Stay Away - Choi Chanhee the boyz New

Day Off

    The next morning I wore the same clothes as yesterday and got out of bed around 8. I left the dorm quietly because everyone was still sleeping. I looked around the hallway and took the elevator a floor up to search as well.

    "What are you doing up?" I heard a voice and looked up to see my favorite brother Kevin.

    "Oh, hey, I'm looking for my phone. I didn't realize but I must have dropped it somewhere," I told him.

    "Oh, right... that's weird," Kevin fibbed. The truth is, Chanhee took Hana's phone so she wouldn't see the comments until they could talk to the managers. "don't worry Hana, I'm sure it'll turn up," Kevin said, and took out his phone because it started ringing. "Oh, hi chanhee, yep I'm on my way. see ya," he hung up.

    "Chanhee is up too? And here he was lecturing me about resting," I scoffed.

    Kevin smirked, "he really does care about you just so you know. And I have to go, I have a meeting with er... my manager," Kevin ran off before I could ask why.

I shrugged and went back to the dorm. At around 1 o clock Chanhee knocked on our dorm. Eunbi answered it and let him inside.

    "HANA YOUR BOYFRIEND IS HERE," she shouted. I ran out and slid on my socks ready to whack her.

    I stopped once I saw him, "Oh hey chanhee,"

    He just laughed and set a plastic bag on the counter. "here, Changmin and I picked up lunch,"

    "Ah thanks, but we're on a diet," I said, and linked arms with Eunbi.

    "Who caresssss," Chanhee whined.

    "Only everyone," Eunbi scoffed.

    "What if I told you I know where your phone is?" Chanhee said.

    I widened my eyes, "huh? where? tell me!"

    "I'll tell you after lunch," he said, and took out the food. I sighed and all three of us ate. Chanhee left to go fetch my phone and Eunbi turned to me.

    "He likes you," she said.

    "We're just friends," I put away the food.

    "Riiiight, you're so dense Hana! Just ask him out already!" Eunbi stomped her feet. "It's killing all of us. And by all of us I mean all of NEON and The Boyz,"

    "Whatever, I have enough backlash going around me anyways,"

"but you're not denying that you like him!" Eunbi squealed.

I shooed her away. Chanhee knocked on the door again.

    "We have the same key," I told him. "You could just come in,"

    "Remember what happened in Kevin's dorm?" He asked. We both shuddered at the memory.

    "anyways, here," Chanhee handed me my iphone.

    "Where was it??"

    "Changmin found it downstairs," He lied.

    "Great!! Thanks, I'll thank him later," I smiled. I opened my phone to see if our performance was there, and sure it was, but the comments are turned off...?

    "Huh, that's weird. Did they do this to you guys?" I showed Chanhee the video.

    "No, I don't think so... I don't know why," he shrugged casually.

    "hmm, too bad i didn't have my phone, I didn't check earlier," I sighed and skipped to the encore stage. They cropped out the part where those people threw their waterbottle at me, and conveniently showed Kiki during the part where I cried a bit. I sighed, disappointed but not surprised.

    After Chanhee left, I basically watched tv for the rest of the day until I laid in bed on my phone. I got a text from an unknown number so I opened it.

Unknown
Dear Hana, please stop stealing the spotlight for useless reasons. Thanks to you, the comment
section is blocked for NEON's first performance. Be professional and act like a regular idol. Thank you

    I frowned, why thanks to me? they completely blocked out the parts that showed the conflict on the encore stage.

Me
Who is this? I think you might have the wrong number.

Unknown
Don't play dumb, and it doesn't matter who I am, these are the thoughts of everyone.

I closed the app and took a deep breath. This is normal... right? I sighed and got out of bed. Everyone was asleep so I went out for some fresh air again and traced my footsteps to the nearest convenience store.

I ended up walking to the bridge and standing in the middle. I looked down at the river below, it's a pretty far drop. But for some reason it didn't seem to scare me. I closed my eyes and all of the memories in the past weeks flooded back. No no this is not normal. Idols don't usually get this hate right after debut. What do I do? Who do I tell? There's no backing out, there's no escape from this world. That girl was right, they're tearing me apart in this industry.

I sat on top of the thick railing and breathed in the mist that the wind swept up from the river. Suddenly I felt two arms wrap around my waist and pull me back to them.

"Hana!" I could tell it was Chanhee without even looking back. He didn't let go and we both caught our breaths.

"Y-you can let go now," I patted his arms. He let go and turned me to face him. I stifled a laugh, the poor boy came out in his white T shirt and blue Pj pants with ducks on them. He dramatically kneeled down on the floor balancing on his adidas slides.

"Why are you crying??" I laughed and kneeled down to match him.

"I'm n-not," he sniffed and wiped his eyes. I ruffled his blonde and blue hair, a weird combination but Chanhee can style any hair. He looked up, no tears just a red nose.

"Liar," I smiled at him. Suddenly he pulled me into a hug.

"I thought you were- I thought you... I thought you weren't safe," he stuttered. I patted his back,

"there there it's okay," I smiled.

he pulled back and looked into my eyes. "No, I should be asking if you are okay! Why were you up there?"

"I don't know, I just came for some fresh air... I just. I'ts nothing. I'm fine," I smiled.

"Hana, you're not fine. I don't want to assume what you're feeling, but I know you've changed. Please tell me. You can trust me," Chanhee said.

I sat on the floor and leaned my back on the bridge. "I know I'm so lucky to debut at all. But... is it just luck?" I looked down at my hands.

"No! You are insanely talented, you dance better than I could ever, and you're voice is almost as angelic as mine," Chanhee said.

"Then why does everyone hate me?? Why do people throw things at me? And-and why do people write horrible comments and spread rumors and message threats to me??" I finally broke down and started sobbing. Chanhee pulled me closer and patted my hair until I stopped.

"Who texted you?" He asked quietly.

"I don't know," I whispered and took out my phone to show him. He gasped and covered his mouth. I wiped my eyes and leaned back on the bridge. We talked for about an hour and planned to have me do more VLives to get closer to fans and talk to my band mates about what's happening. We stopped when Chanhee started shivering. I laughed at him slightly and we just stared at each other.

"Thank you, for caring. Even if you nag too much" I said suddenly.

"hana I'll alway care about you." He leaned closer and tilted my chin up. I closed my eyes and we kissed...

<3 chuu~