Irene(the hamster) narrows her beady eyes at what she’s seeing. She didn’t like all these eyes gawking at her while she’s chewing on her carrot. She quickly turns around and continued nibbling with her back
facing all her fangirls.

“Awwww…. She’s so cute...” Jennie coos before her face then scrunches into a pout.“Why can’t I get a hamster?”

“You already have Chaeyoung and Jennie.”

“I know. But all they do is swim.”

“They’re fishes, Jen. What do you expect they do?”

“Why don’t you send them out to the sea? I bet their dads are looking for them…”

“NOOOO!!!!”

“Geez… fine… fine!”

“They’re mine! Chaeyoung is mine…”

And Jennie always felt the need to point that out, that she owns both Chaeyoung, the fish and the girl.

“By the way, Seulgi I don’t see Irene and her icy self around these days…”
.
“Well, she’s busy with practice for the talent festival.”

“Oh… my Chaeyoung is part of it too” Jennie says proudly

Joy and Jisoo look at each other and grin in a way that only people with their brain capacity could get.

“WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?!” Seulgi didn’t like being left behind…

“How sweet of you Seulgi… you and Jennie are like starting to be the same, you know where your girlfriend is.” Yeri teases her roommate
with a devious evil smile.

Grrrrrr… “She’s not my girlfriend.” Seulgi crosses her arm and huffs.

“Then? What are you two then?”

“Ummm… I don’t know.” Seulgi shrugs…

“She likes you, in her own creepy Bae Irene way and you obviously like her, if you named your chipmunk-”

Seulgi corrected Joy. “Hamster”

“Whatever… Hamster, after her so what is there to know, Seulgi?”

“I don’t know, okay! And there is tons of Irene in the world, what made you think I name her after Bae Irene?”

“Alright… but I hope when you finally know, Irene is still there waiting.”

Will she?

“By the way… what is she performing for the festival?”

“She’s going to perform troublemaker with Taehyung.”

“Troublemaker? That song that could make you pregnant just by watching the performance?”

“You guys are ridiculous.” Why Seulgi stay friends with them, she doesn’t know either.

“And she’s doing it with Mr. Box-… I mean Taehyung? You know the rumors they have about Taehyung, right?”

“That his girlfriend is a chicken and eating chicken is his way of making love to her?”

“No… that’s the rated PG version, you know the M version… that Taehyung has a HUUUUUGGGGGEEEE-“

The girls jaw drop as they expect Jisoo to say a certain part of the male anatomy, but Jisoo chuckles at the girls’ y reaction.

“Huge heart… geez what are you two erts thinking. But other than that he has a BIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGG”

Seulgi and Joy’s jaw unhinged again that it made Jisoo cackle evilly.

“Big ambitions…” Jisoo then burst out laughing “You two are nuts… erted and nuts”

“I thought you are going to say he has a big-“

“Big what?”

“Big Smile” Seulgi blushes and looks away.

“So, anyways Seulgi… that’s it? Are you going to let Taehyung and his greasy fingers run all over Irene’s milky white self?”

“NO!”

All the girls were surprise to see Jennie all pouty and annoyed, Jennie starts shaking Seulgi to get her point across.

“I know how it feels Seulgi, to watch the girl that you love with some dirtbag running their grimy hands over her! And I won’t let it happen! Not to you my buddy! WE WILL FIGHT CAUSE SEULRENE IS REAL!!!
”
“Geez… Jen,,, relax will you?”

“But do you feel it Seul? The urge to fight for your girl?”

“She’s not my girl”

“You better not say that in front of Irene, Seulgi” Jennie warns her.

“Why?” Seulgi roll her eyes “She’ll kill me?”

“Nope. It’ll kill her.”

*
Chaeyoung couldn’t help but walk blankly on the campus grounds as events of what’s been happening to her kept running in her head. Some people could be so mean and Chaeyoung could never figure out why. Most of these girls who are just saying nasty stuffs about her don’t even know who she is, yet they bark at her as if they have every right to judge. Most people would probably just tell her to ignore it, that those girls were just jealous that all their oppars want is to be close to her and she tried, she did but it’s getting to the point where its hurting her.

Chaeyoung quickly did an about face at the sight of the three idiots arguing and punching each other walking towards her. She couldn’t let Jennie see
her, knowing that Jennie would worry 100x worse than her and a pissed off Jennie isn’t really a smart Jennie.

But she should know… Jennie could spot her from a mile away.

