FM Dates and Missed Opportunities
Jinsol gets extremely busy like she told Jiwoo she’d be. Sometimes the blonde lets her know that she wouldn’t have time to text and Jiwoo appreciates that she lets her know ahead of time instead of anxiously waiting for a text back. At least she still receives a good morning and goodnight text every day.
On occasion, she’d receive a FaceTime call and Jiwoo groans every time because she’s never cute when Jinsol decides to call. The girl always looks exhausted or sometimes would have heavy makeup on but Jiwoo still compliments the girl regardless.
She calls mainly to whine about missing Jiwoo and how she can’t wait to see her again. Jungeun and Yerim would pop their heads in every other call to say hi and tease Jinsol. Jinsol blushes every time but chooses to ignore them while she asks Jiwoo how class was.
Their calls aren’t long, minutes really but Jinsol would rather talk than not talk at all. Jiwoo on the other hand would rather let Jinsol get sleep in her spare time so it didn’t bother her. When the blonde tells her she only got thirty minutes of sleep, she doesn’t think it’s an exaggeration. Jinsol probably gets paid so much because of these weird hours.
It’s a little over a month when Jinsol is finally able to get that second date which turned into many. On the fifth, they get rained on so the blonde suggested they go to her place since it was closer, saying “But I don’t want this date to end so early.”
There’s no way Jiwoo was going to say no to that face.
If Jiwoo thought Jinsol’s car was nice, her apartment put her whole life to shame. She tries to act normal, not wanting to turn off Jinsol by how she acted. Holy crap this place is big. Jiwoo stands wet in the kitchen while Jinsol goes into her bedroom and gives the girl some new clothes “You can change in my room or the bathroom. Whichever you’re more comfortable with.”
She chooses the bathroom and what do you know. The bathroom was nice too, it shouldn’t be this nice.
Jinsol gave her cotton shorts and a black shirt that was a little big on her. The blonde was already sitting on the couch with a blanket and pillow, going through movies to watch when Jiwoo comes back. Jinsol smiles and Jiwoo catches the way her eyes linger on her bare thighs.
Fully aware that she got caught, Jinsol’s eyes meet Jiwoo’s stare and pats on the spot in between her legs. Jiwoo doesn’t waste any time and settles down, leaning her back against the girl’s chest as Jinsol wraps the blanket over them.
They got physically close in such a short time, sure they knew each other for a couple of months prior to them going out romantically but Jiwoo was practically molded herself into Jinsol at this point. They weren’t even girlfriends yet.
They talk more instead of paying attention to the movie, even if it was Jiwoo that recommended it. Jinsol snuggles into her neck and Jiwoo gets goosebumps because it tickled her. Jinsol sighs into it “I wish I could do this all the time with you.”
Jiwoo turns her head slightly, looking down at the girl’s crown “I mean….we could...only if you want?” She hopes she’s reading all the signs right. They’ve had multiple dates at this point and she doesn’t think Jinsol is seeing anyone else.
She feels the blonde tighten her embrace, fingers curling around her arms and Jiwoo leans back even further. Please say yes please say yes please say yes. Jinsol mumbles into her neck “Oh god I wanted to ask you on our last date but I was so scared you were going to say no.”
Jiwoo smiles and starts to pet Jinsol’s head “You know, you’re like my first actual girlfriend…” This was a little shocking to Jiwoo because Jinsol is hot, why wouldn’t she have ten ex-girlfriends. But then again, Jinsol did mention that she wasn’t out.
“I don’t believe you.”
Jinsol laughs and shakes her head “I mean, yeah there were um girls that I messed around with- not like that! But nothing like you.” She squeezes again “I’m kind of embarrassed telling you how inexperienced I am...”
Jiwoo had a couple of ex’s in the past, well three. One in high school but that one was a secret because she was scared of getting caught by her parents. They broke up senior year and that was a mess, blame puberty emotion swings. The second one only lasted two months but that time ending on a good note, it was mutual. The ‘let’s still be friends’ but didn’t actually keep to it. And the third one was more than a year ago, this one being longer and actually broke her heart.
