Chapter 33

The Magicians of Love

[In the teacher room, Ying Ye high school]

The teacher was writing something and then, she spotted Yuri who was coming to her. “Oh, Yuri! Have a seat,” she added while putting her pen on the table. Yuri smiled and took a seat which was facing the teacher. “I want to discuss something with you… about the piano competition.”

“Ah, yes!” Yuri replied while nodding.

“You hurt your hand, right? The competition is just around the corner. Do you think your hand will recover before the competition?” the teacher asked.

Yuri looked a bit shocked as she didn’t expect the teacher would ask her that question. “I… I’m sure I can. Don’t worry, I’ll try my best. Teacher just needs to keep the faith in myself.”

“Yuri, you have to understand about this matter. It does not about you will do your best or not, it’s about your hand. You still can’t do the best if your hand is still painful and I don’t want you force yourself because of that. Besides, this competition is very important to our school. Our school had won for the fifth time and I don’t want because of the incident like that, we’ll lose in this year. Instead of choosing an experienced player who had won this competition before, I choose you to join this competition as I see the potential in yourself although you just transferred to this school a few weeks ago. I trust you to do well in that competition and I hope you appreciate the chance that I have given,” the teacher explained.

“Yes, teacher… I understand,” Yuri replied while nodding. "My hand will recover before the competition. I promise I’ll do well,” Yuri said in a confident voice.

“That’s good to hear. And, your hand must recover in a few days because I want to see your practice.”

“A few days?” Yuri asked in a bit shocked voice. “O… ok. I understand.”

“By the way, you must inform me earlier if you still can’t play the piano in a few days. So, I can choose another player to join this competition.” Yuri nodded for the reply. “You can go now.” Yuri got up and she bowed her body before leaving.

She was leaving from the teacher room with the heavy steps. The worried expression could be seen obviously on her face. She looked at her hurt hand while touching it gently. Truthfully, she really didn’t feel confident her hand would recover in a few days. But, she didn’t want to give up on this competition and she really wanted to show her ability in playing piano.

“No! Kwon Yuri! You must be optimistic! Fighting! Fighting! You can do it!” Yuri kept talking to herself while grasping her hands tightly to increase her confidence. She didn’t realize the presence of Minho who was looking at her from behind.

Minho was smiling widely as he found how cute Yuri was when she was talking to herself like she was in her own world. Minho slowly approached Yuri who was still in her own world. When he was close enough, he touched Yuri’s shoulder while asking in a serious voice, “What are you doing?”

“Argghh!” Yuri shouted as she was startled with Minho’s sudden action. She immediately turned her body towards Minho. “Oh ~, Minho! You scared me!” she said in higher voice and then, she hove a relief sigh while patting her chest after finding out that person was Minho.

Minho chuckled when he saw Yuri’s reaction. “Why? Is there anything wrong?” he asked after seeing Yuri’s worried expression even after he tried to make her laugh.

“Huh? N… Nothing!” she lied while shaking her head.

“Why did the teacher want to meet you?” Minho asked.

“Nothing much… we just discussed about the homework,” Yuri kept lying. Then, she immediately changed the topic to avoid Minho asked more questions which may make him find out about the truth. “Now, where are we going?”

“Go home, of course!” Minho exclaimed.

“Go home?!” she asked in a shocked voice.

“Yes! I’ll take you home safely as Taeyeon asked me to do,” he answered. “Why? Do you have somewhere to go?” he added.

“Nope!” she responded with a disappointed expression was shown on her face obviously although she tried to hide it. “Ok, we go home, right now! Let’s go!” her voice sounded a bit angry and then, she walked first without waiting for Minho.

Minho smiled while raising his eyebrows and his eyes were following Yuri. Minho followed Yuri but he walked faster as he wanted to chase her. “Are you mad?” he asked as now, they were walking side by side although he still needed to walked fast as Yuri also walked fast.

“Mad?! Nope! Why should I be mad?!” Yuri replied.

Minho grabbed Yuri’s arm to stop her from walking. “Ok, I’m sorry. I’m just kidding,” he said while looking at her. Yuri crossed her arms while pouting her lips but actually, she was trying to hide her smile. Minho chuckled after he could see Yuri’s smile even Yuri tried to hide it.

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As soon as he read the message, Hyunjoong immediately rushed to the lift. After a few seconds, the lift still didn’t open. Instead of waiting for the lift, Hyunjoong decided to use stairs. He climbed the stairs as fast as he could to the floor which was located Tiffany’s apartment. He didn’t know why but he felt like he must appear in front of Tiffany as soon as possible.

He stopped for a while as he wanted to catch his breath when he arrived in front of the door of Tiffany’s apartment. Then, he knocked the door. After for a while, Tiffany opened the door. As soon as she knew he was Hyunjoong, she was very happy and of course automatically, her eye-smile was shown on her face. Truthfully, she was a bit worried at first as Hyunjoong didn’t reply her message.

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[In Soshi Girls’ car]

“Yoona, after this, we need to go to SM Entertainment Company, do you want to go home?” Taeyeon asked.

