Stuck With You

thirty-four

As the two Japanese girls reached the dormitory, the others immediately greeted them.

“Long time no see, Sana,” Rosé said with a smile.

“Yeah, it’s been a while,” Sana replied warmly.

The members of 3Mix soon joined them and followed the two into the room.

“Yah, squirrel,” Nayeon said as she plopped onto the couch. “Where have you been? We didn’t see you here the whole week”

“I kicked her out,” Momo answered casually as Sana slid off her back.

“Wow,” Jeongyeon gasped. “You really did that?”

“No, she didn’t,” Sana quickly corrected. “I left because we had a small misunderstanding. But we’re okay now.”

“A misunderstanding…” Jihyo hummed, rubbing her chin thoughtfully. She glanced at Momo. “About feelings again?”

Then her eyes sharpened slightly. “It was because of Dahyun, wasn’t it?” The two Japanese girls nodded.

“But it’s resolved now,” Momo said. “We’re good.”

“How did you know?” she added, surprised.

That’s exactly what Mina’s dealing with, Jihyo thought. “I guessed,” she replied instead. “I’m just glad you worked it out.”

“Of course we did,” Momo said proudly. “We’re best friends. We promised to choose each other over anyone, guy or girl.”

“Hmmm.” Nayeon crossed her arms. “So if you weren’t here these past few days, where were you staying? I know it wasn’t my house. I kept checking.”

“Where else?” Momo smirked, inspecting her nails. “At her long-leg’s apartment.”

“I—I forgot my key,” Sana explained quickly. “And I didn’t want to bother you and Chaeyoung, so I stayed with Tzuyu.”

The moment she noticed their looks, Sana straightened up and crossed her arms. “What?”

“So…” Nayeon circled her cousin slowly, wearing a devilish grin. “You slept at Tzuyu’s apartment. Just the two of you.”
“Did you do it?” she asked dramatically. “Oh my! My babies aren’t babies anymore.” She fake-cried, wiping invisible tears.

“Yah! What are you even saying?” Sana protested.

“How many rounds?” Jeongyeon added casually.

“Ah, my best friend is growing up so fast,” Momo teased, clinging to Nayeon.

“We didn’t do anything!” Sana defended and clang to Jihyo as if the younger one would save her.

“Sana...” Jihyo started, pretending to intervene, then shot the others a look.
“She’s just shy to admit Tzuyu’s bed was creaking while-”

“Yah!” Sana cut her off, letting go of Jihyo. “That’s not true! We- we didn’t do anything like that!”

The girls burst into laughter.

“Yeah, sure,” Momo said. “Then why do you have a mark there?”

Before Sana could react, Chaeyoung barged in.

“What mark?” she asked, then greeted everyone. Sana immediately ran to her half-sister and hugged her.

“Chaeyoungie, they’re teasing me,” she whined.

“About what?” Chaeyoung asked innocently. “You and Tzuyu, breaking the bed?”

The laughter grew louder.