Musi || 백현

+ nineteen

+ nineteen

By the end of the second day of the tryouts, the girls were informed that they would receive call backs if they would be invited to return to the team for regular practices. Narda left with a good feeling in the pit of her stomach, especially because she had seen Nari's loyalty. She had fought so hard to get her a spot in the tryouts again, even using her own personal connections to make it happen. The two girls went to their apartment and Narda got in the shower. She then spent the rest of the night binge watching dramas with Nari. Narda had even already gotten her friend hooked on popular Mexican dramas that she watched as a child. Florencia, Acacia, and Narda had even filmed a reaction video with Nari, making her watch the infamous Maldita Lisiada clip from Maria la del Barrio.

Nari had been confused watching it for the first time, since she didn't understand the context of the argument. But when the girls explained it to her, she just laughed and found the acting to be good, but very dramatic and exaggerated.

Narda's good mood from the tryouts had been dissipated the very next day. She had gotten up for work in the morning in a good mood and gotten dressed like she did every morning--in her primary school teacher uniform. She left her apartment building and was on her way to the train station when she heard a familiar voice calling after her, making her freeze in her tracks. "Guti..." He called for her, his voice hesitant. After all this time, he still called her by Guti instead of her name which was Narda. For one, it was much easier to pronounce. And also, he knew that it was the name she preferred to go by anyway--a shortened form of her last name Gutierrez. 

She didn't turn to face him, and her first impulse was to run away from him like she had been doing for weeks. But she didn't want the watchful eyes of the public on her. If anyone were to notice that she was close to him, even if it was his fault, she would still get in trouble for it because of the restraining order he had gotten against her. She said nothing, didn't even acknowledge his presence and continued walking calmly, picking up the pace only slightly. But he didn't give up so easily. She heard the patter of his own footsteps as he walked behind her, trying to catch up without gathering too much attention on himself.

"I just wanna talk to you. I know that if you listen to me, you'll forgive me after you know what really happened." He said in a whiny voice that made her go weak. Without even glancing back at him, she knew there was a cute pout on his lips. Baekhyun definitely knew his way around talking to girls. He knew just what to say to get her to consider listening, even though she decided against it in the end.

She wanted so badly to talk to him too, but he had hurt her too much already and the rational part of her didn't want to listen anymore. He had lied to her, made her think that he loved her, and that they had a chance at being together. Only to discard her in favor of someone cruel and manipulative like Taeyeon. They were sweet lies that he fed her all that time they were together, but they were lies nonetheless. As far as she knew, he had only used her for his own entertainment, at least that was what Taeyeon assured her. But Narda wasn't entirely sure how much of that was true. And she was dating Chanyeol now, his best friend. As his girlfriend, she owed him that respect to their relationship at least. 

Narda continued to ignore him when he kept calling her name as she kept walking down the street, pretending like she wasn't practically being followed around by EXO's Baekhyun. Fancy that, she thought to herself bitterly as the thought popped into her mind. She had once been the one following him around, trying to get his attention and he had ignored her for so long. Now he had finally gotten what he wanted and it was like something in him had changed. Now he was the one wanting her attention. But this is what you wanted, she wanted so badly to turn around and say that to him. To scream it out. This is what you wanted.