Finding the Right Words

Chapter 111- Questions

"What do you mean, you're leaving?!" Min Hee screeched, downright terrifying when she was painted green and standing entirely in her underwear.

"Exactly what I said. We finish the musical, I release my album, promote it for a month, and then I'm off to Chile."

"But what could you possibly need to do in Chile?"

"It's a television drama, but my character is supposedly one of the comic relief characters."

"But why? When you've just recently debuted, shouldn't they be sending you to, you know, bigger countries?"

"They're trying to get me away for a while," I murmured, looking at her pleadingly, and then glancing at the makeup artist still working on spray-painting Min Hee.

"I don't know why you're so upset about going to Chile," Lela remarked, pinning a select portion of my hair behind my head. "I hear it's beautiful this time of year."

I rolled my eyes. "Of course it's beautiful this time of year. It's almost summer there. But that's not the point. 

"But what about our challenge against Kyu-line and Psycho club?"

"We can move it up a few weeks. We haven't booked a concert hall yet, so we might as well do that soon."

"How are you going to handle it?" she asked, and I knew what she was getting at.

"I feel like I'm going to suffocate, being away from everyone for so long. Six months. It was horrible, coming to Korea and not knowing anyone. But at least then I was meeting people I'd wanted to meet for a really long time. Going to Chile, I have no idea who anyone is. At all. And I've gotten so used to hanging out with FASE, and practicing all of my songs, and then, in my spare time, or just meeting in the spur of the moment..."

Min Hee covered her ears, making a face. "Do not want to know."

"Hey, you gave me full-color descriptions of you and John! Now THAT was horrifying! You European people are crazy!"

Lela cleared her throat. "Ladies, can we please pretend that we don't have relationships? You know, like the public thinks?"

Min Hee and I fell silent, and then we finished putting on makeup, so we'd be ready for the show.

 ~

"So we'll have the performance after I get back from Chile?" I asked Henry as he plunked a note on the piano, and then grimaced, scribbling something out on the piece of paper in front of him.

"Sure. That way your friends in Rstory would be able to help."

"Right. Because despite all of our attempts to recruit people, we're still outnumbered against Psycho club... but we'll at least beat Kyu-line, right?"

"Of course. But the more the better, right?"

I nodded, then got a revelation. "You know who we need to recruit?"

"Who?"

"U-Kiss! Well, Kevin, Eli, and AJ, at least. Then we'd have a decent number of both males and females!"

"How many do we have?"

I counted them off on my fingers, thinking. "Well, for girls, we have me, Min Hee, Jessica, Tiffany, Krystal, Amber, Eliz, Ali, Em, and Jacklyn. So ten. And then for guys, there's you, Kris, Hanbyul, Sam and Aron. So five. Eight if you add Kevin, Eli and AJ."

"Can you contact them at all?"

"No idea. You have any U-Kiss friends?"

He shook his head. True. Very different companies, and U-Kiss didn't work for any of the big three.