Scene 5: With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear

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TaeYeon's POV

It didn't take too long for us to arrive to YoonA's dorm. When we got there, we noticed Yuri, Jessica and HyoYeon had jusr arrived as well.

"Sunny is on her way, we should wait for-" Yuri suddenly stopped talking.

"Tiffany..." Jessica said softly, the three of them looked at me, just yesterday I was crying my eyes out and drowning myself in alcohol because of what happened between Tiffany and I, and that random guy Tiffany was kissing, at the club.

"Hey guys..." She answered shyly.

When they were about to respond they saw that Sunny arrived, SooYoung was walking beside her, holding her hand.

Everyone was confused, it was clearly written on their eyes, many questions rushed to their minds as they stared from Tiffany to me to SooYoung to Sunny, competely and utterly curious as to how, when or why did the girls decided to stop ignoring us.  Sensing the awkward atmosphere I decided to speak up.

"I know what all of you are thinking, we'll talk in a bit, okay?" I looked at all of them and they nodded. "We need to find Seobaby first and once the nine of us are together we'll talk." The nodded again and followed behind me. 

Since YoonA's dorm room was only on the second floor it wasn't really hard to get there, once we reached the room we all were surprised, the door was slightly ajar... Considering that we couldn't locate Seobaby and now we see YoonA's door open at 1 p.m. we all kind of freaked out.

We inmediatly stepped in only to be recieved with a view neither of us expected. 

No, this was not what we had in mind. Not at all.

There in the couch they layed, SeoHyun sitting on YoonA's lap while straddling her, the latter had her arms wrapped around the maknae's waist and they were kissing passionately.

Like I said, not what we expected at all.

"For god's sake what the heck is going on in here?!" Screamed HyoYeon, an obvious blush could be seen in her cheeks. 

The girl's who were making out on the couch pulled away so fast that poor SeoHyun fell on her back to the floor.

"Seo, are you okay?" Said YoonA, who stood up inmediatly to assist the girl that was rubbing the back of her head.

We all approached them.

"I think we need to talk. Right now." Said Yuri, who tried to keep her cool, but I could notice on her eyes how confused she was. 

"Okay, let's sit on the floor." Said YoonA as she sat next to SeoHyun, both of them avoided our stares and I decided to lighten up the mood by teasing them slightly.

"Calm down SeoHyun, you know this is not the worst state I've seen you in." She raised her head, her blush deepened and  I knew which memory ran through her mind.

Instead of easing the tension I noticed all of them eyes us curiously. I sighed.

"Okay... before letting SooYoung, YoonA and Tiffany talk, who I know most of us are curious about... let's talk about us first." I shifted my gaze, staring at all of them and finally settling my eyes on Tiffany. 

"What do you mean?" Asked Jessica.

"Well, I think we all know the three of them pretty well so, at least in my opinion, I don't think they ignored us and kind of got mad at us because we came out of the closet." They all shifted uncomfortably and I could see the three mentioned were looking at the floor, a clear sign of shame. "Maybe it was because we have been friends for so long... yet we didn't say anything. We kept this from them, we lied to them." I smiled sadly. "Let's open up to them... tell them our 'stories', let them know we trust them." The three of them lifted their heads and stared at me, I noticed how Sunny held SooYoung's hand, giving it a light squeeze, showing support. I wish I could do that with Tiffany, but the two of us had a talk we had to conclude first, on our own, so I'll save it for later. "That doesn't mean you won't have to talk, okay?" They just nodded. "Who wants to start?" 

HyoYeon raised her hand. 

"This is going to be sooo awkward." She said, chuckling nervously. "I realized I was a lesbian... about four years ago, when I found out I had a crush on SeoHyeonnie". The mentioned just blushed, while YoonA just clenched her fist. I couldn't help but find it cute. "Yeah.. so, I thought that our proper SeoHyun was as straight as a rule, so I was kind of down, wondering how could I forget about her." She looked up to the ceiling, collecting her thoughts. "That's when I met Nicole, I mean, we started dating recently, but back then I needed a friend and she was the only person I knew that had come out of the closet at the time, I was still kind of reluctant about accepting myself, so I thought it'd be a perfect opportunity to 'explore myself' or something like that." She laughed at her way of expressing herself and I just smiled. "Our friendship grew and I eventually got over maknae, so... that's pretty much the interesting part". She smiled dorkily. 

