(  orange folders and sewed mouths !  )

───── YEOJIN STEPPED INTO THE EMPTY ART ROOM, her eyes scanning around the empty easel's and blank canvas's, a head of blonde hair came into view to which yeojin noted before closing the room door softly. taking a few steps forward, yeojin called out softly to the blonde who had her head turned to the window and was busy admiring the pinkish gray hue in the sky along with the music blasting through her air-pods. reaching out, yeojin tapped the blonde's shoulder. a second later, a tight grip was felt around her wrist, yeojin flinching as eunji whipped her head around.

"shit, i'm sorry" eunji rushed out, dropping yeojin's wrist as if she had gotten burned by it. "i didn't hurt you, did i?"

"no, i'm good, just didn't think you were that strong" yeojin chuckled out, a try at lighting the mood which worked in her favor as eunji let out a soft chuckle.

"did you need anything? no offense, but... we don't talk much so you coming here is a little unusual"

"agreed" yeojin laughed out in understanding before taking the seat across from eunji. "i wanted to make sure you were good, you looked pissed at what ryujin said—"

"it's ryujin, i don't even know why i got so pissed off, i guess i'm a little sensitive today. but that's how ryujin is, she teases and jokes around to show that she cares" eunji shrugged out, yeojin made a mental of that.

"that's true" yeojin hummed out in agreement before continuing. "but that doesn't mean you aren't allowed to be upset about it"

eunji let her gaze fall from yeojin's gaze, her own eyes going back to the gray sky. a sign that fall was officially here. yeojin checked the time on her phone before letting out a hushed curse.

"i'm supposed to be meeting yara at my locker, i—"

"i can walk you" eunji cut off as she stood from her chair, reaching down to grab her school bag before facing yeojin completely. "lead the way"

"yeah, thanks" yeojin smiled out after having to take a moment to register the kind gesture from eunji.

the duo made their way out of the art room, yeojin going on about random things that she took interest in, like, her weird obsession with the color orange and frogs, the urge to chop her hair off due to the slight damaging of the bleach, and of course her love for baking.

eunji found herself comfortable in the younger's presence, deciding to tell yeojin what she enjoys as well. she loved going out for karaoke with her friends, trying out new restaurants, late night drives, treating her girlfriend to anything from a meal or a gift, but what took the cake would be how much she talked about ryujin and yara. her friendship with those two were what eunji seemed to cherish most of all. they were family and always had been.

making it to yeojin's locker after a while, her locker was on the first floor, eunji was about to bid the smaller blonde a farewell when someone stepped up to yeojin's locker and wrapped an arm around yeojin's shoulders.

"wassup bean" kang lena greeted her friend before making eye contact with eunji. "oh? hey eunji"

"hey lena" eunji smiled up at lena and sent her short wave before meeting yeojin's gaze. "i'm gonna head to class, see you"

"see you"

yeojin unlocked her locker and went to put her books in when she realized her bright orange folder seemed to be missing.

"shit!"

yeojin cursed as she rummaged through her bag. lena watched with furrowed eyebrows as her friend started pulling her books and folders out of her school bag and stacking them neatly on the ground.

"what's wrong?" lena asked as she bent down the pick up yeojin's books off the dirty hallway floor.

"i can't find my folder, i swore i had it in my hand when i left out the house"

"did you leave it in haseul's car?"

"no, i didn't ride with her"

lena pinched her eyebrows together at that. if not haseul, who did yeojin ride with ? yerim still wasn't here and hyejoo never comes early, lena wondered if yeojin had gotten a ride with eunji.

"so who did you ride with?"

"ya-"

"yeojin" a familiar voice called out from behind the duo.

yeojin and lena turned their heads simultaneously, both of their eyes widening at the person standing above them. yara stood with her arms crossed, yeojin's orange colored folder being a major contrast against yara's black attire.

lena moved her gaze between yara, the folder and yeojin. slowly but surely putting the dots together, lena cleared her throat before leaning towards yeojin.