“Does this mean I can come over every day?” Jiwoo wiggles her shoulders playfully.
Jinsol tries to keep her still, pressing harder with her chin “I probably won’t be here most of the time but sure. Just be careful, security isn’t that great.”
Jiwoo presses back, wanting to feel more of Jinsol. Holy shit, she was her girlfriend. A really attractive rich girl just agreed to be her girlfriend. “Then there’s no point in coming over if you’re not going to be here. I’ll be boring and stay at home.”
“Do you want to stay over or do you have class early tomorrow?”
Jiwoo bites her lip, she did have an early class tomorrow and it was far from Jinsol’s place. The devil on her other shoulder was telling her to screw it and sleep in Jinsol’s arms tonight. “It’s not a good idea for me to stay tonight, maybe another night?” Why did she let her stupid logical side speak up for her. Logical angel was working harder.
Jinsol moves Jiwoo’s hair to the other side because it was starting to tickle her face “That’s okay. I’ll drive you back home in-“ she looks at the rain starting to drizzle away “-an hour.”
“You don’t have to drive me, it’s late.”
Jinsol grunts and then whines “I am not letting you go home by yourself. I go in late tomorrow anyway. Please.”
Jiwoo turns her head to peck the blonde on the nose “Fine but can we please get back to the movie because my favorite part is coming up.”
-
Jiwoo has officially given up and yells into her hands in frustration. “What’s up with you, drama queen?” Chaewon says, walking by the girl who had her books on the coffee table and is sprawled out on the couch.
Jiwoo looks up, trying to glare but it ends up just coming out as cute “I don’t understand how I’m supposed to find the bend radius of a 1 inch pipe with a 70 degree angle.”
The smaller looks over at the book and makes a face “Yikes, couldn’t be me.” She’s looking but has absolutely no clue on what Jiwoo was looking at.
Jiwoo groans again, mumbling “I’m going to fail. I’m going to fail.” over and over again.
“Hyejoo is coming over by the way.” Chaewon nonchalantly says while her roommate was having a breakdown. Jiwoo waves her away, not caring anymore. Just let her brain fry away and she’d be good.
Chaewon pats her butt before getting up to go to her room. After a couple of minutes of debating if she wanted to cry or not, her phone vibrates.
Jindori 💙:
jiwooooooo :3
r u done studying??
Me:
i dont want to talk about it 😔
what r u doing 🥰
Jindori 💙:
im on the set of Sunny’s FM Date radio
its my first time 😳
Me:
SUNNY?!?
OMG
Jindori 💙:
I KNOW AKSNSDNJW
she’s so nice 😃
do u want me to see if i can get u
an autograph??
Me:
NO 😫
i couldn’t ask u to do that
besides she’s probably busy 🥺
Jindori 💙:
but I want to do something nice
for MY baby 🥺🥺
Me:
hi yes beautiful gf?
i need u to hurry up and go home so
i can see u 🙈
Jindori 💙:
i have a late night 😞
i gtg
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Jiwoo has never been more jealous of a person in her life than at this moment. Jinsol met celebrities left and right in her line of work. Chaewon should’ve done something like this instead.
Jiwoo was a huge fan of Girls’ Generation but hasn’t really kept up with them since she started college two years ago. She didn’t have any time to keep up with anything with her trying to work and go to school and sleep.
The only up to date group that she somewhat knew was Chaewon’s favorite group. It’s hard not to when she’s always blasting them or is yelling with her soft voice about a video that included them. Oh, did Jiwoo forget to mention the poster that was hung above their dining table like it was The Last Supper? Because it’s there.
Jiwoo sits up and is calm, finally accepting her fate on this upcoming test. At least she got to text her girlfriend and it made her feel instantly better.
Hyejoo comes in very abruptly, like always “It’s so cold out there.” She shivers and kicks off her shoes, sliding into the house slippers they kept for her since she was always over. “Hey.”
“Hey, do you want to watch a movie?”
