Chapter 29

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Wendy doesn't know why she even decided to go in the first place.

Maybe it was Yoongi who excitedly asked her, or maybe she just wanted to get her mind off of things. But the latter won't be possible since she's gotten some new information.

Seulgi's going to be there.

They're not turning into wild party animals this time though, they're just going out for a peaceful dinner, or so Momo says. But Wendy knows it's not going to be peaceful at all. Not with her crazy team.

And it's definitely not going to be peaceful for Wendy's mind, with Seulgi there and not just Seulgi, but maybe all of her friends.

She doesn't know how and why they were invited but apparently Dahyun and Momo both talked to Seulgi about it, something about them being cool. When Seulgi didn't say anything to thier request they just called up Nayeon, it's crazy how they even managed to get the girl's phone number.

I mean how do you even know they're cool when you've only met them once?

But she's been thinking all the time in the car, maybe they would decline? Who knows.

Another question rushes into her mind.

Would Irene be there?

"Hey." Rosé quietly mumbles, making sure Lisa, Jennie and some other Jisoo girl she didn't meet properly, don't hear. "Do you wanna ditch?"

Wendy chuckles, Rosé obviously doesn't want to, but Wendy knows she would. "It's okay. It's better if I meet them."

Rosé's expression changes at the speed of light, from a comforting expression to a shocked one. It might be a shocking statement, but Seulgi was right. It's so mean of her not to even want to see the friends she cherished so much. If not anything, she should at least see them, how they all changed. She saw Nayeon and Namjoon the other day and the latter had transformed drastically, she wonders how the others are now. Are they married? Kids? What jobs do they have now? Is someone famous?

Wendy smiles at Rosé which eases her expression once more.

"We are here!" The girl Jisoo announces proudly. "You guys go ahead, I'll park the car and be there."

"I'll come with her." Jennie looks at Jisoo.

Wendy just shrugs and gets out of the car along with Lisa and Rosé.

"Have you been seeing her?" Rosé merely whispers, shifting a little to Lisa's side and Wendy understands it's something private. She doesn't want to eavesdrop, but she hears that one sentence.

She glanced at Lisa a little to see what she says, but she just sees a little nod as Rosé gasps. "I don't wanna talk about it." Lisa whispers too as she looks down.

If they were wanting to not be heard then they're extremely dumb, with Wendy just by Rosé's side how can she not hear?

A beat later Rosé links one of her arms with Wendy and the other one with Lisa, she walks with a little jump and the most cheerful grin on her face. "You both! We're going to have fun with our friends, okay? Just stick with me and don't think about stuff."

Okay there's definitely something going on with Lisa.

Wendy doesn't know what to say to the girl, so she just smiles at her. Sometimes she sees herself in Rosé too much, it's not even a joke at this point. Rosé's personality matches a little too much to her own, when she was younger.

But as she grew older, she changed alot.

She changed for the worst and would absolutely not want that for Rosé.

"Hell yeah baby! Let's get drunkkk tonight!" Lisa waves her fist in the air.

They are greeted by all of thier friends at the entrance. Key said he found this amazing place and they all just trusted him. Turns out it's actually amazing. Wendy wonders how Key even found out about this place and how he even booked this place. But then again it's Key and he knows people, like alot of people.

They all step inside together, and the place is huge. It's closed with a roof, but the roof is transparent so it looks like there's nothing on the top and you can clearly see the sky. The inside is something like an open field, but there's a table where everyone can sit and eat together. However if someone wants to roam around and play then they can do that too.

Wendy has lived in Korea for most of her life but she's never seen this place before. Maybe it was constructed after she left.

There's alot of noise as Momo, Dahyun and Hyunjin holler around, and Yoongi literally runs around the whole place screaming something along the lines of, 'it's all ours for tonight, yayyyy!'

Wendy chuckles a little seeing all the kids run around and talk to each other. She notices Mina who seems to be talking someone on the phone, she wonders how the girl can even hear anything in this loud voice.

The only normal ones are her, Rosé and Lisa....and Sana?

Oh.

Sana's already sitting on one of the chairs like she's ready to just eat. This is too shocking because Sana is known to be the 'life of the party' along with Jin. Both friends would always light up parties like these with weird dances, singing battles and games and what not.

Maybe she misses Jin.

There's a bit of chaos when Hyunjin almost shouts, "They're here!"

Wendy looks to where he's pointing and she sees all of them. Everybody.

Namjoon, Jeongyeon, Nayeon, Yunho and Seulgi. Oh and also Jeongyeon's brother.

Does he only hang out with them now?

Despite being so much older than everyone here, the energy levels are the same. Nayeon and Namjoon immediately start shouting as they greet everyone, while Jeongyeon stays with the guys and Seulgi as she greets people with a smile and so do the guys. Jeongyeon's little brother looks a bit lost though.

