Taemin and Naeun spent a long time talking with each other but they still thought it was too quick separate their way. After made sure that the area was clear from danger, Naeun's manager called her as he waited in the car and about 30 minutes later Naeun came running toward the car.

For the first time he saw the bright smile on her face when she came in, a smile that he used to see a while ago before the whole messes happened. A big sense of relief came over him, he was so happy to see her happy like that. But then Naeun’s face slowly changed as if she was having a very deep thought by herself and the smile had disappeared from her face as she started to bite her lower lip. Her manager still had a lot of things that he hadn't told her yet. He thought it was a good time to tell her everything, now that it was only the two of them in the car and it might lift some weight off her shoulder from her worries.

"So, did you have a good talk with him? Were you able to clear all of the misunderstanding between the two of you?"  The manager asked Naeun, trying to get her off her very deep thought then she smiled again while answered to his questions

"De~, we cleared up everything and talked a lot about this and that after. Thank you so much for doing this for me, and I’m really sorry too, for causing a lot of troubles like this." Naeun had a apologized expression on her face

"Don't mention it, if I couldn’t handle stuff like this Boss wouldn’t hire me as the manager to begin with."

“I'm just happy to hear things are going well for you two now. But what with that long face earlier anyway? Is there something else you are worrying about?" Her manager gave a quick glance as he asked her then Naeun suddenly became serious again

"About that..... Oppa, he asked me to think about our relationship and..."

"And.....," the manager looked at Naeun as he was waiting to hear what was her response or what was the reason behind her worries

"Is it okay for me to start going out with him? I mean I know members are really supportive and all, but I don't want to put our group at risk and you might get in a lot of troubles too if the CEO found out-"

"The Boss already aware of what’s going on and I also told him everything." The manager cut her off and gave look her

"De?! What do you mean by that?" Naeun was confused of what she heard

"He was aware of it along time ago and he knows that things will somehow end up like this, he even told me to look after you.”

“What?!” Naeun was at lost and just stared at her manager in disbelieve

“He was hesitated at first because he thought it would be too risky and too early for you two to go out, but after he saw you had a really tough time he just gave in.”

“about one and half months ago he said this to me, 'Do whatever you think it’s best, and I will act like I don’t know anything about this,' since then I started to meet up with Taemin’s manager and discussed things over with him." The manager spoke as he kept his eyes on the road while Naeun still had opened as she listened to him

"Oppa, can I ask just how many people knew about this till now?"  

Naeun turned her whole body to face him as she bit her lower lip again, she felt like the secrets that she was hiding had been exposed to the whole world somehow

"All the managers and the guys (people who take care of the girls) are already aware of it, the CEO both A-CUBE and CUBE, actually the CUBE CEO just found out not that long ago, then your mom and today I think the Boss just gave a heads up to everyone in the company to look after you guys," without turning to face Naeun, he could feel Naeun’s eyes were on him and she froze in one place without saying anything in response

"Even mom knows?!" Naeun started to get nervous, she was fine with her mom finding out because that was a normal thing, but she afraid if her father also knew about everything too

Her manager knew what was her mind and tried to ease her by telling her how much her mother knew and things that she didn’t know, he felt guilty for hid it from her but he thought that it wasn’t his place to tell her everything. And if Naeun wanted her mom to know about everything, then she was the only one who should tell her mother.

"Well.... not entirely, to be honest. She was so worried about you when you were sick in the hospital so she kept asking me about what happened to you to make you looked so depressed all the time, so I told about your ending of WGM but not about the incident at the SM though. I didn't want to worry her too much."  He could tell a sense of relief came from Naeun

"What about Dad?" Naeun wanted to know for sure if her father knew or not, she was scared that if he did then Taemin might be in trouble later on if they were to meet each other

"No, he doesn't know. I asked your mom to keep it a secret. I think even your mom was hoping that you two would work things out someday. She didn’t want Taemin to have hard time later on if her wish actually become true one day," Her manager smiled little as he saw Naeun breath normally again and as they were talking, they lost track of time and didn’t realize that they already reached home

“Don’t worry too much Naeun-ah, things going to be alright somehow. Right now all you need to think about is about your own feeling, either you want to go for it or not we’ll always on your side no matter what,” The manager turned to face her as he talked after he parked the car

“You telling me that, but look like the whole company already think that Taemin-Oppa and I are already a couple. But anyway, I am really thank you for everything”

Naeun answered in a teasing tone but more than anything she was so thankful for all the things her manager did for her behind her back. With her awkwardness she tried to express her gratitude and her manager noticed how shy and how bad she was when it came to expressing herself. He just laughed and reached his hand to pat her hair then opened the door for both of them to go inside.

Naeun was so relief and more at rest now that everyone already knew so she didn’t have to tell them personally. But what she afraid about that was how would she face them later on after this, she knew she would get tease really bad by everyone in the company. But even scarier that, was what awaited for her in the dorm.

The minute she opened the door the smell of chicken fried, spicy chicken feet that was Chorong’s favorite, and some other side dishes along with cans of beers and sparkling cider (for Hayoung and Namjoo who were under age) awaited for her on the table in front of the TV. They wanted to hear everything that happened tonight between the two and they knew how to get Naeun to spill everything out without being so frustrated, wondering what she was thinking.

“Naeun-ah~ ~! Annyeong!!!!” everyone smiled widely and looked at her with sparks in their eyes

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