Prologue

 “Okay, today’s work is done. Now I have time for my private business. Let’s see… what can I do now…” HE thought while scanning through HIS prayer’s monitor. “Checked, done, still on progress, done, nah, eh em, later, nah, nah, …” HE murmured and marking those prayer’s list, “ah! This one! I remember I have to make a better plan for these two. Yes, I guess this can be done now.” HE lays back on HIS chair, closing HIS eyes and thinking about the plan. After a while HE muttered to HIMSELF, “Hmm, I guess this will do.”

Chapter 1

Yeon Young phones Seungri for a meeting. She wants to give back the cellphone. They arranged the meeting for tomorrow at the same restaurant, lunch time. After ending the call she bumped herself to the sofa and closes her eyes, trying to compose herself. Meanwhile, Seungri stormed out from his room towards Daesung’s room. He knocks the door to Daesung’s room and speak with lower tone, “Daesung hyung, may I come in?”

Daesung opens the door of his room with his eyes lid barely opened. Seems he’s still sleeping when he hears Seungri’s call. “What is it?”

Seungri pushed in to Daesung’s room and closed the door behind him before saying, “I just got a call from Yeon Young noona. She wants to meet us tomorrow at the restaurant, lunch time.”

“Who? Yeon Young noona? Who’s that?”

 “Aigoo Hyung, seems you need to wake up full. Yeon Young noona, the one we met at the restaurant? With the dog? Who helping us about Taeyang hyung? Remember?” Seungri said.

 “Ah, yes, sorry,” Daesung said, shaking his head vigorously. “Why she wants to meet us?”

“I don’t know, I didn’t asked her and she didn’t say why. I suppose she wants to report her phone call to Taeyang hyung?”

“Oh, alright. But tomorrow we don’t have any schedule and seems our hyung will stay here all day. Will we able to sneak out?” asked Daesung.

“Oh that’s alright. I’ll just tell them I’m going to buy meal outside and asked if they want me to buy for them too. They’re too lazy to go out, our hyung are, so I guess I will able to sneak out. Then, if they say yes, I will ask you to help me with those meals. Sounds great right?” Seungri comes up with a plan.

Good God, this boy’s mind is really something. “Ahaha yea, they’re lazy hyungs. I think that’s a good plan. Now, if you don’t mind, I want to continue my sleep. It’s still so early and yesterday’s practice is really tiring,” said Daesung while walking towards the door and open it.

If you don’t mind, you said? Yet you already close the door? Aish, hyung, you’re as lazy as they are. “Alright. Have a nice sleep, Hyung.” Seungri walks out from Daesung’s room and continue his reading while sipping his coffee he made before.

Chapter 2

Since the morning everyone is in the living room. Taeyang and TOP busy playing the console while G-Dragon occupied with his mac and headphone. Daesung is playing around with the dogs while Seungri is drowned deeply into his reading: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey.

Seungri lifts up his gaze from the book and peeks up to the clock. Almost lunch time. Time to act. He spend another minutes with his reading and starts shifting his seats here and there, making sounds. “Ugh… ergh…”

“Ya, Maknae! What is wrong with you? Why are you making such irritating sounds? If you got nature calls, just go to the bathroom! Just make sure you don’t read your book there, keeping the toilet occupied!” TOP said, glancing toward the maknae.

“Ah, it’s not that, Hyung. I’m hungry. It’s almost lunch time. I think I’m gonna go buy some take out. Do you want me to buy for you too, Hyung?”

“Where are you gonna buy it?” asked Taeyang.

G-Dragon, who noticed there’s conversation going on, doesn’t want to be left behind, so he pull of his headphone. “What’s up?”

“I’m hungry and going to buy some take out there on that restaurant where we bought take outs too two days ago, during choreography practice. The one you said really tasty. So I asked if you all want me to buy for you too or not, Hyung,” Seungri said.

“Oh, yes, I remember. Its kimchi fried rice is really tasty. Well, let’s go there together, we can eat there too instead having lunch here. We can use some fresh air,” G-Dragon said.

It’s not that Seungri hasn’t predicted this before, so he managed to keep calm. He smiles sweetly and say, “Let me just buy it Hyung. It will be really crowded there during lunch time. If we all go there, there’ll be a huge commotion. You need to compose the music anyway.”

“He said he can use some fresh air, and us too, I guess. So, yea, I’d like to go out too. Having lunch there together will be fun, I guess,” add Taeyang while TOP nodding beside him.

Now Seungri starts sweating, glancing towards Daesung. He didn’t anticipate that TOP will agree to go out. “Ah, why going out now? It’s so hot out there. We can go dinning out tonight, if we want some fresh air, how ‘bout it?” Daesung tried to help Seungri.

