For a second, IU expected that someone would laugh at the preposterous idea, but when five minutes passed, her expectations again, failed her. She peeked at the other four people beside her, and stared at their unfathomable expressions. Only Tao was having a grin on his face, and it annoyed her a lot.  “Look at it this way,” he started, sounding so business-like, “The competition’s getting near, but our schedules are overlapping. I have the Wushu competition, Luhan has soccer, and Yixing and Kris has basketball to practice for. We really need IU to be there for us to keep up, and guide us well 'til all of these are over.”

“You know what?” Luhan was the first to answer, “I think that’s a great idea Panda.” He said, looking at Tao as if he just invented the time machine.

“I most certainly don’t think so,” I said dryly.

“I know gege,” he beamed. Even Yixing was giving him a smile of approval. IU couldn’t even grasp how her simple epic fail confession went to being Prince 4’s assistant. What in the world was happening?  This was truly the stupidest idea ever, and somebody needs to tell it to them. But her arguments weren’t getting heard. She just stood there like a mute, staring at the four people who act like she doesn’t exist.

“I don’t think that’s a good idea Tao,” Kris said in his monotonous voice. IU glimpsed at the foreign-looking man, with her stomach doing back flips, ‘cause finally Kris said what she wanted.

“Why?” Tao frowned at him.

“Because it isn’t,” he said firmly. “You’re not really thinking it thoroughly. IU’s been into a lot of trouble just because of Yixing,” he paused, giving Yixing an apologetic nod. “You should’ve thought of how much she’d be in and she gets involve with us all.”

They didn’t answer, instead they just looked at Kris, but Yixing’s gaze was on IU, and the girl could feel the sudden pooling of blood on her cheeks, making her look away. Deep inside, IU knew how spot on Kris was.

“But gege, if she’s with us, we can protect her always,” Tao argued.

“No Tao, it’ll hurt her more.” He said sternly. “Look, the four of us could protect her from all of the physical harm, but have you ever thought of her really? She