One Day Ended with a Small Question. (Part II of II)

One Day Series

-- (Continued from Chapter 28: One Day After a Long Run)


Oh, about Jjong.. a couple of days after that, he and I were having our little conversation again.

That time I was with Minho as we just went back from his filming location. We were walking on the corridor as he seems to get a phone mail.

We both walking in silent, Manager Oppa is in front of us, and then Minho, who still focus on his phone, suddenly pulled his backpack to take out his laptop. But he’s just hold it in his hand although when we got into Shinee’s waiting room on that TV station, he immediately sat on the sofa and turn on the laptop.

I was talking to my assistant when Kibum asked him, “Who’s dancing?” staring at the laptop monitor together with Minho.

I can hear he answered, “Son Eunseo Noona. You know, one of the cast at the school show.”

“Who?” Kibum asked.

“She’s an actress and model.” Minho explained as he mentioned about a commercial’s name. Then he said something about SNSD Yoona.

“She once appeared with Yoona Noona? Let me Google her.” Kibum monopolized the laptop.

“Yaa, ya! I haven’t finished yet.” Minho protested, “She asked me to see how’s the dance since it would be perform at the show.”

Son Eunseo? Actually I was pretty curious. And I noticed that Minho openly mentioned her name in front Manager Oppa as if it was nothing. Hm.. maybe since they were filming in the same show, and Oppa knows it too?

As then I heard Kibum exclaimed, “Omo! She’s 86-line?? But, but.. damnnit she’s gorgeous!”

Jjong, who’s actually only sitting nearby, seems to be interested too. “Who?” and he joined them. Mi Sun, who usually came to that filming set with Minho answered, “Yeah, I agree with Kibummie.”

I walked out from the room because I have to call my Boss, talking about what Taemin actually requested me about; related to his solo performance’s wardrobe, and so I was having the phone call at the end of the corridor because it was quiet.

But after I finished, instead of going to the boys’ waiting room, I felt like having a cigarette or two, so I’m heading to the smoking room, but then someone stopped me by saying,

“Yaa Noona. Where the hell are you going with that pack of cig, huh? You should quit!”

I turned my head and saw Jonghyun standing near the vending machine, leaned to the wall with a can of hot coffee in his hand.

“Tsk, is it really you, Jonghyun-sshi?” I pretended like I didn’t really know him, “The guy who last time shared his thoughts to me with cigarettes between his fingers.”

He laughs as he held his hands high, “I admit defeated.”

I chuckled but then smirk on him, “Seems like you’re in a good mood.”

“Well, I always in a good mood.” Still with his happy-go-lucky attitude, but then he added, “Most of the time.”

Instead of walking to the smoking place, I took the corridor where Jjong is standing and then I looked at the vending machine. Hm.. what do I feel like drinking?

“Jungie surprised me by visiting me on recording studio the other day.” As I expected, he might blurt it out, “Thanks to the little game that Onew Hyung played, and assisted by the two beautiful Coordi Noonas.”

So he knew. And I was just smiling, “Oh, so now you think Im pretty?”

He scoffed, “I didn’t say it’s you. But yeah, I always thought that Minho has those enormous eyes not for nothing. He sure does know where to look at.”

“Kim JongHyun and his famous ability with words.” I praised him back.

We share laughter, and then I said, “So everything’s good between you two?”

“Who, me and Minho?” he asked, pretend to be stupid.

“Ya, why did you bring my boyfriend in this?” I joked too.

“Because I just mentioned about him and you suddenly asked!” he replied, but then he gave me the real answer of my question, “Yeah, Jungie is always good. Always nice to me.”

I looked at him, “But why do I have this uncomfortable feeling everytime you said that?”

Jjong sipped his drink as I decided to choose a hot cocoa from the vending machine. When I took the can and open it, he replied, “In fact, we’re kinda fighting at first during her visit.”

Because I just drink the cocoa, I choked as I let a laugh slipped from my lips, “Huh?”

He seems embarrassed, “Yeah, because suddenly I was talking about the possibility of her kinda regret not to be able to meet her co-star because the filming got cancelled that day.”

Taecyeon-sshi. I knew who he meant but I just keep listening to him.

“Stupid, isn’t it? Knowing that the one should be throwing jealousy is her, not me.” He moved his head to swish his hair before he fixed the bang awkwardly; it’s a gesture when something makes Jjong uncomfortable.

“Well, Im kinda curious as well. Did she really okay to the fact that this nation thought you and Shin SeKyung is dating, no, the world, I mean.”

He twitched his lips as he was thinking, and then he said, “She knows that Im not even in contact with that actress, so… yeah."

"But everyone knows you adore SeKyung because you always said about it before...." I saw his expression, so I added, "Um.. Sorry."

He sighed, "Well, yeah, a part of me is doing that because I can't say out loud that my ideal type is Ham EunJung to avoid any attention. But I have to admit that I also thought that Shin SeKyung really is pretty. As a normal guy, just like Onew Hyung thought too, that actress is beautiful."

