12. Naeun (1/2)
(OST- All for you by Eunji and Seo In Guk)I stared at the numbers and lowered my hand. To explain why I felt so strange was… I couldn’t describe it. That moment had given me chills. I saw Bomi look at me with question but she did not press me for any information which was fine with me. I wasn’t going to disclose to her what happened anyway. So in the end I added the number into my phone and decided to try and break the ice.“It’s been three days since,” I murmured to myself. “Maybe he’ll have given up on waiting for me to respond.” I didn’t sound so convincing of this.Slowly and with cautious presses I tapped out a short message to him.Is this Taemin?To my surprise a message came back rather fast.Depends on who this is?Was he on his guard? He may have thought I was a fan or stalker or worse. I had to type another message back to him.I think you may know me. Remember three days back?Ah Naeun-ie, I was wondering when you would contact me ^^ I giggled and then stopped in alarm. What if one of the members noticed? Would they catch on that something strange was afloat? My phone starting ringing and I jumped. What was he doing calling me all of a sudden? Glancing around I quickly hurried from one room to a bedroom where I pulled open the wardrobe doors and climbed in. Sitting underneath Hayoung’s coats and dresses with her shoes as an uncomfortable flooring I answered the call.“Hello?”
“Naeun, are you surprised?” I paused as he chuckled. “I thought so, you sound like it.”
“I err…”
“Are you hiding again? Remember how you did it once before?”
This brought back a fond memory. Our first ever phone call to each other. Nodding I affirmed this to him, “Mm… I do remember.”And so that was how we started to get back in touch again.Ω“Ah Naeun-ah you seem to be working hard what or who is this for?” Eunji stood at the kitchen bench while I tried to wrap the rice, the stuffing all in the paper thin seaweed.“F-for a friend,” I said trying not to say Taemin to her. I heard singing and Bomi entered with a cup in her hand. She came over to me and picked at some of the rice making me slightly annoyed. Before I could yell at her she moved back several steps.“So who are all these meat kimbaps for; how come we haven’t heard anything?”
“They aren’t for you,” I told her with all three of us laughing. “They’re for a friend whose working really hard at the moment.”
Eunji and Bomi came together and started to talk in lower breaths. I heard the word ‘guy’ and ‘crush’. It made my ears burn slightly because they were rather close to the truth.“Naeun, do you like someone?”
I almost released the seaweed before it had been rolled. Staring at them dumbfounded I started to talk, try and smooth things out.
“No I said it’s for a friend…” They shook their heads in unison. “I’m telling you the truth why won’t you believe me?!”
They started to laugh which got me confused now. Eunji came over to me and patted me on the head. “Ok Naeun we’ll stop sorry for upsetting you. If you do then that’s great we’re happy for you and we would love to know who so we can congratulate them for winning your heart.”
Now it was my turn to shake my head. “Nice try but it’s nothing like that.” I turned to Bomi who was counting the rolls that I had not cut up yet.“Wow you have a lot here. How many people are you trying to feed?”
I had to think about how many there were. “A small group,” I covered my mouth in shock. They both turned to me their faces showing how curious and how interested they were in this.“Are you going to be surprising my team?”“Unnie I…”She hugged me firmly. “Thank you Naeun, you know how hard my team has been working to stay in the show. They’ll really appreciate this.”