Chaos
Into the New World
“We live next door to Im Yoona,” I said, still in shock. This was so crazy. I wonder what Yuri would say…
“Yah, why do you sound so excited about that?” What? Did I? “Are you gonna come over without me now to hang out with her?”
I saw that little half glare look on her face and knew the problem instantly. Aigo, she’s seriously the most readable person I’ve ever met.
“Probably,” I said in hopes to provoke her. “She does have the bigger half of the floor, I’m sure her house is cool too.”
I watched her nostrils flare and had to bite my lip to keep from laughing. Oh my god.
“We can invite her and her boyfriend Lee Seunggi over for dinner all the time,” I said, making the word boyfriend stick out so she’d catch on I was just teasing.
“What, are you mad she has a boyfriend now?” I couldn’t keep it together anymore.
“Oh my gosh, seriously,” I laughed. She hummed. I couldn’t believe her. I needed to get this through her pretty little head.
I turned around and grabbed Tiffany by the hips, pushing her back and basically pinning her against the wall. Her small gasp and wide eyes just made me grin even more.
“Hwang Miyoung, what do I have to do to prove to you that I am a one woman man? Huh?” I moved my body in closer against hers, leaving no space between us.
She didn’t say anything, but her eyes were moving from my eyes down to my lips and back up.
In my head I was laughing at how obvious she was being, but I had to keep up my straight face on the outside.
“You look really pretty today Fany-ah,” I said as I caressed her cheek. This just kept getting funnier, for she was literately changing colors before my eyes.
I brought my hand under her chin and guided it to-
DING
Oh .
I dropped my hands and hurriedly moved into a non-suggestive position, but it was too late. The ahjussi in a suit that was stepping on to the elevator was giving me quite the look.
Oh god what do I do?
“Uhm sorry,” I laughed with a slight bow. Grabbing Tiffany’s hand I literately just ran out of the elevator and in to the lobby. Making sure we were out of that man’s sight, I had to stop. I was holding in my laughter for far too long. “Oh my god Fany, did you see his glare? Omo.”
“Kim Taeyeon, I can’t believe you,” she scolded. “Why would you do that to me on our first day in the building? Now everyone is just going to think we are -crazed idols.”
“Aren’t we though,” I grinned. I saw her lips curl slightly up before quickly turning into a frown.
“Is that all that you wanna do with me Kim Taeyeon?”
Oh good lord. Is she serious? Gah~! Why is she so moody today? Omo.
I bet it’s that time of the month. Fany always gets super cranky.
Don’t worry though, I was the best at… de-cranking her?
“Of course not Fany-ah, come here,” I said as I extended a hand. After she took it I pulled her in close and wrapped my arms around her snugly. “I also want to cuddle you, care for you, make sure you get to sleep alright… I’ll even sing to you if you want,” I laughed. “Ooh, and I definitely want to make you breakfast every morning...Er, okay maybe not every morning because I might be tired some days, but definitely most days, okay?” I felt her head move up and down on my chest. “So don’t ever think that that’s the only thing I want to do with you alright?” She nodded again. “Promise?”
She hummed along with yet another nod, but I couldn’t accept that.
“Aye~ I want a real answer.”
“Fine~. I promise. I love you Taeyeon,” she said softly before snuggling in to the crook of my neck this time. “Will you tell me what the pass code means now?”
Oh crap, I still hadn’t told her?
“I picked this number so I could think about that day every time I had to enter the code.” Her arms squeezed me as she leaned back enough to look at my face.
“Just tell me~.”
“It’s the date of the first day we were in LA.”
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“Seizing the K-pop industry, topping all the music charts, good entertainers, monstrous number of music downloads… These are all phrases that apply to you both,” Kim Shinyoung commented loudly.
Yuri and I were making an appearance on her broadcasted radio show tonight. I was excited too. Every show with Shinyoung noona was bound to be fun!
The only upsetting thing was that Sooyoung couldn’t make it. He has been at a photo shoot for some magazine almost all day.
“It’s very admirable,” she commented. “They’re having the time of their life, TYS is here today!”
I counted to three and we did our group greeting as usual and then she had us greet the fans individually.
“Ne, wow. All the female MBC employees are crowding the studio right now. I think every single one of them came,” she laughed. “I feel like I’m having an open broadcast.”
“Ah thank you,” Yuri spoke up.
“Speaking of females, a massive amount of questions coming in are about you two and your girlfriends.”
Man she was getting right to the point…
“Right off the bat eh,” I asked jokingly.
“Of course,” she replied with a laugh. “I’m not kidding though, every third question is one about either Tiffany-ssi or Jessica-ssi.”
Holy…
“Wow, that’s a lot,” I commented. Shinyoung hummed.
