JISUNG
Hi Rinae I saw your tweet I hope
everything is okay!!!

JENO
hellooo

JENO
i saw your tweet

JENO
are you okay?

MARK
hi rinae sorry to bother i saw your
tweet and I HOPE EVERYTHINGS
OKAY

YANGYANG
um rinae 🤔🤔 whats going awn

YANGYANG
what personal issues are we
talking about

SUNGCHAN
RIRI ARE YIU OKAY

XIAOJUN
what happened

SUNGCHAN
idk

SUNGCHAN
ill ask cj to check on her

YANGYANG
good idea

rinae heard the keys jingle her apartment door and it close soon after, then footsteps approaching her room but she wasn't really paying attention. she was drowned in a comment section of one of her videos, refreshing every few seconds just to see more hate comments rolling in.

she'd been getting hate since the day she began her social media begun to gain followers, and she always promised herself she'd never let it get to her and to stay true to herself. she ended up keeping her word and was able to ignore most of the hate as it wasn't all that bad, that was until she began to interact with gamer heads. more specifically, jeno.

a sigh left her lips when she read past each comment. she knew she shouldn't have been but she couldn't help it. cj came through her door first instead of her own after receiving a message from sungchan on the way home.

"hello," she sang, stepping in and dropping her bag on rinaes bed, "what're you doing?"

the girl blinked and inhaled, "nothing," before exhaling and pressing the off button on her pc.

cj squeezed her eyebrows together in suspicious, "right, so sungchan texting me urgently to make sure i check on you was just a coincidence?"

the other stayed silently before hesitantly shrugging. there certainly was no way to get past the truth, the fact that hate was for once getting to her. she was more embarrassed than anything. cj smiled sadly, her eyes softening in realization and walked closer, sitting at the arm of her gaming chair.

"what's going on, seriously?" she urged.

rinae gulped and gathered the words in her head, knowing she'd feel much better if she at least got it out to her best friend. "ever since the, um, the stream with gamer heads, the hate has been... intense."

"rinae—"

"i don't," she shook her head, "i don't wanna get into it. i know i shouldn't let it get to me, but, i don't know. it's worse than it's ever been but this is what i signed up for when i started this."

"that doesn't mean the hate is justifiable," cj told her, "you remember the day sungchan revealed that he was in a relationship with me to his viewers?"

rinae scrunched her nose and groaned, remembering it all too clearly. the hate cj received was even worse than what rinae was getting, and rinae couldn't believe how her roommate handled it so well, but it also meant she was able to understand how she felt.

"dude, i can't even bullshit you and say that it didn't effect me because it definitely did. you know who helped me through it, though? you did, sungchan did, the girls did. you can be sad all you want, you can sulk, because it's normal to get upset over mean things people say about you. i just don't want you to think that no one will be here for you when you need them, and i don't wanna see you sitting here strictly to read hate comments and make yourself feel even worse."

she was right, and rinae knew that, and she knew the hate would subdue eventually. she didn't want to fall into the bad habit of purposely reading hate comments, so she nodded in understanding. "thank you. i do need to get a new number, though."

"...why?"

rinae pulled out her phone and opened her messages, handing it to cj after deciding it was much easier to show than to explain. the brunette looked closely to see the messages she received a day prior, her eyes going wide when she processed what exactly she was reading. "what the literal fuck?"

"i'm not gonna stop hanging around gamer heads," rinae explained, taking her phone back, "but i do need to get a new number because i'm not about to deal with randos messaging and calling me."

cj couldn't withhold an eyeroll, watching her friend go through basically the same thing she went through. some fans were truly just delusional. "good. let them be mad, fucking weirdos."

she stood up from her spot on the arm of the chair, giving her friend a gentle pat before walking towards the door. "are you gonna say anything?"

rinae thought for a second and shrugged. "i didn't wanna give them what they wanted by making it seem like i'm effected from their words, but i probably already did that with my gross ass tweet. i really do look like an attention whore."