“CHAEYOUNG, MY LOVE!!!!” Jennie zoom so fast and next thing Chaeyoung knew, Jennie was standing beside her.

“Chaeyoung?” Jennie quickly notices the expression on her girl’s face.

“What’s wrong?” Chaeyoung ducks to hide her face but Jennie leans closer to look at her and at the sight of those worried brown eyes, Chaeyoung
couldn’t help but falter into Jennie’s shoulder.

“Whoah! What happen with Chaeyoung?” Jisoo asks worriedly…

“WHO DID THIS TO YOU?!” Jennie asks angrily…

“YEAH! TELL US CHAEYOUNG!!! WE’LL BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF THEM!”

They probably won’t but it doesn’t hurt to sound gangsta every once in a while.

“Yup, nobody mess with my girl!”

“It’s okay baby, just stay here.” Chaeyoung mumbles in Jennie’s shirt

“NO!” Jisoo punches her fist into her palm and huffs angrily. “Nobody messes with Jennie’s chick and get away with it.”

“It’s nobody just oppa’s fans.”

“Whoah” Jisoo and Joy back off… “Those girls are nuts!”

“Yeah tell me about it…” Jisoo agrees. “Who needs musclebound bodyguards when you got those crazy fan girls who goes apesh!t when you look at their oppa? OH! HOW DARE YOU GLANCE AT MY OPPA!
Yup, those girls are craaaazzzzyyyy…”

“So?! We girls are crazier! We’ll beat them all up for you, my baby… just write their names and I’ll have my people take care of them for you.”

“Whoah! Jen… you got peeps?”

Jennie scratches her head “Well… you and Jisoo and then there’s Yeri, we know the she’s the spawn of the devil hiding underneath all that cuteness, Seulgi, and Irene… oh they will be so scared of Irene and
Wendy… ummm…” Jennie scratches her head, what could Wendy do? She’s so refined and calm? “Wendy will… ummm… speak English so fast, their poor brains will blowup.”

“Wow… death by English language, that’s just intense, dude.”

“I know, right?”

*

Seulgi starts mumbling to herself as she stands nervously in front of Irene’s door “should I knock? I should… why wouldn’t I? What if Irene is asleep, then she’ll kill me, but wait… she likes me so she
can’t kill me… She does like me, right?”

Seulgi almost stumbled as the door swings open “Please Hyunnie don’t hurt me…” Seulgi begs for her life, But instead of seeing the sleeping
dragon, she sees the girl with the awesome eyesmile “Oh… ummm… hey Wendy.”

“Hey Seulgi...”

“I… ummm… this is Hyunnie’s room, right?”

Wendy chuckles sweetly, how come she and Irene are just so different? “Yes. But Jennie text me that Chaeyoung is in our room, so I think I’ll stay here at Irene’s room for the night while Jennie and Chaeyoung get ummm… busy.”

“Oh…”

“You want to come in?”

“Will ummm… Hyunnie kill me?”

“Keke… you know she won’t do that.”

Seulgi didn’t expect Irene’s room to be like this, for someone nickname the ice princess, her room seems normal (cept for the minibar and fridge). There is a bed, a desk and books. Seulgi didn’t even
know that Irene goes to school.

“You want lollipop?”

“Wae?”

“Here” Wendy opens the jar and Seulgi stares at the jar filled with different flavored lollipops. “You can pick more than one, it doesn’t matter…”

“Oh okay…” Seulgi rams her hand inside the jar trying to grab most of the lollipops.

“Relax” How could Seulgi relax when her heart is beating like that?

“Didn’t know you were such a lollipop addict…”

“I’m not… I just… Ok you got me, I love lollipop… Well… what about you? What’s your favorite food?”

“Me?” Wendy taps her finger on her chin as she pouts thoughtfully

“Oh I know… bananacake”

“Wait? Bananacake?”

“Yes…” Seulgi couldn’t help but notice the sad smile on Wendy’s face “My mom used to make it almost every weekend, it’s more of the memory of it that makes it my favorite rather than anything else”

“Oh… I’m sorry.”

“No, don’t be… It’s a great memory…”

“You know I never thought Irene eats…”

Wendy smiles as she hears Seulgi bringing Irene up without any glitch.

“Cause she’s so skinny, but we ate together one time in the cafeteria…”

And Seulgi broke out in a laugh “And I didn’t know she loves her noodles, she even took mine… keke…”

How Seulgi didn’t know something this obvious, nobody knows.

*
Chaeyoung has her head turned away from the stage so she could concentrate on rehearsing when she heard Irene calling her out.

