Chapter 3

How to get rid of an overprotective brother

Chorong woke up the next morning when she suddenly heard her phone buzzing. She groaned as she grabbed her phone and blinked many times, before realizing it was a message from Namjoo. The message said that Eunji wanted to meet them all in the café near her house because she had something really important to tell them. She only sighed because she guessed it was something about her plan.

She stretched her arms as she yawned, before getting up from bed. When she was about to go the bathroom to take a shower and wash up, she noticed Joonmyun's jacket on her chair. She smiled as she looked at it and blushed slightly as she remembered the night before. If it could be possible, she would keep it forever. However, she knew it couldn't be like that because she had to give it back to Namjoo that day.

When she finished showering, she got dressed inmediately and grabbed Joonmyun's jacket, before storming out of her house. She knew that if she was late, both Namjoo and Eunji would kill her. When she arrived to the said place, she sighed relieved when she saw that Namjoo was the only who had already arrived. Eunji and the rest of the girls weren't there yet. 

"Good, now I can give this back to Namjoo without embarrassing myself" she said to herself as she held the jacket tightly. She knew the other girls would to death if they found out that Suho gave her his jacket and walked her home the previous night. She only sighed, before walking inside the café and waving at Namjoo, who smiled when she saw her. Chorong sat in front of her and smiled.

"I brought your brother's jacket" she said with a shy smile "Thank him on my behalf"

"I think it would be better if you do it yourself" Namjoo said with a smirk on her face and Chorong was surprised. She blushed slightly, but tried to hide it by looking down. "You know, as a part of the plan"

"Right" was the only thing Chorong could mumble

Just when they were about to begin talking about something else, Eunji walked inside the café. The two of them waved at her with a smile, but then frowned when they noticed she wasn't alone. Walking behind her, there was a tall guy with dark skin that had a playful smile on his face. Namjoo and Chorong only looked at each other with surprised looks.

"Glad to see that you are the only ones here" Eunji said as she took a seat beside them "I didn't want Naeun to see him yet"

"Who is him, by the way?" Namjoo asked as she stared at the guy that took a seat beside Eunji.

"He is Kim Jongin or Kai, one of Chanyeol's friend and he agreed to help us" Eunji said. The guy smiled as he waved at the girls. They waved back, but still had confused looks on their faces.

"I agreed to help you only if Naeun agreed to go on a date with me" the guy named Kai said and Eunji rolled her eyes.

"I told you already, I'm going to make sure she says yes" Eunji said and he smiled brightly "You just have to help Chorong"

"Cool" he said "Which one of you is Chorong?"

Chorong simply raised her hand and he chuckled. Once again, she wasn't sure if it was going to be a good idea, but she was already in that mess and there was no turning back. 

"You only have to pretend that you like Chorong and that you don't want to give up on her and blah blah" Eunji started explaining and Jongin listened carefully "Just be a stalker"

"What makes you think he is the right guy for the job?" Namjoo suddenly asked

"He has experience stalking Naeun" Eunji replied, which made Jongin blush suddenly.

"Yah! I wasn't stalking her! I just wanted to know her better" he said embarrassed. Both, Namjoo and Chorong couldn't help but chuckle upon hearing this, making the poor guy blush again.

In that moment, Naeun and the rest of the girls walked in. As soon as Jongin saw her, he couldn't help but blush slightly. The girls approached them and had confused looks on their faces when they saw him, except for Naeun, whose eyes were wide open.

"What is he doing here?" Naeun asked, sounding a little bit annoyed to see him

"Hello to you too, Naeun" Jongin said with a playful smile and she only rolled her eyes.

"Jongin is here to help us" Eunji explained "He is going to be pretend to be Chorong's stalker"

"The job suits you" Naeun simply said, causing the girls to laugh. 

"Perfect" Namjoo said with a smile "Chorong, just come to my house this afternoon and tell my brother about your problem with Jongin"

"Just like that?" Chorong asked suddenly, feeling embarrassed at the simple thought of having to tell him that. Namjoo simply nodded and she could only sigh.

When Namjoo was about to say something else, her phone suddenly began ringing. She took it out and a wide smile appeared on her face when she saw the name of the screen. 

"It's Jongdae!" she said excited and the girls squealed in happiness and started teasing her. She urged them to shut up and answered the phone.

"Hello?" she said over the phone

"Namjoo ssi?" she heard his voice on the other line and couldn't help but smile "It's me, Jongdae"

"Oh hi Jongdae oppa" she said, trying not to scream in happiness suddenly 

"Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to go out with me this afternoon" he said and she could swear, he sounded a little bit nervous. She suddenly smiled brightly and couldn't help but giggle. He was asking her out? She couldn't believe it. "You know, only if you are free"

"Yeah I'm free" she said, trying not to sound too excited, but failed at doing so. 

"Great!" he said, a little bit too excited "So, see you in the park near our old school at 5?"

"Perfect" she said and couldn't help but giggle once again. She was so happy that she couldn't even think properly. Her long time crush had just asked her out. She then mumbled at 'bye' before hanging up. She squealed in happiness and the girls laughed at her. 

"Jongdae oppa asked me out!" she said really excited "I can't believe it!"

"That's great" Chorong said as she patted her head slightly and the girls stared teasing Namjoo, which caused her to turn red.

"Hey, now that I'm going out today, Suho oppa will be home alone" Namjoo suddenly said with a wide grin "Now you can talk more comfortably"

Chorong almost choked with her drink when she heard that. She was going to be alone with Suho? Her cheeks turned red inmediately and the girls looked at her weirdly. She didn't really want that because she knew she would so nervous that she wasn't going to be able to follow the plan properly.

