Solo
Into the New World
“Hyung~,” I whined again. He had been ignoring me for the past few minutes by flipping through on his phone trying to act busy.
Okay, he might have actually been a little busy.
Our plane left in twenty minutes and since you can’t use cell phones while the plane was flying, he might be trying to finish a few things before the next hour of no service… but still! I had equally important things to discuss with him.
“Hanyoung-ssi~,” I tried again. He looked up and I mentally cheered.
Assa!
“What Taeyeon-ssi?” I grinned.
“Did they call you today?” He rolled his eyes.
“Taeng, everything is seriously fine, jeesh,” he sounded. “Calm down and quit asking me about your new house every five minutes. The lawyers and Jiho and I are taking care of it, alright?”
“Alright~,” I heavily sighed as I turned back in my seat.
Stupid hyung.
I don’t think I was asking him every five minutes either… It was more like every sixty!
Ugh! It’s been eleven days since we made a move to buy our house, er… the house!
It’s not yours yet pabo-yah.
Although I might be a little angry I wasn’t being kept in the total loop, I was glad hyung was in there for me. I literately had no idea how you bought a house. I thought you just kinda did it…
Boy was I wrong though. They made it look so easy in movies, but apparently it was a big deal with banks and lawyers involved and a zillion tiny details to iron out.
Actually my father wanted to come up from Jeonju to help with it after I told my parents that we had started the process of buying it. They were really happy for us just as Tiffany’s father was. They both even said they couldn’t wait to visit!
However, since I wasn’t even going to be involved with the meetings and phone calls 97% of the time due to our schedules and the fact that I have no knowledge in that kind of stuff to begin with, I told him it wouldn’t be necessary to come all this way. Plus he has his business to run and I have hyung and a few other people at SM helping to make sure we get the best deal possible.
“Do you know if SNSD is here yet?”
“Wha-what?” Yuri repeated himself and I laughed. “Do you not have a phone or a girlfriend also in SNSD?” He sighed.
“Sica is ignoring me,” he said flatly, causing even more laughter to roll out.
“What’d you do now?” He scoffed this time.
“I didn’t do anything!” I hummed unbelievingly. I know Jessica was a bit odd, but there had to be an initial reason. “Jinjja! It’s all because of that stupid Eider endorsement.” Uhhm…
“What? Why? Shouldn’t she be happy for you?” I mean I was happy for him. It was a pretty big deal.
He hummed. “She was.”
Wait…
“Then-“
“Until I told her it was alongside Im Yoona…”
“Ahh~ I see.” I guess that would do it.
“Yep.”
He continued on talking a bit more, but something else was troubling my mind.
Why wasn’t I getting any endorsements?
Yuri now had Eider, on top of a few others, and Sooyoung was brought on along with Sunny to do the Cabi Bay commercials again for this year due to their WGM fame. Plus they visited it during an episode, which I was NOT invited to by the way. They just brought Seohyun along with them to play around. Rude…
Taeyeon wanted to go too!
Regardless, I was still curious why I wasn’t getting any solo offers. Don’t get me wrong we still have quite a few CFs and endorsements as TYS, I think we might even have the most so far this year, but-
“You’re not even listeni-“
“I can’t believe you still bring those.”
My head was a pinball just then. It was like I was hit once out of my thoughts to look in Yuri’s direction, but when I heard the beautiful stranger beside me, my head was hit even harder in her direction.
“Fany,” I said excitedly as I realized what had just happened. I stood up and wrapped my arms around her tightly, causing my stuffed peas to fall to the ground.
The time she was absent this time around was way shorter than the first time, but eight days is still way too long. I felt her lips quickly press right below my ear before she pulled away. I seriously missed her so much.
I missed her scent, her touch, and especially her beautiful face.
When I finally got a good look at her face I felt my heart jump at the sight of her smile, but then I suddenly became worried. I could see the bags under her eyes. Aigo~ she was so tired!
She needed a break!
Tiffany came back to Korea yesterday, but had a photo shoot all afternoon. It even ran late in to the night, so I’m sure she didn’t get any sleep.
It also meant I didn’t get to see her at all. I guess my rehearsing at SM all the time didn’t help much either though…
Ugh. That’s why times like these were even more important to us.
“Yuri get up.”
“Uh bu-,” he started to protest.
“Now,” I demanded. “I wanna sit with Tiffany.”
Since the plane we were on this time was smaller in general, the larger first class seats took up even more room than usual. There were only seven seats across, separated by two walkways of course. Yuri and I were in the two seats beside the window while Soo was stuck in the middle seats with our managers Hanyoung, Dobin, and the newest addition Yongduk.
For some reason SM decided we needed another manager. I have no idea why. I thought the two of them were doing a pretty good job with everything.
Oh well! I guess we each kind of have our own now!
“Taengo~,” he groaned.
“Oh come on~! Go sit beside Jessica and get her to talk to you again.” He looked back and forth between us a few times before sighing.
“Fine~! Where are you guys at?”
“At the very front,” Tiffany said as she pointed. Yuri started to move. “Thank you Yuri-yah~!”
“Yah~ don’t use aegyo when you’re talking to him.” They both laughed.
“You’re welcome Fany-Fany Tiffany~,” Yuri cooed back. I raised a fist and Yul scurried off down the walkway before I could hit him.
