I am NOT your fan | EXO CHEN

36. Self-invitation

A/N: I love Sejeong!!! Do you too? 😊

Song: Paramour - SEJEONG ✨

"If you can be happy, if you can laugh, don't worry about me. Hurting by myself is an easy thing to do.'

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I cast my back away from the passenger seat and stared at her brutally. She was hugging the phone close to her chest, like it was something too precious. Too secretive. And she wouldn't meet my eyes no matter how much I stared.

"I'm not stupid, Sooyeon. You're obviously hiding something from me. Spill it now while I'm asking you nicely." I demanded in my nasal voice.

Before she could answer me, the cars from behind began honking us.

"H-hold on," Sooyeon blurt out timidly.

I waited in silence as she drove us to the side road. Until she parked the car and was ready again, she turned to me with her eyes lowered the same way as before.

"Talk, Sooyeon." I demanded again.

"Rosie, it's not what you think. I can't explain it either so p-please don't ask me..."

"There's something you know that I don't know about. Tell me what it is!"

I was already getting the hint myself of what this 'secret' was about. But I needed to hear it from her.

"I'm sorry... I'm really sorry..."

"I don't need your apology, Sooyeon. I want an explanation! What's going on? Did you and Jun do something against me? Is this what I'm thinking?!"

I'm thinking about the leaked demo, damn it.

"I-It's not like that!"

"Is this about the demo?"

She bit her lip, hesitant to talk.

"It is. You're not answering because you can't deny it."

I groaned to myself, already on the verge of lashing at her.

"That leaked demo, it was you? You did this? To me?!" My nasal voice grew louder, sentence after sentence.

I could feel my body heating up again and I still couldn't tell if it was due to the fever or my anger.

"I-It's not me, Rosie! I swear!" She defended immediately.

I took in a deep breath and let it out, at the same time, piecing the puzzles together in my mind.

"It's not you, but it's Jun, isn't it?"

When I mentioned his name, she turned more flustered than before.

"I'm right..." I muttered.

Sooyeon reached for my hand like a desperate one.

"P-Please Rosie, please don't report him! He's definitely gonna lose his job if the company finds out that he's behind this!"

I glared at her in disbelief and flung my arm out of her hands.

"What the hell? Then what about me? I'm about to lose MY position because he framed me! All these wouldn't have happened if he! Didn't! Touch! Me!"

I wanted to rage more but I seriously had no energy to. I can't believe that Sooyeon would say that to my face when she clearly knew that he was the culprit.