He asked me, "Did it makes me a bad boyfriend? Did Minho ever say in front of you, praising another girl?"

I was thinking at first, "I think so, yeah, I didn't really remember. But in a way, naah, of course it wont automatically makes you a bad guy! I believed Eunjung-sshi didn't think like that as well, judging from how you pictured her."

"She always be understanding although I cant help but finally found out how she really feels when she carelessly said she doesn’t feel like searching my name on the internet again.”

I frowned, “Your article? Ah, yeah, both of you must’ve been monitoring what you have achieved and what’s written in the media, oh I get it! She’s talking about what kind of article would appear if she typed your name on the search site.” Must be a dozen of articles related to Jonghyun's so-called scandal with SeKyung-sshi.

“Yeah.. But other than that, she said she understood the situation really well. In fact she was thrilled enough to know that my ballad group would have a debut on the same stage as her group’s comeback..” Jjong tried to enlighten our topic.

Then I smiled, “Really? Whoa, your girl surely busy, comeback stage and new drama! Ah, is she going to come to see your concert?”

“Eh?? Right! Now that you pointed it out, Noona, Jungie and I even haven’t discussed about that!” he laughs.

“I hope that she at least can find a short time between her crazy schedules.” I patted Jjong’s shoulder, remembered on how he was so down last month I just hope that in the following days things would go easier for him.

“Yeah, it would be great if she could, right.. But I wonder, how to make her invisible from the fans' eyes since she's too pretty to be hidden..” He's full of joke but looking all sincere when he praised his girl before giving me his friendly smile.

As always, the so-called bodyguard and his Noona would end the conversation –this time with cans of drink in our hand- with hopes followed and troubles we want to leave behind.

And please, trouble, just stay as far away from all of us, okay?

--

About Kibum, he took his university exam after abrupt preparation between those sleepless nights he managed and juggling with practising. His crush towards Nana-sshi somehow just forgotten and seems to me that he seeking opportunity to bring back his good friendship with Kara’s Nicole-sshi that distanced for a while because of their schedules. Not to mention her group seems to gained great popularity in Japan.

And the boys seems to understand perfectly that his closeness to Nicole is one of the reason why he turned to be his normal self again.

Once, during a break when I gathered the 5 of them to talk about concert’s costume, suddenly the girl appeared. Yes, on Shinee’s practice room.

Onew exclaimed, “Nicole-sshi! Aren’t you supposed to be in Japan right now!?”

Nicole bowed politely and greet everyone cheerfully, "Annyeong hasseyeo~" before she just smile casually to her same-age friend Minho and answering Onew’s question, “Yes, Oppa, we’re just staying in Seoul for two days before we’ll fly back to Tokyo.”

Kibum walked towards her silently as Nicole lets him taking the stuffs from her hands while she answered the leader’s question.

“And you’re here because of…?” Minho asked and stares at Kibum while Jjong, Taem and I are just listening with the same level of interest.

The girl once again just smiled as Kibum answered for her, “Yeah, yeah, because I asked her to come. Why? Am I not allowed to ask my friend to visit me here? Huh?” as usual, the defensive Key would appear if he felt a little bit cornered and… embarrassed.

We all shook our heads but mostly have a stupid grin in our faces, although Taemin was shrieking so loudly as he saw that Nicole brought something he’s familiar with, “Ah!!! This! Nicole Noona, thank youuuuuu so much!” He grabbed one pack of snack and hug it close to his chest.

“Yaaa! Ya! Taeminnie!” Kibum protested but Nicole laughs so that we can see her famous eye smile, “It’s okay, Taemin-ah, actually Kibum is the one who requested me to buy that for you.” It’s senbei –Japanese crackers- that seems to be Baby’s favorite.

Baby looked at his Umma with admiration, “Hyungie.”

Kibum snorted as he said, “What? You think I didn’t know? Besides, I know that I was such a pain lately, so… tsk, just eat it well, will you!?” his tone became higher just to hide his embarrassed feeling.

“But how ‘bout the rest of us, you gave us hard time too, moron.” Minho spat his towel playfully to Kibum. “Especially Onew Hyung here.”

Kibum gave Minho the dirty look, as he seems like doesn’t want Nicole to hear all of this although the girl looks like she… didn’t really mind or more, even not surprised with the topic that we’re talking about. I bet Kibum told her everything.

“I apologized to Onew Hyung with my way, go ahead and ask him if you’re still feeling dissatisfied.” Kibum stuck out his tongue to Minho, and Onew nodded agree.

The leader added slowly, “Kibum agreed to change the menu for our breakfast everything just I requested, because I'm a bit bored with pastas.”