“So do you two mind answering a few questions to get them out of the way?” I took a quick glance at Yuri.
I obviously would be fine talking about Tiffany. I mean I answered every question thrown at me usually. Yuri on the other hand… I don’t think he’s ever talked about Jessica on anything.
He looked at me and nodded before turning back to Shinyoung.
“Yeah, that should be fine.”
“Alright~,” she cheered. “For the fans just tuning in, this is TYS’s Love corner with Taeyeon and Yuri.” There was a weird music playing in my ears now, almost like a background kind of- Omo.
“Omo! Did you have this planned from the start,” I asked. She laughed.
“Ne Taeyeon-ssi, I hoped I could talk you guys into it.”
“Wow~,” I marveled with a laugh. “You’re incredible.” Gah, leave it to Shinyoung…
“Ne, ne,” she laughed. ”Let’s start by asking Taeyeon-ssi and Yuri-ssi to introduce their girlfriends and tell us how long they’ve been together.” Oh my gosh.
“Seriously?” She hummed. “Alright,” I sighed. “I am dating the visual of SNSD, Tiffany Hwang. We plan to get married this fall on October 27th. It’ll be our two year anniversary.”
“Wah~! Yuri-ssi.”
“Okay, my girlfriend is the leader of SNSD, Jessica Jung. We’ve dated for a few days over two months.”
“Wow, is that it?” Yuri hummed. “It seems longer to me,” she laughed. “Oh, listener 19620 pointed out something really funny though.”
“Oh jinjja?”
“Ne, TYS’s leader is dating SNSD’s visual and SNSD’s leader is dating TYS’s visual.”
Oh wow. How did I never notice that before?
“I’ve never even thought about that,” I laughed. “That is a pretty good observation.”
“So wait, does that mean that Jessica-ssi is older than you or…?”
“Ne,” he sighed. “She’s older than me by like eight months or so.”
“Ah so do you call her noona?” Omo. That would be hilarious. I feel like Jessica would have dumped him in an instant if he called her that.
“No~, we were born in the same year so we call each other by our names.”
“Ooh, so you don’t have any cute names for each other?”
“N-no, not yet,” he lied. I grinned.
“Aye~,” I held out. This would be a great chance to finally get him back for all the times he’s picked on me.
“Oh? Is he lying Taeyeon-ssi?”
“Ne, I’ve heard them use some pretty cringe worthy names.”
“Oh tell us, I’m sure the listeners want to know too.” I looked at Yuri’s half grinning face.
“Hy-hyung~, don’t do this-“
“Yah,” I laughed. “Don’t try to up to me and call me hyung now. This is payback!”
“Ooh, now I’m really excited to hear it,” Shinyoung cheered. “What do they call each other? C’mon~! You gotta tell us now.” She was right.
I couldn’t stop now.
“The one I hear the most is Princess-“
“Yah! I rarely call her that,” Yuri said loudly causing Shinyoung to burst out in laughter.
“Omo, princess? What does Jessica-ssi call him then?” Oh gosh, this was going to be even better.
“She calls him seo-“
“Okay, let me explain this one first,” he interrupted. I grinned. This was so funny. “The other SNSD members started this and then Sica just stuck with it. She didn’t start this one by herself.”
“Omo, it is that embarrassing,” Shinyoung asked looking at me. I nodded.
“Seobang.”
“Seobang?”
“Kwon Seobang,” I announced again.
“Wow~ Yuri-ssi. She’s already calling you her husband?”
“It’s just a nickname,” he defended again.
“So you don’t want to be her husband? Omo, Jessica-ssi? Are you hearing this?”
“Yah~! I never said that!”
“So you do want to marry her? Ooh, if you hurry you might be able to have a joint wedding,” she laughed, leaving no way for Yuri to win this.
“I didn’t say that either~,” he whined. “We’ve only been together for two months, I have no idea where it’s headed right now.”
“Aigo, calm down Yuri-ssi, I’m just giving you a hard time. I’ve put Taeyeon-ssi and Tiffany through the same thing.”
That was for sure.
“I know, I know,” he grinned.
“And speaking of Taeyeon and Tiffany, listener 19752 asks a great question... ‘Do you four ever double date?’”
“Aniyo,” Yuri responded before me. “Honestly we hardly have time to date in general. If cell phones didn’t exist I don’t think either of us would still have girlfriends, right?”
“Ne. Both of our schedules are always so packed that even if all four of us had free time at the same time, I don’t think we’d want to spend it with another couple,” I laughed. “We rarely get to spend time with just them.”
“That must be tough,” she commented. “You must have had free time earlier today then Taeyeon-ssi, what did you do during it?”
Wait what? Omo… did-did she know?
