Broken

30

"Alright, now just throw the phone in there and I'll do the rest." Jihyo commands.

"Are you positive you wanna do that? We won't take responsibility over whatever you see in there." Mina tries to dissuade her friend.

"Just do it. I'm sure of what I'm doing." Jihyo groans, tired of this arguing.

"Alright, your funeral. Just know we warned you." Tzuyu gives in, taking the phone and heading to Chaeyoung's studio.

The girls had been talking for a while now, and Jihyo was running out of time, so she told the girls to throw the phone in the studio and she would take care of the artist. The duo had explained Chaeyoung had gotten into this project of hers, whatever it was this time, yesterday afternoon, even skipping school that day. Jihyo was not about to have this bullshit, it was alright for Chae to work on her art, but skipping school was NOT okay at all.

So Tzuyu does. She tiptoes to the studio door, some dark aura emanating from the place. Jihyo had gone silent, as the youngest one asked her to not make any noise. Jihyo had to admit, se was very curious about what Chaeyoung was like to get the two biggest badasses (not really) from their group to be that afraid. Honestly, it was imagining being threatened by a bunny mochi (those you spank with a spoon). Just a cute, sweet little candy, maybe trying to glare at you and failing miserably, Jihyo was very interested. The two had warned her about it, and that she would never be able to see Chaengie the same way again.

Tzuyu opens a crack on the door and slides the phone in, closes it again and runs back to Mina. There is loud screeching, some shouting (they couldn't tell from whom) and then, silence. The two thought it was silence, they weren't willing to get any closer to find out. After what seemed like hours, really just a couple of minutes, the door opens, a very ashamed Chaeyoung comes out, holding the phone limply beside her body, the call seemed to have ended.

"Micchan, Yuyah, I'm sorry." Chaeyoung says in a very small voice.

"What?" Both girls ask at the same time.

"I'm sorry, I got too focused on this project, and was being very selfish and you two deserve better. I'll do better, I promise." The smaller one cries out and starts sobbing.

The slightly stunned duo was trying to get their heads around what was happening, but took their little partner in their arms and let her cry it out. Nobody would ever know what happened in that room, Chae would get slightly scared when asked, and Jihyo would just smile and never say anything. The entire group would die curious, but never have the guts to further question about it. All in all, it was a great day for Mina and Tzuyu, who got their girlfriend back and none of that artsy shenanigans.

Next morning, the trio headed out for a walk in the park, before going off to the Chous, as Tzuyu's sister would be coming the following week, and the youngest wanted to clean her room before that, so they decided for date morning, lunch and then an afternoon or hard work (Mina and Chaeyoung knew they would end up cleaning Tzuyu's and Chou senior's rooms that afternoon). The three would drop by Mina's house for her to get some clothes and for them all to talk to mr and mrs Myoui a little, they had stayed over at Chaeyoung and a fresh change of clothes was mandatory at that point.

So they did just that, which resulted in Mina throwing the younger ones to her parents and disappearing to shower. She loved her girlfriends, don't get her wrong, but her parents were the talking type, and she really wanted to go on a date fast, so stopping to talk to them wasn't an option at that point. Plus, if her girlfriends couldn't save her from talking the morning away, nobody could. Later she was informed that Tzuyu got super excited talking about her sister and mama and papa Myoui just dismissed them already.