Number 1 (aespa X Male Reader)

Apart

Y/N POV

I woke up and realized that Winter wasn't in bed, it made me sad for a moment and it was soon gone after Winter entered back my room holding her phone looking nervous.

"Good morning love" I said to her, feeling happy that I get to see her again.

"Y/N............" she sadly answered me making me nervous.

"I-is there something wrong?" I immediately think about the things that I have did wrong to her last night but as I recall nothing happened.

"It's our manager..... he wants us to go back to Korea today" Winter told me making me confused from the sudden change of plans.

"Wha? Wait why?" I asked her, still lost plus I just woke up.

"Come on, Jimin unnie can explain it to you outside" She said as I followed her to the living room, everyone was already awake with their bags and luggages prepared on the side.

"What's going on?" I asked them once again still feeling lost.

They all stared at each other first before Giselle started to explain to me.

"Apparently there has been a rumour going out in Korea and our manager said that it's ruining our group reputation" Giselle answered me with a disbelief face.

"And manager oppa wants us to go back home now to lessen the damage" Karina sounded sad saying that.

"Rumour? What rumour?" I questioned them as Winter just stayed quiet behind me.

"Here" Ningning showed me an article on her phone.

'Y/N reportedly to be dating one of the aespa members' the title showed.

"H-how?" I felt sorry for them and was regretting every single decision that I made.

"It's ok Y/N, that's how the media works. We should've been more careful" Karina reassured me.

"These people always manage to find a way to make people's lives more miserable!" Giselle madly exclaimed.

"I-i don't know what to say. I-i'm s-sorry" I let my head down.

"Hey it's not your fault" Winter hugged me with tears in her eyes slowly forming up.

"We can still see each other right?" I hesitantly asked her as I cup her face with one hand.

She didn't answer me and started to cry.

"I don't know Y/N. We're gonna have a meeting with our manager when we get back in Korea" She spoke, half crying.

I don't know what to say at that moment and just embraced her fully, hoping that it's not going to be our last time.

"We have to go Minjeong ah, the driver is already here" Karina told her as they picked up their bags.

"If anything happens......just now that I still love you with all my heart" Winter said to me sniffling.

The thought of not being able to be with Winter made me sad and I also almost teared up but I tried to stay strong in front of her so she doesn't worry about me throughout her day.

"Me too" I briefly replied her, the pain in my heart was blocking me from saying what I wanted to say to her.

We let go of the hug and she picked up her bag and headed out my apartment with her members, I could only watch them leave helplessly. My vision was getting blurry due to the tears forming up.

After the door was closed, I immediately cried, feeling sorry, regretful, annoyed and many more that I can't state. I mainly felt sorry for Winter, seeing her cry like that and not comforting her and be there for her was like the biggest mistake of my life.

I swear if I could run, i would have ran to her and hug her one last time. I threw my crutches and shouted from the anger holding up in me.

I never knew how happy I was when the girls were here and now that they're gone, I felt empty and depressed.
                
              
Winter POV

I cried very hard when we exited his apartment, I wish I could stay to comfort him. I could see his eyes getting all watery when we hugged just now. I also heard him cry when we closed the door which made my heart break.

I was a crying mess once again heading back to the airport and when we arrived, the members comforted me to stop crying and luckily it worked. I had to put on a mask and sunglasses to cover up my puffy face from all the crying.

There were fans waiting for us at the airport as they knew our presence from the viral article. The other members walked as usual, greeting and receiving gifts from the fan while me, I just walked straight, ignoring all the things happening around me only thinking about Y/N.

I was hoping that Y/N was doing fine right now. Knowing that he's still using those crutches, aches my heart seeing how hard it is for him.

We boarded our plane and the whole ride was silent as the members were also in a bad mood from the airport just now.

A so-called fan was shouting to us as he cursed to Y/N like he did something wrong, I mentally cursed him back and saw that the girls were also mad by the so-called fan's action.

As I stared through the beautiful city that Y/N was living in from the skies, I realised that we didn't properly said goodbye to each other. That broke my heart once again as I cried silently while holding my mouth with my hand.

Karina unnie who was beside me rubbed my back and said nothing as she just kept on patting and rubbing my back.

After the very long flight, we finally arrived at Korea, greeted by a crowd of fans and reporters.

Again like last time, I just walked through ignoring everything but one comment from the fan made me react to her.

"Winter unnie, don't mind the haters, we will keep supporting you in whatever situation you're in! So please stay strong" The comment honestly made me happy and I smiled to the fan as she showed me her fighting fists.

The reporter was getting annoying as they bombarded us with questions. Good thing the security was tight making them pushed away from us easily.

When we entered our van, our manager who was driving it said.

"We have something important to talk about" He said as he started driving making us nervous.