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The news of their relationship confirmed was quick to make its way onto the internet, but directly after the concert, yet another scandal shook the girls of Baby Lips. Screen shots of proof that Bom had followed Minnie's boyfriend Isaac on instagram were making rounds around the internet. He hadn't followed back or gave any signs of even being aware that she followed him, but it was early morning in Mexico and he was probably sleeping still. The drama grew even more when people noticed that Minnie and Bom no longer followed each other.

Just like she did with Sun, Bom had blocked Minnie and social media.

Minnie saw the screen shots on instagram, even though Bom wasn't exactly trying to hide that fact. The Baby Lips vocalist knew that what her group mate was doing was exactly to spite her--to make her mad.

It was working.

She was boiling mad as she scrolled through the tag started by allkpop, #BomFollowsIsaac.

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allkpop: Baby Lips main dancer and sub-vocalist Bom Bom (@shin_bombom) followed group mate Minnie's (@lagosdmoreno) boyfriend Isaac Brizuela (@brizuela27_cone)--Mexican football star--over instagram. Baby Lips members are rumored to have internal problems with members quarreling among each other. 

Minnie, Bom Bom, and Sun are the members suspected of having a rocky relationship with each other. Sources close to the group have said that its possible one of the three will leave Baby Lips in the near future.

To read full article, visit: www.allkpop.com/bom-follows-isaac. 

#shinbombom #leeminnie #parkmae #babylips #BomFollowsIsaac

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The girls were back at the hotel as it neared midnight. They would be staying in China one more day before heading to Taiwan to continue their tour. EXO would be continuing their own tour in Indonesia, which meant that there would be not much more forced interacting between Sun and Yixing until at least October in which both groups would be returning to Korea for a month in order to work on another short holiday album. That was one month away and the two groups would spend all of November out of the country, finishing up their first tours.

Minnie was fuming as she followed Sun into their hotel suite and she slammed the door behind them. The sound was so loud, Sun was almost convinced it could be heard throughout the entire hotel. 

Getting her phone out of her pocket, she let herself fall face first onto her neatly made bed. Her dark eyes, darkened more by her anger, stared at her cellphone screen. Shaking her phone as though it would make whatever she was waiting for happen faster, she whined, "For fucks sake, why isn't he replying to my texts?" In a lower tone, more to herself than aloud for her room mate to hear, she said, "Bom's scraping away at my patience, God. I'm trying so hard not to punch her in the face every time I see her."

"Unnie," Sun said from her own bed, the events of that night past her. She had already gotten herself to accept the fact that her relationship with Yixing now was only an act. He didn't love her and he surely wouldn't be forgiving her any time soon. The sooner she could accept that, the sooner she might be able to move on with her life. But it was difficult. With a sigh, she continued once Minnie's attention was on her. "This is exactly what Bom wants--to piss you off."

"Well its working." Minnie sucked in a deep breath in order to calm down.

But she was very close to the point of hyperventilating in her anger. 

"I'm sure Isaac will just ignore the notification when he sees it." Sun continued, trying to reassure her friend. "He knows how much Bom hates you. He'd never follow her back."

"Its not him I'm worried about." Minnie said to Sun. "I just don't trust Bom, and I don't want her using him to hurt me."

It was about an hour before Isaac replied to Minnie's various missed calls and streams of text messages. He immediately called her on the phone to ask her what was wrong, and Sun excused herself from the room. It was over half past midnight and she was tired, but she wanted to give them the privacy to talk things out. Sun was sure things would end well anyway since neither of them had done anything wrong. It was all Bom who was trying to make Minnie angry.

As Sun left the room and closed the door behind her, she could hear Minnie's whining into her phone in Spanish. "Isaac, I'm this close to throwing the bitch out a window. I swear to God." Though her words were in Spanish, Sun was able to grasp the general gist of it.

Sun made her way down the hall to Sarang and Rin's room.

They were watching entertainment news on the television while Rin was also scrolling through social media on her cellphone. Sun had knocked on their door and when Sarang opened it, both girls welcomed her into their room with no questions asked. Still, Sun explained to them that she was only there to give Minnie some privacy to talk with her boyfriend.

On the television was news about Sarang and Junmyeon's instagram announcement, EXO's drama involving Tao, Bom's following Isaac on instagram, internal problems in Baby Lips, and the relationship confession given by Yixing and Sun. Sun rolled her eyes at the way the hosts seemed to exaggerate every little thing. Many of the information they were talking about was not as big as they made it out to be. But it was the only way they were able to get more views--exaggerating the truth.

When the show ended, there was another show that came on--a rerun of an episode of Music Core in which Baby Lips appeared months earlier when they were promoting for Sweet. 

Sarang rolled her eyes and grabbed the remote off her bed, switching the television to another channel where there was a Korean drama playing. She settled for that one instead. Sarang was often self conscious when watching herself on television--Sun knew her unnie didn't like it. It had nothing to do with insecurity, only the fact that she felt awkward watching herself perform on a stage. She often became critical of herself and caught every little mistake that she wanted to correct for future performances.

From her bed, Rin commented on an article she was reading online, "Finally the media stops spreading negative news about us."

Sun walked over to her bed and plopped herself down next to their Vietnamese-Korean member. She read the title over her shoulder and immediately recognized a picture of herself, Yixing, Sarang, and Junmyeon.