“Oh… ok,” Yoona replied.

“Or, do you want to come with us?” Jessica asked.

“Oh! I can go?! That would be better!” Yoona said excitedly.

“I don’t think there would be a problem if you go but please don’t tell other person especially the fans. Actually, not all the people can enter the company. Since you are Donghae’s girlfriend, I guess it is okay,” Taeyeon explained.

“Ok, don’t worry! I’ll keep it as a secret,” Yoona responded. Yoona smiled widely as she was very happy and excited. She always wanted to go to that company and she wanted to know how things were going on there. Now, her dream came true. “Oh!” she was a bit startled when out of sudden, her cell phone rang. She took out the cell phone from her bag and she took a look at the caller name. “It’s Tiffany!” she exclaimed happily. Jessica, Taeyeon and Sunny immediately paid their attention to Yoona. “YAH!!! FANY-AH!!!” she shouted as soon as she answered the call.

Tiffany was very startled with Yoona’s scream. “Yoona! What is this?! This is how you greet your friend?” Tiffany asked in a disappointed voice.

“Friends?! What did you mean by friends?! Do we still can be considered as friends?! You haven’t contacted me for a long time and when I called you, you didn’t pick up! Where have you been?! You know how much I felt worried?!” Yoona nagged angrily.

“Ok, ok! I’m sorry. I stayed at hospital yesterday and I totally forgot to bring my cell phone,” Tiffany explained.

“HOSPITAL?!!!” Yoona shouted once again. As expected, Taeyeon, Jessica and Sunny who were drawing their ears to Yoona’s cell phone as they also wanted to hear the conversation between Yoona and Tiffany, were very startled with Yoona’s scream. They immediately turned their body away from Yoona while rubbing their ear.

“Yoona!” Sunny muttered while rubbing her ear.

“I’m sorry!” Yoona apologized to Taeyeon, Jessica and Sunny who were rubbing their ear. Then, they patted their head by themselves to make sure their ears still could function well.

“Yoona-ah! Why did you shout?!” Tiffany asked angrily from the cell phone. “If you shout once again, I’ll end the call!” Tiffany added angrily.

“I’m sorry! I’m really sorry! I’m just very shocked when you mentioned about the hospital,” Yoona explained. “Why? Anything’s happened to you?” Yoona asked in an anxious voice.

“Don’t worry! I’m fine. I already discharged from hospital. I just fainted yesterday because of high fever,” Tiffany responded.

“Where are you right now? I’ll pay you a visit.”

“It’s okay. I’ll come to Soshi Girls’ villa tonight. Oh! By the way, is Yuri beside you? Why she didn’t pick her cell phone up? I couldn’t reach her.”

“No, she is not with me. Right now, maybe she is happy with her ideal guy!” Yoona exclaimed.

“Oh… she is with Minho? Ok! See you tonight!” Tiffany ended the call.

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[In SM Entertainment Buildings]

Soshi Girls and Yoona who were walking side by side, were heading to the meeting room at the third floor and followed by Super Boys, behind them. Differently from usual, the condition in SM was a bit noise and chaotic with the new trainers came from abroad such as China, America and Thailand. Soshi Girls, Yoona and Super Boys would pass a few practice rooms on their way to the meeting room. The trainers would bow their head when they passed to show their respect to their senior and Soshi Girls and Super Boys would smile as a reply.

“Wow, it’s fascinating! I always wanted to come here!” Yoona said excitedly while looking around seeing the trainers, the practice room and surprisingly, there were also a few trainers recognized Yoona and Yoona greeted them bashfully as she really didn’t expect it and of course she was known as Donghae’s girlfriend.

Donghae who was walking behind Yoona, grabbed Yoona’s hand and pulled her hand to the back, towards him. Because of that, Yoona who was focusing on surveying the SM buildings, was startled with Donghae’s sudden action and she almost fell but she could support her body by leaning on Donghae. “What are you doing?!” Yoona whined while looking at Donghae with a frown on her face. Sunny, Taeyeon, Jessica, Onew, Sungmin and Wooyoung also stopped walking to see what have happened to Donghae and Yoona.

Donghae chuckled and replied, “Oh, I’m sorry! Maybe I pulled you too hard.” Then, he pulled Yoona in closer by her shoulder. “I just want to say that, you must stick to your boyfriend!”

“What the…!” everyone whined angrily.

“We thought there is something happened to you guys!” Sunny added angrily. Jessica, Sunny and Sungmin just looked at Yoona and Donghae annoyingly. Yoona just could give a force smile as a response because of her childish boyfriend.

Meanwhile, with the others were annoying with the childish couple, Donghae and Yoona, differently with Wooyoung and Taeyeon who were glancing at each other. Wooyoung just raised one of his eyebrows while Taeyeon gave a meaning deep look at Wooyoung and a few seconds later, she turned her head away. Wooyoung didn’t understand what the meaning of the look that was given by Taeyeon. ‘Is she trying to give a message to me? No way… is she jealous?! What should I do? I’m really bad at things like this! Ok, ok! Just be childish!’ Wooyoung thought. After hesitation for a while, he grabbed Taeyeon’s hand and held it tightly. Taeyeon was shocked at first and then, she smiled after her understanding boyfriend held her hand.

