Flashback~

“She’s sitting right there, do you know her?” Nayeon pointed out.

“Nope.”

“Really? But you’ve been staring at her though for the past 30 minutes.” Nayeon said with a poker face.

Oh my god.

“I-I uhh... I was...”

Nayeon laughed gently. “Don’t worry, I won’t tell her if you don’t want me to.” She shook her head carelessly. “Plus, you’re better than your best friend will ever be so I’m not going to hate you too.”

Mina shattered her attention back to the girl next to her, but the other one, instead of staring back at her eyes; she was staring at the girl sitting a few tables away from where they were standing.

Her smile dropped and her face turned serious all of the sudden, an odd expression to see on the usually friendly girl’s stunning face.

Momo.

She’s talking about Momo.

“I’m sorry about that; Momo is... a bit lost at the moment.”

“I hate her.”

There was no hesitation, no pause, no pretending, and no mercy behind those cruel words. It was pure honesty and Mina feared for Momo’s life.

The hatred she is seeing right now is not like any other normal ones, the hatred is strong. Mina can almost taste them at the edges of her own tongue.

“She’s a nice girl, Nayeon-shi. It’s just that she has been... manipulated lately.”

“Is that why you’re not talking to her anymore?”

“More or less.”

Nayeon hummed in acknowledgement.

“I know you love Momo,” Nayeon started lowly, “But if she hurts Jeongyeon, I won’t hesitate to claw her down to her own grave.”

Mina gulped loudly before quietly adding,

“She won’t do that, I promise you.”

~~~~~ 

She knows Momo is planning something bad with that horrible Lena girl.

She knows but she couldn’t say anything.

She hasn’t really had the opportunity to talk much lately with the slight older girl, though Mina misses her badly, there is no doubt; but she decided to overlook her true affections over Momo’s unforgivable manners instead.

She has becomingly more obsess to entertain and to please her fake friends, to the point of calling people names, horrible names.

Mina wanted to stop her, tell her that she should cut it out. But knowing that the girl will feel attacked, Mina opted to see and observe from a near distant instead.

Momo is not a small girl anymore.

She’s just going through a phase, that’s what Mina kept telling herself. This is not the real Momo she is seeing. No way.

Momo is kind, honest, warm, bright, and funny. This is a phase, it has to be.

For Jeongyeon, it has been quiet lately. The girl has been spending more of her free time in the library and the leads Mina to make regular visits to the huge building as well for the past weeks.

But Momo has been excessively mean to her nowadays; no wonder Jeongyeon has been more strict with her private time lately. Mina feels bad about the older girl, she really does but Mina cannot help but to just watch her from afar too.

She hasn’t really found the courage yet to initiate any small talks with the stunning girl; at the end, she won’t be able to comfort her anyways.

Nayeon was always by her side though, and that was enough for Mina’s heart to see that at least the bunny girl is there to support her.

She’ll probably going to need it more.

Because, a few days ago, she heard a chilling rumour going around the school.

Apparently, Momo has finally decided to apologize to the older girl and as a ‘good person’ now, Momo has asked the girl out as her prom date; not to add that she has done it publicly as well, in the school’s cafeteria, and seen by hundreds of student bodies around.

Of course, it’s a good thing, and seeing the older girl happy nowadays is always a wonderful scenery to be witnessed at every single morning.

But Mina is not stupid, nor is Nayeon.

The girl doesn’t really talk much with her lately, ever since their last meet up in the library.

But of course, Nayeon is only being the reasonable person as she really is. Nayeon doesn’t want to intrude her nose into someone else’s business. If she really is following her guts, she would have confronted the brown haired girl immediately but Jeongyeon begged her not to.

She was blinded by her smiles, her kind apologizing words, her romantic prom proposal, and her soft touches against the skin of her arms.

Jeongyeon begged her not to hate the girl any further and Nayeon complied.

She has to. She has no choice. No matter how close they really are, Nayeon loves Jeongyeon too much to betray and ignore her rare order.

Though the girl is no longer seen together with the Lena girl, Nayeon is still filled with doubts with her sudden change of heart and she can see that Mina can feel it too.

They made eye contacts whenever they crossed paths but never actually stopped to have a small talk with each other anymore. It has been quite a sensitive topic to be visited.

Nayeon understands.

Mina is torn, of course; whether to finally accept her best friend’s unexpected conversion of attitude or to be against her, both could end up her losing her so-called sister and Nayeon couldn’t help but to feel a slight sympathy for the girl, to feel suffocated instead for her.

How hard would it be to be in her shoes right now?

But speaking on her behalf, Nayeon cannot comfort her, Nayeon wouldn’t risk it; because at the same time, Nayeon is also protecting Jeongyeon and she cannot bear to be distracted with another drama.

One was enough for her to handle on her own.

But at least Mina knows what Momo is doing... it’s an act.

Mina is a smart girl; she can read people’s expressions easily, she can read people’s behaviour and the way they talk even.

All she can see from Momo right now is her inner struggle; she doesn’t want to do it, that part Mina knows and truly believes.

Momo is still a good person, in there. She just has to dig deeper.

But still, the smiles she portrayed, the good behaviour she exposed, the small fight she had with Lena... all of them are not real; to blind Jeongyeon away from her true motive.

Mina feels sad, and disgusted even with her friend’s intentions

How could she do this?

How cruel can you be?

And despite her anger towards the girl, Mina couldn’t help but to think; ‘I could stop this.’

She could stop Momo right now and ask her to stop whatever things she is doing right now.

Momo will listen because no matter how important the social popularity really is to her; she knows Momo will choose her over everything, as she will do the same for Momo.

So, what’s stopping her?

What stopping her from confronting her best friend at the first place?

It was obvious, isn’t it?

Her jealousy.

It’s a simple equation; Jeongyeon likes Momo and Momo doesn’t like her back. But Mina likes Jeongyeon and the older girl doesn’t even know that she existed.

Deep down, Mina knows... she’s jealous of Momo for being the one who is receiving all these affec