Cheer Up
936 Words
Yoo Ae's POV
"Woah! Your noona is so pretty!"
"Bambam hyung, are you blind?"
That's the conversation that welcomed me as I went down from the second floor of our house two days after the auditions. Yugyeom was talking with their new member Bambam, who's an international student from Thailand, and is older but shorter than Yugyeom. But Yugyeom's the tallest in the group. But I like it that he finds me pretty.
"Yugyeom-ah. Don't be so cruel to your noona." Bambam told Yugyeom with authority.
My brother shook his head as if saying that the world has gone insane because someone believes I'm pretty.
I glared at Yugyeom and smiled at Bambam. "Thank you, Bambam. My brother thinks I'm ugly because he's ugly."
He chuckled. "Never mind Yugyeom and just smile, noona. You're smile makes you prettier."
Oh. What a sweet dongsaeng!
"Heol." Yugyeom reacted.
I acted that I would punch him and he replied with a body expression of 'whatever'.
"Annyeonghaseyo!" says and bows another new member Youngjae, a full Korean who is in the acting department. He's holding a tray of ingredients.
"Your awake!" my mom greeted me with a hug.
"Eomma, did you make Youngjae help you?"
She prepared the ingredients on the table while answering my question. "Youngjae is such a good kid, right?"
I sighed and looked at Youngjae. "Don't spoil my mom or you'll end up only helping her everytime you go here that you won't have time to practice anymore."
"Kwenchanha, noona." He answered.
I shook my head in pity. Why are you such an angel? "Mom, I'll just go out for a while."
"Yugyeom-ah.."
"Wae, noona?"
I shook my head. "Ah! Nothing. Nevermind."
Actually, I wanna ask him about Jaebum oppa. Since the audition day, he never talked to me. I said hi to him and tried to talk to him in class or when we bump at each other in school but he would just ignore me. AH! NEVERMIND. IT'S NO BIG DEAL.
"Where have you been?" that's the first sentence, a question, that came out from my mouth when I saw Seulgi. We saw each other in a cafe in Gangnam.
She smiled weakly."I'm quitting school."
"MWO?! WAE?!"
"shhhh!" she covered my mouth.
I calmed down when I saw people in the cafe looked at us. "Okay. Why?"
She looked so serious. "I'm going to study abroad."
"Wait.. what? You never wanted to study abroad. I know that. What happened now?" She had been turning down her parents' offer to study abroad for years. Something might really happen that she suddenly said yes.
Seulgi sighed. "I cannot really tell you the details but.." She bit her lower lip. "I know I can't convince you by just saying I just want to."
"Can't you really tell it to me?"
She nodded with a very apologetic face.
"Okay." I smiled. I need to understand that there are some things even bestfriends can't talk about, right?
"Mianhae, Chinguya."
I held her hand. "I'll miss you, chingu." Now my tears are buffering on my eyes. "You should still contact me, okay?"
She nodded with tears in her eyes as well. "Of course."
Knowing that Seulgi won't be coming to school anymore, everything's seem so gloomy. I will miss my very energetic and happy friend. I'm so sad.. huhu.. I won't have someone to spazz with.. there won't be someone who makes me cringe with her weird imagination.. Seulgi-ah! Chingu-ah!!!!
"What are you thinking about?"
"Kapjagi!" I held my chest. My heart almost jump when someone suddenly talked from behind --- not behind, beside my ear.
He laughed.
Why does his laugh sounds music to my ears? "Mark Oppa.."
"Why were you so startled?"
"Because you--"
"Perhaps you're thinking of some.." he looked at me with a teasing facial expression. "Byuntae scene?"
"ANIGODEUN!" (I'm not!) I protested but he just laughed. Is he in happy mode again that he's even teasing me. This guy is really unpredictable.
"Okay." He stopped laughing and looked at me. "You're not a byuntae." even nodding like he is convincing himself.
"I'm not really a byuntae!"
He chuckled and put his hand on top of my head and messed my hair again. "I was just kidding." He smiled. "I'm just trying to lighten up the mood because you look so down."
My eyes widened with what he said. Are you really Mark Oppa? I never imagined a Mark Tuan would say something like that or even think of cheering up lonely people.
"Wae? Why do you look stunned?"
I shook my head. "Nothing."
He stared at me saying I-don't-believe-you.
"Geunyang.. I just thought you would never cheer people up." I answered honestly.
"Jinjja?" Then he looked away somewhere like thinking. "I think so too.."
"You think so what?"
"I also think I would never cheer someone up." He answered shortly and walked forward.
What does he mean? He never cheered someone up before? Just me? Kyaaaaaa~
'Don't assume!'
Scolded my inner self. I don't wanna assume but that's how I understood it.
He stopped walking and turned his back to look at me. "Ae! Let's go somewhere!" almost shouting because we are almost 5 meters apart.
"Where?!"
He jogged back to my direction, I was so shocked when he suddenly held my hand. "You'll see when we get there."
Then he pulled me running.
I could not say a word anymore and just followed him. How could I when I'm dying trying to stop myself from spazzing. I'm really feeling red and hot. Glad he's not looking at me. It would be very embarrassing.
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