The younger shrugs off her thick coat and tosses it on the kitchen chair “You’re not studying?”
“I gave up.”
“Fair enough. I’ll grab Chae.” Jiwoo throws a thumbs up before grabbing the T.V remote. That was enough studying for one night. There’s squealing coming from the other room followed by a laugh from Hyejoo and now Jiwoo wished Jinsol was here so they could be gross together too.
Her girlfriend had been busy all month to the point where she couldn’t go visit Jiwoo at work anymore. Jinsol promises to make up for it once she not as busy and Jiwoo tries not to make it a big deal. She was starting to miss their late night ramen dates.
There’s more shuffling and Chaewon runs into the living room, hopping onto the couch beside Jiwoo. She uses her body to shield herself away from Hyejoo. Giving up, Hyejoo puts two arms up and throws herself onto the couch beside Chaewon.
“You should invite your girl toy over one day.” Chaewon snuggles close to Hyejoo and the taller puts an arm over her.
The oldest puts an elbow on the armrest and puts her cheek against “She’s been really busy this whole month so maybe we can try to make some time to get together. Finals are coming up for me too.”
“You ever find that bend whatever for that pipe?” Jiwoo makes a face, not wanting to talk about it. It was long forgotten and didn’t need to bring brought up.
“The bend what?”
Chaewon shrugs her shoulders at Hyejoo, she knew just as much as her even when she was staring straight the book “I don’t know but let’s watch something scary.”
Jiwoo let’s out a groan, she didn’t like horror and the other two were always into scary movies. Her vote never counted because it was always 2-1, it wasn’t fair.
“You fall asleep during the movies anyway!” Hyejoo argues, the older never finishes a movie with them and falls asleep halfway through it. Not that she was complaining that much (she liked to drag her girlfriend back to her room so they could play games together.)
Jiwoo playfully rolls her eyes and huffs, not going to argue because they were right. But! It was because she didn’t want to watch it so she just closes her eyes to not watch it. She just so happens to fall asleep in the progress.
An hour into the movie, Jiwoo groggily looks over to the couple who were passed out. The irony of Hyejoo saying that Jiwoo was going to fall asleep when they were sleeping right beside her.
Her phone vibrates.
Jindori 💙:
BABY
[image attached]
Jiwoo drops her phone immediately and quickly picks it up just as fast. She uses her fingers to zoom into the picture. It was a photo of a signed autograph from Girls’ Generation Sunny addressed to Jiwoo. Jiwoo blinks and blinks again, wondering if this was real life.
Me:
r u sure ur gonna be busy all night ?
Jindori 💙:
i can clear some time 👀
wanna wait for me at home?
Me:
omw 💕
-
This shift felt extremely long and she was only 2 hours into it. Jiwoo’s back was sore from sleeping badly on it and from her bad posture but at least she was making some progress on her homework.
The radio is playing instead of the small T.V that was hanging on the ceiling because Jiwoo knows she’ll get distracted by it. Music wasn’t any better but she’d go crazy if it’s just silence.
She picks her head up at the sound of the bell, a familiar figure waving at her excitedly. “Hey, Jiwoo!” Yerim chirps as she makes her way over. She looks around at the empty store before pulling her mask down “Long time no see.”
Jiwoo hasn’t seen Yerim in a long time except for Jinsol’s random facetime calls. She missed seeing the younger around. Jiwoo feels like she can feed off her positive energy. The last time she’s seen Jungeun was two weeks ago when she popped into the store. Jungeun usually tried to keep to herself, she looked pretty shy for someone that was going for the whole chic girl look. She liked having Jungeun around too.
Jiwoo smiles and waves her over, walking towards the sausage roller and putting a fresh one to heat up for the girl “Hey, I’m glad you came over for a visit.” she tries to make it not obvious that she was looking behind the girl, hoping a certain person was behind her.
