I've noticed since our heart to heart how goofy Yun really is. He really enjoys the We Bare Bears show. And he managed to spill his share of the hotpot on himself so I shared some of mine with him after he cleaned up.
"If I didn't know better you guys look like a couple." Lishi laughed. Yun and I started coughing/choking on air simultaneously.
Speaking of relationships. I havent been able to spend much time with Jaehyun lately because we've been super busy. I might just invite him over for the night or stay in his room. I can't explain to him the full story either. Mainly for his safety, I know he'll be hurt though if he finds out which is why I can't have Minjae say anything.
We all headed to our separate rooms and Yun slept on the sofa after retrieving a blanket and pillow from his place. Why he chose to sleep on our sofa is beyond me but I won't question it. Seohyun doesn't seem to be bothered by his continuous presence. Although she's on a business trip for the week now, so when she comes back our talks will have to move over to Yun's place. Sigh our friendship has really tanked as sad as it is, I thought to invite her out for coffee or something but then I remembered her little stunt with Jaehyun and I sighed. I mean we were besties before all this mess.
The next morning I was woken up by the smell of....blueberry pancakes. My favourite thing in the whole world. I love blueberry muffins, pancakes and all sorts. I got up putting on my bathrobe and peeked out my door to see Yun in the kitchen area flipping pancakes, wearing my heart apron no less.
"Oh you're up? Brian sent you a letter, don't worry I made sure its contents arent harmful and you have an hour and a half till work." Who is he and what has he done to grumpy morning Yun?
"Thanks Yun you're the best." He gave me a thumbs up and I went back in to get changed.
I got dressed in the usual business skirt and a pink blouse. Lishi came out not long later and took her plate of pancakes and the small pot of melted chocolate for the pancakes. I took mine and we all ate together. It was an actual nice calm breakfast.
"What's the letter saying?" Lishi asked curiously, pointing to the letter next to me. Oh I almost forgot about it. I opened it up and started reading it aloud.
Dear Rae,
I'm sure you've had some time to let our previous encounter's information sink in. I'd like to invite you and your friend Lishi to come to your old home. There will be a car outside your workplace on Monday if you so wish to go. I wish to show you the world you came from and sort out your parents wills.
Sincerely, Brian
P.S Yes Yunseok you will be coming as well as I suspect you have read this letter.
Oh. I'd get to visit my old home? I wonder what it looks like. Maybe itll trigger some memories for me. I can see how my parents lived and what they did, theres no way I'm going to miss out on that.
"So you're going I'm guessing?" Yun inquired after a moment. I nodded with a smile.
"Going where?" Lishi asked in between pancake mouthfuls. I laughed.
"We are going to be visiting my old home, the one I lived in before we moved to London. We can go after work on Monday." I explained and Lishi nodded in understanding.
We finished up and headed out for the day. Since Yun had nothing to do he'd just be hanging around in my office for the time being. We headed there with Lishi and I doing the usual greetings with some coworkers. We've gotten to know quite a few during this time since Lishi's name is being put on the Sync debut as an official assistant producer. What an epic promotion I'm super proud. I'm happy with my role as a manager for Snow.
"Wow look at you girls, looking gorgeous today." Lamon poked his head out from their practice room and wolf whistled making us laugh.
"Hey hey hey, no flirting with a taken girl!" Daehyun called out from behind him, laughing as well. Well these guys seem to be happy today, that's good.
"Ah so sad our lovely Rae is already taken, what about you Lishi any man in your life?" Lamon came out and put his arm around her shoulder. "Or could I be your dream guy?" Pfft. Lishi had mo patience for him and pinched his arm until he yelped and let go.
"Not a chance my friend." She laughed and waved us bye before heading to her floor. We're separated by floors now since production is on the upper floors.
"Oh hi, you're Yunseok right? Minjae said you're an old friend of Rae's." Once Lamon noticed Yun's presence he extended a hand and a big smile. Yun returned it and we all chatted for a second before we headed off for the morning.
Things were pretty calm to begin with, I handled some stray paperwork I missed yesterday and then headed to the practice room to watch the boys do their dance practice for their stage show performance tomorrow. How fun, it'll be the first time I'll be backstage at a huge event show. Lishi won't be backstage since Sync hasnt been nominated for anything but through the power of Lamon's persuasiveness he managed to score her a seat up front. Their debut was a real success though, even though they haven't been nominated for any awards this show their debut song Starlight already won 3 awards.
Yun was on his laptop just typing away and occasionally taking a break by playing some video games. We'd taken a break and I had made some tteokbokki to share, because I was seriously craving it lately. With cheese and fish balls and everything....so good. I brought the boys some of it too before going back to finish my food.
"Ah shit!" Yun cursed as he spilled some sauce on his pale blue shirt. Of course he has to do this, I laughed at him for a moment before handing him some tissues.
"The stain isn't going to come out easy, I have a spare shirt in my bag do you mind tossing it to me." Yun asked taking off his shirt to reveal his....ahem abs.
Yun was really physically fit. And not gonna lie he does look good, he has a chic fashion style and wouldnt look out of place on the front page of a catalogue. A far cry from cute skinny Yun from childhood. I snapped out of my thoughts and stood to grab his bag and was about to toss the shirt to him when the door opened.
"Hey Rae, Lamon told me you're he-oh." Jaehyun came in rambling and froze mid-step and mid-word as he noticed Yun. His expression turned icy once he looked over the scene before him.
Oh. Oh no this does not look good does it....I was about to open my mouth to explain the sauce incident when he turned and walked out without saying anything. I tossed the shirt to Yun and ran out after Jaehyun.
I found him filling up his bottle of water down the hallway, and walked up to him carefully.
"Jaehyun whatever you saw was not what you think it is." I started but he turned to look at me with that same icy look.