“Aish, what a punk,” I mumbled as I picked up my peas. Tiffany just laughed again as she made me scoot over by the window. Only then did I notice what she was wearing. Oh gosh, I almost dropped the peas again. “Omo, Fany-ah. You look fantastic!”
I looked her up and down again in her sleeveless light pink dress. It had an adorable white collar and a long black ribbon bow coming from under it.
“Wah~,” I marveled again. “How do you always look so good babe?” Her smile was blinding by the time her hit the seat.
“Do I,” she asked shyly. I nodded and wrapped my arms around her the best that I could in our positions.
“Mhm. You look great.” I looked at her eyes again and grinned. “But you know what would make you even prettier?” Her eyes widened and her smile dropped as she pushed me away.
“What Kim Taeyeon?” I grinned even wider, trying my best to hold in the laugh. Her confused yet angry expression was hilarious.
“Come here.” She gave me a questioning look.
“It’s not going to be anything weird is it…” I shook my head truthfully, although I did see how it might look that way now...
She hesitantly moved her face closer and I quickly reached my hand to the back of her head.
“Tada,” I called out seconds later as I finished my task. She just sighed and ran her fingers through her now down hair.
“You scared me there for a sec.”
“Good,” I laughed. “Oh, here,” I said as I handed the hair tie I just removed back to its owner.
“Thank you Taetae~.” She took it from my hand but then quickly wrapped her fingers in mine.
Aigo~ she was too cute. I swiftly pulled her hand to my lips and placed a few short kisses as I kept my eyes locked on hers. It was times like this that I really wished the flight lasted about 12 more hours than it did.
I needed more time with my Tiffany.
“So you really like my hair better down,” she asked as her face started turning pink. I hummed.
“I like your hair in whatever style Fany-ah, but a little~ bit more when it’s all down and wavy and-“ I paused. I had to take a second to admire her gorgeous features. “Gah~, you are so beautiful… You know that right?” She grinned.
“You can tell me that all you want Taetae… but~,” she held out for a second. “I’m gonna wear my hair down for the wedding for you then.”
I felt my eyes double in size and butterflies attack my stomach.
“Really?” She hummed. But wait… “You don’t have to do that Fany-ah. You should wear it however you want to. It’s your day baby.” She sighed.
“It’s our day pabo and I want to wear it however my husband to be wants me to.” My heart jumped at the use of ‘husband’ so I didn’t even have the strength to try to argue with her. I had to give in.
“Fine.” But wait… “How should I do my hair then,” I asked curiously. I never even thought about it until now.
“Hmm~,” she held out cutely as she looked in my direction. “I don’t know Tae. I like it down like this,” she said as she began pushing my un-styled hair toward the side to get some side bang kind of action going. “But then I like it up like this a lot too.” This time she began running her fingers up through my hair, trying to get the front part to stick up a little. I smiled at her concentrating face.
“Babe, you know that that’s not going to work unless you get some gel or hair spray,” I teased.
“I know~, I just really don’t know how I want you to have your hair.” She looked at me and I could see the worry in her eyes.
“Don’t worry Fany-ah we still have time.” She hummed as her fingers continued to mess in my hair.
Mmm, I loved when she did this. Her fingers running through my hair and across my scalp was seriously one of the most relaxing things I’ve ever felt. Sadly she didn’t get to do it often though for my hair was usually styled with tons of hairspray or gel. Also, I didn’t let her sometimes because it usually made me sleepy. It’s actually put me to sleep a few times…
Ugh! It just felt so damn good.
Oh god. I couldn’t fall asleep right now! I had to stop her.
“Yah~ it’ll be fine.” I removed took her hands from my head and held them in mine. “I can’t wait though.” Her hand squeezed mine.
“I can’t either… Oh! That reminds me Tae! Oppa said that I have an appointment for my dress sometime next week. Isn’t that crazy?” I nodded.
“It is. I still can’t believe you have to go through this much trouble for a wedding dress,” I laughed.
It’s been months that she had been working on getting her dress finished. I really didn’t understand what took so long…
“Tae~yeon~,” she whined. “She’s a busy lady. I’m lucky she even let me do this.”
I’m guessing she was referring to how the famous designer, who happened to be one of SNSD’s stylists’ older sisters, was letting Tiffany help design the dress herself. They had been going back and forth for a while with different suggestions and touch ups, but I guess it’s finally done! Now she just had to go get it adjusted.
“And that’s not what I was even talking about,” she started again. “I was talking about how there’s only three months until we’re getting married!”
“Omo.”
She was right.
There was only three months left until she would be my wife! It seemed so close, but yet so far away.
I was filled to the brim with excitement, but I was also worried. We still had a million things to do! Would we be able to get everything done in time on top of everything we were already busy with?
SNSD had just wrapped up their Japan tour three days ago and in just another three days their newest world tour begins. Thankfully this time she would only have nine shows. That means she would probably have more time to rest!
Ehh, well maybe not. I totally forgot about the full length album that they were starting to record… Actually I was kind of excited about that too. Not only would all their new activities be in Korea this time, but we were recording an album too so I’d get to see her all the time at SM!
Well, we were about to anyway. We had been rehearsing the songs that were going on the new mini album this past week, half of which I wrote.
Hyung even said that one of them was probably going to be the one we use for promotions.
It was actually kind of embarrassing once I found out which song it was. Not embarrassing in the revealing or too mushy kind of way or anything like that actually…It was just, uh… pretty confident of me to write it like I did, especially since the date on the original sheet I wrote it on was only a week or so after Tiffany and I started dating.
