"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Haebyeol glared at Kisa, growling playfully. "All you ever do these days is fangirl over Junhyung. Joker this, Junhyung that, oh my gosh, Kisa-unnie, shut up! We have to practice!" A sweaty Vivien nodded in agreement, twisting her t-shirt up to reveal her pertruding abs. 
"We have rehearsal," Vivien piped up bravely. "So you should focus; we have a stage coming up soon, unnie-ah!"
Kisa pouted, tossing a damped towel toward the two. "Just because you two have boyfriends now --"
"I don't have a boyfriend!" Vivien exclaimed.
"What about Seungri-ah!?" Kisa retorted carelessly.

The practice room suddenly fell quiet as a silence hushed the crowd, sweeping over the perimeter steathily. The atmosphere suddenly thickened as Vivien's expression fell into one of disheartened bitterness. "What about Seungri-oppa?" Vivien whispered carefully.
Anna winced at the cold tone, half grimacing at the angered look flustering in Vivien's eyes and half from the rarity in Vivien actually addressing Seungri by his actual stage name -- it was never Seunghyun, or Seungri, but always Panda-oppa.. but it was different today. 

Why?

Seungri was in Japan at this time, promoting himself for his drama as G-Dragon worked on his current solo album, One of a Kind, whilst others remained at home, promotion themselves. As Seungri resided peacefully in Japan, hell suddenly broke out when an anonymous report was filed against Seungri, having claimed that a woman had a scandal with him -- it spread like wildfire, spreading across the internet and across tabloid magazines, and even newspapers. Hyun-suk was too busy to monitor any other artists under his wing, and was racking his brains furiously and as quickly as he could to come up with a professional, earnest reponse; ELiTE was thoroughly neglected by the boss, alongside with 2NE1, and SE7EN, and Gummy -- even the new rookie group that was to debut soon.
The scandal heavily affected Big Bang and YG, despite the arguments sparking in Seungri's favor -- but the one that it seemed to hit the hardest was Vivien.

"What about him?" she demanded heavily.
"Nothing," Anna whispered dolefully, pushing Vivien back in attempt to prevent her from launching at the seated Kisa. Kisa hung her head before downcasting her eyes to the glossy floorboards. 
"Just because you have a boy toy now.. does that mean you can be careless with your words?"
"I didn't mean to!" Kisa argued defensively, rising to her feet. Obnoxiously, she strutted to Vivien, smirking bitterly. "You really accuse me of being careless over one tongue slip? Grow up, kid -- wake up to reality. You, of all people, should've known what type of guy Seungri is. For all we know, he could've really slept with that woman --"
"He slept with no one," Vivien whispered incoherently.
"And has he told you that? Do you know that for sure?!" Kisa bellowed tauntingly. "Such a child; he hasn't even bothered to call you. The last person on his mind right now is probably his little Vivien Sweetheart Princess. Stop kidding yourself --"

"Unnie that's enough," Hannie roared, pushing Kisa back roughly. 
Ava stepped between Kisa and Vivien, glowering down at the two. Kyo Jin remained in the sidelines, watching mercifully alongside Anna. "How are we going to deal with this, now?"
"Everyone's been on the edge because of this scandal," Anna replied wistfully, "but they shouldn't be this immature."
"C'mon, leader, do something." Kyo Jin nudged her head into the direction of the outbursts and disputes, ushering Anna hastily over.

"That's it," Anna stated calmly in a loud, clear voice. "If this continues, I won't hesitate to halt all our activities all together. We can forget about Inkigayo or M!Countdown; we can forget appearing on Mnet, too; if this keeps up, I'm going to report it to Abeoji, and have us go on an involuntary hiatus until we get ourselves together."
"What we need is time to understand and time to absorb what's going on!" Hannie muttered. "Cancelling activies over such a trivial matter? Just take our days off to settle this. You guys are so stupid." Hannie cursed under her breath bitterly, shaking her head.

She peeled her matty grey shirt away from her body, fanning herself and fanning the sweat away from her face with her hand. "Yall are being pathetic," Hannie called out obnoxiously. "So what if Kisa's got a man? We pretty much all have guys we have eyes on, or vice versa," Hannie retorted.
"Why are you making such a big deal, because she's happy?" Ava agreed, nodding with sincere compliance. "Have we criticized you?" she turned to Haebyeol. "When you started dating an SM artist? Or you, who had a crush on a subordinate from the company? Did we undermine Anna for spending the night with Taeyang oppa?"
"So what if he's caught up in a scandal?" Hannie cried. She stamped her feet, calling forth the drifting attention spans that began to wander.
"We've had worse! First with Hannie's drinking problem! Then G-Dragon sunbae's conflict, and Daesung's motorcycle accident! Is this any different?! Why are we getting so caught up with this?!" Ava sneered.

The seven girls shook their heads, contrasting ideals coursing their brains, in pursuit to be heard or uttered.. "We're... We're becoming like how they became in Lord of the Flies," Haebyeol muttered. "I thought we were a band."
"Were?" Kisa repeated scornfully. 
Anna glared, shutting Kisa's mouth for her immediately. "All of you be quiet." Eyes turned to Anna. "Practice is dismissed. Return to the dorms in silence; I don't want to hear any of you talking to each other -- not until you have your minds cleared and until you understand each and every individual's perspective in this group, do you understand?!"
"Ne." The choristers' voices were weak, tired, and scoffing.

