Saida: I Fancy You

Chapter 21: Shopping

Okay so maybe Sana made Dahyun's heart flutter and that accidental almost kiss made Dahyun want more. So what? Maybe she wasn't exactly straight.

Sana, Dahyun, Mina and Chaeyoung sat at a table together as they ate their dinner.

"Guys, we have a comeback soon, cut down on this unhealthiness," Jihyo scolded as she passed their table over to sit with Jeongyeon, Rosé and Lisa.

Sana pouted as she looked at the large bowel of ramen between her and Dahyun as well as the semi feast of desserts splayed before Mina and Chaeyoung.

"I hope we get many scenes together for the music video, Dahyunie," Sana commented and reached for another spoonful of ramen as Dahyun took a sip of her coca-cola. Sana dropped the spoon into the ramen making it sink down the bowl (don't you just hate it when that happens?) when Dahyun started choking on her water. "Oh my god!" Sana took the can out of Dahyun's hand and wiped away some of the soda that spilled from her mouth and nose with a napkin.

Mina and Chaeyoung shared a smirk, watching the exchange and both squeezed on their entwined hands under the table.

Sana tapped Dahyun's back as she recovered and gulped down some ramen. "Are you okay, sweetie?"

Dahyun almost choked on the pet name Sana just called her.

Chaeyoung could barely muffle a laugh at the Maknae leader's facial expressions.

Dahyun timidly looked at Sana and gave her a shaky thumbs-up. "Y-Yup."

Turns out realizing you're not straight brings out your panic gay when you're around pretty girls. Only pretty girls. Just because Dahyun knew she wasn't straight didn't mean she liked Sana like that. Tzuyu liked Sana so she couldn't. That goes against all girl and bro code.

After their dinner (which was all paid by their managers because they had conveniently forgotten their wallets at home, but it was really because they wanted to see the annoyance of their managers who could be spies for the unnamed stalker), they started to walk around the shopping center. It was about 5PM which was about as busy as it gets and not to mention that word got out about two of the biggest kpop groups being there together and a bunch of fans stampeded throughout the center. Thankfully, the fans had kept a respectful distance from the girls and the shops had closed up their shops for them whenever they entered.

Sana gasped and Dahyun smiled, finally giving into the mushy feelings of her heart soar at the adorable look on Sana's face. "Let's go in this store!"

The girls had all split up and Dahyun was just happy to walk around alone (if you ignore the fans shouting their names and the guards and manager beside them) with Sana even if her feet hurt and her arms are aching from the abundance of bags she so kindly offered to hold for Sana. Through all of Sana's protests, she still wanted to be somewhat chivalrous. Not because she liked her of course, why would you think that?

Sana held out her hand, wanting to relieve Dahyun of some of the load. But instead of giving Sana any bags, Dahyun put all the bags on the crook of her left arm and added it to the right hand. Sana's eyebrows bent slightly as she watched Dahyun but then those eyebrows jumped and her face settled for a soft blushing smile as she felt Dahyun's soft (and slightly sweaty from carrying so many bags but Sana didn't mind) hand place ontop of Sana's palm. She squeezed as Dahyun gave her charming smile to hide the fact that she was freaking out on the inside. The fans were freaking out as well, they started chanting 'Saida' and squealing at any interactions between them the entire 2 hours of shopping they'd just done.

Dahyun couldn't help but glance at the way their hands held each other or that their steps were in sync or that whenever she would look at to her left just to admire her side profile, Sana would catch her gaze and smile back. She chuckled quietly to herself when she caught a rare blush painted across Sana's cheeks. Her fluffy thoughts and feelings however were soon overtaken by a certain fearful train of thought. Sana. Her stalker. Crazy obsessed fan... It seemed like the stalker cared for Sana's safety and seemed almost protective but in a scary way. Dahyun could sympathise somewhat on this, when she saw what Jeongyeon did to Sana at the dorm fire, she wanted to yell at her and demand an apology. But she wouldn't go to such lengths as to hire someone and make them beat them up. The stalker almost seems like some crazy protective figure... Like an insane father or a boyfriend. Dahyun heard whispers and talks from her members and the other members from Red Velvet and Blackpink. She knew Sana was bisexual (would be gay but something was holding her back, Dahyun wasn't sure what to be exact) and that she had an ex boyfriend while she was a trainee who became a very famous idol. Dahyun never heard any of this from Sana herself so she assumed it was something Sana didn't like to talk about. Dahyun understood she'd opened up about it with Mina, Nayeon and Momo but she couldn't help but feel as if Sana didn't value her enough as a friend or didn't trust her enough to tell Dahyun herself. She wanted to know more about what happened between Jeongyeon and Sana that evening of the fire but couldn't bring herself to ask and was still ignoring Jeongyeon along with most of the other members.