✧✦o16 : New Competition

The ride to the entertainment building seemed like it dragged on with the awkward silence filled in the car with the three, Eunji being the most nervous one.

It honestly happend abruptly. Woohyun showing up at the street vendors, out of all places, and swooping in and taking the girl away to the car that nearly knocked down the street vendors. 

Omo...! Wait so you're saying that he made all that commotion earlier.....wait so he stopped his car in the middle of the street because of me??? Eunji gasped internally.

Oh my God, what is the meaning of this.... Am I dreaming?????? Eunji gave herself a big fat pinch.

"OW!" the girl screamed in pain by the sudden pain she had given herself.

"Are you alright, Eunji-ah?" Woohyun asked suddenly, he put his hand on her now red arm where she pinched herself.

"Ah, n-no! No! I'm alright!" Eunji nodded quickly as she turned her body away towards the window to avoid anymore awkward contact with the guy she likes WHO APPEARED OUT OF NOWHERE AND STOLE HER AWAY AND OH MY GOD HIS CAR IS SO COOL....!

This has got to be a dream, Eunji bit the lip of her small grin.

Once Woohyun parked his car in the underground lot, he tells Myungsoo he'll see him later. Myungsoo nods and sighs, assuming that Eunji is just one of Woohyun's temporary girls and walks off.

When there was no signs of Myungsoo, Woohyun turns in his seat facing Eunji, "So...uh," he his lips then clicked his teeth. "Hang on, just follow me, ok Eunji?" he abruptly got out of the car.

Eunji just sat there, What in the world is happening. She looks at Woohyun through the window and sees him walk over to her side and open the door for her to come out. She hesitatly complies as she steps out as Woohyun grabbed her wrist and walked her towards the elevator to the caotic lobby.

Although it seems that everyone's super preoccupied, they still manage to spot the two come in the building together in surprise.

Hey...Isn't that Nam Woohyun...? He's going to debut soon...! But it looks like he's in a relationship...

I heard that he was spotted at some elite club totally wasted!! He got into a bar fight too!

Omo...! What's that sweet girl Eunji doing with a guy like Woohyun..?

Is she using him to get Sunggyu-nim's attention so she could debut early? Ugh, ew.

But aren't Eunji and Sunggyu like close friends? I thought they were going out at one point of time!!

Omona..! Wait until Sunggyu-nim sees this...!

Woohyun notices Eunji's weak grip on his arm, "Don't pay attention to them...just ignore them Eunji."

Eunji replied with a small nod as she continued to keep her eyes on the ground.

Woohyun casually walks deep into the lobby and finally finds the emergency staircase leading to the several floors of the tall building. He sighed as he pushed the door open leading him into the staircase with the humongous glass window before them as the surrounding walls of where the staircases that trail upward to however many floors. Woohyun quickly checks if there were anyone around and grabs Eunji in, walking up a few flights of stairs just to be safe.

"Hah...Mianhe for all of this....I just need to talk to you in complete privacy...!" Woohyun says breathless once they have reach what it seems to be the fifth floor. Although they stood among the millions of stairs of the most showcased glass staircase there could be, it was the only place Woohyun could think of that would leave the two of them alone to discuss matters...

Eunji pants, "It's all....good..!" she grins out of breath. Omo.....why did he bring me all the way here..? Definitely not to thank me from days earlier, right....? Or when he said we were more than friends is he like...omo is he going to ask me ou-

"Can you be my fake girlfriend?" Woohyun asked so suddenly with his eyes shut closed. He didn't know what to expect of the hoobae whom he oddly insists of her to call himself 'oppa' but why the hell not. I guess you could say he was desperate.

"Eh...W-WHAAT??!" Eunji flinched, she really didn't think her thoughts would result in real life.

Wait. Did he say fake girlfriend?

"I know I'm asking for too much....I'm truly sorry..." Woohyun sighed at his feet, "..but I guess you can say I'm a desperate selfish man."

"Wait, uhm..what do you mean be your 'fake girlfriend'? Like pretend we're in a relationship when we're really just....just not?" Eunji asked straightforwardly. The guy whom she'd bore a secret crush ever since they started training together is asking her out....on a fake date.

She didn't know what to feel. Her heart was beating at a fast constant rate, even though she had recollected herself from their mad dash to a private place to talk. Hell, she was happy. She felt her cheeks flush at the thought of holding hands with Woohyun and cuddling together and telling him 'I love you'.....But it's not real. It's only for show. 

Woohyun is basically asking to use her.

You have no idea how much I like you, Woohyun-oppa....Do you.. Eunji looked down as she suppresses her contradictory feelings of happiness and sadness.

