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“You.. what???!” I stood up from my chair when i heard what my friend has just said. “Are you serious?” and my famous friend, Sunny, just nodded her head.

“I’ll bring you to SM building.” Sunny added. My face brightens once she made sure of it, and my lips curled up into the biggest smile.

“OMG! THANKS!!” I grabbed her hand and shook it. I just couldn’t hide my excitement and happiness, it just written clearly on my big smile. “But.. why did you suddenly think about this?”

“Well.. Considering how much you’ve been bugging me about it..” Sunny sighs but i know that she was just joking the moment she smiled.

“Aaaa~ this is why i love you!!” I said as i hugged her right arm. Sunny lead me into SM building and made me wait for about 10 minutes as she gets ready to grab her stuff before going to my house. It’s very rare for her to get a day off but she decided to spend it by having a sleep over in my house.

“Just wait here. I’m gonna ask Sooyoung for my NDS that she borrowed.

“Alright!” I answered. Sunny then went inside a room while i wait outside.

“Hyoyoung!” Sunny appeared at the door. She was panting. It seems like she ran all the way to the practice room, but no one was behind her.

“You’re done?” I asked. “Are we going home now?”

“N-No! Not yet! I lost the necklace from my mom...!” Sunny panicked.

“What?? Is it the one that she just bought for you recently?” I asked and Sunny nodded. I felt bad for her. Afterall, i was there when her mom gave her the necklace. It was when we were about to go back to Korea from America. Her mom helped her to put on the necklace she bought.
“When i’m not there.. I hope this necklace will protect you..” Her mom said to her. Sunny is not able to see her mom as often as before due to her career, and i know she misses her mom so bad.

“Where did you drop it?” I asked her. “Let’s go find it then.” I followed Sunny wherever she led me to, and we arrived in front of a room. When she opened the door, inside is a small room with a lot of stuff inside, it seems to be a storeroom.
“I dropped it here..” Sunny said.

“Here?” I pointed inside the room. “Are you sure? It’s a small room, should be easy for you to find it..”
At that moment, i heard the sound of a plastic bag - as if someone just stepped on it - from the right corner of the room. It was dark, so i couldn’t see what was there. But judging from the sound,  it might be a mouse...?

“What were you doing in this room?” I asked her while starting to look inside the room.

“I was just trying to get a recorder but then my necklace got stuck on other things in here.. and i lost it..” Sunny explained.

“I-I’ll get Sooyoung and others to help me find it..” Sunny said before she ran to find her friends, leaving me alone there.

I started to rub the side of the wall to find where the switch is, and turn on the light. The light was white and it brightens the small room, and at that moment i heard the same sound again. But this time, it’s a lot clearer and it’s as if someone was shifting his feet to adjust his position. So there must be someone.
“Who’s there?” I said as i started to walk and approach the corner that is now bright.

Just then, someone stood up.“WHOA!” I shouted as i moved a step backward. But my eyes grew bigger when i realised that it is SHINee’s Taemin.

“Taemin??” I gasped when i saw him. i could’ve shouted or squeal because i was so excited to be able to see him THIS close! But i refrained myself from doing so by biting my lower lip.

“Sorry, i was-“ When Taemin was about to explain, the door suddenly shut. Both Taemin and I look at the door’s direction and we heard the door being locked.
We ran towards the door and knocked on it a few times while shouting, “open the door!!! There’s someone here!!!” but no one seems to hear us..

At that time, Sunny was throwing the keys in the air and catch it in her hands. She did a few times while smiling.
“Are you sure they’re gonna be okay?” Sooyoung asked. She wasn’t sure if she should do this with Sunny.

“One night is enough for two people to get close in a locked up room..” Sunny smiled.

“Where did you get the key from?” Sooyoung asked.

“Uncle ;)”

“Taemin is what..??” Sulli asked.

“I’m helping him to find a girlfriend.” Sunny patted Sulli’s shoulder.

“What do you mean?” Sulli asked.

“Well...” Sunny explained. “I locked those two in a room overnight and i’m sure they will get closer somehow.” While Sunny was explaining her plans to Sulli, Sulli’s smile gradually gone.. She wasn’t happy to hear that. But she tried her best to regain her smile.

“So.. Where did you..?”

“Room 15 in 5^th floor.” Sunny said.

“But that room is a private one isn’t it?” Sulli said.

“Yeah.. But i got the key from my uncle, and i asked the security to open the door tomorrow morning.”

Deep down, Sulli planned something.

At that night, Sulli has just finished her radio schedule with her fx bandmates. It was in KBS’s radio show. As scheduled, Sulli will have to go back to SM building for practice. When they have arrived in SM building, all of them went towards their training room but Sulli wanted to go the other way.
“Unnie.” Sulli patted Victoria’s shoulder. “I’ll go abit later, i need to pick up a stuff from Shinee’s coordinator.”

