Walking to class has never been this embarrassing, all eyes are on her, at least, that’s what Mina thought inside her head. 

She’s walking on the hallway with her head hung low, uneasy with her surroundings. She feels like everyone is talking about what she did at the KISSCAM incident yesterday. She had hoped that this issue will die down sooner rather than later because she’d rather go back to being invisible than being the center of everyone’s attention. 

As soon as she stepped in her literature class, everybody instantly stopped talking. The buzz suddenly died down, a very unusual thing to happen to this chatty class, and what mortified her even more is that everybody’s eyes are on her. No one’s staring but everybody’s throwing glances. No one has asked Mina directly but whispers of yesterday’s incident are on everybody’s lips. In short, she's the hot topic for today. 

“Mina, what the hell did you do?” Jihyo whisper-shouted, as if she’s trying to scold Mina but at the same time, she doesn’t want to cause a scene. 

So much for no one has asked directly, huh?  

Mina slumps at the seat beside the brunette and covers her face with both her hands, her mind couldn’t come up with any sensible reason beside from preventing Jeongyeon from kissing Nayeon. “I don’t know.” 

“Aish, I don’t know whether I should be proud of you for finally making out with someone like Jeongyeon or pity you for the stares and gossip that’s been circulating all over the uni.” she says while shaking her head, her eyes trying to stare back at the people who dares to look at Mina’s direction. Sure, she’s teasing the Japanese, but she only does it to maybe lift Mina’s mood; she won’t let these people make Mina more uncomfortable than she is right now. 

“Jihyo, what should I do?” Mina almost pouts, her eyes shining, probably from holding back her tears. 

Just before the brunette could reply, their professor comes in the door. “Let’s talk about it later,” she offers the raven-haired a small smile, to which the latter just nodded to. She just hopes that Jihyo has some sort of solution for this hole she dug herself. 

- 

The class ended but not the stolen glances, not the whispers. Why couldn’t they just let it go...  

Jihyo notices how exasperated the Japanese is and links an arm on the other girl’s as they make their way out of the room, “They’ll eventually forget about it, Mina. In a few days' time, it’s gonna be ancient history,” 

Mina just nods, despite feeling gloomy with everything that’s happening, she hopes that Jihyo is right. “Maybe I'll just stay far away from anything related to Yoo Jeongyeon so the gossips could die down faster.” 

As if the universe is playing with her, the girl she planned on avoiding was leaning on the wall in front of them. 

No... what is she doing here?!  

Upon hearing her name, Jeongyeon looked up and untangled her crossed arms. 

“Hi.” the purple head smiles her crowd’s favorite, the damned crooked one. 

“Hi, Jeongyeon!” the brunette greets back at the Captain before attempting to slip her arms off from the raven haired’s, “Bye, Mina!” 

“Jihyo!” Mina whisper-shouted, her eyes widening at the sudden betrayal of her friend. She didn’t let go of Jihyo’s arms until the girl pulled her to the side. As though they both have telepathic powers, they held a conversation using their eyes. 

“What are you doing? Why are you ditching me?!”  

“Just go talk to her!”  the Korean clenched her jaw, trying to emphasize a point which is unclear to the bewildered girl. 

“NO!”  Mina shook her head vehemently, Jihyo really is trying to leave her with this Jeong-! 

“YES.”  Jihyo  pursed her lips and widened her eyes, she thinks  Jeongyeon  can help Mina erase the rumors that the Japanese abhors, so she insists. How the Captain could be of help, she doesn’t know yet, but one word from Jeongyeon can end every single rumor, so she hopes that’s what the Ace have come for. 

Mina pouts, her face pleading to her friend not to leave her with this braggart of a woman, “JIHYO, PLEASE.”  

Jihyo dropped every expression and looked at the Japanese intently, slightly raising a brow, “It’s final, Mina. Sorry, not sorry.”  

Mina couldn’t hide the disbelief on her eyes as Jihyo dismissed her pleas, and turned to smile sweetly at the airhead, “You better not worsen the situation, Yoo, or else, you answer to me.” 

The Japanese didn’t know what to think of her friend right now. First, she wants her to talk to the very girl she doesn’t ever wanna see again. Now, she’s threatening her for my sake? Park Jihyo!  

Jeongyeon raised both of her hands, as if surrendering, “No, I won’t, ma’am.” her face portrayed seriousness but her eyes shimmered with amusement. 

“Good. Mina,” Jihyo looked knowingly at the Japanese and lifted her hand to form some sort of a telephone with her fingers and waved it, as if to say, “Call me later.” 

The raven-haired just looked on to Jihyo’s retreating figure and couldn’t help but think that Jeongyeon’s here to confront her about the incident yesterday. 

What if she’s mad? Of course, Mina, she’s mad at you! You kissed her!  

Mina’s heart feels like it will escape her ribcage. She isn’t just nervous, she’s terrified. Jeongyeon is a popular athlete who’s adored by many, everything that she’ll do or say to her can either fix or worsen the rumors. 

“Mina, right?” 

The Japanese squeezed her eyes shut for a few seconds, trying to calm her pulsating nerves. What if she’s here to shame me in front of everyone?  

She turned to look at Jeongyeon, already expecting to see a furious expression, but there’s no trace of anything ill on her face, instead, her deep brown eyes looked at Mina softly, the same lopsided smile was plastered on her small face, but it’s laced with softness this time. Everything about Jeongyeon right now is soft, except her strikingly sharp jawline. Even her cheeks look tremendously soft and smooth, Mina couldn’t help but wonder if it’s as soft as it looks. Her purple hair was let down, cascading beautif-  WHAT?  

She internally shook the thoughts away, she couldn’t afford to shake her head in real life nor furrow her brows, Jeong- might think it’s directed at her and make her life worse than it is now. 

Mina nodded, still unable to utter a word, her mind full of different thoughts, mostly about how she could salvage her reputation and how she should just apologize to this annoying woman so they could just return to their previous lives. 

Jeongyeon looked around and sure enough, everyone’s eyes are on them. This won’t do.  

“Come with me.” 

She held Mina’s hand and pulled her as they walk away from the students’ prying eyes. 

They walked in silence until they reached the park just outside the university, Mina was weirded out with how the Korean’s acted but she guesses that Jeongyeon wanted to give her a piece of her mind away from the people at the uni, and for that, she let out a sigh of relief. At least she wants to deal with this privately.  

Jeongyeon led her under the shade of a huge tree, and Mina thought, this is where she’s going to apologize before Jeong- ruin everything for her. 

She took a deep breath before beginning her not-so-rehearsed-I-only-made-this-five-minutes-ago apology. 

“Look, Jeongyeon, I’m sorry about yesterday. I didn’t want to kiss you, but I don’t want you to kiss Nayeon, either.” Mina decides to just tell her the truth, there’s no sense in lying in this situation. 

Jeongyeon just chuckled, she didn’t mind the kiss yesterday, especially when it comes from someone as beautiful as Mina. She'd be lying if she’d say that the raven-haired doesn’t look divine with just her simple black hoodie and knee-ripped pants. 

“I was about to introduce myself but it seems like you already know my name,” the Captain just shook her head lightly, she really needs to remember that there are people who knows her because of the sport she plays.