rainbow boy - minsung

we got this

"Ask her about it. I'm sure she'd like your support right now. She loves you, Ji." Her smile was calm and soft.

"Thanks..."
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Chan's car horn sounded shortly outside, signally Emma was gonna have to leave. She stood and shook her head side to side a little bit as if annoyed she had to go. She looked up to me and threw her phone on the couch before collapsing into my arms.

She was lucky I caught her. "Be careful." I laughed to her, which yes emma. In all seriousness. Please be careful. You scared me there. But she just ignored me a gave me a long, warm, comforting hug. "We got this, Ji. Huh?"

"I guess so. Ill see you at math tomorrow, right?" Of course she nodded. Math was before lunch so we'd have some time to plan things out. I mean obviously if Woojin didn't bother to question us as he always did.

"See ya. She smiled before jogging out the door up to her brother car. I just smiled as she waved from the window and drove off. Had it really gone by that quick? We really just did that. She knew my secrets and now we had another.

I really could trust her, couldn't I?

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After I got all comfortable in my bed I wanted to talk to Minho about this up coming week. Winter break of course. And I'd be spending it with him for the first time.

Well we've hung out over break but never the full time. I have been to that cabin though. He has it in the summer too.

My fingers slid open my phone lock and when thumping against the screen to type his number in. I had it memorized as one of my emergency contacts so rather than just pressing his contact I practice typing it. I put it on speaker and listened to it ring for a moment.

Today was stressful and put a lot on and off my shoulders. It felt good to just close my eyes and take a deep breath.

"Hey Ji." He answered calmly, yawning after as if tired. "I'm just laying in bed what's up?"

"Oh same actually. I wanted to talk about what's happening this weekend. Like with vacation." I explained. I could hear his bed rustle as he shot up.

"Oh yah! I've been meaning to talk to you about that. Well... sadly friday is the last day before jeongin leaves for America. So I'm gonna have one last sleepover with everyone before he leaves." He explained. I could feel my eyes almost pop out in lots of realization and mixed emotions.

Jeongin was leaving us that soon...? Our little baby as we called him. Was he really gonna go study in America? But then again. A sleepover hadn't happened between the whole group in a while. "Wow. Well. I'll be there for sure."

"That's good. Invite Kat if you want. She's always welcome." He spoke. But she couldn't come. She was gonna go with our mother this weekend while I stayed here. It was technically just my dads house, but he was a hard worker and showed up for a hour in the middle of the night to rest and go right back to work. So you'd barely see him.

Minho's mom was more of a mother to me than my own. She was always there to comfort me, and to plan birthdays.

"As much as she'd love to come, Minho... it's her weekend with her mother." I sighed into the phone. He sighed back. A long exhale .

"I'm sorry, Ji. At least she's in the same grade as Jeongin so they'll see each other in the building this week. Plus she's welcome to join us for lunch.

"Thanks. I have to talk to her later tonight-" I turned to the clock. 11:45, "if she's still awake."

"Yea I get it... hey um. Just bring your stuff to my place Friday and we'll just leave Saturday afterward. "Don't forget some money. We'll have lots of Christmas shopping."

I smiled at the word Christmas. I loved it. The best thing to ever exist was Christmas. I could care less about the presents. I just loved the emotion. The love and care that went into such a precious day.

No wonder it was once a year. But i was extra excited to spend it with someone as precious as Minho this year. My cheeks heated a bit at the thought.

Just had to get through a couple days of school. "Thanks, Min."

I smiled. This was gonna be the best end of the year. I mean. I hope so. I didn't know if Minho would approve of Emma and I.

What if he did have a crush on me. What if I could just date him now and tell him how much I care about him. I think about how everything could just go normal . Hyunjin and Emma can date. Minho and I could be together ... hopefully. And no secrets would be kept.

But it can't be that way. Because Chan would kill me. He's protective of Emma. I mean I am too but Chan is different. Emma is like his pride and joy. Kinda like Kat and I but on a more bonded level. Kat wasn't home all the time, and sadly that had an effect on us.

"Good night, Ji. Ill see you tomorrow." Minho smiled to me. His voice was soft like his expression. He had this sweet tone of voice that made me turn red. I didn't try to hide it though. The call ended after I said goodbye to him too.

My heart was all jumpy and tickled in my chest. I never felt that before. Now I really couldn't sleep.

I went to Kat's room to see if she was up. Luckily she was. Drawing at her laptop of course.

I peeked in with a little knock. "Hey.." I whispered.

"Oh, what's up, Ji? Why're you up this late?" She questioned. She put her pen down. And turned the swivel chair toward me.

"I just had a question real quick... that person you mentioned you were having some trouble with. It's not Emma is it..?" I asked cautiously.

"Oh... I didn't think that would be the question." There was a moment of silence for about half a minute before she answered.

"It's not Emma. It's not anyone at our school." She sighed and leaned her head on her hand.

"But hey. Don't worry about it! I'm ok and I'm breathing right now. Which means I'm ok." She smiled.

"Let me know if you need anything. Ill be right across the hall." She smiled with a nod to reply. The door closed and I went back to bed. Although I wanted to know who was hurting her , she had her privacy. I respected that.

After a long day of 20 million events it felt nice to yet again lay back down in bed. It was almost midnight which meant soon it would be the day that could change everything. God I was so scared for everyone's reactions.

Hopefully I'd still have friends by tomorrow...