Jjong, who sat really close to me, I can see his playful eyes grew bigger, “NOO! Arghhh, it would be chicken every day!! Chicken this chicken that! How can I stay in shape with those chicken-” as he grumbled, he got a light smack on his head by me as I was startled because he lifted his hand suddenly almost hit my face.

Minho started to talk to Nicole, sounds like he’s asking whether Kibum were explaining to her or not about what happened to the boys lately. Onew stood up and begin to talk about something in such an amusement to A.M Oppa.

Ignoring the craziness, with the cracker in his embrace, Taemin sitting like a nice boy and he peeked on the paper held by me all of this time. As Im staring back at him, after showing him my sketch, then he gets it.

Baby clapped his hand twice, before he cupped both of his hand in front of his mouth and say, “Hyungieeee, everyoneee, Noona wants to start the meeting….!! Costume, we’re here for concert costume, remember?”

I smiled at him, thankfully and now the boys’ attentions are on me. Also Nicole’s too.

Manager Oppa already seen all of it and after he giving me notes about suggestions and comments here and there, he said that now it's up to the boys; and me of course.

"So... As we all planned, there would be six themes means it would be six different sets of wardrobe for the 5 of you, and," I began, "1 individual costume for each solo performance. For the past weeks, I gathered your ideas and what do you -and the managers want- so I came up with these semi-final designs."

The boys nodded since they're already know about what I just said. So I continue.

"By the beginning of December all six sets must have to be ready for you all to shoots the video, so today, I want to hear all of your opinion, suggestions and everything, I still open for it only until this weekend. After that, it would be impossible to change, well, only for some accesories still maybe okay."

"But the individual....?" Onew seems a bit worried since he's been too busy he only speak to me just once, about any idea for his wardrobe although I know he would sing a classic opera or something like that.

I shook my head, "For that one, I'm giving you a little bit longer, I gave you one more week. Is it okay?"

Everyone waited for me and didn't say anything so I take that as a yes. I showed them by giving each one of them, their own wardrobe's sketches.

"Actually, since those were the same, the angel choir wardrobe already completed. Eun-ah will bring here today." I informed them.

Nicole, who sits beside Kibum this whole time, she seems really interested but Kibum suddenly covered the paper and pull it to his side.

"No, you can't see it." He said.

"Ah, why??" She exclaimed.

"Because there would be no surprise anymore, forehead!"

"Yaa! I told you to stop calling me that." I can hear Nicole hissed. So this is the girl who was widely known as the social butterfly among idols? For me, she's more like a female version of.. Who, Kibummie? But she less cynical.

"Um, Noona, can I talk to you about the jacket that I'm going to wear?" Jjong called me so I turned to him.

"Yeah sure, what is it?" I asked. His jacket actually comes from one of a sponsor brand, and I already decided which one out of 3 mens leather jacket for the latest season.

When Im still conversing with Jjong, once again I heard Key exclaimed, "Of course of course you're still pretty no matter what," he rolled his eyes, "but it doesn't mean that you doesn't look funny, hahaha with your forehea- owwww!"

All eyes are staring at Key and Nicole as then Taemin asked, "ah, hyung!! What is it?"

Key looked at both Nicole and Taemin with annoyed stare then he said, "Can you at least ask whether my head is alright after this girl over here slammed the paperboard to it, Taem??"

"Oh come on, Nicole Noona won't hurt you, Hyung!" Taemin laughs easily as if it's nothing.

Jjong murmured to me, followed with Minho smirk, "Noona, just enjoy how Taemin mocks his Hyung."

I just smiled as we're continuing to watch this. I looked at Nicole as she folded her arms looks all annoyed because of Kibum's endless word about the hairstyle that shown her forehead but I can see something in her eyes as she unconciously patted the paperboard with her hand, as if she wants to check whether it's really hard or not.

"Yeah? Well how do you know that for sure, kid?" Kibum asked Taemin with his threatening tone.

Taemin smiled his usual angelic smile but his lips said the short but cocky words that gave him an opposite image from his adorable appearance, "Oh, I just know. Besides, everyone here knows that you're just too happy right now, Hyung, so what are you trying to act out?"

Burst of laughter coming from the three, Onew, Minho and Jjong, then to my surprise, even Nicole is laughing too. Well, everyone here can see that Kibum and her maybe isn't a couple, but there's something between them.

The thing is, Nicole doesn't seem to be too embarrassed about it, she's just play along with the mock or tease coming attacking Kibum and obviously to her too. As if she's just laugh it of since everything pointed out by Taemin is true.

What a cool girl, I thought. But to see Kibum grumbling and try to pinch Taemin playfully, then continue to 'torture' Nicole by preventing her to see the design and everything, he reminds me of someone, and it makes me laugh a little bit to late than the other.

That's why Jjong, who's beside me, asking, "yes, Noona?"

"Ah, nothing." I shook my head. Cho, Kibum reminds me of my little sister. She and her childhood so-called puppy love who is our neighbor was totally like that, although the cool one is that boy, and my Cho acted really similar to Kibum, maybe because of her shyness.

