Broken

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Their first day went out in a blurr, The girls were all excited, Jihyo was trying to stop them from destroying her dorm and Dahyun was looking forward to visiting her (potential) new college, while getting to know a new, very interesting, person. Everyone was having a blast, until Nayeon's phone rang again, it was Sana, maybe they were finally over the initial shock and wanted some more clarity on what they saw that day. Jihyo had talked to them about it, and she was perfectly fine with how things turned out now.

The couple felt like they owed Chris a big thanks for whatever he did with their girl, mama and papa Im knew about it, Nayeon couldn't wait to tell them and called the same night, speaking of her, she got her phone and told everyone to be silent and pretend they were not there. Sana and Jeongyeon didn't need to know the others were there at all, especially Dahyun (they all thought the two fit well, but also knew the pale girl was not even close to being ready for anything romantic at the moment).

Truth be told, Chou senior had spoken up about it the first time they met, she said she was grateful when she found out Jihyo was the one to tell Tzuyu to just be by her side and not demand anything. Back then all she wanted was the comfort her sister gave her and that really pulled her out of the bad place she was in. Said appreciation grew to slight admiration when the others told her about Jihyo, she was impressed about this girl who went through a terrible patch and managed to remain fighting. Now that Dahyun had met her hero, she knew that woman was someone she needed in her life.

"Alright, I'm answering it. Remember, do NOT say anything." Nayeon announced.

"Go ahead. Do you want us to go to another room?" Jihyo confirmed.

"Nah, I think I'll just take Momo and go answer on your room."

"Good idea. Tell us how it went." Mina chips in.

And so the couple excused themselves heading out of the living room, Nayeon noticed how her little sister was excited to have someone who shared her passion for music to talk about it with, it made her happy to see. Not that Jihyo's friends didn't talk to her about it as well, but, they were all in different training programs, Chris was really the only one who was in composing as well, but he was going for EDM, an entirely different style from the girl, it was endearing to see her talking all those complicated stuff with someone from the same style.

"Hey Sana, what's up?" Nayeon answers as soon as she settled on the bed.

"Hey, Nayeonnie. How are things?" The sheepish answer almost inaudible.

"What happened? Wanna talk about it?" The eldest knew what was going on, but never let it show.

"Well, there is the problem. Nothing really happened, but it still did?"

"What do you mean?"

"Last time I called you were at Jihyo's place, right?"

"Still am. But what about it? I'm sorry but Jihyo is not here right now, did you need to talk to her or something?" Nayeon eggs her on.

"Not really, but you showed us around and Jeongyeonnie and I noticed something on her back. I want to ask-" Sana chokes up a little.

"It's okay, you can ask whatever, I'll answer what I can."

"Are her soulmate marks, perhaps, on her back? I mean, it was just a glimpse, and I can't be very sure, but it felt familiar, like I knew what was there and it kind of called to me? I can't explain properly, but Jeong says she felt the same."

"I can't answer that. I can tell you, though, that yes, her marks are on her back, and that's as far as I can go." Nayeon gives a sympathetic smile. "Everything else, you would have to talk to her about it. She is visiting in the near future, maybe you guys can manage to talk to her then. I can't say anything else, though."

"I understand. Thanks Nayeonnie."

"No problem. Do you need something else?"

"Not really. I was just bothered by it, guess I'll just have to endure until I can talk to Jihyo herself."

"That you will. Now, try to be alright, and talk to Jeong, you two should help each other through this."

"Okay." Sana sounds dejected. "I'll talk to you later."

"Later." Is all Im senior says before she hangs up.

Momo was perching on Jihyo's desk chair the entire time. She knew not to get involved unless her girlfriend called, and was busying herself with some of the books she found there, from which she understood nothing. They took the time to be alone together for a while, the girls were outside, entertained with each other, and it would be hard to really have these quiet times together.

On the living room/dining room/kitchen, the other girls were animatedly filling Jihyo in on what they did the previous week, Tzuyu was very happy about having gone "mountain" climbing, it was an indoor facility where they build walls to climb. Mina said she had a lot of fun in the aquarium and was campaigning to go that week with everybody, her argument was that different cities had different aquariums and she needed to check it out herself.

Dahyun and Chaeyoung just wanted to know about secret restaurants with killer menus and affordable prices, to which Jihyo said she didn't know of any, but could ask the dorm head couple about it. Lastly, it came down to Chris, the (within the group) famous boyfriend that changed their little girl for the better.

"So, Ji. When are we meeting this magic boy of yours?"