If it wasn’t for Sooyoung’s birthday, I wouldn’t even be here right now. Jessica, Sunny, Oppa, and I were all in an elevator heading up to TYS’s dorm. His birthday was three days ago, but since everyone was busy with their own schedules and everything today was the only night everyone invited had free. Well not everyone of course. Our maknae couldn’t make it as well as Victoria unnie from f(x). Besides that I wasn’t even sure who else was coming.

“Now remember Tiffany. Once other guests arrive you can’t be hanging on to Taeyeon, got it?”

“Oh, don’t worry oppa. That won’t be happening,” I said firmly. I didn’t even want to see him tonight.

It’s been a week since the Ideal World Cup aired and I still can’t get over the fact that he picked Hara as his second place. I knew there had to be a runner up, but Hara? Seriously? She wasn’t even that cute!

Alright, maybe she was, but whatever. He could have picked anyone else and I would have been perfectly okay with it. Well maybe not perfectly, but I’d definitely be more alright with it. I don’t even know why she got me so worked up, okay so maybe I do, but it still doesn’t change that fact that he’s just encouraging her! Whatever Tiffany, you are here for Sooyoung tonight.

We rang the doorbell and soon were greeted by a dapper looking Yuri. “O-oh annyeonghaseyo! Come in,” he said motioning us inside. We did so and then I heard him speak again. “Hyung aren’t you coming?”

“Ani. I’ll be back at 11 if you all don’t call me beforehand to pick you up. Ah Hanyoung-ssi are you ready?” I then saw the boys’ manager walking toward us.

“Ne, let’s go. Taeyeon don’t be stupid. The others you all invited should be here anytime. Have a good time.”

I turned to where he was looking and saw Taeyeon looking at me so I quickly turned back around. I didn’t want to face him yet… or at all really. We watched our managers walk back in to the elevator. Were they really leaving us here alone though? That’s odd.

“Hyung said that he had to meet a producer or two about getting us on a few more shows. Yours must be going too.” I heard someone who must have read my mind say. I turned to see that Sooyoung was now near us.

“Waah! Happy Birthday Sooyoungie,” I cheered as I pulled him in to a hug. He really was like a not so little brother to me. I then felt Sunny join in. As we released from the hug I heard the last voice I wanted to hear right now. A voice I knew all too well.

“Don’t I get one too?”

As much as I wanted to give in right then and there and just hug him, I had to resist the urge. I was still mad and I needed to stand my ground right?

Sunny however gave in to him and gave him a hug as well. I watched them, well him. He looked very nice tonight, but that might just have been from me not seeing him at all for like a week, or just the fact that he looked good well… always. I tried to look away but I couldn’t. He was so attractive, oh my god. He was laughing as he hugged Sunny showing off so many of my favorite features. His adorable eye smile, his cute little chin dimple and just his smile in general, which was perfect I might add. Was it getting warm in here? No? Right, I need to move away from this.

I shook out of my lingering thoughts and went further in to their dorm. I was surprised at its size. They must be doing better than I  had thought. It was a fairly good sized place, especially for only three members. It was also surprisingly clean. There weren’t really any decorations or accents either, but since they’ve been here for less than a week I decided to cut them some slack.

“Fany-ah.”

Oh no, he found me. What do I do? Run? No. Be cool Tiffany, I told myself a few times before I responded.

“Hmm?” I turned to face him. Oh gosh, he was looking at me in the most puppydog-ish way, ahh. It was taking all I had in me not to give in.

“I-I’m really sorry,” he said as he took a step closer. Oh no. I had to stop him. His touch would have been the end of my cold shoulder.

I took a step back and put up my hand. “Don’t.” Wow that came out way harsher than I wanted it to. It worked however as I saw him stop moving and his eyes grow wider. Oh no, now what do I do?

My anxiety dissipated however when Taeyeon said he was sorry one more time before turning to walk away. On one hand I was glad he left, for I didn’t know if I could have resisted much longer, but on the other hand I was a little mad he didn’t try harder. Giving up after like a minute? Who does that?

