Dream Girl

Neighbors

~ Zelo POV ~

“I hate being the maknae! They always send me to the store. If you’re craving for something, go buy it yourself, man! But nooo…let’s send the maknae because he doesn’t have anything better to do! Only to serve us!” My monologue was suddenly interrupted when I got right in front of our building and saw two girls coming out of a taxi. I followed them with my eyes and saw that they were going inside the building. I maintained some distance in fear of maybe being fangirls. But somehow…their bags proved that I jumped to conclusions.

Oh?! New neighbors?! Foreign…English!! YES! That’s it! I have to befriend them. That way I can raise my  English grades.  

I waited for them to get in the elevator and looked at what floor they stopped on. I ran up the stairs to the first floor and banged on the superintendent’s door to find out all he knew about the new neighbors. After I talked to him, I quickly went home to tell the guys about our new arrivals. I threw the groceries on the table, opened the refrigerator to make sure we had a cake and then stormed into the living room.

“- Who wants to hear some breaking news?”

Yongguk hyung looked at me indifferent and then turned his attention towards the TV. Daehyun hyung was listening to music while Himchan hyung and Jongup were bickering. If nobody was paying attention to me, I made sure to make myself heard by loudly saying:

“-Alright then…Your loss! I won’t even tell you that, starting now, we have new neighbors…that are girls…”

“-Neighbor girls? They're two? Or more than two? What about them? What floor do they live on?” Youngjae hyung was yelling coming out of his room.

Too many questions…

“- Why didn’t you say that from the beginning?!” Himchan hyung scolded me.

“- So…what about them?” Asked Daehyun hyung.

Aah!! So you heard even with your headphones on!

In two seconds, all my hyungs were in front of me, just like a bunch of little kids that were waiting for a story. I filled them in on the situation from what I was told by the superintendent, then I asked them:

“- Who’s going with me to welcome them in the building?”

“- You?! You’re going to welcome them?! You’re the shyest among us!” Said Himchan hyung laughing.

“- I know that too, no need to remind me! Leaving my shyness aside, I have to raise my English grades. Daehyunie hyung, are you coming with me?”

“-Yeah dude, maybe it’s your dream girl.” Said Himchan tauntingly.

“- Thanks for your concern, hyung!”  Responded Daehyun with sarcasm.

He then looked at me with a big “no” on his face. Yongguk, Himchan and Jongup were avoiding to answer. So I turned to Youngjae hyung but he didn’t wait for me to say it again.

“- Fine! I’ll go! But…”

“- There’s always a ‘but’…”

“- You have to wash the dishes in my place for a week.”

“- You got it!”

~ Maya POV ~

“- I hope my dad took care of everything that was necessary regarding our new place.” I tell Adda when we got to our destination.

I thanked the taxi driver and went inside the building. I couldn’t wait to sleep. My dad rented us an apartment pretty near our university. The apartment was on the fifth floor. Although we wanted to take the stairs, to take a better look at the building, laziness took over us and forced us to take the elevator.

“- A three room apartment…pretty nicely arranged…with a HD plasma TV~~~!”

“- We have a bathtub so big I could swim in it.” I told Adda while going towards the kitchen.

“- You take the bedroom at the end of the hallway, I’ll take this one.”

Adda already started unpacking and I threw myself directly on the living room couch, in front of the plasma TV. I searched for a music channel and I was letting myself get taken over by sleep when the door bell rang.

“- I wonder who could it be?” Asked Adda heading towards the door.

“- The superintendent. Who else could it be…”

I wanted to let her resolve the problem…in case there was one. I heard the door close as fast as it was opened. Weird! I saw Adda coming towards me while stuttering and pointing at the door.

“- Maya!! At our door it’s…it’s…it’s…”

I left my best friend with her stuttering and went to see who it was. It was two very cute guys.

We ended up in a good building…

I looked puzzled at them and the taller one was widely smiling, just like a little kid.

“- Hello!” Said the other one. “We live right above your apartment. We heard you moved in so we wanted to come and welcome you into our building.”

“- Hello! And thank you…”

I looked at Adda, but she was still in a state of shock. I asked the boys to come inside and led them into the living room. I served them some cookies and orange juice.

“- My name is Youngjae. And this is Junhong.”

“- I’m Maya. And this…is Adda.”

I looked at her but she seemed lost in space; kind of like the shy guy that came with Youngjae. The rest of the conversation was only between me and Youngjae, as if the other two weren’t even there. After an hour spent in the living room, talking about common things, the two guys left. Right after I shut the door, Adda came back to life:

“- You…you…do you have any idea who was in our house??! Do you know who you were talking to?!”

“- Yeah…with two cute guys.”

“- Cute?! Just cute?! Didn’t you realize who they were?! They’re so handsome in real life…!” She was about to make me deaf with her enthusiasm.

“- I’m going to sleep!” I turned around and went to my room.

“- They were two members from B.A.P…”