Chapter 8

[DISCONTINUED] family
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Lisa has finally completed the work she was given. She's very tired now, after looking at numbers for so long, she was still analysing the data of the company and was busy looking at the stats. She sometimes also helps in shooting and ideas, but mostly she takes care of capital and stats.

She's now free and thinks of what she should do. She immediately gets out of her room and heads towards Ms. Kang's practice room.

As she passes Rosé's room, she hears loud music, she's about to go in but decides not to. It's night time and not a lot of people are outside at this time.

She finally reaches the room and knocks.

"Lisa you can come in." She hears a voice from inside.

She sees Ms. Kang looking at her phone, probably watching a video.

"How'd you know it was me?"

"I know who comes into my practice room."

This woman is really confusing.

Lisa just shrugs it off and decides to find something to dance to. She wanders around the room and looks at different posters on the walls. She finally finds something to dance to.

"Uhh Ms. Kang could I uhh play this one?" She points at the song on the screen.

"Just wait a second I'll complete reviewing this and then I'll help you out."

She starts roaming around the room again. The room was really big, big enough for groups to practice their dances. Lisa always wanted to do this, to see these rooms, to learn better technique, to dance as much as she wants.

To dance like no one's watching.

"Yeah, what were you saying?" Ms. Kang sets her phone aside and walks up to Lisa.

"If this would be okay." She says pointing at the song again.

"Yeah, you could start with that."

She tries to play the song but something isn't right. She calls Ms. Kang again just as she turned around, embarrassed.

"Uhm Ms. Kang, for some reason this won't work, could you?" She says while frowning and scrunching her face. She's just looking at the device.

"The switch, Lisa. Aish you're like a kid." Ms. Kang chuckles. "Oh and stop with this Ms. Kang, Ms. Kang, you sound like a high schooler calling her old teacher."

Lisa chortles. And turns the switch on and plays the song. She starts freestyling again. She dances for about 10 minutes straight. She's now actually feeling tired, so she sits down.

"Your count, it has to go like 2&34, you get it?" Seulgi says while doing the move with her hands and counting with it.

She does the move again and gets it right. She takes a bottle and starts drinking water. To end the impending silence that is about to envelope them soon, she says,

"Uhh Seulgi, I-I don't mean to pry but that night when we met, what exactly were you trying to do, you could barely stand after that."

She sees the other's face as she looks down, hesitating to say anything.

She wants to get to know Seulgi because of this mysterious vibe that she has, or at least that's what she thinks. But she can't just force the other to talk.

"I'm sorry, you don't have to answer. I'll just go now, I'm tired already."

She looks at Seulgi, who's fidgeting with a bracelet on her hand. She waits for her to say something, but then just moves towards the door.

When she's almost at the door, about to go out she, hears Seulgi,

"Y-you can come more often, you know? I didn't see you at all during this one week."

"If I could, I'd wanna come hear every day, maybe even two times a day, but I gotta work." Lisa furrows her brows, she really wants to come here, she loves dancing after all.

"Yeah, I almost forgot you're working for us." Seulgi giggles like a child. "I didn't see you at the meeting though, I was there, just the day after we met."

"I couldn't sleep that night, I wasn't able to get out of bed, Chaeyoung filled me in though."

She glances at Seulgi, who has this unreadable expression, but it looks like she's sad. When Lisa sees that she immediately wants to change that.

"She also told me, you're really scary." She starts grinning. But Seulgi still has that expression. She can't help but feel guilty. "What's wrong? I'm sorry I must have said something stupid, I tend to do that a lot."

She looks everywhere but at Seulgi. She moves towards her and sits down beside her.

In the same spot as before.

She just sits down and says nothing, she doesn't know what to say. They just stay in silence. Lisa isn't like this, she hates silence.

But this silence isn't that bad.

She just recites this over and over in her head until Seulgi finally speaks.

"Lisa, you....you said nothing wrong. I-I just got lost, it happens to me a lot, I think a lot."

She doesn't know how to respond, more like her brain doesn't know how to respond. She says something no one would ever expect her to say, not even herself.

"We don't always need to talk. You can just keep on thinking, I'll be here."

"Aaahhhh!" A loud shriek is what wakes Rosé up from her sleep, in the morning.

She abruptly gets up from the couch she slept on. "Who the !!"

Her face softens when she sees the extremely cute stranger, tapping her phone rigorously, to turn it on.

"The battery died last night." Rosé says while trying so hard to stifle her laugh.

"What the heck happened yesterday and where am I?" She says sternly, while looking around.

Rosé thinks about what she should tell her. She certainly does not want to tell her about what she said yesterday. So she lies.

"Nothing really happened, I saw you entering the building, you were about fall and I just happened to be there, so I brought you to my room."

