Metanoia; Yi Jinzie

Eight;

"Are you serious?" Soomi's voice yells out.

I take my head off of the table and look up to see three very concerned girls and six boys who had a mix of expressions on their faces. They all had a mix of confusion and amusement. Only Jimin was impressed and smirking. Aiya, what was he thinking about this time?

I look up at my surroundings, oh I'm in the studio? Then I look up at Misoo. "So what happened between you two? Hm?" Misoo puts her hand on her hips.

"Nothing," I say or at least I hoped nothing. My head really hurt and my throat was super dry. I also couldn't remember anything up to the point of me drinking a glass of wine. Oh, shoot. Did I get really drunk? Whenever that happens I do stupid things. I cross my fingers nothing happened.

Jimin raises his eyebrows, "Nothing, huh? That's what they all say." Soomi turns and glares at him causing him to drop the smirk. Then Soomi turns to us, "We looked everywhere for you! We didn't sleep because we were so scared and even the directors are looking for you! We looked in all the dorm rooms, we were scared out of our minds! And you two were busy doing who knows what!" Soomi says, lecturing me.

Whelp Soomi might actually kill me.

"Okay, but what were you doing?" Yun Hee says. Jimin turns to her, "Oh, you-know-what."

WHAT NO.

"No, we just sat here playing around! We didn't even spend most of the day in here! We were out shopping and drinking!" I say. "PARK JIMIN STOP JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS!"

I massage my head. Ouch. I also have a stuffy nose. I turn over to Jin who also doesn't look that well. "Hey, do you remember what happened?" I ask.

Jin looks at me as if he's about to say something but then he shakes his head, "No."

I massage my head, "I don't really remember what happened, but we probably were just laughing at nothing and being stupid," I say and glance over at Jin. He looks down at his hands.

"Your hair is all wet, and their's a slight smell of alcohol," Namjoon says. I shrug, I didn't really care but my head was pounding like crazy. I pick myself up off my chair, "Oof, I need to go get painkillers."

—Time Skip—

I look up and down the shelves of the pharmacy and I can't quite concentrate on them. They were blurry and I still felt quite disoriented. I stood up on my tiptoes to reach the bottle on the top shelf only to feel a hand spin me around.

What was happening? I rub my eyes and look up at the tall figure. I almost die from shock, is that Minji? I rub my eyes again praying that it was someone else. Nope, it was her.

I was too tired for this shit. I keep my head down and pray she doesn't recognize me.

"Oh, Jinzie! Are you supposed to be dating another k-pop idol when you're training to be one? I mean, you're not even a trainee for BigHit. You can't date an idol from another company," she says pursing her lips. I mean I couldn't exactly tell her that I was a trainee for them. She wasn't supposed to know.

I shake my head, "I'm not dating anyone," I said amused. She shakes her head and gives me a smile, "Well, you seemed pretty cozy with Seokjin last night."

Holy smokes what on earth did I even do yesterday?

I shake my head, "I didn't do anything though?"

She pulls out her phone and pulls up a picture, giving me a slight smirk. "Hm, really?"

Jin you liar. I will murder you when I get home.

I look at the picture and I blink my eyes hoping to find that it wasn't me. I hoped it wasn't us. But it was, it was me.

It was a beautifully captured photo but it made me sick. Why was I so stupid? I mean if it weren't the situation I was in now, I would've loved it. It was a picture of me and Jin, standing close together under the haze of the neon lights, blurred by raindrops. Why on earth did it have to be me? I look up abruptly, "Why do you care?"

She purses her lips, "Do you remember in grade school? Hm?" I look at her blankly, "That was so long ago, I didn't even do anything." I say, thinking back. Minji and I were best friends then. She puts her hands on her hips, "I wanted Jae to like me but every single time we hung out all he ever talked about was you." I stare at her, was she seriously going to stand here in a pharmacy and bring up something that happened so many years ago? Honestly, how is she respected by so many people?

"You're still mad about that? Damn, I thought you would've grown up by now." I say, turning back to the shelf and reaching for the medicine bottle again. I didn't have time for this. She reaches up and grabs the bottle off the shelf before I reach it, aish well she was taller than me. I turn around to glare at her. She smirks,"Next time wear heels, shorty."

OH HELL NO.

"Okay, first of all, you're nearly the same height as me. Second of all, it's not like you'd be able to keep Jae for more than a week. I mean, I felt so bad for him that you liked him. He'd run within a week!" I yell which doesn't really do anything because she's still towering over me. Her eyes narrow, "Watch it, Jinzie. I have a very valuable photo on my phone right now and it's going straight to BigHit, Seokjin's company if you don't watch your actions." She then lowers her voice, "And don't you dare humiliate my half-brother ever like that again. You do know that with one button on my phone, your career would be over."

She stands up tall again, "Watch out, Jinzie."

Minji flips her hair and sashays out of the section, heels clicking on the tiled floor and her expensive dress swishing as she walked.

I looked at her from behind and remembered all of the things she had put me through. I remembered the whispers of jealousy as she pranced around the halls with the most popular boy in school on her arm. I remembered Minji snickering as Se Jun told me he had no more use for me like I was some temporary replacement. I remembered her shocked face as she pretended she had nothing to do with the breakup.

Do your worst, Minji.

Try me.