LUA: When we get back to the dorm, I flop down on the couch and claim the TV — Lucy and I have plans to watch figure skating together. As I’m turning on the TV, I notice her getting some papers out of her room and giving them to Suyeon. I wonder if this has anything to do with her conversation with Sei and Suyeon in back of the van as we were leaving the hockey arena. She comes and sits down next to me and we start watching the ice skating. She seems uncharacteristically quiet, so during one of the commercial breaks, I brush her hair away from her face and ask “Is something wrong? Has Suyeon been bothering you?” Lucy shakes her head. “No. She’s just being Suyeon, you know?” She pauses for a moment, then adds “Which reminds me of something I wanted to talk to you about: Are you still Suyeon’s side chick?” I sit staring at her, blinking dumbly. I’m sure my incomprehension is written all over my face. Finally, I manage to recover my thinking enough to say “What do you mean ‘still’? I never was.” Lucy smiles, and says “I was going to say that that’s okay, as long as you still have time for me. As long as I come first.” This obviously has something to do with the nonmonogamy rant that she got Yoojung started on during this morning’s van ride, but I’m still not sure how this even got started. “But, I’m not Suyeon’s side chick,” I protest. “Never was! What may you think that I was?” “Rina saw you,” Lucy says. “She saw you on the stairs the other day, making out with Suyeon.” I think back, trying to remember what Rina might have seen, and then it hits me “Oh! I know what she saw! I wasn’t making out with Suyeon! I was just kissing her all over the face because I was so excited that she was going to break up Rina and Elly—” All of a sudden I realize something. “I’ve got to talk to Suyeon — get her to stop trying to break them up.” I jump up to head to Suyeon’s room, then turn back to Lucy and say “I’ll be right back. Tell me what I miss.” YOOJUNG: Doyeon and I are sitting at the top of the stairs outside the apartment. It’s one of the best places to have a conversation without all of our members overhearing it. She’s trying to convince me that she’s sorry for everything that she’s done and that she’ll never do it again, and just generally trying to weasel her way back into my good graces. Unfortunately, for her, I don’t believe that she’s actually reformed so thoroughly. “C’mon,’ she says. “You can’t stay mad at me forever!” And that’ just the last I can take. “Can’t I?” I ask. “Just watch me!” “But. . . but. . .” she sputters. “I already apologized for all the trouble I caused, and I promised not to do it again. Isn’t that enough?” I manage to keep from rolling my eyes, but it takes a supreme effort. At times like this I wonder why I fell for Doyeon. “You apologized to me,” I say, “but not to our other members.” I pause dramatically. “Do you even understand what you did?” She slumps down and nods sadly. “I ruined the best thing that ever happened to me,” she said quietly. “As flattering as that is,” I say, “I want you to stop thinking about us and think instead about what you did to our other members.” She thinks for a long moment. I swear sometimes it seems like thinking is a physical effort for her. “I broke up Lucy and Sei,” she says with a sigh, before rushing to add “But I got Suyeon and Sei together, so that should cancel out, especially since Suyeon didn’t actually manage to break up Rina and Elly.” I shake my head. She came so close, but didn’t quite get it. “You also made all the members doubt Suyeon,” I say. “The whole meeting and election thing was your fault, and if Suyeon had been voted out as leader, that would have been your fault too.” She sighs heavily. “You’re right,” she says. “You’re right. It’s all my fault. But everything worked out okay, didn’t it?” “Yes, it did,” I concede, “but it might not have. And either way, you never apologized to our members. Once you do that, then I’ll think about taking you back.” “You’ll think about it?” she asks, her incredulity obvious from the way she emphasizes “think.” “Or,” I say grimly, “if you don’t apologize, I won’t even t