A/N: heya, sorry I wasn't able to upload this yesterday. School work's been killing me.

Anyway, here's the next chapter! Hope you all like it! :D

I kept my eyes focused on the television screen in front of me, waiting anxiously for five familiar faces to finally appear.

I wasn’t familiar with the news program on the TV right now, so I wasn’t sure when the entertainment segment would come. The faces flashing in front of me so far were just some hosts and probably some Korean business men in suits that I had no idea whatsoever of who the bloody hell they were. So I just kept my eyes peeled open for the boys.

I also still couldn’t understand anything that was being said on TV, nor the characters in Hanggul that were being flashed on the screen. I wish I had asked Junsu to teach me a bit of Korean, but given all that’s been happening in over the past two months… well, there really wasn't much spare time.

Yep, that’s right. I’ve already been here with the boys for two months.

Two long, grueling months…

I sighed as I thought back about the last couple of months while I waited for the boys to finally appear on TV…

Flashback

After we had come here to Korea and the boys had consulted and met with some lawyers for a few days, they showed up back for work again in SM. We had decided that it was best that we lie low and that they stick with their old schedule while their lawyers were secretly preparing what they needed for the lawsuit.

Of course, just ‘showing up’ for work again wasn’t that easy for the boys.

Their management, especially their manager, had raged at them for hours because they skipped their recordings, suddenly just went back to Korea, and didn’t show up in the company for days even after they already came back.

With the boys back to work, I was mainly left alone in the apartment. This was one of the reasons why Junsu and Changmin (for some inexplicable reason) had protested at first to them going back to work as usual until the lawsuit was ready to be filed.

But, of course, it wasn’t really a matter of our choice.

If they didn’t go back, carried on with their prior commitments, the company would already guess that they were up to something. And we couldn’t risk SM already making a counter-move against us before we could even prepare the lawsuit.

Also, the fans would also wonder and worry if the boys didn’t show their faces in their scheduled events.

So, yeah, we decided to just pretend to go with the flow and keep things quiet until the lawsuit. Because goodness only knows that things won’t be quiet for possibly quite a long, long time after that lawsuit had been filed.

And with the boys back to work in SM, I became a first-hand witness on how they would come back home, all looking dead on their feet. As much as I was happy to see them whenever they returned, it also made my heart clench to see how tired they looked.

“Just a little bit more, oppas,” I had told them as they collapsed onto the couches, the fourth time they came home that way. “Just a little bit more…”

Add more to all this was the fact that they have to meet with their lawyers to check on the progress of the preparation during those precious few days that they were on day-off…

But finally- at long last-, their main lawyer had telephoned Yunho a couple of days ago to let them know that all was set for the lawsuit.

End of Flashback

So, here I was now, waiting for them in the evening news.

Ever since they were told that all the papers were ready for the lawsuit, tension could be felt in the every room of the apartment. And this morning, the tension had reached its peak. I wished them luck and hugged each of them (except Changmin; I just gave him a short nod, which he returned… kinda) before they left.

Because… because... today was the day.

Instead of heading to SM and continuing with their scheduled practice for the day like their management had been expecting them to, the boys had gone to court this morning.

They had gone to file the lawsuit.

The boys had taken to leaving one of Jaejoong’s many cellphones with me, so that they could contact me, and I them, if some emergency suddenly comes about. And just about before lunch time earlier today, I had received a text message from Yunho:

We’ve done it.

That was the only message I had received from them the whole day. I wasn’t surprised; I could only guess the chaos that must be going on around them when and after they went to court. That just made me worry more about them, though.

I glanced wearily at the wall clock. It had been almost an hour into the news program, and still, nothing yet about the boys!

I was getting really impatient already, but I still couldn’t help the anxious, churning feeling in my stomach, knowing that when I finally do see them on the screen… well, it wouldn’t be exactly pleasant to watch.

I sighed deeply again.

Suddenly, I was interrupted from my musings when I heard the key words ‘Dong Bang Shin Ki’ from the television. My eyes flashed to the direction of the screen immediately, paying rapt attention.

There they were.

Yunho, Jaejoong, Yoochun, Junsu, and Changmin.

And yep, I was right, they were surrounded by total pandemonium.

Oh, dear God!

The shots being shown were of what seemed to be the boys going into the courthouse with their lawyers and surrounded by some guards. Some moments later, it was the shots of them leaving that were being shown. I couldn’t understand what the news anchor was saying, but god, did it look like hell! Flashes of light from cameras were flashing all around the boys and paparazzi were all yelling questions at them.

God, the courthouse looked more like a madhouse!

The boys didn’t give any answer and just kept on walking, their shades covering most of their faces and, from the rest that could be seen of their faces, their expression were blank and somewhat stony. But I knew them well by now and I could see from their postures and gestures about how stressed they were already.

And this was only the beginning!, I thought despairingly.

Then, the scene changed again.

The screen was showing the SM building and the scene that was happening outside it. The video record seemed to have been shot around late this afternoon, and, as impossible as this may sound, it looked a hell lot worse than the scenes from the courthouse.

There was a huge crowd in front of the building, made up of both fans and media personnel alike. The news anchor reporting on the screen looked as stressed out and as somewhat panicked as the fans behind him. Suddenly, the camera zoomed into the front entrance where a man (quite possibly from the high-ranking officials, based on his clothes and manner) was walking out of the building. His security guards were trying to clear a path for him through the sea of people without much success. The media had all swarmed right towards him, their microphone