"Doughnut" - PART 4 | TWICE x Male Reader

“WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU, Y/N?" your cousin Seulgi exclaimed as you and Jihyo approached her door. She examined your neck, caressing both sides.

When she heard your sniff and unsteady breath, both common indications of sobbing, her eyes widened. Is there anything you know your cousin despises about you? That is, by witnessing your suffering.
"That's what I've been wondering, Seulgi-unnie; I saw him on the road crying with some flowers and chocolates," Jihyo replied, worriedly glancing next to you, whose head was still bent to hide your teardrop stained face. When Seulgi realized what Jihyo was saying, she bowed her shoulders down. Both of them are now concerned about you.

"So... it's safe to say that even if he doesn't answer us, we know exactly who he's crying for," Jihyo said, gulping heavily to keep her cool at the only person she knows who is responsible for this to you.

"Ryujin," Seulgi replied solemnly, his gaze returning to Jihyo.

You and Jihyo went inside Seulgi's house after. They commanded you to remove your soaked wet clothes already and take a quick bath after to avoid yourself getting sick, which you followed.

Seulgi lets you borrow some of her t-shirts and jogging pants. They forced you to return to the living room now that you've been cleaned up to continue the conversation about what occurred to you earlier.

You were seated on the couch, both hands clasped in front of you, staring at it, lowering your head to avoid Jihyo and Seulgi's anxious gazes.

"Y/N, did something happen between you and Ryujin?" Seulgi said, placing her hand at your back and taking the empty space on your right.

"She what?", Jihyo asked, anticipatingly waiting for your next words.

"She cheated on me," you said, biting your bottom lip and pushing back tears. She doesn't deserve to be mourned over, especially after the betrayal she committed against you... but you just can't help it.

Your cousin and pal both exclaimed, "WHAT?" You just flinched at the combined volume of their voices.

"How?" Jihyo kneels in front of you, her hand on your knee, and looks up to connect her gaze with the guy she admires, who appears to be absolutely broken right now.

You began telling them the story behind your devastation. "I was sitting in my friend's restaurant when... someone contacted me, and it was also a friend, Chaeyoung."

T-then... she asked me if I know something. I was not getting what she's saying and after that s-she... she sent me a p-photo of Ryujin...", you choose to remove your phone from your pocket and open your chat box with Chaeyoung, you didn't finish the following words first, so you didn't complete the next words.

You handed it to Seulgi, who dug into your pocket because she was immediately near you. Seulgi read the messages you and Chaeyoung had exchanged previously, until she eventually noticed what you were pointing at to them, which made her seem disappointed.

"SHE WAS CHEATING WITH HER WORKMATE BEHIND YOUR BACK?" Jihyo shouted angrily, grabbing your phone tightly. Right now, all she can think about is making Ryujin pay for what she's done to you. She has no intention of letting her pass so easily.

"How dare this bitch damage my Y/N like this? After he put his complete trust in her, this is what he'll get from her?" the enraged Jihyo thought.

"I guess we can't really trust anyone these days; I-I truly thought Ryujin wouldn't do something like this," Seulgi said, her hands on her chest, feeling the stinging heartbeats.

She herself felt as if she had been stabbed in the back. Seulgi, your older sister and mother figure, bestowed her entire blessings on you and Ryujin. She was entirely trusting Ryujin and believing that she would be the very last lady who would be great for you, but she now realizes that was all a lie.

"That... ugh, I can't forgive her; swear to God we won't meet or else I'll pull that cheater's limbs off one by one," the All-Mighty enraged God Jihyo said when she and Ryujin crossed paths.

You simply soothed her by letting out the additional words you wanted to say."I-I don't get, why does she still need to lie on the obvious?", You were referring to the point when you know exactly that even she knows that both of you are struggling in each other's relationship and still she chose to lie on you, saying that she still "loves" you.

"So the two of you seeing the bad signs already?", Seulgi asked you.

"Well, I guess I was correct in my prediction; her heart is already slipping from my grasp due to the barriers we can't seem to overcome."

"I could've accepted her on the basis of loving someone I know she deserves, but she chose this path by first hurting my heart before leaving," you finally said. When they witnessed a teardrop successfully leaving from your eyes again, Seulgi and Jihyo grimaced.