No. She couldn’t… right?
How could she possibly know anything about Tiffany and I meeting earlier?
“Uh, w-well I…I rested and took a nap,” I answered as calmly as I could.
“Ahh, so you rested?” I could hear the tone in her voice that signaled that something was up.
“Ne.” She grinned.
Oh god she totally knew.
“Was that before or after you visited SNSD’s dorm?”
Wait…
“Huh?” Why did she think I was-
“Tiffany-ssi posted this picture of you to her Instagram earlier, and I was just wondering the time frame here,” she laughed.
I was so confused though… A picture? When did she take a pi- Oh.
Oh my.
She held up a small picture of me looking off of our balcony. Aish! Tiffany… why did she always have to put me in awkward situations? First the whole ‘ByunTaeyeon’ thing and now this… Ugh, I’m sure there have been many, many others too.
Hold up!
That was at our new house! Oh god. She has been to SNSD’s dorm before too and probably seen their balcony a billion times… I just hope she didn’t realize it anytime soon.
Okay, I need to hurry and get past this question.
“Ah, n-ne,” I accidently stuttered. “This is my first time seeing this picture. I had no idea she did this.”
“Really?” I confirmed. Gah, I still couldn’t believe she would do something so silly. “It already has over a hundred thousand likes.”
Omo. It was just a picture of me, some railing, and a little bit of Seoul in the background… How?
“Seriously?” She hummed. “Wow, I’m honored. Thank you.”
“So did you see Jessica-ssi as well then?” Whew, thankfully she moved right along without my assistance.
“I got to see her for about twenty minutes at our company,” he laughed. “We both had schedules unfortunately.”
“Aye~ that’s too bad. If you guys barely have any free time like this though, how are you planning the wedding Taeyeon-ssi? I heard it was going to be an American style, so doesn’t that take a while?”
Oh goodness. Now it’s about our wedding?
“Ah, yeah. It does. We actually started planning it a month ago.”
“Oh jinjja? How?”
“Yeah, we have a wedding planner that’s doing like ninety five percent of the work,” I laughed. “We’re basically just picking colors and patterns and then she goes off and makes everything come together prettily. That’s why we started so early too. Since we’re out of the country or super busy most days it gets hard to meet so we thought ‘the longer the better.’”
“Ahh, that’s really smart thinking.”
“We try,” I laughed. “Actually, we met our planner just yesterday for a quick meeting.”
“Oh and did everything go okay?”
“Very,” I said with a smile.
“Wah, that’s good to hear, I’m very excited for the wedding… A lot of listeners and viewers are concerned though.”
Wait! What? Why were people concerned? Did they think we didn’t match or something?
No, that couldn’t be it right? Tiffany and I were meant for each other. It had to be something else. Ugh, I just hope it wasn’t anything serious…
“Is this the end for SNSD and TYS? I’ve seen rumors online about this too,” Shinyoung said. “I heard that you both were going to take a lot of time off after the wedding.”
Oh my god. I actually got worried there for a second. I let out a deep breath and smiled.
“Not at all. Rumors are rumors,” I laughed. “Tiffany and I will not be leaving our groups. Actually we won’t even get to go on our honeymoon because Tiffany will probably still be promoting. Didn’t SM just announce their comeback this fall? We might be able to go away for a week once her promotions end, but I have no idea. We’ll have to see,” I laughed again.
Aish, people believed in everything they read online…
“There you have it everyone. SNSD and TYS will stay together even through the marriage.”
“Ne, we still want to sing and perform with our groups, we wouldn’t give that up like… ever. It’s what both us have worked so hard for, for so long. I love singing, but I also love Tiffany… I don’t think I could ever give those two things up.”
“Wahh~ I think all the ladies here just swooned. Taeyeon-ssi you sure are great with your words. Yuri-ssi, are you that good too?”
“Definitely not,” he laughed. “That’s why we let him write the songs.”
“Ah so Taeyeon-ssi is the sweet talker in TYS?”
“Ne, Sooyoung and I don’t even compare.” Shinyoung laughed.
“The next question I have here is wondering if Jessica-ssi uses her rare aegyo with you? Ooh, that is a good question though. Jessica-ssi is so chic we hardly ever see it.” Yuri laughed.
“I don’t think it’s as much rare as it is subtle,” he responded. “I think it’s hard sometimes to catch it.”
“Ne, she has her own kind of moderated aegyo.” I added. They both laughed.
“Moderated?” Shinyoung was still laughing. I hummed. “Can you give us an example Yuri-ssi?”
“I’ll try, but I’m bad at imitating her,” he laughed. “It’s kind of like she pronounces everything as if her tongue were short.”