"Do. you. understand?" Anna's voice, on the other hand, was hard and stifling, as is she were surpressing her ferocity.

"Ne!"

"Get out."

"Aish, this is ridiculous!"

Hannie grumbled, the bottle's cap. She twisted the tip of the bottle off and on, before flinging it onto her bed, deciding not to drink tonight. "These girls are so stupid," she muttered, sighing. "How can you handle this so immaturely? That's my job."

Haebyeol stared at her phone stoicly, scoffing at the text blinking up at her; it had playful eyes, grinning up at her like the Chesire cat.
 

"Jagi! You haven't texted or called today, so I'm just going to assume you're either really busy, or you're upset. Hwaiting, if you're busy!

But! ... Byeollie-ah, if you're upset, don't be scared to call or text me, okay? I don't have a day off, but it's just practice -- five minutes can wait for me. Unless you're going to continue to be stubborn as you usually are, cope with it well, but don't cry alone, okay? DON'T EVEN CRY AT ALL! IF YOU WANT TO CRY, YOU CALL ME... YAH, BAEK HAEBYEOL, ARASEO?   -- One and only Lu"

"Ne," she mumbled, tossing her phone aside. "Araseo."

Ava and Kisa glared at each other from across the kitchen island counter, stuffing muffins and various pastries into their mouths, their glares immutable. They remained silent, though, not uttering a single word to one another. Though, it wasn't like words were needed. Their glowering gazes were enough to convey their penetrating frustrations for one another. 

Ava tore off a piece of her poptart, holding it securely in the palm of her hand, before crushing it to bitter flour ashes. I'm going to kill you, she was trying to say.
Kisa smirked, popping a piece of a muffin into nonchalantly. Try me.

"Whatever it is, I hope you're okay.. the SHINee guys were wondering about you, so I decided to call... you're the only girl in my contacts list, so they got kinda excited.. sorry if it was a bad time."

She felt herself smile involuntarily, despite her foul mood. "It's okay, really."
"Do you want to talk? I have time.. we just finished practice, so..."
"It's kinda a long - and stupid - story," Kyo Jin objected bashfully. Her face reddened as Onew's laughter rung euphoniously through her ears.

"I told you I had time, didn't I? Narrate away!"

Anna tossed her pillow against the wall, growling as she heard the incoherent grumblings of the six collective members from the corridors and living spaces. Each individual had her own space, sulking to herself in her own perimeter; the seven disregarded one another, pouting and sulking, much rather than trying to contemplate their situations.

Above all, Anna was probably the only that happened to be seriously trying to comprehend the girls' point of views. And that was when she reached her pivotal point, on the verge of giving up, for she found each unique member to be too difficult to understand alone. "Aish, these girls. What was Abeoji thinking when he put such different girls together in a group? We're not at least one bit compatible. One drinks straight shots like it's water, the other giggles over manga, the other goes out clubbing like its her hobby; one pranks like it's her job, the leader has no sort of organization; one even reads her own fanfics on Asianfanfics; and another is an urban chick -- how the hell do we get along most of the time?!"

She growled, muffling her profuse screams into the dark pits of her red pillow. She picked up her phone hastily, pressing down on the first speed dial number.

"Yobosaeyo?"

"Youngbae-ah.. I'm feeling troubled." She blushed from embarassment at the disparity in her own voice. But at once, her heart warmed at the sound of his joyful chuckles coming from the other end. "Leader troubles?"
"Ne.."

"I'm here to listen."

Since I know you won't flame me for putting an author's note: Hi.

I know I don't normally do these, and it's because they ruin the overall feel of the ongoing story/chapters, but I just gotta do this, so please just read it. It'll take an extra three minutes (unless you're a slow reader, no judging, srsly, just read it though). 
I love Seungri.
He's probably my favorite, next to G-Dragon. And to be honest, as a 15-year-old girl, I am ashamed to be classified among these teenage (delusional) VIP fangirls. They are so ridiculous.
"OPPAR DIDNT DO IT" or "OPPAR IS BETTER THAN THAT".

NO STAHP PLS.

I love Seungri, and honestly, the scandal does NOT affect my view point on him. Why not?

He's a ing grown man -- he obviously needs to reduce those ual frustrations, right? I mean, he's got to, with all that G-Dragon-y glory beside him 24/7 (can you tell I ship Ji-Ri?)
He's just another human being (a GROWN MAN, I SHALL EMPHASIZE). So what if it's him? Leave him alone. Yeah, sure it's ed up that he allegedly did not help the woman clean up, and that he allegedly choked her during . But you know what? That is that 's fault for not knowing how to properly clean herself up (like any grown woman should be able to); and it is her damn fault she didn't know that this machine Seungri probably likes it rough (I mean, most sasaengs could deduce how Seungri likes just looking at him, srsly do your  research, lady).

Yall are just immature.
Scandal?
OHNOE -- lol grow up.

K.

Here's to lighten the mood.

Kbye.