Broken

55

"Are you sure you want to wear that?" Chris asks Jihyo, they were getting ready to go out with the girls.

"Is there a problem with this?" Jihyo is a little irritated.

"Nothing, if we were in summer. But, Hyo, it's snowing, you can't be serious about going out in those shorts." He really is worried.

"But I'm wearing them already, and they are comfortable." She whines.

Jihyo never stopped browsing her wardrobe for whatever, she didn't say what she was looking for, so Chris gets up and goes call for help. He knew Jihyo was going to complain in a few minutes, and they would be too far to do anything about it, then they would have to stop anywhere to buy her some new pants. Nayeon and Momo were patiently waiting in the eldest's room, so he just headed across the hallway and knocked on the doorframe, it was open, but manners were manners.

"Chris." Momo greets. "Is something wrong? Are you two ready?"

"I wish, can you guys come and make Jihyo wear actual pants? She is insisting in going out on those shorts and it's snowing already." He sounds a little desperate, the couple finds it cute.

"Oh, she does that, and then we will have to stop and-" Nayeon gets cut off.

"Buy her new pants, I know, she did that the first time we went out together in the snow. The lucky part was that we were near an outlet at the time, but still, she didn't need to buy those pants if she listened to me." He is so frustrated Nayeon actually laughs this time.

"Im Jihyo, I better not see you wearing shorts to go out!" Nayeon brings out her big sister aura, strutting into the other bedroom.

Momo just hugs Chris from behind, as he was making to leave, telling him to just let the two work it out, despite the exasperated voices coming from the other bedroom. So they just sit there for a quick talk while Nayeon does her thing.

"Sooooo...." Momo begins.

"Please just ask, Mo. I'm terrible with this not being straightforward thing."

"Right, so I kind of wanted to treat you to dinner or something. While you are here, if possible. Nayeon and I wanted to talk to you without Jihyo, who was the one to suggest we take you out."

"Sure thing. With Hyun now it's easier, we can just drop her at the Chous and we are good to go."

"Really? That was easy."

"Momo noona, if there is something I definitely don't do, is refusing to be taken out to dinner by two pretty women."

They laugh, and that's when the eldest comes back followed by a slightly sulking Jihyo who was, now, wearing pants.

"Should I give you two some more alone time?" Nayeon comes back to Momo still back hugging the boy, sitting on their bed.

"I got us a hot date with this great gentleman right here." The peach laughs.

"Can we go, then? Hyun already messaged us saying they are waiting." Chris gets a little flustered.

"No need to be embarrassed, just remember to use protection." Jihyo decides to jump in.

"Okay, we are going, then." Chris jumps up and power walks out of the room. "Mom, dad, we are going." He says to mr and mrs Im who were sitting on the living room, giving both a hug on his way out.

"Girls, stop teasing Chris, he is going to snap and I want to be there to see how you are going to handle it." Mr Im laughs, as the boy runs to the front door to get his shoes and the girls also come downstairs.

"But dad, tell me it isn't funny." Nayeon whines, but hugs her parents goodbye as well.

"Just be sure you aren't going to break Jihyo up, okay?" Mrs Im warns the two older girls.

"They won't, break us up with that." Jihyo answers. "He is just so much shyer than you think. Hard to see, I know, it took me a while to figure it out too."

"Can we stop talking about me and go? My girlfriend is waiting." Chis pops his head from the hallway and back out as soon as he says it.

They all just laugh and Jihyo decides to take pity on the poor guy, she had already given him a little headache with the pants, and she wanted go see Dahyun fast too. Sure they had seen each other the day before, but they slept 90% of the time they were together, the rest of the time they were talking to mama and papa Chou, so it didn't count.

And they would be late for lunch if they didn't leave right then, even if it was still nine, Chaeyoung had insisted to go to a new exhibit that had opened the previous week, and everyone knew she wouldn't let them leave before going through the entire thing, piece by piece, and it was reported to be a big one, half of the exhibition hall was occupied by it, and the place was huge. Late lunch was already the plan, but it might not even be lunch anymore, depending on how many pieces were being shown, so Jihyo's time waste had put them a little behind schedule. In truth, Mina had sent her a private message asking her to stall because she was handling Tzuyu about something she never mentioned.