Summary: Jiwon is hanging out backstage at the MAMA awards with Roa, when all of a sudden Sejeong passes by
Without meaning too, Jiwon bursts through Pristin's dressing room. There was only Roa inside, and she had her head down into her phone as she scrolled aimlessly. Jiwon was silently thanking that no one else was in there, and he stalked past her to sit on one of the couch's that was put in their room.
"Hey." He said to the girl. Without looking up from her phone, she replied with a mumbled 'hey' back. Jiwon tucked himself into the cushion before pulling out his phone from his back pocket. That's how these two normally hang out backstage. They're either in each other's presence while scrolling through their phones, or having a deep conversation. It varies from time to time when they're not so busy with their schedule, and it usually ends up being the former.
"What are you doing back here?" This time, Jiwon genuinely just wanted to be surrounded by a familiar face other than his members. The award show was making him antsy, and he couldn't stand the commotion everyone was making. The only quiet place, and person, he could go to was Roa.
"Too much noise. Wanted to see you." Is all he replied with. Roa looks up from her phone, and stares across at Jiwon with raised brows.
"Oh really? You sure you're not hiding from Hana?" She asks him with a humorous tone. Jiwon glances up at her and groans.
"That was one time." He states. He once accidentally, may have misplaced Hana's makeup and messed up her lipstick by accident. It was only once, and he's not normally one to be intimidated, but with Hana can be scary at times.
"Okay." Roa replies back in a joking manner. Jiwon finally puts his phone up, and looks up at Roa sitting across from him.
"Do you think your group will win an award?" He asks her. Roa doesn't look at him as she shrugs her shoulders.
"Don't know. I would like too. It would be nice if we did." She mumbled her last sentence. "What about you? Do you think your group will win?" This time she looks up, and Jiwon thinks for a moment before responding.
"Same as you. I don't know." He shrugs his shoulders. Roa stares at him a beat longer, debating whether to ask him anything else, before going back to her phone. That was the problem between these two. They may have a similar personality, but they have no idea what to actually talk about. It's always small talk with these two, and the only deep conversation they ever have is when they hang out near Han River at night while gorging on chicken and beer.
A few minutes pass by in complete silence, and the only noise that they can hear is the ticking of the clock on the wall. Jiwon notices how quiet it is, and it’s eerie to him. Usually Roa was never one to be all alone in the room by herself. He was used to seeing the rest of the girls in there, and he glances over at Roa who seems too occupied in her phone.
"Hey, where is everyone else?" He asks her.
"They went to the convenience store to get some drinks." She says back. With a thoughtful nod, Jiwon turns back towards his phone. As if on cue, there's a knock at the door, and both Jiwon and Roa turn their heads. The door creeks open, and slowly, Sejeong peeks her head inside. She spots Roa first, then Jiwon. When their eyes meet, she quickly shifts her direction back towards Roa, who is already getting up to greet her.
"Hi." Sejeong says with a smile. Roa goes in for a hug, and Sejeong accepts the embrace.
"I haven't seen you in so long!" Roa exclaims. The two girls hug each other in a fit of smiles and warm laughter. Jiwon on the other hand, shifts in his spot, and Sejeong notices.
“Hey Jiwon.” She says to him, but her smile is a bit fainter than before. A bit duller. When he nods his head in a ‘hello’ back kind of way, the two idols avert their eyes anywhere but each other. Roa glances between the two who seems to notice the tension, and is quick to change the subject.
“What are you doing back here?” She turns to Sejeong, and the other girl looks up at her.
“I came to make sure all the groups back here are ready for the award show. I need to find Nayoung and Kyulkyung too, since we’re hosting together. Have you seen them?” Sejeong glances around the room, and skips over Jiwon who continues to scroll through his phone in thought. Although if both girls were behind him, they would see him staring at his home screen.
“They went to the convenience store with the others to get some drinks. They should be back any minute now.” Roa says. Something flickers in Sejeong’s eyes, and she ndos her head in understatement.
“I see.” She pauses. “Then, I’ll see you guys during the ceremony.” She quickly says. Roa nods with a smile, and Sejeong turns her attention back at Jiwon. “Bye Jiwon.” Before he could reply back, she slips out the door, and back into the bustling backstage. Roa collects herself for a moment before whipping her head back in the direction where Jiwon was sitting.
“What was that?” She asks him. Jiwon locks his phone and tucks it behind his pocket as he stares back at the girl.
“Don’t act dumb Junsu. I know tension when I see one, and you two definitely had that. I’ve never seen you guys act like that before.” She stalks over to the chair in front of him, and Jiwon sighs.
“We just haven’t been talking lately.”
“No shit.” Roa exclaims. “Why?” Jiwon sinks further into his chair. He feels like a child being scolded by his mother. Although he wouldn’t really know what that feels like. Before speaking, he pinches the bridge of his nose.
“Do you remember that one picture that spread all over the news?” He finally says.
“The one where Sejeong and you were walking out of a store together with your arms linked?” He nods at her words, and Roa gives him a puzzled look. “What about it? You guys are always seen together walking like that. It’s normal for you two right?” She asks him. Again, Jiwon nods. “Then what’s the problem?” He finally picks his head up, and looks straight into the girls eyes.
“People have been talking. I mean really talking. Saying all these things about us. That we’re-” He stops himself, not allowing him to say it. Roa notices what he’s saying, and finishes for him.
“That you two are a couple?” She says it painfully slow for Jiwon to process it, and he nods his head again. Roa lets out a small chuckle before replying. “So what?”
“So what? We aren’t dating! We’re just friends, and we can’t even hang out just as friends because of the media.” He replies.
“That never stopped you two.” She pushes back
“Oh my god Jusnu.” Roa rests a hand on top of his, and Jiwon looks down at her hand, than back up at her. “Just because the ‘media’ is talking about it, doesn’t make it a true statement. Don’t get your head so into this. You guys are really good friends, and you shouldn’t let this small thing ruin your friendship with each other.” Roa finishes. Jiwon looks up at her, and she gives him a small smile. Maybe she’s right. Why did he get so worked up into what the media says about him? It’s not true. He isn’t dating her.
“You’re right.” Jiwon admits. Roa grins at him as she stands up.
“Of course I am.” Just as she speaks, the rest of the Pristin members come bursting into the room with drinks in their hands. Jiwon takes that as his cue to leave, and starts to make his way past the group. He bows to each one of them, and they bow back in greeting. As he walked out the door, Roa calls out to him. “Talk to her!” She shouts. Without turning around, Jiwon waves his hand back at her, before slipping out the door to go find his group.
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