By Zephyria “Excuse me, driver. Please stop up ahead.”
Fortunately, I was able to get out of the taxi before I suffocated. I stared at the Baeknyeon Entertainment building in the distance and opened my phone.
I had to call Sung Se-han to meet him. Thinking that, I became even more frantic.
“……?”
Suddenly, the surroundings became noisy, and I unconsciously turned around.
A group of female students in front of the convenience store seemed to be pointing at me. Without thinking, I started walking quickly.
Ah, what should I do? My heart was pounding. I had deliberately gotten off far from the company because I was worried about fans gathering, but I really didn’t expect anyone to recognize me.
There was no time to worry for long. If I wanted to get out of here before more people gathered, I would have to take a taxi again….
“Lee Tae-kyung!”
The moment I heard the voice calling me, I stopped in my tracks.
Even though it wasn’t that loud, the voice that cut through the noise and pierced my ears was undoubtedly Sung Se-han’s.
I hurriedly looked around and found Sung Se-han running towards me from the road.
“Se-han…!”
Sung Se-han, wearing jogger pants that highlighted his long, firm legs and a black short-sleeved shirt, was running towards me. The sight felt somewhat unreal, and I could only stare blankly.
“Tae-kyung!”
Sung Se-han grabbed my wrist in just a few steps.
“What are you doing here?”
Ash brown hair that wasn’t styled fluttered, covering one of Sung Se-han’s eyes. I could tell how flustered he was just from the other eye.
“Lee Tae-kyung?”
I couldn’t help but smile at the fact that Sung Se-han was surprised because of me.
“Sung Se-han, why aren’t you checking your KakaoTalk?”
“KakaoTalk?”
The moment Sung Se-han raised an eyebrow, screams erupted from all directions. Only then did I hurriedly look around.
Ah, I was screwed. I was so busy looking at Sung Se-han that I hadn’t noticed the fans gathering at all.
“Let’s go.”
“Huh, uh?”
Sung Se-han hurriedly pulled my wrist, and I stumbled along.
“Kyaa! Se-han Oppa!”
“Se-han! Sung Se-han!”
“Sung Se-han! Look over here!”
The fans’ screams followed right behind us, but I couldn’t even look back as I followed Sung Se-han, who was striding ahead. I had made things difficult for Sung Se-han again. I tried not to go near the company to avoid this kind of thing….
“Se-han!”
Song Woo-shin leaned out of an open van.
“Hyung, I’ll go with Tae-kyung and Joong-seop Hyung’s car.”
“Okay, I got it.”
At Sung Se-han’s words, Song Woo-shin quickly closed the door. Sung Se-han took me to a sedan that had followed the van.
“Get in.”
I quickly got into the back seat that Sung Se-han opened for me and quietly bowed my head. As soon as Sung Se-han got into the seat next to me, the sedan started.
“Vice Manager, hello.”
No matter how embarrassed I was, I couldn’t skip the greeting. I leaned forward and the Vice Manager chuckled.
“Good morning, Tae-kyung-ssi.”
“Ah… I’m sorry, because of me….”
“Tae-kyung.”
Sung Se-han grabbed my shoulder and made me look at him. Only then did I look at the face I had wanted to see head-on.
“I was in a meeting with the members, so I forgot to check my phone.”
Sung Se-han, who had grown up much more than the eighteen-year-old Sung Se-han I had met, was looking at me with thoughtful eyes.
“Se-han, what should I do? You must have had a lot of pictures taken of you because of me.”
“Is that what’s important right now?”
I was at a loss for where to look because of the brown eyes that were scrutinizing my face.
“Lee Tae-kyung, do you know how surprised I was?”
The moment warm hands cupped my cheeks, I couldn’t help but close my eyes tightly.
“W-were you that surprised? Sorry….”
“I was so worried that someone would kidnap Lee Tae-kyung because he’s so pretty, I thought my heart was going to explode.”
Ha. The ability to make me feel annoyed in an instant was truly a talent. I glared at Sung Se-han with my eyes wide open.
“Hey, don’t do that?”
“Our Tae-kyung doesn’t know how scary the world is, that’s why.”
Sung Se-han, with a serious expression, shook his head as if something serious had happened.
“Joong-seop Hyung thinks so too, right? Someone will quickly snatch away someone as handsome and pretty as our Tae-kyung….”
“I said don’t!”
I couldn’t hold back and grabbed Sung Se-han’s collar. And in less than a second, I regretted it. Sung Se-han’s face, which was grabbed by my collar, was so close, and I couldn’t breathe because of the brown eyes that were looking at me as if they were going to devour me.
