The second night flew by, after the concert and meeting with Mr. Bucci whom was still, visibly, not very fond of me.

On the way back, I ask Eisuke about Big Bang.

"They're, fine." He reassured me in a somewhat curt tone. "The two that were shot we just left there, accompanied by some empty bottles of whisky."

He then explained to me that the thing that they had shot is with had the same effect of someone that's intoxicated.

After getting back to the penthouse, I walk in seeing Hyuna, sitting around drinking wine with Baba and Kisaki, laughing her ass off.

Eisuke just sighed, probably thinking about what he might have to do with Hyuna now.

What was he going to do? He won't let her go because she knows about the auctions, and she's practically dead weight to them.

"So what? You're just gonna have me stay here until I die?" Hyuna says as she finishes laughing. I guess the guys already explained stuff to her.

She was looking at me expecting an answer.

My eyes open a little wider and I shrug. "You're not gonna get any answers from me. I got caught up in all this shit too."

Eisuke speaks up after staying quiet, probably in thought. "You're going to have a job to do, in order to pay half of what I bought you for."

"I don't need a 'job'." She smirks. "All I need you to do is to let me go, then, you can have your money."

"I can let you go if you do this job for me." Eisuke closes his eyes and lifts his hand up. Soryu reaches into his breast pocket and pulls out his gun, pressing it onto Hyuna's head.

She lets out a quick shriek and cowers down. "Fine, fine! What do you want from me?"

Eisuke smiles. "That's...."

"I need you to-"
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The loud echoes of my uncontrollable laughter resort throughout the empty auction room. It was morning and this scene gave me energy to get through the day.

Poor little Hyuna just pouted and continued marking off all the things in the list she needed to inspect.

All products for the auction, that needed to be cleaned or checked before they went on stage and for sale.

It was early morning and I decided to stop by and visit Hyuna with Eisuke before dance practice.

"You look so pitiful right now." I chuckle. "Can I ask you?"

"Ask me what?" She sneers.

"Why are you here, at Tres Spades anyways?"

"Me and the rest of 4minute were supposed to perform today."

"Oh- wait what." She was supposed to perform?

I turn back to Eisuke. "Look I don't like her but she has a job, let her go...for now."

"What? You seemed to be enjoying the view of her suffering."

"True, but the entertainment world is a bitch when you miss or fuck up a performance. Being a star is a lot more tiring than you think." Hyuna nods at my comment.

"Yeah being fabulous is pretty exhausting." I smile while slipping on my sunglasses.

Eisuke stares at Hyuna and then turns around, waving his hand. "Fine, your job here is done."

"Now, if you try to tell the police about anything." He turns one last time. "You're involved too."

I raised my eyebrows, impressed by what he had pulled. He had her handle the artifacts so that telling to police would backfire on her too.

He starts walking away and I quickly follow behind, catching up to him.

"Hey...well done." I elbow him as I smile smugly. "That was slick as fuck."

"..." He just rolls his eyes as he keeps walking.

Maybe I don't mind these guys too much. They're pretty badass.

"So I'm going to have to part ways with you here." I pat him on his shoulder twice before turning away as he boards the elevator. "I have to practice for two performances and record a song."

"That's a lot for one day." He looks at me with a doubting look.

"I can do it." I turn, mimicking his hand wave. "Watch me!"
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I finish recording the song and complete the dance performance practice for my solo. It had been roughly about 5 hours, it was now 1:37pm and I was to practice two performances with 2ne1. One for the I.V.C and another for the general public, the one for the public being the one where I go for my solo.

I meet with the girls and we practice for about 3 more hours. We were exhausted and took a break in between. In that short period the girls decided to have a short conversation with me.

"You know what I think?" Minzy started first. "I think you're just trying to act all hard and stuff to prove you're some shit."

I gave her a boring look. "Nobody cares what you think, Min Min~" I sighed as I took another sip of my water.

"I have to agree with her though." Dara crossed her legs and began rocking back and forth. "You weren't like this."

"Yeah what happened to the, 'What's more important than winning is having everyone truly enjoy our performances' thing? We lived off of that phrase up until last year." Bom continued.

"You know..." I shook my head and laughed. "I seriously can't wait till today is over, where I won't have to see any of you bitches for the rest of my career. Can you get off my case until then?"

"Just tell us why and we'll leave you alone." Minzy said. "I want you to think about it, and give us a good enough reason.

I didn't have one. That's the thing, I was so caught up and stressed with having everyone think our music wasn't superior to the rest that it messed me up, and what was worse is that I didn't want to admit that I was doing anything wrong, when in reality I was doing it all wrong.

"It's time to continue. Breaks over."
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"Well then I'm off." I bid my farewells to all the men In the penthouse after I drop off my training equipment and shower.

"Good luck ladies! We'll be there!" Ota fanboyed as he waved some tickets in the air.

"Yeah yeah." Hyuna rolled her eyes and hopped on the elevator with me. She was the first to perform with 4minute. They were doing it for promotion here in Japan.

"Thanks Ota." I wave as I press the button to the last floor.

Eisuke looked at me with a poker face, Soryu looked disinterested, Baba simply started fanboying with Ota, and Mamoru didn't even glance at us.

Awkwardly, Eisuke and I made eye contact before the elevator fully closed.
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Many performances took place, first 4minute of course, then various others.

By a close vote, sistar came in 2nd place next to us in 1st place.

((Sistar performance here))

The crowd went wild for their performance. It was pretty good, I'll admit.

Next it was us. All of us began making our way to the stage, but...

"Hey. Are you sure?"

I continue walking and leave them behind.

They try to catch up to me, but are stopped by the producers assistants.

"Wh-what's the meaning of this?" Bom asks in the struggle of advancing on stage.

"Just, watch me. On those monitors over there."

"Oh and, of course I'm sure. In fact. I've already started." I chuckle as I leave them behind in awe.