The Incident

It's The Only Way

Wheein, Hwasa and Solar could be found laughing out loud at the company's office room while Moonbyul stood there watching them, a little annoyed. 

Looks like someone had taken pictures of Solar and Moonbyul's walk when they were filming for their music video. They weren't normal pictures because it turns out that the media had labeled their articles with the pictures as Solar "caught" going out with her boyfriend. The "boyfriend" was indeed Moonbyul which was the reason why the two maknaes of the group were laughing so hard. 

The CEO had already replied to the media and social networks, giving an official statement that the boy in the pictures was actually Moonbyul. Fortunately, this incident raised their comeback awareness to the public, killing two birds with one stone. 

"Yah, are you three done?" Moonbyul asked with her arms crossed. It wasn't only the three members of Mamamoo who were laughing but the whole office of staff members were giggling at the situation. Their CEO walked in with a magazine in his hands, rolled up. He made his way towards Solar and Moonbyul and slapped the both of them in the head with the paper.

"Ow!" Both Moonbyul and Solar whined while grabbing their head. 

"Good job you two," he said, snickering at the same time. "Thanks to you two, the news gave your comeback a handicap," 

"We didn't do it on purpose...,"  Moonbyul mumbled. With all honestly, Solar was liking the situation. 

"Maybe this is a good sign that Um Ah Oh Yeh will be successful. It's pretty funny," Solar shrugged her shoulders. Moonbyul still found the situation awkward, especially the last picture in which showed a perfect angle of a kissing scene between the two of them. 

Both Moonbyul and Solar felt a vibration in their pockets. They both took their phones out and saw that JB and Hyuna had texted them perspectively, asking them about the scandal. Solar laughed while Moonbyul sighed. JB took the news seriously and asked Solar if she really had someone else while Hyuna laughed at Moonbyul. She knew it was Moonbyul in the pictures. 

When Moonbyul went out to lunch with Hyuna the next day she couldn't help but bring the pictures up again. 

"Yah, this one looks so real though," Hyuna laughed, showing Moonbyul the kissing picture. Moonbyul lightly swatted the phone away.

"Stop making fun of me," Moonbyul whined. 

"Why not? I bet you enjoyed it," Hyuna laughed ironically then her face got serious after her laugh died down. "Did you guys really kiss though?" she asked in her most quiet voice. Moonbyul almost choked out her food. 

"W-what. Of course we didn't!" Moonbyul stuttered. Hyuna felt a little relieved. 

"That's good. Cause I'm gonna take it first," Hyuna said calmly, making Moonbyul choke more on her food. Hyuna watched as Moonbyul coughed and grabbed her cup of water. 

"Can you please stop teasing me?!" Moonbyul said after she calmed down. 

"What? you don't think I'm serious?" Hyuna looked at Moonbyul in the eyes. Hyuna was serious about her statement and Moonbyul swallowed her saliva nervously, she couldn't help but glance at Hyuna's lips. Hyuna saw where Moonbyul's eyes were going and curved a smile. 

"Me saying that means you better watch out if you sleep over at my place from now on," Hyuna teased. 

"I'm not coming over anymore," Moonbyul declared. 

"You wouldn't dare," Hyuna threw a piece of bread at Moonbyul and laughed.

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Days of their comeback were coming closer and faster. Before the release of the music video, Mamamoo had already performed the song for their guerilla concert. Moonbyul had dyed her hair even lighter, all the members praised on how bright she looked compared to their Piano Man era. Even Hyuna was begging to see Moonbyul's new hair but haven't been able to since Mamamoo had been so busy due to their schedules. 

Finally when the release of the song and album came out, the results sky rocketed and they became first on several music charts. Even their CEO was more excited than Mamamoo themselves. After they recorded and performed for all three major music shows, at the end of the week, their managers and CEO proposed that they would pay for everyone at a celebration party. 

Free food meant that Mamamoo would be there no matter what. On the night of the party, Mamamoo were deservingly the center of attention along with the composers of the album. Although not as crazy as their drunk CEO, Mamamoo were partying pretty hard too. Even Moonbyul had shut off her phone for the party and drank as many shots as their CEO had forced them too. Solar cheated her way out of the many shots of liqour by secretly passing the drinks to someone else. 

It was 3 am and Wheein and Hwasa were still hitting high notes on the karaoke machines with some half drunken staff members still cheering them on. Moonbyul sat next to Solar, using her shoulders to nod her head up and down from between passing out and wanting to party still. 

"Byul-ah, do you want water?" Solar asked, a little concerned. 

"Hmm, I want to go home,~" Moonbyul blurted. When Solar stood up to help her get home Moonbyul whined. "Wait, wait, I want to drink more!" 

"Which one is it?" Solar asked in annoyance. "Why am I even asking a drunk person what they want," Solar came to realization. "C'mon, we're taking you home first," she stated and forcefully picked Moonbyul up. 

"Unnie! Where are you going?! We're just getting started!" Wheein yelled in her mic when they noticed that their leader and rapper were heading to the door. 

"She's wasted! Let me take her home first and I'll come back for you two!" Solar replied.

