3rd person pov

"...so, should we call the cops?" nako questioned, munching a slice of pizza. the girls looked at her and shrugged, wow, talk about synchronization.

wonyoung sighed, "oh my god, why do i feel like i did a crime." yena chuckles at her and pats her shoulder. "please dont tell my mom about this"

"do we bury her?" chaeyeon asked, which made the girls look at her with a face of disbelief. "how many shovels do we have outside? sakura, yena, chaewon and i could just dig—"

"hey hey, no one's burying anyone!" eunbi whined, staring at gyuri who was still not moving. "anyways, is she still alive?"

yuri stares at gyuri's stomach and after making sure, she nodded. "fortunately, yes."

the girls sighed in relief and continued to eat pizza, they were sitting on the floor, forming a circle with gyuri in the middle, unconcious and her nose was still bleeding. "oh god, why do we look like we're having a ritual and gyuri's the sacrifice."

yes, they were sitting on the floor, eating pizza while forming a circle with gyuri in the middle.

after a rough ten minutes, eunbi groaned. "aight, kids. let's call an ambulance"

"but wouldnt the police be involved too?" chaewon asked. wonyoung nods, "chaewon unnie's right, calling the ambulance means having the police involved."

hyewon cupped her own cheeks. "oh god, what should we tell the police about this."

"they might arrest us for beating a girl up." sakura looked paranoid while munching pizza, which looked weird. but hitomi shakes her head. "well why would she be here in the first place, though?"

"shit, you're right." chaewon utters, giving hitomi a thumbs up. hitomi cheekily smiled at her.

wonyoung clicked her tongue. "criminal act 21 states that an act which is informed in order to prevent impending and further infringement of an individual's own or a person's legal interest shall not be punishable if there are reasonable statements for that act."

in an instant, the girls shut theur mouths up. they stared at wonyoung with an amused face. "can someone enlighten me why a 16-year old has more braincells than all of us combined?" yena mumbled. the girls chuckled.

"bold of you to asume you have a braincell." yujin mocked

"well bold of you to asume you have a girlfriend!" yena spat back, clinging on to jo yuri who was confused.

yujin pouts at her. "you two arent girlfriends!"

"you two arent girlfriends" yena mocked, hugging yuri, who sighed.

"but kidding aside, wonyoung, you're so smart, i think love you." sakura joked, which earned violent reactions from the rest of the girls.

"excuse me? pedophilia is a prohibited act of an older individual—" before yena could even finish her statement, she recieved a smack from sakura. "that's not what i meant, you duck!"

"hey you wanna fight—"

"okay! enough, please." chaeyeon cuts them off before they would start a fist fight or something. "i think we should call the police. we'll tell the truth, of course."

everyone nodded in unison before chaeyeon dialed the ambulance.

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eunbi was nervous, but she reassured everyone that she's going to talk to the police properly and that everything's going to alright. while the girls were busy listening to chaeyeon's phone call, hyewon had the chance to hold eunbi's left hand, who was slightly taken a back.

"thanks for defending me back there," hyewon softly muttered. "you know, beating the shit out of gyuri."

eunbi gave her a sweet smile, "not a big deal. that's a leader's job, afterall. i cant just see anyone of you getting harrassed..." she then looks into hyewon's eyes. "especially you."

eunbi's words made hyewon chuckle. "i top yet im the weaker one, that makes no sense." hyewon joked. eunbi jokingly glared at her before giggling. "being stronger doesnt mean you're a top, dumbass. and you usually protect me from every little things, kwangbae."

hyewon nods and smiled. "alright then, form now on, i will be the one to protect you instead of you to protect me."

while kangbi were consistently flirting, chaewon looked at them with pure disgust
"look at them being all touchy." shivers ran down through chaewon's spine after eunbi leaned into hyewon's shoulders, she was cringing lmao. "i mean, dont get me wrong, i know they're gonna end up together but like— right infront of my pizza?"

minju just shakes her head and chuckled at chaewon's words and actions before grabbing another slice of pizza. "let them be, atleast hyewon's dreams came true." she told chaewon.