“oh, alright..” Victoria nodded. Sulli smiled at them before she turned around and walked towards a hallway near the corner.  Her usual angel smile disappears once she turns around, as if she smiles because she ‘have’ to. Sulli continued walking until the end of the hallway where she found a room with a man dressed in a security guard’s uniform visible from a window. Without hesitating, she approached the room and knocked on the small window.
“Excuse me.” She said as she knocked on the window.
 The man distracted himself from what he was doing and looked out of the window where Sulli is. Sulli quickly smiled to maintain her nice image.
“Good evening.” She greeted.

“Ohh! Sulli..??” The man quickly stood up. He was quite happy with the appearance of the famous star. “What do you need??” He asked, ready to help.

“I just wanted to borrow the key to room 15 on th5 th floor..” Sulli said. “Can i?”

“Room 15?” The man repeated and Sulli nodded. The man then looked to the side where the keys are placed on the hanger with number labelled on top. “... This morning, Sunny took it.... and she hasn’t given it back to me yet.”

“Ohh... um.. Do you have any spare key for that room?”

“No..” He shook his head. “Why do you need it for though?”

“It’s just that.. my coordinator asked me to get something from that room..”

“Oohh... Sorry i can’t help you right now. Mr. Soo Man is the one who booked it from us for sunny for the whole week so we can’t really do anything. But maybe if you asked Sunny-“

“It’s alright.” Sulli said before he finishes. “I’ll go and ask Sunny.” Sulli smiled before she turned around walked away, pretending as if she’s going to find Sunny. She went towards her practice room, joining the others, hoping to find an idea to execute her plan.

Meanwhile, Taemin and I have just started to give up on finding a way out. We’ve been climbing boxes and use other stuff in the room to try to reach the small window on the top but we failed. Both of us fell down a couple of times, and we got scratches almost everywhere.
“I think we should take a rest for a while..” Taemin said while he rests his head on the wall. He was panting heavily and sweating. Afterall, he’s the one who tried the hardest to get out of the situation. I felt quite charmed by his hardwork but at the same time i feel  upset because it seems like as if he wanted to get away from me.. T^T

“Are you alright?” Taemin asked.

I wasn’t really paying attention to what he said, so i spontaneously answered “..no..” because of what i was thinking.

“Let me see.” Taemin suddenly grabbed my left hand. I was a bit surprised so i kind of pull my hand away from him.

“Ehh??” I reacted. "I mean, i'm fine! i'm fine!"

“Whatever, just let me see your hand.” Taemin grabbed my hand again and hold it firmly this time. He looked at my hand and hissed. My eyes followed where he’s looking at and i saw a wound on my hand. It was a bruise and a scratch, it was bleeding.

“Huh? When did i get this?” I said.

“Didn’t it hurt?” Taemin asked.

“No... Not even now..” I said.

“Even if i do this?” Taemin use his finger to push the bruise part, and i yelped. It actually hurts A LOT..!

“Ouch!! Don’t do that! It hurts!!” I said.

“S-Sorry..” Taemin said. Taemin move his hand away and put on on his sides. Then he looked around the room, hoping to find something that could be useful to treat me.

“Do you have a handkerchief or scarf or something?”

“Um.. scarf..?” I said while i handed him my scarf that iw as wearing on my neck. He took my scarf and started to put it around my wound and tie it.

“For the moment..” Taemin said. “So the bacteria won’t go inside.. somehow.. I’m not sure..” Taemin chuckled. He was abit embarrassed that he’s not sure when he already did it.

Hearing that, i couldn’t help but let out a small laugh which led to both of us laughing.

Meanwhile, Sulli was leading a group of security towards the room. Sunny just heard the news from Sooyoung and both of them rushed to catch up with them. However, Sulli arrived first on the spot.
“This room?” The worker asked.

“Yes, please open it.” Sulli said. The worker then start to take out his stuff from his bag and worked out the keyhole to open it. Even though at the same time the worker was trying to open the door for us, we couldn’t really hear it because we were far at the back and we were just so focused on the window.

At that time, I was still helping Taemin to crack open the small window. Taemin knocked on the window as hard as he could and finally there was a big crack on the window. “WOH!!” Both Taemin and I reacted.

“H-Here!!” I quickly grabbed anything that looks hard enough to break the entire window and handed it to him. Taemin then lay a hit on the window with it as he groaned, leaving us a space to escape from the room.

From the outside, they could hear the sound of the glass breaking and Taemin’s groan.
“oh God..!” Sulli gasped. “What is happening inside??”

“Could it be that.. the fans..?” Taemin’s manager started to think of the worse. All of them got worried and started to knock on the door simultaneously.