I had totally forgotten about it until they showed the album lineup last week.
It was going to be interesting.
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We had been in the air for around ten minutes and Tiffany’s hand hadn’t left mine once since it got there twenty minutes ago. We got started talking about the wedding and our albums and just everything that popped in our minds.
“Are you excited for your tour?” I hummed. “Are you going to tell me what your solo stage is gonna be?” Her smile was tempting, but I had to keep it together.
“Nope! It’s still a surprise.” I watched her pout.
“Am I gonna like it?” I chuckled once.
“Well I sure hope so!”
“No~,” she laughed. “I didn’t mean it like that~! I meant…ugh, you aren’t going to take of your shirt or anything right?” I smiled again.
“Don’t worry Fany-ah,” I cooed. “I’ll be shirtless the whole time!”
“Yah!” My eyes widened at her loudness and I immediately covered . She hummed under my hand and I could see the fire in her eyes.
Oh good lord.
“Sorry,” I apologized to the ahjussi who was staring. “I’m just kidding Tiffany jeesh. I’ll be fully clothed throughout the whole concert.” She pulled my hand down.
“Promise?” I hummed.
“I don’t know why I should though; you’re out there shaking your booty for thousands of guys,” I mumbled in a false anger as I crossed my arms and leaned my head back. This girl…
A second later I felt a hand on my thigh, oh no.
It was pretty high up too.
“Don’t be jealous Taetae,” she said huskily. “You get to see and do things with me that no one has ever done before~,” she purred. A protective nerve had been hit.
“And never will,” I added firmly. Her hand slid up my thigh slowly as her face got closer to mine, swiftly taking all traces of my confidence away.
Oh god~, she never fails to make me sweat.
“Mmhm,” she hummed while not breaking eye contact with my lips. Seriously how could she be this tempting, always? “I’m all your-“
“Unnie, opp- woah~!”
Oh no.
Tiffany returned her hands to herself at a lightning speed and quickly turned to sit in her seat the correct way, rather than how she was turned more toward me. I on the other hand just kinda froze and looked at who had just called for us.
Of course!
It was none other than Amber and Sulli.
How could I have forgotten that f(x) was also going to be at the event we were headed to in Jeju?
“What is this~,” Amber asked very accusingly. Sulli wore a matching grin.
We’re in trouble now…
“This is… this is nothing,” Tiffany quickly responded. I could see her face changing colors as I’m sure mine was. “Wha-“
“Yeah~ because whatever they do alone is a billion times worse,” Sulli teased. The two younger girls were laughing even harder now. Oh gosh.
“Yah, we are engaged. This is totally acceptable,” she defended again.
“Not on a wide open plane like this unnie,” Amber laughed. Alright, so maybe we were getting a little too caught up, but- “That’s what we wanted to talk to you about though!”
Wait what?
“Huh,” I voiced very, very confusedly. Why did they want to talk to us about being engaged?
“This is us RSVP’ing to your wedding,” she answered simply. I tilted my head in confusion again. What on earth is sh-
“Your invitations pabo-yah,” Amber shot at me.
A light bulb went off in my brain.
I had completely forgotten our wedding invitations were being sent out soon, well I guess it’s ‘had already been sent out’ now.
The day before Tiffany left for Japan last week we met with Jisook-ssi to go over the final guest list and to pick out the design of the invitation itself.
Wait a minute, if they already got their invitations then why hasn’t my mom called yet? I thought she’d be the first one…
Well I guess they did live in Seoul while my family lived at least two hours away. Maybe it was because they lived closer?
Yeah that had to be it. I’m sure she’ll call tomorrow or maybe even later on today! Who knows! My mom was a bit odd anyway.
“Oppa gave it to us this morning and-“
“Isn’t it pretty,” Tiffany asked immediately. I should have said Tiffany picked out the design too. Sulli hummed.
“It was really pretty unnie!”
I did have to agree though.
The invitation was white with black writing and it had very prettily placed pink flowers going up all the sides. It wasn’t hot pink or anything, but it also wasn’t a light pink… so a medium pink?
Whatever!
It matched our simple theme of just pink and white the best though I thought. I mean we were going to have a ton of flowers everywhere for decoration too, so it was kinda like a teaser, right?
“We did get a kick out of your real name being on there though,” Amber laughed.
“Ugh,” Tiffany groaned. “Don’t remind me. This jerk made me.”
“Aye~,” I interjected. “I’m not marrying Tiffany Hwang, I’m marrying Stephanie Hwang Miyoung,” I said as cute as I could, earning ‘oohs~’ from the two girls.
“Anyway,” Tiffany said as she tried to change the subject. I could see the smile she was doing her best to hide though, aigo~ she was the cutest. “You still have to call the number on the invitation to let our planner know how many are coming. I think we already counted your managers in the count so they can come if they want too. Right Tae?”
“Oh, uhm… Yeah! The more the merrier.”
Good job Taengo you almost got yourself caught staring, for the zillionth time… Ugh, but did her dress have to be that short?
And why wasn’t she covering her legs with my sweatshirt I gave her!?
“Arasso~, we’ll tell oppa when we get back to our seats,” Sulli commented.
“Where are you guys at? I didn’t even see you get on,” Tiffany asked. That was a good question though. I didn’t see them either.
“Ah, were in the next section back. I think we’re all sitting together on the way back though.”
“Oh jinjja?” Amber hummed. “Well that’ll be fun!”
