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with these little hands, what can i protect?a liar with a smile, playing and dancingpacking the heart that is covered with injuriesi will go travelingah, i must take off boredomand get started
— in which the kt girls are now a debuted group ♫
"you’re not leaving again, unnie. you can’t!"
a smile, a soft laugh — but sunyoung doesn’t stop. no, there’s still much more to pack if she wants to leave by tomorrow.
silence envelops the room, save for the sound of objects, clothes, and other belongings being hastily thrown into the suitcase, and piper feels like she’s about to explode. this wasn’t sunyoung. this small, weak shell and pathetic excuse for a girl wasn’t sunyoung at all. slender legs take her into the room which was slowly becoming barren, and before the older girl could put another garment into the bag piper grabs her wrist. “you’re not going, sunyoung. as the leader of this group, i refuse to let you go.”
"that’s not your call, is it?" her voice is deathly quiet, a stark contrast to the usual boisterous power and sense of life that was unique to her voice — it hurt piper to hear her like that, tone devoid of every thing else but pain. "you’re the leader, but you don’t get to make businessdecisions. me leaving the group is a business decision, just like every thing else in this fucking life is.”
"we’ll convince them that they’re wrong, okay, you can’t just give up like this! we’ll gather everyone in kt who knows you, the real you, and we’ll do something—"
“STOP BEING SO FUCKING NAIVE, PIPER!”the scream is loud, anguished, and so sudden that it causes her to jump back a couple of feet, sunyoung’s wrist slipping from her grip. she wasn’t sure what hurt worse — the scream that ripped through the dorm like a jagged knife, or the look upon the older girl’s face when she turned around; bloodstained eyes with soft tears staining porcelain cheeks, the tip of her nose a soft pink from probably crying consistently. a melancholic mix of sadness and rage festered within in her body — sunyoung didn’t deserve this. no one deserved this.
"it doesn’t matter whether i did it or not — this whole thing has blown so out of proportion that it’s not only effecting me, but it’s effecting the whole group. you all have worked way to hard to have your effort trashed by my behavior and mistakes," her voice falters and her hands are shaking — years of knowing sunyoung has her tuned to her actions, and she can tell that she might break out into a sob anytime soon, "i can’t take that. the group can survive and thrive without me. taeyeon and tiffany are better singers, you and hyeri are better dancers, soojung is prettier and has more of a model look than me, and —"
piper doesn’t let her finish those words as she pulls the girl into a hug, and doesn’t think twice about sunyoung staining her favorite shirt with her tears, or of how she ends up crying as well — for sunyoung, with sunyoung, at the unfairness of it all. the small scandal had turned into a witch hunt that didn’t look like it was going to let up anytime soon, and regardless of whether she was right or not, they both knew what was coming.
piper was known for being the strong leader of the group, showing professionalism and giving a smile through the highest of highs and lowest of lows.
the first time that she shows the cracks in her armor is when they hold their first fanmeeting since the scandal and sunyoung isn’t there.