"when will mine come true though..." minju  mumbled to herself. but apparently, chaewon heard her mumble. "what did you say?"

minju looks at chaewon and shaked her head, nervously chuckling. "ah, nothing. i was just mumbling some random song lyrics."

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it was already 5:30 am when the ambulance came. the emergency team immediately puts gyuri to the red flaunt emergency bed as they drag it to the back of the ambulance.

hyewon went to gyuri, who weakly removed her oxygen inhaler despite struggling to breathe properly. "i hope this serves as a lesson, gyuri. i told you to stop already."

"i-i l-love you, kwangb-bae" she weakly mutters, holding on to hyewon's wrist. hyewon flinched and tried to pull her own wrist but gyuri's nails were digging up on her wrist. it pained hyewon, which is why she shrieked. yena and yujin both heard it and ran to hyewon's direction.

"get the fuck off, dumb fuck." yena forcefully removed gyuri's hand form hyewon's wrist. "and when i say fuck off, i mean dont show up again. we dont need clowns in our house."

gyuri glared at yena, "shut up, y-you ugly shit. if you're gonna act l-like a dick, then you should p-probably dress like one."

"bitch is trying to roast." yujin says, laughing sarcastically. "you're so ugly, when you were born, your mom threw you to the window and the window fucking threw you back!"

"well here's to you—"

"stop. yujin, yena, let's just go." hyewon hissed, "we shouldnt waste our time to irrelevant people."

"i love you, hyewon!" they ignored gyuri and left her alone while the nurses dragged her bed inside.

"she's such a psyho" yena mumbled. "it's a pity how she had to fall for you."

hyewon sighed. "i hope she stops after what happened a while ago."

"let's go, the policemen are already talking to eunbi unnie." both hyewon and yena followed yujin on the way to the living room where eunbi and two policemen were. judging from eunbi's expression, it looked like a serious conversation.

"so, miss kwon. any clue why she went inside your territory without permission?" the policeman, who goes by the name lee juyeon questioned. eunbi sighed and began to explain.

"to begin with, my girlfri—my friend, was constantly being stalked by gyuri. ever since we were in japan, she would do that. until we came here, we didnt expect to see her. and then baam, with the consistency of stalking, gyuri didnt hesitate to enter our house and harass my friend. and that's why i intervined and beat her up." eunbi explained well. the rest of the girls were peeking by the stairs and listening to the conversation. chaeyeon was just beside eunbi just incase eunbi might say something wrong.

officer juyeon nods, beside him was officer eric son, who was diligently taking notes of everything eunbi had said. "okay. so judging from your statement, what you did was an act of defense. it's actually a proper move to stop an individual from harassing another individual. however, we'll have to ask the other party if they will file a lawsuit, on which i think will be a bit invalid, knowing that the other party was the itruder."

"furthermore, we'll be contacting you for other concerns and information." the blue-haired officer ends his statement before sranding up.

eunbi nodded, understanding officer juyeon's explanation. while chaeyeon raised an eyebrow. "so does that mean we wont get arrested?"

the said officer shakes her head and let out a small chuckle. "it still depends on the other party, but since the criminal act. 21 is valid, you girls are most likely to be safe."

"wow, wonyoung was right about the criminal act 21" yuri whispers. the rest nodded while silently praising wonyoung, who was smugly smiling.

"anyways," the two officers bowed. "we will get going now, we'll contact you for further investigation."

after the police officers left, the rest of the girls went to the living room. everyone sighed in relief before plopping off either at the couch or at the floor. "so, what happened?" yujin asked, although they already heard everything.

chaeyeon rolled her eyes, "shut up, you guys already heard everything."

"so do we go to school today?" chaewon's question made everyone gasp.

"fuck, i forgot there's school today!" yena groaned, slouching on the couch while whining. "let's not go to school today, im tired!"

eunbi shakes her head. "but today's tuesday, atleast half of us should go to school."

