Lucy and Sei got back to the apartment just as Manager-nim showed up with the van. If Manager-nim picked up on the awkwardness in the room, she didn't say anything. The van was quiet for the ride to the studio. Fortunately, the girls were all professionals, so they were able to act as if nothing was wrong once they arrived at the studio. The only potentially awkward moment came during the interview. The interviewer decided to pull out the classic question "If you were a guy, which of your bandmates would you want to date?" Everything was going smoothly until he got to Suyeon, who answered "Lucy, because she has such a beautiful smile, she'd just light up my world." Which of course meant all the cameras zoomed in on Lucy. It took Lucy a moment to realize that Suyeon had been talking about her, so there was a second of her just looking confused as to why the cameras were all on her, before she put on a smile and made a show of looking warmly at Suyeon.   The van ride back to the dorm was just as quiet as the ride out had been. If Manager-nim had been able to focus more attention on the girls, she'd have seen that Rina, Elly, and Lua were talking quietly amongth themselves, with occasional interjections from Doyeon and Yoojung, while Suyeon, Lucy, and Sei were all sitting quietly. The traffic was particularly heavy, so eventually even Rina, Elly, and Lua fell quiet and the girls all either napped or looked out the window.   When they got back to the apartment, Manager-nim dropped them off with a reminder that there are never morning promotions on an Inkigayo day and an instruction to use that extra time resting, so they'll be well-rested for their next TV appearance. With a chorus of promises that they'd do this, the girls are got out of the van and headed for their apartment.   Suyeon tried to go directly to her room, only to find Rina blocking the door. "Sorry Suyeon-unnie," she said, "but Elly says you have to go to the living room for a while before bed."   Suyeon looked around: On one side of the apartment, she could see Elly blocking Lucy from going into her room. On the other side, Doyeon was blocking Sei from entering the room she shared with Lua.   "At least we'll get this done with," Suyeon thought to herself. Telling Rina good night, she turned and headed for the living room. Yoojung was standing in front of the television, her arms folded and a fierce expression on her face. She directed Suyeon to sit in the beanbag, having already installed Sei in Suyeon's ugly recliner. When Lucy joined them a minute or so later, Yoojung told her to sit in the middle of the couch.   "Okay," Yoojung said. "As soon as Rina gets to bed, we'll get started." Looking across the room, she caught Elly's eye and called out "You go sleep in the room with Rina tonight. I'll make sure Lucy has a place to sleep."   Nodding her acknowledgement, Elly followed Rina into her room, then shut the door. Doyeon, seeing that everything was apparently under control, came and kissed Yoojung, wished all the others a good night, and then went to bed. Yoojung then turned back to the others.   "I'm sure you can guess why you three are here and everyone else gets to go to bed already," she began. "but I feel like you need to hear it anyway." She looked from one to another of them, daring them to contradict her or, indeed, to say anything. In that moment, she might as well have been 10 feet tall. "This afternoon was rough. All of you said or did things that you shouldn't have, or at least that you shouldn't have in the way you did. Now normally I'd begin something like this by having you all share a brownie, but we've all got to be at the top of our game for Inkigayo tomorrow, so you're just going to have to do it the hard way. Now, I don't want to have to be here all night, so let's get started." She sat down on the floor in front of the TV and looked from Lucy to Sei to Suyeon, waiting for one of them to decide to be first. Just when she thought she was going to have to nominate one of them, Lucy started talking.   "I guess since I'm the one who started the trouble today, I should be the one to start apologizing." She sniffled and started tearing up, looking down into her lap. Sei was on the verge of getting up to go to her when a pointed glance from Yoojung pinned her to her chair. After a moment, Lucy looked up, blinked a couple of times, and continued.   "I had made a promise, and today I broke it," Lucy began. "I didn't think of what I was doing as breaking my promise. I thought I was doing something close to what I had promised not to do, but at the same time far enough away