"what?" i asked, mouth agape and eyes glaring at the ceo. "a collaboration with seventeen?"

our ceo just shrugged nonchalantly, "does it really matter, yuna? we have no choice. if you won't accept this proposal, fans will keep on dwelling about the fact that sojung and seokjin are dating until now."

"but what about yerin-unnie? people will think that she and...whoever will be partnered with her are dating!" i argue, exclaiming. we seriously didn't want dongmin and yerin-unnie fight again.

not after that cursed mv—people started partnering yerin-unnie with taehyung-oppa.

the ceo sighs again, "i'm sure dongmin will understand."

at his words, i grit my teeth, seething in anger. did he really not care about us? we all know what happened when that interaction with bts happened.

the eunrin couple almost broke up.

"yuna, can you handle being partnered with seokmin?" our ceo asks cautiously. "you might be angry at the fact that—"

"i'll do it." i answer. i don't care being partnered with seokmin—as long as yerin-unnie and dongmin won't break up. "on one condition: you have to make sure that yerin-unnie won't be breaking up with dongmin."

the ceo—as well as our manager—froze. they probably didn't expect this.

after a few heartbeats, they relent, sighing, "we can't promise you that, yuna. but we'll try."

i nod grimly, "good—because if they break up because of this collaboration, i'm going back to cube."

our manager nods feverishly, then dismisses me.

once i got out of the room though, tears start falling out of my eyes.

seokmin...

this might make me fall in love with him again.

"although i like you,
i'm looking elsewhere."