Chapter 6

As per usual, Jimin found herself sitting down inside the club room, fiddling with her bass’ strings. 

A lot of things had happened so quickly. She can’t believe that Minjeong actually joined them, and that they became an actual and functioning band.

Part of her feels overjoyed, while the other can’t help but to feel a tad worried for the younger girl. 

Don’t get her wrong, when Minjeong asked her if she could join the band, Jimin almost cried from happiness. But at the same time, a part of her is scared of having pushed the woman to join them. 

Jimin thinks she always knew it deep down, but she just knows there’s something deeper going on between Minjeong and music. Simple stage fright doesn’t send you into a frenzy where you’re ready to hurt yourself like what Jimin had witnessed some weeks ago. 

But now that Minjeong was there with them, Jimin swears that she’ll do anything to help her overcome whatever issue she has with music. 

She’s the one who pushed Minjeong to join the band, so it’s her responsibility to take care of her, isn’t it? 

(And it might also be because she cares about the younger girl a whole lot. More than she might realize actually.)

“Hey there.”

Jimin felt a weight plopping down on the couch next to her, and turned her head in her friend’s direction. 

“Rough day?”

Aeri, who had her hair completely disheveled and huge eyebags, groaned. “You could say that… I spent the whole night working on a project, just for it to be pushed back to next week…”

Jimin supportively patted her best friend’s head, and returned to her bass. “I think the other two won’t be here before a while, so you can nap if you want. Minjeong told me she has late classes today. But I’m not sure about Yizhuo though.”

Aeri, who was like a zombie mere seconds ago, seemed to immediately wake up. She sent a teasing glance to a clueless Jimin. “Oooh, so you and Minjeong are on a daily talking basis?”

Jimin scratched her cheek, feeling embarrassed. “We’re just chatting from time to time…” 

Aeri kept her wide grin on, and Jimin tried her best to wipe it off of her because it was starting to be annoying! “Besides, isn’t it normal to warn your bandmate about your schedule changes?”

“Uh uh, of course Jimin, of course.” Aeri’s huge grin was in full swing, and Jimin is sure that at this exact moment, her hidden feelings got busted. Maybe it has been the case ever since she first introduced Minjeong to her best friend actually.

In fact, Jimin knows Aeri is fully aware of everything, just like she herself is. She knows that what she feels for Minjeong isn’t just mere friendship. And she learnt that ever since she first laid her eyes on the younger woman, back when she first saw her in the empty classroom. A lonely figure sitting down with a sole guitar as her companion. Looking absolutely ethereal. 

The sole sight of Minjeong managed to pull Jimin in with an indescribable force, and she willingly let herself get dragged to the depth that is Kim Minjeong, without even pulling a fight. Who was she to deny falling for such a beautiful and special girl? 

Jimin isn’t a superficial person though! Of course, she thinks that Minjeong is the prettiest woman she had ever laid her eyes upon. But she thinks that she really started to like the younger woman in that way over the course of their friendly banters and easy-going discussions. 

It had happened so fast, but it had felt so natural. The very first time Jimin took Minjeong’s hand in hers, it was as if two pieces of a puzzle had found their ways to each other. As if they were two magnets who had waited an eternity to finally be connected with each other again. 

The moment might have been messy, and Minjeong’s hand might have been bloody, something that is completely unromantic. But despite all of the pain and tension lingering in the air of that moment back in the classroom, Jimin thinks… No. She knows that her feelings for Minjeong switched from simple curiosity to a deep fondness she would like to call romantic affection, the second their hands had connected.

Everything just feels so easy with her. Jimin knows that they haven't known each other since a while, and that they still have so much to learn about the other. But the sole prospect of spending even more time with Minjeong and truly getting to pierce through the thick walls surrounding her, is enough to make Jimin feel excited. 

Maybe she should tell Aeri. After all, the girl has been her best friend for years, and Jimin isn’t sure if she can keep those feelings to herself for long anyways. She thought about it for approximately… five seconds, before blurting it out. 

Screw this, Aeri knows anyways!