Jiyeon was discharged from the hospital Friday afternoon, and she had missed school for a week. Good thing for her, her Seobang was really patient and kind to tutor her.

The next day, Yong Hwa accompanied Shin Hye to Rack Sky for her job, while he and and the guys went to a flower shop to check the prices of the roses.

"I will buy the roses today, and you can get it this evening," he told Jong Hyun.

The seller gave in to the demand and reserved three red roses for tonight. They strolled around the city and went to Red Sky to practice for tonight's performance.

After dinner, Yong Hwa received a text from Shin Hye that she would go to Red Sky alone to watch them perform. Meanwhile, Jong Hyun and Jung Shin went back to the flower shop to retrieve the roses.

*****

"Shin Hye-ya, we are meeting some socialites today," the braggart editor of AxEL magazine told her. "Wanna join?"

"Anio," she said. "I have errands after every work day."

"Geureom, you will be left alone?" one model asked.

"I don't mind," she said nonchalantly. "I am used to it."

After receiving her check, she checked the amount and saw that it was fair. Then, she strode off.

****

When she got there, someone called her, and to her surprise, it was Bom-eonni.

"Here," Bom called out.

Shin Hye went to her and sat with her.

"You're alone too, Bom-eonni?" she asked.

"Ne," Bom said. "Eomma and Appa wanted me to go with them to have dinner with some socialites, but I am not in the mode to be faking smiles."

"Same here," Shin Hye said. "The editor of the magazine wanted me to mingle with socialites too. Argh, I am so not going to meet them even if it is part of my contract. I told him I have a very important errand to go to."

Bom was drinking some beer, and Shin Hye saw that she had three bottles already.

"Gwaenchanha?' she asked her eonni.

"Ani," Bom said. "Nan gwaenchanhji anha (I'm not all right)."

Shin Hye was about to ask her why when the MC came and announced the start of the night's presentation. To their shock, Knights in Shining Blue was performing first instead of the usual Scorching Blades.

"We will be performing the whole night tonight because our seonbaes have important matters to attend to," Yong Hwa said over the mike.

First song they sang was a CN Blue song, "Teardrops In The Rain." It was Shin Hye's first time to hear Jong Hyun sing the whole song by himself, and she had to admit, his voice was really good.

 

Teardrops in the rain... 

 

The people were waving their hands, and Shin Hye joined in, but Bom got her hands down, so she asked.

"What's wrong, Eonni?" Shin Hye asked her.

But Bom just shook her head and leaned her head on the table. The younger Park wondered what's wrong. 

"This next song is dedicated to my girl," Yong Hwa said.

Shin Hye looked at him when he said that, and the people began screaming in delight. Who could that girl be?

"Is that me, Oppa?"

"It's me, right, Oppa?"

Yong Hwa just smiled at the fans and nodded at Jong Hyun as he strummed his guitar to the tune of CN Blue's "Y, Why."

 

I know I've fallen in love when you're coming down to my eyes
Wanna make you, wanna feel the beauty as you are
I wanna tell you some I'm not a man who say in lies
Wanna love you I wanna hold you can you be the part of my life

You can have it your way girl it you mind
I don't wanna bend you girl, all the life all the life

 

I'll feel your love forever I wanna know your feeling
This feeling is so true, girl
I'll need your love forever I can feel your heart
So please breathe with me forever

 

All the while, he had been looking at Shin Hye with those y eyes of his, and Shin Hye could not help but bite her lips flirtatiously. And when he rapped, he looked at her with a wink, and the people were beginning to wonder as to who the lucky girl was.

 

If you wanna one time, girl
I gotta give you more than
Whenever wanna some thang
I'm gonna with you somewhere
I gotta show you what I'm gonna do when your eyes
Contact to me
It doesn't work it out
You know too hard to breathe it
Baby I love you indeed Nothing is lie we need
I can't see it any teardropin'on your face, girl
I just wanna say I love it

 

"Yong Hwa, you really know how to make a girl fall for you," she said to him from her seat.

 

You can have it your way girl it you mind
I don't wanna bend you girl, all the life, all the life

I'll feel your love forever I wanna know your feeling
This feeling is so true, girl
I'll need your love forever I can feel your heart
So please breathe with me forever

When you come in my life see my eyes
My life is never the same
My eyes tell you truth
I wanna live In your life

 

I'll feel your love forever I wanna know your feeling
This feeling is so true, girl
I'll need your love forever I can feel your heart
So please breathe with me forever

 

They continued the song, but during the part when he was about to finish, he had Jung Shin sing, to the delight of the fans.

"Jung Shin-oppa! I super love your voice!"

"Eat me, Jung Shin-oppa!"

"Bring me home!"

"Will you be my boo?"

Yong Hwa went behind Min Hyuk and grabbed the bouquet, then he went down the stage and went to Shin Hye. The eyes of all the people were on her when the lover boy came and knelt in front of her as he presented the roses.

"Would you want to go on a date with me?" he asked her.

