Third person's point of view
"Ehh?" Eunae (Sonamoo a.k.a D.ana) reacted. Holding a controller connected to a game console, Moonbyul turned to her.
"What is it?" Moonbyul asked after stopping from the game she was playing.
"Seulgi-unnie's phone rang then after a few seconds it was out of reach" A bit upset, Eunae explained.
"She's probably in a meeting, try calling her later" Moonbyul said before turning her focus back on the game. Eunae's eyes are still glued on her phone in disbelief because Seulgi never rejected or turns her phone off after a call from Eunae. She's starting to think all the 'what ifs' like what if something bad happened or something.
"Oh God Eunae! Maybe her battery just died!" Moonbyul stated in frustration after seeing Eunae's face trying to make the latter calm from her storm of thoughts. She knew the girl long enough to know her personality and how she reacts on things. Effectively, Eunae snapped out from her thinking and considered the possibility Moonbyul had just said, that maybe she's just over-thinking.
"Get a grip of it!" Moonbyul threw a pillow straight to Eunae's face but out of her usual reaction of barking back at Moonbyul, Eunae remained silent placing the thrown pillow on her lap.
"It's not like she's been stolen away from you or what" Moonbyul added going back to the game she's playing.
"Why don't you just confess to Seulgi already?" Moonbyul asked not looking back to Eunae.
"Confess what?" Eunae responded raising her eyebrows from the sudden question.
"That you like her..." Moonbyul answered shortly still hooked on the game. Eunae gulped for a moment because for as far she knew she never said anything about liking Seulgi.
"Of course, I like her. She's my unnie" Eunae reasoned nervously. She looked up to Seulgi as an older sister.
"I mean you like her....ROMANTICALLY" Emphasizing the latter part not even flinching on the game she's playing. There was a moment of silence with Moonbyul having a smirk while playing and Eunae almost being frozen after the statement while staring blankly at Moonbyul's back with cold sweats starting to form. Eunae took a big gulp trying to calm herself hoping to ease her nervousness.
"No. What are you saying? She's my unnie." Eunae finally gathered her strengths to talk back. By that time, Moonbyul stood up from the floor of Eunae's room as the screen in front of her flashes 'You Win'. She slowly turned around to look at Eunae having both her hands on her waist.
"Let's see how long you will be able to say that" Moonbyul scoffed. She walked slowly to Eunae not taking her eyes off on her friend until she finally reached Eunae who was sitting on her bed. Eunae just stared at Moonbyul's actions. To her surprise, Moonbyul pushed her down to the bed crawling on top of the student holding both Eunae's wrist on the side of her face. Moonbyul leaned to Eunae's ears.
"Let's see how long can you keep denying" she whispered, Eunae gulped slowly as the words sunk into her mind adding to the action of her friend that she can't even describe. Unfocused, she wasn't aware when Moonbyul slowly crawled her other hand to Eunae's phone and took it as she abruptly stand up. Snapping out from her thinking, Eunae saw her phone on Moonbyul's hand and was busy tapping the screen.
"What are you doing?" Eunae sat up in confusion.
"Helping you" Moonbyul stated eyes still on the phone. She's sending a message but Eunae swiped her phone off Moonbyul's.
"Oopps.. Sent" Moonbyul said. Eunae immediately looked at her phone and saw a text message sent to Seulgi. It read,
'I miss you already come and meet me up quick!'
"YAH!!! MOON BYULYI!!!!" Flustered, Eunae got angry and started running after Moonbyul to hit her which was laughing the whole time teasing Eunae. Clearly, even Moonbyul texted that, Seulgi will still think that it came from Eunae due to the number used.
"Don't be so guilty. Friends do send that kind of message, you know" Moonbyul reasoned still running around the room to avoid Eunae's hits.
At Irene's Condo Unit
Seulgi slowly opened her eyes waking up from sleep. It's already night time when she woke up. She slowly sat up examining her surroundings looking for a familiar face but the room was empty. She searched her pockets and the bed for her phone only to find it on the table beside the bed. Seulgi quickly grabbed her phone to check but to her surprise the phone was off.
"Huh? Is it out of battery?" Seulgi wondered because she clearly remembers that she was sleeping for hours now, barely touching her phone. Her attention was diverted when the door of the room swung open as the beautiful actress entered.
"I turned that thing off" Irene explained approaching the seat beside the bed. Seulgi just followed with her eyes as the actress sat as if it was nothing.
"And why would you do that? It's my phone." Seulgi asked in a calm way waiting for a response from the actress.
"It keeps on ringing. I can't just answer your calls" Irene explained making it a point that she's an actress who's just being careful for rumors, gossips and all.
"It's so annoying" Irene mumbled to herself which Seulgi clearly heard. Seulgi decided to shrug it off trying to understand the actress and continue browsing through her phone upon turning it on. She saw few missed calls from work and others and some messages including from Eunae and Moonbyul. Upon opening one of the messages, a trace of smile formed on Seulgi's lips. She immediately called the number.
"Yah~ Nado~" She spoke cutely while having a big smile on her face. It caught Irene's attention making a disgust face while looking at Seulgi.
'When did this war freak started doing aegyo?' Irene thought in her mind. Due to not being able to take the scene, Irene let out a dry cough to distract Seulgi and let her remember Irene's presence. Successfully, Seulgi noticed and dropped the call.
"Is that the first thing you do when you wake up from someone's house?.. instead of thanking the person who took care of you while you're almost lifeless" Almost a whined, Irene stated.
"Sorry about that. It's just that the person I called is such a baby that I needed to respond to the message right away." Seulgi explained as she let out a smile remembering the person.
"Your boyfriend?" Irene asked.
"Ooohh.. Is actress Bae Irene having an interest with my life just now? I feel honored" Seulgi teased as she stood up from the bed to stretch herself.
"Did I sleep this afternoon until this evening?" Seulgi asked as she stretches.
"Nope." Irene answered making Seulgi confused.
"You slept YESTERDAY AFTERNOON until this evening" emphasizing the first few words. Seulgi's eyes widened in shocked. She took her phone to check the date and it's true. Seulgi slept that long.
"I called your company to inform them about your absence today" Irene added.
"Th..thank you" Seulgi answered back still looking at her phone in this belief but snapped out of it after a few seconds.
"I thought you said that you were careful about false news and all." Seulgi added.
"That's an exemption. It's your work and a company I worked with so I believe they'll be professional about it." Irene explained.
"I'm being careful to people who make false news based on simple acts and pictures, people who are paid just to ruin an image and reputation that we almost died just to put up to where it is. Fans who becomes anti-fans in an instance just because they saw something inappropriate for them or something that doesn't match up to their fantasies about their idols"
"Ah. It's all about protecting your image, right?" Seulgi stated with a slight irritation in her tone as she remembers something.
"That may be true but not in this case" Irene reasoned as she sips her coffee.
"Then what is it?" Seulgi asked in wonder.
"I'm protecting you"
-End of Chapter 9--
Hi readers! Sorry for not updating for so long. Idk it felt like I lost the will and inspiration to write. Maybe I got this so called writer's block. But I don't want to abandon this story so yeah here I am. *grins*
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