"God, what an unlucky guy I am in love with, right? Such an idiot, didn't realize she'll be just like them, especially the one before her," you chuckle, laughing at how stupid and foolish you are for this.

Following that, you three heard a ringtone coming from Seulgi's phone. When the owner looked at it, she understood it was essential. Seulgi excused herself, saying, "Sorry, I have to take this first okay? Jihyo, you handle Y/N for a bit." Jihyo nodded in response to her unnie's request to go upstairs and take the phone.

You reclined against the couch, closed your eyes and exhaling deeply. You were already despairing, with no other options or plans for getting back into a relationship.

Your heart has been broken by the four women you've had, and you're not sure whether there are any more for you to fall in love with.

That leaves you with no choice except to explain what you've been considering doing about it."You know what? That's it. I'm done. I told her previously that she was my last and that-

"NO!" she exclaimed, this time merely flinching at Jihyo. She didn't like the word you used, which she had heard from you.

She can't let this chance slip away again. She'd been waiting so long for you to try to divert your attention away from her to prove that she's here, secretly adoring you and prepared to go to any length for you, that she'll even try to make it inconceivable.

This is not the conclusion. It won't be over for her until it is, and right now... Jihyo views it like this.

"S-sorry for shouting, but... just... understand this, Y/N," she said softly, placing both her hands on top of yours, like she had always wanted to do. You lock eyes with your long-lost childhood bestfriend, eager to surrender your ears to this goddess about to speak for you.

"Yes, you were all unlucky in these four relationships you had, but please don't think this is the end for you," Jihyo said. "You may be done, sure... but I know someone out there is waiting for someone like you? That one who is right for you? Yes, she may not be flawless, but she can at least do better than your previous ones... which will make her the best you've ever had?" she proceeded to persuade you.

"Y/N, you're just unlucky in love because those you had isn't even meant for you."

"I'm not sure, Jihyo," you said exhaustedly. "I'm not really interested anymore; with everything I've been through, I can't keep ending up like this."

"Just let yourself think about it for a while, okay?", she leaned her face closer to your to make her voice clearly audible for you to hear and understand. "There is someone out there waiting too exactly the same thing you'e been wanting to have in love and when you found her, she will make you risk it trying again and who knows, you might have a strong bond with her and keep each other stay at each other's side forever."

"You know why I'm saying this so confidently to you, Y/N?" she asked, smiling as she caressed your head and glanced around the face of the man who had stolen her heart from the start. "Because I can feel it. And trust me if you do the same, you will figure out what I mean."

You feel comforted and see a glimmer of hope and possibility that you could yet be able to attain what you've always wanted because of those comments from your bestfriend.

Yes, you were being pessimistic... But there's something about Jihyo that makes you feel fully confident that everything will be well again.

It's almost as if she knows it's there but you can't see it. That encourages you to believe her when she says something is true. All you have to do now is keep looking for and discovering what she's attempting to get you to realize.

And she did it again, Jihyo was once again there at your side at your torturous time, not letting you stay in the dark for way too long. She was slowly again guiding you back away from it with a painless transition.

You owe her a lot for sure. You don't know how to repay her though, but you guessed that just appreciating and cherishing what's her role in your life could be one of the ways to do so.

"Thank you, Jihyo. Really, thank you. You're always been a great friend I could rely in my darkest times like this.", you let out a small smile that once again, only Jihyo could make you do that.

"Everything for you always, Y/N. I will be there at your side matter how far I am, just to save you.", Jihyo flashed her brightes gummy grin on you. There's no freaking way this will not melt your heart when you see her doing this.

"Now, just lay it all on me, Y/N. Relax your mind, sleep it off for now. Just keep focusing on it tomorrow, ok?" she said as she sat next to you.

"All right," you said, and sat down on the couch, your head resting on Jihyo's lap. Jihyo can see your entire face, and she enjoys the view she's getting. That makes her want to show even more concern for the defenseless human she is holding right now.

"I hope you'll let me prove my words to you right, and let me show you how I love you in ways they'll never be able to," Jihyo whispered softly after she observed you had finally fallen asleep.

"I'm back..." said Seulgi as he walked downstairs. When she spotted Jihyo, the younger indicated that she needed to be silent by putting her index finger in her lip. When Seulgi saw you dozing off on Jihyo's lap, she completely understood.

...Oh, he's sound asleep."