Kibum, who saw this opportunity to escape from all the teasing towards him, he shouted, "Noona, don't stop in the middle like that, you made us curious!"

I laugh, "You reminds me of the embarrased Cho Hee when she got teased with her little boyfriend."

To hear Cho's name, three out of 5 boys gave me a different reaction. One, Taemin looked at me and say, "Cho Hee-ah have a boyfriend?" And his eyes grew bigger. Two, Kibum clapped his hand, "Cho?? ah, what her boyfriend looks like?? I want to see!!"

And the last one, is Minho. He didn't say anything, he's just starring at me, as he knew, my situation with Cho still weigh my mind although I told him it wasn't that bad after I explained everything to her.

I replied to Taemin and Kibum, "Nah, just her childhood friend that we love to teased."

Taemin didn't say anything, but Kibum responded to Nicole as she asked, "Who's this Cho?"

"She's Noona's sister." Kibum replied, "Haven't I told you before?"

I smiled at Nicole as she took a glance at me with a little smile in her too, before she turned to Kibum and shook her head.

Kibum took his phone and seems to try to find something on it, "She's Taemin 93-line chingu," same age friends,"Well, in a way she have the same presence as him too. Just as cute as a button. See?" Kibum just shove his phone to Nicole.

Taemin touched the narrow spot between the eyes with his thumb and index finger as if he got a headache because his Kibum hyung just said that he's as cute as a button; yeah Baby hates it.

Then I realized that Kibum is showing my sister's picture since Nicole took a glance at me again. I laughed, "Me and my sister, we're not look alike, are we? Well, unfortunately I'm not as cute as a button." as I rounded my arm on Taemin to support him.

Baby whispered at me, "I'm dying to tease them back but I don't want to make Nicole Noona embarrassed. Watch out, Kibum Hyung, wait until she's going home."

To hear that, I'm laughing and Nicole said to me, "Actually both of you have the exact same shape of small and cute lips, Unnie." As she looked at the picture again, I was begin to laugh and she seems wanting to continue but there's someone else cut the conversation by giving a comment with his deep voice.

"Yes, it's cute."

And Onew choked by the water he's drinking because Minho's words.

Well, the boys are cautious enough not to stare at Minho although Nicole is staring at him as if he's a weirdo or something. While I took a glance at Minho, he did seem like he's blurted that words out carelessly because his eyes look a little bit troubled.

Damn you Minho. But then to save the day, Taemin seems to do it in purpose by attacking me with his questions as he clung his arms to mine, "Noona, when can I try my Lucifer's wardrobe? By the way don't you think I would look so mellow wearing this pair for the romantic theme? And ah right, Key Hyung, can I see Cho's picture I'm sure Noona wants to see it, is that when she went for shopping with you?" Taemin turned to Kibum who looks a little taken back with his maknae's last line.

Nicole gave the phone to Taemin and I saw a picture of my little sister and Kibum in a store, H&M or something.

"Ya, don't you think my sister would be in trouble if there's some people start gossiping around when they saw you two?" I asked Kibum, "I should probably go too that day."

"Naah, don't worry, I told my trusted clerk over there that she's my cousin." Kibum waved his hand slightly, "I'm sure she's bought it, since who don't get the Almighty words?"

I chuckled but then he continued, "Besides, I remembered Chocho said that you couldn't go with us that day. And Taem here doesn't want to go, so.." Kibum shrugged.

I frowned as I got it. My sister lied to Kibum. I can see that Taemin seems like getting something, but he doesn't say anything.

To neutralize the situation, since I'm not really comfortable to see Nicole's questioning look, "So my sister is like a paper-doll model for you to learning the fashion design?"

He answered casually, "Yeah, besides she picked a good choice of wardrobe for me too, so we called it even."

"Wow. Great. Now the almighty Key turned my shy little sister into a model." I said it but actually I was really surprised.

"Even when she stood there quietly she attracted attention from some other girls' inside the store." Kibum pointed his phone.

I looked at it, my sister is wearing off-white knitted sweater under a mocha colored checked suit. Then she's also wearing a light grey tights and a mocha high heels. For the accessory she wears a big glasses and her long straight black hair was waved naturally. I assumed that Kibum even took her to a beauty salon first

"You picked all of the looks?" I asked him.

"Well yeah, she's also said she want to have a new look. Don't get me wrong, her style is good enough, but she said doesn't want to be too girly girl from now on- wait, why do I have to explain everything? She might already told you, right?"

I smiled slightly. Yeah, of course Kibum would think so as it's already weeks passed after that day. And since I'm not interested to tell everything to anyone except Minho, I just nodded to Kibum.

As now Taemin loose his grip on my arm and start to look at his 'romantic' theme wardrobe that he seems to like it so much, and Nicole began to converse with Kibum again, which is cause a small argument between them, one by one the three other boys -who's just became the audience earlier- were focusing on the sketches in front of them.