They all quickly meet everyone and everyone except Jeongyeon and Yunho already start drinking. It's comes as a bit of a suprise that Seulgi drinks too.

Jeongyeon's brother trudges towards somewhere and Wendy is shocked when he comes to her direction.

No. It's not her. It's Rosé.

"Hey! Rosé...we..we met? I hope you remember me...umm it's fine if you don't though." He pauses a little as he gives an eye-smile. "And oh, in case you're wondering how I know your name, I kind of asked Seulgi noona." He scratches his nape awkwardly and then a thought crosses his mind and he becomes alert as he jerks up. "I mean, like I didn't ask, it...it came up. I-I swear I'm not a stalker and-"

Okay, this guy is a mess.

Wendy remembers him a bit. Whenever she went to Jeongyeon's house, she would always see him and he was kind of like a weird middle school kid. But puberty probably made it better for him.

"Jimin. I remember you." Rosé places her hand on his arms, kind of like to stable him, and that it does.

"Oh." Jimin just laughs awkwardly and then shifts his gaze to Wendy and looks at her expectantly. "Hey, I'm Jimin."

Wendy assumes he wants an introduction as well, but how does he not remember her? She guesses it's because they didn't meet alot and he was very young.

"I'm Wendy. Nice to meet you Jimin."

Jimin smiles like he's embarrassed again. "It's weird but I feel like I've seen you somewhere before." He pauses for a moment but then waves his hand, amused. "It's probably just a coincidence. Well, then should we dance a bit girls?"

Rosé lets out a chuckle. "We'll join you Jimin."

Jimin retreats back to his sister and her friends and Rosé looks at Wendy. She then glances at the bar and sighs contentedly. She tugs Wendy by the arm. "Come on let's go to the bar."

Rosé shrugs after looking at the different drinks for too long. She calls for the bartender then. "Hey, just enlighten me, okay?"

"Chaengiee, chaengiee~~" Lisa almost startles Rosé as she hugs her from behind. Jisoo and Jennie follow her too.

"Lisa, Lisa~~" Rosé sings in the same way as Lisa did, she smiles brightly at Lisa. "You having fun?" Rosé has to shout a bit, given the loud music.

"Yesss, babbyyy!!" Lisa starts dancing on the spot and pulls Rosé to the dance floor as well, leaving Wendy with Jisoo and Jennie who settle down beside her.

Another girl shortly joins them in the bar, thankfully not one of Wendy's old friends. But Wendy doesn't know this girl at all.

Okay, this is like an actual party. There's people I don't know too?

"Have a drink Wendy unnie." Jennie says as she raises her glass in the air. She seems like the ever impassive Jennie, even though she's already had a few drinks. "Oh, umm can I...can I call you that? Unnie? I know you don't..umm use that...haha of course you don't, you live in Canada I-"

Now, she seems drunk.

"Jennie you can call me unnie." Wendy smiles gently. "Oh and I don't know if you know, but I've lived in Korea most of my life."

"Really?" The girl, Jisoo speaks up with a bemused expression. "I-I mean you- actually I don't know why I said that. Anyways where did you live?"

"Here, actually."

"Wow, unnie." Jennie stares at her with wide eyes, not able to believe what was just said.

"Okay, stop staring Jendeukie." Jisoo nudges Jennie who takes a sip from her drink. "And Wendy...uhh...unnie have a drink. You've not had anything, you should have something."

Jisoo is even kind to order something for her and offer her the glass, but Wendy just won't drink. Wendy is about to politely decline when she hears someone and a hand grabbing the glass.

"She won't drink, better not waste it."

It's Yunho.

Oh , it's Yunho.

He sits on the other side of Wendy. And God, someone remind her why she's here again, she doesn't even drink.

But he still remembers, how she never drinks. Maybe he still remembers all the disasters and misunderstandings that happened while she was drunk, maybe he still remembers why she doesn't drink.

Of course he would remember, she almost always called him to take her home safely, she doesn't know how but Yunho's contact would always be on top when she was drunk.

"Oppa please, I swear...I...never drink again. I feel- my head....aahh..."

"Don't die, okay?" Yunho said in his curt voice but Wendy could already hear the subtle noise of his car door and a smile grazed her face.

"I love you, Yunho."  She said in a cute voice and she could swear she heard a soft chuckle escape his mouth.

