Mi Nyu was preoccupied by the strange new feelings which were making her heart beat fast and her skin tingle, so she wasn't paying much attention to her surroundings as Tae Kyung dropped her off at the Agency's entrance and went to park the car.
Tae Kyung liked to drop her off so that she could go in first and prepare his office for his arrival. The agency had an underground parking garage, but you could only access it through a back street, and the car had to pass through a security gate to get in, and the entire process took a few minuets longer than going in through the main entrance.
This was their usual morning routine, so Mi Nyu was moving on autopilot as she got out of the car and began walking up the long walkway to the agency's front doors.
Except that halfway there, she was startled out of her absent daydreaming as she met a wall of yelling people and flashing lights.
As sound came to her and she processed what was going on around her, Mi Nyu realized that she was surrounded by reporters, and they were all calling out to her.
She'd seen the media frenzy around her brother and the other members of A.N. Jell a few times, but they had never given any attention to her!
"Who are you?!" one reporter was yelling.
"What is your name?!" someone else cried out.
"Is it true you met the members of A.N. Jell while club hopping one evening?!"
"Are you dating one of the members of the band?"
The noise of the reporters and the flash of the cameras was overwhelming for a moment.
But then, the agency's security officers were there, and they were escorting her into the building and up to President Ahn's office.
She arrived in the office just as the other members of A.N. Jell, as well as Manager Ma and Coordinator Wang were arriving, as well.
"What's going on?!" Mi Nam asked as he hurried into the office. "I heard there were reporters harassing my sister!"
"We have a problem," President Ahn declared.
"Pictures of Go Mi Nyu doing activities with various members of the band were printed this morning, and the media is making it into a scandal, saying that she's dating two members of the band behind the other's back and she's hanging around A.N. Jell for money."
"Oh, no," Mi Nyu groaned, hiding her face in her hands. "I didn't mean to cause trouble!"
"We know, Go Mi Nyu," Manager Ma hurried to say. "Everyone in the agency knows who you are! This is just a bunch of reporters making up stories and causing trouble for attention!"
"He's right," President Ahn assured her. "This isn't that bad, since you haven't done anything inappropriate or bad, and most of the pictures they printed are of you running errands for the band. The most incriminating picture they have is of you and Tae Kyung jogging together. But when we explain that Mi Nam's sister and aunt are staying in the dorms and that Mi Nyu is training to become the band's manager to replace Manager Ma after he receives his promotion, people will understand."
"You mean... We'd announce that I was becoming the manager of A.N. Jell?" Mi Nyu hesitantly asked. "Publicly?"
"Of course!" President Ahn said with a wide smile. "You're a great fit for the job, and we could really use Manager Ma in the marketing department! You've done so well the last few weeks, I don't see why we don't go ahead with the announcement!"
"You said she could wait a few months before making a decision," Tae Kyung quietly reminded the president.
"I know, I know, but with those pictures getting printed... the sooner we announce her as an official member of the team and squash the story roomers that she's some sort of groupie, the better! Mi Nyu isn't a scandal, and she shouldn't be treated as if she was!"
"It's... I really appreciate your support, President Ahn," Mi Nyu said quietly as she chewed her lip and uncomfortably shifted from one foot to the other. "But this is a really big decision... Could you give me one more day to decide?"
President Ahn sighed, clearly disappointed that Mi Nyu wasn't immediately jumping for the chance to take the job. "I can give you until 3:00 this afternoon to decide. The press will run away with this story if we wait until tomorrow to make a statement, and then it won't matter what we say."
"I... Of course, I understand. In that case, one way or another, I'll have an answer for you by 3:00 this afternoon."
It was a not so minor miracle that the Mother Superior was visiting Seoul.
Tae Kyung, Shin Woo, and Jeremy remained at the agency and attempted to see to their their normal day's work, but Mi Nam and Mi Nyu went to the cathedral to see their Mother.
She greeted them both with a smile and a hug, and the three sat down to have a long, serious discussion.
Mi Nyu was about to faint, because this... This was the exact opposite of what she had always imagined for herself.
Her brother had been right, though. She had seen more of the world in the past month than she had in her entire life, and she needed to see a lot more of it before setting her heart on Rome, because if she left now... She would always, always miss this place, and she would always wonder what could have happened and what she could have made of herself...
At 3:00 that afternoon, the twins entered the Agency through the back entrance.
The press conference was already underway, and the senior members of A.N. Jell were distracting the press while Mi Nam joined them on stage and Mi Nyu spoke with President Ahn behind closed doors.
The ink she used to sign the contract wasn't even dry before President Ahn was pulling her into the press conference and onto the platform before the media.
Her brother stood from his own seat and joined her as President Ahn introduced her as Go Mi Nam's sister and the official acting manager of A.N. Jell.
Mi Nyu still felt like she was about to throw up, but Mi Nam threw his arm around her shoulder, and she couldn't remember the last time she had seen him smile like that, and the other members of A.N. Jell were clapping, and President Ahn was doing a victory dance at one end of the stage, he was so happy.
Mi Nyu took a deep breath, slid her arm around her brother's waist, and she smiled for the flashing cameras while praying that she wasn't making a horrible mistake.