Rina looked up the stairs and saw Lua hugging and kissing Suyeon. She grabbed Elly by the arm and stopped her from going any further up the stairs.   "Come on," she said, "let's take the other stairs."   "What?" Elly looked up and saw what had set Rina off. "Oh."   As Rina led her away, Elly yelled up the stairs. "Get a room, you two! None of us want to see that."   Rina whirled around and pushed Elly up against the wall under the stairs. "What do you think you're doing?" she asked.   Elly shrugged. "Don't you think she deserves it? This morning she was all 'Rina, take me back, I'll love you forever,' and now this afternoon she's all over Suyeon. What's her deal?"   Rina looked deeply into her new girlfriend's eye. "Whatever her deal is, I don't want to her you dissing her. I believed her when she said how much she loves me, and I think whatever she's feeling for Suyeon is just as real. Lua's got problems, but she's not dishonest. With her, what you see is what you get."   "Yeah but -"   Rina interrupted whatever Elly was about to say by putting a finger on her lips. "But nothing. She was my first love, and I'm always going to have a soft spot with her. But now I'm with you. But I'm with you because I like you, not because I hate her. Besides, she's one of our members. No matter what happened between her and me, we've got to be able to perform with her, to sit with her during an interview, and even to perform fanservice with her if needed."   Elly tried to open to say something, but Rina pressed her finger more firmly on . "No," she said. "Don't say anything. I want to be with you, but I don't want there to be any drama because of it. Which means I need you not to start any drama. Even if - no, especially if - Lua is dating Suyeon now, I need you to not start any drama. If Lua has found someone else who makes her happy, she won't start some kind of drama trying to get me to break up with you." She leaned forward, moved her finger, and gently kissed Elly on the mouth. "Can you do that for me?"   Elly took a deep breath, breathing in Rina's scent. "I can do that," she said, "but only because you asked me to. The last few months have been so hard for me, watching you with her, seeing that she was hurting you . . ."   Rina took Elly's hand and started leading her toward the other stairs. "It wasn't all like that. I was hurting her too. I don't know what the deal was -