Hmm, I wonder if I can imitate it…
“Oh ish that sho,” I said in my best ‘Jessica imitating voice.’
“Omo, that’s exactly right,” Yuri exclaimed as he literately jumped out of his seat. “How’d you do that?”
I shrugged. I honestly had no idea! I was just attempting it!
“Daebak, that’s exactly how she sounds. Say something else.”
“Say ‘Yuri have you eaten’,” Shinyoung suggested. She had been laughing too. I wasn’t even sure if I sounded that much like her to be honest, but I went along with it.
“Okay, let me think…” How would she say that? “Yurwe have you eatwen,” I imitated again.
Yuri and Shinyoung both burst in to laughter.
“Wah! That’s so good Taengo. You’re gonna have to show her whenever we see her again,” he laughed.
“’Whenever’ you see her again? You don’t even know when you’ll see your girlfriend again?”
“Yeah,” I laughed. “We usually don’t know until maybe a day before.”
“Ooh, or if our schedules are the same.”
“Ah yeah that’s right… It hasn’t happened in a while, but if we have to attend the same festival or event it’s always a good day.”
She went on to say that it must be hard and that she wishes us the best. We thanked her, but then her booming voice almost blew my eardrum.
“Alright! Now we unfortunately have to play a song and listen to some special words from our sponsors, but when we get back we’ll hear all about TYS’s new album and how you can preorder it. We should take some more questions from the fans too, right?” We both responded with a ‘yeah~!’ “Yuri-ssi can you introduce the next song for us?”
“Ne! We’re going to take you back with TYS’s ‘No Other!’”
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The next day was even busier than yesterday. My members and I were taking photos for our album cover and promotional pictures that will be included in the album jacket and the photo cards, and all~ that nonsense.
We were being dragged all over the city to find cool or interesting looking places to be captured in our equally interesting outfits.
Honestly, I kind of like the outfits today actually. The clothes were comfortable and we looked really cool in them I thought. We definitely had the ‘swag’ factor that they were trying to capture this mini album.
SNSD was busy too unfortunately. They had some interview in the morning and then they were going to the freaking president’s house!
Since they were appointed as the ‘Visit Korea Year Ambassadors’, I guess they were invited… I was still totally jealous though. I wanted to visit The Blue House too!
Once they got to Japan later the same day Tiffany said they only got to stay at the president’s house for twenty minutes before they had to leave to catch their flight. I thought it was kinda upsetting, but she did say she got to spend time with the first lady though! Wah~! That must have been exiting.
I mean it almost had to be more exciting than what we were doing.
Especially during the next day; the three of us were brought to SM where we had to record another song. Yuri and Sooyoung groaned, until they heard what it was for that is.
We had been chosen, or hired, or selected, or whatever as the new spokes models for Coway’s new water filtration system. I thought it was kinda funny actually. Last year SNSD were the spokes models and now we were! It’s like they handed it off to their boyfriends.
Omo, would we have to give it back to them next year?
Either way, we were in the studio recording two versions of the song. One in Korean, obviously, and one in English…
Ugh.
I mean we’ve all sang in English before, but we’ve also had at least few days in advance to practice.
It was a little worrisome at first, especially with Yuri’s horrible English pronunciation, but after about three or four hours we had both versions completely finished. Thank god…
I do have to say my pronunciation was probably the best though. Tiffany will be proud… hopefully.
The rest of the day we just spent filming different versions of the commercial. We had a few together and then we each had two individual commercials. It was long and kinda boring, but it was still a lot of fun.
I pretty glad when it was over though. That meant I got to go home and sleep for as long as I could. Since Tiffany wasn’t in the country and we had a day off tomorrow… er well today since it was already 2AM, I was going to probably sleep until tomorrow morning.
Scratch that, I was definitely going to sleep until tomorrow morning. I don’t think even a full twenty four hours of sleep would catch me back up, but it would definitely help.
I walked in the dorm, followed by Yuri, Soo, and one of our managers.
“Taeng,” he called out. Oh god, what is it now?
“Huh,” I sounded lazily.
“Contacts. Don’t forget.” Oh crap, right. Hyung seems to think that sleeping in these contacts were only helping my eyes become redder. It made sense for sure, and since Tiffany got so worried last time I had to take every precaution to make sure she didn’t worry again. My Fany already had plenty of things to worry about herself.
I took out my contacts as soon as I reached my room and quickly fell on my bed. I really don’t remember anything after that, until I was woken up the next morning that is.
“UGHH,” I groaned loudly. “Go away.”
“Taeng, hyung said we have to go to SM, he’ll be here any minute.”
“Go without me.”
“Yah~, you know we can’t do that. You’re the leader, and Yuri won’t be able to cover your vocals.”