“Yeah! You two can continue the fun you two weren’t having a few minutes ago though. We just wanted to tell you personally.”
“Well thank you Amber… Now go.” The two girls laughed at us one more before walking back to where they came from. I waited until they were completely gone to grab her hand once again.
“That sent me straight back to when we were actually hiding from people. I really think my heart missed a beat when I heard them call for us.” She laughed.
“I know~! I think that was the fastest I’ve ever moved before in my life.”
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The three of our groups finished our very short performances for the ‘KBS’s World’s Seven Natural Wonders’ event and were now heading straight back to Seoul. Good thing Jeju is only like an hour away via plane.
We got to the plane around the same time as f(x) so we all quickly found our seats near the front of the plane. I guess Amber was right!
While we waited for the plane to take off, and SNSD, a few of us decided to play a game where wrist slapping was involved.
I really think I might have another bruise now. No joke. I lost literately every other time. Luckily this round I was saved by little Jung, who would take a wrist slap from Yul.
“Ready,” he asked her. She nodded. “1, 2, 3!” His fingers came down and Krystal took it like a champ…
Or so I thought.
“Ow~,” she whined loudly. “That really hurt oppa~! I’m telling unnie!”
“Krystal no do-“
“Telling me what?”
Everyone turned toward the sharp voice.
Uh-oh.
While Yuri was scolded by his mother err, I mean girlfriend, Tiffany motioned for me to follow her to the front row where she laid her head on my shoulder as soon as we were both seated.
“I’m tired Taetae.”
“Aww my poor baby~. Raise up for a sec,” I ordered. She followed my command and I was able to move my arm around her shoulder so we were both in a more comfortable position. “Better?” She hummed. “Good, now go to sleep.”
I knew she had to be tired, I mean she even fell asleep during the last thirty or so minutes here!
“Can’t.” I scoffed.
“And why not?”
“Because the flight attendant keeps looking at us,” she said quieter. I looked around quickly and- oh. I guess there were a few people looking at us.
I knew we were public and everything, but I still didn’t want us to be all over the internet tomorrow with articles about us getting too close or being disrespectful or something. That’s why when she started to move off of me, I didn’t protest.
It was already too late though.
The next day SNSD and TYS were being written about online.
I was just happy no one snapped a picture of us. We must have been too quick for them! Assa!
However there were a few things supposedly written about how we were all over each other which actually made me wish someone had gotten a picture of it. Ugh!
People these days!
That’s actually not even what was being written about the most though. There was something else.
Apparently the internet was in a buzz over a tweet from a stewardess that was aboard our plane that day.
It was mostly about how Sooyoung, Tiffany, and Sulli had given the in-flight announcements in Japanese, English, and Korean respectively, in place of a stewardess. It also mentioned about how they started asking questions about it before eventually asking if they could make the announcement in the first place!
Tiffany tried to get me to do the Korean one, but I strongly refused so she quickly forced Sulli to do it with her…
I really can’t take them anywhere.
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We just landed in Tokyo and I couldn’t be more excited. I even tried to get oppa to let me come earlier, but he said no~.
Apparently WGM wanted all of us to be together on the show with Sunny since today was the last day of their ‘marriage.’ I guess they wanted to bring out the special guests, which were only going to be Jessica and myself because Seohyun was stuck at home doing homework. Ew, I know.
Well I guess Taeyeon and Yuri would be on it too, I mean we were going to surprise them today.
It was the first stop of their first ever solo tour! Wah~! I couldn’t be more proud of him.
I thought it was actually kinda funny though how we were surprising them in Japan just like they did for us on our tour, with WGM yet again…
This time however we were going to see them before the concert started, which I was more than okay with. It was my wittle Taetae’s first ever solo concert! I couldn’t miss it.
Also I might have just missed his cute little face.
After a few quick stops, we eventually made it to the location where the sold out concert was, which held around fifteen thousand people, and swiftly went inside.
We wished f(x) a quick good luck, before we were finally headed to TYS’s waiting room. We probably would have stayed with the girls a bit longer but they had to go on stage! Wah~ the concert was already starting!
After another few minutes we arrived in front of TYS’s door where we let Sunny hold the small cake we bought them on the way here, I mean we were here for her show anyway.
The PD soon gave us the go ahead and we all got into our positions.
“Okay. 1, 2, 3!” Jessica flung the door open and we all walked inside while singing a little congratulation song. The stylists and managers joined in almost on cue.
“What are you guys doing here,” Sooyoung asked as soon as the song ended. I grinned at the three boys now smiling back at us.
“Yeah! I thought you all were flying to Guam today for your photo shoot,” Taeyeon said, still in shock. I laughed.
“Nope! We lied.” Taeyeon’s mouth fell open a little.
“We wanted to surprise you on your big day,” Sunny cheered. “And~ so we could celebrate our last day of ‘marriage’ together.”
“What?” “Last day?”
“You didn’t tell them,” Sunny asked as she pointed to the now even more confused Yuri and Taeyeon. Soo shook his head.
“Well they know now,” he laughed.
We talked with them for another few minutes before TYS was told they have to go get their mics on. We also took that as our cue to go get in our seats… well our standing area for the show.
Sunny gave Soo a quick side hug kind of thing while wishing him good luck; I guess they were in the most awkward positions of us here. Having to pretend to be married while they’re actually secretly dating… yikes. I’m glad we were out in the open. I bet Jess was… too?