“Oh Chaeyoung…” Irene calls out as Chaeyoung is practicing “Look who just walk in?”

Chaeyoung turns around and for once she felt she’s going to be okay as long as Jennie was with her. But it wasn’t just Jennie who was there, the whole gang came to watch and cheer her on. And for once in practice, Chaeyoung finally smiles as long as she have Jennie Kim, she’ll be okay.

 

*

“WAAAAAAAAHHHH My girlfriend is a ho.”

Chaeyoung elbows Jennie jokingly at the rib as the older leans close to her and starts her habit of nuzzling on the younger’s neck.

No one could believe that this table filled with every food in the menu belonged to these nine gorgeous females. The girls might have everyone’s attention in that café but right now the girls are enjoying
being in their own world to notice.

“Oh! Oh! Oh! I so love that show! My girlfriend is a gumiho!"

“Gosh Joy! Is there even a point to talking to you sometimes? I said Ho! Not gumiho!”

“What are you talking about, Jen?”

“You saw Chaeyoung’s performance? she’s dancing on a pole.” Jennie reasons out.

“Well, if it makes you feel any better it’s not a pole, it’s a bar.” Chaeyoung corrected her…

“NO! It doesn’t make me feel any better! It’s a long metal and you’re dancing on it in your itty- bitty shorts… HMMP!” Jennie crosses her arms
and frowns. “I’m the only one who should be seeing her in those itty- bitty shorts.”

“Gosh Jen… It’s not a good thing to go all possessive and sheyt… instead why don’t you show her how proud you are of her?”

“I am! I’m just a little… Ok… really bothered about her performance. I could imagine all those fan boys nose bleeding and God! Did you see how beautiful she was?! She could turn the straightest girl gay!”

“Oh yeah…” Seulgi was agreeing too well… She quickly gulps when she sees Irene’s eyes narrowing at her.

“You know what? It’s all part of the act Jen, I should know… entertainers run in my family” Joy proudly announce to anyone who is willing to listen “My oppa is the black sheep of the family, he chose to be an underground rapper than go to college”

“Underground?” Jisoo raises her brow in confusion

“Why can’t he be on top of the ground?”

“Jisoo… sometimes we wonder if Joy and Jennie’s intelligence is starting to rub on you.”

The night was filled with laughter except for the one girl who’s focus was on the midget laughing loudly with her bestfriend.

“Hey… you ok Irene?”

“Yeah… just tired”

And Irene wasn’t really lying, this thing that she has right now with Seulgi she’s getting to the point that it’s draining every life out of her. Yet here she is still mustering everything with what little she have
left if it meant making Seulgi happy.

*

Although Lisa allows Jennie (even during that incident) to sleepover in their room, it’s getting frustrating how they could only be G rated
when they’re ready to step into the rated X. Yet Jennie couldn’t complain she loves being with Chaeyoung even if it meant just sleeping beside her.
Jennie glares angrily as Chaeyoung sighs happily as she sleeps.

Here she was, Jennie Kim staying up later than her bedtime just so she could pat Chaeyoung’s back to sleep. Yet the thing that Chaeyoung’s arms are wrapped around with isn’t her but of the oversize brown bear. Jennie’s eyes got smaller as she glares at the brown bear and she sees it, she did… the brown bear was smiling as if it’s telling Jennie, in your face, Jen, Chaeyoung chose me.

“Grrr… Chaeyoung is mine.”

Yes, a piss off Jennie couldn’t even tell that she’s arguing with a teddy bear.

*

Jennie looks at her paws in confusion, what she’s going to do? How on Earth is she going to knock on the door with these paws?

“Should I use my head?” Jennie tries to knock on the door with her mascot head but failed. She just ends up hitting the door with her paws.

“CAMEEEENNNNG” Jennie heard shuffling and the door knob turns and there was Joy eyes widen at the sight of the huge as$ teddy bear. “WHOAH! It’s Winnie the POOH!”

Jisoo quickly looks and fell to the ground at the sight of the oversize cuteness. “Whoah! Winnie the Pooh, where’s your red shirt?!”

“I’m not Winnie the pooh, idiots! It’s me Jennie!”

“Jennie bear?”

“Never heard of that.”

“No…” Jennie facepalm with her paw, with the rate these two are going, she’ll be stuck in this mascot forever “It’s a bear, I’m Jennie… get me out of this thing, you idiot.”

“Ehhhh… IDK, you just hurt my feelings right there, by calling me idiot, should we help her out, Jisoo?”

