Chapter 41
A Bang In The Heart
"Okay Annie, how about you? Who's your role model?" I asked slowly towards the slim petite girl with framed glasses and tied black hair.
"My role model is...um G-Dragon because he is a great artist. And I love his music!" Annie said confidently in an accented English. I had about 4 separate english classes that I taught. Most of them, the students could choose their own English names just to play the idea of it better.
I raised my eyebrows as my ears chimed in happiness from the sound of that name. My lips turned upwards as I tried to hide my overwhelming happiness.
Several other students in the classes nodded and added on to Annie's statement.
"Yes, he's a very good rapper and singer."
"-He's also an excellent dancer"
"Oh and he's very cute!" The girls began to giggle.
Heck yea he was cute. He was cute and handsome and sweet, and kind and loving....and he was a good kisser...and he always smelled so good...and in bed he was just-
I realized that I was smiling to myself when I saw that the classroom was dead silent. Everyone was quiet and they had been watching me and my ridiculous smile.
Crap...Remi!! You're teaching! Snap out of it!
"S-So yes! That's very nice Annie...What about you Stephanie?"
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I finally got off the forever long bus drive and was home now. I took my shoes off and massaged my feet. Oh god that felt so good.
I had been crazy busy these days. Working from morning to evening in the high school, sometimes staying even later to help during the study sessions. But I shouldn't have anything to say, these kids...they study like there's no tomorrow. Thank god I went to school in the US.
But it was good to be busy in a while. It took my mind off of one of the biggest things in my life these days. My Jagi...my oppa...Jiyong.
Despite my crazy part time job hours, the small time that I allotted to volunteer in helping out the elderly and his busy schedules and recording sessions, we still made time to talk to each other...on the phone at least.
I missed him like heck but two weeks flew by again, me only being able to see him through online news articles and fan cafe sites. The last time I heard from him was that he was in Japan, I think.
Sighing, I checked my phone for any notifications from him. Nothing.
I hated when I only saw my wallpaper of him and me lying together on the bed. And so I slept another night filled with yearning dreams about him.
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"So Remi, are you gonna go?" Youngbae tipped his hat over to one side of his hat and looked up at me.
I cocked my head in confusion, "Go where?"
"To Japan of course!" Youngbae laughed as if I said the most ridiculous thing ever.
"Why would I go to...Japan?" It was such a foreign place for me to even think about but I would love to go to the place.
"Because there's the Osaka spring summer music festival and Bigbang is gonna perform....and you're a vip." Youngbae grinned and placed his hand on my shoulder.
"But that doesn't me-"
"How long haven't you seen Jiyong?" Youngbae leaned in towards me. His eyes were questioning with a smile.
I scratched my head, "Well it's been two weeks..."
"See? You miss him right?" Youngbae smiled widely as I slowly nodded.
He gently pat my back and smiled his friendly wide smile, "Pack your bags, we're leaving tomorrow morning."
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I sat next to Youngbae and behind Seungri and had the most fun time bothering the crap out of him. I mean I took three days off just for this trip, might as well enjoy every minute of it.
In Japan, the air and people felt the same but the entire atmosphere felt different. Why was it that Korea wasn't so foreign to me get Japan seemed like an entirely different world? I knew very simple Japanese words, just to get by, but had no clue where to go.
Because Youngbae had to go with the rest of the members to rehearsal, I was dropped off at Shinsaibashi, a shopping area, to hang around for a few hours.
After awkwardly strutting around the place, it was finally time to go watch them. Thanks to Youngbae, I got ViP seating or "standing" as it was a festival.
The place was immensely packed with people. As much as I wanted to, I had never been to one of Bigbang's live performances before. Of course not all of these people were here just for bigbang but it seemed as if it was because everywhere I looked, groups of girls held little "bang bong"s* in their hands and shook large banners and signs excitedly. I smiled when I saw little kids dressed up as members of Bigbang.
So this was how popular they were. People even dressed up as them. My heart fluttered and pounded hard in excitement. I couldn't wait to see them.
After several famous artists came up, a loud familiar pop music blasted from the speakers. It was the Japanese version of . The people surrounding me, screamed so loudly that I almost felt ears split. My mouth grew into a wide smile and screamed along with them, holding my very own bang bong up in the air. The sky was at its highest and the sun was setting just a bit. The air was warm but the atmosphere was so lively.
