It’s been a month since our episode of Hello Baby aired. That one episode really brought up our popularity. People were now even beginning to recognize us when we went out and that was really exciting and slightly terrifying.

Although we haven’t had many appearances we have been very busy. We were working on a new album that we planned to release at the beginning of the New Year in just around three and a half months. This past week we had all been deciding on the songs that we wanted to put on our album. It wasn’t that complicated of a task it was just that we needed to find the right songs to match with us and keep the style that we were going for. We had gone through about thirty songs to find the best ones for us.

Tonight we had finally decided on the 12 songs we would put on our album. After that our manager gave us the rest of the evening off to do whatever. We decided that we should go out somewhere to eat. We’d been locked up in our dorm for far too long.

“You know Tae I don’t know why you don’t try to get them to put one of your songs on the album,” Sooyoung said.

I had started writing songs, well attempting to anyway, about a year ago. I never thought much about it. It was just a hobby for me. That was until Soo found a notebook of mine full of songs and read it. Ever since he’s been pushing me to try to get one out put on a future album, and now that we were actually working on one he had been persistent.

“Soo, they won’t want one of my songs, they just want the ones from their writers.”

“You never know until you try,” he said to me before he started to yell. “Hyung! HYUNG!”

“What Soo? Jesus, I heard you the first time.”

“Yeah, uh. Taeyeon wants to ask you something,” he said and quickly ran out of the room.

I shook my head at him. He’ll seriously pay for this later.

“What is it Taeng? “

Should I really ask him? Do I really have anything to lose?  The worst he could do was say no, and I’ve heard that plenty times. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.

“Hyung, I’ve been writing songs for a while now and I would really like to see one on our album,” I said it quickly with my eyes still shut. It was silent for longer than I wanted it to be. I opened my eyes to see him only furiously typing in to his phone. “Hy-Hyung?”

“Oh sorry, I was just emailing the president to see if that would be okay. Once he gets back to me I’ll text you and let you know alright?”

I was speechless. I couldn’t believe it. Was he being serious?

“Ji-jinjja?”

He nodded. “This could be a big deal. One of the artists actually writes his own songs? Almost no one does that. It would stand out. Make sure you pick a good one to show us,” he was smiling at me now. “Now go. This is your night off.”

I could seriously kiss him right now. I was so happy. I ran out to find Sooyoung and Yuri to tell them the news. Once I got out the door I was engulfed in a hug.

“Congrats man, I heard the whole conversation.”

“Soo, seriously if that would have gone bad you would be dead right now, and it’s not even final. We have to get permission and then find one of my songs that would work.” I explained.

“Well it didn’t, and all of your songs are good. So there is nothing to worry about.” We released the hug. “Hey we can even help you pick one.” That wasn’t a bad idea. “Where are we going to get food?”

“That’s brilliant Soo, when we get home I’ll show you some of my better ones. Oh and I don’t care, it’s up to you. I’m just so hungry.”

“Now you feel my pain every day.”

“Oh come on you big baby, let’s g-…” I felt my phone buzz and quickly took it out to read my message.

Text Message
From: Tiffany

Waah~  We’re finally done with our shoot! What have you been up to shorty? ^^

I smiled as I quickly typed my response.

Text Message
To: Tiffany

Yah! What did I say about calling me that? -_- We just got done for the day too, we have the evening off. Wooo~~

We have been texting and flirting with each other like this every day after the show aired. I couldn’t have been happier. We really have become close I thought. We talked about everything with each other. SNSD was working on a new album too. They were already busy enough I thought with all their awards and TV appearances. They were seriously good at multitasking.

“Yah, Taeyeon, what were you saying?”

Oh jeesh, I totally spaced.

“Uhh right. Let’s go find Yuri and eat, I’m starving.”

We were looking all over. We eventually found him after almost ten minutes of looking. He was in the lobby of the building waiting for us. Aish, I thought. What am I going to do with you Kwon Yuri.

On the way to the van I took out my phone to check for the time. I couldn’t tell if it was just me being tired or that it was getting late. It was definitely me because it was only around seven at night. I did have one un-read message though. Omo it was from Tiffany.