Maybe not.
“Good luck Yuri-yah,” Jessica said with an awkward half bow. I guess she wasn’t really used to them being together for real on cameras yet, as for me…
“Good luck Taetae~!” I wrapped my arms around him tightly before planting a quick peck on his lips. I could tell her was trying to hide his nervousness from me, so I didn’t want to bring it up.
What’s that saying? ‘Outta sight, outta mind’?
That sort of applies here right?
Whatever, I just needed to tell him to not be nervous without actually telling him. Hmm…
Ahha!
“Break a leg babe, you’ll do amazing…and keep your shirt on!” He laughed and then saluted me once I unwrapped myself from him.
“Yes ma’am. Enjoy the show Fany-ah~!”
“Don’t worry! We will~.” He waved at me one more time before we left the room.
“Show off,” Jessica said to me quietly. I could only laugh.
“Hey~ you’re already exposed Jessi, I don’t know why you’re being so awkward… I’ve seen the way you two are in private. Jeesh, and you say Taeyeon and I are bad.”
Ugh, the image of their little make out sessions filled my head. On the sofa, against the refrigerator, right in front of all of us… Ugh!
At least Taeyeon and I kept ours in a closed or empty room… for the most part.
“Shut up,” she mumbled through gritted teeth.
“Just be glad the cameras are up there with Sunny,” I laughed again as her face turned another shade of red.
Aigo~ our little ice princess getting flustered over a boy. Who would’ve thought this day would ever happen?
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We made it to our designated area just as f(x) ended their last song. Jessica was bummed out she missed her sister on stage, but we all know she’ll come out at least once more with TYS.
There was an awesome intro video playing now showing the three of them in what seemed to be an old abandoned warehouse or something. I remember one of our intro videos where we had to pretend it was snowing.
SM had the weirdest ideas sometimes…
The roar of the crowd behind us when one of their faces would pop up on the screen was incredible though.
This is amazing. It was almost like we were watching our own concert! I could feel the energy around us just like I could when I was on stage! Another roar went through the crowd as I heard a very loud ‘Taeyeon oppa saranghae’. I laughed a little and tried to turn around to see if I could see who it was, but I saw nothing but an ocean of dark purple.
Holy…
I felt so proud of him at this moment. He’s gone from not even being recognized in a noodle shop barely even two years ago to being able to sell out a whole stadium in less than an hour. He was amazing.
The other two were amazing as well, but Taeyeon was something else… and all mine. I really felt like I had been through it all with him, I mean we became friends very soon after he debuted and now…and now we were getting married in almost exactly three months.
Wow, it all sounded so crazy now that I thought about it, but I couldn’t think for long.
The music started for ‘Beautiful Stranger’ and I was immediately pulled into ‘Taeyeon’s number one fan girl mode’. I started loudly cheering just as everyone else around me did. I did think that it was pretty funny they started off with this song, I mean this was the song that pretty much started it all…
Sunny, Jessica, and I all raised our purple glow sticks as high as we could in hopes the boys could see us. I knew they probably couldn’t, but It was fun to try!
After another five or six songs the music was put to a stop and they began their talk and introductions, well Sooyoung did.
He was their Japanese master. Taeyeon and Yuri spoke too, but just not as much as Sooyoung did. He did such a good job that he didn’t even need the translator to repeat it. I for one was pretty impressed.
Thankfully my amazement of his skills was quickly replaced with excitement. I had just remembered this was when the solo stages started.
Right now however, there was a video playing. It showed clips and short videos from when TYS and f(x) were practicing together and then more of the two groups just goofing off. It was pretty funny actually, especially when Sooyoung, Yuri, and Amber were all ‘dancing’ in sync. They really were too much.
No wonder they call him Kkab Yul…
The lights all shut off at the same time only signaling the start of the stages. I crossed my fingers for Taeyeon and…
My wish was granted!
Actually I was sort of disappointed at first. The song that he was performing right now was a duet.
OUR duet.
I was hoping it would be the one that he kept a secret from me, but that wasn’t the case.
I guess I wasn’t that disappointed though. I mean this song was only thrown in so when he performed it in Seoul next week, I could perform it with him. Other artists from SM were also joining in on the fun since it was going to be in Seoul.
Their song soon came to an end and the crowd went crazy.
Ugh… Just wait! Our version will be so much better! Seoul you’re in for a treat!
Suddenly the lights shut off and the beat started back up again.
“No way,” Sunny marveled.
We all knew this song; it was a huge American hit.
The lights started to move along with the beat and then Amber started in on her part of ‘Like a G6.’
Wow~! This sure was a change of pace from the last song! Sorry Taetae, I love you and all… but this was awesome! The crowd was going literately insane.
They were so energetic and their English wasn’t bad at all! Well Amber spoke English anyway, so she didn’t count… Sooyoung and Yuri were doing great though.
Sunny and Jess seemed to think so too. They loved it just as much as the screaming fan girls behind us, probably even more. It was pretty exciting with the three of them running around the stage and rapping like they were. It was seriously kkab Yul’s night right here.
He was jumping all over the place.
I wonder if the rest of the songs would be this up beat.
Omo!
Would I get to see Taeyeon rapping too?
I sure hope so.
The song eventually came to an end.
Well at least we thought it did…
The music kept playing almost like when a CD skipped or a record played the same sound over and over. The lights dropped again as the beat changed even more.
“What is going on,” I asked in hopes one of them knew.