That’s when we realised that the door is being opened.
“Tae-Taemin! Stop stop stop!!” I quickly waved my hand a few times to signalled Taemin. Taemin already came out of the window, i was still halfway through the window, and Taemin was helping me to come down.

Taemin sighed when he heard that, “too late.” He said. “We are halfway anyway. Quick, come down.” He opened his arms for me, ready to catch me anytime i could fall. I was quite happy seeing it. So i ignored the door and started to make my way down, hoping Taemin to catch me somehow.

Just when my legs finally made its way out of the window, they opened the door. Because i was abit too hurried i ended up falling on top of Taemin. When i raise my head, our eyes met. He was furrowing his eyebrows, but he doesn’t look unhappy or anything. Our eyes locked for a few seconds.. and we broke away when we heard Sulli’s voice calling “TAEMIN!! WHERE ARE YOU??”

“Oh my gosh! Look at the window!” One person pointed.

“Did she broke the window and kidnap Taemin??”

“Someone call the police! We have another case of sasaeng fans!”

“oh ..” I murmured when i heard their conversation.

“Hyoyoung.” Taemin called me. “Sorry.” He said before he suddenly turn the table upside down. He rolled me to the left side, making his position to be on top of me. Exactly, that’s when Sulli and the manager’s head popped out from the window, looking down where we are in our ‘awkward’ position.

“Taemin!!!” The manager gasped. Sulli didn’t say anything but i can see that she seems to be shocked and pissed at the same time. Without a word, she walked away from the window, trying to find a way out to where we are. Sulli’s spot is now filled in with the other people.

“Taemin! What is this??” The manager asked.

“N-No.. I fell down when i climbed out of the window..” Taemin explained.

“T-Then what is this p-position???”

“..accident...” Taemin chuckled.

“MOVE!” Someone grabbed my hand and tried to pull me away from Taemin. When Taemin and I looked up, we saw Sulli. She was the one who was grabbing my hand. “Move away fro him you !!” She said as she tries to pull me away.

“Sulli, stop it.. She’s not a sasaeng..” Taemin said while trying to pull away her hand from mine.

“Then what is she??” Sulli asked. “She is the one who purposely locked the door so she can be with you together!”

“No i didn’t!” I quickly retorted. “Someone locked it!”

“then WHO?” Sulli rests her hands on her hips while her body slightly going forwards towards me. She’s trying to put all the blame on me. And obviously i couldn’t answer her question becau e i DID NOT and CANNOT see who locked the door!

“Why can’t you answer it then?” Sulli smirked.

“Sulli, how could you see who locked the door when you’re concentrating on something else?” Taemin butted in.

Sulli became very unhappy. “Why are you defending her?

Taemin sighed. He started to feel annoyed with Sulli’s question. Sulli has always been his friends during his trainee days because they are at the same age, however Sulli has become more annoying.
He chose to not answer and ignore Sulli. He got up and then grabbed my hand before pulling me up.
“Let’s go treat your injury first.” Taemin said, still holding my hand. He lead me out of the place into the building.

“YA!” Sulli shouted as she watched Taemin ignoring her. She couldn’t accept it so she followed after us.
“YA! LEE TAEMIN!” Sulli shouted again, hoping that Taemin would turn around. But he didn’t.

Sulli hated the feeling of being ignored, especially by Taemin. So she ran towards us and grabbed our hands with hers and pulls us apart.

Taemin turned around and he found out that it was Sulli who did it. “What are you doing?” Taemin furrowed his eyebrows.

Sulli then pushed me until i moved back a few steps. Then she quickly stood in front of Taemin, as if she wanted to protect him.
“Stay away from him, sasaeng!” Sulli said.

Taemin facepalmed himself. ‘Oh God..’ He thought. “Sulli, she’s not-“

“Stop thinking that a normal girl like you could end up with him! An idol should end up with an idol too!” Sulli said.

At that moment, she felt Taemin’s hand is touching her shoulder, while slowly putting down her hands. He then walked passed by her and stood right next to me. He put his arm around my neck and tilted my head towards him and our lips met. I freezed the moment it happens until we boke away from the kiss.

Taemin glared at Sulli before he walked away, still hugging me. My feet followed wherever Taemin is going by itself, but i was completely lost.

When we have finally found an empty hallway, Taemin let go of me. He sort of lowered his head and said, “Sorry..”

“W-What?”  I asked. A moment ago, i was still lost.

“Sorry.. For kissing you so suddenly like that..” Taemin apologized while scratching the back of his head. I could see that he was blushing. His cheek was red until the back of his ear. Seeing that, i couldn’t help but blush too.

“Can I.. get your phone number..?” Taemin shyly asked.

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