March 9th Pt. 1
Into the New World
“Are you sure you like this one the best?”
“Yes, yes, yes a hundred times yes,” Sooyoung said with a bit of attitude.
“Okay fine, jeesh. I’m just trying to get it right for tomorrow,” I said as I picked up the papers across the table.
“Hey, don’t worry so much Taeng, they’ll love it.” I really did hope so. I began to reread it. “Noona will love it too.”
“Are you sure,” I immediately asked. I was a little worried about her liking it. Well a lot worried.
“Yeah it’s really cutely written. I just hope we can pull off the look when we have to preform it.”
“Ohh come on Soo, we can be super cute if we want to be. Some of us don’t even have to try,” I joked as I posed with my hands under my chin and batted my eyes.
“Aish, get out of here, I’m trying to eat!”
I laughed. “Fine,” I said as I stood to start walking to my room. “When aren’t you though?”
“Yah!”
I scurried to my room in fear that Soo would be coming after me then closed the door behind me. Setting the papers on my desk I let out a sigh. Tomorrow was going to be very nerve racking. I just hope they like it.
Tomorrow was also my birthday. I will officially be 22. Jeesh, I can’t believe I’m already this old.
Even though everyone is busy tomorrow, I’m hoping we can at least do something here in the dorm tomorrow night. I’m sure they wouldn’t deny me cake right?
Sooyoung said he had to finish up the song he was working on with Hyuna while Yuri had a couple of auditions or something? So I’m not really sure if we will be able to all get together. I was crossing my fingers.
What made me the saddest was that Tiffany was going to be busy too. SNSD had a schedule tomorrow night, and we couldn’t do anything in the morning because I had to meet with the producers. It was really times like these where I wished I wasn’t an idol. I mean just give me a day once in a while without the paparazzi or reporters coming at me and I would be more than happy.
Oh well. I’d better try to sleep while I could, I thought. We’d start to prepare for our single soon and that only means longer practices, later nights, and earlier mornings, aka no sleep.
Soon I could see the light peeking through my window as I felt myself start to wake up. My body protested as much as it could before my mind finally won. I was awake. I reached for my watch, which was on the side table, and put it on with a smile on my face the whole time. Ah, Tiffany! I reached toward the table again but this time grabbing my phone. I hit the home button to check for messages, but there weren’t any.
It was past nine. Hmm, that’s odd. She might have had a late schedule? I don’t remember her saying anything though… I’ll go ahead and text her.
Text Message
To: Fany
Good morning Fany-ah. Did you sleep well?
I put my phone away and checked the time on my watch once more. 9:45. Hyung said we were meeting them at noon, so I might as well go ahead and get myself prepared. I stepped out of bed and began to get ready.
Exiting the bathroom expecting to be greeted by a sleepy Yuri or an eating Sooyoung, but no one was here. “Seriously,” I asked no one in particular. Where was everyone? I checked their rooms just to make sure they weren’t still sleeping. Nope, not there either.
I decided to make some food since everyone had left me here. Alone. I walked toward the kitchen. Just then I saw a piece of paper with some writing on it on the counter. Ah, they at least left a note! ‘Yul and Soo’s schedules got moved up, I’ll be back at 11:30.’ I flipped the paper over. “Seriously, not even a ‘Happy Birthday’?” I heavily sighed as I began to make breakfast. I wanted to do something easy, so I just fried up a couple of eggs and made some toast.
Just as I sat down my phone started to ring. I quickly pulled it out and checked the ID. I smiled, “At least she didn’t forget about me. Yeboseyo?”
“Ne, Taeyeon-ah. It’s me.”
“Umma, I know,” I laughed. I still don’t think she quite grasped the concept of caller ID. “Have you eaten?”
“Don’t worry about me my son. Happy Birthday!”
“Thank you mom. How are dad and Hayeon?” I was pretty curious about my family, but especially my little sister. I haven’t seen them in a little over a year unfortunately and I know she has had to have grown so much by now. She was going to be 10 this year.
“They’re fine, they miss you. Hayeon watches you all the time on television, we all do” my mom said which made me smile. I just wish I could have been there instead. I missed them so much. “How are Yuri and Sooyoung?” I laughed again. My mom always cared too much about other people. She had taken a particular liking to them. Ever since the training days she had been very welcoming toward them. She acted almost like they were actually related to us. It made me love her even more.
I just hope she treats Tiffany that well when they finally meet. What am I saying? Of course she will. Who doesn’t love Tiffany?
“Taeyeon?”
“Oh right, they’re their usual selves. I’ll tell them you asked about them. They’ll be glad to hear it.”
“Ne. Well, I have to go. I just wanted to tell you Happy Birthday real quick. I’ll call you later when your father and sister get home so we can all talk to you.”
