Kaeun's tear pooled around her eyes as she watch the famous television show on aired at that time, "Mix & Match". It was at the episode when Junhoe, her ultimate bias, was the last member to be in the group at the practice match. Kaeun's heart dropped to the floor when she saw sadness all over his face. She wanted to stuff herself into her laptop and hug him tightly while consoling him, telling him not to worry as it was only the pratice match. But no matter how hard she tried to push herself inside, she would end up having a sore head and dead pixels on the monitor.

 

Her love for Junhoe did not start because she like k-pop stars. It all started around a year or two before, in the "Who Is Next" era. She was on the plane to Japan. It was her first time ever being alone on a plane. She was so nervous that she did not realise that there was a group of 11 boys occupying the seats around her.

 

"So you are the one that booked this seat, I can't sit next the Junnie because of you."

 

One of them walked up to her and started to talk about something that she could not make out as nervousness was eating her up from inside.

 

"Don't scare her, Jinhwan, she's already scared enough."

 

A deep yet gentle voice caught her attention. She turned to the source of the voice which came from the guy sitting next to her. He has nice lips. Was the very first thought that came running inside of her head. When that pair of eyes stared at her, her fear was momentarily suppressed.

 

Jinhwan pouted a bit as if feeling sad that Junhoe is not taking his side. He then went back to his seat which is behind Kaeun.

 

Kaeun can feel that the guy, Junnie, was staring at her. She turned to look and the guy quickly turned away like a child being caught by his mother red-handed when she caught him stealing a cookie. She plugged her earplugs into her ears. Remembering what her friends told her about a story of a man who did not wear earplugs when he went on a plane. That made his eardrums explode. Being gullible, she trusted her friends with all her heart. Then, the nervousness took over her again, her arms seem to be an extra limb that she do not know where to put them. She decided to place them on the armrests. However, she did not see an arm that was already occupying the seats. She gripped on tightly to the armrest like something tragic will happen to her if she loosen her grip. She passed her feelings to the armrest, using her nails as the tip to pierce into the armrest.

 

Having earplugs in her ears, she could not hear the groaning and the scream coming from the guy sitting next to her. Her nails were digging into his skin. She only realised what she was doing when he waved his free hand in front of her. She looked at him questionably. He gestured to her earplugs.

 

She took off the earplugs and he can see question marks in her big brown eyes. He pointed to her right hand that was gripping tightly to not an armrest but his hand. She quickly removed her her hand away, blushing. He then showed her his left hand, decorated with five red half-moon patterns. Kaeun's eyes grew bigger and she immediately lowered her head.

 

"I AM SO SORRY, JUNNIE. I DIDN'T MEAN TO HURT YOU. OH MY GOD WHAT SHOULD I DOOO?"

 

Junhoe lifted his eyebrows when he heard his nickname coming out from . He stifled a laugh before waving a hand at her to stop her from apologising.

 

"It's okay."

 

He grinned at her so widely that she had to look away before he noticed her redden face.

 

"It's Junhoe, by the way."

 

"I'm sorry Junhoe."

 

"It's okay, no biggie~"

 

He grinned again. She can see his eyes twinkling against the light.

 

"Welcome abroad, thank you for choosing Ikon airline. We hope you will enjoy our service for today. We will take off in five minutes."

 

Kaeun's body trembled by the thought of flying on a plane. What if they calculated the structure of the plane wrongly? What if the law of physics was not accurate? What if there is a bird on the sky? What if....

 

"Hey, are you okay?"

 

Her negative thoughts was cut. It was Junhoe.

 

"No, I am not Jay Park. I'm Kaeun."

 

Junhoe laughed out very loudly. This girl sitting next to him must be very scared that she did not even listen to him properly.

 

"Alright, Kaeun, are you okay?"

 

This time he raised up his hand to show the ok sign. Kaeun blushed very hard and raised her hand with the same ok sign.

 

"Are you flying on a plane for the first time? Why are you going to Japan?"

 

Junhoe started a conversation with her. Hoping that he can distract her from her fear.

 

"Yup, it's my first time on a plane...alone. I wanted to go to Japan for holiday but nobody wanted to go with me."

 

Her pink lip pouted as she said the last segment of the sentence. Junhoe gulped at the sight of her lips.

 

"What about you, business or vacation?"

 

"I guess it's both?"

 

Kaeun raised her eyebrows in curiosity but still give him his privacy to not tell her his reasons.

 

"The plane going to take off soon."

 

The operator chirped happily. All the efforts that Junhoe had putted in all came tumbled down. Kaeun went back to her original state. An idea suddenly came running into Junhoe's head, crushing all his logic. Even though the plane was about to take off, Junhoe unbuckled his seat belt and stood up. This made the air hostess' eyes grew wide.

 

"Sorry, i really need to take my stuff."

 

Junhoe quickly open the cabinet and fumbled with his bag for a while before he settled down beside her again. He stuffed a chocolate into her hand.

