No You Girls || 艺兴

t w e n t y f i v e

t w e n t y f i v e

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song for this chapter:

se va muriendo mi alma (my soul is dying) by el buki (aka marco antonio solis).

just a little song about a man who loves a woman and she has someone else now (sound familiar somewhat?). now he wonders how he will possibly forget their love when it was the most beautiful feeling he has ever gotten. his soul is slowly perishing and she seems to not give a flying fuck.

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His mood became a roller coaster of positive and negative shifts as the year slowly got closer to its ending point. It seemed that as the days in December came and went in repetitive schedules of holiday performances, recording the vocals for Miracles in December, and filming the music video for it, he was losing hope that his secret relationship with Mae would stop being a secret. He began to see it as something of an impossible dream, especially when there were constant gossip articles of Sun and Aron on their dates.

During that time Chanyeol and Baekhyun had met a foreign girl who was teaching at a primary school nearby and were spending odd amounts of time with her. Lu Han and Tao were closer than ever, the best of friends, while Yifan and Sehun stood and watched bitterly from the sidelines. Kyungsoo was going on secret outings with the group's hair stylist Yeo Nari, while the group leader Junmyeon was beginning to show signs of a strange behavior that the other boys were comparing to the way Yixing acted. The other boys were good to keep up with their schedules and things that pertained to their careers.

Yixing felt bad about the fact that he was beginning to neglect his career because of all the attention he was keeping on Mae and her fake love life with Aron Kwak. He was no longer practicing his instruments during his free time, or composing as much as he used to. His mood was through the dirt, which left him without the energy to practice as diligently as he normally did.

New Year's Eve finally came around without Sun ever mentioning anything about their relationship being made public. Yixing and the other EXO-M boys had been scheduled to perform at the Hunan New Year Countdown concert. Baby Lips M, along with other artists and groups were going to be there as well and he saw it as his opportunity to ask the question again. His other group mates had remained in Korea for the New Year's concert of their own in Seoul.

The groups were backstage. 

Baby Lips M would perform first, followed by EXO M. As the performance ended and the girls made their way back off  the stage, Sun ran into Yixing, accidentally bumping shoulders with him. He placed his arms on her shoulders to stabilize her, and apologize with a bow of his head. "I'm sorry." He said quietly.

"Its fine." She nodded back, her eyes avoiding his.

"Mae, can we talk?" He asked.

But before she could give an answer, Yoona returned to grab her group member by the arm. With Sarang back in Korea, Yoona was in charge, being the leader for the sub group BLM. "Come on, Sun. We have to get going before the area gets crowded." 

During the practices for the show, the groups had been warned to make a swift exit and avoid lingering in the back stage area. That was to prevent crowding and to allow for the stage crew to go about with their jobs without any interruptions. Sun was unable to reply to Yixing and was dragged away by her group leader. He only watched the two girls as they disappeared behind a curtain that led out to another area of the set.

After that moment, he didn't have the courage to ask her. He instead waited for her to be the one to bring it up. But Sun went about as though she had forgotten what she had promised him.