"I should have known things would get so screwed up…" Tae sobbed into Que-Min's shoulder. Que-Min patted her shoulder coaxingly.
"Ghoon-Hahm was just talking out of his ass, Tae. I think you should talk to Ga-Woon and let him explain this whole thing. You kinda ran out before you gave him the chance."
Tae sniffed, wiping her eyes with a tissue. She nodded hopefully.
"You're right. There has to be a reasonable explanation for this." She said, smiling.
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Jung-Woo was lying on his bed chewing on a straw and playing FireWarriors 3 on his playstation. It was a brand-new game and he had been on a waiting list six months prior to its release. Needless to say, he wasn't going anywhere for awhile.
Jung-Woo's cell rang several times before he begrudgingly picked it up.
"What?" He asked, in the middle of switching his party members.
"Kid, I need you for backup." Ghoon-Hahm muttered into the phone. Jung-Woo almost didn't hear him.
"No thanks. I'm good." He replied. Ghoon-Hahm growled on the receiving end.
"I said I needed you. Which means that you gotta get your ass down here in two shakes before I drag you here myself." Ghoon-Hahm shouted.
Jung-Woo knew the trouble he'd get into if he didn't do what Ghoon-Hahm said. But he didn't entirely care. Also, he was involved in his new game. Ghoon-Hahm's request was completely unreasonable.
"I'm going to have to pass." He answered eventually. He hung up shortly after.
Ghoon-Hahm clutched his phone tightly until his knuckles turned white.
"Boys…before we meet the model fag and his lover, why don't we pay a visit to our old friend, Jung-Woo…"
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"Mmm, isn't Jung-Woo adorable?" Yeon-Wha sighed as she held up a photo of Jung-Woo in drag. He looked very much like his cousin, Tae, yet his eyes held something a bit more vulnerable in them that made him endearing.
"I suppose so…but I feel kind of weird saying that about someone who looks exactly like my best friend." Que-Min said, admiring the photo with guarded emotion.
"Last month you would have squealed your guts out at this picture, Que-Min. What happened?" Yeon-Wha asked.
Tae Yeon Im had happened, Que-Min supposed. She was unlike any girl she'd ever met. The only girl she'd ever felt really comfortable with. Tae was a tomboy like herself. They were both into roughhousing and for the first time in her life, Que-Min actually felt normal.
It was a wonderful feeling.
"Tae is pretty cute, too. But the thing that separates the two of them is the fact that Jung-Woo is so damned inapproachable." Yeon-Wha exclaimed.
Yeon-Wha had met Tae at Purewater High's girly competition a few months before.
"He's gotten better, I think." Que-Min said to herself, remembering when he'd bared his soul to her and they had cried together. She was definitely in love with Ghoon-Hahm, but she allowed herself to feel flutters in her stomach when it came to Jung-Woo.
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Tae knocked impatiently on the door to Jung-Woo's place. She knew he had missed school that day because they usually left at the same time.
"It's that new game." Tae muttered, using her spare key to unlock the door.
She paused in front of his bedroom door and rolled her eyes. He was asleep holding onto his controller. He was snoring slightly.
Tae couldn't stay angry at him, so she covered him up with a blanket and turned off the lights.
She decided to tidy up a bit before she left because, quite frankly, Jung-Woo's place was a pigpen.
A few minutes later as she was piling a few dishes into the sink, she heard an urgent knocking at the door. She grumbled a bit and adjusted the bandana on her head.
She opened the door with a sigh and came face to face with Ghoon-Hahm Che, Que-Min's boyfriend.
Before she could ask him what he was doing there, he took aim and socked her in the eye, causing her to fall to the ground.
"Ouch, asshole. What was that for?" She asked in a low, angry voice. Ghoon-Hahm pulled her up by her collar and shoved her into a glass mirror.
Tae saw shards of glass fly around her and could barely tell the difference between them and the stars that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
She fell to the ground again, this time seeing nothing but black. She closed her eyes and passed out cold.