Broken

63

"You alright there, cub?" Dahyun asks as soon as Chaeyoung enters the living room.

"Yeah, thanks. I was just dreaming about your girlfriend." The smaller answers with a playful smirk.

"Yeah, she's great like that. But seriously, you weren't looking too good and mumbling 'sorry' over and over." The pale girl gets more serious.

"It' just a memory. A good one, I promise, it's just- The situation that led to it wasn't that good."

"Alright, let's eat something and we can get to fool around with this nice gentleman here." Dahyun suggests while she caresses the piano with a face Tzuyu wished she wasn't there to witness.

"Unnie, please stop making that face, it's the stuff nightmares are made of. I still have no idea how you managed to get Jihyo and Chris to accept dating you." The youngest couldn't hold back her displeasure anymore.

"If you don't remember, they were the ones who asked me out first." That irritating smug grin appears again.

"What?"

"How?"

Mina and Chaeyoung interject at the same time, both looking rather surprised by this information. Dahyun just laughs and Tzuyu shakes her head in defeat, she can never win against Dahyun's bouts of self confidence. Better just leave it be, or it would certainly escalate very fast, Chou senior has a talent for blowing things out of proportion.

"Oh, you guys don't know?" The small pianist gets so full of herself the girls regret asking. "Jihyo was the one to come onto me first, then Chris professed his undying love as well and I decided to give them a chance. Seeing they couldn't live without me and all."

"That is half true." A voice comes from the phone Tzuyu was holding. "I did say I was interested first, and Chris did say he got interested as well, but we can do fine without you. Wanna try?"

Tzuyu called Jihyo and Chris and put them on speaker, she knew Dahyun was going to start exaggerating at some point, and it would be near impossible to make Chaeyoung stop believing whatever nonsense that could come up.

"True, I mean, we love you, Hyun. But we are very willing to show we are fine by ourselves, if that's what you are getting confused about."

"Choco, that was a low blow, we are gonna talk later. And no, I don't want to know how well you two live without me." Dahyun huffs in annoyance and everyone witnessing the conversation bursts out laughing.

"Good, now be nice and I'll see you later. Gotta kill my own giant here." Jihyo hangs up first.

"And I have two beautiful ladies to entertain here, I better not be disturbed during my date because you are being annoying anymore." Chris hangs up right after.

"Alright, fine. But that was playing dirty." Dahyun points at her sister and sits back down, going back to play.

The three entertain themselves with ridiculous songs until Chaeyoung comes down, showered and looking much better. Mina and Tzuyu give her a kiss, and Dahyun just pats the bench beside her, nobody asks anything, which the little cub is grateful for, she wasn't in the mood to talk about it right then, and it was time she sat down with her girlfriends and told them everything, before telling anybody else.

Their afternoon is filled with Chaeyoung learning how to rap, all of them finding out she had a lot of talent, Dahyun adventuring with the synthetiser Chris brought along and she figured it would be good to take with, Tzuyu and Mina being quite surprised with how much work had to be put on making a song, even something simple and just for fun like the other two were trying do come up with. It was obvious they were all very worried about Jihyo, seeing how many times her name came up and how they all would look a little grimm and stop talking for a few moments whenever it happened.

Sure, Dahyun trusted her girlfriend, she saw how Jihyo was a strong woman of her own, but she heard so much of her past that it was nearly impossible not to worry. Chris witnessed how hard their girl had worked to let go of her past, he was there for all of it, and if Dahyun went by their long, late night talks, it was a very rocky road and they were so good now, she was afraid something would throw all the hard work Jihyo had put on down the drain.

The best she could do was trust her girlfriend, and be there for her no matter what happens, Chris would be there as well, both just needed to be ready for whatever came out of this meeting. It would be fine, they would be fine.