Yerim catches on but isn’t hurt that she wasn’t the one Jiwoo wanted to see “Yeah I’ve been meaning to come sooner but we’ve just been so busy.” The younger has a teasing glint in her eyes “Jinsol wanted to come too but she’s basically being kept hostage at our building. Between us, she’s been talking about how much she misses you.”
Jiwoo tries to act busy by wiping down the counter but her face betrays her with a blush and the corners of her lips tugging up. It was nice that Jinsol was thinking of her as much as Jiwoo was thinking of her. Yerim beams at this all the while squinting at her like she wants to interrogate her.
In a small voice “I miss her too….”
Trying to change the topic, mainly because she was getting extremely embarrassed, Jiwoo puts away her cleaning gear “What about you? How have you been?”
Yerim forgot that she was tired and it hit her like a ton of bricks as she exaggerated her body motions “I’m so tired but what can I say? I love promotions, it just gets hard on some days.”
Jiwoo nods, she tries to relate it to a work rush where a lot of people come into the convenience store all at once. Or the last week to study before finals. “Work hard and I’ll treat you to a meal later.” Jiwoo offers a comforting smile, wanting to cheer her up.
Yerim’s smile gets bigger and excuses herself for the snacks she was looking for. Jiwoo couldn’t help but look at the time and instantly regrets it once she confirms that not much time has passed. She was hoping that her conversation would shed off some time.
Once Yerim comes back Jiwoo hands her the sausage that she put in earlier for her. “Thank you, I seriously missed eating this.”
“No problem haha….so um has Jinsol been eating well?” Jiwoo asks while scanning her items. She worried a lot about her girlfriend, she feels like Jinsol was getting skinnier with each phone call. Jinsol would shut her down by telling her not to worry, that she was okay.
Yerim awkwardly smiles like she shouldn’t be telling her anything “Well I mean, not really. Any of us really but it’s kind of to be expected. We’re so busy that we’d rather catch up on sleep more than anything.”
Jiwoo frowns at this, her concern growing more. She tries to be more understanding and likes to think she’d rather sleep too. Jiwoo stops scanning her items to walk to the refrigerated foods. She grabs three fruit boxes filled with watermelon, pineapple and berries and brings back.
She puts them in a separate bag and holds it up to Yerim “For you, Jungeun and Jinsol. Make sure to eat well, okay?” She’d pay for it later. The fruit was fast and healthy so it would make Jiwoo feel so much better if the three would eat this before going to bed or eat it as soon as they woke up.
Yerim looks genuinely touched that Jiwoo was not only thinking of Jinsol’s health but for her and Jungeun’s as well. “Make sure Jinsol eats it.” Jiwoo mumbles while tapping on the cashier screen.
The younger waves her off “Jinsol will eat it right away once she finds out you got it for her.” She cheekily smiles “But seriously, you’re the best.”
Jiwoo winks at her, a laugh between the two following afterwards. A new song starts to play on the radio and it makes Yerim jump in surprise, she wiggles her eyebrows. Watching the younger sing along to it, Jiwoo eyebrows raise and her jaw is slightly slackened at Yerim’s voice. She sounded the same as the girl singing the song.
“Wow, you’re really good at singing.” She should be a professional. Yerim had the skills and looks for it.
Yerim turns smug at Jiwoo’s compliment but Jiwoo thinks it looks cute on the girl. Her arms crossed, chin up and a tight smile “Don’t you know I eat CDs?” she jokes but can’t keep the look up and burst out into laughter.
Yerim then looks at the time, says her goodbyes and leaves. Jiwoo waves her goodbye and her smile still on her face even when Yerim leaves. She wonders when they could start visiting her more because time goes faster for her.
Another hour into her shift, her phone chimes indicating a new message. It was from Jinsol, who sent her a pic of three empty fruit boxes and two other pairs of shoes that Jiwoo could only assume was Yerim and Jungeun.
ur too good to me
Jiwoo spends the remaining time texting Jinsol.
-
Jindori 💙:
hey baby r u free this weekend?
Me:
for u??? Of course!
my last class ends at 2pm 😗
Jindori 💙:
do u want to hang out with me
and my friends later that day?
we’re going to eat and then we
can head back to my place to
cuddle ☺️
u can invite ur friend if u want!!