That wasn't so hard, I thought, but well, that was HyoYeon. 

"I always knew I was different." Yuri's voice was heard. "I always felt guys weren't something I was really  interested in. I thought it was just me having to grow up or something. But then... on my second year of high school.. I met Sica." A cute blush appeared on her face, I noticed that SooYoung was staring intently at Yuri, her face showed confussion, regret, empathy. YoonA was paying just as much attention, her brow slightly furrowed as she processed everything that was said. Tiffany didn't take her eyes off the girl, yet, I could see that as soon as Yuri mentioned something slightly cheesy she smiled. "When I met her... I knew for sure there was no other person I could be interested in so... I worked hard on becoming her friend and the day of our graduation... I confessed to her." I could already figure out the rest of the story. 

"I think I should finish this Yuri." Said Sica as calm as always. "That's where my story starts after all." She smiled apologetically and the tanned girl just nodded.

"When she confessed to me... I got scared." The ice princess confessed. "My parents had offered me to study in the U.S.A. and I called them that day to accept. Because I was scared, not because she confessed, but because I seriously thought about accepting her confession." She sighed, "I was glad I went to america, considering the fact that they way more open about this kind of relationships, I had the opportunity to clear my mind and finally come to terms with myself. I came out to my parents before returning, I told them the real reason why I wanted to come back." She smiled. "I told them I left the girl I loved hanging when I went to America and that I wanted to finally start a relationship with her." Yuri held her hand and they smiled lovingly at each other. "I came back but before I could even finish unpacking, Yuri was already at my door. You can kind of guess the rest." 

The rest of us stayed silent for a moment, while three of the girls were processing Jessica, Yuri and Hyoyeon's words, the other three of us stared at eachother silently deciding who was next.

"I..." Sunny's voice rang in the room. "I don't really know when I started liking girls, but I remember clearly who I liked first." Eight pairs of eyes stared curiously at her. "It was Taengoo" She smiled sweetly at me, before continuing. "It's really weird, considering after her I have only liked tall girls." The girls laughed slightly while I just glared at Sunny, not actually mad of course, I was thankful for her comment that acted as a comic relief. "It was weird... because I thought to myself 'There's no way I like her, I'm just confused, we're both girls, there's no freaking way' but... damn this will be awkward," she laughed slightly before continuing, "well, it's just that I couldn't get her out of my head, my heart sped up everytime she was close to me, and it was a lot of time considering she's my best friend, and all those cheesy syntoms that predict that you have fallen in love." She sighed, "The fact that TaeYeon is incredibly gay and all of us suspected of her even before she came out didn't help at all, since it gave me tons of hope." Once again laughter filled the room, why does it have to be me the one they have to laugh about? "But I talked with my parents..." Her eyes turned teary. "I never told you guys..." A teardrop rolled down her cheek. "I lied to you, to all of you... I made that stupid excuse that my parents didn't have enough money to pay for my education so my uncle took me in to pay it... it was actually that they felt so ashamed that her daughter was a lesbian that they kicked me out." The eyes of all of us were glued on her, I stood up and reached to where she was, I helped her up and hugged her tightly.

"Thank you for sharing it with us, we all love you Sunny" I whispered softly.

"Thanks" She said with a smile. "But don't get hopeful, huh? 'cause I got over you a long time ago." Bubbly Sunny appeared again.

"I won't." I said. "You're not my type anyway." I stuck my tongue out and she playfully smacked my shoulder. 

"Now, you're turn Tae." She said, her tears still flowing but that big bright smile of hers was there. "I'm curious to how you and maknae knew that the other was gay." I blushed as she said that.

"For the love of mickey mouse!" Exclaimed Yuri, "Don't tell me you dated maknae?" I blushed even harder and SeoHyun and I shook our heads.

"Look... let me tell you my story, and eventually you'll know, okay?" I said softly.

They all nodded and looked at me expectantly, except for SeoHyun who knew this story from beggining to end. 