Never mind, I knew. My little kind, soft hearted Taetae does that. Ugh, I did feel a little bit bad about it now. I don’t think I’m even that mad anyway. I’m not really sure if I even was that mad to begin with. He looked so crushed too. Did I go too far?

“Hey Tiff,” I heard a male voice say from behind me interrupting my inner monologue.

“Oh, hey Soo. When is everyone else supposed to get here,” I asked curiously trying to make a quick conversation. I was sort of anxious to see everyone now that I think about it. I haven’t got to see the f(x) girls for a while.

“Well Hyuna said that she and Jihyun-ssi would be here in around a half an hour, I’m not sure about everyone else.”

“Ahh it will be fun to hang out with someone who isn’t under our company for a bit huh,” I said in playful way. It really would be fun. We usually only hang around with SM company artists, although we do have friends that aren't under SM, the number is small. Not because of any hate or dislike of other companies, we just are always around them. We mingle with almost all the other idols of course, but not in a more, I don’t know, intimate setting? I was looking forward to it.

“Yeah, I’ve always known her, so I guess it’s not as exciting for me.” He said with a few laughs. “Hey uhm,” he started. He was being sort of cautious now. “Has uh… Has Jessica said anything about the show?”

It took a second for me to get what he said because he said it so quick, but once it registered I didn’t know what to say. She had, but she also said that she wasn’t interested in him in that way at all. I couldn’t tell him that though right? I looked at his face which was staring straight back at me now very intently. Nope I could definitely not tell him, it would crush him.

“No, not to me at least. Sorry Sooyoung-ah,” I lied as I turned my head away.

“Oh it’s alright, let me know if she does” he paused. “By the way, go easy on Taengo, he really didn’t mean to piss you off.” I looked at him so quickly I might have actually pulled something. “I don’t know if he told you why but…” He trailed off as he looked around quickly, assumingly looking for Taeyeon. “But Hyung said that he couldn’t pick you, like at all. So when he blatantly picked Hara, Taeng thought hyung wouldn’t get as mad with him. Then he picked you and hyung went crazy, and I’m sure you know the rest.”  The doorbell then went off. With one final look at me he spoke, “I’ll be right back,” and then walked away.

As he walked away I thought about what he had just said. Was that really what happened? Taeyeon did try to explain it to me, but he didn’t say anything that Sooyoung had just said at all. Instead he said things along the lines of ‘I didn’t mean it’ and ‘it was because of hyung,’ but he didn’t elaborate on it at all.

Well he might have, after the first few messages from him I stopped even reading them. I silently cursed myself now for doing so. I guess I could see why he chose that way now, I didn't even think about it like that. However I was still a little ticked off that it was Hara. Seriously, anyone else would have been fine. Ugh! Alright, deep breaths Tiffany.

Now I just needed to find him. I guess maybe it was time to give in, or at least make him explain. I started to look around only to get intercepted by a newly arriving Choi Sulli.

“Unnie!”

“Hey Sulli, I didn’t see you guys come in. How’s your album coming,” I asked while continuing to scan the dorm.

“It’s coming along. Congrats on winning Music Bank yesterday though.”

“Ah thank you Sulli-yah,” I said as I mentally cheered. I spotted him. “Hey, I’ll be back in a bit okay?” I didn’t really stay to hear her response and I made my way to their kitchen area. I saw him talking to Yuri and Amber.

“Unnie! How are you,” Amber asked me as soon as I reached them causing Yuri and Taeyeon to both look my way.

“I’m alright Amber, how about you?”

“I’m great. Isn’t their dorm awesome? It’s not as cool as yours, but it’s still pretty good huh?”

I laughed at her comments. Amber never failed to cheer me up with her simple and laid back attitude. I was about to respond when Yuri spoke up first.

“This isn’t anything, come here and look at this view. It’s incredible!” He then pulled Amber to follow him. I wanted to thank him for doing that so Taeyeon and I could be alone, but I’m pretty sure he knew seeing how he turned back momentarily and mouthed the words ‘you’re welcome’ to us. I smiled at his gesture and turned to face Taeyeon.

“Oh,” escaped my lips as I faced him, he was a lot closer than I remembered he was a few seconds ago.

