Dara found Seungri in one of the smaller practice rooms. He was slumped on the floor, his back against wall and staring broodily at his reflection on the mirror in front of him.
  "Seungri-ya" Dara called softly as she sat down next to him. "Why are you so broody?" Seungri didn't answer her. He just shifted positions, putting his arm across the top of one knee, while extending his other leg.
  "Seungri-yah.." Dara once again called his name. Seungri averted his eyes so Dara stood up and made her way in front of Seungri. "My baby panda isn't talking to me." she pouted and she could see the beginnings of a smile on Seungri's face. "Ha! You smiled!"
  Although smiling, Seungri just shook his head then leaned back against the wall. Dara leaned closer to him and propped her chin on his knee. "Seungri. Talk to me."
  Giving a defeated sigh, he finally spoke. "I just hate him, noona. I can't get the image of you crying out of my head."
  "You shouldn't. Hate him, I mean." Dara said. "I don't like it that you're feeling this way because of me."
  Seungri immediately protested. "Not because of you, noona."
  "It is because of me." Dara countered. "Would you feel like this if you didn't know what happened with us? You'd probably be teasing TOP about how Jaejoong is better looking than him or has bigger muscles or something."
  At his silence, Dara gently shook his knee. "I'm sorry Seungri. I've burdened you with my secret and now you're having trouble because of this. I realize now that asking you to keep it is selfish of me. I shouldn't have done it." She bowed her head in shame and regret. "I'm really sorry."
  "Noona, no!" Seungri sat up, dislodging her from her perch. "You know I'm really happy you shared this with me. I mean, I hate that it happened but I'm really glad you were able to talk about it."
  "You really are a man now." Dara smiled at him softly. "You have been for a while, right? I knew it but I just like thinking of you as my precious dongsaeng."
  "You know I love you, noona, and I'll always always have your back." Seungri told her sincerely. After a beat, he gave her a sly smile. "In fact, I'm willing to let you adopt me so that Jiyong hyung can support me financially for the rest of my life."
  Dara rolled her eyes. "As if you have to worry about that. You're so business savvy, it won't be long until you have your own empire. Just promise you won't forget your noona?"
  "Of course not. If you don't want to adopt me, I can adopt you. Then I'll make Jiyong hyung jump through hoops before giving him permission to marry you."
  "Silly panda." Dara giggled. They shared a moment of silence, just smiling at each other before Dara remembered why she sought him out. She sighed and moved back into her original position beside him. Leaning her head against his shoulder she spoke again,"Seungri, don't hate him because of me. What happened between us is just that, between us. It should remain that way." She caught his eye through their reflections on the mirror. "You can't resent him for our past. We were two consenting adults and we are both responsible for our actions. Also, you know I'm not completely blameless and you shouldn't hate him for resenting me."
  "I so can." Seungri grumbled stubbornly.
  "Seungri, I love how much you care about me and I love how protective you are of me." Dara started. "But I made mistakes with Jaejoong and with keeping this whole thing a secret. Recently, I've been thinking it wouldn't have been a big deal if we didn't cover it up. It might have made Jiyong angry or maybe hurt but it happened at a time when we weren't together. Now, because I kept it a secret for so long, it seems like it turned into this deep, dark, dirty secret. And because of that, I can't even begin to imagine how to tell Jiyong.."
  "You handled it the best way you could at that time." Seungri stated. "You were confused and emotional. You were vulnerable.."
  "Still doesn't excuse the way I handled it." Dara protested. "So you see, you really shouldn't be mad at Jaejoong. He is Tabi's friend and from what I found out, you all hung out together before and I'm sure you enjoyed those times. He is still a sunbae and he hasn't done anything to deserve your anger. More importantly, you don't deserve to be this angry and stressed over this.." She looped her arm around his and pulled him closer to her. "Your loyalty and support mean so much to me. Knowing that your opinion of me hasn't changed after finding out what happened, knowing that you love me just the same helps cope with everything."
  "I'll always support you, noona." Seungri promised. "If you decide to tell hyung, I'd help you anyway you need me to."
  There was no need to clarify which hyung, Seungri was talking about.
  "That means a lot. I know he's your favorite hyung even if you do fight like cat and mouse." Dara smiled. "I.. just don't know how to tell him.. I mean what do I say? Hey, Jiyong, baby, that's a really awesome song. By the way, I sort of hooked up with Jaejoong years ago and didn't tell you. Sorry about that -"
  "What?!"
  Dara and Seunrgi turned towards the direction of the voice so fast, their heads bumped together.
  "Ouch.." Dara rubbed her forehead which somehow bumped into Seungri's chin. Seungri's eyes widened at the menacing figure that was making it's way towards them.
  "You knew?!?" The voice boomed.
  Seungri gulped and looked at TOP's surprised face then back at Dara, who was still rubbing her forehead.
  "I.. Uhm.." Seungri stuttered. "Wait a minute.. You know, too?! Since when?" He paused as he tried to think. TOP could practically see his brain working. "The rooftop?" TOP nodded. "Ha! I knew since Jeju. Take that TOP hyung!"
  "Seungri, it's not a competition." Dara pointed out.
  TOP turned to Dara, "Why didn't you tell me he knows?"
  "Uhm.. It didn't come up?" Dara asked instead of answering. 