 

"Eat it, it will make you feel better."

 

She put the chocolate inside and felt the bitter and sweet taste of the chocolate melting in . The sweetness of the chocolate inside dragged her away from reality. She closed her eyes and let herself be dragged by the sweetness. After all the chocolate melted, she was greeted with the almond that was hiding in the chocolate. It was still very crispy even though it was coated with chocolate.

 

She was dragged down from heaven by a nudge on the arm. She opened her eyes to glare at Junhoe as if the reprimand him from disturbing her.

 

"Hey, we already took off."

 

That sentence was followed with a shutter sound of a camera. Everything happened so fast that she could not make out what was going on.

 

By the time she knew it, Junhoe was waving a picture of him smiling sweetly and showing a victory sign. Beside him was Kaeun with a very stunned face.

 

"Hey, why did you do that? Give me your phone! I'm going to delete that ugly picture."

 

She growled at him.

 

"No way, this picture is so cute."

 

His response made her blush. She did not know whether or not to read between the lines or just accept the straightforward meaning of his words.

 

"Are you still scared? You can hold my hand if you want to~"

 

Junhoe singsonged and teasingly held out his big hand towards her. She was so embarrassed by his words that she could not help it but to bite her lips to make the feeling go away. She smacked his hand away playfully, noticing how small her hand was comparing to his.

 

"In your dreams, Junhoe."

 

She stuck out her tongue and turned away from him. She stared at the sky that was decorated with fluffy white clouds. Her hand was still hot from coming into contact with his hand.

 

She heard a soft hum of a famous pop song. It was like she was being soothe by the song and went to a deep sleep.

 

---

 

"Miss? Miss? We have reached Japan."

 

Kaeun was shaken by the air hostess to her slumber. She quickly wiped away her sleepiness from her eyes and stare at the air hostess blankly.

 

"Where am I?"

 

"We're in Japan, miss."

 

"OH MY GOD , I AM IN JAPAN? WHAT ABOUT THE LANDING? WHY DON'T I FEEL ANYTHING?"

 

The air hostess giggled.

 

"You were soundly asleep on your boyfriend's shoulder, miss. Your boyfriend left this with me to give it to you. I wonder where he is rushing to, to leave his adorable girlfriend alone."

 

The air hostess passed a cute Rilakkuma bag to her.

 

Kaeun thanked her and walked out of the plane. She went to the nearest seat to open the bag. It was filled with pictures. Pictures of Junhoe and her. In each picture, he was annoyingly handsome and cute. In contrast to her, she was sleeping on his shoulder, drooling like a pig.

 

OH MY GOD!! DROOLING!! Kaeun stood up from her seat immediately and thought about Junhoe. His shirt must be pretty smelly right now. She looked inside the bag once more and found a piece of chocolate and a post-it. It was the same as the one that he gave her before the taking off. The post-it said that,

 

"Hey~ Kaeun. Don't be scared of planes anymore. You can think of my face when you're scared 😉 See you soon? Remember me. I will remember you too

❤️ Junhoe.

 

Ps. Dont worry about the shirt"

 

She could not help but blush. She looked at the chocolate in one hand and the pictures of Junhoe and her in another. She had made up her mind. She thinks that she likes him. She is going to find Junhoe again and to tell him about how she feels-NO- to offer him to wash his shirt.

 

However, throughout her trip in Japan, she could not find him anywhere. She returned to Korea empty-handed and with a broken heart.

 

ONE YEAR LATER~~~

 

She the television at her house. It was airing some variety show that she never set her eyes on before. She looked at the pictures of Junhoe and her on her lap and sigh. He would have forgotten about her. A cute guy like him would already have a girlfriend by now.

 

"기다려 (기다려) 너 있는 곳으로 갈 테니까

시간을 달려 갈 테니까

Wait for me yeah

그녀에게 내 맘이 닿을 수 있도록"

 

A familiar voice was coming out from the TV. She looked up and she was out of words. She saw Junhoe in the TV. Singing all his hearts out to his fans. She did not realised that he could be so close to her. She was all fired up when she saw his face. The urge to hug him was so great that she nearly cried. But what if he had forgotten about her? She asked herself sadly.

 

No Kaeun! Her inner self screamed at her.

 

You must find a way to get him to remember you.

 

But I don't want to be a Sasaeng fan. She argued with herself.

 

How can you be so clueless? Just think of something. Your cousin is working in his company right?

 

Her eyes lit up again. She ran around the house to look for her phone. When she finally got hold of them, she dialed her cousin's number immediately.

 

"What's up, Kaeun."

 

"Heyy~ Unnie, as you know that I am going to graduate from uni this year and there's this final project that the professor wants us to do. Because I study media so the professor wanted us to do a project about media and I wanted to do about the company that you are working in. Can I go in to collect informations?"