"raise your hand if you wanna go to school!" yena commands, in which aas they were expecting it to be, no one raised a single hand.

"alright." eunbi nods. "everyone wont go to school—"

"hooray!"

"—everyone except wonyoung and yujin."

the happy faces on both wonyoung and yujin changed in an instant. and as soon as they heard it, they both whined. "what? why not?!" yujin questioned, throwing tantrums.

the rest of the girls laughed at the maknaes and started to make fun of them. "ah, feels good to be on 4th year." yuri mumbled, sticking her tongue out to the two towers who were...still throwing tantrums.

"unnies, i am the smartest one here! without me, you guys wont have braincells!" wonyoung said, as a matter of factly.

yena laughed harder. "you're right but you're the maknae so..."

wonyoung stood up, groaned and glared at her unnies. "ugh, i hate you guys!" she stormed off the living room and walked upstairs with heavy steps, leaving the rest dumbfounded.

"what's is wrong with her" hitomi questions, trying not to surpress a laughter.

"puberty." hyewon simply uttered, shaking her head.

"ah, kids these days..." yujin mumbles, only to be smacked by chaeyeon. "you're a kid too, dumbass."

yujin whined and stood up. "im not a kid anymore!" she ran to the stairs but stopped on the first stair case. "by the way, i want chicken nuggets for dinner."

"uh..." nako raised an eyebrow. "is she sure she isnt a kid anymore?"

the girls laughed again.

eunbi looked at them with a smile on her face. at times like this, the girls were still able to joke around and be goofy despite of something bad that happened. on the other hand, hyewon was looking at the smiling eunbi.

"you love them, dont you?" eunbi was startled after hyewon spoke, but soon enough smiled again. "of course i do." hyewon smiles at eunbi's response.

"but im scared..." hyewon glances back to eunbi. "what if gyuri does something again?"

inside her mind were a billion possibilites stuck through her head, but she thinks of a specific one as a fact. and she's sure it isnt the end. in comfort, hyewon softly grabbed eunbi's right hand to calm her down. "hey, she wont. and if she does, which i hope she doesnt, im sure we'll do everything to fight."

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"bye, i hate you all." they all simply laughed at wonyoung, who was holding yujin's hand while sulking. yujin was trying to convince the rest for her not go to school but to her inconvinience, they said no.

"stay safe, kids!" chaeyeon cooed. everyone waved their hands to the two unfortunate maknaes, who were already outside while walking further.

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the rest of the girls spent the whole day doing nothing but play games, eat every food they see in the fridge, and watch random movies. the others were sleeping, though.

"ah, stupid!" hyewon shouts right after her character almost died.

yena, yuri, and chaewon simply laughed at her and continued the game. "turn left, turn left!"

"no, straight!"

"no, yena!"

"straight!"

"not straight!!!"

"guys!!!" yuri groaned, breaking the bicker between chaewon and yena. "we're not straight but we need to head straight to win!"

while the four were busy playing, the others were living their own lives.

"hi babies!" nako exclaims, reffering to the plants she started to grew out since last week. "you guys are all grown up now~!"

"yeah, they're taller than you now." hitomi jokes. nako glares at her, which immediately made hitomi chuckle. "dont glare at me love, you look 10 times cuter."

"oh God, flirt later." chaeyeon groans from behind, earning light chuckles from sakura and minju. "unnies? what are you guys doing here in the backyard?"

"i just want some fresh air, it's almost been one month and yet we have problems already." chaeyeon replies, sitting on the chair while the other four followed. they're currently in the backyard, which has cute plants and a long table fit for the twelve of them, they usually have bbq when theyre in the mood.

"problems? sounds like a lot." minju mutters. "might wanna share?"

chaeyeon sighs. "to begin with is the fact that we're getting stressed. eunbi, hiichan, yuri, and with a slight help of yena were already able to compose a song, beautiful colors. yena, yujin, and i are making dance steps for it."

"so, we only have la vie en rose and beuatiful colors?" sakura questions.