“Yah I heard that Choi Sooyoung,” an angry Yuri from the other room yelled. Soo chuckled.
Wait, what? Vocals?
Ani, it was too early to think about this.
“I’m serious Taengo, we have to go. Hyung said it was an emergency.”
“Aish,” I sounded. “Fine. I should have known I wouldn’t get actually sleep,” I said as I finally got out of bed. If it really was an emergency, I guess I had to go…
Since I was also too lazy to change my clothes, I decided to just change my shirt instead. I couldn’t be seen in the same shirt I wore yesterday! Black sweat pants were pretty much unidentifiable though, so I kept those on. After I had brushed my teeth and made myself a little presentable in case we ran in to anyone important at SM, Yuri got a call from Hanyoung saying he was here. Ah~ Perfect timing.
I grabbed my backpack and my peas, aka my portable pillow, and left the dorm. Making our way down the elevator and through the lobby, I began to wonder what this so called ‘emergency’ could even be.
Did we have to rerecord something on our album? Why would that be an emergency? Hell, the preorder hadn’t even started yet, I’m sure they could easily change it.
Ani, that couldn’t be it.
Oh god, did Sooyoung or Sunny do something stupid and get themselves caught? My eyes shot to Soo.
Nah, he wouldn’t look as calm as he did…
Hmm. I honestly had no idea.
“Shotgun,” Soo called out as we entered the garage. I grinned.
“I don’t care, I was going to lay down in the backseat anyway,” I laughed.
“Aye~ no fair! I never get to sit in the front seat,” Yuri whined.
“Gotta be quicker,” Soo teased.
Eventually the three of us were in the van and I was already laying down in the middle row before the door even closed.
“Sorry guys,” he said as he pulled out of the garage. “I really wanted you all to have a day to rest, but it doesn’t look like that will happen anytime soon.”
“Why not,” Sooyoung asked, beating me to it.
“Well,” he paused. “Well, we have a lot of hard work to do from here on out.”
What the? As if the things we had been doing weren’t hard? He did see the choreography for our comeback right?
“F(x) is being pulled from the tour.”
Oh my…
“What!?” “Are you kidding me?” “Why?”
“I know Yuri, I know and no I’m not kidding Taeyeon. Amber got hurt again, and they’re starting to prepare for a comeback themselves.”
Oh my. That means we have to fill another thirty minutes of performance time and redo almost all of our solo acts…
Oh god. We really weren’t going to be able to rest.
At all.
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The next week was complete chaos. No joke.
Yuri and I had to learn and practice whole new solo acts since everything was being moved around. I also had to practice with Yuri for his performance of ‘My First Kiss,’ which I was pretty worried about.
I could clearly do it vocally, but they wanted me to wear a wig. Actually I was okay with the wig. When they mentioned the skirt however... I was a little weary.
I just hoped I could talk them out of it before I got stuck frolicking around in a skirt in front of thousands of people.
On top of all this nonsense, we were still preparing for our comeback. Hyung said it was looking to be pretty anticipated too. I didn’t think it was as big as he was making it out to be until he showed me where the album had been preordered almost two hundred thousand times.
My jaw hit the floor. It’s only been available to preorder for six days…
Some groups don’t even get that many sells period.
Oh my god. This was incredible.
When I told Tiffany she almost didn’t even believe me, it was that crazy.
If we leave out the mess that was our tour and our comeback though, we still had all the other schedules and commitments we’ve already made and the addition of a new performance to prepare for the SM Live tour.
Actually I wasn’t even that mad about that one. I was honestly pretty excited
We only had four shows left, but Lee Sooman of course wanted to give us even more things to prepare for.
No Taeyeon, don’t get mad. This will be awesome.
We were doing a special TYS and SNSD collaboration stage. I seriously couldn’t wait. It was going to be a fun and exciting stage already, and then adding my beautiful girlfriend to the mix. Wah~!
The only trouble with this performance though was that, one; we only had a week and a half to get it together, and two; we weren’t going to ever get to practice together with SNSD until the day of.
Okay, I guess those were two pretty big issues. Ugh… It was going to be rough. It was already rough actually.
If I thought I was tired last week, this week I might as well be dead.
Seriously, I was living off energy drinks, coffee and tons of sugar. Eye drops have also become my best friend. They didn’t take the redness completely away, but they for sure helped.
Aish. Tiffany was going to kill me when she saw me again.
It also that I hadn’t seen Tiffany since we signed the papers on the house. Even when SNSD came to Korea for two days this past week I couldn’t see her. We both had so much to do it wasn’t even funny.
It was better than the alternative.
We could be doing nothing at all and only selling like ten thousand albums.
