Kawaguchi Yurina
Hey, saw the news earlier
You alright?

Shen Xiaoting
Yes yes, totally fine

Kawaguchi Yurina
What about your cousin?

Shen Xiaoting
Who?

Kawaguchi Yurina
Y/n
Doah said she's your cousin

Shen Xiaoting
Ah Y/n
She's fine, she's resting

Kawaguchi Yurina
Okay then,
Get well soon
I'll go home soon

Shen Xiaoting
Take care

Kawaguchi Yurina
Love you

"Who are you talking to?" Xiaoting jumped on her seat as Y/n grabbed both of her shoulders, peeking on her phone. Y/n's smile eventually dropped.

"What are you doing? Reply 'I love you too'" the older sighed then typed through the phone.

Shen Xiaoting
I love you too

"Yah! Why did you send that?"

"Because she's your girlfriend? You should reply when she said she loves you or else, she will get sad"

Xiaoting doesn't understand Y/n sometimes. At first, Y/n wants Xiaoting and Yurina to break up 'fast' but now, it feels like Y/n is even slowing the process. "Why are you doing this? I thought you want me to break up with her?"

"I want you to break up with her but I'm teaching you how to be a good girlfriend too"

"But I am already! To you"

"No, you're not. You cheated, remember? And now you're doing it again with Yurina. You're cheating"

"I don't care, you're all I ever need. I'm just thinking of a way where Yurina cannot be angry at me once I break up with her. Showing I'm not interested with her anymore will do, but you're ruining my plan"

"You have a plan? Doesn't seem like it..."

"Can you just shut up in one corner and wait for me to break up with her?" Xiaoting raised her voice accidentally making the atmosphere more intense. Y/n doesn't like this type of Xiaoting, the one who snaps back at her.

"Fine, I'll shut up" Y/n raised both of her hands in the air, surrendering. Walking back upstairs, deciding not to eat dinner with her fiancée. Xiaoting sighed looking at the untouched food she prepared across her.

"Don't worry, Ting. She will calm down tomorrow" Xiaoting assured herself but as tomorrow comes, Y/n was still ignoring her.

Day 7 of quarantine and Y/n was very active in social media. She discovered a lot of apps she haven't used before like TikTok. She could just sit in her room the entire day and watch funny videos and learn.

Even though she's in quarantine, she still attends her language class with the other members.

"Our Y/n already mastered English, what do you want to master next?" The teacher asked through the camera. She was online with Dayeon, Roada, Ruiqi, and Manami. Both she and Roada already mastered English and Ziyin picked Spanish to study next.

"I choose Japanese" Y/n replied. "Nice, you can master that fast. You're a fast learner" the teacher praised.

Among all members, Y/n lacks a lot but she is a fast learner. Remember she was so stiff at dancing before, she practiced a lot in her previous entertainment and now polishing it during her break.

After quarantining, she will straight up go home to take her vacation. She doesn't want to spend time here anymore because of what happened between her and Xiaoting a few days ago.

Ruiqi is also coming with her. Since both of them lives in the same city, they're probably spending their time together there too. With the twins, if they're free.

Xiaoting's POV

We're close to being free again and she's still ignoring me. I knock on her door sometimes, asking if she wanted to eat with me but she's quiet on the other side. Did she take the 'shut up' seriously?

Although she's ignoring me, I can still hear her voice during her lives. She's active in social media and goes live each night to check up on her fans. She also gains a lot of fans every day because she's saying a lot of life advice. She also says a lot of things about herself and her mom contacted me about it.

"I told her this already but always check up on her, Xiaoting? She's giving away too much personal information about herself" I remember what her mother's golden rule is: do not give too much information to the public, lie about yourself sometimes.

Y/n already lied tho. She said she's only 1/4 Chinese but the truth is, she is 1/4 Korean. The Korean netizens probably will not accept her if she said she's more Chinese. On her status too, she said her blood type is O but it is AB like mine. It was also listed that she lives in Shanghai just like what I said during Girls Planet 999. We used my apartment's address but still counted as a lie.

"Y/n" I knocked on her door. Day 11 and she still doesn't want to talk to me. 3 days to go, we're free. I want to take her out before she goes back.

"I cooked lunch, come eat with me" I coax her every day but it doesn't work. Sometimes, she will go live so I can't disturb her. She will go live for like 10 hours! Just reacting to stuff the fans told her to react to. She even watched a movie with her fans... she should be doing that with me.

After 5 minutes of no reply, I sighed and decided to stop. I lazily walked away from her door and when I was about to go down the stairs, I heard a doorknob turn. I looked back at Y/n's room and saw her standing on her doorsteps.

She made eye contact with me but broke it a few seconds later.

I let her walk past me then followed her down to the dining room. She sat on my seat but it was fine.

"Eat well," I told her and she just nodded her head at me. At least she responded this time!

Throughout lunch, no one spoke. All we heard was the cling clangs of utensils and the soft music in the air, played by me.

"How are you?" I asked her. No reply. Makes me want the ground to eat me alive. We're alone but it's still embarrassing to receive no replies.

