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Twenty

Me POV:

"What do we do now? Things have spread like a wildfire!" I blurted out in shock as Nikki showed me the live news on TV.

"How did they get to know about your Korean tradition and London settlement?" Nikki asked.

"You remember the reporters who reached us when we were talking to Taeyang and Baek Kyung? Maybe those reporters who had come there had stalked me somewhere or somehow got my personal information." I replied, thoughtfully.

Just then my phone rang ~ It was Taeyang.

Phone Conversation:

Taeyang: Hi Ara

Me: Hi

Taeyang: You saw the news?

Me: Yes... Things are going out of control

Taeyang: Yes, I understand. What should we do now?

Me: I - I don't know

Taeyang: Come and meet me at the Palácé Restaurant tomorrow at 5. We should close this controversy before I lose everything

Me: Yeah OK. I'll come.

With that, I hung up the call.

I told Nikki about the conversation that Taeyang and I had.

"Go and meet him."

"He seems so tensed," I told her.

"Maybe he's tensed of the outcomes these controversies would bring up. Or he's scared of losing Brooklyn." Nikki concluded with a frown.

"Brooklyn? Brooklyn Claire?"

"Yes, he already is rumoured to be in a relationship with Brooklyn though neither of them has confirmed it. But fans are almost sure of it. Maybe you can ask him. You're going to meet him tomorrow. So maybe you can..." Nikki fake-smiled. I had understood that her heart hurts whenever she gets to know about such relationship rumours of Taeyang.

The Next Day...

I reached the restaurant where Taeyang had asked me to come. Baek Kyung and Taeyang were already waiting for me. I went towards them and took a seat.

"Taeyang, go on. Speak up. But yes, both of you shouldn't be so formal. Stop being so formal to each other. Be friends with each other or at least, be comfortable with each other." Baek Kyung laughed and I joined him.

"Ok. Fine. Moreover, you don't seem like a toxic fan anyway. So let's be friends, OK?" Taeyang asked with a shine in his eyes.

"Sure!" I smiled and offered my hand forward, which Taeyang took and shook.

"So let's try talking to the media. I don't know if they'll believe us. Still, let's give it a try." Taeyang opted.

"But how do we talk to the media? Are we calling a press meet?" Baek Kyung blurted out, nonsensically.

"Ugh! Are you crazy or are you acting crazy?!" Taeyang loathed his nonsense and continued, "This is not an international issue. We'll take social media to explain what we have to. Will that be fine, Ara?"

"Yeah! Your choice."

Just then the waiter brought us three cups of coffee and we started sipping it. It was clear from Taeyang's expression that he doesn't prefer coffee much. But was taking it in for the sake of consumption.

"I'll come to your house tomorrow evening with Baek Kyung and together, we'll go live on Instagram." Taeyang ended.