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Yn: You wanted to see me?


CEO: yes. How are you?


Yn: I'm fine, thank you.


CEO: you got me worried. I almost died hearing the news.


Yn: Eh!?


CEO: If anything happened to you, how am I going to face your Father.


Yn: Eh? My Father? What are you talking about? I'm an orphan.


CEO: I didn't want to let you know, but knowing that you could lose your life any moment and I couldn't bare to not let you know the truth.


Yn: the truth? About what?


CEO: My name is Woo Jungha. I am your Uncle.


Yn: WHAT!? How can that be? Are you joking with me CEO-Nim.


CEO: I know it's a lot to take in. Living all alone until now not knowing you have a family.


Yn: But... I am an orphan, I don't have parents or family.


CEO: Your name is Woo Yn. Your Father is the one who gave you that name.


Yn: My Father?


CEO: Yes, the famous indie band singer, Woo Jungwon. He is your Father and the number one hot idol of history is your Mother, Park YoungMi.


Yn: eh!? Woo Jungwon? How can he be? I always look up to him as and idol.


CEO: don't you ever wonder why people your age is interested in those song rather then songs that are trendy now.
It's because since young, it's the songs that he always sang to you.


Yn: what!? No wonder when I first heard this song, I felt like I've heard it before. But I thought that I was too young to have heard it before.
So where are they now? Where are my parents?


CEO: .... they have both passed on.


Yn: eh...!?
I slump to the ground upon hearing it.


CEO: I know telling you the truth is too cruel for you but... I want you to know how and what happened to them.


After listening to the stories of my parents, I cried. Although I don't remember them but whatever he told me, I could feel the love they had for me.


Yn: So they didn't abandoned me.


CEO: after they lost you in that crowd, your Father confronted the fans that took you away. But they said they didn't take you. Your Father was so mad and your Mother was devastated. Every night they were worried about you, wondering where were you. Every time they have a clue about a 5 year old girl who was missing and was found, they rushed down to see if it was you.


One day, a call said they found you. Your parents rushed out even though it was raining heavily, they travel far to see if that was their baby girl. On the way, they met with an accident.


After that, I took on the role in fulfilling his wishes.... that is to find you. After years of finding, I finally got a clue. When I when to that orphanage, they said that you have left years ago. I even lost the only clue I have, but when I saw you that day in the practice room, you look exactly like YoungMi and when i ask for your name, I was shocked. I wonder if you could be the one I'm looking for.


So I did some background check on you, and to my luck, the person that my Brother spend his life searching for has walked up to his company by herself.


After hearing all of that I felt that I was once loved heartedly, to the point it's worth a person's life.


CEO: your parents loved you, to the last second of their life. Your Father even build this company for you, hoping that if you ever recall your dreams of being a singer, you would come to audition.
This company stands just for you, and it's the gift your Father left for you.


Yn: I... I always thought I was an unwanted kid, thinking why did my parents throw me away. But in actual fact, they loved me to the point that they risk their whole life.


CEO: it's okay my darling. I promise your Father that I will find you and be your family, so you won't be alone.


Yn: Do you have pictures of them?


CEO: yes.


He passed me the picture on his desk.
I look at the frame, to my surprised it was the man in my dreams.


Yn: So this is my Father. He aged a lot, I couldn't recognise him from his younger photos.
All this time I was listen and looking at his songs and CD cover. But I didn't even know that he was my Father.


I hug the picture in my arms as I cried.


Meanwhile
On the other side of the door... jess was standing outside with Jun, Joshua, Vernon and Dino.


Vernon: so she was the CEO Niece all this time.


Dino: No wonder the CEO will allowed a girl in the group.


Joshua: I never knew behind that smiley face of hers could hid a story like that.


Jun: Noona, did you know already?


Jess nodded her head.
Joshua: is that why the CEO asked you to be by her side all this time?


Jess: yes. The day before the 14 member was announced, CEO had look for me and explain everything to me.


Dino: I didn't know that it was so hard for her.


Joshua: feeling guilty now?


Dino:....


Joshua: The way you treated her after you know that she's a girl, is unacceptable but I don't blame you for that. But you should think of how Yn treated you. When you're sick, she was the first to noticed and first to check up on you. She's worried about you.


Dino just kept quite and thought about that day when he was sick.


Jess: I hope that you guys will treat her nicely. Be her family.


We all nodded at jess words.


Days passed after I know the truth. I spend more time talking to my Uncle about my parents, and I even visited their grave.


CEO: Yn, if you want to quit being in the group, you can let me know.


Yn: but you are never going to let me debut solo right?


CEO: that's the wish of your Father, I can't disobey. Although I can let you sing and compose, but you can never be on television with your female appearance.


Yn: is it because I look like my mom?


CEO: that's one reason. Your father Long knew that you would take his path in being a singer. Although he wanted you to be one too, if you had wanted. That's why pledis is born. But he also wanted to keep you away from the public views. If you ever did get hurt, it will be in that boy image of you, but the girl image of you will forever never be hurt.
If you still want to be a singer, I can only let you go on with the boy image. If the secret ever is revealed, you must stop being a singer.


Yn: but I don't want to be a boy. I want to be me, the true me. Even if I get hurt, I want to experience it all that's the route to being a great singer.


CEO: you're young so you still don't understand the industry yet.


Yn: but..


CEO: okay that's enough.
He put up his palm in front of me to stop me from saying anything.


CEO: Jess had told me that the boys knows that you're a girl already.


I nodded to him.


CEO: it's okay I knew that it couldn't be kept for Long, I'm impress that you could hold on so long. Don't worry I will talk to them.


After visiting the grave, we returned back. I went back to the dorm, thinking on how am I going to live as a boy? Should I quit? But the members treated me well and I don't what to quit singing.


My idol is my Father but no one can knows that.


Torn between problems, I can't seem to decided what I should do next.

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