“Okay mom. I-I love you,” I said weakly. I really missed her.
“Stay healthy. I love you too Taeyeon.” Then the line went dead. I finished breakfast in sad silence as I just kept thinking about my family, and how I couldn’t be with them. Three or so years of my life were almost completely without them.
The only good thing that has come out of that is now I have my own family, well sort of. Yuri and Sooyoung were like the brothers I’ve never had, and Sunny. I guess she was more like an older sister to me even though she’s a bit younger. Then there was Tiffany. Oh, Tiffany. I would have never been half as happy as I am now if I never went down this path.
Suddenly my phone rang and I answered it hopefully, without even looking at the ID. Maybe Tiffany was finally awake!
“Yeboseyo!”
“Ne, Taengo. I’m parked in front of the building. Come down quick, don’t forget to lock up.” I heard the phone click off again.
“Well that was disappointing,” I said aloud. I put the dishes that were still in front of me in to the sink and headed down stairs, making sure to lock up.
Minutes later we were walking into the room that the producers would be meeting us in in just a little while.
“Taeyeon, calm down,” my manager said from across the table. I couldn’t really help it though. This was intimidating. This is my song, my words. And they’re about to be judged by multiple people. Not to mention I’m alone. Well hyung is here, but Soo and Yuri were not.
“What if they hate it?”
“Aish, Taeyeon stop. I read it, it’s a good song. Don’t worry. Lee Soo-man will like it too.”
“Do you really th-“ Wait a minute, did he say the president? “L-Lee Soo-man?”
“Oh, yeah. I forgot to tell you. This time the president is coming to go over the song as well.”
He forgot to tell me. How does someone even forget that!? Oh my god. I knew he assisted in the editing and the final production of our songs, but just for this? If I wasn’t nervous before...
A few minutes later I heard the door open. I turned to see three men walking in. Standing to greet and introduce myself I recognized two of them. One was the PD that was sort of in charge of our album last time, and the other was of course the president.
“Hello Taeyeon-ssi, I’m sure you know our other producer here,” I nodded. “And this is one of our best when it comes to creating music. We’re going to try to somewhat put music to your song. To help us get a better feel for it,” The president explained.
“Oh th-that sounds awesome.” They call came inside and took seats at the table.
“Please have a seat,” LSM said as he gestured toward a chair. Ouch, that’s embarrassing. I had been standing way longer than I needed to be. I quickly sat down. “Can we see the song you’ve chosen?”
Crap right! The song. “Right, yeah. Here it is,” I said as I pulled out a few sheets of paper from my back pack. “We made a couple copies of it earlier,” I explained shyly. Come on Taengo! Pull yourself together.
“Thank you.”
I was watching their faces for any signs of immediate dislike. Seeing how they didn’t make any drastic changes I figured they must either have great poker faces, or actually like it. The last one clearly wasn’t poss-
“I like it,” the man in charge of music said, surprising me.
“Jinjja?”
He nodded. “How were you thinking of it sounding though?”
“That’s what I’m curious about as well. Can you sing a verse or so for us?”
Well I obviously couldn’t refuse the president’s request. I took the paper in front of me and started singing the song how I thought it should sound.
After a few verses the president held his hand up signaling me to stop. “That’s a very different sound than last time,” he said with a small smile on his face. Oh god he hated it. “I guess it could still fit your image, since we really haven’t specified one for TYS. You’ll have to up your cute factor this time for sure.”
Wait does he not hate it?
“Don’t worry sir, I can guarantee they can be as cute as you need them to be,” my manager said.
“Very well. Is there any other notes to make before we get started?”
I tried to hurry and think of any points I may have missed. Hmm, I couldn’t really think of anything. “Oh! Yeah. This part here, would be Sooyoung rapping. So I don’t know if you would want to add any special music effects or not. Other than that there are not really any other concerns. I trust you completely.”
“Alright then. Give us a few minutes and we’ll be ready to get started.”
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“Sooyoung-ah! How much time do we have?!”
“Probably about thirty minutes Noona. Hyung is still trying to talk him in to going out,” he explained.
“Do you think we went too hard on him?” I felt kind of bad about all this. We have all been ignoring him all day. I mean I’ve only sent him two texts all day. Two! Sunny even took my phone so I don’t give in. Ugh…
“Nah, he’ll be alright. He’s the strong one remember? Hey has Yuri arrived yet?”
“I guess so, and I think? I thought I just saw him.” Sooyoung had arrived from his schedule about an hour ago. Just a little after we all got here. He said something about Yuri probably running late, but I couldn’t really pay attention. There were too many things running through my head at the time.
I looked around the room we had rented out. We decided to go to one of Taeyeon’s favorite restaurants to rent out their private room, and we made sure it was so. No security cameras or anything thank god. Plus it’s on the second floor, so no one would be able to peek in the windows.