"Yeah..I guess, if you put it that way, then yeah," Woohyun diverted his gaze from the floor to the innocent and passionate girl in front of him. He knew it was a bit inconsiderate to ask her of such a favor...but it's not like there were really close friends, more like close acquaintances.

He remembered the first time he'd met Eunji a few years back. It was actually during the auditions. He wasn't sure Eunji remembered though but they had an application mix-up. She came in the performing room during the time when he was supposed to and they just ended up having a singing battle of some sort. Surprisingly, SH accepted both of the talents in.

He's always looked up to the warmly-smiley girl who contained a powerful and fierce voice within her small fragile self.

Woohyun always thought of her as a goddess to be honest. He always tried to act kind and propper in front of her since she carries this aura as if she were a princess, a kind and caring one. Woohyun could never imagine himself to be close to Eunji, she was a delicate celestial girl while he's just a narcisstic commoner. She's way out of his league, even though he was such a casanova, he knew not to mess with this innocent girl.

Besides, he feels that she holds feelings for that special someone, whoever he may be.

And now he's asking this superior being to pretend to be his girlfriend. How unprofessional of him. Woohyun shook his head, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't--"

"I'll do it,"

Woohyun gaped at the unpredicable girl in front of him, "Wait, what?!"

Eunji lays her hand on Woohyun's forearm in a friendly warm gesture, "I'll...I'll do it. I'll pretend to be your girlfriend."

Now it was Woohyun's turn to be surprised. "Only if you tell me why I should and help me get the manager to get me to debut too." Eunji pursed her lips in a warm grin, "Is that a deal?"

Woohyun stood there in astonishment for a second then simply cracked a small grin, "Thanks Eunji...This means a lot to me, oddly enough..."

Eunji managed to smile back, her heart twisting with delightfulness and brokeness, "No problem, oppa. I got you!!" she giggled as she playfully hit Woohyun's shoulder to hide the sadness swimming along with the giddiness within herself.

Woohyun chuckled back as he pats her head, "You're calling me 'oppa' now, this makes me so happy!" 

Eunji jokingly scoffs with a sly grin on her face, "Stop trying to change the subject, Nam Woohyun-ssi! Tell me the reason why you need me to be your 'girlfriend' or I just won't do it," Eunji encases the relationship title in air quotations with her hands. 

Although Woohyun doesn't seem to be any different, upon this question Eunji notices the change of the atmosphere around them. He grins, a bittersweet kind of grin that sent an indirect message to Eunji. A message of being brokenhearted.

"Hmm...long story short," Woohyun showed a dazzling smile, probably one he throws around to everyone to ensure he's alright.

"I, myself, although it doesn't seem like it....got rejected recently," he laughed light-heartedly.

Eunji simply laughed along, "W-Wow, I'm honestly astonished! I seriously can't believe that...!" Woohyun chuckled at her remark.

"Haha, well it was only that girl could make me feel this way.....and it still is apparently," Woohyun looked out of the tall glass window that separated the staircase as a wall from the slowly darkening outdoors. 

"It makes me so crazy....! We were so happy together yet we've been through so much...I just--upon seeing her face again after what seemed like forever...something in me felt alive once again. I don't know how to explain it but it felt like the fire inside of me started burning from the remaining ashes and dust," Woohyun sighed happily searching for the words to simply describe the impact this girl had on him.

All Eunji could do was nod. She was beyond clueless in her love life, but hearing these honest passionate words from someone whom she admired, she couldn't help but feel incompetent with a small hint of jealously. But all she could bring herself to do is earnestly listen and nod as she followed the boy's gaze into the glass window that showcased the soft blend of violet and orange that surrounded the slowly disappearing sun hiding below the horizon.

"It felt like my heart was beating once again..." Woohyun breathed these words as he kept his gaze on the sunset shown before them through the tall glass window.

And with those few minutes of pure silence they simply admired the sun's departure to the sky as it slowly welcomes the moon. Upon the indifferent moon's admittance, the velvet dark sky slowly envelopes the ever-shining sun still emitting it's bright rays that impact the surrounding daylight-sky into vibrant hues of red, pink, orange, and violet. 

"....You guys must've been through so much yet you still manage to stay together, am I right?" Eunji asked out of courteousy.

Woohyun simply smiled, notalgia and pain radiating from that curt smile. "It seems like I'm the only one who wants for us to stay together," he admits with a straight face.

"I just wish things could be the way it used to be, you know...?" Woohyun sighed hopelessly and stole a peek at Eunji who seemed to be emersed into the disappearing sun. The sun is completely gone now, but the blend of the sky showed traces of the s