Pledis and SM Entertainment confirm relationship between Lay and Sun, also show support for Suho and Saris' relationship.

The one title she had seen in the recent months in which they weren't spreading more negativity. Granted negativity was the only thing surrounding both groups considering the various events of the past half year, but the media was capitalizing on it just like the agencies were now capitalizing on the public's support for Sarang's relationship with Junmyeon and Sun's relationship with Yixing.

Sarang commented on how things were going to get better for them from there on out. But Sun didn't really feel that way.

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The next morning, their manager Lina woke Sun and Sarang bright and early. Sun had stayed in Rin and Sarang's room since she didn't want to disturb Minnie. In the end, it worked out for Lina who didn't have to wake Sarang and then go find Sun in her room. She explained to them that they were going to film with a Korean host in one of the conference rooms of the hotel for a show that would be aired in Korea.

They would be joined by Junmyeon and Yixing, and they would all be talking about their relationship--particularly when their mutual hatred for each other turned into something more.

Both girls took turns to take a shower and then followed Lina to the conference room where there was a make-up artist waiting for them. When they arrived, the two boys were already there waiting for the interview to begin. Sarang hurried to Junmyeon's side and quickly gave him a kiss on the lips, both smiling happily, delighted to see each other.

For Sun and Yixing it was entirely different.

She went to his side for show, since the interviewer was already there as well, setting up for the filming of the interview. Yixing placed his arm around her waist rather stiffly and Sun pressed her lips to his cheek. Both Sarang and Junymyeon looked at them with worry reflected on their faces, since they knew what was happening. They knew about their break up and their agencies now forcing them to continue dating for the sake of the fans.

Trying to strike up a conversation, Sarang informed Yixing, knowing that the interviewer was watching them. "Yixing, Mae always tells me how much she adores you." She forced away the awkwardness with a smile.

And she wasn't entirely lying.

Sun did often talk about how much she loved Yixing. 

Their break up had been his decision, not hers.

Yixing nodded his head at her politely. "I adore her too, noona. I bet she doesn't even realize how much." Lies, Sun thought to herself. He doesn't love me anymore, and I earned that resentment all on my own. There was a momentary pause before he added, "You should see how much hyung talks about you. You would think he could run out of words to describe how he feels about you, but he never does. None of the other boys want to dorm with him anymore because he won't shut up about you." He finished jokingly.

Sarang grinned, looking to her boyfriend and pinching his cheek. "How sweet, oppa."

Soon the interviewer walked towards them and introduced herself. There were chairs set up for them nearby and she led them to sit down. Sarang and Junmyeon sat together, as did Yixing and Sun. The interviewer sat across from the four of them and the camera was placed on a tripod nearby, at an angle where everyone's faces could be seen easily. 

The interviewer started off with a quick introduction of herself, the show she was from, and the people she would be interviewing before she got into her questions.

"When was the first time you met him in person?" She asked Sarang.

Sarang brought up the memory in amusement. "It was at an awards show a couple of months ago. We had just finished our rehearsal on stage when EXO went out to practice. When they finished, it got crowded backstage and he tripped and fell on my. I remember being so angry."

Junmyeon laughed at the memory. "She actually pushed me off."

The conversation lingered on Sarang and Junmyeon's first meeting for a few more minutes while Yixing and Sun remained quiet. Sun felt her lips dry up nervously and she tried to swallow the lump that was forming in her throat. Taking her by surprise--but obviously doing it for the fans who would be watching--Yixing slipped his hand into hers, intertwining their fingers. Sun hesitated at first before she managed to pull the proper response. A smile formed on her lips which was a product of her forcing herself to smile through the pain.

When they moved onto the next question, it was for Yixing to answer. 

"When did your hate for each other stop being hate?" The interviewer asked him, holding the microphone in his direction.

"At the MAMA awards almost two years ago." He began to explain, his eyes flickering with a pain that he quickly pushed aside to continue with the story. "We got stuck in an elevator together, and she started panicking because she's claustrophobic. When I saw her there so helpless, I thought that maybe Baby Lips wasn't as bad as I thought."

"I remember that night." Sarang piped in. Junmyeon nodded his head as well. "We had to call the fire department to get you two out of there." 

Yixing nodded and continued. "We exchanged phone numbers that night, and just hit it off from there."

Surprised at his story, the interviewer commented, "That was around the time that the EXO-Baby Lips feud got even bigger. You two really seemed to hate each other."

"We were just pretending." He told her, adding, "That entire time we were secretly texting each other and meeting up in the middle of the night to be together. No one ever suspected a thing because Sun genuinely hated EXO--excluding me. And I actually hated Baby Lips--excluding her. Right, jagi?" He noticed her spacing out and gave her hand a squeeze to bring her attention back.

Sun nodded absently, her eyes glazed over with tears.

She held them in through the entire interview.

Puppets of their agencies. It was the one thing Yixing hated more than anything, and now he was letting them control him. But there had to be a reason behind it. She knew he wouldn't let them do that to him unless they had something on him.

Perhaps they were threatening him too.

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another update. and now there are only two more, which will be posted tomorrow morning back to back. bc i like to post the last chapter and the epilogue at the same time. i hope you all liked this story. i had a ton of fun writing it, and i feel really sad that its ending now. 

but excited for what's coming! ^.^

updates for replacement will resume tomorrow night most likely. and i will update that about 2-3 times per week. i'll try to update sasaeng at the same time.

-clary xx