User: PauKichi

Pairing: Myungyeon, Infinite, T-ara, Kris, Hwayoung

Plot: 1 year passed but T-ara's bullying scandal is still alive. Their co-idols also believe that rumor specially Infinite. Myungsoo really hates Jiyeon. One day at the MBC building, when Jiyeon was getting ready at the dressing room alone, Kris of Exo suddenly barged in and attempted to assault her. When Myungsoo happens to walk passed t-ara's dressing room, he heard noises and came to the rescue.

Extras: make Hwayoung the bad girl here, I mean, she ordered Kris to do 'that' to Jiyeon. 

“It’s been a year.”

Kim Kwangsoo, CEO of Core Content Media, was discussing about their issue in the meeting room, with T-ara members.

“You guys are back to 6 of you.”

“Samchoon. I’ve told you we shouldn’t let more members joined us.” Boram sighed. Being the elder girl in the group, she often voiced out their opinions.

“Boram-ah…”

“I agreed with unnie, samchoon.” Hyomin cut in.

They were closed with their CEO, since they were in the company for long. And he allowed them to call him whatever they wanted, to make them closer.

“I’m sorry, girls. I miscalculated it.”

Jiyeon smiled to brighten up the atmosphere, “Come on! Don’t be sad! It’s been a year and we’re still alive, right? Who cares about the rumors? Let’s just continue with our own promotions. We’re going for a comeback soon too! I’m sure we still have some fans with us. Don’t worry about it now! I guess it’s just idols who are giving us those stares. They sided Hwayoung a lot.”

Qri clapped her hands to brighten up the down atmosphere too, “That’s right! Jiyeon’s right. Let’s listen to our maknae, hmm?”

The rest began to smile at their hyper youngest member. “But samchoon~” She skipped over to him and hugged his arm tightly, “Please don’t add members for now, hmm? It will be bad once rumors start again.”

The CEO patted her hands and smiled in guilt, “Of course. I’ll leave T-ara as 6 now. You girls are still perfect as 6. I won’t add more members like Hwayoung to pull you girls down. I was so silly.”

Jiyeon beamed widely while nodding her head in agreement, “Ddang-kyu, samchoon~”

They chatted for a while longer before deciding to leave the meeting room, back to practice their new song, Number 9.

“Phew~”

Eunjung sat down next to Jiyeon and threw a towel to her, “Tired already? Your stamina has dropped, lazy bum.”

Jiyeon glared at her angrily as she wiped her sweats off, “Unnie!”

“I’m just joking~” Eunjung laughed in bliss as she too, was wiping her sweats off.

“Ja~ Water!” Soyeon pushed the bottles to them after she drank from it, in which they took it at once.

“Unnie! How’s Jonghyuk oppa?”

“Hmmm? He’s fine. Why did you ask that?”

“Nothing~” Jiyeon sang as she scrolled her phone before bursting out into laughter.

“Ahhhh~ Why~~~?” Soyeon whined about as she felt insecure about it. She snatched her phone over and saw the news on it.

“OH MY GOSH!”

Soyeon threw her phone back to her and stormed off to the corner to show Jonghyuk her jealous side again.

“What did she see?” Eunjung raised a brow and took the younger’s phone over before bursting out into laughter.

“Just this?!”

She continued laughing and soon, the other members joined them and burst out into laughter.

“This is just a top photo of him for photo shoot! It wasn’t even fully !”

Jiyeon slapped her own laps and laughed in bliss, “I know right! And unnie was going crazy now! She must be jealous he showed his body to others!”

The members laughed at her comment as they stared at Soyeon who was waving her hands about with her pouty lips on her face.

Things just got slightly better for them ever since they announced their comeback and Soyeon’s relationship.

Fans congratulated them, and they saw less hater on the website. More people were interested about their comeback too.

However, their bullying news never seemed to die down in their own industry. Although there weren’t news about the bullying incident again, idols still seemed to hate them a lot.

In the idol world, others still sent them glares and weird stares whenever they walked passed any of them.

However, Jiyeon would be the only hyper and energetic member and told her unnies to ignore all of them. They still greet their seniors when they walked passed, and that was it. Their seniors would hold their head high and ignored them, leaving them awkwardly standing alone in the hallway.

But after a few similar situations, they already knew what to do.

They ended their practice early that day, since Soyeon insisted on charging to Jonghyuk’s house to scold him.

T-ara members laughed at her idea, but let her off at once. They knew she won’t be able to practice well even if she was there, so why not just send her there then.

So their practice for that day ended early, and they returned back to their own apartments, after saying goodbye.

However, much to Jiyeon’s luck, she met Infinite along the way home. She intended to walk back home from their company, since it wasn’t far. And just nice, Infinite had their dorm near her apartment.

Infinite didn’t recognize her at the beginning, since it was dark. But as she tried to walk past them without them knowing, Myungsoo just had his eagle eyes to catch her figure.

“Oh-ho! Isn’t that the big bully?”

Jiyeon stopped her tracks at once.

“Look! She admitted she’s a bully!”

Infinite burst out into laughter, teasing her again.

“Why is a bully walking alone in the streets? Oh wait. She wouldn’t be afraid! She can fight!” Myungsoo cooed rather sarcastically as he walked closer to her, circling her, and the other members walked over too.

Jiyeon lowered her head and stared at the ground with her hood covering her face. She had lots of words to shoot them back. She wasn’t some coward to hide in her shell.

But.

She told herself before. She wouldn’t argue back if she thought it wasn’t necessary, and that was it. She wouldn’t even try to fight back since she thought they were just playing around. She was used to it anyway.