“Chae!” Jiwoo yells from her bed and rolls on her back. This was a good opportunity for Chaewon to meet her girlfriend. Jinsol was finally able to make time and her heart melts at the thought of the blonde wanting to be more in her personal life.
There’s a thud from the other side of the wall “Yeah?!” Chaewon yells back.
“Do you want to hang out with me and Jinsol’s friends this weekend?!”
She hears the girl’s bedsprings and then more shuffling before Chaewon opens her bedroom door “What did you say?”
Jiwoo picks her head up slightly from her pillow, her line of sight was her knee blocking Chaewon’s body “Jinsol wants to know if you want to hang out with her and her friends this weekend. Do you want to go?”
Chaewon leans on the door frame “Perfect timing.” She sarcastically comments “I’m actually busy this weekend. Hyejoo is taking me to some family thing outside the city.”
Jiwoo pouts and puts her head back down. This was a missed chance, she really did want Jinsol to meet Chaewon. Chaewon was basically family to her so Jiwoo wanted them to get along. “Next time then.”
Chaewon stands up straight and yawns “Yeah just let me know when.” She leaves and Jiwoo texts her girlfriend back.
Me:
she can’t make it 😕😩
Jindori 💙:
that’s ok! Jungeun and Yerim
will be there too so you won’t feel
awkward only knowing me
my other friends are nice too
I promise 😉
The weekend rolls by quick with Jiwoo hugging Chaewon out the door “Be safe and tell Hyejoo to drive within the laws.”
Chaewon hums “No promises. Have fun with Jinsol, don’t drink too much.” She purses her lips and glares “If she doesn’t take care of you, consider her a dead woman.”
Jiwoo pushes her away and holds her by her shoulders, she nods over and over again with a smile “Yes yes, I’ll be sure to tell her that. Have fun and don’t argue with any of her relatives this time.”
They exchange last minute hugs and Jiwoo helps Chaewon bring her luggage to Hyejoo’s car that she rented out for the weekend. After getting settled Jiwoo starts to get ready for the night. She tries her best to look good, wanting to make a good first impression on Jinsol’s friends.
Jiwoo had also bought her girlfriend a red knitted scarf as a gift. It was getting colder and she thought it was the perfect gift, Jinsol could pull anything off. It was placed neatly in a small bag that had tissue covering it.
She picks out a casual outfit because Jinsol told her it wasn’t a formal dinner, just hanging out with friends and drinking.
Jiwoo was waiting for Jinsol to pick her up but in all honesty, she was super hungry. She chose not to eat dinner because she wanted to eat with everyone else but was regretting it. At this point, she was digging through Chaewon’s snack drawer when her phone started to ring, it was Jinsol waiting outside for Jiwoo to come out.
Thank God. Jiwoo goes down to greet her girlfriend and once she’s in the car she smiles and instantly takes a hold of Jinsol’s free hand. “Hey, baby.” Jiwoo leans in to peck Jinsol’s cheek and holds up the bag “I got you something.”
Jinsol leans into her touch, loving when the younger was affectionate. She was also surprised, not expecting a gift. Jinsol takes a hold of the bag and looks at Jiwoo, silently asking permission to open the gift already. When Jiwoo smiles, Jinsol takes it as a sign to pull out the scarf.
Jinsol looked genuinely touched at the small gesture, her eyes going soft and she pulled Jiwoo in for a small kiss on the lips “Thank you, baby. I’ll wear it when I go to the airport next time.”
Jiwoo is satisfied that Jinsol seemed to enjoy her gift and holds her hand for the remaining time of the ride. The two of them catching up on their week. Jinsol’s phone vibrates and she asks Jiwoo to read what was sent “Everyone just got there. They ordered some meat to grill already and are just waiting for us.” Jiwoo reads carefully.
They get there soon after that message was sent, Jiwoo and Jinsol walking into the grill restaurant together. Jiwoo immediately recognizes Yerim and Jungeun, who were waving them over to their table.
