Afraid that I've hurt his chance at a career, I run out of the studio straight outside to my car, only stopping to grab the keys. Ignoring the calls of Seungwon and Hawon behind me, I begin driving to his company. A few minutes later I rush into the company and rush into the company. My face hardly covered as all the employees turn their necks to look at me while I rush around the office looking for my manager.

After getting direction from a staff member I run into the elevator finding myself face to face with Bangchan, the leader of Stray kids, once more. He smiles and mentions how he always seems to meet me in crucial situations. I try to smile but find it hard to widen my lips, afraid something will happen to Minho's career as our pictures have spread across the media.

I hear Bangchan say not to worry.

"Sorry, I didn't catch that" I say.

Don't worry" he repeats himself "We no longer have a dating ban"

"Really?" I ask surprised as they're still considered young in the industry

"Yeah" he says nodding "We got rid of it because we decided that we know how to make good decisions for ourselves"

I nod thinking how it's good their company lets them make their own decisions. Suddenly I feel stupid remembering how Minho had once told me they no longer had a dating ban in place. I calm down hearing that news and feel more at peace.

"And I've never seen Minho smile like he does ever since he's been hanging out with you."

I put my head down in embarrassment and cast my eyes downward in shame.

"I'm sorry for being irresponsible" I say sincerely "Especially as a leader"

I hear him laugh quietly.

"You're not in trouble you know!" he exclaims

"You both are adults and its your choice if you'd like to meet or not" he says "They're not mad" he continues referring to our companies.

"Are you sure?" I ask still worrying about Minho

"Of course" he says in an assuring tone

At that moment the elevator door opens onto one of the highest floors and I bow in respect to Bangchan and enter into the hallway.

I take a deep breath as I enter the room Bangchan told me our companies were meeting at. My manager offers me a chair and I sit down without looking around. There's a silence settled in the room as the managers are talking to themselves quietly about what to do with the journalist who posted the photos from our fun at Han River. They decide that because of the invasion of privacy they will be talking to the online newspaper website and be suing them for invading our privacy if they don't take the photos down. Although we were in a public place our companies both have strict rules for reporters taking our pictures without permission, especially during private meetings. l sit in deep thought when I feel a tap on my shoulder. I look next to me and see Minho had taken a seat next to me.

"Oh!" I say silently surprised

He smirks slightly feeling cocky to have caught me off guard.

"When did you get here?" I ask

"Just now" He says

Right at that moment my manager clears his throat and we focus our attention on him.

"We would've preferred if you both told us beforehand but we know sometimes such things happen quickly so you're forgiven" he says jokingly.

I turn my eyes slightly seeing Minho scrunch his nose cutely as he shrugs and nods.

"But that doesn't mean that from now on you're both free to do what you'd like. You must tell us before you meet each other and we'll give you new numbers to use in case those are being tracked. The reporters must have been hacking into your phones for a while as they knew a lot about you two."

We nod and take the new numbers

Minho clears his throat and says "We'll take the numbers, but for the seeing each other in person you don't need to worry about that for now."

I turn my head looking at him confused. I panic thinking has he changed his mind about me or if he's mad that I asked him for time. Minho turns his head towards me and bops my nose smiling. I hear everyone in the room groan loudly and I shake lightly with laughter once I realize what he's talking about it.

"We just need some time to take of our things" he says. "Both of us are busy right now and instead of trying to ruin our careers we're going to take things slowly."

Everyone looks at me and I nod my head quickly.

My manager says "let me guess Jina "the responsible" said that."

Minho laughs " Well I won't be sacrificing her happiness for something I want" and every one awes at him.

I'm amazed at the fact that he's taking everything I said that night into account and placing much importance on all my feelings.

They decide to put the official announcement out as us being good friends for now and that if there is an update the fans will the first ones to know. They also say to ignore anything that comes from the news site that was following us that night because once they sue them they might create false rumors as a way to take revenge.

I turn around to face Minho and see him smiling widely as he winks at me making me choke on the air. He laughs loudly seeing me struggling to catch my breath and pats me on the back gently holding my arm with his hand. Everyone in the arm smiles happily seeing us and I see my anager's eyes becoming teary. He's known me since I was young and awkward in New York he knows how hard it is for me to open up to people.

Everything is settled and I wave goodbye to Minho after. He motions for me to call him with a silly look in his eyes. I begin walking towards the car and laugh while saying "you already know."

I hear him yell "OH your opening your heart aren't you"

My manager and I laugh all the way to the car. My manager was in such a hurry that he took a taxi to Minho's company once he heard the news, so we take my car together back to the company. My manager fixes the driving seat for his height Sand I look through the window up at the building surprised to see Minho waving at me from the balcony. I wave at him with both hands and he puts a hand up asking me to wait.

"HOLD ON" I yell at my manager as he begins driving away

He jumps back in his seat and holds his heart

I laugh once he says "That's the loudest I've heard you speak since I've known you"

I look back at the balcony and see Minho standing with 3 cats lying peacefully in his arms. They're the cutest things I've ever seen. Looking at Minho's face I see a smile of adoration making me like them even more for making Minho smile that way. I send him a finger heart and he yells "I KNOW THEY'RE CUTE RIGHT!"

I look around hoping know one is watching and listening to him yell across the parking lot to a random car. I hear my manager clear his throat behind me asking to leave and I laugh waving goodbye to Minho one last time. He blows a kiss jokingly and I cover my face shyly. I send a kiss back and he clenches his heart falling backwards his cats escaping from his arms scurrying across the cold balcony floor. He hurries and begins to collect them as I laugh at his clumsiness.

He comes back to the edge of the balcony once more and quickly waves goodbye once more and I tell him to go and get his cats with a flick of my hands . He understand and smiles as he gets back to collecting his cats running after them in the balcony. I laugh and tell my Manager we can go now.

He drives and I sit in the car with a happy heart not knowing what's waiting for me at home.