“Yes, Hyung, let’s just go out tonight, dinning out and maybe go to karaoke or something?” add Seungri, trying to calm his panic.

“Ya, why are you look so strange? Why are you sweating? Are you hiding something? Omo, by any chance… you don’t want us to come along with you because… you’re about meeting a girl there? Hahaha… is that so?” TOP narrowed his eyes toward Seungri.

Great! Now everyone’s looking at me with interest. Big thanks, TOP Hyung! “It really is not like that Hyung! Aigoo…” he doesn’t know what to say so he just eyeing his hyungs with pleading eyes.

G-Dragon laughs, followed by Taeyang. “Hyung, don’t like that. Let’s just let him buy some take out. It indeed is hot out there. We can go dinning out together tonight, perhaps drink some bottle of soju too. Ya, Seungri, buy me kimchi fried rice,” said G-Dragon, tries to help his maknae though he himself isn’t sure what is going on here.

TOP’s looking towards G-Dragon for a while before saying, “Buy me rice with fried vegetables and some fish soup, any fish soup will do. And go to the mini market to buy me a pack of cigarette. I ran out of it.”

“I want kimchi fried rice too. And some meats? How bout japjae? Anyone wants to share japjae? One japjae too,” said Taeyang.

“I want…,” Daesung started but Seungri interrupts him. “Please help me to carry those meals, Hyung. I don’t think I’ll be able to carry them all by myself.”

“Alright. Wait, I’ll get some money.” Then Daesung going to his room, grabbing his hoodie jacket and back to the living room. “Let’s go.”

With that, Seungri and Daesung managed to escape from their hyungs and going to meet Yeon Young. They quicken their pace, afraid if their hyungs suddenly changing mind and decided to go along with them anyway. While actually, in the living room, their hyungs are only looking at each other, feeling kinda weird that Seungri and Daesung seems to get along really well. G-Dragon shrugged and back to his seat, putting on his headphone, so the other two also back to their game.

Daesung spots Yeon Young sitting at the front of the restaurant and shaking his hands to the air. Yeon Young sees him and nodding, smile to them. “Yeon Young Noona, annyeong. Have you waited long?” Daesung asks as he arrived on her table.

“Anyeong, Daesung, Seungri. No, I’m just arrived here a minute ago. It’s a hot day, so do you want to sit here or inside?” asked Yeon Young.

“Let’s just go inside, Yeon Young Noona. It’s cooler there,” Seungri said. So the three of them going inside the restaurant, finding a pretty quiet corner to sit. Seungri and Daesung order their take outs but Yeon Young said she already have lunch, so she only order sweet ice tea. After the waiter taking their orders Seungri bombards Yeon Young with tons of questions, “What is it, Yeon Young Noona? Why you’re calling us and wants to meet? Have you call Taeyang Hyung? What’s his reaction?”

“Ya, why do you bombarding Yeon Young Noona with tons of questions so suddenly?” Daesung asked.

“It’s alright, Daesung. I call you guys because I want to give back this cell phone. Yes, I already call him and I think it’s over now. You two don’t need to worry again.” Yeon Young pick the cell phone from her bag and put it on the center of the table.

Daesung is about to receive the cell phone but Seungri asks to Yeon Young, “And why the cell phone is turned off? What exactly is his reaction when you call him, Noona?”

Yeon Young stares Seungri, undecided whether to tell the truth or not. After a while, she sipped her sweet ice tea and smiled. “Nothing. I just want to turn it off. His reaction is quite good. He just told me to stop bugging him. That’s all. That’s why I want to give the cell phone back to you, because my mission already accomplished.” She pushed the cell phone further, towards Seungri and Daesung. “There, now I have to go home. I left my dog alone at home. Thank you for the time and it’s nice to meet you two. And here’s for my sweet ice tea.” She got up from her seat, smiled towards Seungri and Daesung, and left the restaurant before the boys could react.

“Something is wrong, I can sense it,” Daesung said. “Yeon Young Noona seems pretty different from before. Her smile hides something, the same goes with the way she talks. I don’t know, I just sensed there’s something wrong. What do you think?”

“Yes, Hyung. I just can’t figure out what has happened, if it’s has anything to do with the call or it’s merely about her personal life. Perhaps her dog is sick?” Seungri tries to figure it out.

“Sir, this is your order. The total is 43,500 won,” said the waiter.

Daesung looked up, reached his pocket, and gave the money to the waiter. “Just keep the change, Sir. Thank you.” Then he and Seungri walk out from the restaurant, heading to their dorm with meals on their hands and things in their mind.

Chapter 3

Park Yeon Young left the restaurant, unaware that she dropped her dog’s medicine as she rushed out. Meanwhile, Taeyang turns around the corner and see what happened. He shouts, tries to call the girl, but she didn’t hear his call. Taeyang took the pack and looking at it confusedly. That, is the time when Daesung and Seungri come out from the restaurant.

