behind the scenes

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chapter four

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"This quality time is boring."

"This isn't a quality time, I came here to buy ramyeon."

"Then why the hell did you invite me?"

"I specifically told you not to come because I'll only be buying ramyeon but you said: "you're not the boss of me, Chaeng, I can do whatever I want!" then followed me here."

Rosé says pointedly through her mask (they've creeped out the dorm by themselves) and scavenges for the aisle bearing the easy-to-cook meals. All she wanted was some peace and quiet alone, which proved to be challenging to achieve when Jisoo is around. She needed time to herself to reflect on the tidbit she's witnessed from her sleep-talking bandmate the other night.

So the stars have aligned, Rosé has put two and two together and the case has opened once again, but confronting Jennie upright would be sending herself unarmed into a battle with a pack of rabid wolves.

Because, here's the deal about Jennie.

She's a good person, albeit her seemingly bitchy personality. It's rather the other way around actually. She's the softest and the warmest person Rosé has known and has a heart so big it couldn't possibly be contained in her small cutesy frame. But like everyone else, Jennie isn't perfect.

She has her flaws too.

And to name one is:

Her inability to express her feelings.

It's something, Rosé observes, she's hardwired herself to do, dodging inquiries instead of disclosing the reasons for her unexplained actions. She's constructed a wall as a barrier around her vulnerabilities from others. That's the thing with Jennie, she bottles up so much emotions that it only ends up overflowing, the bottle refusing to be screwed shut.

So her feelings become all over the place, spilling onto the floor, exposed, for everyone to spectate.

And Rosé doesn't think Jennie could mop up the mess of emotions she's been desperately concealing.

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Jennie goes out.

A lot.

As in a non-work-related type of going out.

Sure she's preoccupied with the preparations for her solo debut, shooting this and that, but Rosé's called this one time out of concern (okay, so maybe she called because she desperately craved for a homecooked meal, something Jennie is exceptionally good at, and the only other person there was Lisa and like, Rosé wants to live, not have food poisoning) since Jennie was running late and when it went straight to voicemail, Rosé rang a back-up dancer and she was informed that their practice wrapped up hours ago.

Maybe she needed an outlet to blow off some steam.

Maybe she went on a drinking spree.

Maybe she was busy playing darts with Chanwoo's head as the target.

Who knows.

"Chaeyoung-ah! Quit biting your nails like you aren't fed enough," Jisoo admonishes.