TOP sat down in front of them. He asked Seungri,  "Is this why you've been talking about Jaejoong?" Seungri opened his mouth to answer but Dara beat him to it. "We're working on it." She said, patting Seungri's arm.
  Seungri snorted in answer but at Dara's stare conceded. "Yes. I will try my hardest to not be mad at Kim Jerkjoong. Uhm.. Jaejoong."
  TOP narrowed his eyes at their maknae and was about to scold him when Dara's phone rang. She looked at the screen, then answered the call. "Hey, Bomtaro! We're on our way back. Yes, yes.. We actually saw Tabi along the way and now we're also bringing him back with us.. Why are you so clingy?" Dara laughed at whatever Bom was saying. "Yes, your majesty. We're coming."
  Taking their cue from Dara's words both men stood up. Seungri held out a hand to help Dara up, which she gratefully took as she ended the call.
  "Sometimes, she's worse than Jiyong or omma." Dara joked.
  "Speaking of.." TOP started. "Are you going to tell Ji?"
  Dara bit her lip and looked at the two men in front of her. "I know I should.. But do I really have to? I mean what good will it do?"
 

 TOP and Seungri looked at each other and shrugged. They honestly don't know the answer.
 

_____________________________   "Hyuuuuuuungggggssssss!" A breathless Seunrgi ran inside Big Bang's recording studio where s were working on a new song.
  "What happened to you?" Youngbae asked as he watched Seungri take deep breaths.
  "Have you heard?" He asked smiling brightly, even though he was still having trouble breathing.
  "I'm guessing, no." Daesung answered. "Because if the information you're bringing right now isn't fresh or isn't a secret you wouldn't be so smug."
  "Aisht." Seungri sat don on the couch with a huff. "I can't help it if people tell me things."
  "People don't just tell you things." Jiyong commented, not looking up from the screen of the computer. "You annoy the hell out of them until just give in and tell you so you'll go away."
  Seungri pouted. "You're so mean. Just for that I won't tell you."
  Jiyong just nodded and continued working on the computer. Seungri turned to the rest of s anticipating their reactions or comments. But all of them weren't paying attention. TOP had his arms over his chest and his eyes closed, Daesung was playing a game on his phone and Youngbae was next to Jiyong helping him with the song.
  "All of you are so mean. Maybe I really shouldn't tell you." Seungri complained. He slouched down on the sofa. Unknown to him, Daesung raised his hand behind Seungri's back and was counting down, much to the amusement of Youngbae and Jiyong.

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  "Fine! I'll tell you!" Seungri announced, unable to contain his excitement. "But only because I love you all so much and this could be an excellent opportunity for us." He frowned as s exploded in laughter, even TOP. "Hyung, I thought you were sleeping."
  "I was just resting my eyes." TOP replied with a smile. "Just didn't want to waste my energy with your useless prattle. I knew wouldn't be able to resist and you'd tell us eventually."
  Seungri narrowed his eyes. "Just for that -"
  "Just get on with it, maknae." Jiyong ordered wearily. He's had very little sleep since they returned from Beijing.
  "Fine. But only because Ji hyung asked me to." Seungri conceded. "I heard that Yang Hyun Suk aka Yang Sajangnim will be going on vacation soon. I think they're leaving tomorrow or this evening. Something about Eun-ju noona's family or something.."
  "Everything okay?" Youngbae asked, a little worried at the abruptness.
  "Yeah. According to my sources," Daesung snickered and Seungri rolled his eyes and continued, "it's not like a family emergency or something but it's urgent. I heard they were supposed to leave next month but somehow they had to move it up."
  "What's so good about that?" Daesung asked.
  "You seriously have to ask?" Seungri asked him back.
  Daesung shrugged. "So Sajangnim won't be in the building, he'll still only be a phone call away. He's going out of town, not out of the planet."
  "A lot of our other bosses are still here." Youngbae reminded him.
  "In short, your information is useless." TOP told the maknae seriously.
  "Good try, though." Youngbae tried to lessen the blow as Seungri visibly deflated.
  "You're probably planning on doing something scandalous, right?" Jiyong speculated. "That's why you're so excited by hyung leaving."
  "Hyung!" Seungri protested crossing his arms over his chest. "I can't do anything anyway. I'm finally shooting for my MoL episode and I'm one of the leads! Take that TOP hyung!"
  "That's because you have no other commitments. Means you aren't as marketable as I am these days." TOP retorted.
  Youngbae snickered but sincerely congratulated Seungri. After that Seungri launched into a description of his character and his episode's storyline.
  Suddenly Jiyong spoke,  "They're just going to Thailand. Eun-ju noona's best friend is getting married. It was supposed to be held three months from now but the bride got really stressed about some family stuff so the couple just decided to elope only bringing their best friends and parents." While they were discussing Seungri's episode in Moments of Love, he sent a message to YG. They have the kind of relationship wherein doing that sort of thing was the norm. "Oh, and they're leaving tomorrow."
  "Tsch. Such an overachiever." Seungri mumbled.
  "Are you saying something, Seungri?" Jiyong asked.