And as every now and then each one of them asked about anything they wanted to know related to their own wardrobe, after I answered all of it, when I'm not, I was just trying to be focus too. Which is somehow, a little bit more difficult than I thought it would be.

Shoot. My mind isn't really in peace right now.

--

Onew's musical continues with a great success, there are only a couple performances left until it will close the curtain by the end of this November. And also unfortunately I heard that it was been decided from the TV station that his midnight show will be over soon. But his schedule was still quite busy because he’s still MC-ing the music show with Minho, and then he’s supposed to be in a new TV show too. So luckily, he got his plan for Jjong done like he planned and when we’re talking about that, he and I was quite happy for the result.

My baby Tae is still focusing on his study, but on the same time, since his last appearance on that competition show where Minho played the role as the team’s ace, it seems that the PD-nim was asking Manager Oppa whether Baby can appear in the show again. Not to substitute Minho's position, but to go along side by side with him.

It seems that when December comes, if Manager Oppa approves, Taeminnie would fly abroad with Minho to film the new episode for that TV show.

And Minho, Choi Minho this boyfriend of mine, what can I say about him? Well, not that much actually. For couple who meet each other for almost every day like us, our topic is not far from daily schedule and how words that expressed our tiredness will come out eventually as we’re sighing in relieved while holding at each other’s arms.

Not much of the topic we have to talk about, doesn’t mean that there’s no problem at all. It was just left unspoken only for the sake of not making our so-called busy days became more devastating and tiring than it already is. All that he wants is close his eyes in peace before he fell asleep every time he can spend the night at my place. All that I want is just to at least not thinking about waking up early to go to work and act like we’re not sharing morning kiss before we will meet again in a couple hours later at the management office.

Like I’ve mentioned before, he did seem concern to about me and Cho Hee but as I asked him not to talk about it, he would just stay quiet every time there’s a topic related to my sister brought up by who else it might be.., Kibummie.

Sometimes, only because I felt Minho’s attentive, I would just smile and say, “Don’t worry, my sister and I are close. She will be back to the usual Cho.”

Once, Minho did speak out his opinion towards the issue, he said, “I could understand if she doesn’t approve her sister dating someone younger than her brother, even if MyeongJun Hyung also thinks like that. But as her older sister, I think she have to respect you, still, it’s not that you’re doing something against the rule.”

At that moment, I chuckled, “In one point of view, I did break against the rule, Minho. You know that.”

He sighed, “Noona, you know what I mean. It’s not that-“

“Look, Cho Hee is my baby sister, and I know how to handle her, so can we just… not arguing because of this?” is what I said to end this topic. And from what I see, it does makes Minho slightly feels that he doesn’t related to this and yes, I made him upset, but then again, like I said, because we chose not to spend our time together by arguing or fighting, so he just swallowed his pride and stay silent.

But then, something else that happened lately adds the thoughts inside my chaotic mind.

As you might know, Minho appeared to be the permanent cast on the TV show that filming in the set he called as ‘School sets’ because it has the concept of a school for idols and young entertainers.

The set was a bit far out of Seoul, and Manager Oppa usually is the one who goes with him. So far, I’ve never been pointed to go with him. Yes, since nowadays I was more like their stylist that work at the office and not exactly go along to the field with them; it would be just my assistants. And for this show, Mi Sun is the one who assisted Minho’s wardrobe.

But the day after tomorrow, as Minho’s filming for his one episode drama is over, he will go to film the new episode with Lee Oppa this time, and brings me along too. Well, I’m not complaining though, because my work for the concert costume is done, all I need to do is to wait until the clothes distributors call me to check them when it’s ready in about a week.

When we’re arrived at the set, I was only following where Lee Oppa said was going to be the place of Coordi and Makeup artist stays. Although Im actually dying to do one thing. And it would be to see…

I heard people rushing through the narrow corridor outside the room. Then I also hear someone –might be the PD assistant- said, “The filming is going to start in 15. Everyone please to be ready..!”

So then all the staffs, including me goes to find our artist to be handle, and there I found Minho sitting with FT Island’s vocalist, talking about something.

“Is it too cold?” I asked Minho as I pointed his crème-greyish colored suit.

He answered half-jokingly, “Im okay as long I stay indoor.”

“Good.” I said, “Im sorry because I picked it without concerning the weather and everything.” Yes, for this show, Mi Sun always informed me the concept, but I let her managed Minho’s wardrobe, but for today, it was me who prepared it and since it was too sudden to decided that Im the one who have to do that, I just pick the suit and black shirt for Minho as it was requested that his clothes should be in that color.

To be match with his chairmate, the actress Eunseo, who was mentioned some times before.

