November 20th, 2013
Day 165

"I'm really proud of you girls," Min grinned, pride shinning in her eyes as she gazed over the heavily panting hebdomad. "You're super busy and still have the choreography for MYMY and your next single down pat!"

"Well, we did just finish the music video recording yesterday," Seol Ae snorted, swiping her bottle of water from the table and gulping over half its contents down in seconds.

"We have free time after Running Man today, right?" Yerim asked with bright eyes.

Sumin looked up from her paper work, nodding with a short smile before going back to her work.

"We should watch Heirs together," Minhwa softly said, receiving a smile from the leader.

Even though the PR had released that Haneul and Junho were just cousins, thus nothing romantic between them, everyone has still been on edge. The members have been closely trolling the internet, mostly their fan forums, to know that a lot of fans think the two companies are lying and trying to cover up their dating. It was ridiculous; but Kpop fans were never the sanest bunch. The rest of the members also noticed how Haneul had been ignoring her phones constant calls after disappearing last night. Seol Ae calculated that she was going to see her lover boy, Onew, to try and smooth everything over so he wouldn't trust the tabloids. But the leader still seemed very tense.

"This is ridiculous!" Jiwook exclaimed, his face red, his breathing heavy as he stomped into the studio. "Running Man just canceled!"

"What?"

Sumin jumped up from her seat. "How could they do that? We were supposed to record today!"

"They claimed there were technical difficulties going on and they couldn't record," Jiwook growled. "I can't believe they're buying into the junk the fans are saying. Why would we lie and say you're cousins? It's the truth! And Dispatch has been lingering around the building even more lately."

The only male in the room slammed his fist into the wall in his aggravation, some of the members jumping in shock. "Why can't everyone just be professional and ignore the ing tabloids?!"

Sumin took this moment to gesture for the girls to shoo, knowing she was the only hope for Jiwook to calm down, and not wanting him to say something he would later regret to any of the girls.

Legend promptly left the room, not wanting to be around if Jiwook decided to explode even more.

"I'm gonna go work out, anyone wanna come with?" Seol Ae asked, jabbing her thumb in the direction of the gym. Haneul and Rui decided to go with her, the leader hoping the rush of endorphins would make her feel better.

"I'm gonna go find me some Taebutt," Holly laughed at her own joke, twisting on her heel to walk towards the SHINee studio.

"I'm going to make sure she doesn't do something incredibly stupid," Yerim trotted to follow the singer deeper into the SM building.

Minhwa awkwardly looked towards Hye Rin, not knowing what to say or do.

"Do you want to walk around the building with me?" Hye Rin asked, mentally cursing herself that she didn't bring her book today of all days. She only had a few chapters left too!

The maknae sweetly smiled, nodding. The two roamed the seemingly endless hallways in a comfortable silence, not having any set purpose or set destination. It was a nice change for the two idols, it brings them down from the high stresses of idol life.

"You and Amber-sunbae are close, right?" Minhwa randomly asked.

The triple threat gave her a questioning look, but nodded.

"Their studio is right there, you want to say hi?" she softly asked, her eyes large.

"Sure," her voice squeaked a bit at the thought. It would be very nice to see Amber again, and she really hoped that Sulli wasn't there. Her immaturity was going to burst one of Hye Rin's brain lobes one of these days.

The two stopped in front of the frosted glass door, Hye Rin lifting a tiny fist to rapt it against the door.

It took a bit, but the door was opened to reveal a sweaty, and confused, Amber. Her eye immediately brightened once she saw the triple threat in front of her. "Hye Rin-ah! It's been awhile!" the rappers grin faltered a bit when she saw the quiet maknae standing next to her. "Hello Minhwa-ah."

"Hello sunbae," the maknae greeted, unconsciously half-hiding herself behind Hye Rin's tiny body.

"How has everything been?" Amber didn't bother hiding her excitement from her face as she soaked in the younger girls presence. "I heard you guys were able to book a Running Man episode all to yourselves."

"They canceled," Hye Rin frowned, subtly pushing her body forward, closer to the tomboy in front of her.

Amber looked taken aback. "What? What was their reason?"

"Technical difficulties," the short girl rolled her eyes. "Pretty sure it's because of the backlash fans have given because of Haneul's dating scandal."

"Yeah, I was reading a few international forums about that," Amber bit her lip, carefully thinking of how to word her next sentence. "Fans are being pretty rough."

"I didn't expect a reaction like this," Hye Rin's eyes momentari