I definitely preferred being crazy busy rather than sitting around and letting myself get into my head too. Once I get time to myself I just start worrying about everything. Whether this will be okay or if we’ll be good enough… Just things like that mostly.
Even today on our ‘day off’ I was at SM rehearsing with Yuri. Sooyoung would probably be here too but he had a special charity event to go to with his family.
It was around nine in the morning when the choreographer stopped us.
“Are you two sure you’re okay? Taengo you look like death dude, maybe you should actually rest. I know it’s your day off an-“
“Aniyo, I have to make sure everything is right hyung. I can’t let our fans down.” That was probably the biggest worry for me.
Just because I was having a hard time I didn’t want to disappoint the fans who were waiting for us in Tokyo or Taiwan. I especially didn’t want to disappoint the already two hundred thousand people that have preordered our album with a horrible comeback performance.
It wasn’t right.
“I’m not saying you have to stop, but take a break dude. Go sleep for a few hours. Yul knows all the choreography so you’ll be good to start back up whenever.”
I guess he was right. I could take a good long nap and still be able to practice afterward. Tiffany would be happy if I slept more too…
“Fine. Thank you hyung for coming in to help.”
“Yeah thanks hyung. Now I can sleep,” Yuri said before ‘falling’ to the floor.
“No problem guys,” he laughed. “I’ll catch ya later.” I watched him walk out the door and Yuri spoke up almost instantly.
“You think we can sleep in here?” I laughed.
“I don’t see why not. There are other rooms people can use if they need them, right?” Yuri hummed.
“You’re right… dibs on the sofa~!” I groaned, but since I did kind of drag him in here at seven in the morning I guess~ I’ll let him have the sofa.
“Fine, but I’m setting an alarm for two hours.”
“Make it three. Please~,” he whined. Ugh… I guess it wouldn’t hurt.
“Arasso~. Goodnight!”
I set the alarm on my phone to go off in exactly three hours and then rested my head on my peas. These things sure have been coming in so handy recently. Seriously, they made the best pillow and still smelled like Tiffany somehow.
It was perfect.
I don’t think it took longer than a minute for me to fall asleep, but it also only felt like I’d slept for a minute when Yuri started to shake me awake.
Omo, did I miss my alarm?
“Has it ben three hours already? Omo~,” I held out as I stretched a little. Wow, maybe I am more tired than I know. It seriously only felt like maybe five min-
“Aniyo, it’s only been thirty minutes.” Oh god.
“What the-“
“Sooyoung was in a wreck.”
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We had just left our dorm here in Japan for our first schedule today and I already wanted to call Taeyeon. I knew it was his day off so he wouldn’t be busy, but he was probably sleeping.
Just wait Tiffany, he’ll call you when he wakes up!
But... No. He needs to sleep.
…
Ugh. Screw it.
He can fall back asleep after we hang up. I missed his voice too much.
Omo. His voice would be even cuter since he just woke up too. All raspy and husky and- Oh yeah. I was totally calling him.
I pulled my phone out of my purse once we got in the van and quickly punched in Taeyeon’s number from memory. It rang a few times before he finally picked up.
“Ye-yeboseyo,” the husky voice spoke.
“Tae-.” Wait a second. That voice was too husky. “Yuri,” I questioned. The girls beside me in the van all looked at me now.
“Yeah, it’s me. Taengo is driving.” Ahh~. That made sense. I switched my phone to speakerphone so everyone could hear and then asked them to do the same thing. “Ne~!”
“Taeyeon-ah~!”
“If you’re calling me to break up with me this is a really bad time. I can’t take any more bad news.”
“What the… What are you talking about,” I laughed.
Why would I be breaking up with him? Also, what bad news was he-
Ohhh. Never mind. I knew.
The whole f(x) being pulled from the tour thing was pretty bad news. They had to switch around almost all of their solo acts and add in more songs.
I heard him sigh and instantly felt bad. My poor Taetae was working way too hard.
“Take me off speakerphone." Wait, what? Hold on…
“Why?”
“Just do it,” he said. He sounded sort of agitated too. Uh oh.
“N-ne,” I said hesitantly. Did I do something to make him mad? I didn’t wake him up if he was already driving though…
“Am I off of it?” Oh god, he really did sound angry. I switched the speakerphone ‘off.’
“Yes Taeyeon, I took you off.”
“Okay, well… don’t freak out, but Sooyoung was in a wreck.”
“What,” I exclaimed in my native language. Don’t freak out, is he serious?
“We don’t know how bad it is or anything yet, we just got to the hospital.”
“Oh my god,” I said again in English. No freaking way.
“Don’t tell Sunny yet. I’ll call you back when we find out what happened, okay?”
The line went dead. He didn’t even let me respond!
