*3*                     It's rare for Lee Chaerin to call the 2ne1 members all at once. Well-- scratch that, she never ever called the 2ne1 members for a girls night out in her place before and it's a shock why she would do that now. Honestly, they're not fans of those so called 'girlfriends' activities' because they're not girls to begin with (as they always joke around) and they're too cool for those girly sh!ts.                       But today, their fierce leader called them for a sleep over in her flat at Itaewon, in the middle of the night, just before the three members got the chance to sleep on their cozy beds at home. And of course, even though it's late, the three of them went their way on their sister's house because they haven't seen each other for so long. Too long, actually.                         As soon as they received the call, Bom went straight to Chaerin's unit, coming from their old dorm, hoping that the other girls would prepare a lot of food for them to eat. Minji had a difficult time convincing her father to let her out at that hour of the night, but thanks to her cool mom, she got her way out, with her sister giving her a ride to their leader's unit. While Dara, went to a convenient store first and then bought as many ramyun as she could buy, before going to Chaerin's.                          When they arrived, Chaerin already prepared some popcorn and cola for the three girls. As usual Bom, just went straight to the living room to attack those popcorns while Dara was tailing after her because the kitchen was off-limits for her (as the leader strictly demanded, coz Dara and the kitchen doesn't match at all). The maknae line, on the other hand, cooked the ramyun.                           As all of them formed a circle at the living room, slumping on the floor with their blankets on their legs, sleeping bags beneath them, and in between all the Poong poongs, Stitches, Tamtamies and Rilakkumas, they started conversing about their lives, sharing their stories to each other, laughing at each other's antics, empathizing at each other's love lifes, and talking about boys. Bom and Dara talked about their boyfriends while Chaerin just laugh at their 4D/8D-ness. Meanwhile, Gong Minji just watched her unnies having fun as she hugged her Stitch stuff toy while eating a bowl of ramyun. It's bad for her figure but damn it, she needs to taste something different for once in a while.

 

                    After a lot of laughter, weirdness and quirkiness, Dara suddenly asked Chaerin about Jinwoo, which caught the baddest female off-guard.                       "We're fine." she simply replied, as she let out a small smile.                         The beagle unnies knew that there's something wrong, since they're really sharp when it comes to this kind of matter. They dug out at the problem as much as they could, giving everything they got just to corner the young leader.                        They usually fail when it comes to Lee Chaerin, since she doesn't share her problems to them and she's usually the one who gave advices. But this time, it looked like she already let off all her guard down, letting her members see the vulnerable Chaerin for the first time in their 8 years together. The three looked at her, concernedly.                         She mumbled something but they couldn't understand it, her face was dark and her expression was unreadable. Bom moved a little closer to her dongsaeng and gently tapped her shoulders.                         "Yah~ Lee Chaerin! Are you saying something?" she said.             "He's still not saying it.." she said, this time, the words were clearer but what she actually means was still vague.             "Saying what?-- hey can you make it clearer? I can't understand you..." her 8D unnie asked once again. This time, the young leader looked at her unnie's eyes.              "Unnie, Jinwoo's still not saying it... he hasn't told me yet--" she gulped before continuing,             "-- he hasn't told me that he loves me..."                        The three looked at their leader with a mix of shock and curiosity in their eyes. Dara quickly went beside Chaerin and held her hand while Minji put down the bowl of ramyun in her hand and totally focused on her unnies. Brief silence surrounded them since the three didn't know what to ask or say to her;  Dara and Minji thought that their leader was overreacting, while Bom thought that it was, indeed, a bit bizarre. In the end, the brunette, corn-loving ajhumma decided to broke the silence.                       "W-wait, but he loves you, right?" she asked. Honestly, even her couldn't comprehend what she had just said.                          The girl just gave off a sad smile before looking down. In the past, Lee Chaerin was the type who will never cry or worry on something as small and as unimportant as this. And it really irks the heck out of her of how every little thing that insensitive deer does affects her. It seemed like Kim Jinwoo got that access to pull her insecurities out of her system and shove it into her face.                       Does he really loves me? she deeply thought, as she tried to stop her tears which were almost on the brink of falling. Dara gently tugged her hand.                         "Hey, what's the real problem? We can't solve this unless you tell us what happened." her baby-faced unnie said, concernedly.                         The leader let out all of her worries while the three listened to her intently, as they processed every word coming out from her lips.                             It's nice to have friends who will actually listen to you whenever you have problems, she couldn't help but realize.                         A tear suddenly rolled over her cheeks. It was him, who taught her to voice out herself. It was him, who taught her that sometimes it's okay to be weak.                          And now, she's here, doubting his love to her. Am I being unreasonable? She doesn't know anymore.                 The maknae gave her the tissue box as soon as she saw that tear in her eyes. She smiled at her and gently wiped it with the tissue. Unfortunately, she was still wearing a little eyeliner, so, it smudged all over her eyes to her cheeks.                      Astonished at what they saw, the three girls all laugh their asses off, while Chaerin doesn'