p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I adjust my work books and papers while stepping out of the elevator onto my floor. Things were going smoothly here as we began the planning of clothes for the schedules this week as well as the designs for their new single, Fantastic Baby. There also hasn't been issues with Heeyeon which has me relieved. She's been cooperating with me, so maybe it's all blown over?/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I'm met with a flustered team as I passed through the glass doors. "What's wrong?" They all share glances before SiRi spoke up. "The outfits for today have been ruined..." "What?! How?! I thought the place locked down at night." They all shrug while bowing, as I scratch my head. "Don't bow, please. How bad is it?" SiRi leads me to the mannequins that were the members exact measurements./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"They were trashed... The theme was white, except for the brown smudges that looked a lot like dirt or cocoa powder covered the white garments as well as the pants and tees were ripped and slashed here and there./span/p
p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I glance around and notice Heeyeon's absence. "Where's Heeyeon-shi?" I ask, hands on my hips. "She's fetching the boys." SiRi answers, fiddling with her sleeve. Shit! There's no time to pick out anything else. I pace back and forth in front of the group and they follow me with their eyes. Come on, Aleasha! You survived seventh grade, you can get past this... Bingo!/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I snap my fingers and ask MinSi to get a long sleeved black tee shirt. "SiRi, grab five handkerchiefs, each one a different color." She nods and scrambles with MinSi. "LeeChul, get the dog tags." The said male bows his head and takes off. "We can do this, guys." I encourage, watching as the boys walk in with a smirking Heeyeon./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"We all exchange small bows before we pass out the right clothes for each respective member. "T.O.P-shi!" I call out to the man and he pauses. "Don't forget this." I pass him the black shirt before shooing him into the dressing room./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Once the boys were out, I passed them each a handkerchief. Seunghyun with pink, Ri with green, Dae with yellow, Bae with red, and Jiyong with blue. Helping tie them around various body parts as well as the dog tags./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Seunghyun's outift was black leather skinny jeans, black tight tee with the trashed white one on top, and all topped off with the dog tag hanging from one ear and a pink skull in the other. The handkerchief was tied around his upper calf. His trusty black high tops finished it off./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Youngbae's black ripped sleeved tee was haphazardly tucked into his baggy white stained pants, while the gold tags hung from his neck along with the handkerchief, and red Tucks(type of boot similar to the ones he wore for the 2013 MAMAs)./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"GD's handkerchief was wrapped around his left wrist and matched his zipper earrings and ankle boots. The torn black tee hid underneath his white distressed leather jacket and skinny distressed tree climber jeans were held up by the white belt which carried the tags./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Daesung's white suit bore the signs of abuse over his black collared dress shirt with the handkerchief transformed into a tie, the tags hanging from the breast pocket and black dress boots graced his feet./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Finally, Seungri's was a black open trench coat with the scarf hanging from it's pocket while the tags dangled from his right wrist. Green Oasis covered his feet and the ends of his grey skinny jeans and matching belt./span/p
p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I smiled as the guys filed out to head to the variety show, once the door swung closed, the room was filled sighs. "Well done, guys. It didn't like too bad, lunch is on me." I offer, smiling at the joyous cries, before we went to pack our stuff./span/p
p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Nice save." Heeyeon compliments from behind me, she had a smile on her face, but her eyes held anger in them. "I don't know who did it, but they better watch out." I threaten knowing it was her doing. "For I don't control my actions when it comes to saboteurs." Her eyes widen a bit before she stiffly turned and walked away. "You're joining us for lunch, yes?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"We were settled at a sandwich shop when the young waitress flips the channel to the variety show. "Who coordinated your clothes today? They're so cool." The male MC asks, causing them all to smile. "Aleasha Brayer, she's our temporary head stylist." GD answers, crossing his legs. "How long will she be working with you?" "The rest of the year." The MC nods at Bae's answer. "Well, I hope so. I can't wait to see what else she comes up with..."/span/p
p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The place was quiet for a couple of seconds before cheers disturbed the shops peace. "You're truly amazing Aleasha-shi!" I smile and celebrate with the others. Noting that Heeyeon wasn't as ecstatic as the rest, which just confirmed my suspicions. "Everything okay, Heeyeon-shi?" SiRi asks, causing every tone to look at said girl. "Neh, I'm fine. Just a bit shocked, that's all..."/span/p
p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The day ended with me and the guys sitting in the living room. Dae, Hyun, and Ji were on the sofa, Seung and Bae were in the loveseat as I claimed the lazy boy for myself. The foot rest was up and the chair tilted back helped as I worked on sketches for their new album as they sat on my bent legs./span/p
p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Can we see them yet?" Dae asks, lifting his head from T.O.P's lap. "No! Of course not. It's a surprise." I reply, unintentionally pulling it towards me. "Please~?" He persists, giving me his Bambi eyes. "No, Daesung. But, you'll love them, I promise." I sigh and he nods before laying his head back down and turning to the TV./span/p
p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You did an amazing job with the clothes today, Leasha." Bae compliments and I look up from the partial sketch for Daesung. "Thanks, to be honest... I was uncertain rather you'd like it or not. It was a bit on the rougher side, I guess..." I respond, nervously flipping the pencil in my hand. "It was a nice change. Even the fans are talking about it." Ji puts in, smiling at me. "Looks like you were right again, hyung." Ri looks towards the oldest who shrugs, eyes not removing from the movie, 'Die Hard'./span/p
p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: #4a4f55; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Really?" I ask, closing the book and sitting up a bit. "Neh, the blogs have been covered in your designs and their asking who you are and all that." I look at him with a raised eyebrow and asked him. "Do you always check your popularity?" He shrugs, focusing on the tv after T.O.P shushed us. I live with a bunch of Narcissists…... /span/p