I had covered everything, or at least tried to. After being told Taeyeon was very hard to catch off guard I had to double check to make sure that everything would go as planned. Once they arrived here the staff would insist a private room and bam! We would be here to jump out and surprise him. The only thing I was worried about however was the few guests we did invite. None of them were here…
“Sunny have you called Hyomin recently? Jess can you call Krystal and find out where they are?”
“Yeah, Hyominie just said they were a block away.” Oh good, he was bringing along a very special guest that had, and I mean had, to be here.
“Jess?”
“Yeah, yeah. I’m calling her… Oh nevermind.”
I turned to see where she was looking. Oh finally! “Hey guys, thanks for coming!”
“No problem Tiff,” Amber said as she came in further. “When is oppa getting here?”
“Hyung said they’re on their way now. Don’t ask me again,” Sooyoung threatened. I guess I had been asking quite frequently.
“Hey uh, don’t you think the employees are going to know something’s up? I mean SNSD, TYS, and f(x) all just walked into their restaurant,” Krystal asked with a very skeptical look.
“Hey don’t forget 2HYO,” a male voice said from behind me. I quickly turned to see Hyomin at the door. Oh don’t tell me he bailed.
“Hyominie!” Sunny jumped up from the seat she was in just as Hyomin started walking in the door revealing another guy right behind him. A smile grew to my face as I walked closer to the door.
“Hyoyeon-ssi, it’s nice to meet you.”
“Ne, it’s nice to meet everyone too.” He didn’t look too sure about being here and I think others started to notice.
“Hyung its okay,” Sooyoung started. “We told the staff that if they didn’t tell anyone about us being here until Taeyeon arrived we would take pictures with them. B-by the way, I’m Sooyoung, TYS’s maknae. It’s nice to finally meet you.”
“Jinjja?” “Hey, I didn’t sign up for that!” “Oh shut up, it’s not a big deal.”
I tried to ignore the conversation behind me to focus on Hyoyeon.
“Hey now, I know who you are. You guys are huge now. It’s nice to meet you too, but that’s not what I’m worried about. I really don’t think Taengo, er I mean Taeyeon-ssi, wants to see me.”
Now that I knew wasn’t true. “He’s said multiple times to me that he wishes that he could see you again Hyoyeon-ssi, you’re his cousin.” He seemed to be thinking about what I said for a little while before he finally spoke again.
“I guess you’re right, we’ll see in a while anyway I guess… By the way, when do you talk about these kinds of things with my cousin? Isn’t that a little personal?”
Oh my god. My I felt my eyes grow wide. He didn’t know? I thought Sunny or Hyomin would have at least said something. Oh no. Do I tell him? Should I wait for Tae-
“Yah, don’t explode, I’m just messing around,” he laughed.
“Tiff the look on your face was seriously so funny!” Are you kidding me! I literately almost passed out.
“Sunny-ah, I seriously hate you some days,” I said at I started to walk back to the rest of the guests. But I was stopped.
I felt a hand on my wrist and turned to see that it was Hyoyeon of all people. “Don’t worry Tiffany-ssi, I’m dating Nicole, from KARA.” My jaw dropped. I didn’t know that at all, and I thought we were all friends. Psht. Wait a minute.
“Why did y-“
“A secret for a secret,” he said and then winked as he walked by me. What an odd guy… I guess I can see where Taeyeon gets it. I then laughed to myself at the thought.
It was ten or so minutes later and everyone seemed to be getting along fine, which put a smile on my face. Hyoyeon seemed to be doing alright now too. He was chatting with Amber and-
“They’re here!”
Omo! I immediately kicked in to action.
“Everyone hide! Hyoyeon-ssi, I want you behind the door so he doesn’t see you at first!” I turned to see everyone hiding, or at least trying to, and nodded. Alright this was going to work. “Hyoyeon get the lights,” I said before I finally found my spot behind one of the lounge chairs closer to the door. A minute or so later I heard a voice coming up the stairs.
“Do we really need a whole room to ourselves? Gah, isn’t that overdoing it a little,” I heard Taeyeon ask causing me to laugh a little. I heard the door open. “Aish, and the lights are off?” The lights came on.
“SURPRISE!” Everyone jumped up and screamed. He looked shocked to say the least.
“Oh my god, please tell me someone got a picture of his face!”
I walked over to him at once. He was still just looking at all of us with wide eyes.
“Yah, I thought you all forgot about me all day! Especially you!” he was looking at me now. Uh oh…
“Tae, I’m sorry! We just wanted it to be an even better surprise,” I said softly. I really hoped he wasn’t mad. That would make this all super uncomfortable.
He was quiet for a few seconds before he spoke again. “You-you guys really got me though.”
