It became a tinderbox for a war
It seems like, eventually,
someone will have to get off to end it...

The business rental was relatively high for a deposit. The reason being it was in a prime location in Gangnam. You want a high upmarket space for your future Beauty Spa.

To attract celebrity customers. At your apartment, you and Yerin worked out your capital. Now you have to compromise with your apartments savings.

Maybe you can rent to buy your apartment. But if you decide to leave Blackpink and terminate your contract, you will not be able to maintain or afford an apartment and enough capital for your Beauty Spa.

You don't want to be accountable to a landlord unless it's in a mall.

A mall will be much convenient. There are thousands of shops and restaurants to order food and a lot of people who'll walk pass or even pop in without an appointment.

You brainstorm your options. At least you got a scholarship for your graduate studies. Thank God for the strength to maintain your Gpa of 4.0.

Yerin rubbed her eyes tiredly:" let's call it a day...we can talk tomorrow about rental or maybe opt to buy a spa franchise over in Gangnam- gu. Let's sleep over it and talk later...I'm spent now."

You yawn and stretch your arms over your head" business is not for fools... I'm going to shower and sleep."

Yerin stood up and took your coffee mugs to the kitchen. " Oh, I forgot ...tomorrow I'm going to speak to my bank's financial consultant to release my investment...You speak to yours and your dad, and then we can decide the best options..."

You nod tiredly" Ok...my Dad already agreed with lending me 300 000 won. So let's hope he gets through for us."

You stood up and put all your planning in the folders. You didn't decide to borrow money from your Dad. You're going use a fraction of your Blackpink salary. Jisoo agreed to split the Elle shoot check with you. You did the work, so it's just fair.

You quickly shower and get to your room. You just wanted to switch off the lamp when you phone vibrates. Your first look at the ID caller Jisoo...if it were Mother Witch, you would've blatantly ignored her. A few weeks ago, she wounded your feelings, and for now, she's on your " ignore list."

You signed."Hiya sis!"

Jisoo with her usual preppy voice: "hello my dearest sister."

You know that line" O..oh...something is up."

Jisoo with a whiny voice" This is not my fault ...!"

You inhaled deeply" Jisoo I hope it is not Blackpink related duty...I'm not going to do appearances now... I'm busy at uni."

Jisoo with a baby voice" oh common Ji-Ho ...I need a break...I had a rough dance rehearsal schedule for our new music video, and contemporary choreographer is from America. She's brutal. Now I've hurt my already fragile ankle. I can't even step on it right now..and I don't want to keep the team behind."

You groan audibly:" Urgh! Chi choo...can't you be bad- luck free for a month! I don't want to meet your drill sergeant. Thank you very much, and besides, I didn't have time to learn the whole choreography."

Jisoo whiny" ...but Rose sent it to you a week ago."

You feel already a headache coming" I know Chi choo, but I had a lot of assignments to submit, and I'm helping Yerin with a career advancement...so what do you want?... You didn't call me about your ankle problems?"

Jisoo state softly: "I'm so sorry sis, about mom also..know it's my fault that you don't have a life ...I made it so difficult for you... let's just give the mother her wish..let's go together to London we'll work out something.."

You say sadly " - It doesn't feel like she wants me there. She just wants to please dad...if I weren't identical to you, I would've felt like an adopted child.."

Jisoo sniff " Is all my fault you and mom fights like cats and dogs. We forced you into kpop. But Y/n you are better than me... you are made for the stage, I love the fame and attention, but I hate to put in the work, and now you must do all the work plus your uni schedule...I'm sorry for being so selfish."

You wiped your eyes. Jisoo is very proud and will never really admit she's sorry for something, but something in her voice convince you that she feels insecure about everything.

You just say, "You know our creed.."sisters for life...life for sisters" I'm honouring it. I'll never let you get hurt Chi choo...so out with the real reason. By now, you must know that I'm on to you."

Jisoo gives her bell-like laughter" Ok...my ankle is sore, and we have a commercial to shoot tomorrow for "Sprite soft drink" we're going to jump and dance around in short shorts, and after that, it's our choreography rehearsal for the music video."