"I never doubted that I was gay, the only problem was that I could never voice it out." I spoke clearly. "So I investigated on the internet, read books and pretty much researched on any media I could to find out if it was not just a confussion. But after years and years of trying to fight it, I gave up. As only a fifteen year old girl who had just come across that fact, I was scared, that's why I was a loner, because I was scared and I didn't know who in the world would like to be with a 'dyke' like me." I breathed in. "I'll skip high school time 'cause I just dated a younger girl named Im Jin Ah a.k.a. Nana, no biggie." I said. 

"Are you seriously telling me you dated the prettiest and most popular girl there was on high school?" Asked Yuri, completely amazed.

"Yes, we lasted about a year, since she was two years younger I just... dated her on our last year, since we were gonna start college I told her it was the best to broke it off and she accepted, saying she had thought about it too." I smiled slightly at the memory. "Before coming to college... I also told my parents, their reaction was different from Sunny's parents, but... it was kind of the same." They all looked at me confusely. "As you know my parents earn a lot of money."

"That explains the porsche boxster that's parked down there." Jessica stated sarcastically. 

"Look who's talking Miss White BMW." I responded with the same tone she did. "Well, the point is... they ignore me and feel ashamed I'm their daughter, but they give me tons of money. It doesn't come for free though. They bought me the car, agreed with paying all of my college fees and bills, in exchange, I must not talk with them, be near them, talk with my siblings or any other member of my family. They erased me from their life. They tell their friends I'm too busy studying medicine, which I am... kind of, to actually atend to anything they do. But they avoid me, they don't want me anymore because they are disgusted by who I am." They all looked at me with apologetic smiles and I smiled back, sweetly. "And well... once I got here in college... I was kind of depressed, so I decided I needed a girlfriend or at least a date, so I went with a friend and he set me up with his 'super nice and cute friend' and when I arrived at the place... it was SeoHyun, it was the most awkward thing ever... until I decided it was the funniest thing ever." I laughed slightly as they all stared wide eyed at me.

"What did you mean earlier when you said that wasn't the worst state you've seen her in?" Asked YoonA, I smirked.

"Why? Jealous?" I  said playfully and she blushed. I chuckled. "Actually, some friends of mine thought it was good for 'the prude' to loosen up, so they kind of drugged her while I was busy talking with another girl, they had the weird impression that I wanted to get onto SeoHyun's pants" I laughed as I saw the bright red cheeks of the maknae and at the confused, scared and funny expressions they had on their faces. "They took her to my dorm room, they stripped her up to her underwear, they were gay guys don't worry, and left her like that on my couch." I smirked again. "It was the biggest surprise ever and even if she has a nice body, I couldn't help but just laugh, took a picture of her passed out on the couch and then dressed her up." I laughed and some of the girls joined in. 

"Seems like I'm technically the last one, right?" Asked SeoHyun, "Well, I have always tried to tell you guys... but I wasn't sure how... whenever you asked me why I rejected guys' offer to go out with me, I'd alway say 'I'm not interested in guys', but you never really took the hint." I smiled, our maknae's way of thinking was kind of silly, but... she had a point. "I talked with my parents but they are really catholic so they said it was just a phase, so they took me to the church's psychologist for about... 2 years, until I started lying to him." She looked at the ground, "I made the priêst believe that I was over that 'weird phase' as my parents called it, I even dated a guy named YongHwa on my last year of high school so my parents would believe me." She sighed, looking u again. "They bought it, I'm closeted again and when I came to college... free from my parents and able to be as open as I wanted about that... so, mainly thanks to TaeYeon, I've had dated some girls... but noone has really caught my attention out of them, since I've always been in love with someone presumably straight." She smiled slightly.

"So... you... decided to go against your religion?" Asked Tiffany, SooYoung stared right at SeoHyun, we all knew both of them were really religious, maybe that's what held them back in the past.

"I didn't" Answered SeoHyun. "I believe in god, I am a good person, just because I like girls doesn't mean I sleep around with girls or anything like that, I just... don't like guys."

"But... that's a sin.." The two of them whispered.