Text Message
From: Tiffany

Ahh! Jinjja? We’re all going out to eat. You guys should come join us. ^^

I stopped mid route to the van. My jaw dropped. I suddenly felt nervous.

“Soo, Yul.”

They both stopped to look at me. I held the phone up so they could read the message as well. Their eyes widened just as mine did.

“What are you waiting for? Tell them we’ll go,” Sooyoung was almost shouting.

What was I waiting for? I have been talking to her every day, why is this such a big deal? It’s not any different.

“Right,” I said.

Text Message
To: Tiffany

Really? Where are you guys? We’ll be right there.

I hit send and took my seat in the van.

“Where to?” The driver asked.

She hadn’t responded yet what should I do? Think Taeyeon think!

“Uhh, just head down town for now. We’re waiting for the location.”

He nodded and started to drive off. Tiffany texted me back just in time.

“Ahh okay. Do you know where this is?” I held my phone so he could see where it was. He nodded and quickly made a right turn.

“Do I look okay,” Sooyoung asked from the backseat.

I laughed a little. He was seriously infatuated with Jessica Jung. I stopped laughing. Wait a minute, do I look okay?

I looked over Soo before answering him, “Yeah Soo, you look good, h-how about me?”

“Yah! You were laughing at me and now you ask for my help!! Aish..”

“Yaah just answer me!”

He stopped laughing at me long enough to say that I did look alright.

Minutes later we were outside of the restaurant. Once we had stepped out of the van we noticed there were paparazzi outside. I figured they were here because of SNSD being inside. I was thankful that they didn’t notice us, but then again they might not have even known who we were.

Once we were inside we found the hostess and told her we were meeting SNSD here. She gave us a very skeptical look and started to question us.

“We can’t let you do that I’m sorry,” she said with a hint of attitude.

“No, we’re really here to meet them,” Yuri began to argue. The woman didn’t look any more convinced than before. “We’re TYS, you know? The group?”

“Okay, but we still can’t let you go in with them I’m sorry. We’re going to have to ask you to leave.”

“Are you serious?” She nodded at me. UGH, I internally groaned. I pulled out my cell phone to text Tiffany.

“Taengo! Call her pabo!” I looked up to see Sooyoung and Yuri looking at me.

“Oh my god why didn’t we think of that five minutes ago,” Sooyoung said while putting his hand to his face.

He’s  right. Why didn’t we? Seriously I am so dumb sometimes. I went to Tiffany’s contact and hit call.

~Ring Ring~

“I’m sorry but we really need you to leave,” I heard the woman say before I heard another voice in my ear. Tuning the outside conversation out I heard her answer.

“Yeoboseyo?” I instantly smiled at the sound of her voice.

“Hey it’s Taeyeon an-“

“Yah where are you guys? We’ve been waiting on you to order!”

“The hostess won’t let us in! Can you come get us?” I said cutely.

Omo, why did I do that? Taengo get ahold of yourself.

I heard her giggle a little and then respond to me. “Okay, I’ll see you in a minute.” I then heard a click and refocused my attention to the argument that Yuri was having with another staff member.

“Yah, yah, yah!” I shouted trying to get them to stop.

It seemed to be working when all the staff had started to get quiet. I mentally praised myself for being able to do that.

“Sorry, we must have forgot to tell you we were expecting guests,” I heard a voice say behind me. Not just any voice though. I knew it was Tiffany as soon as she uttered the first syllable.

I then realized what was going on. They weren’t silent on my behalf. They were silent because SNSD’s Tiffany was before them in the flesh.

I finally turned around to look at her. To my surprise she was staring right back at me. Once our eyes made contact she had the biggest smile I’ve seen in a while. Her eyes were almost not even visible.

“Come on,” she said softly as she motioned for us to follow. I obediently followed her. I wanted to look back and check if Yul or Soo were following too, but I could not take my eyes off of her. While we were walking through the restaurant I heard many whispers, but I still didn’t pull my stare away.

My gaze was broken though once we reached the sectioned off area by an overly happy Sunny pulling me into a hug. When she released me I looked at her very confusedly. I knew we were friends, but I didn’t know we were at that level.

“Oh come on, we’re friends. Don’t look at me like that,” she said. I laughed aloud. She then went to hug Sooyoung and Yuri as well. I guess we were pretty good friends. She had helped us on multiple occasions.

