Best Kept Secret

Blessings Served

Little spoon has her back leaning with her head resting unto her partner. Body to body in a tub half full of heat, her partner presses on her tensions. She clutches to the thighs surrounding her. Sooner, she wades up her hand in attempt to yank the other's wrist as she moans.

"Shh..." Sana softly embeds this sound and tucks Jihyo's hair to her ear.

Jihyo only had two days to get physically and mentally better. With music shows demanding runs after runs in order to get perfect shots in every angle, ending poses along pretty-looking expressions become tougher to sustain.

"Jihyo, gwaenchana?"

Once sent message across Twice who had been rehearsing on stage. She in turn poked through a prop of string curtain and rapidly swung her head, "I'm fine."

Huffing with dimmed iris as if being sucked into oblivion, her words to the beloved Once seemed to be white. She barely survived M Countdown.

On Music Bank, just the day after, symptoms have persisted. She was seen rubbing her neck. Add to that the strain of Hero Concert in the evening.

Meds may be relieving. But hot baths and massages are uplifting. Especially when done with someone you've depended on for years. "Maybe Momo is right. I'm the member who needs to be taken care of the most", Jihyo tells Sana as they soak a bit longer.

Sana in bouncy tone lightens her up, "Maybe~ Just maybe, it's both of your puberty fits speaking." They laugh.

"After all the bad things, there are still many things to be thankful for. Nayeon-ie, for example. A vain unnie but also a mindful unnie. To think we could lose you had she took longer. And you just laughed when you shared this story on air?! Weren't you scared?"

Jihyo looks to her. She's reminded of the horror upon hearing Sana got dizzy and nearly drowned in a similar tub back then. Thankfully, Nayeon broke in and pulled her out in time.

Of course, Sana was. She blinks repetitively and turns away, "Loved ones also deserve truth. But tell them happily to make it less sad."

Looks back with a smirk while hands slip on Jihyo's stomach, "Anyway it became a blessing in disguise. I can't be alone in here anymore. Another thing to be thankful for."

Blessing. What could be the blessing from the issue?

Knock knocks interrupt the two. It's from a worried Nayeon, "Sana-yah! You know you can't be in there for long. Jihyo-yah! Do you need help? Can you carry her?"

"Get out already. Mina has something to say", Momo adds more knocks.

NaMo receives silence thus worries further. Nayeon heeds last warning. "If nobody answers, I'm gonna break this! In one..."

A jumpy Jihyo in damp robe busts out the door.

"Yah! Wait up", clumsy Sana is still towel drying Jihyo's hair as she follows.

Mina is seated with knees bent towards her. She's journaling when the two rush in looking like seaweed soup. Shooked, Mina's lips arches on the funny mess before her.

"They brought us here. We came as quick", Sana and Jihyo are panting.

"Ah, I was just thinking..."

"Yes?"

"I did well on shoots and recordings. Maybe~ I could try going live again."