SECRET.ED

Chapter 23: Lunar New Year

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-Sunday, February 7, 2021~4:52PM-

~Gauel's POV~

"SECRET.ED on standby." The Inkigayo staff called out.

"Yay!" Yoona exclaimed. "I'm excited!"

"I don't know why." AJ muttered, rolling her eyes. "We have this one performance and then don't have any performance for a week and a half because of Lunar New Year. Part of me wishes we waited a few more weeks to have our comeback."

"Yes, it's not the greatest timing but we should be thankful we at least had one." I said, trying to cheer up my members. "Who knows when we would have had one again if it was pushed back again?"

"Unnie has a point." Rin said, placing a hand on AJ's back.

"Can we cheer before we go on stage, please?" Mini asked in her quiet-like tone.

"Oh, yes!" I exclaimed. "Let's cheer."

I put my hand out and the rest followed, placing their hands on top of one another.

"Although our promotions may be short, let's be thankful to have had a comeback." I started the cheer off. "Let's enjoy the time we spend on stage and do our best for our fans. The sooner we end, the sooner we can have a comeback again. SECRET.ED..."

"Fighting." The girls muttered as they threw their hands down.

"That was weak." I scoffed.

"Well your speech wasn't exactly inspiring, unnie." Rin said.

I looked around at all my members who were nodding in agreement with Rin. I snickered but that's when we got our cue to head on stage.

"We'll have to do it later." I said. "For now, let's go on stage and give our fans something to get excited for."

"That's a better speech." Rin smiled.

We all snickered and headed on stage where we performed for our comeback stage. It sucked that it was our only one for a while but we enjoyed it nonetheless.

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-Friday, February 12, 2021~8:04AM-

~Yoona's POV~

We were at Simply Kpop for the show, waiting in our dressing room when my phone started ringing. I looked at it to see my uncle calling.

"I gotta take this call." I muttered.

I ran out of the dressing room before anyone could say anything and answered the call.

"Hello." I spoke.

"Hey!" My uncle's voice rang through my ears. "How's my favorite niece doing?"

I snickered at his silly excitement for his age.

"I'm doing well, how about you?" I asked.

"Good." He responded. "How do you feel about spending Lunar New Years with your favorite uncle?"

I sighed as I didn't want things to get out that I'm related to PSY.

"Uncle, I would love to but I don't think it's a good idea." I said.

I heard my uncle sigh. It broke my heart knowing that he doesn't like it but I didn't like it either and I don't want to risk anything.

"I'm sorry, uncle." I said.

"It's okay." He replied. "I get it. You don't want people to know we're related."

"I know it sounds bad but-"

"It's okay, Yoona. But please, just visit me once in a while?"

I let out a small smile. "I'll try."

He sighed. "I guess that's better than not. Goodbye Yoona."

"Goodbye uncle." I said. "I love you."

"Love you too." He quickly muttered before hanging up the phone.

I felt my heart break as the call ended. I hate the way I make my uncle feel but I'm afraid of how the public will feel if they found out.

I took a moment to recollect myself before making my way back into the dressing room.

"Everything alright, Yoona?" Gaeul asked.

"Yeah." I nodded.

I sat down without saying anything else. I put headphones in to tell my members I didn't want to talk and started to listen to JYP songs, dancing to every single one as I did so, hoping to get my mind off of things before our performance started.

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-Thursday, February 18, 2021~5:18PM-

~Mini's POV~

I was sitting on the couch in our dressing room, sketching in my notepad, when Yoona sat down beside me. She was looking up the lineup for today when she spoke.

"Woah~" She said. "Don't you think special stages are so exciting?"

I looked at her and thought for a moment before nodding. "Yeah, I guess so."

"I mean, imagine performing on stage with your friends from other groups." Yoona continued. "Don't you think that would be fun?"

"I guess." I shrugged, continuing to focus on my drawing.

"Mini." Yoona said, turning to me. "Imagine performing a duet with Chani."

I stopped drawing for a second. The sound of his name made me automatically smile. I did what she told me to and imagined being on stage with Chani and couldn't help but smile even more. I looked at Yoona.

"That would be exciting." I said.

"See?" She said.

"Who is doing a special stage today?" I asked out of curiosity.

"The hosts are performing Dream by Suzy and Baekhyun, and then some members from Astro, Pentagon, and Victon are performing BTS' Idol."

"Wow~ That does sound pretty cool."

"Yeah..."

I looked at Yoona to see her leaned back, just looking up. I could tell she was in her own little imagination world. I snickered then got back to my drawing. I let her enjoy her imagination as I sketched. However, for the rest of the night, I had the image of performing with Chani stuck in my mind. I hoped for it to happen some day, even if we are both rappers.

~Authors Note~

Hey guys! Sorry this chapter is so short. I thought I was going to have a LI moment at the end but then I realized I was thinking of the wrong character lol. I thought Mini's li was Rocky but that's Leah of KND. Sorry about that but I wanted to do something still so I don't rush through promotions. Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed and I'll see you soon. Biez!