BTS Eighth Member | The Life: Year 2018

Chapter 62- True Colours

August 18th, 2018:

We were heading back to the auditorium after eating a lunchbox lunch Running Man staff had prepared for us. Sunmi was walking alongside me after everyone we'd stopped at the coffee truck.

"You and B.I?" she said raising an eyebrow and nudging me slightly.

"What about us?" I question, my reddening face giving me away.

"You guys are so an item," she grins, "you guys have amazing chemistry".

"Yeah..." I laugh darkly, "... honestly..." I say, feeling like I could trust Sunmi since she had been a girl's girl all day and was an industry veteran, "we were, but we broke up recently".

"You sure about that," she chuckles, "he still has heart eyes for you. And it's obvious you still love being with him".

"Is it that obvious?" I sigh.

"I mean the chemistry between you two is like two blaring sirens," she laughs, "but don't worry, the editing will make it seem a lot choppier, and they probably won't put in all your little back and forths... Can I ask why though? You know, the breakup".

"Umm, just schedules and stuff," I lie, feeling like that was for Hanbin to tell and not me.

"Hmmm," Sunmi hums sadly, though I felt like she knew I was lying, but she didn't press on it, "oh, looks like Seungri is abusing his power again," Sunmi rolls her eyes, pointing to Seungri behind the wall close the auditorium entrance grilling Hanbin. They both looked quite upset, but Hanbin was the one in a more polite position while Seungri was basically in his face. We could only see them because of the very specific angle we were coming from otherwise, if you were coming straight for the door, they would be out of sight.

"Should we go save him?" Sunmi says as if she'd done this before, "or, well, let me do it alone," she says, "he's been acting weird all day with you. Trust me, you're not the first. He tried it on with me for a while. He does stop after a bit, once he's found his next target. For the past few years, he's mainly been fixated on fans though I think, they're easier to convince he's not a jerk".

"Yeah, it's been several months now," I frown.

"... Well, I guess you are quite famous. He gets drawn to fame and power, he's definitely a narcissist," Sunmi says, "you'd be a big trophy for him. Let me know if he does anything, I'll come get you, or slap him right, don't worry," she smiles, "I'll give you my number after the shoot. Gotta go save your lover boy now though".

I chuckle a bit watching her walk off to go save Hanbin. I wanted to be a sunbaenim like her in the future. She was the ultimate epitome of super cool and sexy but still humble and nice.

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We finally filmed the last segment of the show in the late afternoon. We had played human curling with the possibility of reducing our debt. We had formed teams within the pairs this time and just by chance, Seokjin had picked the spoon that matched with Seungri. Hanbin had tried to switch spoons, arguing that he and Sechan had less debt so were a better team to team up with, but Sechan had caught wind of this and put an end to it since they had matched with a team with even less debt than they did.