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Kang Mina

I woke up in an unfamiliar place. Where am I? I thought.

I felt a throbbing pain in my head. "Ow~ what happened to my head?" I asked.

There wasn't anyone in the room, I turned my head to my right and saw a sleeping Jaerin. Tapping her on the shoulder, she woke up. "Good to see you're awake. How are you feeling? Have this," she gave me a glass of water.

"No poison?" I asked as the girl just scoffed.

"As much as I find you mean and self-centered and stuff, no, there's no poison in it. You wanna go visit Mineun? The doctor said you were fine to go," she asked me.

"No? It was her fault she fell anyway. I didn't push her down," I stated, gulping down the glass of water I had been handed.

"Of course, you wouldn't go. Why did i think you'd be so nice as to visit Mineun? Again, you're a self-centered person. Even if it wasn't your fault, visiting your injured friend, or step-sister, would be how real friends treat each other, but you just take her for one of your entourage and a person who's been forced into your life," she said, before exiting the room.

"Where are you going?" I asked her as she opened the glass door. "To visit the broken member of your entourage."

"Broken?"

"Mineun fractured her arm and leg, left and right respectively," she stated while I gaped in shock at her words.

"She what?!"

"I'm repeating it only once more, if you don't hear it right, i'm just gonna leave. Mineun, fractured her left arm, and her right leg. Now if you would excuse me, i'm gonna leave you here," she said to me before pushing the door she had pushed slightly so that she could get out.

I gaped at her words. Mineun got injured, because of me. I thought, before snapping out of it. Snap out of it, this isn't you. It's her fault that she fractured her arm and leg, not yours. You're not the type to feel guilty, I'd rather you not start with Mineun. I thought again, before reaching back for my glass of water, and gulping it down, with a trickle of sweat dripping down my face.

No, it wasn't sweat. It came from my eyes. Wait, am I crying? This can't be! You're not like this, Mina. Snap out of it! My conscience began to grow. I felt guilty. For the first time in my life, I felt guilty. Guilty because of Mineun. What I did was wrong, but my mind told me that everything should have been blamed on others. My heart however, had been telling me to admit fault. It was my fault.

<Flashback>

"Mina, please don't do this! I'm sorry!" Mineun said in a soft, kind, but scared voice.

"No, I don't forgive you. Sorry is just a word, it's not as if you aren't gonna repeat it!" I shouted to the poor, scared girl.

I had asked her to get me a coffee, but she just complimented my rivals, and even gave me the wrong coffee! How dare she! She definitely had deserved a punishment.