"Oh no it's not like I saw a shirtless guy a few feet away from my girlfriend." He angrily whispered the last part and looked around just to make sure no one else heard him.
"He spilled some of the tteokbokki on himself, and I was going to toss him a spare shirt. I do not feel anything for him, trust me." I explained trying to reassure him of the fact that nothing happened. He seemed to have understood and the cold look had softened greatly. He still glared at my office doorway as if he could burn a hole through it.
"I trust you but not him. Can't you see the way he looks at you? He's basically head over heels in love!"
"Okay that's not true, he and I are just best friends hes been around since I was young. Ask Lishi hell ask him directly even, he doesn't like me like that." Or at least I hope he doesn't anymore....I should have a talk with him separately about this.
"I really don't want you to hang around him so much... hes taking all your attention away." Jaehyun seemed to get what I was saying but he still pouted. Aw, it's true the last few days we haven't even been able to talk through text as much. I reached up and whispered in his ear.
"How about I stay over at your room tonight, just you and I, and I'll show you how much I've missed you." His eyes went wide like saucers at the thought and I giggled before pecking his cheek quickly and running off.
I closed the door to my office and smiled. At least that was sorted without too much issue. The smile stayed on my face throughout the rest of the day as I continued prep planning and scheduling.
Today hopefully won't have anymore hiccups.
Lishi's POV
Ah that Lamon he really likes to joke around. All in good fun at least. I headed up and greeted Mr Lee before taking my spot next to him so I could take a few notes. I'm still learning so today was just shadowing. I was taking down some information for the first few hours before we decided to go see the boys.
"Its Alishbah!" Junho shouted as he noticed me from his recording practice waving frantically. I waved back with a giggle, he was like an adorable baby brother figure. I got him a small songbook for his birthday and hes been carrying it everywhere ever since.
"Ah let's have a lunch break anyways since the boys have been practicing for a while now." Mr Lee said taking seat.
Rae had some leftover veg from the hotpot so I made it into a warm soup of sorts to eat, I pulled out my thermos and started eating my soup pretty quickly. I was going to go visit Rae when Minho asked if I had some time to talk.
"Hey what's up?" I asked curiously. We had just moved towards the hallway to talk, but I really wanted to get to Rae since it's more chill in her office.
"Umm have you had any thought about us?" He asked with mild impatience. About us? He's barely asked me to think about us romantically.
"I've been quite busy lately sorry." I apologised, because I actually was busy basically trying not to die. I'm still salty about that kidnapping incident.
"Really? It's been what like a week or two, and if we're going to be together you'll have to quit your job..."
Hold up.
He said what? He must have not seen the look of 'what the fuck' on my face since he continued with his rant.
"Since I'm the kpop idol I have to maintain an image-" I cut him off at that point.
"Hold on, first of all I will never quit my job like that. Secondly this is my entire future we're talking about it's not as easy as oh let's get married. Thirdly with that attitude there is NO way I'll be with you. Sorry Minho but no." With each point I made he looked more and more surprised.
"But youd have a secure future and you'd have to take care of kids-" I cut him off again. Ugh why does such handsomeness have to be wasted like that.
"No. For one the kpop industry is fickle who knows how Sync will do. And another thing, you don't know whether or not I even want children I mean I do but we havent even talked on anything. Now you're going to listen to me, I will not put up with this so I'll go back to being the assistant producer for this album and you will sit there and be pretty. Do we have an understanding?" He looked vaguely annoyed before I gave him a death glare and he nodded.
"Fine but you're missing out." He turned and walked away almost dramatically. Like Lamon would but without the fun.
Ugh. And the day was going so well.
Rae's POV
Lishi came down to chill with us and started ranting about how Minho was a jerk. I was ready to fight someone but the whole situation made her laugh.
"I dodged a damn bullet there." She said sipping her hot chocolate. I agree, imagine if she got serious or married to him. We laughed about it together before Minjae poked his head in.
"Hey guys mind if I come in?"
"Come on in Minjae, the more the merrier!" I said scooching over on the couch. My office was decently large since I spend a lot of time in here so a couch was able to fit in.
It seems the practice was finally over and the younger members were having their lessons for the day. Minjae used to have online university courses but he finished this year so he had his acting degree.
"You guys seem to be a matching colour palate today." Yun pointed out, since I was wearing a pale pink blouse and he had his pale blue hair.
"Don't we look perfect!" Minjae joked pulling me in by the shoulder making us all laugh.
It was time for us to head up for a meeting so Minjae and I had to leave Lishi and Yun for a while. We headed up laughing and joking around along the way till we reached the meeting room where the boys had already sat down. I sat next to Jaehyun with Minjae at my other side.
"You guy seem to be having a fun time, what's the joke?" Yamato said with some amusement. Jaehyun's head popped up and he frowned. Oh lord don't tell me he thinks Minjae likes me now. Platonic male friends exist.
"Lots of fun I bet..." he muttered annoyedly. I sighed, and we were going so well.
The meeting went by thankfully uneventfully. Our meeting was with Mr Myung Dae who's the CEO and -not so scary anymore- Jisoo. Jisoo and I actually became decent friends and we occasionally even joke around. She's a little high strung but she did have a harder time getting to where she was in life. I respect her for the hustle though. They left and we were sitting there for a bit.
"Aw Jaehyun are you grumpy?" Minjae joked poking his cheek but surprisingly Jaehyun had slapped his hand away.
"Don't." He almost growled it.
"Jesus Jaehyun what's wrong?" Lamon said with some concern.
"Jaehyun..." I was about to reach out for him but he huffed and pushed me away, I would've fallen if Minjae didn't catch me. Without any words he walked, or more so stomped off. We were left there stunned and honestly I was tearing up a little.
...what's going on?