“Tiffany-ah, I’m really sorry,” he said while looking me in the eye. I didn’t even need to see his expression to know that he was being sincere. I could hear it in his voice. It was totally time to give ‘cold Tiffany’ a break. “It was because Hyung had sa-“

“Stop,” I said interrupting him. He looked even more worried now as his eyes grew in size like before. Crap I didn’t mean to sound so harsh, again. “No, not that, I ju-. Err. I’m not mad.” He looked confused now which only made me giggle a little before continuing. “Sooyoung told me what happened. I guess I understand, just don’t pick Hara for anything ever again okay?”

His eyes were nearly popping out of his sockets at my news. He then started nodding his head rapidly. “Ne, I understand,” he said excitedly as he wrapped his arms around me pulling me in to a very tight hug. As much as I wanted to stay there, I had to push myself away. Quickly too, there were four people here that didn’t know about Taeyeon and I had planned on keeping that way. I put my hands against his soft yet firm stomach and pushed hard once successfully getting him a few inches away.

“Taeyeon-ah, we can’t. They don’t know,” I said softly as I nodded my head in the direction of the living room area which almost everyone was. Almost.

“We don’t know what unnie?”

Oh no. No, this didn’t just happen. I turned to see a confused Sulli and a smirking Amber.

“Uh, uhm, aniyo! It’s nothing. What are you two doing here?” I was trying to swiftly change the subject, hopefully they didn’t see anything.

“Oh uhm, Sooyoung oppa said to go get the snacks from in here,” Sulli explained innocently. I let out a breath of relief. Thank god she didn’t notice anything. Now I wonder if Amber… Damnit she totally saw. The look on her face says it all.

“Right, they’re right over there,” Taeyeon cut in as he pointed to another counter in the kitchen.

“Ah! Thanks oppa!” Sulli then turned around and picked up one of the trays of food.

As soon as she was gone Amber opened . “You know, I don’t think that was nothing unnie.”

“Yah! Get out of here,” I almost shouted as I pushed her away from us.

“Alright, just let me know first when you two decide to reveal it all,” she said as she laughed and then ran out of the room just before I could retaliate.

I could not believe that just happened. Thinking about it only caused my jaw to drop and my mind to draw a blank. Amber knew? Amber knew. Amber knows!

I felt a hand entwine with mine so I turned around to face Taeyeon.

“She…she knows Tae,” I said as I squeezed his hand in mine.

“Hey, hey don’t worry,” he said as he slightly caressed my face. “It’s just Amber, she won’t go and tell anyone Fany-ah… Well maybe her members, but they’d find out anyway right?”

He did have a point. Since they were under SM and we had permission to be able to act freely there, they were sure to see us sooner or later. Still it worried me. It’s not that I don’t want people to know we’re dating. In fact I wanted people to know, especially a certain female who may or may not be an idol…named Hara. But as the president said, once the fans knew I’m sure things would go haywire and not be okay for either of us. Taeyeon was just starting out too, I didn’t want to ruin his chances at an even bigger fan base then he had now, which was surprisingly large for the fact that TYS has only been active for almost exactly six months.

“Fany-ah, let’s tell them.”

“Wait what?” Did I just hear him right? I couldn’t have.

“Let’s tell the f(x) members. They’re going to find out anyway right?”

Crap, I did. The more I thought about it though the more I could tell that he was right, but wait. Why did we need to tell them if they were just going to figure it out anyway?

“But Taeyeon,” I said and paused. Was I ready to tell them?

“Fany-ah, if they know, we won’t have to worry about it anymore. We will be able to do this,” he said as he squeezed my hand, “and this,” he pulled me closer, “and especially, this,” he said right before he brought himself in quickly and kissed my lips.

I again reacted way too slowly to be able to stop him, or maybe I just let him. Whoops. I then quickly tried to regained my composure and look around to see if anyone had seen that. Thankfully there no one was around.

I looked at him looking contently back at me. Maybe it was a good idea to let them know. In the future it won’t be awkward for us to be closer while f(x) is around either. So it definitely had more than one plus. The only negative thing I could think of is that someone would let the press know, but I know for a fact that I can trust everyone here. They wouldn’t tell anyone. I guess there really wasn’t anything that could go wrong with this. One last look at the loving gaze he was giving had reassured me to the fullest.

