By the next morning the buzz around Nayeon’s Bubble post hadn't fully died down but most of the chatter was trying to figure out who YN was and not the fact he was extremely close to her in that picture. Nayeon took the picture down, but it was already all over the internet.
They were walking across the lobby together headed towards the elevators, normally no one would have given them a second look, but today she felt everyone’s eyes track them.
“I guess everyone’s on edge because of the slip up.” she said.
Fan accounts popped up.
Reddit threads dissecting the image.
Thousands of people trying to find out who the mystery guy is.
YN had his phone out scrolling through a reddit thread.
“Look, this one is trying to build a character profile from my hands.” He said laughing.
“It’s not funny!”
She gripped his hand tighter.
He looked at her and smiled softly.
“It’s a little funny.”
“No.”
“They’re investigating you, I don’t like it.”
“Sweetie, they investigate everything.”
The elevator dinged, Mina slipped in first.
He looked down, finally feeling her tight grip.
“You’re really worried?”
“I’m realistic.”
As the elevator doors opened he squeezed her hand slightly.
“It’ll be ok.”
Jiwoo padded up to them as they entered the office space.
“Morning Boss, Mina-sii. She handed him a stack of notes from just this morning. Yeji and Lia want to revisit the vocal arrangement this morning. They said they’ll be back in the studio around 10 waiting for you.”
“Got it.”
They walked towards his office. He heard voices as they got close.
“They said you said it was ok.” Jiwoo said quickly before they got to the door.
He walked in with Mina to the weirdest scene.
Nayeon was sitting at his desk.
Her bare feet were kicked up and her hands behind her head
She was pretending to be him talking loudly in a fake deep voice about choreo steps.
Jihyo was laughing so hard tears were starting to come down her face.
He turned to Mina.
“Yeah this one’s on me.”
No one even stopped when they came in.
“Yeah they’ve been doing this for a while.”
Mina gave him a smile, walked into the room, dropped her stuff and sat at her spot on the couch.
Claiming it.
The morning rolled by quickly, the three girls settling into the space naturally.
All three of them had practically adopted Jiwoo.
“Boss, it’s almost 10. Yeji and Yuna are waiting.”
He got up from the second chair. Nayeon never actually left his.
“I gotta go work, girls. Don’t destroy the office while I’m gone.”
He went over to Mina and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
This elicited a chorus of ooooohs from the two as Mina turned bright red.
“Babe, not in front of the girls.” She whispered loudly.
“What? It is our office.” He said with a smirk.
The two burst out laughing again.
“Bye Oppa!” Nayeon yelled as he left.
“YN? You ok?” Yeji asked.
“Yeah of course.” I think I’m getting a bit hungry.