"I think... that god doesn't hate gay people, I mean... is being gay the same or worse than being a liar, than being a robber, a killer?" SeoHyun's eyes became glassy. "I don't think so, I don't think that religious acceptance is worth my happiness, because I know I wouldn't be happy with someone I don't love. I don't even really know if god really hates people like me... I mean, he was the one who made me like this, wasn't him?" She stared at both of them intently. "To believe in god is one thing...but to follow blindly texts and words written and said so many years ago, is something really different."

The two of them stayed silent. "I think god would be happier, if you are happy, don't you girls think?" Asked SeoHyun. Tiffany and SooYoung nodded firmly.

After that we continued talking, about school, about other friends and I was surprised at how well SooYoung, Tiffany and YoonA where taking whenever any of us made a reference to a past lover, friend who is also gay, or any other thing related to that theme. None of us wanted to force them to talk, but once the clock strucked 4, it was as if we all came to a silent agreement, since silence filled the room and the three of them stared at each other, understanding the fact that they had to talk.

"I'll start." Whispered YoonA. "I... have never classified myself as straight, it just happened that the gender I tend to like more is the male gender." She said nonchalantly. "I think I just never really gave it a real thought. I just... liked someone and that's it. But the other day, when all of you came out I got scared, I mean... not because of you, but because I was inmensily happy that you were like that, and with you I mean SeoHyun." YoonA blushed and so did SeoHyun, why are they so cute? "I was just avoiding all of you, because I didn't want to face the fact that I felt attracted to her, and that's pretty much it." Her tone was kinda nonchalant, inocence quite palpable in all of her, how I wish I was like that again.

"On the contrary," SooYoung started. "I think about it too much." We all stared at her, and she lowered her gaze, Sunny's hand held hers and she smiled slightly. "I just... I like guys, but I think I... kind of exagerated it, because I felt like... I liked girls a bit TOO much, you know?" She chuckled slightly. "I felt like a ert whenever I stared at girls for too long, or when I took advantage of the situation just to be touchy feely with you girls... but mostly... I felt like a sinner." She sighed. "I'm glad you girls came out... because... It help me realize the truth, Sunny helped me yesterday, taking the initiative into accepting myself... and I know she meant all she said to me yesterday, but... what fully convinced me were SeoHyun's words 'I think god would be happier, if you are happy'. Personally It made me think and shrug off all of the sin related thoughts that my mind has been flooding me with since yesterday. But mainly... I think the fact that none of you gave up on me... made me realize I was a jerk. I'm sorry." 

I just shook my head. "Don't worry, most of the people goes through that phase." I smiled caringly at her.

"I understand how SooYoung is feeling... and... I feel as if I'm not anywhere near to how brave you girls are." Tiffany spoke, her gaze shifted through all of us and finally rested on me. "I mean... like, I know how I've felt for years, yet I used god as an excuse as to why I couldn't be myself." She sighed. "But all of you have talked with your parents... confirmed your feelings, yet, I couldn't even stop the girl I love from leaving my apartment, not that could right since I basically threw her out and after that made her feel bad with other things...making her jealous" She was talking... she was talking about me, she... just admitted she loved me. "But I... I know I shouldn't be afraid anymore, 'cause I have 8 wonderful persons who will be there for me. Who will love me for who I am" I wouldn't admit it on another ocassion, but right now... I teared up, but just a little bit. "Besides... lying is a bigger sin isn't it? and... I was a liar, a big sinner for it... but I know I can be free from that, finally."

After that all of us united in one great big bear hug, tears were shed, words of understanding and support were said. We were all together again.

I don't really know how long we stayed like that, I just know that I had some business to finish with Tiffany.

"Well girls, it was really nice to be all together, I propose a movie night at my dorm tomorrow. Right now I want to go to sleep..." I looked over at Tiffany, who just smiled shyly and nodded.

"I'll go with her, she's my ride." She eyesmiled and took my hand. I smiled as I looked at out intertwined fingers. I then looked up to spot the knowing looks of the other girls. SeoHyun's stare lingered a bit longer on mine, she pumped her fist slightly while mouthing silently 'Fighting!" We waved to the girls as we headed out.

