Chapter 5

“Chae Yeon-ah? Are you listening?”

“Ne, ne.” She said to the PD. Obviously she wasn’t.

“OK. So you know where to g– ”

“Ne, ne. Just please leave the room. I have to uh… Uhm, do stuff. Jalga,” and bowed before taking a seat.

“OK. Jus–”

“JAL-GA.” Chae Yeon said.

“Ja–“

“YA! GO OUT ALREADY! PLEASE!”

She was not in a very good mood to talk to anybody. The news that Tei was about to leave just made her feel really weird. No. Not weird. Sad. She must not deny what she really feels. She feels sad to know that Tei will leave. Maybe she DOES like him. She wasn’t in a really good mood at that time, so it was a good idea that Tei invited Seung Gi to get a cup of coffee, so Chae Yeon was practically alone in her dressing room.

Chae Yeon-ah. You crazy little girl. What have you gotten yourself into again.

After a little while, there was a knock at the door.

She screamed at the closed door, “Didn’t I tell you guys that I don’t want to talk to anybody right now?!”

The person who knocked answered back. “Who said that I wanted to talk to you?! Let me in!”

This made her even angrier. Who the hell does that person think he is for saying that? And at the worst possible moment!

So, she stood up. She made a face, an angry face. To scare the person who knocked. This is what you get if you mess with me when I don’t want to see anybody. She made the angriest looking face she could possibly make. She scrunched her nose. Her eyebrows met. She held the door knob. She opened the door.

It was…

Just Seung-Gi.

Chae Yeon didn’t know how to react.

But Seung Gi certainly did. He started laughing… HARD.

“Ya! WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING?!” she screamed.

“Y-Yo… Your face.” And started laughing once again, not able to hold back the tears. “Your face,” and snorted in between the laughter.

“What’s wrong with my face?! Ya! Stop laughing!”Seung Gi continued laughing.

“Aish.” Chae Yeon closed the door.

That… punk. THIS BOY! RRGH! Laughing at me?! Who does he think he is. I’m going to tell him off. I am SO going to tell him off…

So as she opened the door, to “tell him off”, she looked straight. Seung Gi-sshi was not there.

She looked down, and there he was. Lying on the floor, apparently still dying of laughter.

Everybody was looking at them. Some were even whispering.

Obviously, Chae Yeon wasn’t in the mood for laughter. “Oy, boy! You come in! People are staring! They… Hey! Let go of… Gaaaa! They might think that we’re a couple. Stop laughing! Seung Gi Ya! Let go of my leg! Yaa! Stop laughing… Oy, you should st… Aish.”

He obviously wasn’t going to stop laughing, so Chae Yeon had to drag him inside the room. She didn’t want anybody to think that they had something going on. She tried to pull him in. He was too heavy and moving around because of so much laughter.

“Why don’t you stop laughing?! WHAT THE HECK!”

Seung Gi started laughing as hard as ever. For a moment, he even forgot what he was laughing about in the first place.

Chae Yeon could not take it anymore. “Must I do this?!” And resorted to giving Seung Gi a piggyback ride. A woman, in a black dress, carrying an almost retarded young boy, laughing for no reason? Why must this happen. Aish. She sat him down on the couch, and waited for his laughter to finally die down.

After what seemed to be a lifetime of laughter, Seung Gi finally stopped. Giving off maybe few snickers in between, but either way, he was finally back to being normal.

“What the heck just happened?” Chae Yeon asked. When I first met you, you were so quiet. But now, you’re like... Ugh.” She couldn’t even think of a word to describe how Seung Gi looked like.

“I don’t know. I was just going inside the room to fix up for the show, and then you made a face that…” Seung Gi was about to start laughing again as he remembered how Chae Yeon looked like, but Chae Yeon glared at him with another face. This time, it worked. It wasn’t as funny anymore.

Seung Gi became silent. "Oooh... Mianhe. I guess you aren’t in the mood. I’ll just go outside. I’m sorry if I disturbed you.”

“Aniyo, aniyo. Just stay here."

Seung Gi was confused. “Me? Stay here? With you? Why?”

“Just because.”

“Just because? Nuna, is that even an answer?”

“Aish. Just don’t ask anything. When a girl asks you to stay with her, no questions are needed to be asked. It’s a girl thing. Just stay,” and pointed to the extra seat in front of her.

He stayed. For almost 30 minutes, they sat there, drank coffee, and started talking as if they were good friends.

Seung Gi noticed that she didn’t mix the coffee powder and the water with a stirrer when she made a cup of coffee. She just put in the powder, and waited for it to sink down to the very bottom of the cup. She was watching the coffee powder sink and dissolve.

“Nuna?”

“Ne?”, she replied, still looking at her cup.

“Why don’t you mix the powder and the water? The taste won’t be spread throughout if you just put it in.”

“Why are you asking?” Chae Yeon looked up.

“Just because.” Seung Gi drank from his cup.

“Seung Gi-ah,” Chae Yeon smiled, looked down again. “You see, I have a lot of weird habits. I… I am… I’m just really weird.” She grinned from ear to ear, not believing that she actually said what she just said.

“Weird? Pft. Obviously.” Seung Gi whispered to himself, with the cup still near his mouth. And gave out a quiet laugh.

“What did you say?” Chae Yeon sort of heard something.

“Ah, nothing, nothing! Nuna, if you’re really weird, try eating Kimchi with…” Seung Gi stopped talking. “Oh, never mind. You might think I’m disgusting.”

“From the looks of it, nothing you confess now can make me change the way I perceive who you are.”

“Aish. Why must you use such deep words,” playfully putting down the cup, as if he was angry.

“They’re not deep, pabo. You’re just really shallow.” Chae Yeon smirked.

“Ohohoho! Am not!” Seung Gi shouted.

“You are. Stop complaining. It’s making you look shallower. Now, what were you saying about the Kimchi? What should I eat it with?”

Seung Gi, still hesitant, said, “Eat it with mayonnaise.”

Chae Yeon laughed. All was well.