“OMO!!! There is one more childish couple here!” Sunny exclaimed after she was the first person to realize what Taeyeon and Wooyoung were doing. Taeyeon and Wooyoung just smiled bashfully and their cheeks have turned red.

“Sunny-ah! We just should be a couple! I love you!” Jessica made fun of the two couples while hugging Sunny tightly.

“Oh, Sica-ah! I love you too! I can’t live without you!” Sunny added while laughing. They both were hugging each other while jumping around like a little kid. Sungmin and Onew laughed heartily while clapping their hands to show how great the sketch that was played by Sunny and Jessica.

Then, they continued walking to the meeting room. Sunny and Jessica still continued playing their sketch to make fun of the couples with Sungmin and Onew became their audience. Taeyeon and Wooyoung whose cheeks became redder as time went by, kept nagging at Sunny and Jessica to stop it. But, as expected, instead of listening to Taeyeon and Wooyoung, they just made fun of them how same-minded they were.

But, differently with Yoona and Donghae, they didn’t even care about Sunny and Jessica’s sketch. They were really in their own world. They walked together with Donghae’s hand on Yoona’s shoulder and Yoona’s hand on Donghae’s waist. “Can you see how popular you are after becoming my girlfriend?” Donghae asked while turning his head towards Yoona.

“Oh, yes. I really didn’t expect it! Everyone kept greeting me while saying Donghae’s girlfriend, Donghae’s girlfriend!” Yoona said excitedly.

“See, how lucky you are!”

“Oh, yes. Whatever!”

Donghae looked around to seeing if there were still the trainers around them. After confirming Sunny and Jessica were still playing with their sketch and Taeyeon, Wooyoung, Sungmin and Onew were focusing on them, he gave a light peck on Yoona’s lips. Yoona was shocked at first and then, she replied in angry voice while hiding her smile, “Wh… What are you doing?! There are many people here!”

Donghae smiled widely after seeing Yoona’s reaction. Then, he asked, “Are you that happy? Do you want more?” Yoona patted Donghae’s arm while smiling bashfully.

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[In front of Tiffany’s apartment]

“Are we going to ride on it?” Tiffany asked Hyunjoong while pointing to the Hyunjoong’s motorbike.

“Yes,” Hyunjoong replied while giving Tiffany a helmet. After Tiffany took the helmet from Hyunjoong’s hand, he immediately got on his motorbike and put on his helmet. He started the engine of his motorbike and he was in ready position waiting for Tiffany. Then, he realized Tiffany didn’t move at all and just hold the helmet that was given by Hyunjoong just now. “Aren’t you going to get on my motorbike?” he asked in astonishment.

“Actually, I never ride a motorbike before,” Tiffany replied.

“Really?” he asked in a shocked voice. “That’s great! Then, it’ll be your first experience riding on my motorbike. Hurry up!”

“But, I don’t know how to ride it!” Tiffany responded. Hyunjoong looked at her while raising one of his eyebrows. “D… Don… Don’t I need to learn it first?” she stuttered.

“So, have you ever seen other person got a lift on a motorbike? How they do it?” Hyunjoong asked.

“Yes, I have seen. They just put on a helmet and got on the motorbike,” Tiffany explained. Hyunjoong just nodded for a few times when Tiffany was explaining. “And, one more things, I’m not sure if this goes to all the girls but mostly I seen the girls,” she added and finished with a slower voice as she felt a bit embarrassing to such thing, “would hug the guy from behind.”

“Oh… you don’t need to learn, just follow what they are doing,” Hyunjoong replied.

“Follow all?! Including the last sentence that I said?!” Tiffany asked hesitantly.

“Huh?!” Hyunjoong was a bit shocked with Tiffany’s question. “Em…” he was thinking what the most suitable answer for it.

“No! It’s okay!” Tiffany immediately interrupted before Hyunjoong could answer it. She quickly put on the helmet and got on the motorbike, behind Hyunjoong. After confirming Tiffany was behind him, he started riding away.

Tiffany felt very happy for having her first experience on riding motorbike with Hyunjoong. She really never thought that it would be very fun to ride a motorbike. She felt so cool and balmy when the soft wind slapped her face. It was much better than driving a car. She smiled and she was a bit hesitated either want to do what was on her mind or not. After hesitation for a while, she slowly wrapped her hands around Hyunjoong’s waist. Hyunjoong was startled with Tiffany’s unexpected action. He bowed his head to look at his waist. He smiled when seeing Tiffany was giving him a tight back hug. After confirming there was no refusing of her action from Hyunjoong, she rested her head on Hyunjoong back with both of her hands still wrapping tightly on Hyunjoong’s waist. She closed her eyes. She could feel the warmth of his body and she felt really safe behind him. It felt like a dream and she hoped this dream never ended.

