I Believe

♡13: emotions ♡

The next morning I woke up with dry eyes due to tears. Cerlina and I haven't said a single word since yesterday's argument. We haven't even looked at each other. Right now it's currently 4am and we are in a van heading to the airport. The whole ride has been silent so far.

As we arrive to the airport, all the paparazzi started chasing us right away. Although it was 4am and we were all tired and sad, we still had to put a smile on our face.

I stood there, smiled and waved. I was not feeling it. As we board on the plane, everyone was fast asleep. Cerlina sat next to me and again, we didn't speak.

A few hours later, Cerlina and I still said nothing.  The whole plane ride was a complete drag.

We walked back to SM and we got started working on our new album right away. First we recorded our new song Ephemeral and heard the demo version of our new title song Ivory.

"I don't want to sing that." I commented.

"Excuse me?" Manager Kim asked.

"I don't like it. At all." I shook my head. "I like Ephemeral much better. I think it suits our concept better too."

"Oh yeah?? What else do you think?" Manager Kim asked. Everyone in the recording studio looked at me. "Tell us."

"Nothing else. I just don't like Ivory." I shrugged. The whole room went silent.

"Do you think you can do better?" The producer, Jackie, asked.

"No? I mean that can be a song in our album but there's no way THAT'S going to be our title song." I said.

"Wendy, may I speak to you outside for a minute? Alone?" Manager Kim asked. I got up and followed him outside. "You better cut that attitude before I remove all your promotions!"

"What..?" I asked, confused.

"Don't what me! Never speak like that to a producer ever again! You hear me?! Do you know much hard work it takes to write a song?? For you to shit talk like that in front of a senior or anyone is extremely disrespectful! You are punished! I am beyond disappointed in you. Go in the storage room and don't come out until I say you can!"

I flinched and began to shuffle my feet to the storage room.

"Faster!" Manager Kim screams. I began to run to the storage room with his voice echoing inside my head. I began to run as fast as I can down the hall with tears rolling down my face. Everything was blurry when I suddenly fell on my knees due to the slippery floor. I began to cry. I pulled my cap down as far as possible to cover my face, and I wiped my tears with the sleeves of my gray sweatshirt.

"Wendy..?" A man's voice asked. "Are you okay?" I nodded.

"Yeah." I sniffed. "I'm fine." I stood up.

"You sure?" I wiped the tears off my eyes. I looked up at the male. It was Kyungsoo.

"Yeah. Thank you." I bowed then slowly walked in the direction of the storage room. Surprisingly, Kyungsoo followed along.

"I'll walk you. I want to make sure you're okay." He says to me. "Where are you going?"

"The storage room, I got punished." I muttered.