Chapter 8

Italicize - flashbacks

Bold - Article/Comments

Normal - present

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Super Junior’s Kim Ryeowook dating an unknown girl?

Donghae scanned the articles and a certain article caught his attention. His eyes widened a little before he scoffed. He clicked on the particular article and read the content, his eyes dangerously getting narrower as he read it full of twisted stories that he knows the media love to include to threaten an idol’s career.

Kim Ryeowook of Super Junior has been spotted at a park late in the evening and hugging a mysterious girl. At the picture below, the said singer is happily and openly hugging this said girl. Everyone is now hot on their heels to know who this person is.

Donghae almost punched the screen of his laptop. Surely, the media isn’t this stupid, right? Based on the picture, it’s not that late in the evening as there are some people on the background. He guessed it’s about past 6 or something but definitely not that late. And what’s with the last line? It’s as if the media is provoking the fans to respond to it. He scrolled again, ignoring the other paragraphs and directly went to the comments. Donghae was flabbergasted when he saw how many comments there are now. Well, it’s not really that surprising as the article was written almost a week ago. All of them doesn’t know about it because they are too busy with their schedules.

‘Ryeowook-oppa! Waeyo? Who’s that b*tch? How could you do this to your fans? T___T I’m extremely disappointed…’ -  rywook_4ever

‘Oh so he’s not a after all. Or is this just a cover up so everyone would think he really is straight? Og puh-lease. !’ - Anonymous

‘Hah! Who would have thought that Ryeowook has his wild side too? Quite gutsy. He’s no longer the eternal magnae, people!’ – kpop_lover

‘T_____T Opppppaaa! You hurt us by hugging that wh*re! You’re my bias but this made me sad. Why did you not take care of yourself, oppa?’ – wookie_oppa_love

‘Seeing this broke our hearts so me and my friends decided to close our fanbase, oppa. T_T Mianhae’ – saranghae_sujuoppas

Donghae scowled at the comments. How rude of them and to think that they are ELFS! Well, technically not all of them but still! He started to read more comments, noticing a lot of hate comments and disappointed ones. He’s really pissed off now. Who do they think they are to say such things? They know nothing about Ryeowook! Nothing at all…!

He sighed, realizing that he’s one of those people that hates the eternal maknae right now, though of different reasons. He’s just so disappointed as to why Ryeowook never once said anything to him at all when in fact, he’s really having a hard time now. Donghae then remembered their conversation a few days ago which started all of this – him suddenly hating the younger…and Kibum.

“Hyung…” Ryeowook called out to him. He was standing from across the hallway and it made Donghae almost jumped in shock as he’s about to go back to bed after he went to the bathroom.

“Ah, Wookie-ah. You scared me. What’s wrong?” Donghae asked as he rubbed his tired eyes. He’s still sleepy and if this is something that can be talked later when it’s a reasonable time of the day, then he’d better sleep instead.

There was silence for a few minutes and I noticed that he looks as if he’s contemplating whether to tell me or not. I could feel my sleep going away so I waited for him to say something.

“…Um..Nevermind. You can go back to bed, hyung. Sorry for stalling you.” He answered but Donghae didn’t listen. Instead he walked towards the younger and dragged him to his bedroom, locking it.

“Okay. Talk. You know I don’t like it when you keep secrets from me.” The older stated as he looked intently at Ryeowook.

He heard the younger sigh before answering.

“…Hyung, do you think I’m a bother to you guys?” he asked and Donghae could only look at him with shock written on his face.

“W-Wha---Why do you think that?”

“I-I mean.. I always make people angry at me. H-Heechul-hyung…he’s really mad at me yesterday…And I also upset K-Kyuhyun. I didn’t mean to. I…I…It’s just that I care for them. You understand right, hyung? Right?” Ryeowook looked at Donghae with pleading and hopeful eyes, as if he wants some recognition from him. It’s as if he suddenly lost control or something.  

The older could only pull him into a hug. This isn’t the first time that this happened. This is actually the 5th time he’d seen this – first is when Kyuhyun joined the group and the latter was having a hard time because of Leeteuk. Ryeowook always blamed himself for not knowing how to be a good hyung to him and that he should have supported Kyuhyun instead of being scared of their leader. The second one was when Kyuhyun, Leeteuk, Shindong and Eunhyuk got into an acciden