"Wait a minute, back it up a little. You know Seulgi? My friend, whom I've never introduced to you?" Irene asked Ian, looking at him with a confused expression.

"Seulgi isn't a common name, and she should be around the same age as you, meaning she's around the same age as me, since I've been your twin since we were born," he explained as he looked up in thought, "It was before we got into college. I had a crush on this girl called Seungwan, or Wendy, but she hated being called Wendy," he said as Irene grabbed his shoulders.

"You know Seungwan?" Irene asked in disbelief, mildly frustrated that her brother never told her about it before.

"Yeah I know her, they were both in my class. You wouldn't know because you don't exactly care about these things unless people tell you about them," Ian said, grabbing his sister's arms and pulling them off his shoulders.

"How did you put up with them?" Irene asked, genuinely respecting her brother for putting up with their arguments.

"What do you mean 'put up with them'? Those two are close as hell and didn't really bother other people" Ian scoffed in disbelief, rolling his eyes at his sister's stupid question.

"Wait, they're close?"

"Yeah, of course, they're close. They were best friends, you would rarely see one of them without the other."

"What happened?" Irene asked inquisitively, genuinely curious as to their complicated relationship.

"What do you mean 'what happened'? It's been years since I've seen either of them. I didn't exactly catch up with them ever since I confessed to Seungwan, which clearly did not go well," Ian said, his ears turning red after remembering that incident.

"They hate each other's guts now, or at least I think they do. It's complicated right now but something happened between then and them entering college," Irene mused, mostly to herself as she tried to come up with reasons.

"Well, I might have been the reason for one of their arguments, but I really hope that's not the reason why, because if so, they need some help. It's been years since the incident," Ian said sheepishly, his ears turning redder as his past came back to haunt him in a terrible manner.

"Tell me about it," Irene demanded, her eyes burning through him as she looked–or rather glared at him.

"Well, I confessed to Wendy in private after we graduated, but apparently Seulgi was listening in. Or maybe accidentally heard it. Basically, she was at the wrong place at the wrong time. She suddenly got really emotional and angry at Wendy, and Wendy was furious at Seulgi. They then stormed away and I've never seen them since. I hear from our old friends that they've never been seen together ever since, but I'm not entirely sure about that myself." Ian explained, immediately telling everything he knew.

"I see," Irene said simply as she stood up. "Go buy dinner, I'll be in my room."

'Why is it me again?' Ian wanted to lament but quickly changed his mind after seeing the expression his sister wore as she took her bag, going into her bedroom as he quietly stuffed his wallet and the apartment keys into his pocket as he walked out.

Irene sighed as she flopped on her desk, starting a group chat with Yeri and Joy.

Big news

What is it

That you had to make a new group chat

Apparently, Seul and Wannie were best friends?

Wait best friends

Are you kidding

No way

Nice jokes Irene

No seriously

I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it too

Trust me

How would you know

Apparently, my brother was classmates with them

Ian?

Do you know any other brothers that I have

Fair

But does he know what happened to them

Yeah

Also, what were they like

When they were best friends

They were inseparable apparently

No ing way

That's a very hard thing to believe

Right?

Anyway, apparently, my brother might be the cause that they're enemies right now

Wow

Get his

We have to deal with that he started?

Yeah what the hell

It's not his fault

At least it doesn't feel like that

He confessed his feelings to Wannie but Seul apparently got mad.

And then Wannie got mad as well

Isn't that his fault for confessing

It doesn't sound like it now that I hear about it

Right?

I think this is all just one

Massive miscommunication between them

But why though

They were best friends, right?

It's not like they had something so secretive they couldn't share it with each other

Like they're part of the mafia

LOL

Or they loved each other or something

Uh

Uh

Wait they do

WE THINK THEY DO

WE HAVE NO PROOF

YO, THAT'S ING–

YO

We were gonna tell you our theory but we know how you feel about natural emotions

I mean

I care about them

But this sounds like some K-Drama

Yeah

Anyway, I guess miscommunication about their true feelings lead to this

We can try to nudge them

I'd rather not

So we stay quiet?

For now

I'm not exactly happy about their situation

But I think they'll work it out

Also, how did you know that they love each other

Or at least like each other

Wendy was overthinking about her feelings and vented to me

She sounded really

Pessimistic?

Seul consulted me about her feelings

She sounded more optimistic

I didn't hear anything about Wendy and Yeri's conversation

Same

Seulgi is more concerned about their relationship's future

Wendy is more concerned about the past.

This could end badly or it could end like a fairy tale

We'll see how it goes

I can't wait

You enjoy their bickering don't you

Well yeah

It's entertaining

But it'll be more entertaining to see them together

Weirdo

It's like watching a drama even though it makes you sad.

You enjoy it if it has a good ending

But you don't mind if it's sad along the way

​​​​I guess I understand that

Weirdo

I'm gonna go study

See ya tomorrow

Study?

For what

The finals?

They're in two weeks

Oh

You've been studying right?

Uh

Right???

I'm gonna go study

Jesus Christ

​​​I'm gonna go study too

Remember to not raise this up to them

Sure

Got it