Poorva’s POV

 

I was sitting with the other managers behind the camera and watched Eunhyuk do gags on the Strong Heart show. He would look at me occasionally and smile. I couldn’t help but smile back. Then I scolded myself. His reputation was important. I couldn’t sabotage his career. It would be crazy if news got out that Eunhyuk was dating his manager. Besides, I wasn’t even sure if this was right. I shook my head to bring me out of my haze and glanced back. There was an intermission. Some managers got up to go check on their respective idols. I went too.

 

“Listen Poorva. After this the schedule is…?” Leeteuk asked

 

“There’s a meeting for the new album.”

 

“right yeah. Thanks.”

 

I turned around to go when I heard Leeteuk curse under his breath.

 

I turned around to look at him. His expression seemed to be very troubled. 

 

“Leeteuk ssi?” I asked

 

“I forgot the compositions!” he said.

 

. 

 

“Don’t worry. We still have time. I’ll get them. Where are they kept?”

 

“You will?” he practically hugged me but stopped himself at the last moment “they’re in Heechul’s room, I think.”

 

“Okay. I’ll be back soon. You just hold the fort down here.”

 

“Thanks!” he said and beamed. 

 

I weaved in and out of the traffic and somehow made it back to the dorm in under 7 minutes. I rushed into the lift. 1 floor. 2 floors. Gosh this was so slow. It opened at the third floor and I ran for the next 5 floors and when I couldn’t bear it anymore I took the lift. I was panting like crazy. I’m not big on sports at all. I puffed and panted as the elevator opened on the 11th floor. I staggered towards the dorm door and opened it. I went in. The dorm was completely silent. Everyone was out. Strange. Heechul should have been back by now. I shrugged, closed the door and made my way to Heechul’s room when I noticed that there were some dim lights on inside. The door was slightly open and I saw Heechul sitting on the floor in front of his TV. He was watching a performance. He was watching Marry U. And there were… tears in his eyes…  

 

Heechul’s POV

 

“You’re looking very nice.” Poorva said sitting down next to me and motioned at the TV screen.

 

I quickly wiped my tears and looked at her “What is this? Don’t you know you should knock before entering?”

 

“Don’t you know you should share your pain with friends?”

 

I was silent then finally said “I can’t… They… don’t understand. No one does. All anyone can ever say is ‘Its your duty. You have to.’ When will they realize IT DOESN’T HELP?!” I said and flung the remote across the room. It broke. I glanced at Poorva. I thought she would be scared and wouldn’t want to talk to me anymore. That’s good isn’t it? Not like I want to talk to her anyways. Yeah right. Please don’t let her go. But she didn’t seem scared. She didn’t even flinch. She just kept looking at me with a stare that seemed like it was looking into my soul. I looked away. 

 

“Heechul…” she said

 

“Yah where are your honorifics?” I turned but I was cut off by a hug. She had suddenly bent over and hugged me. I didn’t know what to do. She was so warm and smelled so nice. 

 

She was my back “Its okay. You’ll be fine. And hey you’ll be back on that stage too. And I know what upsets you the most. The fact that Leeteuk has

to take so much pain and stress all alone. I’ll help him. I promise.” She said and backed away then held up her right hand’s little finger and said “Pinky promise!” I couldn’t help but laugh. 

 

“Pinky promise.” I said and shook my pinky with hers. 

 

“Great then! And if you ever need to talk to someone then I’m always here.” 

 

She got up to leave and my eyes followed her. I secretly hoped she would come back. To my surprise she did and then giggled in an embarrassed manner. She rubbed the back of her head and said “umm… I forgot to get Leeteuk’s compositions.” 

 

I motioned to a desk and said “Top drawer.”

 

She quickly took out the file and ran off again but not without peeking inside my room and going “BYE BYE!”  

 

I grinned from ear to ear.

 

Poorva’s POV

 

I still had a lot of time to spare so I was driving at a leisurely pace. I put one of old CDs in and started humming along with the music. I stopped at a traffic light and noticed that a lot of girls were looking at my car. Strange. The light seemed to be long so I started browsing through the compositions. All of a sudden I heard some really heavy thuds on the mirror on my side. I looked towards the side and my eyes opened in shock. 

 

“WHAT THE HECK?!” I shouted and quickly unbuckled my belt and rolled onto the passenger seat just as the mirror broke and shattered all over the driver’s seat. There was a girl with a baseball bat outside. She the bat inside in an attempt to further injure me. The light turned green and as quickly as possible I brushed the shards of the mirror off the seat and drove away as fast as possible. Thank god for my sneakers or my feet would have had deep cuts now.  I drove as fast as possible and arrived at the filming studio when I heard my phone ring. I picked it up quickly.

 

“Hello?”

 

“Did you like that?”

 

“Are you that girl? Who called the other day? YOU did this?!”

 

She laughed. A cruel, tinkling laughter. “Yes. It was me. I told you to stay away from him.”

 

“Oh god! Okay seriously kid. Are you crazy?!”

 

“You’re the one who’s crazy trying to go out with someone who already belongs to someone else.”

 

“Okay firstly. Eunhyuk doesn’t BELONG to anyone. He isn’t an object. Secondly, you’re messing with the wrong person kid.”

 

“Shut up!”

 

“Okay listen here-”

 

“No! You listen to me! If you don’t get away from him I’ll ruin him! I’ll make him jobless. I’ll get him thrown out of the industry! Let’s see if you love him then.”

 

I was silent for a moment

 

“Scared?” She asked.

 

“You know what? You just helped me make a decision. At first I wasn’t sure about going out with him. But now I realize I should. For crazy fans like you. If you really loved him you would be happy in his happiness. But no. You’re not a fan. So I don’t care about you or your foolish threats.” I said and hung up.

 

By that time all of the members had come out.

 

I felt a sharp pain in my left hand as I opened the door. A shard of glass had got embedded into the handle and now there was a huge cut on my hand. I looked at my arms. There were cuts all over. I checked my face in the mirror and noticed that I had cut myself around my chin.

 

“Darn it.” I said and got out. I was already becoming breathless. Blood. Oh god. There was so much blood. I can’t… blood. I was gasping for breath.

 

There were happy expressions on all their faces and as they saw me they shouted “YAY! You’re going out with uri Hyuk. FINALLY!” But when they took a good look at me all of them gasped. 

 

“What happened?!” Eunhyuk came towards me. 

 

I narrated the whole incident. 

 

He didn’t say anything. None of them did. Then I saw a look on his face which I hadn’t seen before. I could’ve sworn it was anger...

 

Haesung’s POV

 

Fine. Fine. If she won’t listen then fine. I’ll just have to put  my ultimate plan into action. Manipulative you say? I am. And you know what the best part is? I’m proud of it.