To be honest, I’ve heard about teasing here and there throwing at Minho since it was said that he chose this actress to be his partner for the first episode. You see, usually who choose who in a TV show, it would be scripted. But I don’t know why, I heard that the PD-nim really let the cast to choose by their own choice, deliberately.

And of course, knowing Minho’s management, im sure that he already discuss to Manager Oppa before he decided who to choose. That’s why, Im curious about this lady; Unnie, if I might call since she’s 2 years older than me.

The last time he went filming, Minho told me that he got only one vote during voting for the class president. The only vote which is he got from Eunseo-sshi. I actually by saying that she saves him from an utterly worst defeat by giving him one vote, and Minho was just laughing. Also because I saw the earlier episode where the other cast teased them together, I mentioned it to Minho, whether there’s a Love Line scripted in the show.

And he said “No.” although it was something normal to have from the script writer Noona to build a so-called Love Line in a variety show to make it more interesting.

“..-Na? Noona?”

“Huh?” I blinked my eyes as I saw Minho is waving his hand in front of me. I might just dazed in a while with thoughts inside my head.

I saw Minho’s laughing, “Why, are you sleepy? It seems that the filming will start soon.”

“Oh, okay.” I said so Im just going to walk from him, but he stopped me by holding my shoulder, “Eh, no, not yet. Why are you leaving?” He spoke the last line with a softer voice.

I laugh at him, “Hey, only because today we have Lee Oppa with us, doesn’t mean that we can be at ease-“

“Eh, Noona?! Finally!” Minho looked at something –or someone, far behind me so suddenly as he cut my sentence, beaming.

“Really! Im so sorry!”

I turned around and saw a young lady is running with a guy –seems like a manager, and a girl –maybe an assistant, keep saying, “Im sorry, I didn’t make all of you waiting, right?” to everyone, also the manager bowing to the crew.

As she almost passed us, Minho talked to her with a motion like a baseball player, “Safe..! The filming will be start in 5 I guess..”

She sighed in relieve, “Thank God!” as she smiled back at Minho before she continue to walk into the set together with her assistant.

So this is Son Eunseo-sshi? Yes, actually, she’s the one I said I want to see earlier. And Kibum is not the honest and good eyes Kibum for nothing, the actress is really pretty. Somehow I can’t even believe that she’s older than some of female idols that appear in here.

“Uwah, she’s even more gorgeous in person.” I commented.

Minho turned to me, “Who, Eunseo Noona?”

“Yeah.” I nodded.

Then he looked at the open door where the actress walked through it earlier, and my boyfriend said with his usual calm and deep voice, “She is, isn’t she?”

Something caught my feelings as I said to him, and I don’t even know why I did it, “And she seems nice..” my tone is hanging as it was between like I want to confirm about something, or else, ..maybe, just maybe.. I might just want to see how Minho reacted to my words.

And so he did, he said, “Yes, she’s rather shy, but she’s fun. Well, she laughs at Hongki Hyung's jokes for start.” Again still looking away, before then he actually looked at me. At least, he still managed to see me in the eyes at the end.

Tsk. Why am I like this so suddenly?

And that’s when Jjong’s question in our vending machine talk came back to my mind once again, “Did it make me a bad boyfriend? Did Minho ever say in front of you, praising another girl?”

Well, Jonghyun-ah, of course you’re not a bad boyfriend. And Minho is a good boyfriend of mine too, but… I frowned a little, I think whatever we called that feeling is, Jjong, now I know how your beloved Jungie might feel.
 

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Hi!!! My Gosh, I finally being able to update! xDDD

im sorry for the long wait, im still judgling to write down the chapter from computer to computer, and from my phone too..

but i dont think that you want to hear those annoying stuff, lol so here it goes, i presented two chapters instead of one! haha i hope im not bore you to death with the story line, and please do tell me if you think it became draggy. Im trying my best to write it and do the fit in with what really happened in the real life.

as you can see, the time setting has moved to the end of Nov 2010, so the next update would have Minho's birthday, and many other stuffs too! and if you noticed, I brought the actress Son Eun Seo to be in this chapter, in case you havent known her yet, she appeared in Oh! My School or 100 points out of 100. She will or will not have a bigger role in One Day Series, just wait until my next update xD

and also, Kara's Nicole is here too.. please do give me comments about how you think of Key and Nicole!

well then, i hope you can enjoyed this two chapters, and thank you so much for the comments! I will try to reply as soon as i can..

z. 

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reazzure
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Chapter 40: Zee~ I'm coming!!! :DD Sorry for super late comment..
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Finally you're back, after a year and 3 months. (OMG
did I really count it? kkkkk) You do know that I really
miss ODS, rite Zee? ;))

Anyway back to story.
Oh my I love those little SHINee moment in the car
when Taemin called Noona. I can imagine what're they
doing there. Ah and Kibum in the dorm too.. :DD
WHAT??? Just like Kibum's, thats my reaction too when
Minho said those words. Why Minho, why?? Even
though it was Noona who say those 'break up' word
but we knew that actually it was Minho who suggest it. I
think there must be something wrong before Minho's
coming.
And I want to cry even though I already knew that
Noona and Minho might be break up. (oh no my
OTP!!! :'(()
Tbh I really never want they break up (I know you
know.. :D) but ofc, I'm just your reader and you're the
author.. :p
But I hope we'll see some happy moment (?) in next
chap..

