Dinner Winner

Elevator Girl

Seulgi was busy checking her camera as she sat on the bed. She panicked a bit when she went to the garden to find out her camera wasn't there. She asked a maid who was busy watering the plants if she had seen it and luckily it was returned to her. Seulgi played the video of what just happened earlier, she could see herself and Irene running around only to suddenly stop and walk away. 

"Aishh!! I'm going to edit this part out, I don't wanna remember this ever again. So embarrassing!!" Seulgi ruffled her hair and continued watching. It was showing nothing really important but there was still 8 more minutes to watch so Seulgi just pressed the fast forward button. As the scene went on going Seulgi couldn't help but notice a weird figure showing. She rewind the video and put it in the normal speed, as she looked intently to the screen she saw it.

"Aaaaaah!!" 

Irene who was busy unpacking her things at her room heard a scream from her girlfriend, immediately worried stood up and turned. But as soon as she did she saw her reflection in the water, her reflection made it look as if she was back there. In the water. Drowning. Alone. 

Irene started to have a hard time breathing, she put her hand on her chest and knelt down. "Breathe slowly, you have to go to Seulgi." Irene told herself like a mantra. She slowly made her way to the second floor where Seulgi will be staying. "Seulgi? Is something wrong?" Irene went in the room, without knocking, only to find the said girl wrapped with blankets. Irene thought she looked like a scared kid who just woke up from a nightmare. 

"Hey, what happened?" Irene said soothingly as she rubbed her bear's arm in hope to comfort her.

"I th-think I saw a ghost." Irene looked confused and looked around the room, nothing out of the ordinary. "In the video, I-I saw it." Seulgi points to her camera that was still playing the video.

Irene stood up and picked the camera up. She went back beside Seulgi and let the younger girl rewind the video. Irene looked to what was playing before her and she saw it.

A. Fudging. Ghost.

A woman in white with long hair moved into the scene and after awhile it left quickly after. Seulgi waited for Irene to be shocked or scared, react in a way like she did but instead she saw a very happy Irene.

"Woahhhhh!! There's a ghost in my house." Seulgi felt that if she was in an anime she would just fall down or in a comedy show where the audience would laugh at her. She forgot that Irene was a horror fan.

"I-I don't think that's something to be amazed by." Seulgi tugged the girls sleeves but Irene was too busy replaying the video, she completely forgot the part where she was barely breathing. "Do you think if we leave the camera back there we could see it again?" Irene asked in wonder. 

"What? No, I'm scared!" Seulgi was never a fan of supernatural things especially ghosts. 

"Awww is Seul being a big baby?" Irene says as she puts the camera away, she pinches both of Seulgi's cheeks.

"No." Seulgi whined cutely as Irene didn't stop pinching her. 

"That's okay you're my big baby. Don't worry I'll do it myself, I'm just going to leave a camera there later before we sleep." Irene moved so that she could be under the covers with Seulgi. Seulgi turned to her side so she could face her.

"Speaking of sleep. Why do I have to sleep in the guest room? I mean it's very nice here but I wanted to be with you." 

Irene playfully hit the bear's forehead, "Aren't you the number one student? What do you think when a man and woman are in one room?"

Seulgi thought for awhile before answering, "Well they do 'that' and other stuff. But I'm not a man." Seulgi huffed in annoyance. But she was caught off guard when Irene pushed her so that she could like completely flat, Irene removed the blanket before proceeding to sit on her stomach in a M position. Seulgi could feel all the gay panic happening.

"That's good. That you're not a man, I mean. Not that I wouldn't fall for you if you were but I like you better as a woman." Irene explained herself. "I don't think it matters if it's a man or woman. We're in a relationship so it's normal for my parents to be cautious. I don't think they like their eldest daughter to be like this." Irene slowly says as she leans down near Seulgi, noses already touching. She made sure Seulgi wouldn't be able to push her off by pinning her hands above her head, but she knows Seulgi has enough strength to stop her.

"What are you doing to me Seulgi?" Irene whispers mostly to herself but Seulgi heard it. But before anything could happen a certain turtle interrupted them.

"Seulgi have you seen my sist-. Whaaaaaa!!" Yeri barged into the room, well since the door was open, and was shocked to see what was in her sight. She quickly turned around and closed her eyes. "Yah! Why are you doing that here?!" 

Irene quickly got off Seulgi and hid herself behind the bed, obviously embarrassed to be seen by her younger sister like this, she was supposed to be a good example in front of her. While Seulgi just hid back under the covers.

"Don't you know how to knock?!" Irene asks her sister.

"It's not my fault you left the door open!!" Yeri was still facing away.

"You can turn back now."

"You're not doing anything indecent?"

"No!"

Yeri slowly turned around and opened her eyes. True enough as she sees the two very far from each other. "Sorry (not sorry) to interrupt your moment but I need to borrow Joohyun-unnie for a while."

Seulgi's head popped out from the blanket, "Aww why?"

"Clingy bear, I need her for something that's why. Now you do whatever while I take her. C'mon unnie!" Yeri practically dragged her sister out of the guest room leaving Seulgi alone. Seulgi's mind was replaying what just happened earlier making her extremely red, if Yeri didn't interrupt who knows what would've happened. But it's a good thing she did because if Irene's parents or the maids/butlers were the ones to see them she'd be in big trouble.

