Broken

33

The first half of the year went by on a haze, as the girls were constantly making themselves busy, and, soon enough, they had a week's holiday, Nayeon was walking with a bounce in her every step, and couldn't wait until she was off to see her little girl. Momo was deeply amused, she had never seen her girlfriend so excited about anything, and Jihyo had been talking to her for the past week, and she knew very well about all the surprises the girl had in wait for her big sis.

Im senior would be going alone, her first trip by herself, and was to stay in Jihyo's room with her, they made sure to get the proper permissions. Momo decided to stick around, her parents wanted to go on a quick trip back to Kyoto, and she was all about that Kansai cuisine, papa Hirai was a fine connoisseur of the best hole-in-the-wall restaurants, where you could get the best food for the best prices. And a week of that would sure be heaven for the Hirai family, Hana was going to join them too.

"Yeonnie, can you, please, stop and just come finish our homework? We should be done today if you want to travel and not worry about it." Momo decides to try and stop the madness.

"Wha- Oh, right, homework. I should do homework, yeah." The eldest girl is a mess, trying to get back to the task in hand.

"You don't have to get yourself worked up like that, your bags are already packed and she will be very happy to meet you."

"I hope she will, but I'm going a day earlier to surprise her. What if she doesn't like it? What if-"

"Im Nayeon, your little sister will be thrilled to see you before she was expecting. And you two will have a great time together, and you have nothing to worry about. Now, let's finish this so we can close your bags and you can leave tomorrow morning."

And so they do, well, Momo does, but Nayeon was still fidgeting, she was supposed to leave at night on the next day, arriving the following morning, but papa Im figured it would make a great surprise for their youngest daughter if her sister showed up on the afternoon before she was supposed to leave. They had called Francis, he said he was busy that afternoon, but the monitor for the next dorm could pick her up no problem, it was a japanese-american woman, called Sawako, they talked and mr and mrs Im figured if Francis vouched for her, they would trust the girl as well, she WAS a monitor afterall.

Six months had given the girls enough english to make do, and Jihyo was gonna be there, and Sawako was supposed to speak japanese, which Nayeon started learning when she got together with Momo, and she would just have to rely on that if anything else fails. Her bags were packed a week before, given her inability to calm herself down, Momo had been entertained ever since the trip was settled, making sure to film and photograph everything she could to keep Jihyo in the loop, obviously not letting slip that Im senior was surprising her.

Nayeon was a mess the next morning, it was five, she hadn't slept a wink the previous night, Momo had bid her farewell the previous evening, refusing to come to the airport at this ungodly hour, and her parents were too sleepy to entertain her, they were also busy filling the paperwork to send her out on her own, so there was noone to cater to her nerves, and she was surely not about to manage that by herself.

The plane ride was fine and dandy, though, the flight attendants had given Nayeon something to help her sleep and it worked like magic (mama Im had written a formal request for it, knowing her daughter would manage to crash the plane otherwise). Although it was almost an hour for the cabin crew to wake her up, everyone agreed it was the best decision possible, the girl was a bother as soon as she got in her seat. Before Im senior knew it herself, she was already standing in the luggage area, trying to remember who she was supposed to meet.

It turned out, Sawako was a woman among women, tall, fair skinned, dark haired, eyes among the most gentle Nayeon had seen her entire life, and the damned woman had a great sense of humor as well, how was the poor teenager's heart supposed to not fall in love?! Exactly. So there was Im Nayeon, a bonafide narcissist, the one who knew she was pretty and used it to her favor, rendered useless by a pretty woman she met in the airport.