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36: her treat.
we left the ice cream shop with an ice cream cone on our hand, happily eating it and commenced walking while talking. it's like walk and talk just so jieun could get to know us. she walked in the middle, beside her was mirae and harvey as the other huddle up beside them. me and jeno behind, not joining their conversation.
"nana please don't leave me." jeno plead and tightly grabbed my hand, inter-wining our fingers together and shared the warmth. "i'm afraid she's gonna approach me." she whispered and tightly grabbed my hand, more firm but it didn't hurt. "why didn't you want ice cream?" i asked curiously as i licked on mine.
"i don't want her treat." he hissed angrily and gave the girl a head to toe look. "look at her, acting all innocent and angelic... attracting the boys that surrounds her." he yapped and clinged closer to my arm. "don't worry jeno, maybe she's not bad at all. what if she actually wants to move on? don't worry this would work." i assured him with a smile, but he still kept going.
"i don't think it'll help." he retorted. "come on, how do you know?" i frowned and was upset that he was being negative. "because i know her. she's probably gonna do something very awful in this club, i just know she will, i really do." he whispered and gave the girl a death glare, the girl not noticing but looking forward whilst smiling.
"stop being negative jeno." i said. i scooped the ice cream with my spoon. "aaaah~" i said but all he did was frown, i rolled my eyes and forcefully opened his mouth, carefully inserting the spoon as the ice cream melted on his tongue. "now cool down, be positive! it's one of the rules right? you can start a new friendship with her." i said and slowly let my fingers run through his black tousled hair.
"no, i'm serious nana." he spoke steadily. "she can stay and all, but there's no way i'll let myself be friends with her again. she's arrogant." jeno said and looked forward, sighing as i nodded and pursed my lips. "o-okay."
harvey turned around, eyed us with a smile and stopped as he ambled beside us. "why are you guys holding hands?" harvey chortled as i felt my face burning.
jeno immediately let go of my hand, i pulled my hand away from him and attached it on my ice cream cone instead. "accident." i said and nervously smiled at him.
"so, why are you guys not joining us? don't you wanna get to know jieun?" harvey raised an eyebrow, gesturing us to approach her. i opened my mouth and was about to say something, but jeno was first.
"no, i already know her.. every single detail about her." jeno said, eyes never left her with a dreadfully glare. "what? you guys were friends?" harvey asked and all i could do was stand in silence, stare down the floor.
"she's my ex." jeno responded which made harvey grit his teeth hardly. harvey eyed me as i pursed my lips, giving him a nod. "she's also the main reason why i joined DNYL." jeno added making harvey even grit his teeth tighter. he awkwardly ruffled his hair and cleared his throat.
"oh... well i really hope this would go well. feel free to not approach her, but it seems like she also needs to be healed. we are here to help her." harvey said and jeno didn't want to act down and rude, so he gave harvey a nod.
harvey went back to his position and felt a bit awkward after being informed by jeno.
it's been almost 30 minutes, the others had huddled up by small groups. now it was jeno's worst nightmare. when jieun stood beside mirae, only listening to harvey's and hers conversation, she felt spaced out. she turned around and eyed me, then she smiled and approached me, me and jeno.
jeno averted his eyes away from her, immediately facing the other way as he tightly grabbed my hand.
i smiled and somehow felt nervous as soon as she ambled right beside me. "thank you for the ice cream by the way, it was really tasty." i thanked as she scoffed-laughed and shrugged her shoulders. "that's nothing, but you're welcome... i'm jieun by the way~" she smiled.
"nana, ryu nana." i introduced. we began to talk and jeno felt relieved since jieun pretended that jeno wasn't there, pretended that he was invisible. every second passed i could feel how his hand would squeeze mine tighter. he really didn't like it, i wanted to tell him that it's fine if he wanted to leave... but it would probably offend jieun so i decided not to.
it has been over 5 minutes and it was okay talking with her, she was nice and cool, down to earth.
"hey jeno." jieun murmured and glanced over at jeno who was obviously avoiding her eyes. she smiled at him as jeno blankly responded. "hi." his voice sounded so emotionless and kept his eyes forward.
jieun's smile unfortunately curved down to a frown, she looked down at our folded hands as she forced a weak smile. she seemed very upset, i could see inside her eyes and that frown she wore. she didn't look like that earlier she looked up and me and smiled.
"i saw you in prom by the way, you looked indescribably beautiful." she complimented which didn't fail to make me blush. i shyly giggled. "thank you, i didn't see you around there. i guess i did, only a glimpse.. weren't you the one who wore the peach pink dress?" i asked creasing my eyebrows.
she chuckled and nodded. "oh, yes that was me." she shyly said as i grinned. "that was a very pretty d-" suddenly realization hit me.
no wonder why i sometimes felt a bit uneasy in prom. i always felt like someone was watching us, me and jeno and every time i would turn around, i would see a glimpse of a girl who wore a pink dress. it was odd. i stared at jieun who confusedly waved her hand, snapping me out of my thoughts. "hello? what were you gonna say?" she chuckled.
"i-" i stuttered and licked my lips, then smiled. "it was a very pretty pink dress." i said and started to suspect it was her, but on the other side it was very very possible that it was just another girl. it wasn't only her who had a pink dress on.
"thanks, your dress was pretty as well." she said.
jeno suddenly wrapped his arm around my shoulder, pulling me close to him as he looked into jieun's eyes. "not only the dress was pretty, but even herself was pretty, from outside and inside." jeno extended the word inside when he spoke it, it kinda signaled the fact that he showed that i was the opposite of jieun. i looked up at jeno and nudge his stomach, mouthing the word stop.
jieun let out a fake chuckle and nodded. "mhm." she eyed me and tilted her head, smiling mysteriously which made my heart beat fast.
"prom night... it must have been a special evening for both of you." she smiled oddly.
"well..." she cooed and looked up. "guys?" her voice increased which made all the others stop their tracks and look at her. "i need to go now, i promised my mother that i would help her cook dinner. it was really nice meeting all of you, get to know you and i feel thankful that i'm welcomed in the club. it was such a great start, i would for sure enjoy spending time with all of you." she said as they all nodded and wave bye at her, jieun turning around and made her way home.
i felt my heart beating fast, very fast like a race car. was it possible? only by her mentioning that it was a special evening for me and jeno.... is it possible that she might've have watched that scene? no... i mean like all the students went home while we cleaned up.
"are you okay jeno?" i asked and smiled at him. he sighed and nodded, weakly smiling. "i guess so.. i feel like this would be hard for us." he whispered which i agreed with a nod.
note: is this fine? i don't know abt this idea tho with his ex joining the club but i have no ideas if i decide to take it out lol okay bye.