“Are you mute now?” Myungsoo smirked as he crossed his arms in front of her, “Too ashamed to even talk? Imagine how Hwayoung felt before!”

Jiyeon took a deep breath and attempted to walk away but Myungsoo grabbed her arm even before she could leave. He pushed her towards the hard wall and the nails on it pricked onto her back.

“Ahhh…” Jiyeon winced in pain and arched her back but that only made Infinite laughed at her.

“Pain? This is just something small.” Myungsoo spat and walked away with Infinite walking with her after glaring at her.

Jiyeon held her pained back and walked back to her apartment slowly. She could feel water on her back, and she knew at once it was blood.

She can’t do anything to it too. It was on her back, and she didn’t want to trouble her members. So she simply took a shower and went to sleep.

They have a schedule at Incheon the next day, and she told herself she could make it.

♥♥♥♥♥

Jiyeon met up with her members, right outside the huge opened stage, and T-ara walked into the back-stage after gathering together.

“Hello! We’re T-ara!”

They shouted loudly and bowed when Beast walked passed them but were being ignored. Jiyeon bit her lips and stared at Junhyung but he simply glared at her. Ever since the rumor occurred, she lost tons of friends. Junhyung was so close with her before, but he turned his back to her the next day when the rumor came about. Jiyeon just hoped that her ex-best friend would believe her someday and befriend with her again. That was all she hoped for.

Beast simply walked passed them and T-ara too, walked back to their waiting room.

“Don’t worry, baby girl. Junhyung will open his eyes one day and punch himself for being stupid. He just let a good friend go.” Hyomin patted her back as they sat on the couch.

Jiyeon smiled sadly and sighed, “I hope so, unnie. We used to share so many things before.”

“I know, baby.” Hyomin ruffled her hair and Boram came over to pat her shoulders, “ Come on. Get ready. We have to get out for rehearsal.”

Jiyeon stood up from the couch after a deep breath and stretched her limbs. “Yes! Let’s just perform and do our best!”

“That’s right!” Qri gathered them into a group. “T-ara fighting!” They did a small cheer and left the room for their rehearsal.

Idols were sending them glares along the way, but they simply ignored all of them. They finished their rehearsal quickly and returned back to their waiting room to get change.

“Seriously. I hate them a lot. They’re such an eye sore, especially that Park Jiyeon. She’s so extra.” Myungsoo mumbled. He was standing with Junhyung as they stared at their room.

They became friends overnight since they found out they had a similar common interest: disliking Jiyeon.

“I found her an eye sore too. After what happened to Hwayoung, I can’t believe they would still be performing as if it didn’t happen before.”

Myungsoo shook his head while smirking, “Aren’t you her friend before?”

“Before, is the key word.” Junhyung smirked in return and snapped his fingers when he thought of an idea.

“How about making her embarrassed?”

“How?”

“Just follow my lead.”

Myungsoo found Junhyung’s eyes darkening, and without knowing, he knew he will love that idea he was about to say.

T-ara was up next for their performance, and they headed off to the stage together after getting called by the staff.

Myungsoo and Junhyung was hiding behind the curtain as they eyed Jiyeon with a smirk on their faces.

“Next up, we have T-ara with us tonight!” Tiffany announced happily with Yuri following suit, “Let’s welcome them with their y Love!”

The song began to play and they walked out to the stage when the screen opened for them.

Right when Jiyeon was about to sing her first line, Junhyung nodded his head at Myungsoo, and the latter did his job.

The next moment, Jiyeon had a bucket of water flowing down her body.

The song continued to play but her members rushed to her as she fell onto the ground in shock. Fans began laughing hardly at her poor encounter, thinking it was all a show. Even the two MCs had no idea what to do.

Jiyeon shivered from the coldness and Hyomin brought her backstage at once. The other four members bowed at the audience and sent them apologies before rushing back to their youngest member.

Soyeon caught two figures laughing like hyenas at the corner, and she stormed over to them at once with Eunjung following her since the latter caught her.

Without any words, Soyeon slapped the both of them hard on their faces. “You know nothing about us so don’t do that to her.”

Eunjung pulled her back to the waiting room, even though she was resisting, leaving the two dumbfounded guy behind.

“What…?”

Junhyung placed his palm on his pained cheek and frowned. He just felt a guilty feeling rushing up his body.

“OH !”

Myungsoo jumped in shock at his sudden shout, “WHAT?”

“Jiyeon… She will be sick for a long time if she caught a cold. I forgot about it!”

Myungsoo scoffed and placed both of his hands into his pocket, “So? Why do you care about her now? We just made her suffered and you changed after a slap on the face?”

“I felt guilty now.” Junhyung admitted. “To think about it… She was treating me so good before.”

“She was just putting an act in front of you then.” Myungsoo shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.

“No… Wait.” Junhyung frowned as his memories returned, “We shared everything together. She did tell me before. She said she was happy she will get a new member same age as her, and she said she wanted to be her friend. She sounded so sincere. It must be Hwayoung. She wouldn’t bully her if she wanted to be friends with her!”

Myungsoo scoffed in disbelieved, “Are you going to believe her now? After you’ve treated her so badly?! What’ve gotten into you?!”

Junhyung ignored his accusation and continued, “No… I remembered now.”

Myungsoo sighed and crossed his arms in annoyance, “What?”

“She cried to me one night, and she was saying how the new member was looking down at her and her members. She said the new member was abusing her and threatening her so she can’t do anything about it. Jiyeon was crying so badly through the phone. It was just a day before the rumor came out. I was recording my songs so I gave no care to her and hung her up.”

Myungsoo gulped when he heard that, but he chose not to believe at all. “She must be lying. She must have known about the rumors then.”