[Byul HyunRi’s POV]

“Sure, let’s go to my room,” I found myself saying to MinNa before leading her into my room. Inside, I sat down on the edge and motioned for her to sit down beside me.

Once MinNa sat down, she grabbed my hand. “HyunRi-sshi, please,” – her voice was shaking, like she’ll breakdown any moment – “Please, don’t press charges on RinNa. She’s only twenty years old; I-I can’t bear to see her charged with a criminal record. S-She did it all for me. I’m such a pathetic sister…”

My brows furrowed in confusion, “She did it for you?”

Unable to control her emotions anymore, more tears streamed from her eyes, down to her already tear-stained cheeks. MinNa nodded, “Yes, it’s obvious to anyone that I really like KyuHyun, well, more than a friend. Seeing her KyuHyun fall for another girl that is not her unni, RinNa felt that she had to do something. So, she… What a silly girl she is.” MinNa shook her head and sniffed.

‘Seeing KyuHyun fall for someone else that is not her unni’

Huh?

“KyuHyun fell for someone else…?” I wasn’t quite getting the link between things.

MinNa smiled weakly, “You just don’t see it, do you?”

“Umm… See what?”

MinNa sighed and said, “KyuHyun likes you.”

My heart skipped a beat.

“Look, I’ll leave KyuHyun. I’ll get my contract with the company terminated, too.” MinNa sighed warily. “Please, decide not to press charges on my sister.”

The room fell into silence. Minutes later, I put my hand on MinNa’s. “I won’t press charges on RinNa, I promise.”

MinNa smiled sincerely at me, it was the first and probably the last time I’ll ever see it. “Thank you.”

*

Days passed, Super Junior M resumed their activities and everything resumed to its usual form. As promised, I made the decision to not press any charges on RinNa and both the sisters left the company.

As the only translator left on the team, my workload literally tripled. One morning, I’ll find myself in the recording studio with Super Junior M; an hour later, I’ll be whisked off to the filming location of Skip Beat! with DongHae and SiWon. I found myself depending on caffeine almost every night to keep my system going now that there were more scripts to translate.

Sure, the digits on my monthly paycheck did increase. However, the increases in size of the dark circles under my eyes are no joke either.  Seeing the sudden increase of workload draped upon my tired shoulders, the managers could only apologetically tell me that they’re in the midst of urgently looking for a new translator.

It was one of those nights – the director of Skip Beat! decided to change of the scenes in the drama. This meant that new scripts were created and I had to write down pinyin on these scripts as soon as possible. I dragged myself into the kitchen for my dose of coffee.

“You know,” a voice said. “You should stop drinking so much coffee. It’s not healthy you know.”

I put down my half-filled mug and pouted. “It’s not that I actually have a choice. If I had a choice, I’ll be drifting into LalaLand now.” I turned to KyuHyun, who was leaning against the kitchen counter. I must be too tired to even notice him when I came in.

“LalaLand?” KyuHyun chuckled at my choice of words.

I just pouted as I turned to my mug of coffee.

“Anyway, I heard that the managers are trying to clear a full day of our schedule so that the entire team gets to rest,” KyuHyun told me as he exited the kitchen. “You’ll get to rest then – I noticed that you haven’t been getting much sleep lately.”

“Mmm…” I mumbled incoherently as I watched KyuHyun leave.

KyuHyun stopped at the door of the kitchen. Then, he turned around and walked towards me. KyuHyun bent down so that his chocolate-brown eyes were at the same level as mine. He looked at me sympathetically.

“Aigoo… You should really get more sleep,” KyuHyun pouted slightly as he studied my face.

I blinked and looked away uncomfortably, for some reason, his gaze felt so intense. Yeah, I feel so tired…

“At this rate, the sizes of your eye-bags are going to be as large as the hyungs’,” KyuHyun commented, his brows creased.

Then, he did something that took me by surprise. KyuHyun reached out and gently the dark-purplish circles under my eyes with his thumb. I felt my eyes widened as I stood there, frozen, looking at his face – his brows were furrowed into an unhappy frown. For an unknown reason, my heart went wild.

After what seemed like years, KyuHyun pulled his hand away and ruffled my hair before leaving the kitchen. I stayed rooted to the spot, trying to calm my racing heart.

*

“YIPEEEEE~” Someone – Henry – was cheering from the front of the van. He twisted his body around so that he was facing the backseat. “HyunRi noona, did you hear what manager hyung just announced?”

Tiredly, I lifted my head from the headrest and shook my head sleepily. We were still on the way back to the dormitory after a full day of busy schedule. “No, Henry, I didn’t. So what did he announce?”

Henry beamed at me, “He just announced a full day off for everyone tomorrow!”

“Rest day…tomorrow…?” I mumbled sleepily. Then, it hit me. My eyes widened, “Omo! A rest day tomorrow! Really?! That’s great!”

WAHHHH! I CAN FINALLY CATCH UP WITH SLEEP! Rejoice, rejoice!

KyuHyun, who was sitting beside me, chuckled.

 I’m not sure how, but the both of us always ended up sitting together in the backseat of the van. I pouted and made a face at him before resuming my position of leaning against the headrest. Unfortunately, the van jerked roughly, causing my head to jump (well, not literally, of course. That’ll be a little gross, don’t you think?) and knock against the headrest hard.

“Oww…” I winced in pain and annoyance. This always happens whenever I try to sleep in the van. The vehicle would suddenly jerk, causing me to snap out of LalaLand abruptly. It’s both tiring and painful…

[Cho KyuHyun’s POV]

A smile crept onto my lips as I watched HyunRi rub the spot on her head where it collided with the headrest.

Aigoo… This girl can’t even sleep properly on the van.

Unable to resist the urge anymore, I nudged her arm. She turned to me with a questioning look on her face.

“Come here,” I mouthed and softly pat the empty space next to me, not wanting to alert the other members on the van.

She frowned in confusion and whispered back, “Why?”

“Just do it,” I mumbled under my breath.

Still wearing that confused look, she scooted over so that she was sitting next to me. I encircled my arm around her shoulders and gently pushed her head onto my shoulder. HyunRi tried to get up, but my arm held firm to her frame.

She looked up at me from my shoulder, expecting an explanation.

“Just sleep,” I said softly.

Then, she smiled at me before laying her head back onto my shoulder.

[3^rdPerson’s POV]

As HyunRi blissfully drifted to sleep with her head resting on KyuHyun’s shoulder, a smirk formed on someone else’s face. His smirk grew even wider when he saw KyuHyun leaning his head against HyunRi’s as he, too, drifted to sleep.

Ha… Gotcha, he thought as he lifted his camera and snapped a picture of the two. He checked the picture instantly and turned to his partner-in-crime. The two checked the picture once again, satisfied, they high-fived each other and let out a synchronized quiet evil laugh.

[ZhouMi’s POV]

大家好，我是周觅！(English: Hello everyone, I am ZhouMi!) 这是—oh, what? Oh yeah, I’m supposed to narrate in English/Korean. Anyway, it’s the first time that a part of the story is written in my point of view so, cheers~! 

I checked the Polaroid film of HyunRi and KyuHyun and high-fived Henry. Master Mimi and his awesome Polaroid strikes again!

Did you guys think that it was someone who wanted to harm the KyuHyun and HyunRi who took the picture? Well, you guys think too much! Kekekeke. :P 

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