"for now, yes. but we need five. three ot12 songs and two sub-units, that's what we're planning for now." chaeyeon explained, in which the four nodded their head in agreement. "we only have two songs as of now..."

"unnies, make that three!" they all turned to look at sliding door, only to see joyuriz, smiling widely. "yuri composed a song for the sub-unit!" yena ran and gave a white paper which scrabbled lyrics in it.

the five curious members squeezed themselves to read the whole lyrics, and later on, their jaws dropped after reading the whole lyrics that was wrote by yuri.

the girls immediately applauded yuri for her hardwork, and yuri was delighted. "someday? that's a good song!" nako puffs her cheeks.

"wow, joyul. didnt know you were into composing lyrics, you did a good job!" chaeyeon pats yuri's head, who cutely giggled.

"thanks, my dream is to become a singer and composer someday."

the girls beamed. they already knew that yuri loved to sing, heck, her voice is the best thing you'll hear. "dont worry, you'll achieve it soon. all of us will support you!" eunbi exclaims, entering the backyard with hyewon, who was munching cake while wlaking behind eunbi.

"thanks, unnies! you guys are the best." yuri cheerfully gushed, which earned cheers and laughters. yena had to fake cry dramatically.

*DING DONG*

the girls stopped their tracks after hearing the doorbell, and were even more alarmed after hearing loud knocks. "who is it? did anyone's friend come here?" the girls shookt their head, making eunbi raise an eyebrow.

walking to the living room, the knocks got louder and everyone were waiting for eunbi to open it.

and after the door was swung open, eunbi was greeted by the tightest hug ever.

"w-wonyoung? its still 2pm—" eunbi hears loud sniffles. "why are you crying? who hurt you?!" eunbi broke from the hug and faced wonyoung. "what the—"

"wonyoung!!!" the girls immediately rushed and formed a protective circle with wonyoung in the middle, who was crying non stop and what was the most noticeable was her dirty uniform and her bleeding forehead. "what happened to you?!" chaeyeon worriedly questions.

all they heard was wonyoung's loud cry, the girls led her to the living room and let her sit on the single couch. minju dashed to get water while hyewon ran to give wonyoung tissue. nako immediately grabbed the 1st aid kit.

"baby, what happened?" eunbi asks, tears sweeling up her eyes as she cant help but to cry. she scanned wonyoung from head to toe. "who splashed orange juice all over you?"

"i-i accidentally did it, d-dont worry..." fucking lie, everyone knew that. believe it or not, the girls were on the verge to crying. wonyoung didnt look good, her forehead bleeding, a bruise on her lip and a pilled orange juice all over her uniform was enough to make the girls sob. "w-why a-are you guys c-crying too?"

"we cant help it!" yena cried. "look at yourself, wonyoung! you were obviously bullied!"

wonyoung cried louder. "w-why is it always me w-who recieves the m-meanest words?"

"am i not d-deserving—"

"sshh, you're the most deserving, wonyoung." chaewon grabbed a pluck of tissue and wiped wonyoung's tears. "you deserve everything in this world, wonyo."

"i deserve to die."

the girls were dumbfounded. they were shocked and displeased with what wonyoung suddenly said. they've never thought she could say something like this. "wonyoung, dont say that—"

"it's true!" wonyoung laughs, but her tears were falling non stop. the girls were a bit scared, but it was just wonyoung, their baby. their most precious baby. "they're right, i deserve to die! i didnt deserve this rank in the first place! everyone is talented except me."

"listen, wonyoung..." eunbi looks at her with the most sincere face she can show. "no one, except for the bad people, deserves to die. precious people like you, deserves everything in this world, believe me."

"but..." wonyoung was breaking down, her tears were so many, it was as many as the hate she receieved. "life would be better without me in this group, like they said!"

"wonyoung, dont say that, please." yuri sobbed, treating wonyoung's forehead.

they all stayed silent. they were waiting for wonyoung to say something, but all they can hear were hear loud sobs.

until wonyoung firmly said something that made everyone's jaw drop.

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"i wanna leave this group."

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poor wonyoung T_T