I looked at him and he was looking at me now too. “So you’re not mad?”
“Fany-ah of course not! How could I be mad that you did all this for me,” he asked as he wrapped his arms around me, which only caused almost the whole room to ‘aww’.
“Boys I’ll be down stairs, text me if you need anything,” I heard a voice call. I figured it was Tae’s manager but I couldn’t look. He was holding me very close. As I heard the door close I remembered our surprise guest tonight
“Taetae, this isn’t the only surprise I planned tonight,” I said as I took a step back from him.
“Fany if this is another gift I can’t accept it, I’m supposed to be buying you things not the other wa-“
“Oh hush! I can buy you whatever I want Taeyeon, but~ that isn’t even it. Close your eyes.” I saw him give me a very adorable and confused look, which I had to put an end to before I started hugging him again. I quickly put a hand over his eyes only earning an ’aigo’ from the latter. I waved Hyoyeon over, who now looked very unsure about all of this. “Ready?”
I saw everyone behind Hyoyeon curiously watching as well. Since he arrived the story about how they haven’t seen each other in years had gotten around. I then felt Taeyeon nod under my hand. I took a deep breath and then quickly brought my hand from his eyes down into his hand.
I watched his face as he blinked a few times bringing his sight back to focus. His mouth that was once smiling has now been pressed in to a straight line. Oh no.
“Hyo-Hyoyeon?”
“Happy Birthday Taeyeon,” the older boy said shakily in front of us.
“Th-thank you… I-I’ll be right back.” Before I could realize what had even happened, Taeyeon was half way to the bathroom. I watched him enter the room. I quickly turned to Sooyoung.
“Wh-what just happened?” I didn’t expect this reaction at all. Hell, I didn’t even know what this reaction was.
“I don’t know either Tiffa-“
“He was crying,” Yuri said flatly cutting off Sooyoung.
“What? No he wasn’t! I was watching him the whole time,” I argued.
“Well then he was about to Tiffany, he only tries to hide away when he’s upset or crying.”
Oh my god, I made him cry. I felt like I had just been hit in the stomach. I really was a horrible girlfriend.
“Should I, uh should I go?” I looked to see a saddened Hyoyeon in front of me and quickly answered.
“No! You can’t. Everyone! Talk amongst yourselves,” I said loudly. I needed to talk to Taeyeon. Now.
I quickly went to the door Taeyeon had just ran into and turned the handle. Whew. It wasn’t locked. Opening the door a little a tiny worry popped in to my brain.
“Taeyeon-ah, if you’re using the bathroom say something because I’m coming in,” I announced. I waited a few seconds, but after hearing a sniffle I had to go in. He hand one had on his face and the other gripped tightly to the sink behind him. In a matter of steps I was in front of him.
I couldn’t take this anymore; I needed him to look at me. I moved the hand on his face with mine and then cupped his face. My thumbs caressed his cheeks and wiped away his tears. He was silent, and that only made me more worried.
“I’m sorry Taeyeon,” I said while removing my hands from his face. “I can ask him to leave, if you-“
“No don’t,” he said as he quickly grabbed my hand. I looked at him and now he was looking at me.
“But Tae, you- you’re crying. I hate seeing you like this,” I said shakily. Oh great. Was I going to cry now too? I felt my eyes start to water. Yep. Awesome, just what we need. Both of us crying.
“Fany-ah, I’m not crying because I’m sad,” he said as he took my hands behind him, forcing me to wrap my arms around him. Okay maybe not forcing. “I’m… wait are you crying now too?” I shook my head. He laughed a little. “Omo, Fany, why are you crying?”
“Because you were Taeyeon! I don’t want to see my Taetae like this.”
“Hey look at me.” I complied and turned toward him. “I’m not sad,” he said cupping my face this time. “I was crying because I’m happy. Thrilled even, I never thought I’d get to see him so soon. And it’s all thanks to my wonderful friends and especially my amazing girlfriend.” He then planted a kiss on my forehead.
“So, so you’re not mad at me for bringing him here,” I hesitantly asked.
“What? No, of course not,” he said as he pulled me in to him. “I’m thankful that you brought him here. I’ll finally get to talk to him. Gah, I’m just mad that I started crying. I’m 22 now for goodness sakes.”
The biggest weight on my chest had just lifted. I really thought he was going to hate me after this. I sighed in relief and then laughed a little at his last comments. “Let’s go back out there then, so you can talk to him,” I suggested.
“Okay.” With that I placed a quick kiss on his lips and then started pulling him toward the door behind me. “Fa-Fany-ah?” I hummed. “Will you, will you sit with me when I talk to him?”
A huge smile spread across my face as I turned to him one last time. “Of course Tae, Whatever you want.”
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