"have fun, let's talk about this later?" she whispered out.

"shut up" yeojin hissed back due to the dirty joke, taking her books back from lena as the older stood up and walked off a short wave.

"you left this, i saw it on the passenger seat when i went back to get something" yara stated once yeojin stood to her feet, dusting her pants off.

"thanks" yeojin reached out for the folder, having to take a step forward due to the distance yara kept between them.

"did you find eunji ?"

"yeah, she's okay" yeojin silently observed as yara nodded her head, her gaze falling to the floor as she fixed the strap of her school bag, yeojin stuffed a few of her books in her locker and the rest neatly into her bag.

"thanks for checking on her for me, me and ryujin had to take care of something" yara moved her gaze back to yeojin as she spoke, taking in the blonde's appearance that contrasted her black outfit.

yeojin was wearing a baby pink cardigan paired a white shirt and black ripped jeans, a pair of black all-stars to finish the look.

yeojin met yara's gaze once again, trying to decipher the unsteady quickness of emotions that flashed through yara's eyes. she had once again failed at finding out how yara felt.

"it's no problem, really"

yara nods as she stands up straight and moves to stand next to yeojin. "are you ready?" yeojin whips her head up, a confused expression settled on her features.

"...ready for?" yeojin trailed.

"class" yara panned.

"oh" yeojin took a quick glance at the time on her watch, her eyes widening. "oh! yeah, i'm ready" she answered before pulling yara by the wrist towards their classroom.

yara could only let out an airy chuckle at yeojin's actions. an oddly calming sensation spread through her body as she let yeojin drag her through the halls. only removing her gaze from yeojin once the shorter turned around and let go of yara's wrist.

"are we having lunch together?"

"that's usually what couples do" yara chuckled out as if the answer was obvious.

"haha" yeojin sarcastically let out as she rolled her eyes. "let's go"

yara followed yeojin into the classroom, already feeling the strong stares coming from across the room, sending yeojin a small smile before continuing her way to her seat between ryujin and eunji. yeojin plopped into her seat between kang lena and choi yerim.

"what took you so long?" yerim questioned her best friend.

"don't tell me you two had a session this early—" lena was cut off by yeojin taking yerim's ruler and repeatedly wacked lena on the shoulder as yerim choked on her water.

"ow!" lena whined out, rubbing her now tender shoulder, while yerim patted her own chest. "is this how you treat your own friend?"

"it's good, i'm good guys, thanks for the help" yerim breathed out, her sarcastic tone making yeojin roll her eyes before patting yerim's shoulder to which the purple haired teen glared at.

"you need to get your head out of the gutter" yeojin aimed at lena who sent her a sly smirk.

"excuse me ladies" ryujin's voice sounded from behind yeojin. "do any of you have a pen?"

"you came all the way over here for a pen?" yeojin blinked, not responding to the dramatic roll of ryujin's eyes.

"do you have a pen or not?"

"i do" yerim rushed out as she held out the sparkling purple pen, receiving a short smile in response.

"thanks yerim" ryujin grabbed the pen from yerim and leisurely strolled her way back to her seat beside yara.

"that was—" lena was once again cut off by yeojin turning towards her best friend, her eyes narrowed.

"why'd you give her your purple pen?" yerim shrugged her shoulders as she took a plain pen out of her pencil pouch.

"it's just a pen, besides i was preventing an argument from happening between you and your girlfriend's bestie"

"we weren't gonna argue over a pen" yeojin mumbled out, although she knew that her and ryujin definitely would've argued over a pen.

"lee's been sneaking glances at you for the past 20 seconds, you sure nothing happened this morning?"

"lena if you make one more dirty joke, I swear to—" the bell ringing put a pause on all discussions that weren't school related.

"are you sure this a good idea?" yerim whispered to yeojin in the middle of class.

"what?" yeojin asked as she tried to solve the equation on her work sheet.

"this yara thing. are you sure about this?" yeojin finally put her pencil down and looked at her worried best friend.

