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Sun looked at the time on her phone for the millionth time. Traffic in the area was still bad, which meant Lina manager unnie hadn't arrived yet, the fansign was just about to wrap up, and the person who the car belonged to still wasn't back. Minnie just stood by her her arms crossed over her chest while people continued to surround them and snap pictures of the two girls who had caused the accident.

The younger of the two girls was texting her boyfriend, assuring him that she was okay, and that it had just been a minor accident. But he was still worried about her. He had seen the articles online and thought she had been hurt until she assured him otherwise.

By the time their manager arrived, the fansign had been over by twenty minutes and the other girls were on their way back to the hotel. They were a bit tired from their hours of signing merchandise and taking selfies with the fans, and they didn't hear about the accident until they were back at the hotel and turned on their television.

Lina the manager was able to negotiate with the person who owned the car and promised that Pledis would take care of the expenses to fix the damage. Sun knew that the bill for that would be added to her trainee debt which was skyscraper high. That didn't matter to her in that moment, she was more disappointed then about two things. One that she hadn't gotten to attend the fansign, and two that she would be the talk of the kpop world after that accident. SM Entertainment would no doubt find a way to use that to their advantage.

Once they were back in the car, Lina said to the group's maknae in a serious tone, "This is why you need parental supervision all the time. You're such a child, Park Mae." She knew she was in trouble already, but more so when she was called by her real name, Park Mae. 

"I take full responsibility for this, Lina unnie." Minnie spoke up.

Sun placed a hand on her unnie's lap and gave a shake of her head. "No, Min unnie. This was my fault. I should have been more careful."

Their manager agreed. "I asked you to watch her, Mina. That doesn't mean you're responsible for what she does. She's our maknae, but she's also an adult already." Turning in her seat at the front to look at the younger of the two, she warned, "There will be consequences for this, Park Mae. Not only will the bill for the expenses of that car be added to your debt to us, but you will be required to issue a public apology both on Happy Camp and on all of our platforms later tonight. Additionally, you will no longer be allowed to operate any vehicles. Ever."

That's a little harsh, Sun thought. But she didn't dare say anything of it.

She only nodded her head in agreement to her punishment.

-

They arrived back at the hotel within twenty minutes and the two girls headed to the room which they shared together. Their room connected through an emergency door to the room next door, which the other four of their group members used to get into the room. 

Sun plopped down on her bed with a loud groan.

"Saris unnie heard what happened." Yoona said as she walked into the room and sat at the foot of Sun's bed. "She's going bersek, worried about you. We told her you were okay."

"Everyone treats me like a child." Sun complained, quickly adding, "Now I know why."

Kia was very entertained scrolling down something on her phone that she ran into the bed and nearly fell on top of Yoona. She lifted her gaze from her phone screen only to inform the other girls what she was reading. In a very amused tone, she said, "It looks like our little maknae just made AllKPOP's list for the Top Ten Problematic Idols of All-Time." 

The other girls put their full attention on her as she turned her phone around to show them her screen. There was even a collage included with pictures of the idols who had been chosen. Among them were Super Junior's Kangin and Ryeowook, Roser-lo's Yeojin, Kit-Kat's Christine, Big Bang's G-Dragon, and their very own maknae Sun. They had heard the rumors and the stories as to why each of them was problematic, but the last two on the list had actually gotten their curiosity. Both Yeojin and Ryeowook were very unproblematic idols for the most part.

Sun quickly sat up on her bed and gestured for Kia to hand her the phone. The older girl did and Sun scrolled down the list.

"Why am I second?" She whined, placing the phone faced down on the bed.

"Look at it this way," Kia told her, reaching for her phone again on the bed. "At least you aren't Super Junior's Kangin and its an SM artist at the top. He's number one on the list for hit and run, and drunk driving."

The youngest of the group heaved a sigh. "Even though all of that is bad and he deserves that spot on the list, I don't hate Super Junior. We didn't have a problem with them, that was our unnies of Roser-lo. I lowkey kind of like Super Junior. The ones we hate are EXO, remember? And none of them made the list. They're going to verbally kill me when they hear of this."

Jai took one look at the list again and pointed out, slightly changing the subject, "Didn't Yeojin unnie get put on the list for being sighted with Junhyung a lot?"

