The New Managers

Chapter Eighteen

Jin smirks and glances at He script on the table. "What do you think I am?"
"I... I want to believe that you're a good guy, of course." She hedges quietly.
He smiles mischievously and slurps up some noddles. "Why would I announce that I'm using her? That no one else can touch her?"
She snaps her fingers and points at him. "Good point. Of course you're the good guy. No good show has a bad character as the lead role."
Jin's smile widens slightly. "It's genius isn't it? In order to protect the girl he likes. He's forced to bully her."
"Brilliant." Mina raps her forehead. "Just as long as he's not so mean that he pushes her away."
Jin frowns. "She'll understand, won't she?"
The girl shrugs. "I guess we'll see, won't we?"
He sighs and shrugs. "I'm-"
His phone goes off and he answers it.

Mina falls silent, allowing him privacy in his conversation. She continues to eat, and pulls out her phone to check any notifications.
He frowns and stares down at his food. "They did?"
Just as he says this, Mina sees the release of the interview they'd done a couple weeks ago. Curious, and a bit nervous, she taps on the notification and waits for the page to load.

'BTS's new 'managers' were announced and introduced during an interview. When asked about their duties as female managers, the topic was quickly dodged and many of the members seemed nervous when asked.'

Mina's brow furrows. "I don't remember that..." she thinks. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, she continues reading.

'The managers are young ARMYs who are completely infatuated with the members. Are they really just managing their lives?'

Her jaw drops in disbelief and anger. Jin looks up at her, the phone pressed to his ear. "I think she saw it."
Mina looks up at him, jaw now clenched in anger. She points to her phone and the article.
Jin scoots forwards to look at in and groans. "Great. This could ruin us..."
he hangs up soon after.

Mina bottles her emotion up in order to keep from taking it out on anyone around. "This is absolute bull! They didn't even ask these questions!"
"We have no proof. They could've asked if we sleep with you is the media is concerned."
Mina passes a hand through her hair, feeling the stress. "There must be a way to disprove this article."

She skims through the rest of it, finding that none of it has evidence and almost all of it is misquoted.
Jin takes a deep breath as the director calls for the next scene. "We'll figure it out later." He assures.
She nods with a heavy sigh. "Good luck out there. Break a leg!"

Meanwhile, SuHee is woken from her rest to her phone buzzing with notifications. She whines a little and reaches for it, still feeling groggy and sick. The notifications are mostly from the group chat with the boys about the article. Jimin is freaking out, yelling in Korean, while Namjoon is attempting to keep everyone calm and under control.

"Calm down, Jimin. There's nothing we can do about it. Yelling isn't going to help." Namjoon writes in both Korean and English.
SuHee frowns and hesitates for a moment. "What article?"
"Dispatch published their article from out interview the other day." Namjoon explains. He sends a link as well.
SuHee reads the article and smirks a little. '😏'
The boys fall silent.
"...??"
'Unless I'm just sick rn, I have a plan. Leave to me'
"What are you talking about, Noona?" Jungkook asks.
SuHee pouts. 'Can't type right. Sorry. Heads foggy. I'll take care of it. Don't stress.' She hums and quickly adds 'it's Gucci😉'
"Gucci!" Taehyung recognizes a word and repeats it over and over until the others tell him to stop.
SuHee laughs and it turns into a coughing fit. She sighs and lays back down. 'Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang. I'm going to finis sleeping toff this thingy now. L8r .'
The boys less fluent in English are baffled at this. Namjoon gives a quick translation.
"She said she's going to sleep. -Sleep well, Su. We'll see you later."
"Get better!" Hobi tells her.
She sends a couple Purple Hearts and falls back to sleep almost instantly.