Oh god. This want happening.
I had to tell Sunny. No, but Taeyeon said not to.
Ugh!
Taeyeon’s right. Don’t freak out. He probably just went to hospital as a precautionary thing… Right.
He’s fine. He’s probably laughing it all off right now. Sooyoung was persistent; he wouldn’t let a wreck get him down.
Flash backs of Super Junior’s car accident from all those years ago rushed in my mind. What if…
What if something like that happened though? Kyuhyun oppa almost died…
No, that couldn’t have happened. It didn’t happen, I told myself.
I’ll just wait to find out what happened. If he just got scratched up or something small there wasn’t anything to worry about. I mean if Taeyeon was only a little scratched up I guess I wouldn’t need to go back, especially with the packed schedule we have the next few days. If he was seriously injured though…
Omo.
If I found out that Taeyeon was really hurt in an accident I would literately be on the next flight out of here.
No, don’t think about that. Sooyoung is fine. Just wait until Taeyeon calls you back.
From another perspective though, I’d be so pissed off if no one told me about it. Oh my god. I would probably kill someone.
Ugh, I guess I’d rather have Sunny mad at me though than for her to get in trouble with the company and try to go back now.
“Y-yeah okay bye,” I said as I pretended he hadn’t already hung up.
Ugh, I really felt like I needed to tell her tho-
“Is Sooyoung okay?”
My heart stopped.
“What do you mean ‘is Sooyoung okay,’” Sunny questioned immediately.
Oh no. I totally forgot about our manager. I’m sure he heard it from TYS’s manager and-
“Tiffany tell me what he means,” she demanded.
I had to tell her now. I didn’t technically spill the beans either, so I wouldn’t have to lie to Taey-
“Tiffany!”
“Sooyoung was in a wreck,” I said quickly. Her eyes grew instantly. I heard her breathing pick up.
“I-is he okay?” Her voice was small and weak, a complete opposite from a second ago. I shrugged.
“I’m not sure Sunny… Taeyeon said he just got to the hospital. He’s calling me back when he finds out.” She shook her head.
“No call him back. I need to know. Now.” I totally understood where she was coming from but…
“But Sunny-“
“No Tiffany. Call him back. Call Yuri,” she said as she turned to Jess. I heard her mumbling again as I hit redial.
“The number you have dialed is-“ I hit end before the automated response was able to finish.
“Tae’s phone is off.”
“Y-Yuri’s too,” Jessica said hesitantly. Sunny looked down and Jessica looked at me.
I had no idea what to do though, I knew our words would only help so much. What she really needed was to know if he was okay, and for that we just had to wait.
Wait was just what we did too.
During our first schedule, which was an on air interview, every time we saw one of our managers looking at his phone we got a little excited.
I did feel a little bad to our fans that were watching and the program itself, but once they found out what happened they’d totally understand right?
I didn’t even care if they did really. This was Sooyoung.
His life was way more important.
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I stepped outside of Sooyoung’s room and into the lobby, where apparently it was okay to you your phone.
Stupid hospital rules.
I turned it back on and waited for it to load up.
About eight years later when it finally loaded up, it also alerted me that I had six voicemails and seventeen new texts. All but two were from Sunny.
Aigo~ I knew I shouldn’t have told Tiffany, keeping secrets was one thing she was horrible at, especially from her members…
I called Tiffany and after one ring, the call was answered.
“Taeye-Ow Sunny!“
“Is Sooyoung okay?” I chuckled. Maybe I should have just called Sunny… “Yah!”
“Yes he’s fine Sunny, he’s inside the room laughing.” I heard her exhale.
“So he’s not hurt?” Ehhhh. I wouldn’t say that…
“Well…”
“Well what Kim Taeyeon?!” Yikes!
“Jesus Sunkyu calm down… You’re not even letting me talk.”
“Okay sorry… I’m just… I’m just worried.” I sighed.
She was right. I’d be screaming too if it was my Fany-ah.
“He has a broken arm and a slight concussion.”
“What?! Oh my god. He broke his arm?! AND a concussion?”
“It’s only slight,” I added quickly, hoping to make it sound a little better.
“Omo… I-is he in pain?”
“Uhm, no? They just finished putting a cast on him.”
“And what are they doing for his concussion?” Oh gosh.
“Nothing? He just has to rest for a few days. Hyung wants the hospital to keep him over night just to make sure.”
“Make sure of what,” she yelled again.
“To make sure it’s not worse than they thought? I don’t know Sunny I’m not the doctor,” I tried to say calmly. I don’t know why she was getting so angry with me. Sooyoung is just fine, beside the two obvious things.
She should be happy he didn’t lose a toe or something!
It was a minute or so before she spoke again.