“IDK… my heart is still breaking too…” Joy shrugs… “Sorry… you should treat us more nicely.”

“Yup, by buying us pizza.”

The poor bear fall to her knees (if bear have knees) to the ground.

“FINE! Just help me…”

“Ok…. What’s the magic word?” Joy was enjoying this too much and Jennie couldn’t do anything
about it… FOR NOW…

“PLLLLLLLEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSSSEEEEEE!!!!!!!!” Jennie pleads…

“Alright, was that so hard to do?”

Joy takes off the bear head and she and her roommate looks disapprovingly at what they saw, Jennie’s face was soak with either tears or sweat and her hair is sticking on her face…

“I think the bear head was much better to look at.”

“I know… put it back on…” Joy agrees.

Joy was about to put it back on Jennie’s head but not before Jennie slap Joy’s arms silly with her paws.

“What are you doing?! Do you know how long I was stuck in there? I thought I could get out of it by myself but I couldn’t! And those mean people in the shop wouldn’t help me! I have to walk through the park and these dogs were all chasing me, and those kids… WAAAAHHHH… they wrestle me like I’m in WWE! IT was so horrible… And my poor baby Chaeyoung, she keeps on texting and calling me but I couldn’t do anything because these stupid paws can’t even hold the damn phone!”

“There… there… It’s just one of those bad days, Jen…” Joy pats her bestfriend’s back “Knowing you, I’m sure there would be much worse days than this one.”

“Oooohhhh”

The girls spun around and saw Yeri and Seulgi eyeing the bear’s . And Jennie never felt so molested.

“I like that little round fluffy thing going on in your back- What the?!” Seulgi froze when she felt Jennie b!tchslap her with her paw.

“I’m a freaking bear Seulgi! Have some freaking respect!”

“Pffft. Says the girl in a bear mascot.”

“I’m doing this out of love, my Chaeyoung isn’t feeling so good right now. Those fangirls are getting more relentless and if I fight them they’ll just get worse so this is the best thing I could think about.”

“You, Jennie Kim and the word think just don’t belong in one sentence” Yeri points out. “Why can’t you just take her shopping or treat her to dinner like NORMAL people do?” Yeri asks. “God… why
am I even asking?”*

*
Lisa couldn’t help but worry as Chaeyoung keeps on getting harassed by those fangirls, for them Chaeyoung is the enemy, the enemy that tries to
still their oppars away.

Chaeyoung sighs heavily as Jennie haven’t text her for hours…

Knock.Knock

“Oh Chaeyoung-yah..”

Lisa jumps back as Jisoo and Joy were walking towards with a giant teddy bear.

And Jennie knew all the dogs biting on her heels, being tackled by those rowdy children and Seulgi’s harassment was worth it when she sees
the excitement in Chaeyoung’s eyes as she sees the big bear.

“So, Chaeng have you met the newest member of our crew?” Chaeyoung grin widely and shakes her head happily…

“Her name is… Rilla… Rika…” Realizing that she’ll never be able to call the bear by it’s name, Jisoo decides to name the bear herself”

"Ummm… BROWN BEAR!!!”

“YEHEY BROWN BEAR!!!”

“But Brown bear is more than just a bear, she’s so much more!” Jisoo exclaims as if she’s a voiceover for a commercial promoting Jennie out. Jennie turned her head at Jisoo… What does she mean by more?

“It’s also a dancing bear!”
The mascot head muffles Jennie’s cries, she can’t barely stand anymore what more dance?

“Do you want to see the bear dance, Chaeyoung?”
Chaeyoung nods eagerly and Jennie takes a deep breath, she’ll bear it… for Chaeyoung… She starts to bounce around…

“No. no. no. no” Jennie turns to Jisoo, OMO… what is this girl planning? “You’re much special than that… you can dance to KPOP songs…”

“oh yeah, oh yeah… brown bear!”

“Wait?” Joy cups her hand on her ear “ I heard hit you with that-…

Oh no… oh no… oh no…

But before Jennie could protest, Jisoo already put Ddu du ddu du by BLACKPINK on
speakers and Jennie couldn’t help but do the dance (Brown bear style) for Chaeyoung.

“Ah yeah Ah yeah”

The girls sing along as Brown bear dance her heart out.
“Oh ho ho… Brown Bear, I didn’t know you could shake your tailfeather like that, I think you are being a BAD GIRL”

And the idiot that Jennie Kim is, actually let her friend make a dumb@ss out of her as she dance to the song. She’s just let it slide as long as Chaeyoung was laughing like she is right now.

