what nobody knows; jinhwi ff

chapter thirty six

i just feel so sad when bart cried about being a failure on the simpsons. i can relate, bart :'(

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Jinyoung didn't expect it when he got out of the classroom only to be swarmed by a lot of fangirls. It was happening again. A mob (one of the things he hated most about being famous). But he also didn't expect it when his manager and a lot other bodyguards came and got him straight out of there in a jiffy.

But the article was something he expected ever since the morning, and boy, was he not ready for that at all.

"Jinyoung!" Jihoon pulled him inside the van and quickly closed the door before any fangirls could jump inside and cry about how Baejin isn't single anymore. He pulled out his phone and tapped on an article, which was exactly what Jinyoung expected it to be about. "They did it. They fucking did it, they released their 1st scandal of the year and it had to be you."

Jinyoung took Jihoon's phone and examined the pictures. They were real. Those camera clicks were. There he and Daehwi were, under the staircase in the morning. The photo was taken like the person taking it was hiding behind a wall. "Damn it!" Jinyoung punched the seat in front of him. He should've known. He should've searched for that person more diligently. Now Daehwi was in danger at school..

He started to scroll down to the comments before Jihoon took it away from him. "Stop. Those comments are horrid. What you need to do is to make sure Daehwi is safe first and then settle this-"

"Settle this?! Settle this, how?!" Jinyoung groaned and held each end of his forehead with 2 fingers, stressed. "I wasn't careful, so-- so Daehwi is in danger now! What if sasaengs--"

"Hey! Sasaengs are NOT going to harm him!" Jihoon squeezed Jinyoung's arm, trying to calm him down. "Daehwi's good, he can handle himself. But you should be worried about yourself! The CEO.. the CEO will..." Jihoon gulped.

"What?! What will he do to me?!" Jinyoung shrieked. "Force me to break up with Daehwi, like he made you do to Jina?!"

Without warning, the van suddenly started and moved in full speed making Jinyoung and Jihoon both slam against their car seats. "What the heck?!" Jihoon exclaimed, looking at their manager who was just giving them an apologetic gaze. "Manager hyung! Tell that driver to slow down!"

"I'm sorry boys, but unfortunately.. the CEO wants you both on lockdown," he said. Jihoon's eyes widened at his statement. Lockdown? He heard that happened to Knock once because of Minhyun's excessive dating rumors, and the CEO gave them hell during that time. Was it actually happening to them now?

"Lock.. lockdown? Jihoon, what's that?" Jinyoung asked Jihoon, worried. In response to him, Jihoon gulped. "It's a nightmare, Jinyoung."

Somehow Minhyun, Ong, Daniel and Samuel (still in his uniform too) were in front of the back door of WinkDeep's dorm when they arrived. "Baejin!" Samuel called out, running to the two of them first.

"We're on lockdown, Samuel," Jihoon told him, pointing to himself and Jinyoung. Samuel gasped, looking horrified. "Not lockdown! Then that means the CEO should be here any minute?!"

Jinyoung bit his lip and looked down. He was starting to feel nauseous. Mainly because the pressure of being known now as a celebrity dating a guy in Korea was starting to weigh in, and though he didn't read the comments, he could already sense what were in them. Hate. Jinyoung's so used to being liked by others that the feeling of suddenly being hated by the whole country made him feel heavy. Not only in his heart, but his whole body. Now it's like whatever step he takes there are secret eyes following him. No privacy. It didn't help either when he was mobbed earlier. He saw the faces of those fangirls. Some of them were crying, some of them were angry and cursing, some of them looked shocked but not one happy face that liked it that Jinyoung was happy dating someone could be found in that crowd.