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Rosé's POV....
"Jisoo! Come back here! Where do you think you're going?" I giggled as I tried to stop her from running.
"What else can I do?" She laughed heartily and I threw a pillow at her.
"Rosé!"
"Come on Jisoo"
"You knocked my glasses off Rosé..." "I'm sorry Soo, I didn't mean too-- are you alright?" I went over to her and held her face in my hands.
"I'm fine. I just wanted to see your reaction" She put her glasses back on and smiled at me but i didn't return it. "Rosé?"
"No, I'm mad at you"
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it" She was starting to look worried and I started smiling.
"Cheer up, I was kidding" I pinched her cheeks.
"Rosé!" She started hitting me with pillows.
"J-jisoo-- JISOO!" I jumped awake and realised I was only dreaming. "No, no, no... it was all just a dream-- no...." I started weeping and clutched my pillow. "No..."
I looked around my room so I could see Jisoo's face but.. none of the pictures were there.
"Jisoo..." I got out of bed and looked around the room, searching for my pictures of Jisoo but they were all gone.
Now, you could see the walls of my room properly. Before, the walls were covered entirely by Jisoo's pictures but now they were gone. Even the framed pictures were missing.
All of a sudden, I could smell smoke in the air.
I got out of my room and rushed through the halls and down the stairs.
I saw Jimin pouring petrol on something he was burning.
"Ji--" I stopped myself when I saw one of my pictures of Jisoo in the burning pile..
Jimin saw me and stood still for a while.
"Rosé, this is for your own--"
"You're burning her-- Jisoo!" I ran past him to the burning pile and tried to put it out with my hands.
"Rosé, you'll get hurt! Stop!" Jimin tried to drag me away from the fire but I pushed him down.
"No! These are the only memories that I have left of her... and you're burning them.. why?" I cried, still trying to put out the fire.
"It's for your own good Rosé" He put his hand on my shoulder but I pushed his hand off and continued to put out the fire.
My palms burned alot due to the fire but I didn't care. I just wanted to get back what was burning within the fire.
Jimin just watched me with pain in his eyes while I continued to put out the fire.
The doorbell rang and Jimin went to open it.
"There are still some left.. I can save them"
"Rosé? What are you doing?!" I heard Jennie's voice but I wasnt sure if it was her.
"Chaeyoung! What are you doing?!" An older voice shouted, sounding worried.
After that, my vision blacked out.
JENNIE
I didn't understand what went wrong with Jisoo unnie yesterday when she met Rosé.
So I decided to go to their house today and talk to Rosé.
I knocked on the door and after a few seconds, Jimin opened it, but the smell of smoke was high in the air.
"Jennie! Please come with me, Rosé.." I quickly followed him inside and stopped dead in my tracks when I saw Rosé putting out a fire with her bare hands.
What the--?
"Rosé? What are you doing?!" I called out to her but it didn't seem like she heard me.
"Chaeyoung! What are you doing?!" A middle aged woman with brown hair who looked alot like Rosé called out to her.
She clutched her head drowsily before fainting.
TIMESKIP
Jimin called the doctor after Rosé fainted and he took her to her room before the doctor arrived.
He said she was okay at the moment but she inhaled a lot of smoke and her wrists were badly burnt; her veins were also underneath the skin that was burnt and she barely escaped dying.
Jimin looked guilty and I guessed he had something to do with it, but it's just a thought.
The woman from earlier had placed Rosé's head on her lap and she was still sleeping.
Mr Park walked the doctor out and Jimin sat on the floor.
I felt bad for him.
"Its all my fault mum" He sniffled.
What's he talking about?
"I tried to burn her pictures of Jisoo.. but then she woke up and saw me and--"
"You did what?!" Mr Park thundered from the door and I flinched. It wasn't so loud, but it was strict.
"I was just trying to help her.. she was in so much pain-- and her memories of Jisoo aren't making it better for her so I thought taking them away could help her forget about Jisoo.."
"Rosé can never forget Jisoo and she won't if she didn't do so in the past five years" Mr Park said, taking a moment to look at his daughter.
Jimin looked at her too with a sad expression.
I felt my eyes welling up with tears and I ran out of the room.
On my way out, I bumped into someone really tall.
"Lisa?"
"Jen" She stared at me.
I didn't waste time in hugging her.
"Lisa!"
"Jennie what's wrong?" She stroked my hair and I pulled away to look at her.
"Lisa.. it's Rosé and Jisoo" I told her and she wiped my tears away.
"What's wrong with them? Wait, Jisoo is back?" She asked me and I nodded.
"Lisa.." Jimin called her from the door.
"Rosé.. it's all my fault.. I tried to burn her pictures of Jisoo.. I didn't know she would be so--" Lisa made for him but I got in her way.
"Lisa, he's your brother" I told her calmly and she seethed.
"And Rosé is our sister too! Did he think about her feelings when he tried to burn her source of happiness?!" As she said that, I was shocked. "All these years, Rosé has been pulling through life by staying in the company of those pictures and he burnt them all! Do you even have an idea of what you've done to her?" She asked him and I leaned against the wall.
"I didn't mean it.. I just couldn't stand to see her in pain Lisa... she's my twin sister" Jimin said and Lisa frowned at him.
"What?" I faced Jimin.
"Rosé is my twin, I'm three minutes older than her" He opened up and I looked at Lisa.
"It's true. But Jimin studied in America. That's why you don't know him" She assured me and Jimin sighed.
I pushed Lisa's arm with my shoulder.
"What?"
"Console him. He's your brother afterall. And he didn't know" I told her and she nodded. "Okay"
She walked over to Jimin and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't be too hard on yourself. Rosé wouldn't want that" She told him calmly and he nodded.
