Constellation

12. Judgement GAYOON

24th / 25th December 2014

Gayoon hadn’t realised how close Christmas was until the night before; in all truthfulness, she had completely forgotten about the holiday, as focused as they had all been on getting everything sorted for their comeback. It had suddenly dawned on her as the six girls spent the afternoon lounging in the sitting room, watching some random k-drama on TV and she had jumped up as though she had been electrocuted, panicking as she realised that she still hadn’t wrapped up the presents that she had sneakily bought for the other members.

“You okay, Gayoon-ah?” Eunjung asked lazily, stealing a handful of popcorn from the bowl that Seohyeon was monopolizing; the maknae glared at the leader, who simply smiled sweetly in response. 

“I’m fine!” the vocalist squeaked, attempting to school her face into a relaxed grin. “I just remembered something. I’ll be right back.”

“Remembered what?!” Chaerin called after her as she hurried off towards the bedroom that she shared with Eunjung. “Yah! Remembered what?!”

“Just leaver her be,” Subin told the younger girl. “You know what she’s been like lately - she’d forget her head if it wasn’t already attached to her body. She’s probably just misplaced her lyrics or something. Don’t worry about it.”

“Are you two planning something together, hmm?” Jimin asked, suspicious. Ever since the argument that had broken out in the practice room between her, Eunjung and Charein, she had been spending more and more time with the group, and everything had gone back to how it had been before. 

“What? No, I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about, Minnie.”

“Are you sure?” she pressed. 

“We’ve already said that Christmas is going to be no big deal for us this year because of the comeback,” Eunjung reminded them all. “There’s no way that they would plan everything because we all know that it would make the rest of feel bad because we haven’t had the time to plan anything.”

Seohyeon raised an eyebrow at Eunjung. “Like anybody in this dorm listens to you when you say stuff like that, unnie. You know at least one person has bought presents,”

“Well, I’m telling you all now!” Eunjung shouted playfully, raising one arm into the air, still clutching some popcorn in her fist. “If you’ve bought christmas presents, you’d better not give them out because then we’ll all feel guilty!”

There was a chorus of laughs and Chaerin shook her head at her friend.

Meanwhile, in her room, Gayoon was hurriedly searching for the christmas bags that she had hidden in her wardrobe. Luckily, Eunjung wasn’t one of the neat ‘everything-has-to-be-tidy’ members of Polaris, so there wasn’t really much chance of her going snooping through Gayoon’s things in an attempt to give them all a proper home of their own. 

Once the five presents had been all wrapped up and were sitting in a row on her bed, the vocalist ran a hand through her hair and sighed. “Now where am I going to hide these?”

“Gayoon-ah?” Eunjung’s voice sounded, accompanied by a knock on the closed door. “Are you okay? You’ve been in there for a while,”

Gayoon started, feeling guilty that she had made her members worried about her, and quickly shoved the gifts under her bed, pulling her blankets and duvet lower over the side so that the shiny paper wouldn’t be seen. 

“I’m good, Jungie,” she called back, walking over to the door and opening it; the leader peeked into the room, eyes narrowed. 

“What were you doing?”