“Okay,” I said weakly.

“Fany-ah but… Wait a minute. Did you say yes?” I nodded. “Ahh! Jinjja? You really want to?”

Watching him get so excited over this was so cute. I felt a smile creep to my face as I knew I definitely made the right choice now. “Yeah Taetae, let’s go tell them.” He excitedly scooted me in to the living area where everyone was. I took a deep breath as he said the next few words.

“Hello everyone! Thank you for all coming tonight for Sooyou-“

“Yah Taengo not everyone is here!”

“I know, that’s why I’m doing this,” he said and then continued again. “As I was saying, thank you for all coming tonight, but before anyone else gets here I wanted, er uh… we wanted to tell you something,” he said as he grabbed my hand and pulled me closer to him. Oh god this is really happening.

 I saw Taeyeon looking at me funny, oh! I guess this is where he wanted me to talk? Okay then. “Right, and since we trust everyone here we didn’t think it would be a problem for you all to keep it on the down low…” I trailed off and looked at everyone looking back at us. The ones who already knew were looking at us in disbelief while the other three and a half looked a little confused and a little anxious all at the same time. Amber, who was the half, was just smirking up at us both. This was all too much.

“Tiffany and I are dating.”

I head a few squeals and gasps and then the questions came running in.

“Since when?” “Does the president know?” “Oh my god Tiffany is the beautiful stranger?” “I knew it!”

“Since October, and yes the president does know.”

“And yeah, she’s totally the beautiful stranger,” Taeyeon said as he wrapped his arm around me only earning a few more squeals from the girls.

We answered a few more of their questions, before Amber suddenly stood.

“You guys do look really good together,” Amber said as she walked a little closer to us.

“Thank you, but really how did you know?” He asked the question that I wanted to know as well.

“Oh that? Aish, wasn’t it was obvious you guys were in to each other? I thought so at least…”

“Not for me. I mean you both said you’re each other’s ideal right? I just thought the awkwardness was because of that.” Sulli said from behind Amber.

What awkwardness?

I was about to ask, but just then the doorbell rang again. It had to have been the other guests. I quickly looked around to see everyone still kind of shocked that we revealed our relationship.

“Okay, you all seriously have to keep this classified okay?”

The four that had just learned our secret all looked at me and nodded.

“Of course unnie, we wouldn’t tell anyone,” Krystal said before standing up to get ready to greet the guests that Soo was about to let inside.

I nodded reassuringly and quickly pecked Taeyeon’s cheek. Once the new people arrived we still couldn’t be on each other, so I had to get that out of my system. Seconds later two girls came inside and greeted all of us. Not much longer after that a few of the boys from SHINee showed up as well.

After about an hour the SHINee boys had to go, and then an hour or so after that Hyuna and Jihyun left as well. It was just the f(x) girls, TYS, and the three of us now, and I was thankful. As soon as the door closed behind the two girls I felt arms wrap around my waist and pull me backward. The only thing I could do was smile as I leaned back in to him.

“Aigo! You guys are seriously too cute,” a very excited Luna almost shouted.

Although I appreciated their support I really wanted to just talk to him and maybe also not talk a little. So I decided I needed to get him away. Ah we could always go to the balcony, eh never mind, it’s too cold for that, let’s see… I scanned the dorm. Duh! I could have hit myself upside the head.

“Taeyeon-ah,” I called softly. I heard him ‘hmm’ so I continued on. “I want to see your room.”

“Jin-jinjja? Ri-right now?” He seemed way too shocked right now, and a little flustered. Wait a second. Did he think I wanted to…

“Yah,” I shouted and moved from his arms. “Not anything like that pabo-yah.” Okay maybe a little like that, but I needed to talk to him first. And I couldn’t just tell him about that. I saw him then start to turn red as he bent his head down and apologized. “Ani, don’t apologize. Let’s just go, okay?”

