the sister of the angel // wen junhui

Chapter 30 ~ Problems That Pile Onto Each Other

Yuju's POV

I clicked onto the video, and I had to admit the sasaeng could easily convince someone. He looked kind of annoyed and negative.

The video had already reached a million views, and the comments section was flooded. Netizens believed that Seungcheol really did give a fan a dirty look and were bashing him. On the other hand, CARATs, and even ONCEs began defending Seungcheol. The TWICETEEN collaboration had really impacted them from the looks of it.

"Hello, earth to Yuju?"

I blinked. Vernon was waving his hand in front of my face.

"Oh sorry, what were you saying Vernon?" I apologized.

"Do you want the rest of my jjajangmyeon?" he asked.

"Okay, thanks," I smiled.

I slowly slurped each thin noodle at a time, licking my lips to make sure I had no sauce around my mouth. Still thinking about the sasaeng, I made no conversation with anyone else and continued eating.

"Yuju, it's time to go," Jun whispered.

"Oh, okay," I said.

We said bye to TWICE and we headed into the cars to head back to the dorm. I decided to get some sleep to take my mind off of things.

Right before my eyes closed, I saw Seungcheol staring at his phone with a sad expression. It had to be the video.

I closed my eyes. Nothing could possibly get even worse at this point.

*

I was right.

The second we got back, Seungcheol ran back into the 95 liners' and Jun's room and shut the door and locked it. No one could get through. He only let Jeonghan, Jisoo, and Jun come in to get their clothes. Other than that, the door to their room never opened and no sounds escaped from it.

Joshua/Jisoo's POV

I sighed. With Seungcheol acting like this, we had to be able to SOMEHOW get to him so he would be the happy person he was when he was performing.

I decided to do something about it. I grabbed the key to our room and unlocked the door. Seungcheol looked up at the sound of my footsteps.

"Seungcheol," I started. "Can we talk?"

"What is there to talk about?" Seungcheol muttered.

"Why are you acting this way?" I asked.

"THAT VIDEO, OKAY? EVERYONE THINKS IM THIS IDIOTIC LEADER WHO DISLIKES HIS OWN FANDOM! I HAVE A REASON TO BE UPSET!"

"That was out of line," I scolded. "Can we talk normally?"

Seungcheol glared at me.

"Fine, be that way. Seungcheol, I think you're a great leader, and it doesn't matter if a few people think you're bad. We all still care about you, and we need you. Don't let something like this get to you."

Seungcheol sighed and cleared his throat.

"You're right Jisoo. I'm sorry for acting like this. Give me a day and I'll be ready for our next performance."

"Thanks Seungcheol."

Yuju's POV (while joshua was talking to seungcheol)

The dorm was quiet. Too quiet to feel safe. I grabbed Jun's arm and brought him to my room.

"Junnie," I said quietly. "Do you want to look at the album? PD-nim gave me a copy of both versions."

"Sure," he smiled.

We began looking through the dream version, and we smiled the whole way through. The photos had turned out nicely and I was really happy with the result. The puffy clouds and each pose and position fit each picture perfectly. It was truly amazing. Our bright smiles and happy faces made me wish that was how we were like right now, but altogether it made me feel happy again.

Next was the dark version, and that was when something weird happened.

SEVENTEEN had disappeared from every single photo they were supposed to be in.

There were no single shots of the members, and they had been cropped out of the couple photos.

"How the heck..." I said.

"What?" Jun asked.

"You guys have disappeared from all of the photos."

We carefully flipped through each photo and confirmed my suspicion.

SEVENTEEN had vanished from the dark version of the 2015 collaboration.

*

My mind began to race. This was all because of the sasaeng. It had to be. Who else could it be? No one at Pledis would deliberately sabotage SEVENTEEN, because it would also affect them.

I was mostly worried for SEVENTEEN though.

Scandals piled up on one another. If they had enough, it could turn into something ugly. They could go down in popularity, they would lose money, and everything would just go horribly wrong. And I definitely did not want that to happen.

Jun left a few minutes later and I paced around my room, trying to think of a way to solve this problem.

Just confess to SEVENTEEN about the sasaeng and get more help. It'll be easier that way.

What if they get mad that I'm hiding something from them?

That won't matter if they have nothing because you didn't tell them a piece of very important information. If anything, you should've told them from the very start.

I don't want them to be mad at me.

Well even so, they'd be even angrier if you didn't say anything at all.

I sat down on my head and covered my face in my hands. How much stress can one person take in one lifetime?

"EVERYONE MEET IN THE LIVING ROOM NOW!"

Jisoo's usually calm voice rang with mixed feelings. Confused, I got up and walked out to the living room. Everyone was there, even Seungcheol.

"Seungcheol oppa, are you alright from earlier?" I asked.

"Yes I'm fine, thank you for asking," Seungcheol smiled.

"Okay I brought you all here to address something," Jisoo interrupted.

"We're going down in popularity, but we're still doing alright. Thanks to Junju, that is. However, we need to find the source of all of these problems. It may all be from one person, you know. And that person could be a sasaeng. Does anyone have anything they might want to tell us? It might save us our reputation."

"Actually, I think I may have something that could help."

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