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vitoriafranca
#1
Chapter 38: Wow, what sad news, I really had hope for this story. I mean, even if things didn't turn out the way I expected (Like Joohyun confronting Seungwan the first moment he saw her about the daughter she just took away and Joohyun misses so much or the revelation of Joy's supposed other relative where she only discovers that she didn't really have a father but a mother?) And of course, even though Joohyun knew that Seulgi was back in contact with Seungwan, she never confronted either of them about the whereabouts of her other daughter, which makes us wonder what kind of parents Joohyun and Seungwan are who don't bother to look for or finally reveal the truth to Joy and why does Seulgi continue to collude with both sides when she considers her niece so much?
Despite everything, what really saddens me is that despite everything, the flashbacks to their past were without a doubt the best part of the story, I really kept waiting for more of them. I don't know if you intend to go back to this story and rewrite it, but I would particularly love it if you could show us their past in full. I think exploring what you've already done here would be a way of reusing this story that had so much to show.

Anyway, thank you for everything so far, I hope you are well and come back soon, author-nim!
shadowhunter1640 #2
Chapter 38: Oh i see the problem now. The seulreners want more seulrene moments.

Though i've always thought this is wenrene fic with how often Wendy's pov appears. But i agree that the story's really dragging. And so many side character povs.

I always look up wenrene tags coz that's all i'm interested in and this story was really promising. But i suggest if you're writing a wenrene fic, just use wenrene tag and don't add seulrene and vice versa if you're writing a seulrene fic to avoid being accused of clickbaiting and confusion.

Thank you for your work author! Please keep on writing.
Gwernica #3
Chapter 37: Heavy seulrener here and yes the story is dragging. This story is similar to wenseulrene fic titled 'Unrequited' in terms of the structure where it's clearly a seulrene fic with wendy as the 'heartbreaker' but for some reason the pov heavily came from wendy perspective. I think other readers already mentioned it out: Seulrene is clearly still going strong in this fic but for some reason, they have less moments compares to Seulgi with Lisa. This wenrene/seulrene bait & switch is clearly not working because now people started to criticize Irene, Seulgi and Wendy characters (similar with that fic 'Unrequited') and it's not even because they don't understand the concept of flawed characters, it's just they're getting tired of the story and the characters. I just don't get why most wenseulrene fics authors always have the same concepts and settings when they wrote their dynamics and it made me wonder if they really see each individual irl like that, because let's be real here, yes these are fictional characters, but they are real person fictions (rpf) characters. Even in kdramas, triangle loves don't always have the same dynamics. It's like these fics' authors are actually on one camp, but they pretend to care about the third person (in this case wendy) so that people would think that these authors actually like both camps. Might as well make it a polymorph relationship.
2014605911
#4
Chapter 37: Chapter 37: Well I'm still reading this though the story is undoubtedly dragging its heels before moving a fraction of an inch for whatever plot there is. I get that the characters are still stuck in some of their past, but it doesn't mean that the story should be too. Stuck at a snail pace, I mean. The Joohyun and Wendy arc has the two agonizing every now and then in addition to the Joy issue keeping this story going in circles. I'm interested enough to keep on reading this but something has got to happen soon and change the pace to get things moving. The Seulgi and Wendy talk finally happened, but any attempts of figuring out how to approach Wendy and Joohyun closure as well getting Joy known as the missing child is not even on the horizon. I've also not seen a solid Seulrene tidbit here that is solely about them and not a segway to enter another Wenrene flashback and Wenrene agenda. I get that this story is about past Wenrene and daughter Joy, but I think there has been more Lisa-centric chapters/POVs than a Seulgi one that is not related to past Wenrene. Seulrene doesn't even shine that much other than small stolen moments here and there.
yannahays #5
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EzraSeige
#6
Chapter 34: It's okay otornim, take your time and thanks for the update 🙆🙌💗💙
rvlv_bless #7
my two favorite fics right now: The Internship and this one (Family). Seulrene with pathetic pos Wendy, yes that's my kind of romance.
xeembiote #8
Chapter 33: What I don't get about this whole thing is why are they talking around Irene instead of just telling her the truth? This will all blow up in all of their faces once Irene finds out that Joy is her kid and that Seulgi is keeping things from her. It's bordering stupidity at this point. Seulgi is well aware of how devastated Irene was when Wendy left with their kid and now that said kid is back, instead of telling her outright, she goes and hides it from her. I mean who does that? There's no justification as to why she's doing what she's doing at this point. And not just Seulgi even, the same goes for Wendy. She has every opportunity at this point to stop beating around the bush and get her daughter and Irene to meet. But she keeps delaying things.

I don't even get Irene's reaction when she first met Wendy again either. I'd have been angry on the spot and demand to see my child. Why is she so passive?

Still curious to see how this runs through but I'm also getting frustrated at how this is turning out.
wenrene012 #9
Chapter 32: First thought comes to mind when the revelation happened like- what the hell was Irene thinking volunteering for that? Everything became SO messed up after that. I don't even know what to say
Thhhgggg #10
This chapter seems familiar to me, i think you've already posted it by mistake? But i must say that this is a Story im looking forward every Monday :)