Girl Who Cried Wolf

Bowling bullies

"May the games begin." Yerin grinned.

"Me and Eunha are first."

"No me and Umji." SinB gave the 4 of them both her middle fingers and grabbed the ball.

"I'll be enjoying that pizza later." SinB smirked and rolled the ball down the lane.

"Oh! Oh it's going in the...in the gutter..." SinB fell silent.

"SinB if you make us lose-"

"Hey I got this okay? It was a mistake." SinB cut Umji off before she could say more.

"It better be." Umji grabbed a ball and examined the lane before rolling the ball.

"Wow, Umji so you wanna get mad at me for the ball going into the gutter when you just did the same thing." SinB jokingly rolled her eyes.

"It was a mistake...?" Umji repeated SinB's excuse with a smile.

"Mhm." the two girls sat down and watched Eunha and Sowon prepare themselves.

"Ready, Sowon? You got this." Eunha gave her a thumbs up.

"Oh! Strike!" Sowon threw her hands in the air, "I did it! I really did it!"

"You really did it!" The couple hugged.

"My turn!" Eunha grabbed the ball and returned to a couple feet away from the lane.

"Omg! Strike! We're so gonna win!" Eunha jumped up and down. SinB glanced at Yerin who looked upset.

"You guys are going down." Yerin grabbed a ball and swiftly threw it down the lane. It didn't even look like she looked at the lane.

"Told you!" Yerin shouted when she saw that she got a strike. "I'm counting on you, Yuju" Yerin spoke before Yuju rolled the ball.

"What'd I say? I'll never let you down." Yuju grinned after seeing she had also got a strike.

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After a few hours of bowling the girls decided they should start getting ready to leave.

"Who's buying pizza?" Yerin looked up for an answer.

"Umji and SinB." Sowon laughed.

"It's not funny." SinB glared. All Umji and SinB got were a few spares and the rest were in the gutters.

"Well then, pay up." Eunha held out her hand.
Umji gave Eunha her share of the money and they waited for SinB to pay up.

"Well, the money?" Sowon gave her an uncertain look.

"I...I don't have money." She felt ashamed and embarrassed for some reason.

"Sure you do."

"I really-"

"Just give me some of your lunch money." Eunha stuck out her hand towards SinB, pressuring her into giving her the money.

"But then I won't have money for lunch tomorrow..." SinB placed her lunch money into the short girl's hand.

"Just ask your mom for some more money." Eunha shrugged as if it were no big deal. She also didn't understand the struggle of coming from a poor family.

"But my mom doesn't...have...money." The girls were already walking off, leaving SinB behind.

"We'd like two large pizzas, just pepperoni and cheese." Sowon ordered.

"Is that to-go or-"

"To-go." She quickly answered.

"Ok, I'll be right back with your pizza." The cashier walked to the back of the kitchen. "Here you go, goodnight."

"Thanks, you too." Sowon grabbed the pizza and ran outside.

"Ugh, why didn't we drive here? I don't wanna walk all the way home." Yuju whined.

"Hey, we're burning calories from the pizza." Yerin smiled as she lifted up the top of the box and grabbed a slice of pizza out.

"You're right." They all dug in but as soon as SinB tried to grab a slice Eunha grabbed the box and pulled it away.

"You don't get any."

"Why?"

"Because you refused to give me the money for the pizza."

"But I gave you it." SinB gave her a confused yet upset expression.

"You gave it to me too late."

"But-"

"You need to lose some weight anyways." Yuju chimed in.

"No I don't! I'm already skinny!" SinB ran off down the street.

"Fatty boom boom!" Yuju called out.

"She needs to chill, it was just a joke." Umji grabbed another slice of pizza. Yerin was silent the whole way home.

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"SinB, where have you been-" SinB opened the door and ran straight up to her room. Her mom went up there to check on her, "SinB, honey, open the door."

"Leave me alone!" She threw her pillow at the door.

"You leave me no choice." Her mother grabbed the keys to her door and opened up her door only to see her daughter shoving her face into the bed while crying.

"Eunbi, what's wrong?"

"I thought they were my friends."

"Did Yerin do something?" She asked, seemingly a bit surprised since she always thought of Yerin as such a nice girl.

"No! It was the others!"

"Tell me what happened."

"They said I need to lose weight."

"What? You're so skinny, you have a perfect body, don't listen to them."

"I don't listen to them."

"Is there anything else I should know about?"

"No."

"Ok, goodnight sweetie." She left it at that knowing her daughter didn't want to talk about it anymore.

"Goodnight, I love you."

"I love you, my dear Eunbi." She closed the door and let her daughter fall asleep.