as hyuna shuffled her way across the hallway, keeping her head low, a voice called out for her from the end of the hallway.
"park hyuna!"
her whole body froze with fear. for sure, the voice came from no other than the girl who was ignoring her this entire time. choi yeonhui. slowly, hyuna turned around and gripped her textbooks closer to her chest. not too far stood choi yeonhui with a mischevious glint in her eyes. usually, this would be the scene in the movie when the popular girl would publicly do something to humiliate the victim. of course, that's exactly what happened for hyuna as well.
yeonhui smirked as she made her way towards hyuna, who was at this point calculating ways to escape without receiving even more attention than she's been gaining. right when yeonhui was only a metre away from hyuna, she exposed her left hand that was gripping a wrapped up poster. as she took a glance at hyuna's wary expression, her lips curled into a triumphant grin. taking off the elastic band, yeonhui walked to the nearest wall and finally exposed what was inside. hyuna gasped in surprise as she stumbled back.
"what the fuck?"
"who is that?!"
"no way... is that park hyuna..?"
"look, that's her birthmark on her nose!"
yeonhui took a step back to examine her work and enjoyed the reactions the poster was gaining. she crossed her arms and straightened her back. a proud and defiant smirk finished off her look as she looked behind her shoulder and caught a glimpse of hyuna's horrified reaction.
'i-is that...? but i thought that picture...'
hyuna couldn't process what was going on. where had this picture come from? how did yeonhui find it when she destroyed and deleted every single copy? everything was jumbled in her mind as the two miserable brownish black eyes in the poster stared right through her chocolate brown ones.
the picture was back from when she was in her first year of middle school. since the beginning of day one, she was called ugly, fat, and all the most terrible words that a mere 14-year-old shouldn't have been exposed to at such a young age. yet, she was harassed for her appearance and her weight. she was bullied for the way she looked. the girls wouldn't even sit next to her, claiming that she was taking up all the space. the guys would throw their cafeteria food to the floor and force her to pick it up and eat it. she never wanted to experience that cruel behavior so after enduring a wretched 3 years, she begged her parents for a complete remodeling of her before high school started. just in luck, the whole family had also moved from busan all the way to seoul due to their transfer of work places.
hyuna was ecstatic about her new body. she had already lost so much weight from working out every day and sticking to strict diets. it was time for the final touch. the day had come and after a long 3 months, hyuna was reborn. at least that was before this incident.
"c-choi yeonhui... HOW COULD YOU?!" she screeched, her voice shocking everyone in the hallway.
there was a moment of silence and the tension in the air thickened as hyuna started heaving. tears were streaming down her face, her makeup had melted and her perfect curls were tangled and messy. even yeonhui was slightly surprised. she didn't think that hyuna would easily break down here in front of everyone.
"you're no fun, hyuna," yeonhui spoke with an innocent pout on her face.
hyuna's insides were boiling. she was torn between whether she should slap this bitch she once thought was her best friend or whether she should run away and hide in a washroom stall. though her mind was clearly unstable, she was still able to shoot a cold glare at yeonhui, who rolled her eyes.
"i mean, honestly. who are you trying to fool? lying about how everything was natural? how you barely did any makeup? how you're the type that doesn't gain weight? face it, park hyuna. you're a fake ass bitch who just wants attention."
the words felt like bullets to hyuna.
'i was fake..? i was seeking attention? b-but... i didn't ask for attention! i didn't want this whole makeover to happen either! i was perfectly fine with the way i was in the past. it wasn't my own personal choice; it was them that forced me to!'
yeonhui knew she fully destroyed hyuna as she saw the mentally unstable girl plop to the ground, covering her face with her hands. yeonhui crouched down in front of her and was about to say the final words to grind her into nothing but was interrupted by another voice.
"what the fuck is going on?!"
everyone's heads whipped towards the new intruder. kim taehyung was bewildered at this sight. he had just came back from soccer practice and noticed that the majority of students were crowding in the main hallway. curious, he nudged his way through and became alarmed as he first saw yeonhui crouching in front of her, and then hyuna on the floor.
"taehyung-ah! look, that's park hyuna. she was lying to everyone this whole time. to me, to eden, and to you! in the end, she was nothing but a plastic surgery monster," yeonhui shouted as she pointed to the poster.
taehyung's attention followed to where she was pointing at and saw a girl who had the most miserable expression on her face. at first, he didn't believe yeonhui's words but then realized she was telling the truth when he recognized hyuna's signature birthmark: a dot on her nose. everyone called it her beauty mark but in that poster, the mark was hard to point out due to the acne and the blackheads covering the face. he couldn't believe that the person inside of the poster was hyuna. the girl who was in front of him and the girl inside of the poster seemed like two different people.
"t-taehyung-ah.." hyuna finally spoke after her outburst.
his head whipped towards the fragile girl and he immediately came to her side. worried, he tried to tip her head to look at him. she was a mess. with her mascara and her eyeliner smudged, her rosy pink lips pale, and her hair in knots, taehyung knew that she wasn't able to endure it any longer. he grabbed her hands softly and raised her up. holding her around the waist due to the lack of strength in her legs, the crowd made a way for the two. yeonhui, who was left behind fumed.
"kim taehyung!"
taehyung turned to look over his shoulder.
"how are you not affected by this?! she's a liar! furthermore, she fixed everything on her face and pretended as if she was born like that! why are you helping her?" she yelled, her hands curling into balls of fists.
taehyung stayed quiet, stared at yeonhui for a second, and then scoffed.
"using someone's past to call her out? i knew you were jealous but this is a little over the line, choi yeonhui. besides, who cares? the park hyuna i know is right next to me and i really don't give two shits whether she lied or not. as her friend, i'm going to wait until she can give me a proper explanation. unlike you."
as the two hobbled away, taehyung had the last word.
"you're the attention seeking hoe."
yeonhui's eye twitched.
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