"It's okay! We can take them home safely!" A female staff said, she seemed sober enough so Solar trusted her and left the two maknaes. 

Once they arrived home Moonbyul ran for the bathroom, throwing up into the sink while Solar worringly ran after her to hold her hair up and patted her back. After a couple minutes of coughing and rinsing , Solar made Moonbyul brush her teeth. Solar sat Moonbyul down onto the couch and gave her water and some peppermints. Moonbyul didn't want to take the peppermints at first but Solar forced it down while yelling.

"Do you want to have bad breath?! You STINK!" Solar hit Moonbyul after the girl finally swallowed the candy.

"You're so mean!" Moonbyul whined. Solar continue to clean up after Moonbyul by taking the cup of water on the coffee table and took it to the sink. Moonbyul watched as the girl walked over to the kitchen, admiring the way Solar walked, admiring the way Solar's back was turned. It was a little creepy of Moonbyul but she couldn't help it, she still loved the girl. If she couldn't hold Solar in her arms, what's the harm of just staring? 

Solar continued to clean her hands on a towel and walked over to Moonbyul, noticing that the girl was following her with her eyes. 

"Stop staring, you need to go to sleep," Solar patted Moonbyul's head. Without realizing, Moonbyul adruptly took a hold of Solar's wrist, causing the older girl to freeze. It was silent for a couple of moments until Solar cleared . "What are you doing? Let me go and head to bed," Solar proceeded to pull her wrist away from Moonbyul's hold except Moonbyul wasn't letting go.  "Yah,"

"You're so beautiful," Moonbyul blurted. Solar was definitely caught off guard and blushed a little. 

"Enough, get up," Solar's tries to sound stable and attempt to pull Moonbyul up again only to have the girl pull her down. Solar let out a yelp as Moonbyul pulled her over to the side, making Solar fall onto the couch lightly next to Moonbyul. 

"Why is it like this?" Moonbyul asked Solar. 

"What the-, like what?" Solar regained her posture on the couch and looked at Moonbyul. She realized that she was looking into sad eyes again, her heart somewhat felt not right. Suddenly Solar could see Moonbyul leaning closer. "Woah, hold on-," Solar panicked and was about to move when Moonbyul took ahold of both of her wrists and trapped it within her hold in the air.

"Stay still...please," Moonbyul whispered. "I'm just looking...," she said again. It was so quiet that Solar could hear both of their hearts beating at an abnormal rate together. Suddenly Moonbyul moved again and leaned her face closer to Solar. For some reason Solar froze, she didn't want to move even though she knows she should. The distance between their lips decreased. 

Moonbyul finally placed her lips gently onto Solar's. They kissed. 

It was such a quiet and innocent kiss for a couple of moments. Then Moonbyul started moving her lips in various movements agaisnt Solar's. This was when Solar started squirming a bit, shutting her eyes tensely. However, after a couple of seconds later Solar started to melt into the kiss and moved along with Moonbyul's lips. 

Suddenly Solar could feel Moonbyul braking the kiss but she found herself leaning foward while Moonbyul was backing away. Solar was wanting more. They were breathing loudly from the lack of oxygen while staring at each other in the eyes. Nothing was going through Solar's mind at the moment. 

Then she couldn't hold it any longer, Solar leaned foward and cupped Moonbyul's face with her two hands, catching her lips again gently. Moonbyul was surprised but went along. She honestly couldn't think straight right now but it felt good. Feeling good was a good thing so she just let it happened. This kiss was actually happening. 

The front door suddenly opened with Wheein and Hwasa walking in with a female staff member, Solar immediately threw Moonbyul off of the couch and away from her. A loud thud could be heard when the other two members walked in and the rest of the lights. 

"Oh, what the-" Wheein said. They could see that Solar looked panicked on the couch while Moonbyul was laying sprawled out on the floor.  "What's going on?"

"Nothing," Solar answered almost immediately. So quick that Hwasa and Wheein got suspicious. 

"Did you two fight again?" Hwasa said jokingly. Solar took this chance to play along.

"Yea, this kid won't go to sleep and she keeps bothering me." Solar pointed at Moonbyul.

"She looks asleep now,"Wheein stated. Solar looks back at Moonbyul on the floor and could hear Moonbyul's soft snoring. Moonbyul actually fell asleep from Solar's push when she hit the ground. Solar let out an awkward laugh at the two members. 

Once they got Moonbyul into bed and Wheein and Hwasa finally fell asleep, Solar laid there with her eyes wide open, wondering what the heck went through her mind when she decided to kiss Moonbyul again. She knows she shouldn't have because the younger girl was drunk anyways but something didn't stop Solar when she reached for those lips again. 

After hours of twisting and turning, Solar realized her heart was beating fast since a while ago when she kept thinking about Moonbyul. She touched her lips with her fingers, remembering the feeling of being touched by Moonbyul's lips. Solar squirmed and hid her face under the blanket. 

"What is wrong with me?" she whispered to herself. Then Solar started to trace back on Moonbyul's actions before the kiss. She remembered how it was technically Moonbyul who initiated the kiss and she mumbled a lot of nonsense before the incident happened. This made Solar's thoughts run even more through out the night. 