Shin Hye did not know what to do because she had never been on a REAL date. She turned to Bom for advise and encouragement, but the elder Park was asleep on the table. She turned to Yong Hwa, grabbed his face, and kissed him in front of the crowd.

"HOT KISS!!!!!"

When she broke from the kiss, she received the roses and said that she'd go on a date with him. To his delight, he stood up, kissed her lips, and jumped in delight that his proposal had been accepted. Of course, Shin Hye did not know that he had planned this with the guys, so she held his hand and thanked him much. The people there clapped their hands and howled in delight, then cheered on for another round of kiss.

"Uhm, Round 13?" Shin Hye asked Yong Hwa.

He smiled his toothy grin and brought her near for another round of kisses. After the kiss, he went back to the stage to continue singing with the guys. Shin Hye caressed the three roses and brought them to her nose.

"Ah....," she thought. "So good."

Three red roses meant...

I. Love. You.

Sa. Rang. Hae.

How romantic could one guy get?

*******

After the gig, as the people were going home, the four boys went to Shin Hye.

"How was it?" Min Hyuk asked.

"The what?" she asked him.

"The proposal," Jung Shin said.

"Oh, oh," Shin Hye said. "It's romantic."

Another pair of warm arms coiled around Yong Hwa's neck, and the lovers shared another set of kisses ala Round 14. After the kiss, Shin Hye reminded him.

"Last Thursday was the most number of kisses that we had," she said.

Yong Hwa got embarrassed because she said it in front of the guys.

"Jinjja?" Min Hyuk asked. "How many?"

"Secret," Yong Hwa told him.

"Aw, you are a cheater!" Min Hyuk told him. "Tell us!"

But Yong Hwa would not tell them that Shin Hye and him had been up to Round 50 last Thursday. Hot stuff!

Jong Hyun finally noticed Bom sleeping, her head nesting on the table.

"Ah, Bom-eonni drank three bottles of beer," Shin Hye said coolly.

The guys exchanged glances, and so Yong Hwa asked Shin Hye if it would be all right with her if he would carry Bom.

"You'll not be jealous, right?" he asked.

"Eh? How about Jong Hyun?" Shin Hye asked.

"Uhm, my hands kinda ached," Jong Hyun said.

"My back's a bit strained right now," Jung Shin said.

"Uhm.... I'm having my monthly period right now," Min Hyuk babbled in haste.

"The what?????" Shin Hye asked.

"Oops...." Min Hyuk replied, aegyo style.

"Ya, can you tell me what's wrong?" she demanded from the guys. 

Jung Shin said that he'd rather not talk about it, and as it is, he'd not carry Bom home. Min Hyuk also declined, and Shin Hye disallowed Yong Hwa from carrying her cousin home.

"I'm not carrying my own cousin home," Shin Hye snapped at them. "I know you all have alibis, and Yong Hwa is not gonna take part of it."

"All right, all right, I'm carrying her," Jong Hyun finally gave in. "If that will make you shut up."

Shin Hye did not snap at Jong Hyun, because she saw that he was a bit pissed off.

"Jong Hyun-ah, if there is something wrong between the three of you and between Bom-eonni, could you please tell me what it is?"

Jong Hyun sighed and said that they needed to talk it out at home. Shin Hye was not one to let a mystery pass, and she had to solve it as soon as possible. And it was evident that something must be going wrong, for Jong Hyun did not look at Bom's face as he carried her in his arms.

"Take a taxi, Jong Hyun-ah," Shin Hye suggested as she placed some money on his pocket.

"Wow, Tiffany Lee is indeed super rich," Min Hyuk gasped in awe. "Eonni, put some money in my pocket too."

"Ha! You need to admit first that you are a cat before I put some money in your pocket," Shin Hye said.

"But I am not a cat," Min Hyuk replied.

The friends went out and let Jong Hyun ride a taxi first before they went to wait for a bus. When the bus finally arrived, they got on and sat down.

Min Hyuk noticed the look of the people inside the bus, and it freaked him out.

"Jung Shin-ah, the people are so scary," he whispered.

Jung Shin looked at them and felt goosebumps. 

"Ye, I agree," he whispered back to Min Hyuk. "I feel like I am in some horror movie."

"They----are----so----cute-----."

"We----love----the-----cuteness-----."

"The----cute-----girl-----and-----the----hot-----guy."

"Scary! Scary!" Min Hyuk half-screamed as he hugged Jung Shin, for the people were talking in zombie voices and blood dripped from their noses.

Yong Hwa was aware that the people were having nosebleeds, but he did not care. Shin Hye was sleeping on his shoulder, and he smiled in satisfaction, knowing that it was their cute act which gave those zombie nosebleeds to everyone.

"Ya, stop acting all cute, Yong Hwa," Min Hyuk finally cried. "The people are zombies!"

"I can't really wait to get out of here!" Jung Shin freaked out.

Yong Hwa just shrugged at his bandmates' pleas, and continued being sweet with Shin Hye. When they reached their destination, Jung Shin and Min Hyuk ran to the aisle and jumped off the bus as soon as they could, while Yong Hwa calmly carried his sleeping princess in his arms.

 

♥