Musi || 백현

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Narda was sitting in her bedroom debating what she had talked about with Nari about Chanyeol just a few days earlier. She had talked about it with Florencia and Acacia too, bringing it up at their girls night while they had pizza and icecream while watching chick flicks together. It was something they tried to do at least once a week, to balance off the stress of their daily lives. Her other friends thought the same way Nari did--that it was time to get over Baekhyun. And the two of them were more than willing to cheer for Chanyeol winning over Guti's affections.

"I'm not gonna lie to you," Florencia started, shoving a spoonful of icecream into her mouth with a vengeance. "I think Byun is super cute, and talented, and all. But he's a huge jerk. He could have easily just been honest and said he wasn't in love with you. But he led you on." She had also shamelessly added that before she met Sehun and the EXO boys followed her on instagram, she had initially thought that Chanyeol was most handsome of them. Now--she said jokingly--she would back off for Guti's sake. Like Narda, Florencia and Acacia called the EXO vocalist Byun, simply because it was easier to pronounce in their foreign tongues.

Florencia was especially pigging out that night because her SM manager--who weighed her every week without fail--had mentioned that she gained two pounds since arriving in Korea, and that she would now be required to follow a specific diet that the female idols followed from now on. They didn't just want her to shed the two pounds, but an extra seven to get her weighing at one hundred and five pounds, or forty seven kilograms. The manager had criticized rather ruthlessly that at her current weight--a hundred and fourteen pounds--she was almost the same weight as her boyfriend Sehun who weighed a hundred and twenty pounds. 

Florencia had complained to the manager that she was perfectly happy with her weight. But they pointed out that under the contract she had signed with SM Entertainment, they were entitled to tell her what she could or could not eat--they had the power to manage her diet. 

When Florencia told her mother about their intentions, Mrs. Orizaba was outraged. She thought her daughter was already thin enough, and that she didn't have to change one thing about herself unless she wanted to. As her manager in Mexico, her mother had promised to fight against the wishes of her Korean managers. But for the time being, Florencia knew she would be forced to follow her new rules.

The other girls nodded in agreement with Florencia's statement about Baekhyun. It was time for Narda to forget him. 

"That's why I support Chanyeol oppa." Nari raised her spoon up in the air with a grin. Again, the other girls nodded in agreement. To them, Chanyeol was the best choice. He was handsome, talented, absolutely worshipped Narda, and he was in their group of friends. No one had to meet him in order to approve of him because the others already liked him.

"But I'm not in love with him." Narda pointed out with some concern in her mind. To her, it was very important to be in a relationship with someone when one loved them. "I just see him as a friend. If I go out with him, wouldn't I just be doing the same thing Byun did to me?"

Acacia thought it over until she found a solution. "Maybe you can tell him from the start. Tell him that you guys can go out, but with no labels, and no strings attached. That's what Nini and I did."

"And now you're pregnant." Florencia reminded her.

"Yes." Acacia nodded her head, and then explained the one detail that she thought was crucial. "But no one was hurt emotionally because we both knew from the start. We said we would go out, no labels added to the relationship, and maybe if we turned out to really like each other we would talk about it and consider going steady. But that didn't happen and we're both happy we tried it out." What Narda thought was best was that Acacia seemed to be telling the truth. Both she and Jongin looked perfectly happy just being friends now.