Yeojin was a member of Roser-lo, the girl group from Pledis who had started the whole rivalry with SM Entertainment when they started to have problems with Super Junior. Nowadays they seemed to be getting a long and their hoobaes--their juniors. The girls of Baby Lips often kept in contact with the older group who was always supporting them.

"But Yeojin unnie is tenth," Kia countered. She was taking the whole situation with humor, since she wasn't the one who had been involved in the accident. "She used to be ninth before your accident."

"And Ryeowook oppa is ninth now--only on that list because he and Yeojin unnie won't accept their love and date already." The maknae argued. From what she had read in the article, the journalist shipped the two of them and wanted them to get together already. That was the only reason they had made the list as problematic.

Jai wondered, "I thought they were dating already?"

"They're not." Yoona replied.

"They're not?" Jai's eyes widened in surprise. "My whole life has been a lie."

-

"Alright," Their dance instructor announced. "You're dismissed, group practice is over for today. Those of you who have vocal practices can go. Those of you who had individual practice with me stay." On days in which they were learning new dances, they were required to practice with an instructor. Once that instructor had determined that he was no longer needed, then the group was allowed to rehearse on their own.

The lead and main vocalists which were Baekhyun, Kyungsoo, Jongdae, and Luhan were the first to leave the room. They had their vocal practices for the day in one of the sound proof rooms nearby, so that they wouldn't disturb the other artists who were rehearsing. Chanyeol followed suit. On his schedule was instrumental rehearsal. He had a whole room to himself. Kris and Tao had their own vocal practices in which they would practice both their singing and rapping. Junmyeon and Minseok always practiced their vocals together, since they were mostly used in the group as backing vocals. Jongin and Yixing would have an extra hour of dance practices before Yixing would go practice his piano skills.

Jongin--who was the only one staying behind with Yixing for an extended dance practice--got his phone out and sat down on the wooden floor to scroll through his social media newfeed. He had been scrolling for about a minute when he found something that caught his attention.

Anything that had to do with their group was enough to capture them. That, and anything that had to do with Baby Lips, since they were always looking to be better than the group of girls who was said to be the female version of EXO. As he read the title of an article, he tried to stifle a laugh before he nudged Yixing who had taken a seat next to him on the ground.

"Hyung, take a look at this." Jonging urged, practically shoving his phone in Yixing's face in amusement.

"Is that the one about the Baby Lips maknae crashing her scooter into a parked car? Because I already read that one." Yixing wondered with a roll of his eyes. It was one thing for him to slam Baby Lips, and especially Sun, because he didn't mean it. But he had to admit it bothered him when his group members did it because they definitely meant it. And he couldn't just tell them to stop because he knew it would give him away.

Jongin seemed to laugh even harder at his hyung's words. "What? I didn't know that happened! Send me the link to that article, hyung, please. I have to read it."

Yixing sighed, but copied the article url he had sent to his girlfriend and texted it to Jongin. In return, Jongin replied with a url of his own. Yixing clicked on the link which took him to a different article than the one he had read earlier about his girlfriend's accident. 

KPop's Top Ten Problematic Idols.

Sun's picture was included at the top, right below the title and the by-line. 

As he read the article of the top ten most problematic idols, he read that Sun had been added after the scooter incident, and was placed as the second most problematic after one of their hyungs from the agency, Kangin of Super Junior. Perhaps he was biased because Sun was his girlfriend, but Yixing didn't feel as though she deserved to be on that list, much less as number two.

The rest of the world didn't seem to agree with him. In the comments section were people--mostly EXO fans--who were criticizing the rival group's maknae. There was also praise for the members of EXO for not making the list, because they were well behaved kpop idols.

Jongin was thrilled about the news and sent the article to the ten other boys in the group.

But it was hard for Yixing to be glad about it when he knew Sun would be upset.

-

i have been trying to update this story all day. and all day my dad has been bitching for me to take him to run some errands. yes, i love my dad and all. but he has feet. he can drive himself. im so tired and done. i work eight hours a day, monday through friday, with a bitchy ass 100yr old bitch who complains 24/7. and all i ask is to have the fucking weekend where I DONT HAVE TO DO ANYTHIGN OR DEAL WITH ANYOne. i dont need more nagging. lol

vent moment done. i hope you all enjoy this chapter. and thank you loads for reading! edit courtesy of bandry ryeongnim <3

-clary xx