 

"Oh, sure. But don't bring any friends that are crazy about k-pop stars here. I bet they will ruin their voice box from the moment they set their foot inside this building. By the way, Kaeun, are you crazy about k-pop?"

 

"No, unnie, No!" I'm only crazy about Junhoe.

 

"Well then, okay~ shall i pick you up tomorrow?"

 

"WHAT TOMORROW?"

 

"Oh.. Sorry. So tomorrow is a bad day?"

 

"No, unnie, I was just so shocked that it's so fast."

 

After hanging up with her cousin, Kaeun want to smack herself, she did not realise that she can lie so fluently. The guilt was soon overpowered by her longing for Junhoe.

 

--

 

At night, she tossed and turned in her bed. Thinking about what she would say to him when she see him. She then thought about his face and drifted to sleep with a shy smile plastered on her face.

 

--

 

Her cousin came to pick her up early in the morning. Kaeun did not have enough time to eat breakfast, so they stopped at a convenient store nearby YG. She went on a search for her favourite snack. She saw something familiar on the shelf. It was the chocolate the Junhoe gave her last year. Without giving it a second thought, she bought the chocolate.

 

Her cousin and her then walked to YG. Her cousin handed her a staff pass and told her that she can explore the whole building but should come back and meet her at the exactly same spot after 2 hours. Kaeun nodded enthusiastically.

 

Kaeun wondered around the building for an hour. Her leg was screaming for her to find a chair. It was not only her legs that were tired, but her heart too. She thought that the moment that she stepped in, Junhoe would be there. But no, after an hour, she could not find even his hair.

 

When she was about go down onto her knees and wail, she saw a tall and lanky figure. That guy is definitely Junhoe. She immediately ran up to him.

 

"Hello~"

 

Her smiled was quickly wiped away when she saw him staring blankly at her.

 

"Hi, do i know you? Or you are just introducing yourself as a new staff?"

 

"Are you serious? You don't remember me?"

 

"If I had known you before I would have recognised you right?" He smirked and put on his -face.

 

Kaeun was spread so thin that if Junhoe say something that irritates her again (she would pull him down and kiss him) she would kick him right there.

 

She grabbed his wrists and drag him into a corner with no one there. He surprisingly did not argued, he just simply followed her to where she is dragging him to. She pushed him up against the wall and tried her best not to show him how surprised she was about the new discovery of his height. She was only as tall as his shoulder.

 

"You really don't remember me?"

 

Sadness could be detected from the tone of her voice.

 

"No."

 

He answered her casually with a word and shrugged his shoulders. Kaeun was really mad, she was amazed by how time can change a person. Last year, he was still so nice and kind to her. But now, that person she fell in love with was gone. She shook her head to remind herself of the real reason why she wanted to be here. To be remembered.

 

She opened the plastic bag that she way carrying all along. She took out the box of chocolate that she bought earlier. She waved the box in front of his face.

 

"Do you remember me now?"

 

"What? What are you trying to do here, miss?"

 

Her patience was running low, how could he be such an arrogant person? How in the world would one forget about something that happen one year ago so easily?

 

She took one chocolate from the box and put it in , letting it lie on comfortably on her tongue. She then laced her hands around his neck and pulled him down into a kiss. But it wasn't enough she had to tiptoe to reach his lips perfectly. She his lower lips, asking for an invitation. She felt him biting softly on her lower lips and opened his mouth for her to intrude. Her tongue tangled with his, feeling the gentleness coming from him. She did not realised it until her back was against the wall. They continued kissing. She slowly pushed him away from her. She quickly looked away from him, blushing and panting at the same time. Mentally slapping herself for letting her emotion took over her. She took all her courage to look back up. Junhoe had his arm over his face. She could see him blushing. When his eyes met hers, they both looked away at the same time. She felt his hand reaching out for her and cupping her cheeks. He gently turned her face to look back up at him. He used his thumbs to wipe away the fluid on her chin.

 

"Hey, Kaeun,"

 

He whispered, breaking the awkwardness.

 

"You remembered?"

 

Kaeun's face was red. It was either because of the kiss or anger.

 

"Yeah, I remembered, I was just trying to play around with you. I didn't know that you would take it so seriously."

 

"I was angry. You told me to remember you but you don't even remember me."

 

"How can i forgot a girl who out-of-nowhere started to hurt me and end up drooling on my shirt?"

 

"You brat."

 

She mumbled.

 

"Yeah, I'm a brat and I should be punished."

 

Junhoe said with a smirked and his brows raised suggestively.

 

"How about a kiss as a punishment?"

 

Kaeun asked with a wide smile. Although her shyness was eating her up from inside.

 

"A chocolate flavoured kiss please?"

 

Kaeun smiled before putting another piece of chocolate inside . But this time Junhoe grabbed her legs and put them around his waist. She screamed as she did not expect that coming. Junhoe silent her scream with a kiss. A chocolate flavoured kiss.

 

 

END.

 

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