“Jeongguk,” a familiar soft voice peered on the composer’s ear, surprised to see that it belonged to his manager. They had no schedule that pertained to his nearing comeback, so a confused Jeongguk was a bit annoyed that he was bothered whilst finalizing his own track. Confused, he turned at his manager, about to ask what is it that he wants until the singer was cut off with a phrase that he didn’t want to hear so suddenly.

“The CEO wants to see you.”

The halls of the room were quiet. Quite deafening and Jeongguk was uncomfortable. His relationship with the CEO was good, like a father-son relationship, if you will, which makes sense since the man was the one who found Jeongguk when he was basically no one, and struggling to get a degree on university. Yet the cold stare and stoic facial expression the other was giving at Jeongguk was a first, and the singer actually knew why the cold expression and the lack of pleasantries were present at this meeting. Jeongguk was also pissed at the recent blasts at Deadlock. It could have been because it wasn’t Gossip Girl who sent them in, but the lies about his private life were a headache.

He wasn’t avoiding Dean. At least, in Jeongguk’s defense, he was too busy for his comeback that he didn’t had the time to be any kind of social.

He wasn’t sleeping around. God. When was he even intimate with anyone else? With Taehyung, probably, back in the New Year’s reunion, yet that was a different kind of intimacy. It was leaning to the emotional kind. They didn’t even kissed back then. God.

It was all fake and unreal, yet the netizens were crazy about them. The CEO shifted his back to lean closer at Jeongguk. This kind of close proximity was new to Jeongguk, and it’s making him fear for his life. Is my contract going to be terminated? Is my comeback going to be postponed because of the rumors? Who the fuck is multiple texting me why is my phone vibrating so much?