Heart to Heart 1/2

It was hard for Gayoon—really, really, really hard for her to keep it up. With the frequent joking around, to-die-for smiles, adorable laughter, and that stunningly gorgeous voice balled up into the bouncy boy that was Yang Yoseob, it could have given anyone a hard time. What made it worse for her was that she was labelmates with him, practically best friends with him, and they were main vocals for their respective groups—that meant if the two groups were to band together for a project, they’d get paired up for the chorus and maybe even the bridge. She’d already had a struggle not to blush so obviously when they filmed their promotion for Jeju Island. The boy’s typical charm plus his comical “Ola!”-ing kept her laughing, and Gayoon had to use the warming weather as an excuse for her red face. If that had her melting then what more when they sang a cover of G.Na’s If You Have a Lover. Together. Alone. With no other members. In the recording studio.

After filming, Gayoon was watching a fast draft of the video the team was to release of their duet. Her lips automatically pulled up into a grin at seeing Yoseob’s crazy antics while she’d been singing. Then she looked at herself in the video, silently disappointed that she appeared so plain and boring next to him. She had her reason, of course, for focusing so much on the lyrics or the camera—and that reason was none other than the male singer himself. In truth she didn’t need a copy of the song in front of her face. So many times her gaze moved to the corner of her vision, at the then-blonde one that kept moving around with silly gestures and whimsical expressions, and she’d force herself to look back at the paper or smile at the cam. When filming came to the part that it was just her inside the room, Gayoon felt a bit at ease, only to become uptight again when she found Yoseob watching her with an amused face outside the glass window.

She touched her cheeks, reverting her attention back to the video. The song was ending and she hovered the mouse on the x to close it, when she heard bits of dialogue caught in.

“Was I supposed to sing that part?” came her voice.

“Yah, I think I’m going crazy~”

“Why? Why?”

“There’s a mistake here…”

The video finished and Gayoon was left staring at the black portion of the laptop screen, amused that their short exchange was included. She still felt the heat of Yoseob’s gentle hand on her shoulder from when he had pushed her away to get closer to the microphone. Her face grew warm and her expression dropped, aware again of her situation and how careless she was being to have let her emotions get this close to the boy she treasured as her brother.

That’s right. Her brother. Beast and 4minute were a family, even the fans said so, and the B2uties and 4nia members were loyal to that family. “4minute unnis, if you’re going to pair up for joint stages, pair with B2ST!” “No other team besides B2ST!” One B2uty even stated to the group, “If you are going to get in a scandal, get in one with the 4minute unnis!” These comments created a stir and became a news article for online entertainment news sites, and the Cube stars were just relieved that their supporters agreed with their close relationships. But it got Gayoon thinking. It irritated her that she had those feelings for Yoseob, her brother, then it always came as a surprise to her to remember that he wasn’t really her brother. It became a liberating thought that it wasn’t a crime to like him, but then she feared that he thought of her as just a sister figure. It was likely, and that disheartened her. Gayoon’s only consoling thoughts were that although she was a sister to him like the other Cube girls, she was also a best friend to him.

Yoseob was the first one to visit her after her eye surgery. She had been sitting up on the cot when he rushed in. Though one eye was blinded by an eye patch and the other blurred with tears, Gayoon managed to catch the anxious expression the boy had on his face and, if what she thought was true, the slight moist of his eyes.

“Thank God you’re okay!” he said when he pulled her into a hug.

She could only smile at him when he released her and grabbed the stool near the cot.

“Does it hurt?” he asked softly.

She nodded. It did hurt very much. Just then she felt warm tears gathering in her eyes again and her lip trembled and a small sob came out.

“No, no, don’t cry!” Yoseob said affectionately. He’d barely sat down and he sprung up again to wipe spilled tears from her cheeks with the back of one hand and hold her hands in the other.

He also seemed very protective the night they’d met in the company building after Gayoon and Junhyung recorded and filmed as part of the “Group of 20” singing for the G20 Summit.

“You sang with Jonghyun from SHINee?” he asked in a tone so different from when he cheerfully inquired about what they did that afternoon. “Why didn’t you ask to sing with Junnie hyung?”

“He’s a rapper!” was her reply.

“You know he sings too!”

“Well, he was rapping for that song!”

Yoseob’s face molded into an angry pout, and he crossed both arms over his chest in stubborn defeat.

“What’s the fuss, Yoseob?” she said with a laugh. “It’s just one song. And we only had four lines together. Really.”

“But you were recording and filming and standing with one another for hours!”

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a/n: Nyahaha, gotta love Yoseob's affectionate moments and little jealousy <3

For those who don't know yet, here are links to the videos/articles I had to read/watch to write parts of this story. :)

Jeju Island promotion - B2ST & 4Minute

If You Have Lover - Yoseob/Gayoon duet

4minute-B2ST family closeness :D