Just Friends (Lee Chaeryeong - Itzy)

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(Narrator POV)

Y/n, who had spent the night at her sisters house, just woke up with the sun peeking through the curtains and shining into her eyes making her stir awake.

She blinked her eyes open, finding herself alone in her sisters bedroom where she had fallen asleep.

Y/n stretched herself before sitting up and stood up to walk out the bedroom.

Pushing the door open she was greeted by five girls sitting on the sofa, each with a warm cup of hot chocolate in their hands.

"Unnies..." Y/n said quietly but loud enough for them to hear.

All five of them turned around hearing Y/n's quiet voice calling out to them. Their eyes softened as they saw her standing there with puffy eyes from all the crying last night.

"Oh Y/n, come here." Irene opened her arms, welcoming her into a hug after putting her cup down on the table.

Y/n instantly ran over to the elder and fell into her arms.

The four girls gathered around Y/n in Irene's arms comforting her and whispering to her about all the good things.

Irene gentle combed through Y/n's hair as the younger laid in her embrace.

Soon when she had the strength, Y/n sat up and took a deep breath.

"Can I tell you what happened?" Y/n said with her voice trembling.

"If it helps, of course you can, we're here for you Y/n." Yeri smiled taking Y/n's hand.

"Thank you.." Y/n gave them a small smile before running them through her story with her ex.

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(Y/n POV)

Of course it had to end in tears.

I'm not emotionless, in fact I'd like to think I'm quite the opposite. Either way, I was sat in Irene's arms, yet again, crying my eyes out.

I know it will take some time for me to recover, but this pain that I'm feeling is unbareable.

It's just the thought of her makes my heart hurt and makes me regret every mistake I've done.

It's all my fault. There isn't any other reason for us to breakup other than me not being enough for her. So it just has to be my fault.

The girls had helped me calm down and soon enough, I had stopped crying.

"Y/n you have to be strong when you go through this, you can't let it hold you back from being yourself." Irene said patting my back.

"I know.." I sniff, "but it's so hard."

"We get that it's hard, but try to forget about it for now." Wendy smiled at me as I looked at her, "you're an amazing actor and have an amazing life, you've built yourself up to success, one breakup shouldn't be holding you back."

"Unnie is right," Sooyoung nodded, "you've got an exciting drama to film so why don't you think about that instead!" She giggled making the mood lighten up.

I couldn't help but smile after hearing her laugh.

"Okay.. I'll try my best." I nodded and removed myself from Irene's arms and instead sat next to her.

"Should we order Y/n's favourite then?" Yeri wiggled her eyebrows at me.

"You really don't need to unnie.." I stiffle a laugh.

"Oh but I want to!" Yeri said happily and picked up her phone from the table, "the order is on me so pick whatever you want." She smiled, handing me her phone.

"Unnie I don't need this," I couldn't help but laugh.

"If you won't then I will!" Sooyoung snatched the phone from my hands and quickly stood up, running away somewhere else.

"Unnie! Get back here!!" Yeri quickly followed behind her, "you'll spend my whole paycheck!!" she yelled from down the hallway.

We heard yelling and screaming somewhere in the house for a few minutes, followed by some unexpected silence.

"Ah seriously, these girls.." Irene shook her head, "Sooyoung-ah! Kim Yerim! Come back here!!" She shouted like a mother.

After a few seconds we heard voices and some giggling, "yes unnie~"

The two girls walked back in, smiling suspiciously before they both sat down.

"Stop being weird and order food like you said." Irene said.

They both giggled once again making all of us confused.

"You're planning something aren't you?" My sister looked at them suspiciously.

They turned to Seulgi and smirked before Yeri spoke, "you know... Since Y/n is your sister, I feel like you should be paying."

"Y- yah! How did this turn into you paying to me paying!?" Seulgi unnie said taken aback.

"It's kind of my fault," Sooyoung unnie laughed, "but Yerim doesn't wanna pay anymore so... yeah."

It took a few seconds before Irene unnie spoke, "you guys are children, give it here." She said nonchalantly.

Yeri handed her phone over to the eldest, "ooooh we have a rich unnie!" She teased.

"Unnie you rich rich?" Wendy joined in on the teasing.

"I think unnie's rich rich," Sooyoung laughed, "it's because of her offers from companies she's been getting recently, right unnie?" She turned to the elder.

"Say another word and I'll cancel this." Irene warned but the girls weren't buying it.

"hmm, since this is for Y/n I don't think you will..." Yeri giggled.

"That's true, so we'll keep going." Sooyoung nodded.

"Seriously what am I going to do with these girls..." Irene said quietly after confirming and paying for the food, handing the phone back to Yeri.

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The food had arrived after a few minutes. The girls had spent the time talking about random things and had also tried to get me to spoil my drama that I was filming.

But I knew what they were doing and it didn't work.

We were all sitting down on the sofa and binge watching some movies. Yeri unnie was cuddled up to me, her head resting on my shoulder as her arms were wrapped around me.

"Yah stop hogging Y/n to yourself, I want to hug her." Sooyoung started to pick a fight with the younger.

"Well too bad. I got here first." Yeri stuck her tongue out at her.

Sooyoung then moved to sit on the otherside of me and leaned her head on my other shoulder.

"You guys are gonna make my body ache later." I joked and they both playfully hit my arm, "ouch, I was just joking." I laughed.

"We know and you probably will have a shoulder ache later." Yeri unnie replied, smiling up at me.

"Sorry not sorry Y/n~" Sooyoung unnie giggled next to me.

"I don't understamd how you guys are older than Y/n." Seungwan unnie laughs.

"Unnie! Don't say that!" Sooyoung glares at the older.

"Well I just did so take that." Seungwan unnie teased back, sticking out her tongue like Yeri earlier.

"You all are children." Irene unnie laughed, "I don't know how I handled you for all these years."

"But you love us, right unnie?" Yeri smiled.

"Sure I do.." Irene unnie replied turning her attention back to the tv screen as she leaned on my sisters shoulder.

"She loves me but not you." Sooyoung unnie teased the youngest.

"What do you mean!" Yeri laughed, "if anything she loves me the most!!"

This tom and jerry like behaviour carried on for god knows how long. But atleast it made my get my mind off other things.

- Written By Dest1iny