget about Jiho and his weird phone calls until I heard the door slammed, he was gone without saying goodbye.

- Aish ! I yelled when the game ended

Tae Joon looked at me and nodded. He won but he didn't tease me for once.

- Why is he like this ? I asked myself thinking about Jiho. Always leaving without telling us when he gets a call !

- Wae ? repeated Tae Joon. I thought you would know, we are his best friends after all

- Do you know something that I don't ? I asked already annoyed that Tae Joon knows more than me

- Yeah, he murmured, Seolhyun

- Who ? I frowned

- Seolhyun, AOA's Seolhyun

- What ! I said shocked. What's happening with her ?

- They are dating, replied Tae Joon with nonchalance, it's been a few weeks...

Mad that he didn't tell me I left the joystick in the sofa and got up.

- Why didn't he tell me ? I asked irritated

- You didn't tell him about Jiseok so I guess it was a payback, said Tae Joon his gaze staying on the screen

I had something with Zico's older brother. It wasn't serious, we just had a one night stand last year. I never say it to Zico, can you imagine telling your best friend : "Oh by the way your hyung and I fucked last night but it means nothing"... No right ?

FLASHBACK: July of 2015

I was a Show Me The Money 4 contestant, I considered this show as my last chance to shine on stage. I already failed to debut in a girl group, it was hard to accept. I put everything I had to debut. These girls were like my sisters. I was so sad that I had to take a break from training and went back to my family in France for two years. I came back in South Korea in 2014, thanks to my studies and my connections I was hired as a teacher for aspiring idol rapper in a promising company.

Jay Park was the one who auditioned me for the first round. I was so glad because I passed that day. I even destroyed the girl who chose me at the second round but like Woo Taewoon I choose a team who didn't choose me at the end. It was the end of my dream. I suffered enough trying to be an idol or a rapper so I decided to give up and help the youngsters who have the same dream as me. At least this show helped me to show my skills and I have more teaching offers now...

Zico or even my friends from my trainee days in Stardom like Jucy and Park Kyung tried to persuade me to continue but I had enough. My family was relying on me. That night I didn't answer Zico's phone call, I knew he would have said that he was sorry and that I should keep fighting but I didn't want to hear that. I needed to share my sadness with someone who knows how things can be hard so I called Taewoon. He asked me to meet him at a bar. We talked, drank and even cried together feeling sorry for each other. The bar owner told us to leave but we didn't want to go to sleep. We needed to evacuate our pain so we took his car and parked in a deserted road close to a park. We listened to music (rap of course to rub it in) and rapped until our throats were sore. The alcohol wasn't affecting us anymore, we weren't talking, rapping or laughing anymore, we were just silent confronting the reality. It was almost five in the morning when things drifted.