It had been a few months and it was getting towards the end of the year ceremonies. But before that could even start. I woke up to a bunch of articles. It was about the group. All of the headlines the same. People were saying that Katsuki was bullying the members. There was 'evidence' apparently. It was all a big stretch. Not smiling and things like that. I then left the room and saw Katsuki on the sofa. "People hate me. They hate me and why." She said and I looked at her. Sitting beside her.
"Don't listen to them. People are trying to get a reaction. And we won't give them one okay. Besides we will all back you up no matter what. At promotions today just take no notice." I said to her. We were currently midway through our promotions for our new album. Our title track seemed quite fitting at the moment. It was Nemy's choice and it was called Fake Lies. Which was on theme with these allegations.
"I'll give them hell Ae." She said to me and I hugged her with a smile on my face.
"I'm so glad that I've taught you well." I said to her with a smile. We all ate and then started on our ways to go to Music Bank. I was excited because Stray Kids were going to be around today. When we got there we all got changed.
That's when our manager got me, Nemy and Jihye. We were going to be doing the Fake Lies challenge with Stray Kids. When I saw Hyunjin, Changbin and Felix I felt my jaw drop. We then bowed to them. "Aella's a really big fan." Nemy said to her and they smiled.
"It's so nice to meet you three." I said to them and they all smiled at us.
"It's nice to meet you three to. When I first heard your debut song it was stuck in my head for a while. Changbin was singing it a lot." Felix said and Changbin looked at me.
"Hey, don't expose me like that." He said making us smile. We first started out with doing the LALALA challenge which I loved every second of and you could tell by the look on my face I was smiling the whole time. This was a dream come true to me. After that we then started on Fake Lies. It was an even more challenging choreography then Near Miss. I smiled seeing how they were all doing it well. To me this was an incredible experience and I was glad that I was getting to do this challenge with them. When we were finished we thanked each other.
"Before you go. We have a signed Rockstar album for you. I know that you look up to us a lot." Hyunjin said and he passed the album over to me. I looked at Nemy.
"Thank you so much I really appreciate it." I said to them and that's when Jihye got the album.
"We have a signed Truth album for you as well." Jihye said and she handed it over to them.
"Thank you so much and Aella when the next comeback comes out. I'm happy to do the challenge with you." Changbin said to me and I looked at him with a smile.
"I will don't worry." I said to him with a smile. We said our goodbyes and then headed back to our room. I was definitely on some kind of high from all of that. When it came around to going on stage I saw the crowd. A black ocean but we still had to keep preforming with our smiles on. No matter how much it hurt. On the way back I was in the minibus with Nemy, Azumi and Aree. We went live.
"Hey, everyone. Have you all eaten?" Aree asked them and they all started commenting on the situation.
"We all just want to clear up what the current situation is. Mainly the rumors which have been going around." Azumi said and that's when a lot of the comments started to change.
"To address everything. Katsuki has never once done anything that people have accused her of doing. I don't know if a lot of people have noticed but we all have times where we don't smile. Just because Katsuki didn't smile when Geuroo had that accomplishment doesn't mean she wasn't happy for her. Katsuki took her out to dinner that night in celebration. There's so many instances that she's been accused of and all of which can be debunked." I said to them all and that's when Nemy looked at her.
"We are all human at the end of the day and we will never always be happy because that's impossible to do and when your tired and exhausted you don't exactly want to keep smiling and being happy. People need to understand. Especially when our title track is Fake Lies and people seem to believe these fake lies over our friend and your idol." Nemy said to them and that's when we saw all the comments change. People were forgiven and apologized for what they had done to Katsuku and others wanted her to talk about it. For her to apologize and she would. But she had nothing to be sorry for. Katsuki was currently in a car alone so that she could go to the company to make her statement. And once it would come out I would hope that people would apologize. The way people had talked about her today was heartbreaking and she never deserved that.
"Onto some lighter topics now. Aella is currently the happiest person in the world." Aree said and Azumi looked at the camera with a smile.
"She was buzzing all day because she met her favorite group." Azumi said and I looked at the camera.
"I did a challenge with Nemy and Jihye. That's not the bit that had me excited we did it with Hyunjin, Felix and Changbin of Stray Kids and they were the kindest people of all time. I got a signed album of Rockstar and Changbin said that he was to do all the challenges we come out with and do it with him. He's a big fan according to Felix." I said to them all and Nemy looked at me with a smile.
"You should've seen our social butterfly. She's usually so shy to talk to her idols but she was so comfortable with Stray Kids. And I hope we get to promote with them again." Nemy said with a smile. When we got back I made my way over to the practice room. Ricky was coming over to film a Fake Lies challenge with me and I was going to do one for Crush.
"Aella I missed you today at Music Bank." He said as he hugged me. We hadn't seen each other in so long.
"I was busy fangirling but now we can finally do what we promised each other." I said to him with a smile. I saw that my manager was just sitting at the back. He didn't really care who we were friends with.
"I've been practicing the chorus and you always make sure to make it challenging." He said to me and I looked at him with a smile.
"It's not fun if it's easy. We have to make sure it goes hard so people will remember us. Just like how you guys always have really catchy songs." I said to him and that's he started teaching me the Crush choreography. When I could do it I then started to film the challenges with him. We started with Fake Lies and it was fun doing it with Ricky. I could see him smiling at me when we did it and it made my heart feel warm. When we'd filmed both we then went and talked in the cafe before we went out separate ways for the day. How I wanted to come clean with this secret.
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The Contract // Ricky X OC // ZB1 ✔️
FanfictionA scandal that's what we would be called if people knew about us. Ricky and Aella had been in a relationship for longer than the two could even remember. They'd become trainees to idols and now it was up to them to make sure to keep their relationsh...