Bristling, the accused stuck out her chest.  "So you're all siding with Taeyeon? Sooyoung called her a shorty, too.  Besides, Taeyeon's the one who started this in the first place."

"At least her ego doesn't need to be brought down to size," Sooyoung snapped viciously.

"Excuse me," the offended challenged, taking a step back, "I don't believe I'm the only prima donna here.  And may I remind you you're not going to marry anytime soon if you don't start cleaning yourself up, Choi."

Sooyoung hopped to her feet, face burning.  "You're an egotistical maniac," she growled, glaring Yoona in the eye, "whose only source of pleasure comes from strangers' compliments getting shoved up your—"

"Soo!" Tiffany exclaimed in horror, eyes lit with fear.

Thunderstruck, Yoona cast a helpless glance at a wide-eyed Hyoyeon.  "Don't look at me," she murmured, taking a few steps off to the side, desperately wishing what Sooyoung had said wasn't true.

"Girls, stop," Taeyeon weakly interjected—partly due to the fact that Fany was cutting off her air supply in a suffocating hug. "This is petty."

"Don't tell me what to do," Yoona hissed defiantly.

"Don't talk to her that way," Sooyoung snapped, murder flashing in her deep brown eyes.

Yoona flung an accusing finger toward Taeyeon.  "She's not better than me—or any of us for that matter," she added as an afterthought.  "Where does she get off thinking she can tell us what to do?"

"Taengoo's our leader.  Now let's think with some reas—"

"Oh Fany, just f*** off."

SeoHyun gasped, clasping her hands over .  Tiffany's jaw dropped.  Taeyeon urgently pulled herself up from her chair, furious.  "That was out of line.  Tiffany's been nothing but an angel."

Realizing she wasn't going to get through to them, Yoona changed her tactic.  With a jerk of her head in Sunny's direction she uttered, "You haven't said anything."  A smirk crept onto her lips.  "You've told me how you think Taeyeon's a controlling, manipulative bee-ach"

The girls rounded on Sunny, who sat wide-eyed.

"And you thought that you and I could be just as successful without the others."

A hand flew from SeoHyun's mouth to her heart.  "SoonKyu!" she cried almost inaudibly.

"I was drunk when I said it," the pixie-haired girl offered quickly.

"But that's when our innermost secrets become truths," Yoona silkily reminded everyone with a snake-like sneer.

"I am appalled with you all," Taeyeon said in a voice so dreary it sounded as if she was speaking at her own funeral.  "Real sisters don't try to attack each other and split up the group."  Her head slowly shook from side-to-side in devastation.  "Yoon-Ah," she added in a surge of rage, "you are no longer one of us."