Wendy sees her.

Someone she was hoping not to see, not because she doesn't want to but because she's afraid.

"Come over here, why are you just standing there." Ji-Hoon almost screams. Wendy just wants to run.

But she's weak.

Her heart is beating like crazy, she can feel it. She sees her coming closer to them. Her breath hitches. She doesn't want to be here. She hates being here now.

She feels fingers intertwine with hers. She looks up at Rosé, who gives her the most kind and soft smile. She only looks at Rosé and thier hands, she can't bear to look at the person standing in front of them.

"Hi, I'm Park Chaeyoung, from Canada." Wendy can feel Rosé is looking at her after saying that, waiting for Wendy to introduce herself, but she can't. It seems like Rosé senses that.

"This is Wendy. I'm pleased to meet you."

Rosé reaches out with her hand for a handshake, while her other hand squeezing into Wendy's. She grateful to have her. She's also proud that she didn't stutter or showed any signs of low confidence.

Wendy is the one who's trembling now, Rosé is the one holding her. She knows if the younger lets go, she won't be able to stand.


 

"Kang Seulgi."


 

Wendy's still looking at the floor. She doesn't want to look up , even though she's tempted to, she can't do it. She won't. She decides she won't look up.

She can't let her mind get the best of her. She has to stay calm.

She has to stay calm.

She has to stay calm.

She can't. She can't stay calm, she has to look up. She looks up. Looks at the face she's not seen for 12 years. Thoughts start racing in her mind at the speed of light.

She still looks like the same stupid bear that she did earlier.

She has only become more beautiful over the years.

Wendy's gaze moves down to her hands. She sees a ring. She starts thinking again,

Did she get married? Does she have children?

The thought of little Seulgi(s) makes her heart warm. But then sad. She squeezes Rosé's hand tighter.

She then looks back at the lady standing right in front of her.

She looks at her eyes.

"Come on, please, won't my Ddeulgi do that much for me?" Wendy said acting cute.

"Eww! Can you stop calling me that? And stop acting cute, it's gross."

Wendy and Seulgi were standing at the entrance of thier school in the morning. They were juniors, and technically they should attend thier classes today, but Wendy had other plans in her mind.

"So that means you'll come with me?" Wendy asked tugging onto Seulgi's arms.

Seulgi just nodded.

They turn around and make thier way to a park. It's not like Wendy, the smartest student in thier grade, wanted to miss classes, she knew what was inside Seulgi's head and wanted to make her feel better, and distract her.

They played around, talking about random things. Eating food from the shops on the road. They also went to the arcade in the afternoon. Basically they had the time of thier lives, and the sun was finally about to set.

They were sitting on bare grass. None of them seemed to care. They were in the park that meant alot to both of them. They always went there together.

"You know?" Wendy said finally ending the silence that enveloped them for so long.

"What?"

"He's stupid to leave you like that. He must be dumb not to realise your worth, Seul." Wendy always knew what was going inside Seul's mind and right now she knew the other was sad and worried, even though she only laughed and smiled the whole time.

Seulgi said nothing, just looked at the setting sun.

"And about your grades they'll get better, I promise. We'll study more from now on." Wendy was only looking at the other, who still wasn't looking at her.

"And your sister, she'll be okay....she's with someone she loves. I know you'll miss her, but I'll drive you to her place after school everyday. We'll even bring ice creams and cand-"

Seulgi just hugged her. Wendy felt her shoulder get wet. She knew the other was crying and she let her. She needed to get it out. Wendy knew Seulgi had been through so much, she wanted her to be happy again.

"You know that guy, he's so lucky he got to date the most beautiful bear in the world." Wendy said in an attempt to make the other laugh. She succeeded, as always.

Seulgi pulled out of thier hug and started laughing and crying at the same time.

"Yahh! I-I'm.....not.....a b-bear." Seulgi said between sniffs.

Wendy laughed and looked at the sunset again.

"How do you do it?" Seulgi said, also looking at the sunset.

"Do what?"
 

"Always know what I'm feeling?"

 

"Your eyes tell."

She sees the eyes that didn't change one bit. She sees the face that was almost always smiling at her, but now, now it's not.

She looks at her eyes once again.

She tries to read what Seul's feeling, despite her blank expression.


 

She can read n