"i'll be fine, the worst thing that could happen is i get my heart broken" yeojin shrugged. yerim sighed and shook her head at the younger.

"you obviously don't know what heartbreak feels like" yerim mumbled to herself as she looked behind her, her eyes falling on the desks in the right corner. hyejoo had her earphones in while chaewon was doing her work but every now and then the duo would steal glances at each other.

yerim hated those lovesick smiles on their faces. maybe it was because of her heart slowly breaking every time she saw chaewon smile at hyejoo like hyejoo was the only thing in the world. however, that didn't hurt more than knowing that yerim would always be chaewon's "best friend" and nothing more.

"just promise me you'll look out for your heart" yerim rushed out when the bell rang, signaling the end of class. yeojin and lena both froze. yeojin turned to look at her best friend, who looked more fragile than worried.

"i promise" yeojin sighed and held out her pinky finger just to make yerim feel better. yerim smiled and gladly laced her pinky with yeojin's.

"okay, good. lets go have lunch" yerim smiled as she wrapped one arm around lena and the other around yeojin. she looked up at lena, then down at yeojin with a laugh.

"don't even say it" yeojin hissed and pointed a finger at yerim who only smiled knowingly.

"beannn~" yerim sang, resulting in lena cackling while yeojin retorted by hitting yerim on the shoulder.

yara watched as yeojin and her friends walked out for lunch. eunji and ryujin also packing up their books and school work. eunji stood to her feet and moved over to ryujin's desk to wait for yara and ryujin.

"i'll meet you down there, I don't feel like rushing right now" she stated, ryujin nodding her head as her and eunji started making their way out of the room.

yara had finished placing her folders neatly in her binder before placing it in her school bag, pausing her movements when she felt a presence behind her. yara turned around to meet the one person who had been avoiding her like the plague for four years.

"what do you want?" yara questioned, not even sparing a second glance at the blonde behind her.

"the truth, if you're capable of it" the crunchy voice came, making yara roll her eyes.

"you're words wound me" yara mocked out, her tone flat as she turned to meet chaewon's glaring gaze.

"we need to talk" her voice was small but her eyes held no room for protesting. yara sighed loudly as she turned her chair to face chaewon.

"talk away princess, but make it snappy i have 30 minutes for lunch and i have a few people waiting for me" yara spoke as she wiped any signs of playing around off her face.

"what are you doing to yeojin?"

"what?"

"what's your motive?" chaewon pushed.

"why would i need a motive? i haven't done anything?" yara raised her pierced eyebrow.

"don't play dumb with me yara" chaewon hissed, feeling the anger inside of her rise with every word. "why are you two so buddy buddy all of a sudden? you've been in the same class for years and haven't spoken a word to each other" chaewon eyed yara carefully, watching for any slip ups or any signs.

"why are you so interested in my life?" yara scoffed out in disbelief. "'cause if i'm not mistaken, you were the one who told my own friends to stop hanging out with me" yara stood to her feet, taking a daring step up to chaewon.

"i have my reasons" chaewon dismissed as she narrowed her eyes up at yara.

"and so do i" yara mocked.

"I don't trust you"

"I believe that's a two way street, princess"

"the hell's going on in here?"

chaewon snapped her eyes away from yara's to meet those bone chilling, cold black eyes that belonged to her girlfriend. yara smirked and didn't even bother turning to face her old friend. bending down to pick up and sling her bag over her shoulder, yara looked down chaewon.

"that's my cue" she said walking towards the door where hyejoo stood. the shorter glaring daggers into yara the closer she came.

yara stopped as she came shoulder to shoulder with hyejoo, turning her head and looking down to make eye contact with the raven haired girl.

"i don't suppose you wanna talk aswell?"

"i'd rather sew my mouth shut" hyejoo responded rather quickly. yara smirked in triumph, knowing she had successfully gotten under hyejoo's skin

"to answer your question princess" yara started fully turning her body to look at chaewon.

"she's my girlfriend"