“Hyung? What are you doing here?” asked Daesung from behind him. Taeyang turns around, seeing his juniors, and telling them what just happened. Daesung looking at the pack and found Park Yeon Young under “owner’s name” label and accidentally shout, “Oh, it’s Yeon Young noona’s!”

“You know the girl?” ask Taeyang. Daesung exchanged anxious look with Seungri. Should they confess? Or not? They can’t think of a good make-up plan. “Oh, uhm… yea… we, well, she’s a loyal customer here, so we’re familiar with her. That’s all,” said Seungri.

“I bet you guys are more than familiar because you know her name,” said Taeyang. “I don’t suppose you guys know her contact number or her address too so we can give her this pack, right?”

“No, no… of course not,” blurt Daesung and Seungri together, panic. “Ah, Hyung, how would we know such information of her? It’s not possible,” add Seungri.

“Alright then, let’s just give the pack to the restaurant owner in case she came back here looking for this,” said Taeyang.

Daesung immediately refused the notion. Daesung said, it’s better if he and Seungri held the pack. Seungri rolls his eyes inwardly, for Daesung is digging their own grave. “No way. You guys don’t have her contact information and there’s no way she knows we had the pack. The best way is handing the pack to the restaurant owner,” insist Taeyang.

Daesung seems determined when saying, “No, Hyung, Don’t give the pack to the restaurant owner. We won’t know when Yeon Young Noona will be back to the restaurant. Seungri can contact Yeon Young Noona, he has her phone number.”

All that Seungri able to do was bulging his eyes, can not understand what might his Daesung Hyung aim. But still, he follow suit. “Yes Hyung, I have her phone number. I can contact her. I’m sorry we lied before.”

The fact that Daesung and Seungri lied about their relationship with the girl makes him even more suspicious. An idea crossed his mind and he smiled. “Gotcha! You two must be meeting her here then, right? Now tell me, who dates her among you two?”

Both juniors saying that isn’t the truth, they weren’t dating Yeon Young Noona. They are just friends with Yeon Young Noona. Because both are so persistent and considering they’re in public place, Taeyang leads them back to the dorm.

Chapter 4

All five BIGBANG members are having their lunch at the dorm. While they’re having lunch Taeyang told the other about what just happened and about his suspicion towards those two. After listening to Taeyang’s story, GD and TOP also find it weird, so they start asking Daesung and Seungri. Both juniors trying to give a make up story but do it clumsily so the other get even more curious. They finished their meal and moved to the living room, pushing out the truth from Daesung and Seungri even harder. At that time, with God’s interference, the prank cell phone fall of Seungri’s pocket. TOP immediately pick the cell phone and asked, “Whose cell phone is this?”

Both Daesung and Seungri answered at unison, “Mine, Hyung,” surprised with their unsynchronized answer and correcting. “Seungri’s phone.” “Daesung Hyung’s phone.” Again, at the same time, making their seniors eyebrows raised. GD told the two to kneel down, hands up. “You guys have a cheap phone like this? Really? Since when? And how come none of your hyungs know about this cell phone? What are you guys hiding from us? And why the hell this cell phone is off?” blurted GD while turning on the phone.

“Hyung, please don’t!” plead Seungri.

“Why? What secret are you keeping from us? Don’t tell me you’re dating the girl and this is your…”

-ola e e e e e e e-

Suddenly the phone rang, interrupting GD. Text messages. From Taeyang. “Youngbae-ah, there’s a lot of text coming in, from you,” said GD while staring Taeyang confusedly.

Meanwhile, Daesung and Seungri got more anxious. They’re doomed, the only option left is telling the truth, they thought. Taeyang checking the phone, finding that those are the texts he sent to the prank-girl, making assumption, and he got angry. “What’s the meaning of all this?! You guys better give me a thorough explanation!”

At last Daesung and Seungri explain the whole thing, that at first it’s them who starts the prank texts and how they asking Yeon Young noona’s help to call Taeyang and so on, plus how Yeon Young noona got hurt because Taeyang yell at her when she made the call and so on and so on.

Taeyang, GD, and TOP scolding and lecturing the two juniors for a good fifteen minutes or so. After that, Taeyang told Seungri to contact the girl, “Who’s her name again? Park Yeon Young? Call her, tell her that you have her dog’s medicine and going to deliver it to her house.”

