“im sorry, im so sorry” tears filled her eyes as she realized it was you, as both yours and her gears turned in your heads making you come to the conclusion this was the end to your friendship.
“ma, this is jisu. jisu, this is my mom!” you’ve basically dragged her here. you’ve been dying for your mom to meet your best friend, and to be honest, she’s been eager to meet your mom as well.
“hi” she waves small and stands there awkwardly, your mom only giving her a warm smile hoping to make her comfortable.
“it’s nice to meet you sweetheart, are you girls hungry?” your friend is still a bit shy, but you nod quickly and let your mom know she could prepare any sort of food for the two of you, that jisu had no current food allergies and she enjoyed just about everything before dragging her with you to the living room.
she takes in your home, it looks so expensive, yet warm and full of love. she knows what your mom did as a living, and sadly, not because of you…
“darling” her mom greets her as she enters the office, leaning on her father’s desk while he remained sat on his own, big chair.
“you called?“
“sit down, we have a favour to ask of you.” jisu follows, worried by the serious expression on both her parents’ faces.
“do you know a y/n at school, by any chance?”
“i know who she is, but i don’t really know her” she shrugs.
“good.” her mother nods “i need you to become friends with her”
“why? isn’t her dad that famous politic? couldn’t that get us in trouble-“ a train of thought begins in her once her mother gives her time to process, only to get bored of her daughter’s long and excessive thinking, going to solve the question for her, though at the same time, it’s like a lightbulb flicks in jisu’s brain
“her mom” both of them point at the same time.
so it begins, it’s important to remember jisu was never really aware of her parent’s plans. she didn’t know they planned to hurt any of you, she just thought they wanted to win some stupid war that’s been going on between the families for decades.
she thinks it’s harmless, so she tries sitting closer to you in classes, start small conversations over professors that you soon enough would be laughing at together. it takes you little time to grow close to her, bring her everywhere with you, share your darkest secrets with her, you truly thought she was your best friend.
it’s your engagement party when you find out, your father had asked you to get your mother’s precious film camera, that happened to be in her office where you find her more-so going through her desk, jisu’s own mother on speaker asking her for specific documents.
“sometimes your dad still scares me, i mean-“ ryujin pushes the door with the hand that isn’t holding your waist, only for the two of you to be surprised by the sight in front of you.
“hey” your brows furrow in confusion, hearing her whisper a ‘mom, i’ll call you back’ more than frightened as she hangs up and straightens her posture. “what are you doing down here?”
“i just, needed some alone time”
“right here? by her mom’s contracts?” ryujin asks, stepping beside you “was that really a coincidence?”
unlike you, ryujin knew of her family and their business, not out of hatred like with yeji, just out of awareness, her father had informed her of everyone interested in their spot at the top of a small chain, just in case. once she realized how important you were to her, she made sure to know who she needed to be aware of that could ever slightly disrupt your safety. sadly, she never wanted to believe jisu could actually be one of them.
“what were you doing jisu?” it’s you who asks this time, somehow worried about the answer she could give you.
“im sorry, im so sorry” tears filled her eyes as she realized it was you, as both yours and her gears turned in your heads making you come to the conclusion this was the end to your friendship.
