Torn Between: (discontinued! Read Under Wraps for new story)

Chapter 18: Tabloids and Tears

*Sophie's POV*

It had been a week since the football match and I had spent the weekend with Beast, mainly finishing up on coursework with DongWoon, but sometime their manager would let me go to photo shoots and shows and watch them from the back. Sometime I would be at the studio with them until the early hours of the morning so I ended up staying at their place more than we intended. I didn't mind it when fans would somehow manage to slip past security and get into the studio and throw themselves at the guys. Okay I lied, I would get a little jealous. And them being who they are, they would chat and laugh with them until they were dragged off by security.

In the short amount of time, we had become astonishingly close. DongWoon and I were study buddies, I was teaching Yoseob how to cook the food I make for them on a regular basis. DooJoon was my football partner and I was coaching him on how to perform a bicycle kick, which was taking much longer than I had anticipated. Gikwang and HyunSeung were having language lessons from me. Trying to teach these two English, Japanese and Mandarin was hard, especially when they started messing around. I've lost count of how many times I've had to whack them across the back of their heads to get the to pay attention. And finally, JunHyung was my hiphop partner, we would dance and improvise to random tracks on the radio and he had even incorporated the moves I made up in the music video they were working on. But best if all, JunHyung and I would sometimes make bets and joke about, pranking the others. He was my partner in crime.

We were all sitting down in the lounge of the set they were just about to get interviewed at, getting ready to promote their upcoming full length album. As usual we were all having a laugh and reading magazines that contained articles on themselves.

"I can't believe you guys actually read girly magazines about yourselves," I managed to say, but was laughing so hard it was getting difficult to breath. I held up one that had Yoseob on the front cover walking with a girl. He had a cute smile on his face. The girl was wearing a cute white dress and Yoseob had black skinny jeans and his white polo on and was looking down at his phone. The title read 'Yoseob's Secret Girlfriend'. He snatched it out if my hands before I could read the article.

"What the fuck!" He cursed looking at the front cover. He flipped to the page the full story was on and tore the pages out and waved them in the air. "She's not my girlfriend!" He tore the pages up into tiny pieces. "She's my sister!"

None of us could hold it in, we all burst out laughing and started to fall over each other. About five minutes later after we'd calmed DooJoon squeezed Yoseob's cheeks and cooed, "Aww, is iccle Yoseobbie upset?" We all laughed when he scowled at his hyung. So freaking cute. He huffed, folded his arms and fell onto his chair, sulking.

I saw a picture of DongWoon on one I hadn't read out to the guys yet. He looked very dashing. I opened it up to page ten where the article was. The guys hasn't noticed I was reading it. As soon as I looked at the title and the picture that filled half the A4 sized page I though I was going to scream. My eyes must have looked like they were going to pop out and I swear I stopped breathing. My hands began to shake, but I tried to keep it as cool as possible without the guys noticing there was something wrong.

In bold letters was a title; 'DongWoon's New Dream Girl'. And then under that was a huge, crystal clear picture of me and DongWoon lying in the field on top of me. Had they seriously used one of their song names as a title? What the fuck? How could this happen? I looked down and read the article with my heart pounding furiously in my chest. I looked at the guys, who were still chatting away and hasn't noticed me.

Luckily for me DongWoon had taught me how to read Hangul so I looked down and read,

'We all know Beast member DongWoon is heavily sort after by thousands if girls. But has one finally managed to catch this maknae's eye? The Beast members have always been secretive when it comes to girls but have they finally stepped out from behind the curtains to go public with their relationships. The image above shows Dongwoon getting incredible close to an unknown girl last week in a football field with his band mates standing by. Is she somebody significant, or is she a fan that gets her fling with her celebrity?...'

It kept going for another page and I didn't date read anymore because I could feel the tears start to form. I had to leave. I set the magazine down on the sofa, avoiding looking at the guys, especially DongWoon. In a suppressed, calm tone I said, "I'm going to go get a coffee." And just as I was about to leave a tear rolled down my cheek.

"Sophie, why are you crying?" Gikwang asked.

"Wait, you're crying? What's wrong?" HyunSeung said worried.

I couldn't take it, I needed to get out of there. A fan suddenly blew three the door waving the article about in the air screaming at us all. "How could you do this to me, DongWoon, why can't I be this girl?" It was then that she saw me and pointed at me. "You?!" She growled. I bolted through the door, knocking the girl out of the way, I heard the lads yell 'what the hell' in Koran.

Running down some hallways that I didn't recognise, I turned knob after knob hoping one would open, then on the tenth try I found an open room so I flung myself in and shut the door. I just needed some time alone. How could this have happened? I never wanted any if this. I never realised that hanging out with celebrities had its downfalls, but I completely forgot about their idol status when I'm around them because they really are ordinary guys. I just sat on the floor at the far end of the room and wheeled. A woman with dark curly hair and a small frame walked through the door and stopped when she spotted me.

"Sweetie, are you okay?"

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't be in here, I just needed a quiet place to sit and this was the only room open." I hung my head expecting her to kick me out.

"Don't worry dear, you take as long as you need. It wouldn't have anything to do with Mr. Son DongWoon would it? Because he's looking for a girl that fits your description."

She stopped because DongWoon had entered the room, panting slightly. I started to blush under my tears and avoided his gaze by studying my black converse. "Could you let us talk please?"

She nodded and bowed. "Sure, I'll see you for hair and makeup in half an hour." And she left, closing the door behind her. I jade been humiliated, my face plastered all over a magazine that the entire eastern half of the globe reads.

He spoke to me in English. "Can we talk?" His voice deep and sincere.

"I-uh, I-I guess," I stuttered like a complete idiot.

"Hey, look, what was said in the article-" he started, but I couldn't let him finish. It was as if somebody had hold of my heart and was squeezing it like a lemon.

"Listen, I am one of those girl,"bi blurted out and I couldn't stop myself.

"What? No you're not," he protested strongly. He sat down close to me and was just about to pull me into a hug but I stopped him by placing my hand firmly on his strong chest. He looked at me with worry and confusion in his eyes.

"Look, before all of this happened, before I met you all, before I moved to Korea, I was a fan girl like everybody else, and I still am. I completely fell in love with Korean pop and when you guys debuted I fell in love with you all straight away. You have no idea how long I've waited to meet Beast and how much I believed it would never happen, but behold, here we are, sat on the floor if a messy dressing room."

Before I could do anything he moved closer. I didn't know what to do. I held my breath and froze when he wrapped his arms around me. "DongWo-" I started but he shushed me, pulling me closer. I worked my arms around his waist and buried my face in his shirt. What is going on? I inhaled his scent and shivers ran down my spine. I quietly sniffled, my tears coming to a halt.

"It's okay love, you'll be fine," he soothed into my ear. He ran his hand over my hair and followed it down my back. I pulled my head away from his chest and looked up at his face. I was just about to say something when the remaining five members of Beast burst through the door, all of them breathing heavily.

"There you are!' HyunSeung spoke, his English gravely improved. "Wait, did we interrupt something?" He asked returning to Korean.

Letting go of DongWoon I quickly muttered, "No," and left the room, jogging back to the break room.

Gosh, what a day.