Na Minji has been friends with Park Jimin and his rowdy group of roommates for at least five years, though there are times that she feels as if she's known them forever. And for just as long as she's known him, she's hidden a massive crush. When, af...
"I got a text from an old friend today, " Minji murmurs, swirling her glass.
Yoongi stands across the bar, regarding her with a curious look.
"So that has you day drinking, what, out of joy?"
Minji knows sarcasm when she hears it, and only chuckles dryly in response.
"I haven't talked to this friend in years, " she reveals, gazing deeply into the contents of her glass.
"So why not catch up?" Yoongi suggests. "Why do you seem so miserable?"
"It's complicated, " Minji sighs.
"So, do you not want to talk to this friend of yours?"
Minji turns around to find Hoseok standing in the doorway. He leans against the doorway for a second, and then crosses the room. After placing a gentle kiss against her forehead, one which Minji happily accepts, he takes a seat next to her.
"It's not that I don't want to, per se." Minji tries to explain. "It's just that I haven't spoken to him in such a long time. And my life is very different now than it was the last time we spoke."
Hoseok and Yoongi exchange glances, neither very much liking the sudden realization that this friend of hers is a male.
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Sucking in a deep breath, Minji attempts to settle her stomach. Her finger hovers just above the little green phone icon; it is taunting her. Should she call? Should she not? The last time she spoken with Chul-soo, they'd not necessarily shared a pleasant conversation.
He'd slept with her sister, giving the haughty brat one more thing to hold over Minji's head. And oh, had she ever. Coulson had sworn that it was an accident. That he'd been too drunk to realize just who it was he'd crawled into bed with. But Minji hadn't been appeased, and ultimately, chose to walk away.
It'd be one thing if he didn't know how terrible her family was to her, especially her younger sister. But he did. He knew damn well. Minji can't even count the amount of times she'd ended up hiding out at his house, fresh tears on her cheeks. She'd been a lot more sensitive back then, and for a while, Chul-soo had been her rock in the storm.
That he's reaching out to her now…
Well, the trouble is: she doesn't know how to feel about it. She's an entirely different person now. And truthfully, the sting of his betrayal is nearly all but gone. She'd thought, back then, that Chul-soo would be important to her for the rest of her life. But, she now realizes that neither he nor his rendezvous with her sister, mean anything to her.
And it's not because she forgives him, but because she simply doesn't care.
A part of her wonders if she should feel this way, wonders if perhaps she has become "rotten", a title that her mother had always enjoyed using often. Isn't it cruel that he no longer matters to her at all? And if so, does that make her mother right? Is she truly as selfish as her mother always claimed?