"shut up! you don't have to say anything, but don't let me get involved. you know how i am when it comes to you." cj warned, giving rinae a look that showed she certainly meant what she was saying. rinae laughed and nodded, putting her hands up in defense before the other walked out of the room.

the blonde twisted her body back to her chair but instead opened her phone instead of her computer. there were countless messages from the verified plus hyuck groupchat, that rinae disregarded and instead scrolled lazily through her emails. she didn't usually check emails from her phone, just skimmed through them for a quick minute until something interesting popped up.

she hadn't expected it to, especially since she'd just checked her emails just an hour ago, that was until she stopped directly on an email title 'twitch,' and she felt her heart drop to her stomach. "oh my god, holy shit," she cursed at herself, the awful day turning decent when she read through the first few words.

'Congratulations, RINAEDOTCOM! You've been personally invited to next years Twitchcon,'

"cj! i'm going to twitchcon!"

HAECHAN
FUCK NO

HAECHAN
so have i

YANGYANG
YOU AINT SPECIAL

YANGYANG
also sungchan did cj text you back
ab rinae yet

RINAE
IM FINE

RINAE
HELLO

YANGYANG
BITCH???

HENDERY
rinae what

RINAE
I GOT THE TWITCHCON
THING

YANGYANG
😐

YANGYANG
my day is officially ruined

SUNGCHAN
WOOHOOOO CONGRATS

SUNGCHAN
are u sure youre ok tho that tweet
was awfully emotional

RINAE
yes just got in my head a bit but
im okayyy dont worry

SUNGCHAN
good CONGRATS

HAECHAN
OH MY GODDD

HAECHAN
we're all going to twitchcon this
is crazy

YANGYANG
dont sound too sure

HAECHAN
stop being a debby downer bitch

HENDERY
i'll genuinely be surprised if we
dont all get invited

HENDERY
you cant invite a few of us and
not the rest thats not how it
works here

RINAE
real

RINAE
ill be so sad if we dont all get
invited

HAECHAN
yall gotta stop sounding so negative
cmon now

XIAOJUN
aww dont worry your time will come

YANGYANG
go die

XIAOJUN
🥰

RINAE
also guys im changing my number
so if one day you text me and it
doesnt go through thats why

HAECHAN
for why

HAECHAN
youve been suspicious today...

HAECHAN
are you gonna beat someone up
or something

RINAE
i wish

RINAE
but NO

RINAE
a fan found my number somehow
gotta change it

HENDERY
how the hell

RINAE
no clue

YANGYANG
is that what your tweet was
about you pussy ass bitch

HAECHAN
LMAOOOO????? so unprovoked😭

RINAE
and if it was then what 😐 whats
your issue

YANGYANG
just wondering😝 so was it

RINAE
yes yangyang it was

RINAE
the hate has been crazy since we
joined gha i cant lie

SUNGCHAN
OH MY GOD FR

SUNGCHAN
I WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE
TO BRING IT UP

XIAOJUN
i mean theyre way more famous
than us im not surprised

XIAOJUN
and rinaes the only girl in the
group she has it bad

RINAE
yes

RINAE
like someone found my NUMBER??
HELLO

HAECHAN
jeno fans i bet

HAECHAN
CRAZY

HAECHAN
im gonna tell jeno

RINAE
pls dont

RINAE
we do not need him to carry
that burden

HAECHAN
so u admit it IS jeno fans

RINAE
i mean

RINAE
who knows

HAECHAN
HMMM

HENDERY
instigator

RINAE
JUST DONT TELL ANYONE

RINAE
hate is hate its not a big deal

RINAE
we will keep it between us

HAECHAN
sure

YANGYANG
we should tell everyone that if
they send hate to us we will
track down their location and
jump them

SUNGCHAN
i agree

RINAE
ok lets do it

XIAOJUN
none of you can fight

YANGYANG
we dont need to fight if all of
us are beating someone up.
coordination does not matter here

XIAOJUN
you genuinely scare me sometimes