A / N: Double Update!!

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                Lee Soo Man opened the door, and ushered me in, and I nearly fainted at the twelve young guys I was to work with. Several of them were running around the practice room, a few sat together conversing, and one was dancing intently. They looked too young and rookie-ish to be having a showcase next month. Lee Soo Man cleared his throat, and everyone scrambled into a line.

                “We are ONE! Annyeonghaseyo Exo imnida!” They all chimed at once and started their individual introductions. I bowed at each of them as they spoke, but froze when I saw the last one in line. ‘You’re absolutely ting me.’ I groaned slightly and puffed out my cheeks.

                “Exo M’s leader, Kris imnida.” He finished off and nodded at me.

                “Hello! Park Jihyun, assuming from my conversation with your boss here, come May, I will be helping a section of this group.” I bowed to them and turned to Lee Soo Man. “Am I done here then or would you like me for anything else?” I offered my services and he smiled lightly.

                “Stay here for a bit and get acquainted with them. You’re going to need it when you move in with them.” I waved off his comment and sighed. “Well, I’ll leave you too it then.” He patted my shoulder and left the room, leaving me to twelve males.

                “This is going to be a long day.” I muttered to myself as I checked my phone to see a text from Chanhee.

From: Chanhee Yeobo <3

Remember, don’t kill the group!

I love you Ji-Ji! Have a great day!

Love, your cheesy prince.

                Chuckling at the text, I smiled and placed it back in my bag before replacing it with my blank face and looking at the men around me.

                “Go about your business. Act like I don’t exist.” I shooed them as I took a seat on the floor in the corner and relaxed against the wall. Soon I heard the noises of their roughhousing and I smiled slightly to myself. ‘Of ing course. The one time I have a long distance relationship from a summer fling on vacation, I have to end up working with him. Why me?’ I absolutely refused to look in Wu Fan’s direction, knowing that I would probably strangle myself if I did. Shifting my gaze towards the ceiling, I sighed. ‘You hate me, don’t you?’ I questioned whatever Supreme Being may be out there, and grumbled at the lack of response I got.

                “It’s a pity you can’t stay with us here; I think I’ll miss you.” I looked up at the sound of a deep voice and was met with the tall rapper from the Korea-based section of Exo. He smiled gently as he sat next to me.

                “Hard to miss something you don’t even know.” I retorted blankly, pulling my panda baseball cap further down.

                “Why don’t we fix that, huh?” His voice got suddenly close to my ear and his deep voice was oddly y. My gaze shot up and I glared at him as I scooted away hurriedly. “Relax! I was just kidding Jihyun-ssi.” He held his hands up innocently, and shook his head. “Promise!” Sticking my tongue out at him, I returned to my spot and leaned back.

                “You better be.” I grumbled at him before crossing my arms over my chest. “Why on earth are you bothering me when you could be off messing around with the rest of your group?” I gave him a sideways glance to be met with a huge, cheeky smile. “Yah! What’s that look for?”

                “You’re pretty!” He commented with a sing-song tune. I pushed his figure over, pursing my lips into a ‘duck-face’. “It’s true! Even Kris thinks so.” Chanyeol waggled his eyebrows, and I rolled my eyes.

                “I call bull.”

                “No seriously, look at him! He keeps glancing over to you, he even shushed Tao earlier when I sat down. Duizhang never does that.” Glaring at the body, I glanced up to see Kris glaring at Chanyeol. The boy was honestly too loud for his own good.

                “Seriously, I’m calling that bluff. He just has his normal stern look. You’re imagining things.”

                The next few hours were spent with Chanyeol and I bugging the crap out of each other and the other members. Oddly, it was like I was talking with my older brother back in the States. He acted a lot alike, if only he was, then I’d have some legitimate family out here. As we started firing off random questions at the other, Suho, Kai, and Baekhyun joined our group. It was comfortable around them, in a weird way. I sighed at the thought of the other group being the ones I was to spend a month with. I would’ve gotten along so well if I was assigned to these sweethearts. We started talking about present interests, which included relationships. I joked around about dating for a few minutes before the happy virus switched up his entire approach.

