Back to December (WINRINA/JIMINJEONG)

: the scandal

"Karina? Is it true that you b*llied the girl???"

"Why you did that??"

"Will you consider to apologize? What would you do for this case????"

Seems like all those journalists won't stop asking her the same thing. Like since the news came out, the reporters didn't stop to torturing her with all those questions. Her bodyguards and manager tried their best to make a room for her to walk into their company. After hearing all those screams they finally get in.

"Oh goodness, they are like zombies from that movie. It's kind of scary"

"Mrs. Karina, we should go to the top fast. Our CEO keeps calling me"

"Yah! Don't you see how exhausted I am rn?! I barely can breath, at least gimme the dang infused water!"

"Ah yeah, okay... here"

After 3 gulps, they quickly run to the lift. The manager seems more panicked by each "Ding!", while the star her self feel too tense to even talk. They wait til the elevator gets up to the last floor, from afar there's a big door where the boss welcome them with an unhappy face.

"KARINA!!! WTF IS THIS?!!! YOU BETTER EXPLAIN IT TO ME RIGHT NOW!"

The woman just walk into the room and sit on the leather sofa with her annoyed look.

"Geez, chill out would ya? Calm down a bit, old man. Look, as you can see... It's still a rumor because that girl just posted without any proof. I can still sue her for that"

"Woops, I guess you should check out the last post... Princess! She said she has too many proofs, and the other witnesses have been speak out too about your lil girl gang! The hell is this?! And I already received the suing letters with several photo scans in it! Read it by your self!"

The man throw the papers to the table. Karina start to read it, flipping those papers by each slides. It's true, the photo was pretty clear enough to send her to the court. She couldn't believe her own eyes either. Now she knows, she screwed up.

"Wait... there's no freaking way she could took any picture while she still got beaten up... How the hell did she-"

"So, all of this are true? YOU REALLY BXLLIED HER?! AND YOU STILL CAN GIVING ME THE ATTITUDE?!"

Karina is trying so hard to keep her cool. Thinking how to escape this case. She thinks that she can't just accept it and go to the prison like that. Then she give up and questioning what the boss could do about it.

"Mr. Pierre, I know that you're disappointed in me but you have to help me. I'm really sorry for all this time that I never treated you in the most respectful way but you should remember that I helped you to build this company to become the prestigious Entertainment company in NYC this year. You even can finally got NEWJEANS and MAMAMOO to signed with your company as their American Agency because of my reputation. You can't lose me, and I can not give up to my job. So please, we have to find any better solution to fix this"

This is the first time Karina shows how terrified she is. Well, of course all of them knows how important this job for her. Mr. Pierre sighing, try to calm him self.

"Alright, I'll tell our main team to discuss and hopefully we could get a good result. Now, Mr. Howard... Come with me to the meeting room. And you, missy messy... stay here til we come back. Got it?!"

Karina only give her thumbs up. Then all the people left the room except her. She waits, and waits, then waits again while continuing her reading of the papers. She notice that this person only highlighting her as the main suspect. Her highschool gang was mentioned but only Karina's name on it. She doesn't find any names like Ryujin, Lia, nor Chaewon. She thought that it's unfair for her to be the only one that got throw out from the bus. Let alone that not just one only victim that she has to face off, it's says that the person who sue her already testified the witnesses. About Aeri, it's obvious because she wasn't even involved. Karina read it while she bite her nails. Her panic attack starts to kick in but suddenly the door was opened by her boss and the manager. She let her self breath in and out on repeat before she talk again.

"So... Any good idea that comes in mind? Better be good"

Pierre seems amused before start to speak. He seems unsure but here goes nothing, he thought.

"All of us already decided... that you'll go back to S.Korea by tomorrow afternoon with economy class seat to fool those paparazzi around. You have to go to Busan to meet with the victim, well... We will try to keep searching for her exact location too cause you have to apologize to her and we will finish the rest of it. Also surprisingly tho, we got an information from one of NGO for volunteering activities in SK that they have a special program for a month in Daehang Village to help the community in there and it will be ready by next week. So we could use that one week to make her considering her decision to continue the sued"

"Hold on. You want me to go back to Busan with an ECONOMY CLASS!? Don't say that this is the only option for me?! And also, why the fuck do I have to do that 'volunteering' thingy?! That's bullshit!"

"Well, yes I will send you back to there and for the volunteer program, I mean think about it Karina. It could help you to boost up your name back after we handle this situation. People will think that you're not just about your pretty face, but also you'll get a new fans because they might think that you're that 'humble' too. Isn't that good?"

Karina can not believe what her boss just said. But at the same time, she also can't think of any better in her mind. After she thought that all of his ideas doesn't seems so bad, she finally agreeing it by nodding her head.

"PERFECT! Aight now you could go cause you need to start pack your bags and suitcase. Oh yeah also, Mr. Howard... You shouldn't help her cause you won't go with her. I need you to manage MAMAMOO since they will held their concert in NYC for next month"

"The fuck did you just sai-"

"You should be fast by now, rin... Take care, goodluck and adios my amigo~"

The boss push her out from this door, and slam it. It successfully make her feel more pissed. For her, this moment is so shameful.

"Damn it! That old hag!"

She still being mad but realizing that she has to save her career that she's been build for her own wellbeing makes her accept the challenge. She really hope that she can finish all this shit as fast as they could. She only packs the most important things and go to sleep. With a lil hope that they could make it possible to get the forgiveness from the victim. Well, she hope so...

-tbc-