Broken

50

"Alright, should we get some takeout? I don't see the point in cooking right now." Dahyun suggests.

"I mean, yeah. But is there anything still being delivered at this time?" Jihyo questions.

"We have pizza, chicken and thai still delivering." Dahyun checks. "What do you all want?"

"How about pizza and chicken?" Momo ponders and the rest agrees.

"Alright." The pale girl agrees, phone in hand. "It's gonna be about forty minutes."

They had just arrived at Dahyun's house, and it was past eleven already, Jihyo, having lived in Canada for almost as long as the other, knew it was hard to find much still being delivered after ten, especially in schools districts like the one they're at, during vacation time, looks like they got lucky.

Much to Jihyo's surprise, Dahyun actually lived in a house, it was a school provided dorm, but it wasn't a building, it was a house with a lot of rooms, and they had a teacher that lived with them, it felt weird, but alright. Whatever works, Jihyo thinks. And Dahyun's school wasn't directly affiliated with any university, so it wasn't like they could just assign college students to manage their high schoolers.

"I can hear you thinking." Nayeon mocks, sitting beside Jihyo in the back porch.

"It just feels weird that this is a student dorm, but it's a house. I mean, I get where they are coming from, but still."

"And now what are you really thinking about?" Im senior has a knowing smile.

"Hmmm." Jihyo hums before answering. "Nothing much, really. I was just thinking this is nice, I missed you, all of you, and Dahyun is better than you guys made her up to be."

"She is great. And we missed you too. I missed you too, I'm your big sister afterall." The older one moves closer and gets her sister on her lap for a tight hug.

"I still need to breathe, though." Jihyo tries to chuckle.

Nayeon doesn't let go, but releases the hug a little anyways. They stay like that for a while, until Momo comes out and calls them for dinner, the girls were already settling down to eat, and, when both come back inside, the older lags behind a little to wipe the silent tears that escaped her, she missed her little girl, and she was really happy her baby sister was doing so well. That little moment they just shared brought up a surge of emotions she wasn't ready to face just then. Momo just held her hand and brought her to the table, they could talk about that later.

Before anyone could notice, the week at Dahyun's house was over, they were tired out, Jihyo was a little more broke than she hoped to be, and became really good friends with Chou senior, who looked like she took a liking to her and her boyfriend, having bonded over their passion for music and how hard their course was. But all the girls were pretty happy about having spent time together, and could barely wait for christmas break, when their stranded members would come back and visit.