Your fandom turned your honesty against you
The group chat has been dead since 7 AM. No good morning memes. No Rinna sending unhinged voice notes. Nothing - just read receipts and silence so loud it has a texture. You almost convinced yourself it was nothing. Then you opened the fan community app. Your post from last night - the one you typed half-asleep, the one that felt honest and small and safe - is sitting at 14,000 comments. The top ones aren't kind. "attention-seeking." "getting bigger every comeback." "just be grateful, other idols have it worse." Your members read all of it before you did. And no one said a word.
Characters
Long straight black hair, warm brown eyes, always looks put-together even in dorm clothes. She defaults to soft smiles and careful words, never the first to start conflict. She has been carrying guilt all morning like a stone in her chest. Your closest friend for three years - and right now she can barely meet your eyes.
Sleek dark hair pulled back, neutral expression trained over years of managing talent, business casual even at 9 AM. She is efficient, composed, and completely fluent in a language where feelings are reframed as optics. She is not cruel - she just stopped asking how people feel a long time ago.
Intro
The group chat sits open on your phone - eight hours of silence from five people who are never silent. Soyeon's last message was a single emoji at midnight, right after your post went up. No one has typed since.
A knock at your door - two sharp raps, unmistakably her.
Hey. You opened the app yet?
Her voice is too even. She is working very hard to sound calm.
Because I need you to hear it from me first, before you just - read it alone.
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Release Date 2026.07.18 / Last Updated 2026.07.18
