"At the count of three, Choa-ssi will wake up and be a cat."

Choa had already rehearsed this part with the musician so she knew exactly which gestures to do in order to make her performance believeable. However, she hadn't noticed that Seolhyun had also been focused on the way the magician's watch moved. Jimin was too focused on Choa's reactions, clutching her own hands wishing her friend would be okay afterwards.

"One, two, three!" The man clapped his hands together and right after that both Choa and Seolhyun opened her eyes. Choa began instantly to act as she had been told to, her hands in order to make them look like paws and getting on her knees to the back of her own hand. The MCs were too focused on this, both the magician and Jimin bursting into laughter to notice that Seolhyun was looking at a certain wire hanging on the ceiling, probably from a spotlight. She tried to reach up to it. Jimin glanced at her but she looked like she was trying to kill some bug so she went back to paying attention to Choa. 

"Okay, okay. That was funny. Now it's time to get our Choa back." Jimin said while looking at the magician.

"Once I snap my fingers, you will be back to be Choa-ssi. One, two, three, wake up!" He snapped his fingers and Choa faked that she was surprised, bringing her hands to her face as she bursted into laughter. 

"What was that?!" She exclaimed in a rather comical tone, which made both the MCs and Jimin laugh.

Meanwhile, Seolhyun just stared blankly at the wire hanging from the ceiling. Since the show was almost over, nobody really noticed that AoA's face was now like a cat.

On the way back to the dorm, both Jimin and Choa fell asleep which made them unable to notice that Seolhyun was scratching the door because she didn't like the van. 

Once they got back home, Choa was the first one to notice that Seolhyun was seriously off because she didn't follow them back home, but she walked down the street and jumped on top of a bench. She patted Jimin's shoulder to alert her. The leader's eyes widened.

"Poor girl. She's the one who sleeps the least in our group. She must be really tired" Jimin commented as they walked up to her. "Seolhyun-ah! Come here, let's have dinner!" 

Seolhyun kneeled down and scratched her nose with the back of her hands, looking like she hadn't heard anything. The two shorter girls wrapped an arm around the younger's shoulders and they pulled her down from the bench and walked her up back to the dorm.

"We are home~" Choa sing-songed as they entered the appartment. 

"Welcome back~!" Mina exclaimed without glancing up from her phone. Too bad, because if she did, she would had seen how Seolhyun played with Jimin's ponytail. The two of them left the youngest in order to get comfortable on the couch. Seolhyun chose to sit on the floor, on top of a random pillow. Nobody finds it weird though.

"How was the show?" Chanmi asked as she came out from the kitchen. She just needed to share a glance with Choa to know that the older wanted the same drink she was about to have - a can of fresh green tea. She tossed it to her and waited for an answer before going back to the kitchen for another one.

"It was quite cool! A magician hypnotized Choa to make her like a cat" Jimin explained while Choa wondered if she should tell her that it was fake. She didn't want to destroy the magic but she didn't want to lie to her group mate.

"That's quite cheesy. Shouldn't he have given you a heart attack? That's what we are promoting now" Mina teased and earned a smack on the head because of that.

"Hyejeong unnie and Yuna unnie are coming home soon by the way. They are bringing dinner" Chanmi announced, showing the chat group conversation on Kakaotalk since the girls seemed to not have seen it. Jimin raised her fist to celebrate and let out a casual 'yay'. 

Seolhyun took a nap until Hyejeong and Yuna came back home. The two girls carried the seven boxes of fried chicken to the dinning table and all of them sat on the table except for Seolhyun, who was still processing what was going on around her. Hyejeong smiled as soon as she saw her with that confused, adorable look and she walked up to her. She kneeled in front of her and she patted her head softly.

"Dinner time, Sseol." She pressed a gentle kiss on her forehead and she offered her hand to help her up. Seolhyun placed her hand on top of hers like it was a paw and Hyejeong chuckled at that, oblivious of the girl's state. She helped her up and entwined their fingers as they walked to the table. They sat in the only empty seats and they joined the others for dinner.

