Roseanne was texting her sister, Alice when she saw the boy booming towards her.
She put her phone away, already expecting him. She had thought he'd find out sooner.
She knew Tzuyu had a weak heart and would eventually tell him the truth. The frightened look she gave her in class and the furious look he was giving her at the time were enough to prove it.
To be honest, Rosé had expected Tzuyu to expose her earlier but then all that matters was that, now he knew.
"Why? Why did you do it?"
"Do what?", she decided to play dumb.
"You know, stop playing dumb."
"Why does it even matter to you. You don't like her. Why are you making such a big issue out of this. It's past and gone."
"How can you say such a thing? Of course it matters. You framed Lisa, an innocent person for something she didn't and would never do."
"So?"
"I said such hurtful and despicable things to her-"
"She deserved it."
"No she didn't. Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why did you do it?"
"To get her off your back. To free you from her stalker ways-"
"She's not a stalker."
"Whatever. She was just an obstacle between us which I got rid of. No biggie."
"You...you do know I don't like you in that kind of way."
"Huh? Of course you like me. What are you talking about?"
"Rosé, I already told you beforehand that there could be nothing between us."
"No! No! Stop saying that. You're lying. She's put you up to this right? I like you you like me. That's how it's supposed to be. Not her! You can't like her. This is all her fault! I'm the one you're supposed to like, not her!", Rosé ranted, the emotions she had been suppressing for all these years on the verge of exploding.
"Rosé talk to me. Why don't you like Lisa? Why do you hate her so much?"
"B-because she took you away from me.", at this point, tears were already streaming down the girl's face.
"What?"
"Remember, back in third grade. I was new and I always got bullied because I couldn't speak Korean well and also because of my Aussie accent. But then you, you came and stood up for me.
"Yeah I remember, I told them that Jackie Chan was my uncle.", they both chuckled, reminiscing that time.
"You were my first friend. You were always there for me, even though Taehyung was still your best friend, you still never made me feel left out. But then three years later, Lisa just stormed into our lives. She was always around you and you would also pay attention to her all the time. It was at that point I started feeling left out."
Jungkook remembered that when Lalisa enrolled into their school, he did pay attention to her.
Honestly, he found her very pretty back then, he still does now.
"Yes, but I didn't always pay attention to her. After she confessed and started acting clingy, I ignored her.", Rosé chuckled dryly.
"That's what you think. If that was the case I wouldn't be like this. You may not have noticed but I did. How you would always tap your feet impatiently in class until she walks in and greets you. The way you smile to yourself whenever she passes by you and you pretend to ignore her. Heck, when you overheard her talking in the library with Jisoo saying how she thought sports and athletic guys were cool, you tried out for the basketball team the very next day. And so, I tried to better myself. Make myself more noticeable so you would stop paying so much attention to her and focus on me like how you used to. Jungkook, you started liking Lisa long ago, not now. Maybe you even started liking her before she started liking you."
"Rosé I'm...I'm so sorry. I didn't know you felt that way."
"I killed myself for you Jungkook. I never wanted to be this stuck up princess that I make myself to be. I started acting like this so no one would bully me again because you...you had forgotten me. My first and only friend abandoned me. Now that I think about it, I don't think I ever really liked you that way. I was just scared that you'd abandon me completely. And...I guess I was right."
"Rosé no. I would never abandon you. This is all my fault. I didn't know you felt that way. I didn't know I was ignoring you. I didn't know I hurt you. I should've known you were hurting. I'm such an awful friend. You didn't deserve any of that.", Jungkook hugged the sobbing girl.
"I just-I just wanted my Kookie back. Was that too much. I didn't want you to ignore her, I just wanted you to stop ignoring me and pay even the tiniest bit of attention towards me again."
"I'm so sorry. I'm sorry my Chaeyoung. Can my Chaengie forgive her Kookie?", Jungkook rested his head atop the girl's head and patted her hair.
"I forgive you.", she mumbled.
"I actually like Chaeyoung better than Roseanne. She really loved food.", Jungkook chuckled, pulling away from the hug.
"Me too.", Chaeyoung smiled.
***
Now we see things in Rose's perspective and so we can't totally blame her.
I could never fully paint Rosé in a bad image. Our Chaeyoung is too pure and plus my Chaelisa heart wouldn't be able to stand it.
Anyway, the book will be coming to an end soon. Maybe like, at most ten more chapters or so, I'm not really sure.
Just a warning, I'm not very good at writing endings...scratch that, I'm terrible at writing endings but let's see what I'll be able to cook up.
Love,
Hannie❤.
