"I'm a dark queen who can change a peaceful life into a dreadful one."

Jieun's fingertips slowly trailed over the red handprint on her cheeks. Her eyes were glossy with tears which never betrayed her. They were threatening to fall down, but she held them, not wanting to break down in front of Mr.Kim.

"You slut! whoring around all the time and now trying to kill our dancer. You're such a disgrace to our family. This is the last chance, Kim Jieun. If you try to do something like this again, I'll be the one who'll sue you. " After pouring all the anger into his words, Mr. Kim left his office without glancing at Jieun.

Ryan's eyes softened seeing Jieun in that state. Even though she didn't treat him well, he always understood the real her. He always treated her like his younger sister. "Jieunie..." Ryan muttered while trying to catch a glimpse of her expression, but she turned back and signaled him to stop.

"Leave me alone, Ryan." Giving her personal space, Ryan left the place, not forgetting to leave a text message for Jimin telling him what happened here.

When Jieun heard a soft click sound indicating that Ryan had gone out to close the door, she poured her pain out. Fat tears beamed down her rosy cheeks. Crawling down to herself, she hugged her knees to her chest. The office room was filled with fainted sobs of her. She slowly gained back to herself. She harshly wiped her tears away and stood up.

"I'll show you what I can do now." Drying her tear stains, a smirk lingered on her face. She headed back to home and went straight to her room, not giving a damn thing about what her parents were saying. 

The next morning, Jieun happily walked to the dance academy, showing her usual sassy personality. She was so happy to take her leadership of the main group of Aeipathy acedamy again, which was re-announced because of Yeri's absence. Her eyes shone, showing how happy she was.Little did she know that happiness would vanish in the next moment.

All the dancers gathered in the auditorium at the order of Mr.Kim. Jieun heard some dancers were still talking about the accident here and there while gasping loudly. She heard one or two people mumble her name in that accident, but as always, she shrugged it off while her inner peace proudly smirked thinking how powerful she was. After waiting for a good 10 minutes, Mr. Kim arrived to announce the new leader of the main group. 

"Good morning, dear students. I know you all waited for this moment, but first of all, I want to apologize to all of you for the incident that happened last night. I promised all of you that something like that wouldn't happen again. I have good news. Jung Hoseok will take the lead of Aeipathy Acedamy's main group from now on. I think you all know about him already, as he's quite a famous You Tube dancer among the younger generation. Please welcome to the stage our new leader of the Aiepathy Acedamy sparkling group, Jung Hoseok. " Mr. Kim warmly welcomed Jung Hoseok to the stage while clapping.

Hoseok came to the stage and spun dramatically, posing a dancing step to the audience. The whole auditorium was filled with cheers and whistles. He shared his sincerly sun-shine smile and took the mic which Mr. Kim handed him. Mr.Kim secretly glanced at a certain someone and smirked, knowing he had done what he had wanted to do for so long.

That someone was no other than Kim Jieun, who was now controlling her inner self to not want to burst at the whole meeting. She saw the sheepish grin that formed on Mr.Kim's face. Her nails dug into the milky white skin. Their eye contact battle ended when Hoseok started his introduction. 

He introduced himself with his iconic lines when the crowd cheered him on and screamed his stage name, "J-Hope". Then he roamed his hazel eyes through the crowd and saw his friend, Jimin, giving him an encouraging smile while an unknown set of eyes were giving him her death glare. Wow, it seems like I have already found someone to compete with me. His inner voice screamed at him in a sacral way.

After a few more announcements, the crowd heads back to their dancing rooms to do their usual practice. Jieun, Soo Ah, and Jimin were sipping their coffee while planning their new dance for the Artistic Movement Awards. The whole time, Jieun was pissed off with the ideas that Jimin and Soo Ah came up with.

"Jieun, can you please stop yelling at us like a bitch and tell us what's going on with your stupid mind?" Jimin spat back at Jieun when he was finally done with Jieun's behavior. Jieun let out an angry sigh while clenching her fists.

"Who's that so-called great dancer who took my place this time?"

"J-hope?" Soo Ah mumbled faintly.

"Yeah, whatever that name is."

"Can you shut your mouth before it slips something inappropriate about my best friend? " Jimin asked, making the girls' eyes go wide.

"W-hat?" Jieun and Soo Ah exclaimed in unison, gasping loudly. 

"You mean the world-famous dancer, J-hope, is your friend and you didn't tell us?" Soo Ah dramatically complained, earning a glare from Jieun and a deep chuckle from another person beside them. Their head snapped to the derection they heard that chuckle and met with Hoseok, who shared a beautiful smile with them.

"Seems like I have a fan here too." He grinned while sitting beside Jimin, not caring about the frown of that certain person who he saw from the corner of his eyes. 

Jieun quickly stood up and left the place without glancing back at her friends.

"Is she okay? Is there something to do with me?" Hoseok's voice was clearly tinged with guilt, but Jimin and Soo Ah both shake their heads in denial when he asked the question.

"She's pissed about something personal." Jimin muttered, biting his anger away. Hoseok shrugged his shoulders and simply mumbled "okay."

They continued talking about the upcoming awards and practices. To both Jimin and Soo Ah's surprise, Hoseok was not fine with being the captain of the main team. He explained to them that he didn't like to hold those positions when it came to dancing.  

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