Dinner went by with no incidents what so ever, but Hyejeong found it weird that usually talkative Seolhyun was so concentrated on her food. She guessed that the younger was simply tired and she kept talking to the rest of the members.

After dinner, they all had to take their showers and get ready for a few hours of sleep. The schedule board said that the first one to wake up would be Seolhyun because of the recording of her drama, but still nobody could make her get into the shower.

"Seolhyun! Shower! Now!" Jimin exclaimed with both of her hands on her own hips, trying to look the most intimidating she could. However Seolhyun acted like she couldn't hear her.

"Unnie, you have to get into the shower if you want to be ready for tomorrow" Chanmi pointed out, furrowing her eyebrows with worry at how the other maknae was acting. 

"Seolhyunnie?" Choa waved her hand in the front of the girl's eyes, getting a blank stare that looked almost like a glare. Seolhyun didn't have anything against the blonde though. She simply happened to be the focus of her attention at the moment.

"Seems like we are going nowhere. Yuna, you go first" Jimin sighed in defeat, pointing at the next one with the busy schedule, since she was filming the webtoon drama. 

In the end, everyone ended up getting showered before Seolhyun, who simply stared blankly into the air of their living room. All were seriously getting more worried about her as time went by.

"Has something happened to her since you left the studio?" Hyejeong asked Choa as she followed the blonde to the kitchen. Choa looked back at the brown haired girl and shook her head. 

"Nothing much. We came here straight from the TV show. She was a little bit off like now, but maybe she's just tired. Maybe she's even homesick."

"That could be it" Hyejeong muttered as she crossed her arms, thinking about more things that could make Seolhyun act the way she had been acting since she came home. "Yeah, that could be it."

She went back to the living room, leaving Choa in the kitchen preparing some of her facial mask to sleep. She sat next to Seolhyun and she poked her cheek. 

"Hey little girl, you should be sleeping already. And you should have a shower now."

Seolhyun looked back at Hyejeong but she never said anything. She just kept staring at her. Hyejeong thought she would complain for having been called little girl since she was one of the tallest members, but no complains came out of .

"Come on, babe. Do you need help or what?" Hyejeong chuckled while raising an amused brow at her.

However, her soft laughter faded away as the hypnotized catgirl covered her face on the crook of her neck and began to nuzzle her playfully. Hyejeong had quite a sensitive neck - it was her weak point so she had to use all her willpower to hold back a moan. 

"Flirty much today, huh?" She muttered as she caressed the girl's hair. Seolhyun jumped into her lap and began playing with Hyejeong's hair, which made her giggle at her groupmate's antics. She lay on the bed and pulled Seolhyun with her, making her lie on top of her body. 

Seolhyun purred against Hyejeong's neck and the girl couldn't help but giggle once again.

"Okay Sseol, let's stay like this a little bit."

She reached out to take a blanket and she covered both their bodies.

"Seolhyun! Let's go now!" The manager arrived at three in the morning, looking for the idol for the recording of her drama. Seolhyun stretched all her body at the same time and she got up from the couch with a slight jump. The manager didn't know that the girl was still wearing last night's clothes, so he simply pulled her by the wrist and made her follow him downstairs.

"This is the script for today's scene" The manager handed it to her after they were seated on the van. He didn't pay attention to the fact that she wasn't wearing the security belt - a lot of people in Korea didn't use it anyway. The car started and began its way to the setting.

Seolhyun looked at the window and she didn't understand why everything was moving. She didn't like drives. She didn't like cars. They were uncomfortable.

She began to scratch on the script with her long nails, using them like paws. The manager didn't notice this until she was halfway into destroying the full script. "What the?" He muttered under his breath.

"Don't you like the script, Seolhyun?"

Seolhyun let out a low growl as she threw the script elsewhere. The problem wasn't really the script. She simply didn't like being in a car.

"Do you want me to talk to them so they can change it?" The manager accepted a second growl as an answer and he called the director with the speaker so they could talk while driving.

When they stopped on a traffic light, Seolhyun saw a butterfly flying nearby and she placed both her hands on the glass. 'What is that?' she thought as she admired the way it flew.

