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becoming a set member of eclipse has it’s perks. in fact, she thinks that it’s mostly perks. they’re finally getting closer to their dream, and they’ve been working hard for this for years, so why wouldn’t it be a good thing? she could think about how she hasn’t seen her friends for ages, and how she feels like some people probably think she dropped off the face of the earth by now. she might as well have, with how little interaction she gets with everyone who’s not an eclipse member.
it means that she hardly knows the new trainees either, and only kind of sees them as they come into the building. she’s aware of their presence, but has few opportunities to meet them. so she’s glad when chungha introduces herself. yeri stands up quickly, waving at the other girl. with her signature sunny smile “oh! hi! it’s not a bother at all! of course you should come in!” she gestures around the room, finishing off with a shrug. “it’s not like i own this place.”
“i’m yeri!” she takes a look at the other girl, trying to remember her. she had heard that she was on the mgas, but with everything going on this year she didn’t have time to watch all of it. “weren’t you the one with the boyfriend?”

it’s true. it’s not like she owns the place at all. chungha thought it was better to be polite and ask regardless. the other was a senior trainee and if she didn’t want to train with chungha, she could easily pull rank. she’s seen it happen before. although training with a senior trainee could work in her favour when learning the tricks of the trade, so-to-speak.

“yeri! your name is pretty,” chungha said with a smile and a polite bow of the head. “my name is chungha–” she huffs, pausing and backtracking on her statement quickly. “my real name actually is chanmi. chungha is a nickname all of my friends call me. it feels more like my name now.” it was a reflex to introduce herself as chungha. she’s almost vaguely aware of her doing the same on the mgas despite submitting her real name on the application. she knows while training they won’t go by her nickname. they would only refer to her as chanmi (as it was her legal name). they wouldn’t even refer to her as annie, she’s sure, despite it being her birth name.

chungha pauses before she could even get out anything else, staring at yeri in a bit of shock. her cheeks turn red. she’s annoyed, yes, but she knows that’s what mnet did to her image. she was “the girlfriend” of the season. it completely overshadowed anything else she did. there was no uproar when she was (unfairly) kicked off just before the semi finals because most of the public was angry that she wasn’t (perceived as) a lonely and single loser like the rest of them. bullshit.

“mnet made it seem like i was dating him. we’re not dating,” she insists, exhaling with a huff to calm any annoyance and refrain from it seeping into her tone. “trust me, i’m single.” not that it mattered anyways. if she was dating younghyun, she would have had to break up with him when she signed her kt contract. “besides we have a dating ban. i’m not so quick to break that when i just got here.”