President Yang's Request: T.O.P

Chapter 2 - Becoming more than friends

Bae Jang Mi sat on her living room floor with a black track suit on. She was slurping up ramen and shoving kimchi into her mouth. Her long black hair tied in a loose ponytail. Her living room had nothing but a small coffee table for her to eat on. She couldn't even afford a television so she was on a ramen every night diet. Bae Jang Mi wasn't too bothered by it. She knew if she worked hard, she would be able to live comfortably. Hopefully soon. As of now, she just needed to get the money for debt and that's all she really needed.

"Jang Mi-yah!" Bae Jang Mi's manager walked in. "Why is your phone off?" He snapped.

"It died a few hours ago. I can't afford to charge it because electricity is expensive these days." Jang Mi replied with her mouth full of ramen.

"I've been calling you for the past two hours. President Yang wants to see you at eleven" Manager Kim states.

Looking at the wall with a clock ticking away, Jang Mi shot up with a string of noodle dangling from her mouth. "It's twenty minutes till eleven! Why didn't you just come earlier?" She snapped rushing to her bedroom. "I need to change!"

  Manager Kim sat at Bae Jang Mi's small coffee table to chow down the rest of Bae Jang Mi's ramen. He watched as she ran back and forth from the room, to the bathroom. He noticed how she slowly started to look like a human with each time she passed by. She wore blue jean short shorts and a white tank top as she ran to the bathroom. She came out with her hair falling down in curls and it only took a couple of minutes. A toothbrush hanging from her mouth and one eye caked in eyeliner and mascara. Her face was evenly spread across with BB cream. As soon as she walked out of the room, her make up was complete, hair was done and her outfit was completed with accessories and a loose red knitted sweater. The back of the sweater fell past her jean shorts while her front exposed her shorts. The red knitted sweater hung loosely around her small frame.

"Let's go!" Jang Mi says before tripping and falling to the floor. "Let's go." She says once again shooting up from the floor.

  The ride over to YG Entertainment wasn't very long. The building itself is magnificent. The architectural design and detail were amazingly put together. Bae Jang Mi wouldn't expect anything less coming from the company. The black van pulled up to the front door and she exited the vehicle with manager Kim following behind. Jang Mi was nervous. She barely came to the YG

Entertainment's studio because the people who came to the studio are made up of mostly musically talented idols that were signed under the company. Because she was just an actress, she had no need to be in the building anyway. So she was nervous as to why she was being called into the building.
 
Inside was very busy with people doing their own things and living their lives. Television screens hung up on a wall in the lobby area. It was screening music videos of the groups who are under the company. Up the stairs were dark aside from the unique floor to ceiling monitors that played pictures of artists under the company. Pictures of album covers and different idols were placed all around the walls in the hallway that Jang Mi and manager Kim kept passing. People were in and out of the rooms that lined up in the hallway on one floor. The same floor had a cafeteria, which was busy with staff members and few famous people who were eating and chatting away.

Finally reaching the top floor, Jang Mi stood in front of the door at the end of the hallway. Past many other doors with big glass windows in them. The door she currently stood in front of, is the door that lead to President Yang's office. Manager Kim opened it for her to go in. She entered President Yang's office by tripping over her own two feet, falling onto the wooden floor with a loud thud.

"Jang Mi-yah!" Manager Kim scolded. "You're always falling."

"I'm fine." She stood back up and took in President Yang's office.

  The office had nice and open concept to it. The wall at the very end of the room is a simple floor to ceiling window that out looked the city of Seoul. One wall was baby blue but had white square shelves cladded on it. Inside the squares were figurines of all the people under YG
Entertainment. Most of them were in their own band groups or their own occupation. Everyone except for Bae Jang Mi sat in the section meant for actors and actresses. She's been asked to design it herself but she has never gotten around to it. Mostly because she kept forgetting about it. It had struck the thought in her mind. Maybe she was called in for it. She shook her head at that. It couldn't be. She thought. President Yang wouldn't call her in for something as stupid as a figurine design.

"Did you come without any trouble?" President Yang smiles at Jang Mi's blank face.

"Sorry we're late President Yang." Manager Kim states with a bow followed by Bae Jang Mi's deep bow.

"It's fine we called you both out last minute so we can understand." He replied kindly.

  President Yang pointed to a leather chair that faced his desk. That's when Bae Jang Mi noticed the other men in the room. More specifically a rapper by the stage name of T.O.P alongside the manager of Big Bang. Jang Mi bowed towards the two before taking her seat. She could automatically feel the curiosity coming from both managers and T.O.P himself. He didn't pay attention to Bae Jang Mi as she looked around confused in the quiet atmosphere. Instead he eyed the way both Chairman Yang and his secretary were giving each other a grin that rang suspicious. The grin was so small it didn't look like a grin at all. You would mistake it as a normal way they carried their lips. Something was happening, and he didn't know what.

"Managers, may you step out please. I would like to talk to the two about private matters." President Yang finally spoke up, earning a bow from the two managers just before they left the office. "Just know that what I'm about to tell you must stay between us that are seated in this room."

"What do you mean? Is this about the figurines that I never got to yet?" Jang Mi asked. "Maybe not." She muttered under her breath.

"Actually it's not. And it's been two years, since I asked you for that." President Yang states with a shake of his head. "This is a much more serious matter."

"Is my contract up already? It can't be we just revised it." T.O.P's deep voice chimed in.

President Yang just shook his head. "Just know that this information is very important. I did not want any of the people under the company to know about this." The two didn't interrupt this time, so he continued. "There are whispers coming from small publishing companies about YG Entertainment. The whispers seem to be negative. It's a serious matter that could eventually shut the whole company down." The two gasped at the information. The two not feeling too comfortable about the reason for them being there. "These whispers can't turn into loud talks. If it hits the ears of bigger gossip companies than that's exactly what's going to happen."

"What can we do to help?" Jang Mi asked.

"I'll do whatever you want me to." T.O.P said sincerely as President Yang smirked.