“Hey Jiwoo.” Yerim is the first to greet, Jungeun offering her a seat next to her.
Her and Jinsol sit down, Jinsol calling the waiter over for their drinks. They both get water and Jinsol introduces the girls that were sitting across from them “Jiwoo, this is Hyunjin and Heejin, my friends. Guys this is Jiwoo my-“ Jinsol doesn’t ever finish the sentence but instead shoots them a look that they seem to understand.
Heejin was the first to send her a polite smile and seemed overall friendly. She gave off the same friendly vibe as Yerim so Jiwoo thinks they’d get along well. Hyunjin on the other hand was kind of weird, she awkwardly laughed and clung onto Heejin.
“Vivi and Haseul got caught up with another schedule last minute so they couldn’t make it.” Heejin says and Jinsol looked a little upset that they couldn’t make it but understood.
Jiwoo kept staring at Hyunjin and Heejin, they looked awfully familiar and it was killing her that she didn’t know where she saw them from. They probably met before but didn’t know it.
While Jinsol was busy talking to Hyunjin, Jungeun starts a conversation with her “Hey Jiwoo, how’s school? Jinsol mentioned that you were taking your exams soon.”
“I think I might flunk the test but it’s whatever you know?”
“Yeah, I bet. I would’ve been in the same year as you.” Jungeun nonchalantly says while playing with her straw.
“You’re not going to school?” Jiwoo regrets asking, it’s not like it was any of her business to begin with.
Jungeun scrunches up her face “No, I’m just really busy right now. I’ll eventually get to it.”
Jiwoo feels Jinsol’s hand reach for her, Jinsol bringing her hand to her lap. Wanting her attention, Jinsol brings her up in a new conversation “I was telling Heejin that you work at the store across from our building.”
“Yeah I work there part time while I go to school. That’s how I met Jinsol.” She squeezes her hand “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you two there before.”
Hyunjin laughs “Yeah because we try to limit our snack time there. Unlike these three over here, we actually have some self control.”
Yerim gasps “You act like it’s a bad thing. I mean look at Jinsol! She found Jiwoo.”
Hyunjin crosses her arms and nods “And I can’t complain about that.”
After some awkward moments of Jiwoo meeting Jinsol’s friends, they finally got along. They got rid of trying to be polite to them cracking jokes without worry. They were grilling the meat and wow Jiwoo still can’t wrap her head on where she’s seen the two girls from.
It isn’t until Heejin mentions them doing promotions and how busy they’re going to be that it hits Jiwoo like a ton of bricks. These girls were the same girls hanging above her dining table.
Jiwoo looks at Jinsol and knocks her shoulder playfully, wanting her to look at her. Jinsol is laughing at whatever Hyunjin had said before turning her attention with a smile still on her face. Jiwoo doesn’t say anything, she just wanted to mess with her.
Now she understood why Jinsol wanted her to invite Chaewon. It was really sweet of her to try to set up a meeting for her best friend. Chaewon was definitely going to regret not going with her now.
Jinsol puts more meat on her place and this makes Jungeun gag. “Stop being mean.” Yerim rolls her eyes “I think they’re cute.”
Jinsol looks proud of herself and Yerim’s comment. Jiwoo blushes under everyone’s gaze and ducks her head. There’s more teasing but it was mainly Jinsol being teased.
Jiwoo then starts to think about Chaewon and how bad she would’ve freaked out if she was here with them. She grabs her phone and secretly takes a picture of Heejin and Hyunjin.
Me:
[image attached]
aren’t these the girls u like?
She goes back to her camera and flips the screen, she nudges Jinsol. Jiwoo wanted a picture of them together. Jinsol instantly leans closer, their faces almost touching and winks at the camera. They take another one but this time Jungeun was caught mid-sentence in the background.
“Send me those.” Jinsol points to her phone.
It was 10 minutes later that Jiwoo received a message from her friend.
Chae:
WHAT
OH MY GOD