"We're going to be free next few days, what are you going to do?" I gained courage and asked her again. The same thing happened, no reply. I teared up a bit and then wiped it with my hands. Being ignored is one of my fears. I think she saw it then settled her utensils neatly on her plate, signaling she's done eating.

"I'm going home with Ruiqi this Friday" I heard her mumble.

"Friday? But that's our release day of quarantine?"

"She booked tickets for us. And our flight was supposedly last week but I got covid so... yeah. We're going this Friday" she stood up from her seat then washed her dishes on the sink. After washing the dishes, she straight up went back to her room.

I made some improvements today... but she's going home soon. I'm afraid she'll continue ignoring me these next few days.

"Welcome home!" The first house I entered was YXY's house. My teammates didn't know we were done quarantining but I want to send off Y/n today.

"Sury, let's go" after the long wait for Ruiqi, she's finally done changing her style. "You're not bringing anything?" Ruiqi asked Y/n who's just wearing a small sling bag and a backpack for her laptop. I remember that one time we went to France, she didn't bring anything but she got back with 2 pieces of luggage.

"Just my phone and appliance, come on" she grabbed Ruiqi's arm then drag her towards the van. She saw me tailing them then gave me a questioning look. "I want to send you off" I directly told her my intention. She didn't stop me then let me in.

Y/n sat beside me and Ruiqi behind us. The van started rolling then I felt my phone vibrate.

Kim Bora
Where are you going?
I saw you

Shen Xiaoting
Going to send these two off

Kim Bora
Be careful with the press
And your fans is kinda not in a good mood with Y/n right now

Shen Xiaoting
What do you mean?

Kim Bora
They are accusing Y/n for using you for clout
Someone said Y/n is only faking friendship
You're not using Twitter? Good
Too many toxic fans

Shen Xiaoting
They said that?
That's bad
I'll make sure they'll stop
Thanks for letting me know

Kim Bora
Always welcome
Yurina and Mashiro are coming home today too
You can pick them up later so it won't be obvious

Shen Xiaoting
Oh, I thought they're hone already
Okay, I'll get them later

In Twitter:

The ride was silent until the van passed this beach the both of us went to before. I turn to Y/n and she was wide awake, looking at the window beside me.

"When are you going back?" I asked.

"Next month"

"I'm going to miss you" she hummed as a reply then I inched closer to her. I grabbed both of her hands then rested my head on her shoulders. "Don't go out with that girl Xiaoma set you up, please" I pleaded. I remember that girl was one of her 'ultimate babies' and she told me before that she will ditch me for them.

"Why?"

"What do you mean why? You're engaged, Yang"

"You're engaged too, Shen" here we go again.

"I'm sorry, but please. Don't accept Xiaoma's offer" I brought my face closer to her. "You're mine only"

"I'll think about it... and I have Sury by my side"

"Please"

"I'll hang out with Jiaqi-jie too. She messaged me"

"Please"

"Shen Xiao-"

"Please don't go with her-"

"Xiaoting, she's probably one of those straight girls in the group. Stop getting jealous over everybody" Y/n pushed away my head from hers. "Xu Jiaqi is probably going to stop me from getting closer to her too. She knows those girls too much"

"Give me Kiki-jie's phone number"

"Give me 100 thousand yuan, I give you her number"

"What? Why?!"

"She's a superstar, I can't just give away super idols' number"

"I'll give you 100 thousand kisses instead, how about that?"

"No thanks. 100 thousand yuan or nothing"

"Y/n..."

"What"

"I love you"

"So what"

"Please give me your cousin's number~" I shook her shoulders and continued to annoy her. "What are you going to do about it?"

"I just want to ask Kiki-jie about you when you're gone"

"I'm not the type of person who cheats, Shen Xiaoting. I can assure you that nothing bad will happen while you're gone. And she's a busy person"

"I'm not content"

"Then ask our mothers! I'm not giving you her number. Ever"

"Please"

"Okay... I give you her number, I tell her you cheated"

I felt my soul being pulled away from my body. Xu Jiaqi should never know about this. She's like Y/n's number one protector when it comes to personal matters. If she knew about this, there will be a high chance she will tell it to Y/n's parents OR she will gatekeep Y/n from me by herself.

"Ah... no thanks"

"That's right, be afraid of Kiki. She got a girlfriend bigger than you. And a black belter"

"Girlfriend? Who?"

"I will not tell you. But her girlfriend said she will protect me too. Beware"

"Is this Yu Yan?"

"I'm not saying her name. But beware, Shen Xiaoting. I got a lot of alliance now"

"You made a lot of new friends. New friends mean a lot will discover you. Then a lot will ask for your number. Then they will have a crush on you. Then confess in front of everyone. Be careful about those friends too, Y/n" I told her. One of my nightmares, everyone will steal my girl.

"If they're pretty, I don't know... maybe I should try-"

"No, you should not-"

"Kiki-jie won't let me anyways. Don't worry. And stop asking things, I thought you wanted me to shut up in one corner"

"That wasn't serious!"

"Then you shut up, I'm serious" she suddenly lifted me then set me on the other side of the seat away from her. She paused for a few seconds then went back to my side, holding my left hand with hers.

"Stay like this for now and focus on your work later. Stop thinking about me often, you know I don't like doing bad things except when I do it with you"