"You know, you almost act as if you had a crush on Namjoo's brother" Bomi joked and Chorong almost spat her drink. Her eyes widened inmediately.

"What? That's crazy! Of course I don't have a crush on him!" she lied, trying not to sound nervous. Bomi only laughed at her.

"Of course I was only joking" she said and Chorong suddenly felt more relieved. She couldn't let her friends find out she actually did have a crush on Namjoo's brother. It would be terrible.

Also, the idea of being alone with Suho and having to ask him to pretend to be her boyfriend to shoo Jongin away, made her feel uncomfortable. Chorong simply sighed and hoped she wouldn't screw things up by getting too nervous.

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That afternoon, Namjoo walked down the stairs when she was finally ready. She was only wearing casual clothes and applied light make-up since Jongdae told her to meet him on a park, but still, looked really beautiful. 

"Are you going out?" Suho suddenly asked her as he noticed that her sister was about to go out. It was Sunday after all, so it was not weird for Namjoo to go out with her friends.

"Yes" the girl simply replied 

"Who are you going out with?" he asked "Chorong?"

Namjoo simply smiled at the mention of her best friend.

"Do you only trust her?" Namjoo suddenly asked in a teasing voice and Suho just chuckled.

"It's not that, I trust all of your best friends" he said "But I know her best among your group of friends"

Namjoo smiled once again upon hearing that. 

"But no, I'm not going out with Chorong or the girls" she said and Suho frowned. He wondered if Namjoo wasn't going out with her best friends, then who could it be. "It's an old friend from middle school"

"An old friend?" he asked, still unsure. He was curious about who it was. If it was a girl or a boy. However, Namjoo didn't seem to be willing to tell him about this 'old friend'.

"Yup" she replied. She really didn't want to tell him who it was because she knew he would be mad and wouldn't let her go out until he had asked enough questions about his life. However, she knew she had to tell him. "Kim Jongdae"

Suho stood there, trying to remember who this Jongdae guy was and his eyes widened suddenly.

"Wait Namjoo, isn't Jongdae the guy you used to have a crush on back then?" he asked and Namjoo's eyes widened in surprise as well. How could he remember?

"It's getting late oppa, I need to go now!" she nervously said as she grabbed her purse and run to the door. "Bye"

"Yah! Kim Namjoo!" he said as he watched his sister leave and he couldn't stop her. He only sighed and sat down on the couch once again. She was going out with the guy she used to have a crush on? That didn't sound good. He could only sigh once again. Why was his little sister such a headache?

The doorbell suddenly rang and Suho frowned. He wasn't expecting anyone, so he didn't know who it could be. Maybe one of his friends but they never dropped by his house on Sundays. Or maybe Namjoo forgot the keys or something. He sighed and stood up to open the door. He expected to see his sister on the door, but he was shocked to see it was another person.

"H-Hi Joonmyun oppa" the girl said and his eyes widened

"Oh hi there Chorong" the guy said with a gentle smile on his face "I didn't expect you here... but come in"

He made way for her to come in and she walked inside the house. Her heart wouldn't stop beating fastly as much as she tried to stop it. She was so nervous she wasn't even sure if she was going to be able to do it.

"Are you here to see Namjoo? Cause she isn't home. She went out with an old friend" Suho replied with a not so happy face.

"Oh actually I came here to give you back your jacket" she said as her cheeks slowly turned red from the nervousness. He smiled when she handed him back his favorite jacket. "Thanks for lending it to me"

"You didn't really need to bother bringing it back so soon" he simply replied and she smiled.

Chorong looked at him and suddenly didn't know what to say. She was too nervous to do anything. Should she tell him? She really didn't want to go with the plan. It didn't make sense to her. However, she knew Namjoo would be mad at her if she didn't. Eunji would be mad too and even Naeun, because she had to go on date with Jongin just to help her.

In that moment, her cellphone began ringing and she was about to sigh relieved. It had saved her from an embarrassing moment. She frowned when she saw on the screen that it was Namjoo.

"Hello?" Chorong answered

"Are you with my brother now?" Namjoo asked on the other line

"Yes, why?" she asked, still not sure why Namjoo was suddenly calling. Maybe to check if everything was going according to what had been planned.

"Good" she said and smiled despite the fact that she knew her friend couldn't see her "Pretend it's Kai who is calling you and act annoyed"

"What?!" she asked a little bit too loud "Are you crazy?!"

"That's a good reaction" Namjoo said happily, even if Chorong didn't mean it that way. She was playing along with what Namjoo told her, she did think it was crazy to do that. "Now hang up and pretend to be annoyed"

Chorong hung up her phone as she was told and sighed. Suho looked at her worried.

"Is everything all right?" he asked suddenly and she snapped out of her thoughts, blushing slightly. 

"It's nothing" she simply replied. She bit her lower lip as she didn't know if she should do it. She sighed once again and finally decided to tell him. "It's just that there's this guy that won't stop bothering me"

"What?" Suho asked quiet shocked and he felt kind of annoyed by the fact that there was someone bothering her. His overprotective self was showing again. "Who is him? Is he a stalker or something? Chorong, if he is dangerous you can tell me. I'll help you"

Chorong looked at him quiet impressed and felt touched by the fact that he was willing to help her even if she didn't ask him too. Namjoo was right when she said her brother was definitely going to agree to help her. Her heart beated faster as she noticed that he seemed to be really concerned.

"I don't think he is dangerous" she said nervously. She didn't want to get the poor Kai on trouble. If she told Joonmyun that he was dangerous, he was capable of sending him to jail. "He is just annoying. And he won't take a no for an answer"

"Is there something I can do to help you?" he asked, still not convinced and Chorong bit her lower lip once again. 

"I don't really want to bother you but... there's something you can do to help me..."

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