“So-so he’s not seriously injured?” Her voice was calmer now, thankfully…
“Yep, only those two and a few scratches here and there.” I heard her sigh.
“What a relief~.”
“Can he still perform,” I heard someone in the back ask, it sounded like Tiffany actually.
“Omo, I didn’t even ask Tiff. Can he still perform?”
Ugh, that was another thing I still didn’t know.
“I’m not sure.”
“What do you mean you’re not sure? Do you use your arms in any of your dances?”
“Not really, but in our comeback we use them… He might be able to get by without using both, but that’s not the issue. LSM and our managers don’t want him performing with a concussion. They said it could worse and cause serious damage if he were to get hurt again.”
That’s why I think they want him to stay overnight too. So they can do multiple checks to see if he’ll be okay in what…?
“SM Live is in five days.”
Right, five days.
FIVE DAYS.
Oh my god.
We only had five days to get everything perfect? Oh god, we’re doomed.
“Taeyeon?”
“Oh sorry, what?”
“Can I talk to him?” Right!
“No, you can’t,” I answered flatly. “We all had to turn our phones off because of the stupid machines or whatever.”
“Give me the number to the phone in his room.” Huh?
A light bulb in my head .
Oh my god, I totally forgot each room had their own phone.
Wow~ Taengo, good going.
“Hold on let me find a nurse.” I swear I heard Tiffany mumble something along the lines of ‘find an ugly one’ but I just shook my head.
I scanned the lobby and since I couldn’t see any walking around I decided to just go to the one behind the desk.
After a minute or so of talking and convincing that I was an actual member of ‘the idol’s’ group, the older woman behind the counter gave me the number.
“Aish~, she didn’t even believe I was an idol,” I said bitterly. Even if she didn’t know who was, she has had to have seen me somewhere, right?
“Cry about it would you,” Sunny teased. “Give me the number.”
I read it off and then heard silence. What the…?
“Yah, at least hand me my phone back you little… Ugh. I swear I’m going to kill her one day Taetae.” I smiled at the sound of her voice.
“Don’t kill her Fany-ah, you’ll get stuck doing the aegyo then,” I teased. I knew how she didn’t like to be forced to do aegyo like Sunny always was. She said it was ‘too embarrassing.’
Even though when she does do it, it’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life.
“Aniyo,” she said sassily. “I’ll make maknae do it.” I laughed. “I’m glad he’s okay though.”
“Me too,” I said in relief. I don’t know what I would’ve done if he was seriously hurt. Besides Tiffany, Sooyoung was my best friend, Yuri too. Gah, I don’t know what I would do if anything ever happened to any of them.
I didn’t even want to think about it.
“How’s Japan,” I asked in hopes to change the subject. She groaned.
“Japan is bleh~! I wish I could be there with you.”
“Me too Fany-ah.”
“We were all so worried earlier.”
“Jinjja?” She hummed. “LSM told hyung that he made a statement to the press. I guess it’s already out that he got hit too.”
“He got hit?!” I hummed. Wait? Had I not told them yet?
“Yeah, Soo said that the driver in the opposite lane crossed over the center-line and hit him. His sister was fine though. I think she has a few bruises, nothing serious.”
“Wow, well that’s really good that no one got really hurt. That’s so scary.” I hummed again.
“He got very lucky. It could have been so-“
“Taengo, Hyung wants us back in,” I heard Yuri call out. Aish!
I wanted to talk to Tiffany though~!
“He needs to talk to us. All three of us,” he added.
I groaned. It must be at least semi important then if we all had to be there…
“Fany-ah I’ve got to go.” I heard her sadly whine. “I know~. I’ll call you later though okay?”
We said our goodbyes and I unfortunately had to turn off my phone once again.
I repeat; stupid hospital rules.
I put my phone in my pocket and continued back to the room. When I got in there though Sooyoung was still talking on the phone.
Uhm… I thought we were supposed to be ‘talking?’
“No, I promise I’m okay,” he said into the receiving end. “It doesn’t hurt, they gave me medication. Mmhm, it’s in a cast too, don’t worry…. Yes, I’m sure it doesn’t hurt, I have to go though, hyung wants to talk… I have to,” he whined. I just laughed.
Those two were perfect for each other. One second they’ll be picking on each other to no end and the next minute Sunny will be babying him to death. Don’t get me wrong, Sooyoung got pretty cutesy himself when they were together… and they called us bad…
“I’ll call you later okay? I’m stuck here all night remember?” He laughed and then finally said his goodbyes. “Okay, what did you want to talk to us all about?” I turned toward hyung and he sighed.
“I just got off the phone with LSM and because of Sooyoung’s concussion your comeback is off.”
“WHAT?”
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