No You Girls || 艺兴

t h i r t y f o u r

t h i r t y f o u r

On the day of the concert, all twelve girls were woken up bright and early for final practices as well as final wardrobe checks at the venue. Even Sun, Minnie, and Sarang were woken up even though they weren't allowed on stage as punishment for their actions. When Sarang returned from the radio show, the news of her relationship with Junmyeon was already making headlines all over kpop news. Even national and local news shows were reporting on it because it was the scandal of the century.

There was no longer one couple made up of people from rival groups who were supposed to hate each other, but now there were two.

Taking orders from the company, Lina informed Park Sarang that same night after speaking with Pledis executives that she was not only suspended from the group permanently, but that she was also suspended from Pledis Entertainment. She was asked to pack her belongings and vacate the building within the hour. She wasn't upset at having to leave Pledis, not did she regret the decision she made to confess the truth about her love live. Her only worry was leaving her group members in the hands of someone so hateful like Bom. The next person in line to be the leader was Yunseo, and she had taken Bom's side. Bom controlled her, and Sarang knew things would be hell for Sun and Minnie.

Through tears in her eyes at having to leave her group, Sarang did as she was told. 

But Sun wouldn't take the decision lightly. She spent the next hour while Sarang was packing her things, begging the agency to take her back. She tried various methods. She tried to bargain by offering her freedom--but more importantly her freedom to choose who she wanted to love. In exchange for Sarang staying, she offered her total obedience and assured that she would follow anything they asked her to do.

There was nothing for her to lose anyway. She no longer had Yixing, Yunseo who had been like a sister to her took Bom's side, and she didn't want to lose Sarang too.

When her first method didn't work, she tried a different approach. She told Lina that if Sarang left the group, she would leave with her. Knowing the way Sarang was loved by the other girls as their leader and friend, Sun thought that they would do the same if Sarang left. 

Her last attempt had to do with their fans. Sun told Lina that the fans wouldn't be happy if they found out that one of their idols was kicked out of the group for falling in love with an SM idol. The last point was what seemed to convince Lina and she talked to the other executives who had higher positions in the agency than she had. In the end it was decided that Sarang would be allowed to stay in the group--as long as she publicly terminated her relationship with Kim Junmyeon. When Sun told Sarang the news, the Baby Lips leader wasn't too happy about it.

"The whole point of doing this was so that we could be together--not in secret anymore." Sarang sighed, now unpacking her things. She added firmly. "I'm not ashamed of loving Junmyeon."

Sun had convinced her to agree, and assured her that she would help them meet in secret until things could calm down. Then they would try to gather public support for them to be able to be together, while not getting a punishment from their agencies. 

Instead, on the day of the concert, the three suspended group members were sat in the lounge area of their dorm floor. They spent the entire day there, since they also weren't allowed to leave the building as part of their punishment. Sun felt as though the entire day had passed too slowly and as the time for both concerts approached them, Sarang went to turn on the television.

"If we can't actually go to the concert, we'll watch it on tv." She informed Minnie and Sun.

They would be airing both concerts on private access television--on two of the KBS channels that night--for those who had been unable to attend. Sarang was on one channel, the one where Baby Lips would be performing in concert, then she flipped to the other channel where EXO's performance would be showed that night.