Suho and the sea

Thirty Six

When we reach the car, both Baekhyun and I have been pictured about a thousand times. As We jump into the car, Tad is in the front seat driving, Junmyeon is in the back, and we close the door behind us quickly as Tad drives off: "What the hell happened?" Tad asks outranged; "I don't know, I was with Baek for 99% of the time, the only time I wasn't was when the damn picture was taken, but I was at our assigned seats." I state and look at Tad, who looks defeated more than anything. "Lay is always so careful; I don't know what he was thinking." Tad mutters, and Baekhyun sigh, "I can make a statement, saying the girl isn't Lily." He said, and Tad shook his head; "No, the Chinese loves this, they think it's great he's found someone, the netizen loves her, they think she's the ultimate girl since that damn show was aired." Tad complains, and I look over at Junmyeon.

"Even if it's fake?" I question, "We need to go to the headquarters." Tad says, and Junmyeon reaches forward and as I reach back and the takes my hand.

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"Lay will return to Korea tomorrow." The Simon says as Tad, and I sit in the meeting. "Lily, we need to sign a new contract; you have to become an idol now." He said, and I quickly object. "I refuse that." I bite my lip, as he frowns: "Do you know how much money is on stake here, people are going crazy for Lay Zhang's first relationship." I sigh and close my eyes; "I already have a boyfriend, and I won't break up with him because of this." My boss looks at me; "Who said you needed to?" He asks and frowns: "We need you to pretend to date." He said simply, and I look at him. "I don't want that; I'm not an Idol, just make it clear it's not me." Tad looks at me apologetically.

"Until it, all blows over." He said, and I look at him confused; "There is one rule I had to follow, and you want me to break the contract for it." the boss sighs and I bite my lip: "I enjoy my job, I don't like the spotlight." I say, and my boss gives me a look like I'm lying.

"What?" I say in a snarky tone, and he gestures like nothing. "Well, we need to get a handle on it." I shake my head: "I won't be a handle; I just want to do my job." I say, and the boss sighs again: "You would help a lot taking on being his fake girlfriend." I roll my eyes; "No, what would be a handle is that you simply deny it all, and tell the truth." I'm getting angry as our phones start to buzz.

"Dispatch has released another article," Tad says and looks at me as he shows me the article. "Lay confirmed the relationship." I feel the tears build up and I'm in a panic, I start to cry hysterically; "I haven't even had time to talk to him yet," I sob and Tad comes to pat my shoulder: "I don't know why Lay did that." He tries to soothe; " I don't fucking care about Lay, I'm talking about my boyfriend."

"Your boyfriend will understand." My boss says, and I watch him angrily: "You think?" I question as I stand up and look at him: "You have to handle this, I'm done being the bad guy in my life, and I'm not going to ruin a person's life like mine was." I say as I walk over to the door. As I open the door, Junmyeon has his hand up just about to knock on the door. And I start to cry again. I push him out of the way, but he grabs me by my arm and pulls me towards the elevators: "When we get in the car." Junmyeon says as I face away from him and sobs. As the doors open, I step out before him and takes the sunglasses he was holding. He gives me the car keys, and I unluck the car.

When I settle into the car seat, Junmyeon starts to speak, and what he starts to say breaks me utterly: "It was me that told Lay to confirm it." I place my head in my hands and begin to sob again: "Do you know what you've done?" I question him. "I'm trying to solve this." He said softly: "Did you for one-second think of me? about us?" I ask, and he's silent. "You just blew our chance, while I was fighting for freedom, you locked me in a cage." He tries to reach out for me, but I swat his hand away: "Lily, please listen to me." Junmyeon says, and I shake my head: "Don't you fucking get it Suho." I growl; " You made me into a cheater because that's what I'll ever be. I'll be the cheating girl who hooks up with her boyfriend's best friend if we get discovered." I say, and he looks at my hurt: "We'll explain it when time is right." I make a snarking sound: "The time will never be right because you're a fucking kpop star."

We drive in silence because I'm too angry to speak. When we arrive at the house, Junmyeon tries to talk again, and now I know I'll hurt him, but I don't care. "Lee thought I cheated, but you made me a cheater," I say as I slam the front door in his face. Baekhyun comes to my side as I enter the house, and Sehun  goes outside. Baekhyun wraps his arm around my shoulders as I feel suddenly defeated and weak in my legs. Everyone is back home because of the crisis.

Baekhyun helps me in bed, and to my surprise, I fall asleep. A few hours later, I wake up to a lot of shouting. It's Jongin's voice I hear; "Are you out of your fucking mind?" I climb out of bed and into the living room, and lean against the wall, all the members are gathered on the couch; "Let me explain." Junmyeon says: "No, Jun, this is by far the stupidest thing you've ever done." Baekhyun says and waves his hand in front of him. "I had no choice." Junmyeon defends himself; "You had so many choices, you could have come clean, saying you're the one dating her, it could have been handled with the simple fact that he was taking care of his foreign manager, or he was just simply being polite." Chanyeol said: " I was there, there was no inappropriate behavior between them, and she walked into her hotel room before me and said good night." Baekhyun growled: "Why are you guys so mad at me. I did what I thought was best for the group; the feedback.." To my surprise, it was Sehun speaking, "Fuck the feedback, and you didn't think about her at all." I lean against the wall as I feel a slight relief having the guys on my side: "I thought about the group, I thought about Lay's career." Junmyeon retorts: "Why arent you thinking about your own girlfriend, her career you just ended, and your relationship is over." Jongin screams, and I can see a cup fly across the room.

"You honestly don't care about her at all, do you?" Jongin shouts: "After everything she's been put through, the one person to care about her, can't even be bothered." I hear a louder crash and look around the corner as I see Jongin has smashed the living room table. "That's enough," I say, finally speaking. I see Jongin bleeding; "Jongin, before you bleed to death, let's go to the hospital," I say in a monotone voice, Junmyeon stands up and starts to follow him; "Suho, you stay here, you don't need to be in a confined space together." I say as I place my hand on Jongin's arm to make sure he lifts it and don't even look at him.