Seolhyun went back to the dorm from the schedule earlier than expected because there was no way she could work today. The manager was outraged because of her attitude that seemed so careless and selfish. The girls got even more worried than last night when they were told about the news as soon as they got back from their schedule.

"Don't you think Seolhyun unnie has been acting a little bit odd lately?" Chanmi pointed out. All of them looked at the mentioned girl, who was sitting on the couch and playing with a random cushion.

"It's like there's something really wrong with her" Mina spoke out. "But I don't know what is it. Is it like the manager said? Could she be a little bit- Maybe the fame is getting inside of her head. She has always been the face of the group and-"

"I don't think that. Seolhyun is a good kid. She can act a little bit spoiled sometimes, but she's true to herself" Jimin reassured. Everyone nodded their heads in agreement, but it seemed like it didn't help the situation get better.

"Seolhyunie?" Hyejeong walked up to her with a glass of water. "Do you want some?"

Since the girl turned around to drink, nobody saw how she stuck out her tongue to get the wated into . 

"Maybe she needs a little bit of rest. I should call the manager and tell him to give her a day off" Choa suggested as she took the phone out from her pocket.

"That would be a good idea" Hyejeong agreed as she took the glass away from Seolhyun and patted the girl's back. "Come on, babe. Let's have a shower."

"Hey! Don't do dirty things to her now that she's this tired!" Mina pointed at her friend with her index finger. 

"What the? No! I'm not planing any of that. She doesn't seem to want to shower by herself. That's why I'm trying to help" Hyejeong complained as she wrapped an arm around the girl's waist. "Be right back!" 

It wasn't the first time she saw Seolhyun so she had no uncomfortable feelings when she undressed her. However, she furrowed her eyebrows with confusion when she saw that the girl didn't like being under the water at all. She stuck her tongue out, like trying to drink the water that was poured on top of her head. 

Seolhyun was weird sometimes, but this was a new level of weird.

Still, she told herself that if Seolhyun had any kind of problem, she would stick with her.

Once they were done showering, she helped her to put on some pajamas and she made her lay on her bed. She pressed a gentle kiss on her forehead and she covered her with the blanket.

"Good night, my love."

She turned the lights off and she left the bedroom to join the rest of the members back in the kitchen.

In Chanmi and Yuna's bedroom, the two of them were searching online for a reason for Seolhyun to be acting this strange. 

"She got some haters lately because of not greeting to the audience when we performed" Yuna said all by the sudden. 

"I saw that article minutes ago. I don't think that's the reason though" Chanmi replied. Yuna simply nodded and kept searching on her laptop. 

"What about this? Maybe she was dating an oppa and he broke up with her."

"We both know that Seolhyun is biual and has a huge crush on Hyejeong."

"True that." Yuna nodded once again.

"Maybe it's because Hyejeong doesn't show any signs of loving her back?" Chanmi asked. 

"No, that's probably not the reason. Hyejeong and her are close and though they can not date officially they are always in that little bubble of theirs." As expected from Yuna, she always had answers for all of Chanmi's suggestions. "I think I need a glass of milk. Wait for me here" Yuna grinned as she stood up from the bed and left to the kitchen. She walked down the hallway to the kitchen without turning the lights on.

Once she the lights in the kitchen, she was shocked to find Seolhyun sitting on top of the kitchen's table. 

Seolhyun stared blankly at the girl, somehow happy that Yuna was there. She hadn't had anything for dinner and maybe Yuna would feed her.

"H-hey! I didn't expect to find you here." Yuna said while holding her hand on her chest. "Not specially since you are sitting on the table where we have dinner, but hey, not judging here."

Seolhyun didn't answer and she watched as Yuna made her way to the fridge and took the milk out. She was startled once again by Seolhyun when she turned around because she didn't expect her to be right behind her. The milk slipped from her hands and fell to the ground, breaking into pieces. 

"Sh-" She was about to curse, but she held herself. "I'm sorry, you startled me Seol!" 

However, she was even more shocked with what Seolhyun did next.

She kneeled down and she began to drink the milk from the floor.

"EVERYONE COME HERE!"

The six girls had been staring at Seolhyun for half an hour now. The hypnotized catgirl simply stares back. Sometimes she the back of her hand or she rubs her nose.

