I'm sorry it took a while. After schoolwork, I got sick. XC But it can't stop me from updating! LOL. Replies! [juwie1608, sorry update's getting a bit slow. :( I'm still deciding how Shin Woo's going to be like LOL Hope you like this chapter, though!] [alex, thanks! Enjoy this chapter! :)] [bionicwizard14, thank you! Chapter 4 now :)]

After a week or so, I give you Chapter 4! Read and review please! Enjoy! :)

Haruno Ran was still a bit light-headed when the ANJELL boys filed in after their TV appearance.

"Ah, I'm thirsty!" Jeremy exclaimed to no one in particular, but she scrambled to get a bottle of water anyway. "Ah, thank you, Ran!"

She started handing out bottles to the three as well.

"What's our schedule after this?" Hwang Tae Kyung asked before drinking.

"Ah, Tae Kyung-sshi has a pictorial with Yoo He Yi-sshi for the magazine interview about – about your relationship," Ran replied, rather uncomfortable with the details. She continued, anyway. "Mi Nam-sshi will be on set for a commercial shoot," she said, turning to Mi Nam. "Jeremy-sshi and Shin Woo – "

Ran faltered nervously, remembering what Shin Woo had told her earlier.

"Shin Woo Oppa will be meeting with Manager Ma for a new endorsement proposal."

"Oppa?" Tae Kyung repeated, once again sporting a malicious smile. Shin Woo stared at him as if humorously daring him to speak any further.

"Ya, that makes sense," said Jeremy suddenly to both men's surprise. "We shouldn't be too formal, since we work together everyday! Haruno Ran, I give you permission not to call me 'Jeremy-sshi!'" he ended cheerfully.

"Me too!" said Mi Nam. "You can just call me Go Mi Nam, Ran-noona!"

Ran smiled and bowed to acknowledge the two's statement. Shin Woo smiled.

"What about you, Hyung?" Jeremy asked the band leader, who shifted awkwardly in his seat.

"If Tae Kyung-sshi is uncomfortable, it's alright," said Ran.

"You can't call me 'Oppa,'" replied Tae Kyung, raising an eyebrow at Shin Woo. "Just call me 'Tae Kyung,' understand?"

"Okay," the assistant manager replied, smiling.

"Who will you be going with, Ran?" Jeremy asked. "We're going to different places."

"Ah, Manager Ma said I'm to accompany Mi Nam."

"Ya, Ran-un – Ran-noona," Go Mi Nam stuttered again.

She was seated in the front passenger's seat of the ANJELL van. Haruno Ran was still driving, and they had dropped off the boys in their respective work venues.

"How long have you been with AN Entertainment?"

"About… six months? Half year now," Ran replied, keeping her eyes on the road.

"Is it true that you came to work for the company because you're an ANJELL fan?" Mi Nam asked curiously. Ran had to smile.

"Yes, it's true. Why, weren't you an ANJELL fan before you joined the band, Mi Nam?"

"No, not at all," Mi Nam laughed. "I've never actually heard of them before Manager Ma contacted me at the convent – "

"Convent?"

"Ah – I mean, seminary!"

Go Mi Nam could not think of anything else to say.

"I was in the seminary before – before I joined ANJELL."

"You mean – Manager Ma scouted you from the seminary? He got you out of becoming a priest to be a singer?"

Ran was quite shocked to hear such a thing.

"It – it's not like that," Mi Nam said, laughing nervously. "It's a long story, Ran-noona! I'll tell you later when we have time, alright?" she embarrassedly dismissed.

"Are you nervous, Mi Nam-ah?" Ran asked, straightening the suit Go Mi Nam was wearing. It was only a few minutes until the first take.

"S – slightly," replied Mi Nam, who felt like she was floating.

"Me too," Ran said sheepishly. Mi Nam looked at her, confused. "Well, it's my first time to escort anyone to an endorsement shoot. But I know you'll do well, Mi Nam-ah. We'll do well!"

"We'll do well!" said Mi Nam, nodding her head in agreement.

All in all, Go Mi Nam's commercial went smoothly. There was this one time, though, that the director instructed her to unbutton the two top buttons of her polo and she stubbornly refused, so that the director settled with spreading her collar.

"Okay, for the final shot," the director called out. "Go Mi Nam-sshi will be taking a shower."

"What?" Mi Nam replied in panic.

"I'll help him change, then," Ran said, ushering Mi Nam to the dressing room.

"Ran-noona!" Mi Nam exclaimed as Ran closed the door. "I – I can't take a shower for the commercial!"

"I know. It wasn't in the contract either," replied a serious Ran. "I'm going to call Manager Ma, alright?"

The assistant manager stepped out of the room, leaving Mi Nam alone.

I'm sure Manager Ma can think of something to solve this, Mi Nam told herself determinedly. He always cooks something up.