"Rosé get back in bed.." Mrs Park called and something fell to the ground.
"Rosé's awake" I told Lisa and we hurried to Rosé's room.
"No... my picture.. it's burning" She pushed past us and struggled to get downstairs.
"Rosé come back--" I tried to go after her but Lisa held me back.
"Don't stop her"
"But Lisa--"
"Let her be. If that were me, I wouldn't want anyone to stop me" She told me and held my hand tighter, but not too tight.
I nodded in understanding and we followed Rosé downstairs.
She was still digging through the ashes and Lisa went over to her and crouched.
"Sis.."
"Not now Lisa, I have to find her" At this moment I felt really sad for Rosé.
She really loves Jisoo and this picture thing really hurt her alot.
"I understand but.." Lisa stopped as Rosé pulled something out of the pile of ash.
It was a picture of Jisoo unnie, it barely escaped the fire as some corners were burnt.
Tears were rolling down Rosé's cheeks as she held the picture. Jisoo unnie was wearing glasses in them.
"There really was one left" Lisa said, confused.
"I told you I'd find it" Rosé smiled amidst her pain and I walked over to her.
"Rosé..." I placed my hand on her shoulder but she didn't seem to notice.
"Rosie?" "Jisoo? Oh, it's you, Jennie" She looked disappointed.
I could see that her eyes were red and held alot of pain in them.
"How are you feeling?" I asked her.
"I'm fine. Just a bit tired, but that's all" She assured me and I nodded but she seemed troubled.
"You're worried about Jisoo, aren't you?" I asked her and she looked down.
"I know she's worried about you too, she just doesnt want to show it for some reason"
"Can you please stop giving my daughter false hopes Jennie Kim?" Mrs Park snapped from where she stood.
"Mum, it's not like that" Lisa defended me.
"Then what is it like? I know all about what Kim Jisoo did to my daughter yesterday, didn't your sister throw Chaeyoung out of the Kim building yesterday?"
I just stood still, wondering how she knew.
It's not like Lisa could have told her or something, and Jimin.. he couldn't have.
"How did you find out?" Lisa asked her mum.
"How I found out about it isn't important. Just tell Kim Jisoo to stay away from my daughter" Mrs Park said so seriously I was forced to nod.
"But mum--" Lisa tried to speak up but Mrs Park held her hand up.
"I'd like it if you respected my decision, all of you" She said, much more calmly, then she glanced at Rosé and she looked away.
She sighed and went back upstairs, probably to her room.
TIMESKIP
JISOO
I was in my room, flipping through the pages of a photo album, my photo album.
Tears were cascading down my cheeks as I looked at the pictures.
"I'm sorry Rosé.. I know I hurt you alot.. but I really didn't have a choice. The only thing I'm grateful for is that I got to see you in person and hear your voice after five long years... I'm really sorry. I don't know if you'll ever forgive me but--" I was interrupted when the door was slammed shut by Jennie. Jin was with her too.
I wiped my tears and closed the photo album.
"What were you doing?" Jennie asked, obviously trying to keep cool.
"N-nothing" I stammered nervously.
"I said, what were you doing?" She repeated, walking closer.
"I.." She took the photo album from me in a flash.
"Jennie, give it back to me" I made to get up but her words stopped me.
"Why did you hurt Rosé?"
"I didn't hurt her, and I don't know what you're talking about" I looked everywhere but her eyes.
"Really? Oppa, did you bring the lighter?" She asked Jin and he nodded.
"L-lighter?" Jennie ignored my question and took the lighter from Jin.
"Do you know Rosé or not?" She asked me and I nodded no.
"Are you still in love with her or not?" She asked me, pointing the lighter at my photo album.
"I don't know what you're talking ab--"
"For the last time, do you know Rosé or not?"
"No, I don't" I answered and she opened the photo album, holding it up to my face.
"Then how do you explain this?! Did they fly into your room or did you borrow them from her?!" She shouted at me and I flinched, but I still played it cool and acted unaffected.
"So that's how it is, right? I know what'll get you to talk" She said and went to one of my drawers.
She opened it and brought out a box of matchsticks.
"Jennie, what are you doing?" I asked her calmly, trying to sound stern.
"You don't know Roseanne Park Chaeyoung, right?" She asked.
"Yes"
"Okay, then you wouldn't mind if I did this" She said and before I knew what she doing, she lit a match and let it down on my photo album which she threw on the floor.
"NO!" I panicked and caught the match in my hand, extinguishing the flame, and even though it burned my palm, I didn't mind.
Jennie glared at me before storming out.
"If you're willing to play with fire for her, why don't you just admit you love her? Why did you even deny knowing her in the first place?" Jin asked me.
I didn't give him an answer.. I couldn't, so he left.
I opened my palm and it looked burnt. It was burnt. I picked up the matchstick and threw it away then laid against my bed on the floor with the photo album in my hands, clutching it to my heart.
THE PREVIOUS DAY
"Why did she have to come back? Can't she just leave you alone?! She just had to come back, didn't she?!" Mum had shouted in anger and paced around the room.
"And you!" She turned to me. "Why were you being worried about her? I saw how you almost went to her"
"I'm sorry.. it wont happen again mu--"
"Make sure of that. You are never to see that girl ever again!" She ordered and I looked down.
"Did you hear me?" She walked to me.
"Yes, I did" I said painfully.
Suddenly, her hand made contact with my cheek.
"I know I sound harsh and cold to you now, but, I'm just trying to protect you" She said and I removed her hand from my face.
Without saying another word, I walked out of her office.
PRESENT DAY
I wiped my tears away and hugged the photo album until I dozed off.