The Car
An American Girl
The boys climbed back into the black van, sighing from a long day of Mnet filming Sesame Player 2. They had all been chased to Yonsei University and were eventually caught, for the fourth time. Sunggyu began to open the passenger door when his manager stopped him. “Ani Sunggyu, you have to sit in the back, make room.” The manager pushed the door closed and opened the rear sliding door where the rest of the members had begun to fall asleep.
“Wae?” Sunggyu couldn’t think; he wasn’t going to argue but he just wanted to know why his manager was making such a strange request. Sunggyu always sat in the front seat with his manager while the rest of Infinite occupied the back seats.
“Ya, just do it, jebal?” The manager was tired from a long day of chasing the boys and he just wanted to get home; back to the dorms. Too much had happened while the boys were trying to milk their last few hours of freedom in Hongdae; he didn’t have the energy to tell them about what had taken place.
Sunggyu saw the look on the manager’s face and nodded, understanding that the manager wasn’t joking around. “Ye, arraso hyung.” He tapped Woohyun on his leg; he jumped up from his light slumber. He looked around the car and then realized they weren’t at the dorm; Woohyun finally saw Sunggyu standing outside. “Scoot over, Woohyun.” He began to climb into the van.
“Ya, ya! Wae?!” He exclaimed loudly; the other members began to hear the ruckus and wake up. The manager was walking around the front of the car as the boys argued about Sunggyu fitting in the back of the car. By now everyone had woken up and there was chaos.
The manager opened his driver-side door and heard all the commotion. His grumpiness emerged from his tiredness as he flung his body into the car and turned around to glare at the young men. “YA!” He whisper-yelled. “You need to shut up!” His eyes were large and serious.
Everyone in the car grew quiet as they looked at their manager. Usually he was calm and never yelled at them, even when they messed up. But now he had raised his voice and spoken to them harshly. When the manager realized he had their attention he sighed heavily, trying to vent out some of his anger. He looked over at the young girl in the passenger seat. She’d fallen asleep on the drive to the University and her head was resting on the seat belt; her feet pulled up to her chest and her iPod lay on her belly. The boys hadn’t seen her when they entered the car but she hadn’t woken up either. There was too much to say to the boys but the manager was much too tired to discuss this with them. He sighed again.
“Hyung?” Sunggyu was still standing outside of the van with one foot on the step to enter. He looked scared; frozen in place.
“Make room. He needs to sit back there just this once.” The manager didn’t give them any time to argue; he simply turned around and put his seatbelt on while starting the ignition.
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