Everyone was in the dance practice room stretching, getting ready to practice for their new comeback. When the manager came into the room and said "can i see Zara in the other room?" Zara looked at Yeonjun but he just shrugged his shoulders. Zara followed the manager into the other room and he held up his phone. "Is this true?" he asked and Zara was shook when she saw a dispatch article titled "Zara (TXT) and Jungwoo (NCT) rumored to be dating. Zara took the phone and read the article. She saw that the article had the pictures that those girls had taken in it and she felt like crying.
Zara didn't know what to say so she just nodded. The manager took a deep breath and just said "go back to the practice room, we'll handle this later" Zara did as she was told but thoughts started circling in her mind "what if I get kicked out of the group because of this? What if people start to hate me and never like me again?" she thought. But then Kai came up to her and said "what happened?" And she just hugged him and said "dispatch happened" Kai immediately understood and just held her in the hug.
Zara could barely focus throughout the rest of practice so when it was over she rushed over to her belongings and couldn't wait to leave. She had got her last item and was ready to go until the manager came into the room and said "Zara" Zara walked over to him and he said "explain everything" She couldn't say no, so she told him everything. When she was finished he said "so, you and Jungwoo aren't actually dating?" Zara shook her head and he said "go get some rest I'll see what i can do to fix this" Zara thanked him and she saw the rest of the members waiting outside for her.
Before Zara could explain to them what had just happened Taehyun started talking about some new video game that was coming out. Zara could see what he was doing and just went along with it. So they just talked about video games all the way home. When they arrived, Zara went straight to her room to get some sleep but she was curious to see what MOA and other people were saying online. So she grabbed her phone and went on twitter and as she expected there were some nasty comments saying "now shes dating Jungwoo?! What a disgrace, shes putting a bad name on TXT and should definitely leave the group."
"I'm not surprised shes dating Jungwoo, she probably has a husband and 2 kids as well"
"shes ruining TXT, BigHit please kick her out."
Zara tried to ignore them and look at positive comments. But she couldn't get what they were saying out of her head. So she grabbed her pillow and cried and cried until she fell asleep.
A week had passed and the scandal was still getting talked about and during that week Zara had been sad. She didn't talk to the other members that much and didn't put in that much effort during practice. So the manager said "we released a statement about the matter, hopefully this dies down" Zara wondered why they didn't release a statement earlier but ignored it and went back to practice.
Two days had passed and the scandal wasn't getting talked about anymore. So Zara started feeling better and getting back to her normal self. But she couldn't help but wonder how Jungwoo was doing so she got her phone out and texted him "hey, I was just wondering how you were doing. And I wanted to know if we were still friends or not" She waited for a reply and after about 10 minutes he replied with "I'm doing good, and of course were still friends. I'm sorry all of this happened." Zara replied with "it's okay" and a smiley face. And was relieved to hear that they were still cool. So because she was in such a good mood she yelled "Anybody want pizza? I'm paying!" The other members came running towards her and said "Me!" and she just laughed.