In rhythm to the beginning part of the music, I jumped with the crowd with excitement. My heart felt as if it would burst.
And then I saw them. Youngbae and Jiyong jump into the stage with a huge release of screams from the crowd. They looked so perfect and cool. Youngbae's hair was in a crazy Afro mohawk that jumped up and down everytime he did. He was dressed in leather pants and a large black t-shirt with a white bandana that wrapped around his neck.
Jiyong on looked handsomely perfect with his recently dyed hair that was now a vivid sky blue that held up with a matching bandana similar to Youngbae's. His favorite circular glasses covered his eyes and he wore a plain white t-shirt with ripped jeans.
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*Bang bong- bigbang fan sticks.
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They looked as if they were really enjoying the stage. Jiyong's lips were in a wide cute smile as he took a deep breath from the crowd.
The music continuously pumped out loud rhythmic beats that seemed to make the crowd go crazy.
"ARE YOU READY TO GO CRAZY OSAKA?!!" Youngbae shouted loudly in English to the crowd. The crowd lost it and went insane.
Jiyong walked almost as if he was drunk towards the center of the stage and leaned his ear towards the crowd.
"OSAKA SAKA SAKA! O SAKA SAKA SAKA!! Say YEAH!!" Jiyong jumped in the air with eccentric movements.
"YEAHHHH!!!" I shouted loudly with the rest of the people. I was just too happy. Happy to see him and happy to be his fan.
Youngbae belted out his verse of the loud cathartic chorus and I felt this amazing relief off of my heart. They were truly professionals and they were amazing at it. The both of them looked so superior and unbelievably good at giving a performance.
Jiyong, using his erect middle finger, he pushed up his glasses with a cool swagger and began to rap his part.
"Yeah! Here we goooo...G to the mother in' D!"
I laughed at his little addition to his part. How was it that even when he cussed he sounded so good? Me, knowing all the words since I helped them with it, rapped along with him.
They were literally flying on the stage with crazy high energy.
The song ended but quickly fused in with the beginning of "Fantastic Baby"
The rest of the members jumped on to the stage with an epic entry. The crowd roared with excitement, mostly the girls.
Top as usual looked dashingly handsome with his charcoal black hair and deep bewildering eyes. Daesung looked incredibly y with his revealing toned and tan muscular arms. Even Seungri, the usually annoying maknae, I had to admit, looked good. Seungri's medium length curly hair cutely bounced over his sparkling eyes as he sang his parts with excitement.
They totally killed the show. In a good way of course. Everytime Jiyong looked over to my direction, I swear I thought I saw him because he smiled widely and let out a loud howl.
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I nervously made it through security by showing them my back stage pass. Oh god, I had never been backstage to anywhere before. It made me feel...like a real vip.
My hands shook anxiously as I peeked my head through the white tent labeled .
Youngbae who was fixing his microphone saw me and his eyes lit up brightly. He jumped over towards my direction and hung his sweaty but amiable arm around my shoulder. "I found Remi!" He shouted in English.
I giggled as I sunk down from his touch, and Daesung walked over towards me with Top over his shoulder.
"Ah hyung!! My shoulder hurts!" Daesung whined loudly all with a laugh.
"But our Daesungie has such a y body that I can't resist." Top teased, pulling playfully at Daesung's cheeks.
"Look Remi, hyung's doing this because you're here-"
"No I'm not." Top bluntly said.
I tried not to laugh but ended up bursting out anyways. Looking around the tent I asked, "But...where's Jiyong oppa?"
All of them grinned like wolves at me when I asked that question. I confusedly looked at them with my head cocked innocently to the side.
Then suddenly, I felt warm arms wrap me over my shoulder from behind. My heart stopped for a few seconds then immediately pounded quickly as soon as I realized who it was. There were no words needed to be said to know who it was. His cold lips delicately touched the back of my neck and blew hot air that made my back straighten in excitement. His fresh scent mixed with his musky sensual sweat soaked me inside of him.
There was a hint of laughter in his light airy voice as he kissed my cheek, "Dochira sama desuka?"
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*Dochira sama desu ka- (Japanese) "Who are you" (polite and formal)
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