                “In all seriousness though, are you dating anyone?” The usually happy man suddenly became so solemn that I thought he was going to kill someone. His eyes shined with curiousness and sudden protectivness.

                “Uh, yeah. Why?”

                “Sorry Kris hyung, she’s taken!” He called up to the leader of the Chinese group who looked taken aback for a moment, glanced at me, then shot a heavy glare at Chanyeol before occupying himself with his maknae. “So who is he?”

                “Aish, you’re going to give me whiplash with all the friggin’ mood changes.” I lifted my cap, smoothed my hair, and replaced it, rolling my eyes at the curious boy next to me. “It’s Chunji from Teen Top, are you happy now you nosy badger?” I snapped at him and he squeed like a fangirl, clapping his hands and everything. I scooted away from him and looked over at the other eleven men in the room, staring at him.

                “What on earth did you tell him?” The one who introduced himself as the ‘dancing machine’ was uneasily shifting his gaze between my calm, bored figure and Chanyeol’s beyond ecstatic clapping.

                “I told him who I was dating.” Casually shrugging, I stood up and bowed to them. “Speaking of which, I need to get going home. I will talk to you guys later I guess.” As I was about to leave the room, a hand caught mine, and I flinched for a moment as thoughts of my accident replayed in my memory, but immediately turned to face who was touching me. The youngest of Exo-M widened his eyes at me and held out his phone.

                “Please?” He meekly said and I smiled warmly, entering all of my information into the device. “Thank you Noona!” He bowed, and I poked his shoulder.

                “Wait, when were you born?” He looked at me funny, but I raised an eyebrow, urging him to answer.

                “May 2, 1993… why?” I grumbled to myself as and answer and pointed to my phone. He looked at it before smiling widely. “Nevermind, mei-mei!” He chimed sweetly and I waved to him before walking to the door. “Bye mei-mei!” He waved after me and I said goodbye to them all, shutting the door behind me. After making it out of the building, I quickly dialed Chanhee’s number and sighed.

                “Hey cutie! What’s up? How did it go?”

                “Just peachy.” My voice dripped with sarcasm to keep from breaking. “I need to talk to you.” Growling into the speaker, I hung up and started running home.

                As I burst through the door, I felt myself desperately trying to keep in my tears.

                “You jinxed it! Lee Chanhee! You jinxed my job!” I found myself tearing up as I stormed into my apartment. A pair of arms encircled my body, hugging me close into his chest.

                “What do you mean?” His voice was slightly shaking.

                “Lee Soo Man told me after I already signed the contract. I’m to go to China for the month. This job pays really well and I won’t have another one if I leave it. I’m going to be stuck in China for god knows how long.” I fell quiet as he led my figure to the couch, sitting me down on his lap, and embracing my figure. “And what’s worse? I’m also living with them! Shoot me now!” I exclaimed as Chanhee tried miserably to calm me down from my rant. I could feel my blood heat and rush under my skin from my anger and pain. I didn’t know how long I would be

                “It’s okay Ji-Ji.” Chanhee cooed into my ear, trying to calm me. “We’ll only be a couple of hours away; we can talk every morning, every night, and all the times in between. We both have that video message system; we can see each other that way too.” He rocked my disheartened body back and forth.

                “Just promise me one thing.” I looked into his eyes and saw tears forming in his too. “Never forget me.” I whispered into the air, as if I were nothing but a cold breeze that would pass. “I can’t bear to lose you again.”

                “You won’t ever lose me Ji-Ji, you’re my everything.” His soft voice answered mine and was soon followed by a sincere kiss. “I love you.”

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A / N: Whew! Finally managed to get my nephew down for a nap so I could write.

That kid... I swear he acts like he's on crack more than our Happy Virus. It's scary.

Anyways! Thank you for the love already, interesting things will be happening soon, I just had to get the awkward boring beginning out of the way

<3