You signed deeply: "Ai! Chi choo...do you want me to do the commercial and meet the general for the dance rehearsals. Okay then...let Lisa or Rose send me all the deeds for tomorrow's schedule."

Jisoo sound apologetic "Erm..it's not all we are going to perform at the Mnet Music Awards, and we nominated for Best New Artist and Best Music Video for "Whistle".

We are nominated for "Most Popular Artist Top 50" for the Asia Artist Award.

https://youtu.be/dISNgvVpWlo

You sighed " When is the awards?.. I don't have time to follow the news."

Jisoo with delight "It's 16th for AAA, Mnet 4 days later. Choose the one you would like to go to...The AAA is on the same day as Weekly Idol. I'm scared I'll get an attack if I'm going to perform three dance routines after one another."

You laugh" What are you going to do if you have to do a full album show?"

Jisoo chuckled" you going to perform obviously...oh and my hair is going to be purple-red. Sorry, sister. We're going to have the same colour hair, but luckily it is only for the new video?"

You blow your breath with shock " Urgh common...Chi choo. How will I disguise myself at uni..red is my signature look?

Jisoo says lightheartedly: "With hats and caps obviously....but you'll dye your hair tomorrow. At least it's colour shampoos. and not permanent."

You yawn sleepily" Ok Yerin is going somewhere tomorrow. I'll send the address to Lisa for manager Kris to come to fetch me."

You bit her goodnight and quickly send Lisa a message. She e-mailed you the schedule and commercial briefs.

Your life is a three-ring circus. You switch off the lamp again until the realisation hits you...BTS might perform also. You must go on Naver and find out if they confirmed attendance. You''ll go to the one they will not attend.

The next day...

You put the clothes on what Dior gave the group. Luckily you've been in Pyjamas when Yerin was still home. She told you she would be out late. After the bank appointment, she'll be running some errands.

You told her you'd go and entertain yourself and might come back later than her.

After she left you quickly grab a croissant and drink a cup of green tea. You took your mask and hat to escape undetected.

Lisa text you, and you quickly met up with the manager in the parking lot. After you've done a reddish-purple colour shampoo on your hair, you drove to the Blackpink house to pick up the girls.

They were so happy to see you after a few weeks. You catch up on your lives and drove the venue. There were a lot of extras and feature models. They were star-struck when they saw you.

You first took stills for print media: Billboard, brochures for soda outlet s, online print ads and so forth.

https://youtu.be/7BAJVnZfrU0

The commercial shoot was fun. You laugh a lot and tease each other during the shoot. Jennie and Lisa were extra sexy for their shoot. You just gave them the innocent girl next door persona-you, not Jisoo who oozes sexiness.

https://youtu.be/QyWlB9cFVE4

The commercial shoot was a blast, and you enjoy every moment in the outdoors. You didn't feel awkward with the short shorts. Your hair looks great but with the reddish highlight in the sun. The directors were mesmerised with your visuals. You also had a "behind the scenes" interview about the commercials.

You were busy almost the whole morning. At 16h00 you had to go and practise for at least 4 hours. The new Choreographer is brutal. She worked you with a complicated dance routine.

She was very impressed with your skills. Lisa and Rose quickly helped you to practise the steps. You caught up quickly, and when the time came to do the mirror dance, you knew the steps.

https://youtu.be/NvWfJTbrTBY

You ordered Panda Express before the manager took you home. It was already 20h00. Yerin is already at home. Luckily you had your skinny black jeans and black graphic hoodie. You've asked Lisa to take your Dior outfit to the BP house. Jisoo is at home where Mother Witch is looking after her.

Yerin with a surprise look on her face " Wow Ji-Ho I like the reddish-purple hair. I love it!"

You pulled a face," Well, I don't like it!"

Yerin widens her eyes "Why not ...is cool!"

You look like you were mad," After the hairdresser was in awe of my"Jisoo" face, she told me that she thinks a beautiful red-purple hue will look stunning with my skin tone. I walk out of the salon with my bucket head and three Blinks, mind you " Jisoo stans" came to me and told me how stunning "Jisoo is"And they love my new era hair, how they love me. I had to take a selfca with them."

