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Jihyo - The polaroid

Jihyo kept a polaroid under her pillow. She told nobody about it. Not a soul. Nobody knew that it existed except her. She didn't want anybody to know about it. If they knew, they would all think differently of her and that was what she was most afraid of.

It was her lucky charm. She took it to concerts concealed in her pocket. She took it to fan meets under the case of her phone. She kept it under her pillow so it would guarantee a good night's sleep. And she also took it to practice.

There were only ten minutes until the girls had a scheduled practice with the choreographer for their next comeback. They had been told the dance would be really hard this time around, and to Jihyo, that was cause to bring the polaroid along with her.

She rushed to the bedroom, hoping that nobody would be in there but she saw Nayeon laying down sideways, searching through her phone.

"What are you doing?" Jihyo asked as she walked into the room. Nayeon jumped and fumbled with her phone.

"Shit! You scared me!" She was so jumpy these days. Jihyo wondered what she was hiding. 

Jihyo walked to the bed and started to speak to distract Nayeon, hoping she wouldn't see the polaroid as she pulled it from underneath her pillow.

"You know we have practice soon." She said. She shoved it as quickly as possible into her pocket and went to the wardrobe to pretend to get a new pair of pants so that she wouldn't get suspicious. "You should get changed."

She walked quickly out of the room and stood in the hallway, checking first that nobody was coming that then pulling the polaroid from her pocket.

She smiled as she gazed at it. She let her fingers graze over the surface... over Momo's face. It was a picture they had taken together before debut. Momo didn't even have her bangs cut yet. She was a fresh trainee straight from Japan. 

Jihyo could remember struggling to understand the girl. She was terrible at Korean, but improved quickly.

You may wonder what was so wrong with a polaroid of Momo pre debut. Nothing weird about that... right?

The photo was a selfie as Momo kissed Jihyo on the lips. They had taken it under the grand piano. They had been really close back then. Really close. Nobody had known or suspected a thing, so much so that when they broke up, and everything was freshly wounded and painful to think of, nobody could draw any connections.

This polaroid was special to Jihyo and if anybody knew... especially Dahyun... if they knew they would hate her. 

When Jihyo had broken it off with Momo all those years ago, she had said one thing to her in response.

"You... YOU'RE ONE OF THE REASONS!"

She had never said anything like that to Jihyo ever again and they soon were back to being friends. Like nothing had ever happened.

If anybody knew that she had the polaroid, they would know that it was her fault that Momo was murdered.

She placed it back into her pocket feeling the tears on her cheeks and wiping them away before anyone could see.

A/N: Um... I'm really bored. Mina is next....