Chapter 41 - A Vacation Cut Short

Adam strode through the airport at a pace that made others get out of his way in fear. His grey eyes were cold as winter while the lower half of his face was covered with a black mask. Dressed in all black, he looked chic yet unapproachable. His height of 181 cms made him stand out easily. As many girls watched him walk through the airport they were able to guess his identity but by the time they had taken out their cell phones to click his pictures, he was gone.

As he walked into the empty lounge, he chose a seat towards the back and waited for the others to arrive. For the first time in his life, he hated his profession and somewhere resented his 'fans'. He knew and understood intellectually that most of their fans wished them well but those few rotten ones were enough to ruin their happiness.

Just a couple of weeks to live their life is what they had asked for. But were they given that? No!

Many of their fans only saw their happy and successful lives but no one saw their struggle, their exhaustion as they performed challenging choreography and new unique stages.

Just then Phillipe entered the lounge followed by Apollo. The three men hugged each other, patting backs before settling down.

Finally, Adam questioned Phillippe,"What is going on? How is Yu Gyeom doing?"

Phillipe rubbed his head and said," It is why I like both of you the best. You are both worried about Gyeom rather than the scandal that has broken out. Anyways, he is doing fine but is rather buried in guilt. Everything happened so quickly that we were unable to prevent the damage. Anyways, this is your first ever scandal so the damage should not be much."

"Phillippe! Just shut up with the consolations and tell me what exactly happened!"

"Fine! Here goes. Gyeom had been planning to learn pottery. Anyway during this class he became quite good friends with the instructor. Because he had taken private sittings, he lowered his guard and did not realize that he was being stalked. Long story short, some of their pictures, mind you they are all innocent-mostly, were released among his faction of negative fans. To avenge their 'husband' being taken by a slut they wrecked her school and tried to harm her. Lickily, the woman was smartly able to escape but she is even now receiving threatening emails. We have already sent legal notices to all offenders but two of the five main perpetrators were under age so it is going to be a big problem. We had go forcefully restrain Gyeom from attacking and cursing the entire fandoms. Most of your fan clubs from all over the world are already rallying together to criticize the act and have apologized on behalf of such fans.

The lady in question pressed charges against all of them but she is at present very emotionally unstable and not willing to talk to anyone. On the one hand we are willing to offer her assistance but her lawyer seems like he would rather black mail us. As a result of this, we may now be facing a bigger problem or scandal. From what her lawyer has implied that she is considering suing us for a bigger compensation. He is also being a scumbag and has said that they have more incriminating photos of her and Gyeom that he will release to the media if we don't agree to their demands. Basically, he is now trying to blackmail us.

Gyeom on the other hand is so guilt riddent that he is willing to handover any amount of money the other party wants. However..

At this point, Phillippe hesitated as the company's stance on this matter was not something that the other members would appreciate. As he thought about it, Adam filled in the blanks for him,"The company is not going to be giving in to blackmail. Once we agree to give them money, we are basically admitting we are wrong and opening the doors for future extortion. is that correct? Phillippe, it has been a few hours since the scandal broke out and you have already worked fast. So the company must have already made a decision before you came to us. Why are you hesitating now?"

Phillippe heard the hostile tone and grimaced, "Look! I am sorry your vacation was cur short by two days but it is also not fault. And giving the money has it's own problems but at this point that is not what is important! There is a bigger problem that we might have to face!"

"What bigger problem?"