“Sung Se-han.”
I quickly let go of his collar and smoothed out his wrinkled shirt with my hands.
“Refrain from making such jokes in the future. Unless you want your expensive shirt torn.”
If I had been even a little late, I don’t know what this crazy bastard would have done again. Seeing the still-gleaming brown eyes, I felt like I was breaking out in a cold sweat.
“You can tear it.”
Sung Se-han, who grabbed both of my hands, brought them to his chest. I stared blankly at his somewhat deranged eyes.
“If our Tae-kyung wants to tear my clothes, I’d like it.”
“Hey! You, you crazy bastard!”
Just as I was about to grab his collar with the urge to really tear it, I heard a sigh that brought me back to my senses.
“Should I get off first?”
I was jolted awake by the Vice Manager’s cold voice. I didn’t even know when we had arrived, but the sedan was already parked in the underground parking lot.
Damn it. I didn’t even notice the Vice Manager giving me the stink eye; I must have been out of my mind because of Sung Se-han’s crazy antics.
“I’ll, I’ll get off now!”
I quickly moved to open the car door and get out, and my eyes widened.
In the overwhelmingly large parking lot, which was incomparable to our company’s, all the cars lined up were extraordinary. Indeed… Baeknyeon Entertainment seemed to be on a different scale.
“Hyung, I’m going to the studio with Tae-kyung.”
“Okay. Oh, Se-han. Sunbae-nim said earlier….”
While Sung Se-han was talking to the Vice Manager after getting out of the car, I looked to see where the elevator was.
“Let’s go.”
Sung Se-han, who had strode over, wrapped an arm around my shoulder.
“Oh, okay.”
I was a little flustered because Sung Se-han pulled me close to his side and walked.
I was in a state where I had become so timid that I was nervously looking around, wondering what people would think if they saw us acting strangely. But I didn’t want to get out of Sung Se-han’s arms either.
To be honest, I was currently suffering from a severe Sung Se-han deficiency.
I had only seen him briefly yesterday, and I hadn’t spent any real time with Sung Se-han for the past few days.
I wanted to hug his firm body that was pressing against me like this. I wanted to breathe in the scent that made me feel dizzy, but Sung Se-han probably couldn’t even imagine that I was losing sleep over it.
“Did you eat breakfast?”
Sung Se-han asked as we got on the elevator. I nodded and looked up at Sung Se-han.
“Did you? Did you eat breakfast?”
“Yeah, with the members. I slept at the dorm yesterday.”
Ah. I lowered my gaze to hide my expression. What would Sung Se-han say if I told him that I was jealous of the Perfect members who lived in the same dorm as Sung Se-han and worked as the same team?
I think I know now. Why Sung Se-han was so angry with me. Why he told me not to use the words “our team.”
When the elevator stopped on the third floor, Sung Se-han took my hand and got off.
“I’m finally taking our Tae-kyung to my studio.”
I looked at Sung Se-han’s eye smile and coughed softly. I was worried that he would hear my heartbeat.
The same silver bracelet as mine was shining on Sung Se-han’s wrist, who was holding my hand.
At this moment, as we walked together wearing the same bracelet, I was feeling emotions that I couldn’t express in words.
Could I call this feeling of my heart aching like this happiness? Or would it be more appropriate to say I was excited…?
The reason I ran all the way here to meet Sung Se-han was because I wanted to confirm something.
Whether this was really reality, whether Sung Se-han’s past had really changed.
Whether Sung Se-han really remembered that day. I felt like I had to confirm all of that right away.
But from the moment I saw Sung Se-han’s face, it was as if my courage had disappeared, and now I didn’t care about anything.
Would it be too cowardly to say that I didn’t want to confirm anything or know anything more?
I just wanted to settle into this moment.
Would it be too greedy to want to hold Sung Se-han’s hand and stay in this moment forever?
“What do you want to drink?”
Sung Se-han’s studio appeared at the end of the left hallway. Sung Se-han asked me, opening the gray soundproof door wide.
“Not coffee. Do you want to drink herbal tea?”
“You know I don’t like herbal tea.”
I shook my head and stepped into the studio.
“Haha.”
I covered my mouth with my hand, but laughter escaped.
“What is this? It’s like you just moved your old studio here?”
The monitor, speakers, microphone chair, and even the keyboard that I used to use were all familiar. I thought the personal studio that Baeknyeon Entertainment had given me would be unfamiliar, but I kept laughing because I was so happy to see the familiar studio.