“OH WOW!!!!”

The four girls were all clapping so amused of how entertaining Jennie is, that they thought of switching Jennie with this bear.

“AMAZING! AMAZING! BROWN BEAR YOU SO AWESOME!!!”

And the girls forget what they were doing as they were jamming with Brown Bear whose trying her damn hardest to raise her paws up.

At the end of their party, Chaeyoung is making her way closer to the bear when she felt someone shove her away.

“BROWN BEAR!!!!” Lisa squeals happily as she wraps her arms around the bear.  “You are so awesome!”

The girls try to pry Lisa off Brown bear until finally they did. And as much as Chaeyoung would have wanted to wrap her arms around her favorite bear, she wouldn’t want anything else but to hug the girl who just made her fall in love all over again.

But for now… Chaeyoung will just wrap her arms around Brown Bear and whisper to her Jennie.
“Saranghae Jen… OW!” Chaeyoung rubs her head as the brown bear just headbutt her.

Jennie raises her bear arms up in apology. She was so used to kissing Chaeyoung that she forgot that she has a huge bear head and instead of
kissing Chaeyoung like she intended to do, she ended up bonking the younger one in
the head.
*
Wendy was one or probably the only one immune to the Hyunnie effect but not these days, Irene seems colder than usual and what’s worse is
that, Wendy felt that it’s only with her who Irene got a problem with.

“Irene…” Wendy tries to chase after Irene “Hey! I know you hardly ever hear this being said to your face since most people are scared sh!t of you,
but I think you need to know. You are being a ***** right now.”

“Sorry about that” Irene says with an air of sarcasm and continues to walk away.

Wendy yanks Irene’s arm “Nobody likes a *****, Irene.”

“Then, deal with it.”

“I will but I know you. You have a reason why you’re acting like this. Give me credit here, we have been bestfriends since we were in the States. If something is up with you then tell me.”

“You want to know what’s up?” Irene grits her teeth at how insensitive her own bestfriend could be “I’ll tell you what’s up, Wen… It pisses me off, that here I am trying my damn hardest to make Seulgi happy but I couldn’t. And all you do is show up and she’s smiling like she won the damn lottery!”

“That’s what’s bothering you?”

“That’s the only thing that could bother me! Seulgi is the only thing that bother me nowadays.When I saw you two just laughing together, it killed me because I suddenly realized that no matter what I do, I
could never make her smile the way you do”

“Jess…”

“No… maybe we we're never meant to be, Wendy that all it really is a stupid love that was never meant to happen in the first place, who am I to force something that isn’t meant to happen?”

“Just hang in there, Irene.”

“What?”

“I say hang in there… Seulgi is not used to this so she doesn’t know how she feel, or maybe she does she just don’t know how to express it. But we all know, except her and you what she really feels.”

“Look if you’re just saying things to stop making me feel like crap then…”

“No, I’m not… it’s obvious to everyone except to the two of you. When I was with her today, you don’t know how she would just unconsciously talk about you, how she would smile when she hears your name, and if you saw her laugh, it’s probably cause we were talking about some stunt you two pulled together. It’s you, Irene, it’s you who Seulgi wants. But let her realize it for herself. When she
does, I swear, it’ll be worth all this. so, just hang in there, Irene… just a little bit more.”

Irene sighs heavily as much as she wants to just step out of the game, she know she couldn’t not when Seulgi is involved.

*
Chaeyoung sneaks quietly and couldn’t help but aww as Jennie looks so cute sleeping so soundly almost like a little baby. The bear mascot was still
scattered all over the floor and Jennie has a tired expression on her face as she sleeps.

Chaeyoung slowly climbs into bed beside Jennie and slowly wraps her arm around Jennie’s slim waist. And almost like it’s automatic Jennie nuzzles
on Chaeyoung’s neck but not before Chaeyoung kisses Jennie softly on the lips.

“I love you, baby…”

And Jennie in return wraps her arm around Chaeyoung’s waist, pulling the girl tighter.

“I love you too.”

“Hmmm? Jen? I thought you’re asleep?” Chaeyoung whispers carefully, so that she won’t wake up Wendy on the other side of the bed.

“You kiss me, so I woke up” Jennie smiles playfully despite being so tired.

“Sorry” Chaeyoung couldn’t help but apologize, Jennie was dead tired and here she was just waking her up.

“Don’t be. You’re better than any dream.”

And Jennie kisses her again before she fell back asleep the best way she knows how… with Chaeyoung in her arms.