Seulgi left the room because she was scared of the ghost that could appear, she was busy walking around when she saw a door opened at the end of the hall. Curiosity kills the cat they say so Seulgi walked towards it. Inside she saw a desk with a big black chair facing the window, bookshelves all around the room. It was a work room for someone and that someone was inside.

Thinking that she might be intruding Seulgi was about to leave but a voice stopped her. "Good afternoon Ms.Kang." Seulgi looked to see Mr. Bae turning his chair around to see the young woman. "Do you mind if we have a quick chat?" Like some evil person, Mr. Bae was petting a black cat while staring right at her.

"No, I don't mind." Seulgi replies even though in her head she's telling herself to run.

"Please take a seat." Mr. Bae was referring to the couch in the middle of room. He himself stood up so he could sit opposite from her.

"Now I don't want you to feel intimidated or scared just because I'm your girlfriend's father." Mr. Bae tried to start. "I just want to talk to you. You see me and my wife are extremely happy that she has someone like you so don't be worried about whether we like you or not because we already approve of you." Mr. Bae gave her a thumbs up and Seulgi can feel herself breathe normally.

"Now the reason for this talk is that we need your help."

"What kind of help?" Seulgi asks with curiosity.

"Me and my wife aren't getting any younger, as you can see," He pointed at his little strands of white hair, "And we need someone to take over for us. And that someone is no other than our daughter."

"I am sure that Irene is fully capable of taking over but that's not what she wants to do. She perfectly happy with the job she has now and she's very successful." Seulgi says in hope to change the man's mind, she's going to be a good girlfriend and support Irene.

"We're not asking for her to take over right away, she can start out small. We just need her help because..... Our company isn't do as well as people think." Mr. Bae admits as he shows a frown.

"We invested in some stocks in an international project but that ended up failing making us lose alot of money."

"But you can fix it can't you? I mean you've been carrying this company all your life I don't see why now you need Irene's help." Seulgi says in a very polite manner in hope not to anger the older man.

"Of course we can but not at this rate of speed. We the way our company works right now we'll end up losing our spot as number one and not only that, we can lose some investors. Right now Irene is our only hope.... We don't want to burden Yeri with this, she's too young yet she's already trying her best to help this company.

Irene already had a taste of her dream and she won't leave it when she works here because she has the privilege of being able to work her schedule. I don't want my other daughter to live a life under the company at a young age. I want Yeri to have a taste of her dream as well."

Seulgi thought really hard about this, in all honesty she is for this. There are pros and cons but what Mr. Bae said is true; Irene doesn't have to fully take over the company she could just do little things and later when her parents can't anymore do it she'll take their spot, Irene also doesn't have to quit her other job either. Not to mention Seulgi will always be there to help her.

"Okay." Mr. Bae eyes widen as he hears Seulgi's response.

"I'll try to tell her to work for the company but if after everything I do and she says no. You have to let it go and let Irene continue her life as a game developer." Seulgi says.

"Deal." Mr. Bae stands up to give Seulgi a hug and she couldn't help but feel that what she's doing is right. She remembers what Irene told her before.

<<FLASHBACK<<

"I feel so bad." Irene says as she steps out of work with Seulgi waiting for her.

"Why?" The two walk together to the coffee shop across. And settle on a couch at the corner of the shop away from the other customers.

"Well I was busy doing some stuff at work and I just felt really grateful and happy I got to do this. And then I thought.... Will Yeri be able to experience this?" Irene says deeply and looks to see her girlfriend looking busily at her phone.

"Yah! Are you listening to me?"

"I wouldn't be a top student if I couldn't listen and do something else at the same." Seulgi replied still using her phone.

"Well this is serious for me and I want you to pay full attention." Irene rolled her eyes and tried to take away the girl's phone but Seulgi moved backwards away from Irene's short reach. "Put that phone away I'm seri-"

"Yes!"  Seulgi exclaimed before doing a small celebration dance with her hands. "Irene~ I finished your game!!!" She says with so much pride and joy, she quickly showed her phone to the older girl with happiness, it took the younger girl 4 months just to finish her game when it took other people 2 months. 

"That's what you were so busy about?" Irene seemed confused. "You just finished the game??? What's happening now?" Irene said as she scooted closer to Seulgi.

"It's showing the credits." 

"What!? Wahhh! Look for my name, my name's there! Ppali ppali!" Irene was shaking her hands as they both looked for the game developer's name. Irene Bae showed up on the screen for about 5 seconds before disappearing, letting other names flood the screen. Seulgi felt bad that her girlfriend's name barely got any recognition.

"Irene? How are you feeling?" Irene was still shocked from seeing her name, this is her first time seeing it through a user's phone rather than their company's machines. "I'm sorry about your na-"

"Seulgi-yah!" Irene sounded a bit whiney and it worried Seulgi. She out her phone down to properly face Irene only to see her crying.