Yerin with open mouth "Really, so the stylist or hairdresser made you look like Jisoo?"

"I can't redye my hair. It's already a little brittle." You sadly state." So I'm so sick of being mistaken for Jisoo. Next time I'll abuse her name and say I'm here."

Yerin giggles" you go, girl...we will have lots of fun my little Jisoo."

You laugh "not funny...what are we watching? I'm coming to watch with you, let me quickly go take a shower...and then you tell me how your appointment went."

You quickly go and take a refreshing shower and put on your shortly pj's and sit next to her with your feet resting on the sofa.

Yerin pauses the tv and explains to you about her day. You got a loan from the bank. So you can start planning to buy the franchise if all goes well.

Yerin looks at the screen " I was watching the 2016 Mnet Asian Music Awards List of nominees. I think Blackpink is nominated for two awards. I'm praying that they must win. We must vote like crazy."

https://youtu.be/mgUyRYoAqmo

You'll never know they might win. Our girls are up against top rookie groups and BTS, Blood Sweat and Tears is nominated. Are they going to perform?

Yerin excited " BTS is going to perform, although I'm a devoted Blink, I like their firey hot performance. I love the Fire also ...when Suga say his part. His voice is so hot it gives me the shivers."

You feel your heart pull painfully by hearing his name again. Why must she say his name.?..it brings unnecessary stress and yearning. The whole week you were so busy not even thinking about him. Now it hurts you. You wouldn't attend MAMA, and you will not subject yourself in seeing him again.

The last time at the Melon Awards, it shook you when you had eye contact. The pull was so strong. Why is there a pull? He is not your soulmate. According to rumours and Luan, he already met his. But why are you still invested in him so much? Thinking and looking at him makes you weak in the knees.

The stoic face, but sweet and almost too pretty gummy smile.
Suppose you never meet your soulmate, you'll be doomed in loving him forever. You know that you'll all ready jealous of his Soulmate.

Jisoo confirmed that he doesn't like her. He ignores the group mostly because of Jennie's open crush. He moved on because of his soulmate.

Yerin looked at your solemn face " It seems that you've spaced out. Are you tired, or do you want to watch more Blackpink mv's?"

You shake your head:" Naw! I'm going to sleep. Just want to text my dad and sleep."

Yerin smile" ok...I'm watching some Kdrama series, goodnight."

In the privacy of your room, you felt yourself crying. Why are you so emotional all of a sudden? Your mind forced you back to that fateful night, how you laid in his arms while the storm was at its worse. You were so scared of the lightning. He was giving you sweet, little pecking kisses to distract you from the storm-tender, feathery kisses on your neck. You must confess, that moment you forgot about everything...

When you went back to the cabin, you almost got a heart attack when you saw the little purple bruises between your neck and shoulder. You quickly had covered it with makeup and wore your hoodie fasten tightly around the neck. You were so crafty, not even the girls, Jisoo or your mom saw the hickeys. The whole week you had to be creative walking around covered up and with loose hair.

When you went back home you started to experiment with hair dye, and you fell in love with the colour red on you, but Your mom forced you to redye your hair back to dark brown. But when Jisoo debut and you finally turned 20 years, you didn't listen to your mom and ever since you'd dyed it.

Two weeks later, after you and Yerin went back to Campus, you heard from Blackpink that YG artist would not attend the MAMA awards.

It was due to something controversial. According to netizens their company bribed the Melon Awards to win New Artist award, which belongs to another new group IOI who had better album sales and a full album.

According to the news, YG was part of Melons production team. And now they cannot bribe Mnet *MAMA and even if Blackpink wins they won't accept their award in person.
The Blinks were not impressed.

https://youtu.be/Cnmy7eQMWVw

You felt sad for Black pink. YG is going through many scandals right now, and people speculate that Blackpink will also disband quickly like another YG group. Even some of the artist is leaving the group's to pursue solo careers under new management.

