Song Recommendation: Sweeter by Jess Penner
"No, it's ok! It is fine with me…It has been almost eleven months now and also I haven't mention it before so you all didn't knew yet" Emy says as she pretends to smile while keeping herself calm, her gaze fall at the portrait on her table and decided to not reply on Saff's message.
Wanting to lighten the mood, Manager Anne joins the conversation and says "I hope you won't mind Manager Kate's tactlessness and we're sorry for your lost…by the way, checking on our schedules, I think we're not that full on Friday night so maybe we can set the welcome celebration for you Manager Emy. What do you think?" smiling excitedly she asked.
"Oh! I think that would be a good idea Manager Anne, thank you…" Emy answered as she smiles at Manager Anne's comforting words.
"Yes! finally it's set! Let's have dinner and beer!" Manager Kate excitedly said.
"How about we go to KTV bar after dinner so we can also sing while having beer?!" Manager Tim added his idea, and all of them agreed to it!
Suddenly, in the middle of their conversation, the door opened and they all got surprised as they saw Saff standing there with takeout bags holding both of his hands.
"Good morning managers! we just passed by the Starbucks drive-thru on our way so we thought we should also bring for each one of you here" He politely says as he gave each one of them, and the last one he handed it to Emy.
The managers are all astonished by Saff's action as they haven't encounter this side of him before, it is very rare that he would pass by at their office without the other members and give them food, not to mention at this early time of the day! So they all look flustered somehow and they thank him for this.
When Saff's gaze shifts to Emy, he heard her whispers "Thank you for this" and then she gently smiled at him. Saff on the other hand winks at her as the corner of his lips turned up, unbothered if the other managers would see it, but Emy felt embarrassed by this so she quickly look away from his handsome face.
"I'll be going now, enjoy your breakfast then" he politely says to everyone and leaves the office.
"Wow! Is that our handsome Saff right there?!" Manager Kate says unable to control her amazement!
"Yeah! I think we all saw it Manager Kate! It's not the hologram version but the live one!" Manager Tim teasingly answered and they all laughed at it.
"What happened to him Manager Emy?! He is in a pretty good mood today!" Manager Kate said for Emy to nod as she smiles at her.
"It looks like our charming baby boy has grown into a mature man now!" Manager Anne happily added as she looks at Emy while saying this.
Saff is the youngest member of the Idol group, and as the senior manager who was able to handle them from the beginning of their career, Manager Anne can truly distinguished the difference from the Saff then without Emy than the Saff he is now that Emy is here.
"Is that because of Manager Emy's handling skills?! If it is, then I would say you are really good Miss Emy!" Manager Tim said as he is quite amazed by the changes in Saff's attitude.
"I'm getting even more jealous at you Manager Emy! What kind of spell did you use to our saff?!" Manager Kate teasingly said as she excitedly munch on her food, she set aside the brewed coffee that Manager Tim had made awhile ago as she has a much better version of coffee now from Starbucks!
While they are all eating, Emy took her phone, the trembling hands was now calm, and she saw that Saff sent her a text message again, written there as "you didn't reply when I told you about my dream...anyway, enjoy your breakfast now" the corner of her lips lifted while reading it.
Meanwhile at the Idols executive room, while Saff is at the couch staring at his phone, Adam asks as he sits beside him "Saff, where have you taken all those foods? Looks like you've gotten a bit generous overnight?!" he teases Saff for the other two members to look at him as well as they laughed about it.
They are all surprised that he spent that much just to give it to others, not that he is selfish or stingy! But he is just thrifty and prudent with his earnings. Aside from that personality of him, the other three used to spent more and he is somewhat benefiting from it in a way when it comes to buying foods and other things since they are treating him as their youngest brother and that cause him to save his own money.
"I gave it to the managers, just a welcome breakfast for my manager" Saff answered seriously even when they are teasing him right now.
"Last time it was the lunch out, now it's breakfast...does that mean next is for dinner?!" Rain asked with a hint of intriguing look at him and also teasing.
"Are you reading my mind?!" Saff joins the fun but at the back of his mind, he was already considering it to be his next plan with Emy.
"I didn't do that to my manager before…you are quite generous with your manager!" Rain said as Adam also agreed with him.
Taylor just silently observes them while smiling as he already knew how special Manager Emy is to Saff. The four of them went ahead with their activities for today as they are working on their new songs so they went to the conference room to meet with the producers and other composers.
When they got there, the four managers are already there talking with the producers as they introduce Emy to them while waiting for the Idol members. Taylor and Adam approach the composers as they are in-charge when it comes to writing music, while Rain and Saff joins the producers with the managers.
Rain sits beside Manager Anne, but as Saff notices that all the seats beside Emy are already occupied as she is between Manager Tim and Manager Kate, he has no choice but to sit in front of her.
"Manager Emy are you familiar with any kind of instruments?" Ask by one of the producer,
"Not much…just a few notes and a bit with piano"
"Oh! That's good! It is good to have you on our team, we might need additional fresh insight for this album" says the second producer as he smiles and gaze intensely at Emy, Saff being an observant noticed this.
Later on, Taylor, Adam and the other composers also joins the table and started their meeting about the upcoming theme of their new songs as Taylor and Adam are already working with the lyrics of the song.
In the middle of their meeting, Emy's phone vibrated as she received a new text message and upon checking who it is her eyebrows knit as she read it written as "I have something very urgent to ask...could you transfer here beside me?" it is from Saff.
Her gaze shifts from her phone to Saff who is sitting in front of her listening to the producer who is currently saying something about his idea on the upcoming new song.
Noticing that there is one vacant seat on his right, she carefully transfers there without getting attention from others. She leans a bit closer to whisper to him "what is it that you wanted to ask about?"
Saff turns his head and answer in almost a whisper "why didn't you reply to my text messages?" hearing this one of Emy's brows raise as she asks "Is that very urgent?"
"Yes it is to me!" Saff confidently answered with a little tone of annoyance right now as if telling Emy that her reply is a big deal for him.
"I already said thanks to the breakfast and by the way, why did you have to bought me one when I already told you I'm not used to having breakfast?" Emy asked trying to mislead the topic and ignore his annoyance, they are both looking ahead of them pretending to be listening at the meeting.
"It's not the breakfast, it's about my dream! And I bought you one as a reward" Saff remarked taking back the topic that he wanted to clarify with her.
"Reward for what? And oh! I did reply with that, I ask you what about it! But you're the one who didn't reply at my message!" hearing it from Emy, Saff immediately looked back on his phone to check their previous conversation and he frowned in confusion as it stated there that it has been sent, 'is she trying to pretend that she didn't received it?' he thought to himself.
Saff turn his head up and look back at Emy who seems to be focusing on the meeting, He then leans closer to get her attention and says "Because I had a beautiful dream... and it was you!" saying it bluntly and intentionally a little louder that causes all the other people inside the room to stop on what they are discussing at the meeting and in an instant shifts all their gazes to both of them as they are all stunned by what they just have heard.
Saff being unbothered with their reactions right now, he continue to speak with a serious face "That was supposedly my reply...in case you didn't received it"