The Gamer Girl... Idol?

I woke up to the sounds of my phone receiving text messages. I looked at my phone and saw that its 6:15, I have to leave at 7:30 to beat the traffic. I opened up the text messages.

Received 6:07 AM
Ari-shi! How come you never told me you were going on a variety show! Oppa's mad at you now. Make sure you don't fall in love with any of those pretty boys. I'm the one for you ㅋㅋㅋ
Love Sanghyeok oppa

I rolled my eyes. Sanghyeok only acts like this around me. Before he met me everyone thought he would never like a girl, Sanghyeok thought that as well. He never smiled and had a cold look everywhere he went, but recently he's been coming out of his shell and unfortunately since he lacks social skills he didn't find anything wrong with declaring his feelings for me. Now we are shipped together and since we share the same last name I get called his husband.
I decided to look through my other texts, forgetting about Sanghyeok.

Received 6:12 AM
Don't forget to look nice, we don't want the whole of South Korea to think you're a slob.
Manager-nim

I groaned and deleted it. The other texts were from my other members, but they were mainly begging me to get autographs from the other girls in the house. I looked at the time and decided I should get ready. I put on my simple but cute outfit I chose last night. I don't want to stand out, hopefully I can blend in, like Hyomin in Invincible Youth.

I packed some things that are required when staying at the Roommate house such as clothes and basic beauty stuff. Also I'll be bringing my laptop to practice for the next competition although I won't need to for a while. Once I finished packing it was about 7:27.
'Shoot.' I muttered under my breath. I quickly left and locked up my apartment and went to the sleek black car that was waiting for me, it wasn't my car or my manager's car so I assumed it was the Roommate car. The driver took my luggage for me and I hopped in the back seat to see someone else was in there. It was Nana from After School. I've seen pictures of her on the Internet but I could never have imagined that she would be this beautiful in person.
'Hello, you're Ari right? Nice to meet you, I'm Nana.' she said sweetly.
I bowed my head to her acknowledging that she was senior to me, 'Yes I am Lee Ari. Nice to meet you.' I said with a tentative smile.
We sat in silence for what felt like forever, I looked at Nana at the corner of my eye to see her looking straight ahead. Deciding to break the ice I started talking, 'So its your third season of Roommate huh? You must enjoy it alot.'

She gazed at me but her eyes seemed sorrowful, 'Yes. I do enjoy it alot, but it doesn't do well for my image.'

I raised an eyebrow, 'Why is that?'

She smiled a little bit, 'So it's true that you don't look at news articles.' I looked at her with a confused face, but she was tapping away at her phone and showed me a news article. (I'm using Netizenbuzz again)

NANA STRUGGLES WITH THE ONSLAUGHT OF HATEFUL COMMENTS DUE TO 'ROOMMATE'
http://netizenbuzz.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/nana-struggles-with-onslaught-of.html

As I read through the article I felt bad for her, she receives so much hate just for making tiny mistakes.

'I guess I deserve it, I'm pretending to be someone I'm not.' Nana said with a look of sorrow.

I put my hand on her arm and she looked at me with surprise, 'Never, ever say that you deserve that. No one deserves that.' I said whilst looking at her in the eyes.

Nana opened her mouth but no words were coming out, when she finally managed to form words she started talking, 'You know I don't have many friends. What people see from pictures are almost always a lie. I tend to not get liked because of how I look. They look for every excuse to ruin my image.' She paused and smiled at me, 'But I hope we can be friends. You seem different to everyone else.'

I was shocked, I already made a celebrity friend? We were getting closer to the destination and I saw something outside the window that caught my eye.

'Driver-nim, can you please stop outside that cafe for a moment.'

Nana looked at me with a confused look on her face but I just grinned at her, 'I know a way to help with your image.'

Note:
Just letting you know I have no idea when I'm going to start including romance. I kinda want to solidify Ari's place in the kpop world first. But I still don't know who Ari's love interests are going to be yet hahaha

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