That is why you didn't want to commit to kpop. Anything can happen, mostly due to the shadiness of kpop.
For you, it seems like YG will start boycotting the Awards shows from now on. How sad. Blackpink never won any daseangs. Even BTS won their first daseang at Melon.

In November you watch the Awards live with Yerin at Campus. You just love BTS performances. They won Artist of the Year as well Best dance performance for "Blood sweat and Tears". That is truly an iconic song.

You weren't sad about not attending. Fate worked in your favour.Blackpink won all the awards they've been nominated. The girl group who's awards was apparently "stolen" by Blackpink won the New Artist award at Mnet.

A few days later it was the Asian Artist Awards. Jisoo told you that YG confirmed that you'd be attending the awards. You are nominated for an award Most Popular Artist Top 50.

You try to look excited on the red carpets, but you were so nervous because BTS will attend and perform your winning song "Whistle and Playing With Fire" you hope your choreography is on par.

Jisoo messed up the dance steps, and you don't know If it was on purpose so that all the girls decide on you to perform. She knew you didn't want to attend and perform. You have a little schemer of a sister.

When you saw BTS on the red carpet, you could hear their ARMY fans screaming their names. They looked like models, but you can't help but notice how good Yoongi looked in his silvery suit. His sweet smile makes you feel like putty. They look too cute. Jimin and Jhope rock that looks. Props to their stylist.

https://youtu.be/rrXQPXzNbR0

Many Blinks were there at the awards, and many had their phones to capture all reactions.
You did your best, and you rock. You even won the prize you've been nominated. You were so happy. Rose was crying from happiness. And Lisa had to console her.

https://youtu.be/whxJbPM3L2w

Your performance was on par. Yoongi loves the choreography. BTS enjoyed your performance. Yoongi wasn't stoic but watched and seemed to enjoy the performance.
You know you work so hard, and you got what you deserved. You won the awards against all criticism aimed against your company. You were just smiling at Jennies'speech she sounds so nervous, but she didn't break down.

https://youtu.be/omP9aHOudmk

https://youtu.be/8-Pm8M2ORf4

Then it was BTS turn to perform, and you were transfixed in your seat when you saw them performing your favourite music mv live. Yoongi blew your breath away. His rapping skills always amaze you. Gosh is he sexy? Jennie was all giddy next to Rose, who also like Yoongi persona.

Lisa was just smiling when she looked at the younger maknae. Luckily all artist are sitting in seats facing the front. When BTS performed the Actors, and other Artist couldn't sit still, they were smiling and enjoying their performance.

Jhope killed the performance even when his Mic fell out, and he dances like a true professional. They killed the stage during Fire performance. Yoongi seven made the actor's shiver.

https://youtu.be/mULeXqXOMN4

You didn't attend the winners after party. You'll go straight home after numerous press and publicity photos. When it was time to leave, BTS was leaving at the same time. You make sure you kept to Rose and doesn't make eye contact with anyone of them Jennie and Lisa was greeting them with broad smiles.

You look up and see Jhope smirks at Yoongi. Yoongi pulled a stinky face and shoved him hard in the rips. Jhope just smiled brightly. You wondered what Jhope said that makes Yoongs reacts like that.

Your bodyguards were surrounding you to protect you from danger. Jennie and Lisa are so excited that they smiled at BTS. Lisa was just beaming at Jungkook a pity he's not her soulmate. He just smirks shyly at her.

You feel the coolness creep into your body. You hate the cold because you usually get sick very quickly. You look around while rubbing your arms. When you look up, and as always fate works against you, his eyes are transfixed on your eyes. He looked at you with so much emotion, and you cannot fathom what to do about it. His eyes just captivate you.

You didn't know how to respond, and he was ice cold. Unnerved by that cold, calculating gaze, you quickly divert your eyes to the ground. Jhope was looking at the glances you two gave each other with interest. He beckons Yoongi to reality as the cars are lining up for them. Yours are behind BTS. Jennie was like a schoolgirl, giddy with a big crush.

You feel something ominous is coming soon and its scared you out of your wits. Your bodyguards and managers lead you into your black SUV, but your mind was enraptured by what happened between you. It is ridiculous. His eyes are filled with unanswered questions.

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