The trip to her dorm was silent. But really, no words were needed. Since we both knew what we had to say... we both were ready. Both of us had been locked up on a tower of lies, and we finally let the liar inside the tower while we climbed down.

We arrived at her dorm and I got down the car, opening the passager seat to help her out. She took my hand and didn't let go as we walked towards her dorm. Once outside her door she turned towards me.

"Want to come in?" She smiled at me. That smile that has always enticed me, the one that made me so interested in her in the first place.

"If I come in, I don't think I'll go, I'm really tired." I yawned as if proving my point. "I didn't get any sleep yesterday." I sighed, remembering how the images of Tiffany kissing that guy and the words she said to her haunted her to the point she couldn't conceal sleep at all.

"Then... sleep with me." Her eyes stared deeply into mine, a cute pout was on her face, her hand still on mine and the twinle in her eyes made me unable to say no.

"Okay, Fany-ah." I smiled warmly at her, and she blushed. 

We went inside and she said she'd talk a shower and change into something more comfortable. I figured she'd be hungry, since I am, and decided to cook something. I knew how much she liked pizza, so I ordered one while I was cooking spagetti. 

Not long after the pizza got there, I paid for it and continued with the spagetti.

Suddenly, I felt a pair of arms encircle my waist from behind, I smiled knowing it was Tiffany, her head rested on my shoulder. 

"Smells good, but it's too western for your liking, isn't it?" She whispered, her breath brushing my cheek, slowly stunning me.

"But isn't that what my Fany likes?" I asked while turning around, my breath hitched when I noticed there were merely centimeters that separated our faces and I diverted my eyes aways from hers for a second, focusing on her lips and then back at her eyes again. 

She shook her head, "That's not what I like." 

"Then what do you like?" I asked.

"You." She smiled brightly and I just blushed.

"Well, it seems unfair but I'll take it." I replied jokingly. 

"Why unfair?" She said.

"Because I love you." I smiled dorkily at her.

"Well then... if you openly admit it... then I can." She breathed in. "I love you." 

"Do you mean it?" 

"You think I'd say it if I didn't mean it?" I shook my head.

"That's why I have to make sure, just in case I'm hallucinating." She laughed at my dorkiness before leaning in and kissing me. 

I just kissed back. It felt wonderful, it felt amazing, it felt right.

After we pulled away she hid her face in my neck, her arms that were wrapped around me tightened their grip.

"I love you"

"I love you too."

After that we just ate, talking casually like we used to, I couldn't help but notice it was the same, that made me wonder if we looked like a couple even before this.

After eating she pulled me towards her room, both of us layed in her bed, her head on my chest and my arms around her waist. The strawberry scent that emanated from her hair filled my nostrils and I smiled widely. 

This was better than anything I had ever dreamed of.

Because she is mine, and I'm hers.


 Thanks to everyone who read my story, I'm really grateful, I'll do my best to write better stories and way more stories of course :) Comment, I'd like to know your opinion :3 

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Soneisa #1
Chapter 1: Sweet 😍😍🥺🤧
myflows #2
Chapter 5: You put thought in your writing, it shows. The storylines were so well developed that i couldn't stop reading. When i was finishing the last chapter only one thought was running through my head.... please let there be a sequel or continuation of this story hahaha!!! it was amazing, thank you for writing.
frans89 #3
Chapter 5: I love this story, especially this line : "To believe in god is one thing...but to follow
blindly texts and words written and said so many
years ago, is something really different." well written.
Keep writing more, dear author-shii. Fighting! :)
Lsmith27
#4
Chapter 5: Sooo gooddd story author-ssi. I love taeny, they're something.
Gibberish
#5
Omg i love Sleeping with Sirens!


Do you listen to PTV as well?
walestm
#6
Chapter 5: Ah! I enjoyed this so much! I didn't expect all of their stories to be explained, honestly I didn't know what I expected for this last chapter. Seohyun's incident was hilarious and seems like something my friends would do -_- I'm looking forward to your future works.
smirk7 #7
Chapter 5: This is awesome
walestm
#8
I just re read all it but with the songs playing in the background. And it's just...it's just beautiful. Really beautiful.