“It sounds like the song Youngie and Yul wrote together,” Sunny responded.
Wait a second.
“They wrote a song?” She nodded.
“Yeah, he only let me hear the first ten seconds or something though.” What the hell! Why wasn’t I informed of this? “Youngie said they changed half of it so f(x) could join in though.”
Ugh, Taeyeon is so dead. Why would he not tell me?
The beat dropped once more as the lights flashed back on. I saw Yuri on the far stage with a few back up dancers and Sooyoung was now on the one closest to us also with a few dancers.
Omo. There was just something about when they were on stage that made them seem even more attractive, Taeyeon especially. It was almost like they flipped a confidence switch in their brain. I don’t know, but we all enjoyed it.
I had a feeling this was going to be good.
The music began winding down as a vocal track kept playing ‘Oh my, oh my’ over and over until it suddenly-
A/N: If you care to listen~
(From the second verse on I obviously changed the lyrics a tad to make it fit the 'joint' performance)
[Yuri]
Don’t have to try, don’t know why~
Just seeing me makes them go crazy~
My look, my style, my swagger~
Oh my god. I looked at Jess and her eyes were wide open.
I was surprised too. They had to have hit some kind of confidence overload to write this kind of a song. I knew it was probably all for good fun though… and it was pretty funny since those two were huge dorks off stage.
Now it was Soo’s turn. The whole time he was singing he was moving closer to us and- Oh my god.
[Sooyoung]
Oh I don’t do anything, just love myself the way I am
Just give a glance with a casual approach
“Hey girl! How’re you doing?” (hey)
With the last line he and the dancers all got as close to the edge of the stage as they could and waved at Sunny. Sooyoung even gave her a cute little grin and a heart before continuing in to the chorus.
Oh my god, I couldn’t believe him! Our faces were on the big screen and everything!
We got an even bigger shock in the next few seconds.
(Girls girls girls they love me)
[Y] What’s with my body
As Yuri did his pelvic ing dance move he raised his shirt up to show off his near perfect chocolate abs.
Daebak.
Ugh! Why couldn’t Taeyeon be performing this too?
(Girls girls girls they love me)
[Soo] From birth until forever
[Y] I just show up (oh oh my)
[Soo] Give a glance (oh oh my)
[Y] Stay breathing (oh oh my)
(Girls girls girls they love me)
[Soo] Wear a little smile (oh oh my)
[Y] Move slowly (oh oh my)
[Soo] Nothing much done (oh oh my)
(Girls girls girls they love me)
There was a rewinding sound like they used in most remix songs, and then two new faces lit up the screen as the lights where they were standing on rose.
“Omo! Sulli?!”
[Sulli]
Don’t know why these boys always bugging me
So many aggravations everyday
This boy. That boy. All day long~
[Victoria]
Oh better tell em’ to just get away from me
That’s what I wanna do but they simply~ won’t~ stay away (hey)
(Boys boys boys they love me)
[Sul] What’s with my body
(Boys boys boys they love me)
[V] From birth until forever
We were all shocked by Sulli being able to pull off such a sassy and confident act with her y body waves and such, Victoria on the other hand we all expected as much. Victoria unnie had so many different sides to her…
[Sul] I just show up (oh oh my)
[V] Give a glance (oh oh my)
[Sul] Stay breathing (oh oh my)
(Boys boys boys they love me)
[V] Wear a little smile (oh oh my)
[Sul] Move slowly (oh oh my)
[V] Nothing much done (oh oh my)
(Boys boys boys they love me)
There was a little instrumental break and Yuri and Victoria started doing acrobatic moves. We all had seen Victoria unnie’s moves, but Yuri…
Damn.
He did a couple flips in the air, while spinning around!
It was intense and impressive. I didn’t even know how he could do that…
Sooyoung started rapping again while the rest of them kept up their dancing.
[Sooyoung]
Yo Uh
We’re not exaggerating, unfortunately not
This is not a song, just take our word for it
Don’t give a twist, please listen to us
Don’t know if you’ll understand, but it’s like we ate magnets
Our bodies pull the people around us, can’t do a thing
So many times already, this single day? We’re just too popular
[Amber]
Whether young or old, they grab us and say let’s play
Whether they know us or not they say “Whatcha doin’?” Let’s have a talk
Wish we had twins, maybe clone ourselves like Matrix
We’re only one, but so much in demand
Everyone wants a piece of us
[Sul] I just show up (oh oh my)
[V] Give a glance (oh oh my)
[Sul] Stay breathing (oh oh my)
(Boys boys boys they love me)
[Y] Wear a little smile (oh oh my)
[Soo] Move slowly (oh oh my)
[Y] Nothing much done (oh oh my)
(Girls girls girls they love me)
The five of them continued the dance for thirty seconds or so while the music slowly faded out along with the lights. When they came back on not ten seconds later, Sooyoung was the only one on stage.
“Damnit,” I cursed aloud.
I for sure thought it would have been Taeyeon after their songs!
Sooyoung performed a scandalous version of Usher’s ‘OMG’ , which literately had Sunny saying ‘oh my god’ at least two hundred times. I might have even let it slip once when he ripped open his shirt about half way through the song.
Gah~ I think he might even be more ripped than Yuri!
No wonder my Taetae never wanted to take his shirt of while performing with these two, I laughed in my head.
Taeyeon of course isn’t unfit or anything, actually he’s quite fit himself… just nowhere near these two.
