frenemies // jaemin

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walking to the rehearsal room with coffees in my hand, i was greeted by the dreamies by the staircase. "jaemin's in the room now," they whispered encouragingly and wished me luck. i nodded and smiled at their smiley faces. why did i ever agree to this?

i massaged my temples, trying to think of how to convince jaemin or whatever. see, i don't even give a fuck about jaemin and jisung's argument, nor i want to help put it out.  i have absolutely zero idea on how to make jaemin apologize to jisung either.

i mean, how bad can persuading an 18 year old be? whenever jaemin and i fought when we were younger, i will just confront him about it and we would promise to not upset each other in that way anymore and that was it. but that was almost 5 years ago, god knows how much he's changed..

    my thoughts came to a stop when i was faced with the black door. if all goes wrong, today is my last day delivering coffee for them anyway. with a deep breath, i knocked on the door. the door opened, revealing an unimpressed jaemin.

  i shut the door and placed the warm coffees on the table."where's the others?" i asked, acting as if i didn't just saw them just now. he shrugged and snatched his coffee from my hands, plopping on the couch. this is gonna be a tough one.

how am i gonna start? i used each one of my braincell to find a way to start the conversation. you shouldn't have agreed to this in the first place, kim sooyeon. isn't this technically meddling into someone else's business?

      i pretend to still be busy with the coffees and started, "i heard you're fighting with jisung," my statement made him roll his eyes.

"mind your own business," he said bluntly.

     "you know, since you're the oldest one here, why not you be the bigger person and end this quarrel? don't you think its a little immature to hold on a grudge for so long?"

"immature? you're calling me immature?!" he erupted suddenly, making me flinch.

"just be a good hyung and stop holding a grudge to your own bandmate, is that so hard for you?" i sighed, slowly giving up.

"says the one who completely ignored her best friend," he retorted. excuse me?crumpling my fists i glared at him. why is he changing the damn topic? coward much?

"says the one who humiliates his own bestfriend in front of the whole school," i argued back with laser eyes shooting at him.

     "how was i supposed to get your attention if i didn't tease you? you acted like i didnt mean anything to you! you didn't answer my calls, you would pretend you didn't hear me whenever i try to talk to you during classes, you threw away our friendship just like that!"

"well i wouldn't have distanced from you if you actually spent time with me! i introduced you to ahreum and you were so happy with her you completely forgotten about me! you promised you would never ever leave me behind but you did," i shouted, furious that he was blaming everything on me.

"so you were jealous? just because i spend time with other people than you? geez, you're so selfish, sooyeon." he snickered. "now tell me who's the immature one here," he continued.

"is it me?" he pointed to his chest."or you," he pointed at me with narrowed eyes. i try to argue back but my mind went blank.

"i was never je-"

     "ahreum was right, you think too highly of yourself. well look at how far you've come," he laughed, his eyes glancing down at my cafe apron, making me consciously wrap my arms around myself. i felt my throat burn and tears threatened to roll out of my eyes.

      "so ahreum was better than me huh? who was the one who stood up for you when those boys picked on you during elementary? i was always there for you since the beginning and another girl came along and you abandoned me just like that!" i managed to choke out.

     "i abandoned you? you're the one who completely burned bridges with me. ahreum is so much better than you and i can't believe i let you cling on to me for years,"

      "go and continue worshipping ahreum, yeah? do you know she told me to stay away from you because she was insecure about the relationship? she even threatened to start rumors of me if i ever make any contact with you!" i spilled, finally telling him the truth.

    "you're such a coward sooyeon," he spit out.

     "i guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tr-" he stopped halfway realizing the words that are coming from his mouth.

  i crumpled my fists tighter, feeling my fingernails denting my skin.

"soo-" i snatched my coat and reached for the doorknob, my vision starting to get blurry. with teary eyes, i opened the door to see the boys looking at me sympathetically, the look i hated the most.

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