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Moonbyul woke up dazed and confused as to where she was. She grabbed onto the wall for support when she sat up and was glad that she made it home safely at least. She checked her phone for the usual texts from Hyuna and replied to her cute "good morning" texts. Usually Moonbyul would smile at the texts but today, she felt something wasn't right. She felt like something happened but she couldn't remember them very clearly. 

Then the hangover kicked in. 

"," Moonbyul cursed as she grabbed for her head in pain. "Owww~" she whined.

"Unnie, you're awake? Yongsun-unnie made some hangover soup for us. Come join Hyejin," Wheein says from the door, poking only her head in. 

"Huh? soup? I don't feel like getting up," Moonbyul whined more and laid back down on her bed with no effort. Wheein sighed and began to attempt to drag Moonbyul out of bed. It took her a couple minutes along with Moonbyul annoying whining but they appeared at the kitchen table successfully. 

"I'm going to the bathroom first," Moonbyul said and proceed to walk to the restroom. She was about to open the door to the bathroom when the doorknob suddenly twisted from the other side and Solar walked out. Solar almost walked into Moonbyul who was half asleep and was surprised so she stumbled a few steps back. 

"Omo," Solar mumbled and flashbacks from last night ran through her head, making her blush and lower her head. She couldn't look at Moonbyul straight in the eyes.  Moonbyul thought Solar was acting strange but decided to ignore it and was more concentrated on how her head was throbbing. 

"Oi, I need to use the restroom, can you move please?" Moonbyul shooed Solar out and shut the door. 

"What the-, she doesn't remember last night?" Solar said, looking at the bathroom door when she realized that Moonbyul was acting too clam. 

"Did you say something?" Moonbyul opened the door again but Solar shook her head intensely. 

"Nothing," and walked away quickly into the kitchen. Solar laughed at herself once she thought about it again. Moonbyul was 95% drunk last night so it was obvious that she didn't remember what happend, but then that left only Solar knowing what happened. Solar wasn't sure if she should tell anyone about it. She wasn't even sure if she should take what happened seriously. She was obviously bothered about what happened last night and she wanted answers but she didn't want anyone to know either. 

"Aish," Solar messed up her hair in frustration. She wasn't sure what to do anymore. 

Through-out the whole day, Solar kept avoiding Moonbyul whenever she was near. When she washed the dishes and Moonbyul came over to place her dishes down, Solar was unknowingly took a step away from her. When Moonbyul tapped on the her arm for the television remote Solar would suddenly flinch back, causing the other members to be surprised. That was when Solar couldn't take it anymore, she decided to meet up with JB. 

On the way out of the dorm Moonbyul suddenly appeared out of nowhere and stopped Solar at the front door. 

"Yah, do hate me or something?" Moonbyul asked directly. 

"Wh-what do you mean?" Solar avoided eye contact.

"You're doing it again," the younger girl stated. 

"Doing what?"

"You're avoiding eye contact, why won't you look me in the eye when you're talking to me?" Moonbyul moved her head around to try to see Solar face-to-face, as expected, Solar moved back. The reason was that Solar could feel her heart beat was rising in scale. She felt weird and uncomfortable by the sudden effect of Moonbyul being around her. The kiss from last night kept running through her head and Solar wasn't feeling at peace. It's worse when Moonbyul doesn't even remember anything about it. 

"I just need fresh air," Solar made up the excuse but she really did need some air. 

"Lies...did I do something wrong last night? I remember that you took me home but that's it...," Moonbyul mumbled, trying to remember what was after that. 

"Of course," Solar thought to herself. "Nothing happened, I'm serious. Now move out of the way," Solar gathered her strength and pushed Moonbyul to the side by her shoulder. Then suddenly Moonbyul grabbed ahold of Solar's wrist, the exact same way she held onto hers last night before the kiss happened. Solar became frozen from the deja vu feeling and surprisingly, so did Moonbyul. 

Moonbyul was remembering a familiar feeling but things were still blurry. 

They locked eye contact for a moment until Solar squirmed her hand out from the taller girl's hold and fixed her hair, sweeping her hair over her ears again. 

"I'm gonna go," Solar ended their conversation quickly and rushed out of the door, shutting it loudly behind her, leaving a confused Moonbyul. 

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svela2233 #1
Chapter 21: 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
proprocrastinator #2
Chapter 21: Ugh please update soon... I'm dying to know who was watching them across the street!
wmatsui123 #3
Chapter 1: ...Is this story abandoned?
sugalyn4 #4
Chapter 21: Hello ? author, please update ??
Ddunie_
#5
Chapter 21: Author-nim update please :<
full_moon
#6
Would you like to continue this one? hehe
sheldon_90 #7
Chapter 21: What the...please continue author. Please. Anyways, thank you for this story :)
klaudus0102 #8
Chapter 21: Waiting for the next update :)
full_moon
#9
Chapter 21: Omo omo is she Byul??
Would you like to continue this one, author?
Merongssi
#10
Chapter 21: I stayed up all through the night binge reading! Pleeease update uhuhuhu