I looked around to see who else was there, I saw Seohyun, Jessica , and Park Hyomin. My eyes widened. Maybe I could ask him to get ahold of Hyoyeon for me, since he has yet to contact me!

“Come on sit down, let’s order,” Sunny said.

I made my way to the table when I suddenly felt a tug on my arm. It knocked me off balance almost causing me to fall down. Seriously if that chair wasn’t there to save me I would be very sore. I looked at the source of the violence. My eyes widened and my brows rose when I saw that it was Tiffany. She was mischievously staring back at me.

“What was that for?!” I tried to say it quietly so no one else would notice.

“I wanted you to sit here, that’s what,” she said as she scrunched up her nose at me.

“You know, you could have asked right?”

“That wouldn’t have been as fun.”

I was about to reply when the waiter came to get our orders. I hadn’t even looked at the menu so I just said I would have the same thing as Sooyoung, who ordered right before me.

The waiter left, but it was still silent. I didn’t know why but it felt sort of awkward. I was really thankful when Soo spoke from beside me.

“So how’s your album going?”

“It’s going good Oppa, we just started recording yesterday.”

“Oh nice, I think we’ll probably start tomorrow. We just finalized the song selection today.”

“Aren’t you guys super excited? It’s your first full album!”

“Yeah! I’m really excited, and super nervous,” I said honestly while looking across from me to Sunny.

“Don’t be nervous, you guys are going to be fine,” Tiffany said from beside me. She then grabbed my hand that was under the table and held it in hers.

I tensed up for a moment but then somehow felt completely at ease. My heart was beating faster than normal and my face was getting hotter but, it wasn’t because I was scared or nervous anymore. It was something different, I couldn’t quite place it, but I enjoyed it. It somehow felt right, if that made any sense. I then wrapped my hand around hers and smiled to myself.

“Yeah she’s right, you’ll be able to handle it,” Sunny said confidently.

“Yeah if you’re anything like Hyoyeon, you’ll be good to go,” Hyomin chimed in.

“Well thank you guys for supporting us so much.” I heard Yuri.

The mention of my cousin’s name pulled me from my thoughts. “Hey speaking of Hyo, did you let him know I wanted to catch up with him by chance?”

“I did, why?” He looked really confused. I knew he was telling the truth.

“Uh, oh he just hasn’t called or texted me,” I said. “It’s fine though, I understand you guys must be really busy.”

“I’ll get on to him next time I see him,” he said while smiling. “He has been working extra on our choreography for our upcoming single, so that could be why.”

“Oh really?” The latter just nodded. “Yeah like I said, I totally get it. It would just be nice to see him or at least talk to him.” I smiled at him.

Just as I finished my sentence the waiter had arrived with our food. Tiffany released my hand and took the plate she was handed. Once we all started eating I was really glad I copied Sooyoung’s order. The sauce on these noodles was fantastic. I started to ask him what it was, but I saw that he had finally started to talk to Jessica, so I figured I better not disturb him.

A few minutes later I turned to look at Tiffany. I smiled as I watched her take a drink. She finally noticed me looking.

“Why do I always catch you staring at me Kim Taeyeon?” She kept a cool face while teasing me.

“Hey, it’s not my fault, it just sort of happens,” I said while turning away. I heard her giggling at me so I turned back toward her. She was literately the most perfect person I’ve ever seen. My stomach felt like it was doing flips, in a good way of course. I couldn’t help but grin down at her. A loud voice then pulled me out of my current thoughts.

“How are you already done?!”

“Uh, I eat fast?” I heard Sooyoung reply. He had already finished all of his food. Everyone else was at most half way done.

“Did you even chew? Or did you just kind of inhale it?” Jessica kept teasing.

“A little of both,” he replied audaciously. The whole table laughed. If anyone could keep up with Jessica’s attitude it definitely would be our Sooyoung, his personality is very strong too, in the best of ways obviously. He had his opinions and he wasn’t afraid to let them be heard.

A while later we had all finished our meals. Now we were all just sitting around talking. Hyomin was telling us a really funny story about an incident with a crazy fan while he was in Japan. I really wanted to listen because it included my cousin but I couldn’t focus on anything other than Tiffany’s hand.