The song transition began and I was let down once more when Krystal was shown on stage. I wanted Taeyeon!
Wait a minute… Krystal?
Suddenly there was a pop of what looked to be fireworks or some other form of pyrotechnics and Yuri was shot up from the floor, immediately he started to sing .
I was just thankful that the little explosion was far enough away that it didn’t shock our little Sunkyu too much, we all knew how much she hated that kind of stuff…
Yuri and Krystal’s performance of 3OH3’s ‘My First Kiss’ was actually really fun to watch as well. They picked on each other almost incessantly with back and forth little hits and nudges. Krystal even got in a good flick to his forehead, which we all found quite hilarious.
Jessica seemed to really love it too. Her smile was as big as I’ve ever seen! I guess seeing her boyfriend and little sister having so much fun together on stage really made her night. I will admit that is was pretty cute.
As the song started to come to an end though, I could only think of one thing.
Taeyeon was next.
He had to be. He was the only one left!
Within the next minute the lights shut completely off… and stayed like that for a solid minute.
I started to panic.
“That wasn’t it right? This usually happens only when there’s a video coming next.”
Oh no. This was so not fair! Taeyeon promi-promised… What the…
“Is that a guitar?”
I swear I could hear the sound of a guitar playing very softly.
I knew my ears were right when the sweet sound grew louder and louder, eventually filling the venue. It continued for another ten seconds, filling everyone with all kinds of excitement, especially me.
I was honestly shaking I was so excited.
The music became more rhythmic and we then heard the first line of the song followed by a roar of the crowd.
Taeyeon's solo~!
(This was probably the closest version I could find to what I want it to sort of sound like. Imagine this, but with the rap bit and music from the real version!)
As long as you love me~ yeah~ oh woah~
Oh my god. I was not ready for this. Taeyeon’s now huskier and breathier voice filled the venue and thankfully, my ears.
We're under pressure,
Seven billion people in da world trying to fit in~
Keep it together,
Smile on your face even though your heart is frowning ~
But hey now, you know girl,
We both~ know it's a cruel world
But I will take my chances~ yeah~ eh~
That was it. I was already melting over the sound of his y, smooth voice. The way he held everything out and even adlibbed in some parts…
Oh my GOD.
Don’t even get me started on his adorable English pronunciation.
As long as you love me
We could be starving, we could be homeless, we could be broke
As long as you love me
I'll be your platinum, I'll be your silver, I'll be your gold
As long as you lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-love me
As long as you lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-love me
MMM, the little breaths and intakes of air in between words and sentences just made the whole song SO much ier.
Gah, screw the y dancing, I’d rather have Taeyeon sing to me like this every night.
Seriously we might have to skip this whole WGM filming afterward…
I'll be your soldier,
Fighting every second of the day for your dreams, girl
I'll be your Hova
You could be my Destiny's Child on the scene girl~
So don't stress, don't cry, we don't need no wings to fly~
But just take my hand~
Wait a minute!
This song totally has a rapping bit in it too right?
Omo, it does!
Aish, Taeyeon probably got Sooyoung to do it though. Ooh, or maybe Amber since she had the best English pronunciation.
His assault on my ears continued.
As long as you love me
We could be starving, we could be homeless, we could be broke
As long as you love me
I'll be your platinum~, I'll be your silver~, I'll be your gold~
As long as you lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-love me
As long as you lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-love me
The music suddenly started to change and there was now a techno-y sort of sound playing rather than the pure acoustic guitar that was sounding through Taeyeon’s singing. I also didn’t seem to notice the figure that had been walking toward Taeyeon the past ten or so seconds.
[???]
Woah
“Who… who is tha- Omo.”
Yo it’s Hyo-Yeon
I was truly shocked when I saw Taeyeon’s cousin, the famous rapper Hyoyeon of H2YO, on stage beside him. I think everyone else was as well after hearing all the cheers from behind me. It’s not often that SM and JYP artists work together on things.
Taeyeon’s grin was a mile wide though. I’m sure he was really happy to finally perform with his cousin that he looks up to so much as well.
Aigo~ my Taetae is so cute.
I don't know if this makes sense, but you're my hallelujah
Give me a time and place, and I'll rendezvous it, I'll fly you to it,
I'll beat you there
Girl you know I got you
Us, trust...
A couple of things I can't spell without 'U'
Now we are on top of the world, 'cause that's just how we do
Used to tell me, "Sky's the limit", now the sky's our point of view
Man now we stepping out like, Whoa ([T] Oh God)
Cameras point and shoot
Ask me what's my best side, I stand back and point at you
You, you the one that I argue with, I feel like I need a new girl to be bothered with,
But the grass ain't always greener on the other side,
It's green where you water it
So I know we got issues baby true, true, true,
But I'd rather work on this with you
Than to go ahead and start with someone new
As long as you love me
Their interactions were really fun too. Taeyeon was acting like the dork that I love while Hyoyeon oppa was doing a fantastic job with his rap.
The music kept up its techno beat and Taeyeon belted out the finish like I’ve never heard him sing before. Gah his voice was unbelievable.
[Taeyeon]
As long as you love me
We could be starving, we could be homeless, we could be broke
As long as you love me
I'll be your platinum~, I'll be your silver~, I'll be your gold~
As long as you lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-love me
As long as you lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-love me
Love me, love me, oh love me~, oh love me yeah~
As long as you love me, you love me, love me yeahh~
As long as you love me~
I cheered like a crazy fan once the song ended, as did everyone else, including Sunny and Jessica.