Don't worry Zee, your readers will not ever tired of waiting. We'll wait patiently.. Just take your time dear.. :))

p.s thanks for coming back, Zee!! :))) *run*
chasethestars #2
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I think it's pretty safe to assume at this point Minho's willing to shoot down his own ego, if not for the relationship, then something he can apply in daily life. He's humble, yes, but the fragility of his ego is so easily provoked when his competitive streak is touched on, whether it be performing, acting, or just simple [simple-complex?] relationship things that could be solved in a minute if he doesn't argue back... [Lemme stop before I go off a tangent again XD;;]

And, oh hi Changmin, hi~~~! X3 Why do you suddenly have a cameo here? *O* LOL. But Changmin cracking jokes about hitting on noona is a bit weird for me. I dunno, it's so... un-Changmin-like? ^^; Because no matter how Changmin likes girls [and checking them out LOL], he's the type of guy who backs off of his friends' girlfriends. Or at least from what I know of/observed about him based on 127172 interviews and what he himself has revealed in said 12772 interviews. I don't make much sense do I OTL

I'm not sure if you did it on purpose, but I think you just chucked in the possible ending of ODS somewhere in this update XD Unless I am overthinking it, then I could be wrong >.< I have to ask when you started writing this, though? And when you completed it, too ^^ Because the writing for this chapter seems a bit different from the previous chapter/s; kinda "fresh" as in recently written, because the voice in this update, even if it still sounds ike you, comes off a bit, erm, simple? As in simple-plain, not simple-eloquent, like what I'm used to reading from you. [Don't kill me ^^;]

A~nd, there we go! Wordvomit all over the place, I am so sorry ;____; I hope the inspiration for this story stays with you until the end ^o^ And like I told you, don't think too much about the absence. People who intend to stick with this story will stick to it no matter what, so even if you're gone a long time and come back with the next part, you will always find an audience in them ^^

Until the next update~! ^o^
chasethestars #3
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Wah, wah, wah~, you're back! After a year and some number of months! XD It's crazy but I remember where exactly you left off, but maybe because of the gap between your last update and now, I had to skim the previous chapter to fill in the blanks. Regardless, I managed not to get too lost so yay~ 8D

Anyway. I think I saw the breakup coming from a mile away? Or maybe several chapters prior? What is probably surprising is how calm the entire setup is, from Minho taking noona to the corner to talk, and you know there's something going to happen, to the suggestion of the breakup, to both parties being so... well, calm about it ^^; I mean you left it at a cliffhanger [and Key, as expected, is the one who had a heart attack XD] and there might be more about it on the next chapter, but the feeling they both gave off spoke something akin to "Well, we've been dancing around the subject for so long so we might as well just face it" rather than the expected [?] "I hope you're not going to say it because I don't want it--and neither should you". A cool breakup of sorts. Unless there will be rage and tears and angst-ing in the future chapter/s, and then realize they can't really live without each other so they go scrambling back to each other's arms when not even three days have passed--or, heaven forbid, 24 hours. And. Well... ^^;