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[In a meeting room, SM Entertainment Buildings]

Soshi Girls and Super Boys were discussing with Teacher Lee Sooman about their albums which were out about a few days ago. “Congratulations to both of you. Your albums have ranked in top 3,” Teacher Sooman congratulated Soshi Girls and Super Boys.

“Thank you,” all of them replied while smiling widely.

“Now, let me show you guys the graph about your popularity around the world,” Teacher Sooman said while pointing to the wide white screen which was radiated by a LCD which was connected to a laptop.

Then, they started discussing about Soshi Girls and Super Boys’ popularity. Everyone was paying their attention to the discussion except Wooyoung who felt a bit sleepy. As time went by, he got sleepier especially, now they entered the topic about numbers, he really hated Mathematics actually. Then, he decided to do something to get rid of his sleepiness. After yawning once again, he turned his head to the person whose seat next to him. He smiled as he saw how Taeyeon could give her attention attentively to the discussion and he found how cute Taeyeon’s focused face.

He corrected his position to more comfortable position while cleaning his throat. He took a glance to others and it seemed like only himself who didn’t pay attention to discussion. He slowly drew his hand to Taeyeon’s hand and held it. Taeyeon who was paying attention to the discussion was very startled with Wooyoung’s touch and she shouted, “ARGHH!!!” Wooyoung also was shocked when out of a sudden, Taeyeon would give such an unexpected reaction and he immediately pretended focusing on reading the report.

Everyone stopped the discussion immediately after hearing Taeyeon’s scream. Their eyes were locked on Taeyeon as they were very curious what caused Taeyeon’s scream. “N...Nothing! I… I’m sorry!” Taeyeon apologized while bowing her head. Everyone just chuckled when knowing Taeyeon’s scream was for nothing. Then, the discussion was continued.

“What the ~ ” Taeyeon said in whisper rate that only Wooyoung could hear it while hitting his arm. Wooyoung gave an apologetical smile as a reply and this time, he held Taeyeon’s hand once again. Taeyeon smiled back meant that she didn’t refuse it and they both held onto each other’s hand tightly along the discussion.

“Now, I want discussing about your new singles. There are 3 singles altogether that will be recorded by only a few members. After this, the members who were involved in the recording song, went to recording room. The others can go home,” Teacher Lee Sooman said. He checked the lyrics and the singer’s name. Then, he continued, “Taeyeon, you have two songs. A song entitled I Love You My Love is your solo song and this song will be included in Anthena OST. Another song is I’ll be a Star and you’ll duet with your sunbae, DBSK’s Junsu.”

Wooyoung immediately let go of Taeyeon’s hand as soon as he heard Junsu was mentioned. Taeyeon was a bit shocked and she turned her head towards Wooyoung. Wooyoung knew Taeyeon was looking at him but he seemed didn’t care a bit about it and he pretended he was busy looking at the report with angry expression on his face.

Teacher Lee Sooman continued, “And, the last song will be recorded by Jessica and Onew, entitled One Year Later. Ok, we end our discussion here. Onew, Jessica and Taeyeon, you three can go straight to recording room. Taeyeon, Junsu will go there soon, you just wait for him there. The others, you can go home,” he ended the discussion.

Everyone got up from the seat and went out from the meeting room except for Taeyeon and Wooyoung. Taeyeon who finished organizing things first, waited for Wooyoung. After finishing organizing things, Woyoung just passed Taeyeon who was waiting for him without any words. Taeyeon immediately grabbed Wooyoung’s hand to stop him from going away just like that. “Are you mad at me?” Taeyeon asked while looking at Wooyoung and her hands were holding Wooyoung’s hand tightly.

Wooyoung bowed his head while heaving a deep sigh. He turned his body towards Taeyeon and he held Taeyeon’s hands.  “No, I’m not mad at you but out of all people, why did you have to duet with Junsu?!”

“Wooyoung-ah! I just have to sing with him, not more than that. What is there to be jealous at?”

“But, he likes you, isn’t?!”

“I think he just likes me as a senior. Besides, the person that I love is you, okay?” Taeyeon said while holding Wooyoung’s cheek. Wooyoung couldn’t help and smiled with Taeyeon’s touch. Then, they walked out from the meeting room while linking arm.

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[In front of meeting room]

“We want to go home first. Wooyoung, you’ll wait for Taeyeon?” Sunny asked Wooyoung. Wooyoung nodded as a reply for Sunny’s question.

Then, Taeyeon, Wooyoung, Jessica and Onew left Sunny, Sungmin and Donghae and went to the recording room which was located at the same floors. Taeyeon and Wooyoung were walking together while holding each other's hand tightly.

Jessica realized that and said, “Oh! We should leave our lovey dovey couple!” Then, she went to behind Onew. “Onew, let’s go. We should leave them,” Jessica said while pushing Onew from behind to force him to walk faster. Onew just smiled and he let Jessica pushed him.

“Sica-ah! I think you are the one who want to be alone with Onew, right?” Taeyeon back.

