[flashback: 2014 highschool dance ]

It was almost midnight. All the kids were inside the school gym, having fun and dancing around with their dates.

Some kids were sneaking in alcohol, some more and some were just hanging out with their friends. Everyone was having a blast; in their own way of course.

Two girls had agreed to sneak off and meet up with each when the clock struck 12. They had previously decided to see one another in an empty classroom at the very end of the second floor's hallway.

The brunette with long shiny hair turned around to face the other girl. She smiled, not believing that the other had finally worked up the courage to come and meet her.

She gazed into her eyes, unable to look away. How can someone be so beautiful?

She slowly closed in the space between them and reached out to grab her hand. She thought about how being together felt so wrong and yet so so right. If only they weren't born in Korea.

The space between them was now negligible. The brunette went in for the others lips, engulfing her in a passionate and romantic exchange. When their lips pressed together, their surroundings became irrelevant. If a fire broke out at this very moment, they doubted that they would be able to hear the ensuing chaos.

Near the classroom there was a girl. She was roaming around, looking for the bathroom. She desperately needed to relieve herself. Why did she have to drink so much fruit punch?

Amidst her search she caught sight of the two girls making out. She didn't know who they were, as one could hardly see their faces from all the way over there. The only thing she could see clearly though, was long and beautiful brunette hair.

She wasn't going to pretend that the sight didn't shock her a bit. They went to a korean public high school, so this was not normal here.

She continued to observe their heated make out session for a few more seconds, before giving a quick shrug. She had other matters to attend to anyways, her baldder was becoming a pressing issue, threatening to erupt at any moment.

And besides, who cares about other people's sexuality? This 'conundrum' was none of her business.

Just as the girl was turning around to go find the bathroom, one of the two girls had already seen herーand was now petrified at the realization.

"Hyeri I think someone saw us" She said, hurriedly pulling away from the brunette.

"Who was it?"

"I think her name was Park Yura"

"There's no way she saw our faces and even if she did, Yura is a quiet and nice girl. She wouldn't tell on us"

"Still,...it feels off" the other girl replied, warily.

"Jihyun, baby, you worry to much." Hyeri claimed as she tried to approach the girl for another kiss. Jihyun, being too scared, stopped her advances.

"Let's just finish this off some other time" Jihyun said, fear lacing her words as she quickly grabbed her tiny soirée bag and rushed out of the classroom.

"Kill joy" hyeri muttered following the other girl out of the classroom.

-

Monday came, sooner rather than later, and all the kids went back to their mundane lives. Jihyun on the other hand, felt abnormal. The paranoia plaguing her mind had been making her feel like she was about to go crazy at any given moment.

What if she and Hyeri got exposed?

Throughout the entire weekend, leading up to today, Jihyun felt a growing pit inside her stomach. She had a very bad feeling about todayーso bad that her gut had been screaming at her insistently.

To her dismay, her gut had every right to torment her, because as soon as she entered the school, all of her fears were confirmed.

Everyone was talking about a lesbian couple that was caught making out in a classroom last night.

'This can't be happening, Jihyun thought. Her mind starts grasping at straws, looking for a way out. Maybe it was another lesbian couple?

Jihyun shook her head trying to shake off her thoughts, she assumed that if she kept having panicky cogitations, that everyone would be able to tell from her face, and then there would really be no way out of this.

Jihyun then entered the classroom, approaching her group of friends, who were all gathered around Minsoo, their classmate, along with some other people.

"I saw it with my own eyes, I swear"

"There were two girls making out and I think one of them was Hyeri" he said "I've never seen anyone with hair that long at school, so it must be her"

Upon hearing this, Jihyun's panic was replaced by an entirely different emotionーscratch that, she now had multiple different emotions. Worry, sadness, anger, care, fear and love.

"No" Jihyun whispered to herself, tears threatening to spill from her eyes. She loved Hyeri more than she wanted to admit. Now that everyone knew, she couldn't bare to think about what would happen to her beloved. 'This is all my fault' she thought 'I should have just ignored her'.

"Jihyun, who do you think the other girl is?" Mina asked, casually linking their arms. Only of she knew. What would she think of Jihyun? What would all of them think?

"How should I know?" Jihyun replied, releasing her arms from Minasーa bit too aggressively for Jihyun's liking. After all, she was trying to keep a cool facade.

"Maybe it was you?" Minsoo teased, raising an eyebrow. Jihyun couldn't tell if it was because she was actually complicit or not, but she felt that there was a seriousness to his tone.

"Yeah right" Jihyun scoffed, who made him detective of the fucking day?

"You know..." Yoojung chimed in "I don't think I saw you last night while Minsoo was out" he continued, dragging out his words "And aren't you and Hyeri friends"

"Yeah I didn't see you either" Minhyuk said, joining in and nodding in agreement.

Jihyun had to stop this train right in it's tracks. Once the word gets out everyone will start believing itーjust so they could suck up to these assholes.

"Ever heard of going to the bathroom, you fucking dimwit?" Jihyun bit back, hoping that nobody else was in the bathroom and able to call her out on her bluff.

The group seemed satisfied with her answer and went back to their speculations. Jihyun, however, did not feel safe yet. She stood next to the group in silence, pondering over last night, looking for a way out.

'Wait, the bathroom' Jihyun thought, remembering the wandering Yura from last night. 'She wasn't at the gym either...'

Yura

"I think-" Jihyun said, chumming in, in a voice that commanded attention "on my way to the bathroom I saw Park Yura" Jihyun continued, feeling the guilt washing over her entire being "I didn't want to say anything because of Hyeri, but I definitely think the other girl is Yura"

'Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. But it's kill or be killed, right?'

"Yeah I don't think yura was at the gym too"

"Hey yura!" Minsoo yelled.

Yura jolted at the sound of someone suddenly calling her name, her two friends backing off at the sight of the well known bully Minsoo approaching her.

Yura, was quite yes, but she was not timid. She looked up from the english book she was reading and glared at the boy for being too loud.

"I didn't know you were a cat person" he teased, placing his arm tauntingly over her shoulder.

"What are you talking about?" Yura replied, pushing his heavy arm off of her.

Minsoo bent down, meeting Yura at eye level before tauntingly asking her "You like pussy, Don't you?"

But it was never a question. They had already made their decision.

Not giving Yura a chance to react, Minsoo ran out of the classroom and started telling everyone about his new found discovery.

The remaining students in the classroom were laughing and making awful awful jokes about the situation. Jihyun knew it was wrong, but the time for guilt had passed. Not only would she have been in Yura's position, but her parents would've disowned her as well. Unlike Yura, this wasn't just a rumor for Jihyun. It was reality.

So Jihyun got up, with the determination to maintain her current reality

"You're such a freak yura"