"I can't believe the hypnosis actually worked" Choa muttered. "It was all faked! I didn't know it would work."

"I can't find anything on Google. Should I go to Yahoo Answers?" Yuna asked, looking back at the other girls. Mina nodded in answer.

Yuna began to type really quickly.

'HELP! IDOL GROUP MEMBER THINKS SHE IS A CAT????

OUR MEMBER WAS HYPNOTIZED IN A SHOW AND SHE THINKS SHE IS A CAT BUT WE CAN'T WAKE HER UP. HELP PLEASE.'

"Three, two, one, WAKE UP!" Chanmi tried for the nth time as she snapped her fingers. Nothing again.

Hyejeong stood behind Yuna, waiting for someone to answer to that ridiculous question on Yahoo Answers. Most of them were trolling around.

"Wake up, wake up!" Jimin snapped her fingers, but it just made Seolhyun startled. Mina went back to her room and came back with a ball of yarn. Seolhyun began to play with it. 

"At least now she was something to entertain herself." 

Hyejeong looked at Seolhyun with worry written all over her face as she looked at the cute girl playing with the 

"Oh, this one seems legit!" Yuna exclaimed all by the sudden, pointing at the screen.

'Hi yunariaoa. It all depends on how the hypnosis was done. If it was with a watch, the girl has to fix something that it's emotionally disturbing her before she can wake up. If it-'

"Go and kiss her, Hyejeong!" Jimin pushed her, startling the tall girl.

"Wait, what?!"

"She has always had a huge crush on you! That's what is disturbing her! Go on and kiss her!" Jimin explained, exclaiming and trying to sound intimidating in order to make her do as she ordered. 

Hyejeong sighed and she knelt down in front of Seolhyun, talking the ball of yarn away. She placed both her hands on the girl's knees and sighed again.

"I'm sorry. I would have wanted this to be different" She whispered before she leaned all the way in to kiss her.

"Don't pull away! Make it last for ten seconds at least" Yuna suggested, since she had read the rest of the person's reply.

"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six!" Choa began to count down. 

"Five, four, three, two, one, cero!" The others followed.

Hyejeong pulled away with a gasp, looking back at Seolhyun, who went back to stare blankly at her.

"Has it worked?" Hyejeong asked the other girls.

"I don't know..." Chanmi muttered. "Three, two, one, WAKE UP!" She snapped her fingers again next to Seolhyun's ear.

"Hey, why do you have to do that?" Seolhyun complained.

Gasps filled all the room.

"Hey, why are you all so surprised? And why are you like this, Hyejeong unnie? And why is the back of my hand wet?" Seolhyun asked all these questions in a row. 

"You were acting weird" Hyejeong answered.

"Weird? How so?" She looked at each of her members looking for an answer. 

Mina stepped forward since everyone seemed to be unable to explain it to her.

"Like a cat. Like, seriously like a cat."

Choa knew it was a bad moment, but she couldn't help but do the Like a cat dance awkwardly. All of them looked back at her with a glare.

Hyejeong was about to go back to sleep when she felt two arms wrapping around her waist and a body pressed against her back.

"Thank you for saving me."

Hyejeong blushed but managed to keep a smile on her lips.

"It was nothing."

"No, I really mean it. Imagine if you wouldn't have done that! I would be the first idol to be a cat."

"Or the first cat being an idol" She chuckled.

"Could you imagine that? It would be awesome!" Seolhyun laughed along. Hyejeong turned around in the younger's embrace.

"I'm glad you are back."

"I'm glad to be back as well" Seolhyun nodded her head in agreement. "But I have a problem now."

"What?" Hyejeong blinked and furrowed her eyebrows with worry.

"I'm hypnotized by your beauty."

Hyejeong felt herself blushing at such a cheesy pick up line.

"Please, wake me up" Seolhyun muttered in a y way. Hyejeong rolled her eyes and held the girl by her forearms.

"Okay then..." She sighed, faking to be annoyed. "Three, two, one... Wake up!" 

She pressed her lips against hers one more time, this time feeling Seolhyun's smile against her own.