Chapter 5

Yeon Young arrived at home and heading straight to her sick little puppy. “Noir, I’m home~ Wait a minute okay? I already bought your medicine. Just drink it and you’ll get better in no time.” She open her purse, trying to find the medicine pack, but it’s not there. She think about it, trying to remember when the last time she saw the pack. It’s when she entered the restaurant to meet up with Daesung and Seungri! When she pick out the cell phone and gave it to Seungri, the medicine pack was still at her purse. She must dropped it off on the way back home! She rushed to the front door, tracing back the route she took to home, searching everywhere. She traced back and traced back, until she arrived again at the restaurant. Still couldn’t find it. She enters the restaurant and asking the owner if there’s a medicine pack left and found. The ahjumma said none found so Yeon Young going back home, wondering where that pack might be.

Her cell phone rings. Seungri. She picks up the phone. “Hello, Yeon Young Noona? It’s me, Seungri. We found your dog’s medicine pack in front of the restaurant. Where are you right now, Noona?” said Seungri.

“Ah, so you found it. God, I’ve been searching for it everywhere. Thank you. I’m at home right now. Where are you? I’ll go there and pick the medicine,” Yeon Young replied.

“No, no, Noona… it’s not save to come to our dorm. Fans, securities, and all… you know. Just tell me your address. You said it’s near our dorm right? We’ll deliver the medicine to your home. It’s faster and better.”

“Hmm, okay. Here is my address,” said Yeon Young, giving her home address to Seungri. “Thank you very much, Seungri.”

“No worries, Noona. Just wait okay? I won’t be long. I’ll end the call now. See you Noona,” said Seungri, ending the phone call.

***

The bell of her front door rang. Yeon Young dashed to the front door and opens it, aghast by what she sees. It’s Taeyang, not Seungri. She’s too dumbfounded she can’t say a thing.

 “Park Yeon Young-shi? I’m Dong Young Bae. I’m here to deliver this medicine. Would you mind if I come in? Because I have something more to say and it’s not save if I keep being outside,” said Taeyang, looking around, checking if the hall is empty.

Yeon Young stuttered, “Ah, y-yes, uhm… tt-thank you. Ss-sure, I mean, yes, come in please.”

“Thank you,” said Taeyang, following Yeon Young to the living room. “The medicine,” he said, extending the medicine pack to Yeon Young.

“Oh, right, thank you,” said Yeon Young, accepting the medicine and heading to the kitchen, preparing the medicine.

“Is this your dog? What’s her name?” asked Taeyang, looking up to her.

Yeon Young nod. “Her name is Noir. She got a stomach problem.” She approach Noir and said, “Noir, this is Taeyang, our guest. Be nice to him okay? And here, have your medicine.” Yeon Young helps Noir eat the medicine then scratching her dog’s back. “Good girl, good girl.”

So this is her. She is lovely. And… And he realized his lips curved into a smile. He cleared his throat. “Is it… is it okay if I touch her? I mean, is she used to being touched by stranger?” asked Taeyang.

“Oh, sure, she loves it.” Yeon Young looking at Taeyang scratching Noir’s back and smiles. “Hm, Taeyang-shi, what happened to Seungri? On the phone he said he’s going here to deliver the medicine? And you said there’s something you have to say? What is it?” asked Yeon Young, worried.

“Seungri? Seungri and Daesung are in detention. They can’t leave the dorm for a week unless for work,” said Taeyang coolly.

“Eh? Why?”

“They confessed, about their prank, and how they asked your help to call me,” he continued, looking to Yeon Young eyes.

“I’m sorry,” said Yeon Young softly, drooping her head.

“No, no, I’m the one should ask forgiveness. I’m sorry Daesung and Seungri have makes you involved in their prank. And I’m sorry about the phone call. Daesung and Seungri also told me that you feel hurt because I yelled at you when you called me. The one answered your call is Boram Hyung, not me. I was behind the wheel. Nonetheless, it’s my fault. So I’m sorry.” Taeyang tries not to look at Yeon Young. He can’t. He just continues Noir’s back and head.

Oh, so it’s not him, the one yelling at me. It’s his manager. Yeon Young say—still softly, “It’s okay Taeyang-shi. It’s alright.”

“Please, just call me Young Bae,” said Taeyang, stealing a glance at her, but Yeon Young said nothing, just keeping her head low. Damn! Why don’t she say a thing? What should I say for more? Why she’s so quiet? Why she doesn’t look up? Is she afraid of me? That can’t be. Can it?

Gosh this is awkward. Calling him Young Bae? Hmph! As if I can call him t hat! Even calling him Taeyang-shi took a great deal of courage. Oh my gosh, and now I’m blushing… and I don’t know what I should saying.

They just keep silent for a while, saying nothing, and the air grows heavy. Yeon Young glanced toward Taeyang, caught the man staring at her, making her blushed even more. And Taeyang smiles even broader; a  gentle and knowingly smile.

***

 God smiles, sipped HIS tea, turning off HIS monitor, stretching, and leaves the chair.

THE END