“That was seriously better than Bieber,” Sunny said through the screams. I grinned.
I couldn't agree more.
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I plopped my body down on the sofa in our waiting room.
We had just got back in from our final song of the night, ‘Not Spring, Love, or Cherry Blossoms’. Instead of just the four of us who originally sang it, all eight of us went on stage for it.
Originally they weren’t going to end it that way , but the three of us talked them in to it since f(x) only had a thirty minute performance while we had at least three times as long. Well maybe only twice as long since they come in our solo stage set too.
We didn’t think it was completely fair, but we also couldn’t do anything about it.
At least we got to end it together!
I let out a deep sigh.
Gosh~ no wonder Fany-ah is always tired. We only did one concert so far and I’m already dead. Seriously if I went to sleep right now I don’t even know if I’d wake up in time for tomorrow’s concert.
Of course I didn’t get to sleep yet though.
We had a few interviews, probably filled with the typical ‘how do you feel after your concert- blah-blah’ questions and then we had to go join SNSD to film the last episode of WGM.
Not the last one forever, obviously. Just the last one the SooSun couple would be on. They had to quit due to our schedules being so jam packed right now and probably for the next few months to be honest.
Aigo~ I needed a vacation. Ugh. Lucky Tiffany got a week off here soon too. It wasn’t fair!
I suddenly felt a weight on my thighs. After quickly opening my eyes, I saw that it was none other than the lucky girl herself.
“You were amazing Taetae.” I sat up so she could sit comfortably beside me and thanked her. “I’m serious! I think I’m even more attracted to you after that duet with your cousin,” she teased. “Where is he by the way?”
“Oh hyung?” She nodded. “He already went back to the hotel I think.” She hummed.
“Well you two were great.” I felt on top of the world after hearing her praise. It was so nice to have someone that supported me this much always by my side. “Want me to help you take off your make up?”
“Huh,” I asked loudly. That was random. She repeated herself as her adorable smile grew wider. I couldn’t help but smile too. “Aniyo, I can’t take it off yet. Actually I think it has to be touched up a little.”
“Oh~ right! The interviews.” I hummed. “Then let me help you touch it up.”
“Jinjja,” I laughed. Her nod and smile were as energetic as ever. “Arasso~. Do you know how?”
“Seriously,” she asked sassily as she gave a little glare.
Alright I guess that was a stupid question…
“I just meant-“
“I know what you meant Taetae,” she said as her cold expression broke. “I was just kidding~!”
Ugh, she was so confusing sometimes. She led me to one of the chairs in the room and grabbed the make-up that was designated for me. Since Sooyoung and Yuri were both way darker than I, I had my own set of make-up. We obviously couldn’t use the same colors. I mean I’d end up looking like I just had a really bad spray tan…
One of our stylists curiously asked her what she was doing.
“Don’t worry unnie, I’ll make him look super pretty~!”
“Yah~,” I whined. “Not pretty! I’ve got to look manly.” They both laughed even harder.
“You’re really asking me to make you look manly when I have this make up brush in my hand?” I nodded. I did see how she thought that was pretty funny, but I couldn’t let her win.
“Of course. All my girl fans will leave if they think I look too girly,” I teased.
“Good. Unnie, where’s the red lipstick?” Omo!
“Yah~! You ca-”
“Calm down Taeyeon~,” she laughed. “I’m just teasing you.” She got closer to my face with the brush and I-
Oh my, that reminded me.
“Fany-ah!”
“What? I haven’t even started yet!“
“Ani, I have to talk to you about something.” She raised a brow.
“What…?”
“Why’d you tell my mom that I was teasing you?!” Her eye smile took over as her husky laugh filled my ears. “It’s not funny~! I got scolded you know!”
“Oh don’t even! Kim Taeyeon I told you that if you kept sending me those pictures I would tell your mom on you!”
She was referring to the day that I sent her a picture of literately everyone else but myself after she sent me a series of very, VERY attractive selcas.
Oh god I was laughing again just thinking about how angry she got. Omo, it was way too-
“OW~,” I immediately called out after my so called ‘love’ hit me.
This has to be some kind of abuse, right?
“Quit laughing. It’s not funny,” she whined.
“It’s a little funny,” I cooed back as I rubbed my chest. “You know what my mom said to me though?” She shook her head.
“What’d she say?”
“She said that she was so happy to get that call.”
“What~?! Your mom was happy to see you tease me? Omo, I’m gonna have to talk to her about that ne-“
“Ani! Aniyo~ it’s not like that,” I quickly clarified myself. “She said that marriage is all about finding that one person that you want to annoy for the rest of your life and so I guess she was just happy that we’re still annoying each other,” I laughed.
The smile on her face now made me feel even happier than I was, despite the bruise now forming on my chest.
That smile was only for me. It was almost like an embarrassed grin really. Her teeth didn’t show, but her lips curved and caused a mini eye smile and- Oh gosh it gave me ridiculous amounts of butterflies to see that grin,
It was so adorable.
“You’re cute,” I blurted out. Her eyes that were full of warmth and love quickly changed to those of hate and rage.
“Shut up.” Her hand with the make-up brush rose up and I flinched.
“Omo, I thought you were going to hit me again,” I laughed. “Whew~!” I saw a quick smile before her ‘angry’ face returned.
“Quit moving~. You’re going to make me mess up.”
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