I Hope Love Is... [On Hold]

Author's Note

This was my NaNoWriMo 2013 Novel, made possible by the crazy enablers over at Unifaction and Daydream Wishes (thank you, dears!). I owe an especially big thank you to Sasshkazar and Lucille!

I didn't realize it before, but while I was writing this, whenever I had to write about Bea I thought of my friends and former roommates. So you could say that Bea was modeled after them. Eva and Joan, this book's for you.

If it is too simple, it's because I wrote the bulk of it in only 16 days... it was already November 15 when I decided to jump in feet-first. I didn't expect to finish 50,000 words by the end of the month, but crazy me, it was possible!

I hadn't planned at all on doing NaNo last year because I had three WIPs going on, all set in the same K-pop universe. So I just took a look around and grabbed my favorite side character from that same universe and gave him his own story. Ten pages in, he and his girl began running away with the plot and all I needed to do was keep up.

I hope someone likes it, anyway.

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Pronunciation Guide for Names

Bea - /be-ya/

Minha - /min-ha/

Mia - /mi-ya/

Jae - Korean /jeh/ or more conventionally, /jay/

Jungkyu - /jung-kyu/

Junhee - /jun-hee/

Myungseok - /myung-sok/

Sangmin - /sang-min/

Yoonju - /yoon-joo/

Biboy - /bee-boy/

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The YT videos added to each chapter are the suggested songs to listen to while you're reading it.

Intro                         - I Hope (FT Island)

First Verse             - Destiny (Infinite)

Second Verse       - Girls Don't Know (FT Island)

Third Verse            - Hello Hello (FT Island)

Fourth Verse          - Beautiful (FT Island)

Fifth Verse              - Biyahe (Josh Santana) / Meteor Garden Philippine dub

Interlude: Jae         - Now Is Good (Kim Jaejoong)

Sixth Verse              - Memory (FT Island)

Seventh Verse       - Can't Help Falling In Love (F4) / Lilo and Stitch OST

Eighth Verse          - First Kiss (FT Island)

Ninth Verse            - Raining (FT Island)

Tenth Verse           - Distance (FT Island)

Eleventh Verse      - Still / As Ever (Lee Hong-ki) / You're Beautiful OST

Interlude: Jae        - Siren (FT Island)

Twelfth Verse        - Lovesick (FT Island)

Thirteenth Verse   - Can't Have You (FT Island)

Fourteenth Verse - Love Love Love (FT Island)

Fifteenth Verse    - Heaven (Part 1) (FT Island)

Sixteenth Verse   - Falling Star (FT Island)

Seventeenth Verse - I'm Saying (Lee Hong-ki) / The Heirs OST

Eighteenth Verse - Snow on the Sahara (Anggun)

Nineteenth Verse - I'm Happy (FT Island)

Twentieth Verse - Bad Woman (FT Island)

Twenty-first Verse - Mitaiken Future (FT Island)

Interlude: Media - Promise (Jang Geunseok, Jung Yonghwa, and Lee Hongki as A.N.Jell) / You're Beautiful OST

Twenty-second Verse - Be Free (FT Island)

Twenty-third Verse - Words I Have Yet To Say (Lee Hong-ki) / Bride of the Century OST

Twenty-fourth Verse - Shiawa-Theory (Theory of Happiness) (FT Island)

Twenty-fifth Verse - To The Light (FT Island)

Twenty-sixth Verse - Freedom (FT Island)

Interlude: Mia - If I Ain't Got You (Denise Laurel's version) 

Twenty-seventh Verse - Severely (FT Island)

Twenty-eighth Verse - Boy Meets Girl (FT Island)

Twenty-ninth Verse - Even If It's Not Necessary (FT Island)

Thirtieth Verse - Because I Don't Know How To Love (FT Island)