"Ya, Mi Nam-ah," said Ran, re-entering the room after a few minutes. "Manager Ma isn't picking up his phone. And the directing staff passed by just now. He said we'll have to resume shoot now."

Go Mi Nam's legs began to feel like jelly, and her stomach churned with panic. She didn't know what to do. The director was firm and insistent. Manager Ma could not be reached to sort up this mess. And she was stuck with a girl who knew absolutely nothing about the whole thing.

"Mi Nam-ah?"

"Ran-noona," Mi Nam began uncomfortably. "I – I really can't – "

"We'll just have to negotiate and amend the provisions of the contract for this commercial," Ran said, trying to dial Manager Ma on her phone again. "They'll have to pay you extra since they're demanding some skin."

Ran giggled a bit but stopped immediately after seeing the look of sheer terror on Go Mi Nam's face.

"Is there a problem, Mi Nam-ah?"

Mi Nam closed her eyes in desperation. There was no other way to avoid the shower but –

"Ran-noona," she spoke again. "I – I can't shoot that shower part because – because – "

The room remained silent as Ran waited for Mi Nam to finish.

"They'll find out I'm a girl."

Go Mi Nam did not open her eyes after finishing her sentence. No sound came, however, so that after a few moments, she opened her eyes to see a staring, expressionless Haruno Ran in front of her.

"Ran-noona…?"

Ran stared some more.

"Haruno?" a staff member suddenly barged into the dressing room. "The director's already calling. Go Mi Nam-sshi is needed now."

Without so much as an "Excuse me," the staff closed the door and went off.

"Ran-noona?" Mi Nam said again, unsure of what had happened to the still transfixed Ran.

"I – I'll go – make up something – then," Ran finally replied. She turned around and got out of the room.

Mi Nam stood for a few more minutes, quite confused herself, and then realized with shock that Ran did not actually promise to not tell anyone what she had just found out. She dashed out of the dressing room and went to find Ran.

"He's having an asthma attack?" the commercial director said, incredulous. He and Ran were standing to the side of the set.

"Yes, Sir. I'm afraid he can't shoot any longer, let alone shoot in the shower with water streaming over his back," said a somber Ran.

Just then, Go Mi Nam came running toward her.

"I thought you were sick?" the director asked, suspicious.

"Ah, Go Mi Nam!" Ran turned to her and put an arm over her. "I'm sorry I left you!"

Ran winked to hint that Mi Nam needed to actually act sick, so that Mi Nam decided to inhale and exhale in a severely deep manner and cough a few times, too.

"We really need to get some medicine for him, Sir," Ran said, satisfied with Mi Nam's acting. "AN Entertainment will call you to discuss the remaining shots to be done. We're really sorry!"

Ran and Mi Nam, still coughing, bowed and turned to leave.

"I wonder why Ran was calling," Manager Ma thought aloud after he, Shin Woo, and Jeremy got out of their meeting. "Probably just beginner's nerves."
Ran drove silently down an empty street. She and Go Mi Nam were on their way back to the dorm. Mi Nam sat silently in the passenger's seat.

"Ran-noona…" she said after a few more awkward minutes.

Ran did not say anything but nodded to indicate that she heard.

"Are you – angry with me?"

"Angry…?"

"Because I lied…?"

Silence.

"Manager Ma said that, before anyone else, fans will be most angry with me for deceiving them and – and becoming member of their favorite band," Mi Nam said sadly.

"I'll just ask you one question," Ran replied seriously. "Do Tae Kyung, Shin Woo, and Jeremy know?"

"Y – yes," Mi Nam answered, nervous where Ran was going.

"And are they okay with it?"

"Yes."

"Then I'm okay with it, too, I guess."

"Really?"

"What Manager Ma said, I think it applies to people who like ANJELL on a shallow level," Ran explained as she steered the van into the dormitory's driveway. "Call me crazy but I care about them in a different way. Hell, I came to Korea for this band!"

Go Mi Nam stared, somewhat shocked that the usually quiet Haruno Ran was becoming very passionate in the conversation.

"S – sorry," Ran apologized. "I just mean that – if they're okay with it, if they're happy that you, as a girl, are part of the band, I'm happy for them as well. And happy for you, too. You're one lucky girl."

Ran grinned at Mi Nam, and she smiled back.

"Ya, why were you calling earlier?"

Manager Ma marched out of the dorm and approached the van as Mi Nam and Ran got out.

"Uh, it was an emergency, but we got out of it," Ran replied, smiling.

"What do you mean 'emergency?'"

"The director wanted Mi Nam to take a shower on cam."

"What! Thank goodness you got out of that!"

Ran smiled as she brought up Mi Nam's luggage into the house.

"Hang on a second," Manager Ma turned to Mi Nam. "She knows?"

"She does now," Mi Nam replied, smiling gratefully.

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