the sister of the angel // wen junhui

Chapter 32 ~ Together

Minghao's POV

After our fourth music show with TWICE, all sixteen of us left in hurry from Music Bank to continue solving the sasaeng problems. I headed back to the dorm with Jun, Jisoo, and Yuju, hence the fact that we're all in the Instagram group. I paced around for a bit while looking at my Instagram, trying to find any indication or clue that would lead me to find a solution to our problem.

While I was scrolling through posts, my phone rang.

"Minghao?"

"Oh, hi Mina," I said, blushing slightly.

Yes, I do like her, even if we aren't dating. I like the gentle smile that shines on her face, her shoulder length dark hair, her pink lips, and her pretty eyes. I also like her eyes when she cries — they glitter and glimmer.

"We have a situation," Mina sighed.

"What is it? You can tell me anything," I offered.

"Well you probably heard about the concept photos thing, right?" Mina asked.

"Yeah," I nodded.

"Well, the fact that you guys were cropped out of the photos are making people think that it's TWICE and JYP's fault that you guys were cropped out, which obviously wasn't the case — I checked. Now, CARATs are really mad at TWICE and we're all going down in popularity," Mina said.

"We've been having a lot of problems," I confessed. "We're trying to solve all of them right now. We've been really stressed lately. Mostly because if everything goes wrong, then there's still a chance that we may be on a hiatus for a while."

"Is that why you guys are always in such a hurry after the music shows?"

"Yeah."

"Hmmm," Mina said thoughtfully. "TWICE could help. You'd get things done more efficiently, and maybe we'd solve each problem and find out how everything happened."

"Okay," I nodded. "Be here in about thirty minutes? I need to tell everyone to come back to the dorm."

"Done."

I hung up the phone and ran back to Yuju, Jisoo, and Jun, who were all frantically searching their phones — Yuju on her personal, Jisoo on his personal, and Jun on the shared saythename_17 account.

"Guys," I said, and they looked up. "TWICE is coming over to help. Help me call everyone to come back here. We have more help now."

*

Yuju's POV

I was ecstatic to hear the news from Minghao. I quickly called Jeonghan and he told me they were on their way back.

Thirty minutes later, there were twenty four of us gathered in the living room. Seungcheol explained everything once again to TWICE and assigned them to different groups. Mina and Sana were assigned to the Instagram group, Dahyun, Tzuyu, and Momo were added to the Seungcheol group, Nayeon and Jeongyeon were added to the encore concert group, and Jihyo and Chaeyoung were added to the concept photos group.

"TWICE, I really appreciate your help with our problems," Seungcheol smiled.

"No problem Seungcheol," Nayeon grinned. "Anything to help our friends."

"Let's keep working then," Mingyu said ruefully.

"Once we finish, we can celebrate," Wonwoo said, patting Mingyu's back.

"Let's go then!" we all chorused.

*

That night, I was stressing over the sasaeng and how little progress we had made. My group, the Instagram group, was the only group that had made progress. The account that had posted the photo had been taken down as well as the photo of Jun and his phone. We were all glad that we could finally rest. The concept photos were still a mystery, but thankfully, only a few hundred copies of the album had been made, so they were able to reprint the albums and send them. And this time, we checked to make sure SEVENTEEN was in the concept photos. It was good that we didn't have to worry about it, but it was still sad to not know the cause of how it had happened, or why.

"Yuju," Jeonghan's voice echoed around my room.

I rolled over on my bed to face my older brother.

"Hi oppa," I said.

"How are you holding up?" Jeonghan asked, plopping down on the bed that I was laying on.

"I guess I'm just really stressed," I shrugged. "Everything seems so hard and difficult these days. I wish that things would just slow down and magically become easier."

"Wanna talk about it?" he asked.

"Sure." I sighed.

"So...spill." Jeonghan turned to me.

"Well," I began. "It's just been hard recently. We haven't made much progress on what we're trying to do and it's giving me crazy."

"You should stop stressing," Jeonghan urged. "It's not good for you. I don't like seeing those wrinkles on your forehead that you get whenever you're upset. It doesn't make you look cute anymore." He pinched my cheeks. "Now, think of something happy. Besides Jun."

I smiled in thought.

"Minghao Oppa and Mina unnie are cute together," I wiggled my eyebrows.

"Yeah," Jeonghan nodded. "I'm surprised they're not dating yet."

"I know right?"

"They already act couple-y though anyway so I'm just waiting for one of them to confess already."

"Yeah. But oppa, how's Areum?" I said slyly.

"We're good," Jeonghan turned his head away from me, but I could see a tiny pink tint on his pale cheeks.

"I bet you were happy that she got put in the same group as you," I giggled.

"Maybe," Jeonghan said.

"When will you ever confess?" I asked, sitting up and laying my head on Jeonghan's shoulder.

"When I feel ready," Jeonghan said.

"Okay then," I smiled.

The two of us talked for a while, catching up. I told him a little more about my old life in Busan, because before we didn't talk very often. It felt nice to talk to my brother again, just like before. I didn't feel the need to hide anything from him. I felt safe next to him. I knew that he would protect me.

"And Yuju," Jeonghan started as he turned back to me. "If you ever need anything, don't hesitate to tell me. I'll always be here for you."

"Okay Oppa," I looked up at him.

"No more secrets."

"Okay."

We hugged to tie the knot of the promise we had just made together. From now on, the Yoon siblings would stay together and tell each other everything no matter what.

(A/N: i hope you all enjoyed this chapter! thanks for 2.4K+ reads and over 80 votes and over 90 comments! kamsamnida! thank you so much! more updates will be coming soon! i've already written up to chapter thirty seven -- now i just need to find time to post it:)

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