“WHAT?!” she asked in a shocked voice. “Of, course not!” she exclaimed while putting her hands away from Onew’s back and walked side by side again with Onew. Onew just smiled looking at how cute Jessica was. Then, she gave Taeyeon a ‘you’ll die, Kim Taeyeon!’ look and Taeyeon just chuckled. Jessica didn’t want Super Boys especially Onew found her real feelings towards Onew. Seriously, Jessica’s cheeks turned red and the most make sense reason was Jessica denied Taeyeon’s joke although that’s what she wanted to do actually.

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[At a cinema, ticket counter]

Tiffany was waiting for Hyunjoong who was buying the ticket. After a few minutes later, Hyunjoong came back with two tickets in his hand. He gave one of the tickets to Tiffany. “Let’s go!” he exclaimed.

“Ok!” Tiffany replied while nodding. She just about to walk but out of a sudden, she heard a familiar voice was calling for her, “Fany-ah!” She stopped and turned her body towards where the familiar voice came from.

She saw Yuri was running to her while waving her hand in the air and there was a good-looking guy was following Yuri behind her. “Oh! Yuri-ah!” she exclaimed when Yuri was standing in front of while catching her breath. “What are you doing here?!” she asked while taking a glance at Minho who was standing beside Yuri.

“I was about to ask you the same question!” Yuri replied. “You also come with someone!” she exclaimed while looking at Hyunjoong who was standing beside Tiffany.

“Oh, yes! He is Hyunjoong,my friend,” Tiffany introduced Hyunjoong to Yuri.

“Hello, I’m Hyunjoong, Kim Hyunjoong. It’s nice to meet you,” Hyunjoong introduced himself while bowing his body.

“Hello, I’m Yuri. Kwon Yuri. I’m Tiffany’s best friend. It’s nice to meet you too,” Yuri introduced herself to Hyunjoong while bowing her body.

“Don’t you want to introduce the guy beside you?” Tiffany asked after for a moment, Yuri didn’t show any sign that she wanted introducing Minho to her.

“Oh, yes! I forget, this is Minho!” Yuri immediately introduced Minho to Tiffany and Hyunjoong.

“Hello, I’m Minho. Choi Minho! It’s nice to meet you,” Minho introduced himself to Tiffany and Hyunjoong while bowing his body.

“Oh, you are Minho. I heard about you from Yuri,” Tiffany replied. Yuri looked a bit embarrassed when hearing what Tiffany said. Then, Tiffany continued, “And, you are also the one that Yuri li…” Yuri immediately interrupted what Tiffany wanted to say with covering Tiffany's mouth.

She gave a ‘what are you doing?!’ look to Tiffany. Hyunjoong and Minho looked at Tiffany and Yuri in astonishment. Yuri gave a fake laugh while saying, “You two take a seat first, we’ll go later. We want to go toilet for a while, okay?” Yuri talked to Hyunjoong and Minho while covering tightly Tiffany’s mouth. Tiffany was struggling with Yuri but Yuri just covered tighter. Then, she pulled Tiffany going to the toilet.

Hyunjoong and Minho just chuckled looking at the funny action from the two best friends. “I think we should take a seat first,” Hyunjoong said to Minho.

“Yes,” Minho replied. Then, both of them walked together entering the cinema.

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[In front of the meeting room, SM Entertainment buildings]

“Where is the heck Yoona going?” Donghae asked while looking around. “I ask her to stay here!” Yoona who was waiting in front the meeting room when Soshi Girls and Super Boys were discussing with Lee Sooman, disappeared.

“Donghae, how can you expect her to be here? You know how much longer the times we took for discussion?” Sungmin asked. “Maybe she just wandering around here,” he added.

“Donghae, don’t worry. Let her be alone. You can’t always stick to her,” Sunny teased.

Not too long after, Yoona came back. Then, Donghae immediately got up and scolded her, “Yoona-ah! Where are you going?!”

Yoona was a bit shocked when Donghae scolded her and she stuttered, “I… I… I’m just around here.” Then, she added in excited voice, “Donghae, you know, I went to DBSK practice room. I saw them practice dancing and singing. They looked really great. Now, I’m able to see them in person. All of them are very good-looking and their body is just perfect!”

“Yah! Why were you going there?!” Donghae asked angrily.

“When I stayed here, waiting for you guys, they greeted me first. They know me as your girlfriend. They are really friendly to me especially Yoochun oppa. He asked me if I want to visit their practice room. So, I followed him.”

“So, you just followed anyone who asked you to follow him?! What if he do something bad to you?!”

“Donghae, what nonsense are you talking about?” Yoona asked in astonishment.

“Yoona-ah, you know, he’s just jealous,” Sunny said.

“Just forget it!” Donghae immediately interrupted before Yoona could reply to Sunny. “Let’s go!” he said while putting his hands on Yoona’s shoulder. Yoona smiled and put her hand around Donghae’s waist. They started walking and followed by Sunny and Sungmin behind them.

“Aigoo ~ , can you two stop being so romantic to each other?” Sungmin made fun of Yoona and Donghae.