“Okay, come on,” he said as he took my hand and pulled me along. I heard a few ‘ooohs’ as we went in the direction of his room, but I didn’t really care.

Soon enough we were both inside his room. I looked around and saw almost nothing around besides a few boxes, a bed, and a small nightstand. I sat my bag down and continued to explore.

“You’re the first girl to come in my room.”

“I better be the last too,” I immediately snapped back. Omo, where did that come from?

“I can’t promise that,” he said while smiling. Oh my god is he serious? How can he say such a thing right now? And with a smile! Oh no.

“Yah Kim Taeyeon, who do you think you are?” He was laughing now. I however did not find this funny at all.

“Fany Fany Fany, don’t be mad. I just don’t think my mom and little sister would be too pleased with me if I didn’t let them in,” he said smugly as he wrapped his arms around me once again. Wow was I embarrassed now though. I didn’t even think about his family. I leaned my head on to his chest and apologized under my breath. “What was that Fany-ah?”

“Ugh, I said I was sorry I got angry. Just don’t trick me like that again.” I could now see he was smiling after I changed my position slightly wrapping my arms around his neck. “What is that look for?”

“Nothing, you’re just really cute when you’re jealous.”

I opened my mouth to to retort, but I really didn’t have anything to say. He was right. I was feeling a tiny bit jealous, so I just leaned against him again in hopes he wouldn’t see my reddening face. I couldn’t help to feel that being in his arms was the best feeling in the world. Just the two of us. No worries and no noise. Just us.

“I’m kind of bummed we won’t get to spend tomorrow together,” he said finally breaking the silence. Tomorrow? What’s tomorr-

“Ah! Valentine’s Day! I prepared something for you,” I said as I quickly moved away from him. I headed to my bag and begun looking inside. Finally finding what I was searching for I started to turn back to him. “Close your eyes!”

“Ugh, fine… I still feel bad I didn’t get you anything.” That made me smile yet again.

“Good! That means you listened to me,” I said as I remembered back to when I told him not to get me anything for Valentine’s Day. It was my turn to be the gift giver! As I walked back I noticed that he was sitting on his bed with his eye’s closed. This made for an even better opportunity. I went in front of him and then swiftly put myself on his lap, both legs surrounding his.

“Pa-Fany-ah, wh-what are you doing?”

I smiled at his slip up. He was even so nervous he started to pronounce my name incorrectly. I then saw him start to open his eyes so I quickly brought my free hand to cover them. “Nuh-uh Taetae. Say ah,” I ordered as I took out one of the items inside the small box I had set beside us and then fed it to him.

“Mmm! Fany-ah what is this it’s really good!” I removed my hand from his eyes and held up the cookie he had just taken a bite out of along with the box with the rest of them inside. “Did you make them? Ahh!”

I laughed and then let him take another bite as I explained. “Yes sir! I made them earlier. With a little bit of help of course.” Okay a lot of help, but I couldn’t tell him that. Seohyun practically helped me all day today. This batch of cookies was the third set we even made because I royally screwed up the first two times.

“Well they are very good,” he said as he smiled at me.

“Thank you Taeyeon-ah. Now close your eyes again.” He did so and I quickly set the container of cookies down beside us again and got the other items ready.

I put mine on myself and then took his hand in mine. “Keep your arm just like this okay?” He nodded and I continued to put his on him. “Ah! There open.” As he opened his eyes I put my wrist by his to show him that they were in fact matching.

After studying the two newly purchased white watches that were now on our wrists he looked up to meet my eyes. “I really like it Fany… You didn’t have to get me anything this nice though.” I rolled my eyes slightly. Okay so it might have been name brand and a little pricier than normal watches, but was money really an issue here?

“Oh shut up Tae, you got me both of these,” I said as I held up my hand and then grabbed my necklace to show him I was wearing both of the things he had bought me. Normally I would only wear one or the other, but on days I saw Taeyeon I wear both. The way his face lights up when he notices me wearing them is the most adorable thing I've ever seen.

“So I wanted to get us a couple item too,” I explained and then wrapped my arms around his neck, which was even easier since I was straddling him. We sat in silence just like that for a minute or so looking at each other before anyone spoke.