Together As One

In the eyes of Manager Part 2

[Manager Unnie's POV]

I stayed at the entrance of Hyejin's room while the 2nd youngest continued burying her soulmate's head in her chest to comfort her.

"Hyejinnie... your arm is bleeding!" Yongsun gasps suddenly and Wheein immediately releases the hug to check on the youngest's arm. As she pulls the arm out to check, Hyejin pulls it away from her, wrapping her arms around herself, squeezing herself smaller into the corner of the walls. I blink a couple of times and finally notice the scratch marks on her arms. It seems like she didn't use a blade or object to make those but rather her own nails. I made a mental note to remind the nail artist to file the nails for Hyejin so she would not put herself in danger like that. As her manager for more than 6 years now, she was like one of my 4 daughters, each of them taking a special place in my heart.

I see Wheein move closer towards the fragile looking girl in the corner, gently peeling one arm off her body to take a look. Wheein lifts her arm and grabs the tissue offered by Byulie, using it to gently tap at the open wounds.

"Hyegi dear, did something happen?" The puppy's soft voice asks with much love dripping from it.

"They found me. I /sniff/ tried to /sniff/ go out to /sniff/ buy food. But /sniff/ some people /sniff/ tried to follow me home /sniff/ and kept following me." Hyejin says so quietly, I could barely make out the words.

Great. Now a safety issue that I need to bring up. I swear some people need to be taught a lesson by me. The poor girl must have been so terrified. She absolutely hated crowds and although she tried to be outgoing in from of fans, she had a phobia of going out alone because she said it always felt like someone was following her around. Especially with her schizophrenia diagnosis, her fear of crowds heightened greatly.

"Let's get these cleaned up okay?" Wheein suggests and Hyejin just mumbles something.

Wheein quickly motions to her unnies to help her lift Hyejin up. Although the maknae was really light but they wanted to treat her like their previous baby. To remind her that she was loved, and will always be loved. And that she was and will always be deserving of love. I move away from the room and take a sit down on the living sofa. That was the famous bed that Hyejin liked to sleep on. I never quite understood why she had a bed in the master bedroom when she barely used it. I close my eyes and decide to just wait for the girls to settle the things themselves. They were big girls who knew what to do. I could always trust Yongsun to be the leader-figure for them.

Tap tap

I opened my eyes and was greeted with 2 pairs of eyes.

"Unnie.. thank you for coming down so suddenly. Sorry it was so last minute and I rushed you. I was just really worried." Yongsun explains.

I waved a hand to express that she had nothing to be sorry about.

"We weren't planning to come down to crash her place today but she suddenly sent a message in the group chat saying she was scared. And of course that scared Byul and myself. We tried calling Wheein but her phone was unable to be reached so we had to call you." Yongsun shares more details, showing me Hyejin's message in the groupchat. It was literally just one message with one word, 'scared'. No explanation, no other messages. Just that. Wow. If it were me, I would have gotten such a heart attack that I might have flew down even faster. Thank goodness I was not the one who received the messages.

Soon after Yongsun explained what happened, Wheein came out, alone.

"Hyejin?" I opened my mouth to ask.

"I just managed to get her to sleep. Thank you for calling me unnie. I think she must have felt too overwhelmed, she just fell asleep on her bed. I think I'm going to stay here and just keep an eye on her. Usually she becomes really unstable and sensitive after such incidents.

I nod my head and get ready to leave. I needed to update CEO nim about the situation.

Just as I was about to leave I heard Yongsun and Byul tell Wheein that they would stay too and try to cook something edible for them to eat a late lunch when Hyejin woke up.

I chuckled to myself. The 2 older unnies were hopeless in the kitchen. So bad that the thought of it was such a joke I couldn't stop laughing to myself.