Donghae turned his head to the back, towards Sungmin while replying, “Then, if you are jealous with us, you can do it with Sunny!”

Sunny and Sungmin’s eyes went bigger as they were very shocked with what Donghae just said. “YAH!!! Don’t say nonsense!!!” Sungmin said angrily to Donghae.

“Why? Are you afraid? Don’t you dare to do it?!” Donghae kept making fun of Sungmin. Sungmin kept defending himself but differently with Sunny who are just silent and truthfully, her heart started pounding.

“Who said I’m afraid?!” Sungmin replied back.

“If so, just prove it!” Donghae responded.

“Ok, you challenged me, I’ll do it!” Sungmin said in confident voice. “Sunny-ah, come here!” he said to Sunny while looking at her. He grabbed her hand to shorten their distance with each other and he pulled her in closer by her shoulder. Sunny’s eyes went bigger because of what Sungmin has done to her. She felt she was frozen and couldn’t do and utter anything. Only her heart was pounding.

“Wow!!!” Donghae and Yoona cheered while clapping their hands excitedly after seeing what Sungmin and Sunny were doing.

“Let’s go!” Sungmin said to Sunny while pulling her a bit by her shoulder to force her walking faster.

“Don’t you think they really like each other?” Yoona whispered to Donghae.

“Yes, I think so too,” Donghae replied. Yoona and Donghae were smiling widely while their eyes were following Sungmin and Sunny who were walking faster than them.

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[In the recording room, SM Entertainment Buildings]

DBSK’s Junsu just entered the recording room and he walked towards Taeyeon who was waiting for her. “Hi, Taeyeon,” he greeted Taeyeon.

“Oh, sunbae!” Taeyeon greeted back while bowing her body.

“Taeyeon, don’t be too formal with me. Just call me Junsu oppa, okay? We need to be comfortable with each other in order to make a great job, right?”

“Ok,” Taeyeon replied while smiling widely.

Meanwhile, Wooyoung who was standing beside Taeyeon, looked a bit uneasy and angry while hearing the conversation between Taeyeon and Junsu. Then, Junsu realized about the presence of Wooyoung and greeted him, “Wooyoung, hi!”

“Oh… hi,” he replied while faking a smile.

“I think we should do it now,” Junsu said to Taeyeon asking her to start their song recording.

“Ok,” Taeyeon replied. Junsu went first and Taeyeon just about to follow him but her hand got grabbed by Wooyoung. Taeyeon turned her head towards Wooyoung.

“Be careful. Remember what I said before,” Wooyoung advised.

“Ok, ok. Don’t worry,” Taeyeon replied. After a moment, she added, “Now, can you let go of my hand?” Wooyoung slowly let go of Taeyeon’s hand hesitantly. “I’ll come back soon, okay?” Then, she went to where Junsu has gone to.

Meanwhile, in a corner, Onew and Jessica were discussing about their lyric part in their song. Onew was focusing on discussion about the lyric part but Jessica looked like had lost her concentration and she just stared at Onew while smiling. “Until this, it’s your part…” Onew explained while looking at the paper which was contained the lyric.

“Yes…” Jessica replied to show that she was hearing what Onew was saying although her mind was thinking about other things. She just stared at Onew’s face, at every part of Onew’s face. She liked his gentle eyes, his soft lips that she really wanted to touch and his sharp nose.

“So, at this part, you are going to…”

“Yes!” Jessica replied while starring at Onew’s face.

“Huh?” Onew was dumbfounded with Jessica’s reply and then, he turned his head towards Jessica. When their eyes met, Jessica’s eyes went bigger and then, she immediately looked at the lyric paper. Her heart was pounding as she started feeling nervous and afraid when Onew caught what she was doing. “Are you okay?” Onew asked.

“O… Of… c…course I’m okay,” she stuttered. “I think we should continue this,” she immediately added after she knew Onew was still looking at her to confirm if she was really okay.

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[In toilet, at cinema]

Tiffany was still struggling with Yuri to put away Yuri’s hand from covering . Yuri looked around and when she felt the condition was okay, she let go of Tiffany. As soon as Yuri let her go, Tiffany coughed while tapping her chest as actually, Yuri prevent her from breathing when she covering Tiffany’s mouth tightly. “Yah! Are you going to kill me?!” Tiffany asked angrily while breathing hardly.

“Ok, ok! I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” Yuri apologized while tapping Tiffany’s back to make she felt better. “You also almost killed me just now!” Yuri added. “I can’t let him find out about my feelings towards him. He must be uncomfortable around me if he knows. So, I beg you don’t let he find out about this!”

“Ok, don’t worry, It’s just that I was too excited just now,” Tiffany explained.

“Oh, yes. I want to know where you have been before. You know how much Yoona and I felt uneasy?! You don’t contact us!”

“I already called Yoona just now and I also wanted to call you but you didn’t pick up,” Tiffany said.

“Really? You called me?” Yuri asked in a shocked voice. Then, she just remembered something, “Oh, yes. I changed to a silent mode when I met my teacher. So, where have you been before?”

