girlsfest | Round 3: Free-for-all

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CONTENT
Prompts and fills have to center around K-pop girl group member(s). This includes:

All active and former girl group members
Female soloists
Female members in co-ed groups
Any female idol or trainee affiliated with K-pop (e.g., GP999 contestants, AKB48 members who featured in Produce48)
Slash, gen, het, and trans works are all accepted as long as they involve at least one girl group member

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Characters/Ship: any
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Prompt:
out and proud x closeted and scared

Characters/Ship: itzy ryujin/chaeryeong
Tags: non-idol AU, established relationship, angst, drinking, panic attack mention, not as terrible as the tags make it sound?
Permission to Remix: Yes
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Ryujin withers at Chaeryeong calling her my good friend and shatters as Chaeryeong jerks away when she tries to hold her hand in public. And still, that square-toothed smile; those whisker-dimples in a tanned face that Chaeryeong thinks is the perfect mix of pretty and handsome.

What they’re doing is wrong - at least on Chaeryeong’s end. She should let Ryujin go, let the woman find someone who has inner strength, a real conviction of will. Someone who doesn’t have a sister merely one year her senior, seemingly born so that her parents have a person to compare her to forever and always.

But Chaeryeong just isn’t that kind. Not yet.

“How does your closeted ass have a girlfriend and I don’t?”

Only Jisu has enough knowledge to say such things to Chaeryeong and enough awareness to utter them quietly. Even so, the words make Chaeryeong jump a little in her plastic cafe chair. She leans back in it, breathes out from her nose, and furrows her gentle brow. “Aren’t you closeted, too?”

“Mm, no - not really,” Jisu says. “I just don’t tell unless I’m asked. And I don’t get asked very often.” Then she smiles, awkward and self-pitying, as she leans towards the table, seemingly chasing Chaeryeong even as she tries to create distance. “I try not to read into why that is.”

“Oh,” Chaeryeong says, like a balloon deflating. She takes another sip of her iced coffee, mostly melted ice now. It’s the action itself that counts for something, because it has to.

Jisu apologizes for her stupid, blunt question (her words, not Chaeryeong’s) and changes the subject. Chaeryeong hums in acknowledgment and chews on her straw.

***

“I’m going out to the bar.”

“Okay,” Chaeryeong says. She isn’t taking an interest anymore; in the past she’d ask what it was like there or who Ryujin was meeting or whether it was karaoke night (and if so, which song Ryujin wanted to sing). Ryujin tries not to let the hurt run its course too deeply, even though she can’t actually stop it from being there - has gotten to know this by trial and error.

Chaeryeong doesn’t associate with those kinds of places. She and Ryujin are only together because they both decided to take a chance and share an apartment with a stranger they’d met on a Reddit thread, then had a few conversations with on Instagram. These are the facts.

Chaeryeong still kisses Ryujin goodbye, still whispers, “Call me if you need me” - even though Ryujin is starting to wonder if she actually would.

“So…how’s your girl? Are we ever gonna meet her?” Yuna asks.

“She’s fine.” Ryujin thinks about the time Chaeryeong had made up her mind to come here, the local lesbian bar that Ryujin and her friends frequent, and had a panic attack in the bathroom. Her bird-like chest fluttering and fluttering and fluttering, cheeks wet against Ryujin’s palms. Ryujin never told anyone the real reason they didn’t show up that night. “I don’t know. Maybe.”

“But you want us to?”

“Of course,” Ryujin says. She’s already halfway through her first drink and her eyes feel teary, the pride flags on the back wall blurring slightly as she blinks hard. She believes Chaeryeong would like it here. She knows Chaeryeong would fit in, if she wanted to. Would probably make the bartenders laugh.

“Two months,” Yeji remarks, much like a lawyer reciting facts to a courtroom. “Don’t make yourself a martyr, Ryujin.” The way it comes out isn’t mean, especially not with how her voice gets kind of silly once she’s tipsy, but it still sounds like: Don’t love her. Don’t see her everyday. Disentangle your life from hers.

If only it were that easy.

If only that's what Ryujin wanted.

“Yeji,” Yuna pleads, reaching out for both Yeji’s hand and Ryujin’s as her big, mascara-rimmed eyes move back and forth between them.

“It’s alright,” Ryujin lies. “Advice is advice. I’ll keep that in mind.”

Round 3: Free-for-all

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[FILL] will + won't