MINE /hwabyul (under construction)

fifteen f l a s h b a c k

"answer your damn phone hyejin!" wheein groans, handing the phone to the younger.

hyejin doesn't budge, processing all of yongsun's words said to her an hour ago. the blue haired girl worryingly gets up from the floor. taking a seat next to hyejin, grabbing a small pillow to put on her lap. patting it as always since they were kids.

the younger lays on the pillow, still silent.

wheein takes a deep breath. "why are you not getting ready for your date?"

"i don't think i'm going to go." the business woman responds. "or keep a relationship with her."

the air suffocates hyejin as she releases those words.

"why?"

hyejin pries her eyes open, her visions blur. "i don't think i'm ever going to live up to being her girlfriend, yongsun was just her everything and i'm worried that-"

"-but didn't she also make your boss lose her marbles?" wheein exclaims. "don't compare yourself to a woman like that, ever!"

the younger silently nods. both of them enjoying the quiet time until a knock interrupts them.

"i'll get it." wheein waits for the black haired girl to get off her.

walking over to the door, she opens it. wide eyes spreading, she turns to hyejin. "you have someone waiting for you."

hyejin opens her eyes, seeing byulyi in their doorway.

"come in." the best friend motions, grabbing her coat. "i'm going to leave the two of you to talk alone."

***

"did i do something wrong?" byulyi asks, looking up at hyejin who was standing up to make coffee.

the black haired young beauty stops stirring the coffee. did she do anything wrong? no, she didn't do nothing. however, the fact that yongsun came to her house just because hyejin have feelings for her boss bugs her. she's selfish for taking out the feelings she experienced in the last couple of days against the older.

"no." a simple reply from the younger as she continues to stir the coffee.

for a second, the purple black haired forgets to breathe. "you don't want to be with me, don't you?"

and hyejin knows by now, there's steam coming out of her ears and she starts to heat up, feeling frustrated. she wants to scream at the older, telling her that she does! she wants to be with her, she wants to do many things with the other female in the room. hold hands freely in public, give gifts to each other randomly out of nowhere, and to express feelings to each other in a small cafe. but she doesn't say anything.

"it's obvious that there's still lingering feelings between you and-"

"-god hyejin, you just don't get it do you?" byulyi exclaims, her voice raising slightly higher and the younger flinches.

"it gets so tiring because you expect me to get back with her. i wish you'd be more dependent on me and trust me and sometimes i wish you'd be more carefree about other feelings."

"what? like yongsun?" venom spits out of hyejin's words as fast while guilt casts onto byulyi's face before feeling herself burn holes into the younger's skull.

"i never said that."

"but that's what you meant." voice increasingly unstable with how tired and exasperated she felt. "i'm not her and i never want to be. i don't depend on anyone like some bitch who cheated on you countless times and made you cry. if you're still caught up on her just because she made you feel special and called you pretty names then maybe you should've looked for her instead of building a business."

with that, she hears the door slam close.

walking over to her bed, she lands headfirst into a pillow, her body feeling like a ton of bricks had just pilled on top of her.