I really wanted to hold it again. There were a few problems with that though. For starters her hand was on top of the table, I didn’t want anyone to see me holding it. It wasn’t that I’m embarrassed, because I mean it is Tiffany. I would hold her hand in front of a million people if I could. It’s just that I know I would get teased about it until the end of time. Another reason I didn’t want to is that maybe she didn’t want to? Did I overreact earlier? Maybe she was just comforting me. She is from America. I don’t know how they do over there. I then felt my phone vibrate.

Text Message
From: Tiffany

What’s wrong? You look upset. :c

I laughed once to myself. Now who’s the one looking at who? I decided to just straight out tell her what was bothering me.

Text Message
To: Tiffany

I am. I feel like a coward. I’ve been trying to talk myself in to holding your hand for the past ten minutes.

I read over my message once more. Did I really want to say that? I closed my eyes and decided to change it. I hit the backspace button and then gasped.

“What’s wrong Tae?” Soo asked from beside me.

‘Oh nothing, I just hit the send button instead of the backspace and I want to go hide for forever,’ I wanted to say.

“Nothing I just almost deleted this app. Mianhae.” He nodded and turned his attention back to Hyomin’s stories.

I heard a vibrating noise beside me signaling that she had got the text. She slid her phone open and I couldn’t watch anymore. I quickly shut my eyes.

The most magical thing then happened. I opened my eyes and looked right at her. She wasn’t looking at me but I could see that she was blushing. I continued to feel her fingers intertwine loosely with mine. I knew my face was bright red, but I really didn’t care I loved every minute of it.

About twenty minutes later Seohyun interrupted the conversation.

“Unnie it’s getting late. Oppa said we shouldn’t stay out too long.”

“Ugh, Seohyunie. Why do you always have to be right,” Sunny asked teasingly. “Alright, let’s go.”

We all started to stand up and push in our chairs.

“How should we do this?”

Wait what?

“Do what?” I heard Yuri ask.

“Uh leave? The paparazzi are out there...”

Oh right I totally forgot.

“Hey should we call the company for a car or just get a taxi?” Sooyoung had asked me. He already had his phone out.

“Don’t be ridiculous, we can give you guys a ride. We have a van waiting outside already,” Sunny told us.

“Are you sure?” I asked. I didn’t want to get them in trouble or anything.

“Yeah, Jessi that’s okay right?” It was Tiffany this time who asked.

“Yeah, I guess? We’re under the same company and it’s a company car.”

“Alright then it’s settled. You drove yourself right Hyominie?”

“I did. I can go leave first. I’ll see you all again! Bye Bunny.” I then saw him kiss her cheek and walk out of the area.

My eyes widened at the gesture. I quickly adjusted myself. I thought we weren’t allowed to date? Aren’t they worried about getting in trouble? I shook my head to try to shake off the thought.

“Alright let’s go,” Jessica said.

We made our way outside. I don’t think the paparazzi knew it was them at first. We helped camouflage them for a little at least. About thirty seconds after we walked out I heard someone shout.

“Jessica-ssi!”

That sure got their attention. Cameras started flashing and people were shouting various things toward us.

“DID YOU ENJOY THE FOOD?” “ARE YOU WORKING ON A NEW ALBUM?” “WHO ARE THEY?” “WE SAW YOUR SHOOT IN CECI, YOU ALL LOOKED GREAT.” The questions kept flying at them.

This was insane I thought. They get this everywhere?

“Ugh, seriously where is the van?” Jessica sounded annoyed.

“I’ll call them unnie.”

The people continued yelling. I didn’t even know what to do. We all were standing by the curb waiting for the van to pull around.

“Sunny please do something about them,” Jessica said.

“I’ll try.” She then turned toward the sea of cameras. “Yes we’re working on an album right now, thank you for your compliments. These are our friends. We’re under the same company. That’s all I can say right now, thank you!” she turned back toward us.

I was really impressed on how she just took control. The cameras were still flashing but there was definitely less yelling.

“There it is!”

We watched the van pull up and quickly got in to it. After we had pulled away from the restaurant I really had to figure out how she did that.

“Sunny you were so good back there, how did you know how to do that?”

“Yeah seriously that was awesome,” Yuri chimed in.