I like what noona said about dreams, though. It's not over until the dreamer him/herself says it's over. Just that the question here is, what holds more weight for noona? Is it her dreams, or is it her relationship? People have two hands but they can't hold on to two things at the same time, because those hands are meant to carry the entire weight of the most precious thing them. Or something. [Don't mind me going off a tangent here LOL T_T]
tyatyonk88
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Chapter 40: WHAT??!!WAAEEEE???? *screaming with Key*
chasethestars #5
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Initially I was also unsure of why Minho would choose to tell noona the story behind Yuri; I mean, noona might have unintentionally triggered the memories he has of her so he chose to spill everything, but he could have either stopped and left it for another day, or simply did not touch on the subject of getting to know each other more at all. On another perspective, maybe it's time they broke the unwritten rule between them and try delving in deeper into each other's souls. They've shared a lot of things already that could make their relationship strong, but have they really fully given their entire selves to the other person? At the end of the day, no matter what happened to the other in the past or what [negative feeling] they felt about what they've heard, if the fact remains that love is still there, then nothing should really change much.<br />
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If Minho's thinking of doing anything rash to Lee Oppa, that would be so not like him, but at the same time it would be fun to read about XD [I think the boy is much too respectful of his elders to even strike a fist at them, especially if they deserve it.] Minho might have been binded by his surge of emotions about whatever Taemin told him, so he had better not do anything that will compromise him, noona, their relationship, and the group as well. Remember Minho: there are plenty of eyes watching your every move, and in the world you live in, one mistake is more than enough to ruin everything, if not [continually] used against you ^^;;<br />
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That was quite a long chapter, even if it only covered 2 journal entries ^^;; Oh yeah, just a heads-up: this line--"The boys caught the serious flu during Ring Ding Dong days last year, remember?"--should be fixed, because the 3 boys caught the flu in 2009, and since the diary entry is dated 2011, that should make it 2 years ago =3<br />
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A~nd, that's it for now~. You've been busy lately so don't worry too much about updating; just do it when you have time to spare, okay? ^^
chasethestars #6
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I knew I told you in the past that I'd reveal if one of my guesses is correct regarding this entire "Who squealed on the secret relationship?", but for the life of me, I can only remember bits and pieces of that particular conversation .___. Although yes! I was alllllmost right about Taem being the source of it all [albeit indirectly + unintentionally]! 8D I worry for this boy; sometimes he's just too pure, and if we connect it to this predicament, it brings about unexpected trouble for everyone. But it's good he finally confessed to noona about what he had done--it's not easy doing so, considering that they have a pretty close bond, and poor Taem must've been stressed over how to come clean with it, if not losing sleep over it ^^;;<br />
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I have to say I was surprised with the "Lee Oppa likes noona" plot twist; I didn't really see it coming since it wasn't that visible [even from earlier chapters], and although he was the nicer of the two assistants, I've only seen his actions as brotherly-like. [So it's either the hints weren't that strong to incite suspicion from readers, or they were subtly planted here and there but came off as faint instead; thus, the relatively weak delivery? ^^;;] On the flip side, re-reading what he had told noona from the past chapter, there seems to be some sort of underlying disappointment and, perhaps, a tinge of resentment that Minho and noona have managed to scrape through the big hurdle that is the almighty manager, albeit barely. [But that could just be me and looking into things too much, ahaha~ XDD;;]<br />
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How ironic is it for Minho to demand honesty from noona with everything when it took him longer to do it? XD;; [And the nerve of him to get sulky, too! LOL.]
tyatyonk88
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You make make anticipating your next chapter zeeeee,,OMG OMG what will happen?? >o<<br />
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LOL i bet i shocked you in the middle of the night with Taeminnie pict,,he's pweeety xD<br />
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my fave line in this chap --> “You deserve to be more than a hidden truth, Noona-ah.”<br />
:D :D :D<br />
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good luck with work zeee :D
chasethestars #8
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Manager Lee's words make me assume something, but I dunno... it's a very "normal" assumption one would be able to make right away, so I shall wait for further development [or maybe think over more thoroughly] before saying anything ^^<br />
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I think you were able to achieve your goal well with this chapter, but at the same time, there were lots of excess baggage thrown in that the chapter could have done without. There were also some parts in this chapter that gave me the impression you were either bored or disliked writing them because: 1) some bits of dialogue seemed to be dragging on and/or were completely unnecessary [they could have been trimmed out and the story would still be intact]; and 2) you just wanted to get to the good stuff [which is mainly noona's meeting of Minho's family]; thus, the impatience to finish the other parts ^^;; I'm not sure what your state of mind was during the writing process, but you might want to be careful about this in future chapters.<br />
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Pushing that aside and the realization that about 3/4 of this chapter was more of filler than something connected to the original plot, small [?] problems continue to pile one after another. When will trouble stop following this couple? It's like their story is never-ending XD;; Continue writing and update again when time allows~! ^^
chasethestars #9
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The once-secret relationship is slowly being made known within the circle. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not, provided they are still employee-client, and you don't really know what tomorrow might bring. Today it could only be 2 sunbaes and an entire family. Tomorrow you could get caught by stalker fans [can't forget these people and their ninja skills], and the day after that you'd find animal carcasses at your doorstep with death threats smeared all over your door in red paint. Disturbing .___. While having the secret out in the open is more comfortable, and it's admittedly one thorn out of Minho and noona's sides, they should map out their next game plan. The managers exercised their professionalism but that's only because Minho is their charge and noona is part of their staff, and schedules are packed so internal strife is the last thing they want to happen. But what about the others? And the days to come?<br />
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As for Minho suddenly planning a meeting between noona and his family: really? Must it really be this way? I know he's anxious and can't wait to introduce the girl to his family, but there is a place and time for everything >> If I didn't know Minho any better, it's like this is his way of getting back at noona for telling the managers about their relationship without his knowledge. Can't really stand it, can he? Way to be petty, Minho; really. LOL.<br />
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About Taemin and the jacket, that was a live performance for some event in Daejon back in August, not a rehearsal--unless I'm mistaken and we're thinking of different videos XD He's still acting strange but I already told you my first assumption regarding this, and I'm still waiting for something else to appear before I say the second thing on my mind. So yeah, still waiting~ XD