“Actually, I fainted yesterday due to high fever and Hyunjoong who sent me to hospital. I just discharged this morning.”

“Are you okay now?” Yuri asked in anxious voice while touching Tiffany’s forehead.

“I’m okay,” Tiffany replied and smiled while nodding.

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[At the recording room, SM Entertainment Buildings]

Jessica, Onew, Taeyeon and Junsu have finished recording their song. "I’ll go first!” Junsu said while bowing his body. Jessica, Onew, Taeyeon and Wooyoung bowed back to him. Then, Junsu got out from the recording room.

“I have one more song to be recorded. You two can go home first,” Taeyeon said to Onew and Jessica.

“Wooyoung, you’ll wait for Taeyeon?” Onew asked Wooyoung.

‘Yes, you can go home first without me,” Wooyoung replied.

“Jessica, let’s go,” Onew said to Jessica and they both got out from the recording room.

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“Onew, tomorrow is your birthday, right?” Jessica asked while turning her head towards Onew. They were walking side by side.

“Yes,” Onew replied while nodding. “Do you still remember my birthday?”

“Of course!” she exclaimed. “How can I forget such an important event?” she added in a confident voice.

“Important?! Why it’s important to you?” Onew asked.

“Because you are one of the people that I close to. So, I’ll always keep that in my mind,” Jessica explained while smiling.

“Oh, really? That means you must remember Max’s birthday,” Onew responded.

“Max’s birthday?” Jessica mouthed. Then, she thought, ‘Come to think about it, I never ask Max about his birthday.’ Then, she talked back to Onew, “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!” Jessica exclaimed while opening her arms and jumped like a little kid.

“Huh? Today is not my birthday, it’s tomorrow! What’s wrong with you?” Onew asked Jessica while chuckling.

“What did you mean by ‘what’s wrong with me?’” Jessica asked back while pouting her lips as Onew laughed at her. “I want to be the first person to say Happy Birthday to you, that’s why I said it right now,” Jessica explained.

“Eh ~ , this is not counted! You must say it tomorrow or you can say it tonight, after the time passes the midnight, okay? It doesn’t mean anything when you said Happy Birthday to me today, understand?” Onew asked while raising his eyebrows.

“Ok, ok! Tonight, I’ll say it!” Jessica said in a confident voice like she would do anything to be the first person to say Happy Birthday to Onew.

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[In the cinema]

Tiffany and Yuri entered and they took the seat beside Minho and Hyunjoong. The position of their seat was the most left was Hyunjoong’s seat, beside him was Tiffany’s, Yuri sat beside Tiffany and the most right was Minho’s.

The film would start in a few minutes more and Tiffany took a glance at Hyunjoong to see what he was doing. Out of the blue, Hyunjoong was already falling into sleep although the film didn’t start yet.

[Tiffany’s flashback]

[At hospital, Tiffany’s ward]

“You are in hospital right now. You have fainted due to high fever. Yesterday, your boyfriend sent you here,” the nurse answered. “It’s a common that you would feel dizzy after fainting,” the nurse added as she assumed that Tiffany felt dizzy after looking at Tiffany’s expression.

“My boyfriend?!” Tiffany asked in a shocked voice but the shock in her voice couldn’t hear clearly as she was still weak. “What is his name?”

“Em… I think his name is Hyunjoong, Kim Hyunjoong. Why? He is not your boyfriend?” the nurse asked. Tiffany just responded with a frown on her face. “I assumed that he is your boyfriend according to the way he acted. In order to send you to hospital, he ran while lifting you. He looked very worried. I asked him to go to the treatment room as he hurt his back but he insisted to stay until knowing your condition. Besides, I think he stayed up all night in order to look after you because every time I came to see your condition, he never slept.”

[End of Tiffany’s flashback]

“He didn’t sleep last night, he must be very tired and sleepy,” Tiffany mouthed while smiling. She held Hyunjoong’s face and slowly put his head on her shoulder to make Hyunjoong sleep more comfortable.

After a few minutes later, the light in the cinema were turned off, meant the film was going to start. Out of sudden, Yuri heard Minho was calling for her. Yuri moved her body towards him a bit to hear what he was going to say. She also didn’t know how much close Minho and she was because she couldn’t see anything except the light from the screen. But, she felt they were really close to each other since she could feel his breath.

“Actually, what Tiffany wanted to say just now when you cover ?” Minho whispered to Yuri. Yuri’s eyes went bigger as she felt very shocked at how Minho got curious what Tiffany said. Because of that, she immediately turned her head towards Minho to explain what happened.

But, as she turned her head, she felt her lips was touching something smooth and soft. Then, she immediately turned away and leaned her body towards Tiffany. Her heart was beating faster and she felt extremely nervous. ‘Did we just kiss?’ Yuri thought while touching her lips. She still not confirm if her lips really touched Minho’s lips just now but the way Minho acted seemed like his lips really touched hers. Although Yuri couldn’t see what he was doing, she was sure Minho also felt awkward with their unexpected kiss because instead of kept asking Yuri to answer his question, he didn’t say anything. Yuri didn’t know how to respond to this situation. Her feelings were mixed up. Truthfully, she was very happy with the kiss but she didn’t want that kiss destroyed their friendship.