"Seulgi-yah, (sniff) I really did it, didn't I? I helped create this game? People love it right? They enjoyed it?" Irene's tears were coming off like a waterfall, she still couldn't accept the reality where she actually succeeded. Her glasses were getting wet from her tears. Seulgi pulled her to a tight hug, "Yeah, they loved it. You did it Joohyun." And those were the words that Irene wanted to hear.

But her tears didn't stop because she realized something. She needs to find a way to get Yeri have her dream as well without breaking the hearts of her parents. She'll find a way. She promised herself.

 

>>PRESENT>>

"Dinner is ready." Mrs. Bae says with glee as they all sit down at the long table, it could probably fit 12 people but right now it was only the Baes and Seulgi that occupied it. Mr. and Mrs. Bae stayed at the two ends of the table, Irene and Seulgi sat beside each other leaving Yeri to sit across them.

"Irene, why don't you show Seulgi around Daegu? She might be bored staying here all the time." Mrs. Bae suggests as she sips her wine.

"That's a great idea! Although, I don't know much on where to go myself." Irene answers sheepishly. "I'll show you my old highschool then, it's not that far from here."

"That sounds nice." Seulgi answers.

The dinner went off really well, the Baes could laugh and joke with Seulgi, it felt really nice. They showed Seulgi Irene's photo album and they all cooed on how cute Joohyun was. Yeri would end up teasing her older sister and Irene had to keep it in herself from attacking her. The older couple went to go to sleep early while Seulgi, Irene, and Yeri decided to take some photos with the bear's camera. 

Yeri stiffled a yawn before telling her unnies that she was gonna head off to sleep. Irene left Seulgi's camera on video and left it on so she could capture the whole night on camera.

Irene was lying on her bed wide awake. She could see the water reflection on her ceiling. She couldn't sleep. She stood up from her bed and carried her pillow with her. She slowly creeped out if her bedroom and walked to the second floor to where Seulgi was. She quietly knocked on the door. She felt stupid, she was the one that said they had to sleep on separate rooms and here she is knocking on the younger girl's door but before she could turn around and leave she heard the knob turn.

"Irene what are you doing?" Seulgi whispered and Irene felt horrible because it looked like she woke her up. 

"I'm sorry, I'll just leav-" but she felt herself being pulled inside the room.

"C'mon let's sleep." Seulgi says softly as she pulls Irene close to her, there was practically no space between them. Seulgi was combing Irene's hair with her fingers and it lulled the older girl to sleep.

"Goodnight Hyun." Seulgi says before joining her to deep slumber.

 

 

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OMG I'm the absolute worst for making you guys wait so long!!! I'm sorry :(((( when I came back from Europe I got jet lagged and caught colds and cough but these r excuses so I'm sorry for not updating quicker!

Sorry for the errors I didn't take time to properly proof read.

But what's important right now is RED VELVET WILL MAKE A COMBACK AND ITS ALREADY SO NEAR. LETS SUPPORT OUR GIRLS AND STREAM THEIR VIDEO! LETS NOT BE LAZY!!!

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YSSR_21222043
#1
Chapter 33: waiting for your update author-nim :((
cupcaketree123 #2
Chapter 33: Wtf, joohyun‘s father is ed up on a whole nother level. Like the heck is his problem? You don‘t follow what i‘m saying? Then i don‘t need you anymore. Like the heck?! Hopefully joohyun will find the truth out about her father. Man, i‘ve always been a seulrene shipper but joy is just really...idk, i just really like her and i feel so sorry for her, how everything went for her too i mean
Hoseokie94
#3
Wtf I’m starting to think that mr bae has a manipulative tendency or something. It’s like he is making overly happy face to manipulate joohyun’s decision, even now
loonatic_orbit2
#4
Chapter 33: BRO FREAKING MR. BAE!! I knew he caused it
MaxTheCatnip #5
Chapter 33: WTF???
Ardem_Joseph23
#6
Chapter 33: This escalated quickly..
cupcaketree123 #7
Chapter 32: Wtf is wrong with her dad. He must be insane!! Anyways, after reading this, i‘m starting to ship joyrene a bit more. Ahh sorry to seulgi but joy seems like such a sweetheart. Smt mustbe wrong about her family but she seems like a genuinely good person. And their friendship with yeri too is so heartwarming. I can‘t wait to see what else happened in the flashback.
Ohh and about the concert, damn i saw so many pictures and videos. I believe they performed bing bing too but it would‘ve been great to hear ladies night and ELHL live! Nevertheless, i‘m happy about all the solo performances (bae joohyun was on fire!!) and kingdom come, be natural, automatic and all. The outfits were better this time too :)
chocochipc00kie
#8
Chapter 31: <span class='smalltext text--lighter'>Comment on <a href='/story/view/1322218/31'>LDR</a></span>
I was lost for a moment there. (Am I on another fic?)

That prick. I thought he was nice. Well, that was too good to be true. WAIT i think i am confusing this with another fic. Oh gosh.

Edit: No this is that fic where they visited Joohyun's home and saw a ghost on video. Welp. Still, he's a prick. Hopefully we get what really happened soon.

Thanks for the update!!!
zerotoblack
#9
Chapter 31: thnaks for the updateee. I really like this story