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vitoriafranca
#1
Chapter 38: Wow, what sad news, I really had hope for this story. I mean, even if things didn't turn out the way I expected (Like Joohyun confronting Seungwan the first moment he saw her about the daughter she just took away and Joohyun misses so much or the revelation of Joy's supposed other relative where she only discovers that she didn't really have a father but a mother?) And of course, even though Joohyun knew that Seulgi was back in contact with Seungwan, she never confronted either of them about the whereabouts of her other daughter, which makes us wonder what kind of parents Joohyun and Seungwan are who don't bother to look for or finally reveal the truth to Joy and why does Seulgi continue to collude with both sides when she considers her niece so much?
Despite everything, what really saddens me is that despite everything, the flashbacks to their past were without a doubt the best part of the story, I really kept waiting for more of them. I don't know if you intend to go back to this story and rewrite it, but I would particularly love it if you could show us their past in full. I think exploring what you've already done here would be a way of reusing this story that had so much to show.

Anyway, thank you for everything so far, I hope you are well and come back soon, author-nim!
shadowhunter1640 #2
Chapter 38: Oh i see the problem now. The seulreners want more seulrene moments.

Though i've always thought this is wenrene fic with how often Wendy's pov appears. But i agree that the story's really dragging. And so many side character povs.

I always look up wenrene tags coz that's all i'm interested in and this story was really promising. But i suggest if you're writing a wenrene fic, just use wenrene tag and don't add seulrene and vice versa if you're writing a seulrene fic to avoid being accused of clickbaiting and confusion.

Thank you for your work author! Please keep on writing.
Gwernica #3
Chapter 37: Heavy seulrener here and yes the story is dragging. This story is similar to wenseulrene fic titled 'Unrequited' in terms of the structure where it's clearly a seulrene fic with wendy as the 'heartbreaker' but for some reason the pov heavily came from wendy perspective. I think other readers already mentioned it out: Seulrene is clearly still going strong in this fic but for some reason, they have less moments compares to Seulgi with Lisa. This wenrene/seulrene bait & switch is clearly not working because now people started to criticize Irene, Seulgi and Wendy characters (similar with that fic 'Unrequited') and it's not even because they don't understand the concept of flawed characters, it's just they're getting tired of the story and the characters. I just don't get why most wenseulrene fics authors always have the same concepts and settings when they wrote their dynamics and it made me wonder if they really see each individual irl like that, because let's be real here, yes these are fictional characters, but they are real person fictions (rpf) characters. Even in kdramas, triangle loves don't always have the same dynamics. It's like these fics' authors are actually on one camp, but they pretend to care about the third person (in this case wendy) so that people would think that these authors actually like both camps. Might as well make it a polymorph relationship.
2014605911
#4
Chapter 37: Chapter 37: Well I'm still reading this though the story is undoubtedly dragging its heels before moving a fraction of an inch for whatever plot there is. I get that the characters are still stuck in some of their past, but it doesn't mean that the story should be too. Stuck at a snail pace, I mean. The Joohyun and Wendy arc has the two agonizing every now and then in addition to the Joy issue keeping this story going in circles. I'm interested enough to keep on reading this but something has got to happen soon and change the pace to get things moving. The Seulgi and Wendy talk finally happened, but any attempts of figuring out how to approach Wendy and Joohyun closure as well getting Joy known as the missing child is not even on the horizon. I've also not seen a solid Seulrene tidbit here that is solely about them and not a segway to enter another Wenrene flashback and Wenrene agenda. I get that this story is about past Wenrene and daughter Joy, but I think there has been more Lisa-centric chapters/POVs than a Seulgi one that is not related to past Wenrene. Seulrene doesn't even shine that much other than small stolen moments here and there.
yannahays #5
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EzraSeige
#6
Chapter 34: It's okay otornim, take your time and thanks for the update 🙆🙌💗💙
rvlv_bless #7
my two favorite fics right now: The Internship and this one (Family). Seulrene with pathetic pos Wendy, yes that's my kind of romance.
xeembiote #8
Chapter 33: What I don't get about this whole thing is why are they talking around Irene instead of just telling her the truth? This will all blow up in all of their faces once Irene finds out that Joy is her kid and that Seulgi is keeping things from her. It's bordering stupidity at this point. Seulgi is well aware of how devastated Irene was when Wendy left with their kid and now that said kid is back, instead of telling her outright, she goes and hides it from her. I mean who does that? There's no justification as to why she's doing what she's doing at this point. And not just Seulgi even, the same goes for Wendy. She has every opportunity at this point to stop beating around the bush and get her daughter and Irene to meet. But she keeps delaying things.

I don't even get Irene's reaction when she first met Wendy again either. I'd have been angry on the spot and demand to see my child. Why is she so passive?

Still curious to see how this runs through but I'm also getting frustrated at how this is turning out.
wenrene012 #9
Chapter 32: First thought comes to mind when the revelation happened like- what the hell was Irene thinking volunteering for that? Everything became SO messed up after that. I don't even know what to say
Thhhgggg #10
This chapter seems familiar to me, i think you've already posted it by mistake? But i must say that this is a Story im looking forward every Monday :)