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[SM Entertainment Buildings]

After the song recording ended, Taeyeon went to their practice room to check some report about Soshi Girls. Wooyoung accompanied her going to Soshi Girls’ practice room.

Taeyeon was sitting on the chair while checking the report attentively. Meanwhile, Wooyoung who didn’t have anything to do, just stared at his own face as he was facing the mirror. He just practiced his expression. Then, after a few minutes later, he started to feel bored. He took a look at Taeyeon who was paying her attention fully on what she was doing. He smiled widely while staring at Taeyeon. After that, he heaved a deep sigh and got up.

He walked towards Taeyeon and held Taeyeon's shoulders from behind. As Taeyeon was into what she was doing, she was a bit shocked when Wooyoung suddenly held her shoulders. She lifted her head up as she looked at Wooyoung’s face because she was sitting while Wooyoung was standing. “Why?” she asked.

“Nothing. You must be very tired, right? After recording two songs, you still have energy to do this,” Wooyoung said.

“It’s okay,” Taeyeon replied and she continued her work.

Then, he started to massage Taeyeon’s shoulders to reduce her stiffness. “It’s good?” he asked.

“Oh, yes. It’s really good!” Taeyeon exclaimed.

“Really?” Wooyoung asked in happy voice. He bowed his body. “How about this?” he asked while wrapping his hand around Taeyeon, like he was giving Taeyeon a back hug.

Taeyeon smiled and said happily, “This is better!”

“Really?” Then, he gave a light peck on her cheek. “How about this?” he asked once again.

Instead of answering Wooyoung’s question, she gently put away Wooyoung’s hand which was wrapping around her. She got up and faced him. Wooyoung just gave a questioned look as a reply. Taeyeon wrapped her hands around Wooyoung’s neck and then she asked, “Do I have to make the first move again?”

“Huh?! What did you mean? I don’t understand,” Wooyoung lied as he just wanted to tease Taeyeon.

“What the ~,” Taeyeon muttered while pouting her lips. “You are really….” Taeyeon couldn’t finish her words as Wooyoung shut up with a passionate kiss. She was a bit shocked at first but then, she slowly closed her eyes and returned his kiss.

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[At the cinema]

After two hours, the film ended. Everyone got up from their seat and went to the exit door. Yuri was a bit nervous imagining how Minho would treat her after what had happened in the cinema. She was afraid that Minho wanted to break their friendship. Luckily, it was really different from what she imagined. Instead of talking about the kiss, Minho just talked how great the film was and he just acted like there was nothing happened. After seeing like that, Yuri was very relief and she also acted like there was nothing happened.

“We came with Hyunjoong’s motorbike. How about you guys?” Tiffany asked Yuri and Minho.

“We just came here by foot,” Yuri replied. “It’s more fun actually.”

“Ok, we’ll see who arrive first at Soshi Girls’ villa,” Tiffany challenged Yuri and Minho to compete with her and Hyunjoong. “Hyunjoong, let’s go!” Tiffany grabbed Hyunjoong’s hand while pulling his hand to force him walking faster to his motorbike.

“Fany-ah! It must not definitely you who will win!” Yuri shouted.

“Ok, we’ll see!” Tiffany shouted back.

“Minho, we should run in order to win this,” Yuri said to Minho.

“Yes!” Minho replied while grabbing Yuri’s hand and they ran together with their hands were holding onto each other. Instead of focusing on her run, Yuri looked at her hand. Yuri was very happy at how Minho’s hand was holding her hand tightly.

Out of sudden, Yuri said, “M… Mi… Minho, ca.. can’t w… we… stop f… for a while?”

Minho immediately stopped running and he looked at Yuri. “Why? What happened to you?!” Minho asked in an anxious voice after seeing Yuri who was out of breath. Yuri was breathing hardly while touching her chest. She looked very painful and her pain looked like came from her chest. “Are you okay?!” Minho asked anxiously. Yuri couldn’t answer Minho’s question as she felt extremely painful.
 

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mukila #1
you're an awesome writer!!!! especially love the way sunsun's arguing!!! :P
Suphrajasri #2
i really really love it!!! though i'm an indian i'm starting to fall for korean's love!!! i feel like it's pureeee!!! especially the minyul part!!!! ;) :*
Kaeves #3
Can you please make a reunion all of them with their childrens? Plzz :):):)
amourfashionista #4
Chapter 85: I just love the minyul part! So so so in love their story! *.* Good job author-nim! *two thumbs up*
TwinFlame888
#5
Chapter 85: Minyul!! So cute and sweeet! :)
snsd_divine9 #6
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please vote for snsd, thanks ^^ sorry, just posting this in every snsd related stories
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DiraTaeNyLocksmith
#7
Chapter 82: Aww the couples are so sweet!