Forgotten Night

Flashback #3

8 march 2008, 11:30 PM

It had been a month since I had become Kim WooHyun shi's manager. I was monitoring his acting on the director's screen. It was all really fascinating and new to me. The way the camera captures the video and the acting done by the actors. I have always liked watching movies and TV, and never before have I ever seen a shooting before. And it was interesting to see how a story comes into shape.

WooHyun shi still had a lot to learn and was not that expert in acting. But once his face comes up on screen people would not even care about his acting, I guess. Because he is a treat to look at. Handsome.

I cleared that thought out of my head. Of I keep thinking that he is handsome, I won't be able to work. I need to get my head straight and think of him only as a fellow human. He is nothing special. Just a regular guy. Of course, he looks better than any guy I have ever met, but still...he is just a human.

"Cut..." the director called. He verified what was shot and called for pack-up. And WooHyun shi came to me. I handed him his water bottle. "Sorry, YuBin shi." He said, "It got really late today, right?" He asked really politely. He was always really polite to me. "That's okay," I said.

"I am used to late-night shoots. But you are not, right?" He asked.

"It's fine," I said. I was okay. I did not mind working late. I was actually happy to have something to do. If I did not have, my mind will wander off to things that happened. Oppa's death. Our dad not even coming to Oppa's funeral. Mom being too sick to work. Yuri still being a child.

"Let's go home, YuBin shi." WooHyun shi said.

I walked to our car. And I began to drive. It had been just one week since I got my driving license. Before that, a driver used to drive us around. But I did not want to be an incompetent manager. The basic need of a manager was to know how to drive a car. Thankfully I had been taking driving lessons even before Oppa's death.

"You won't crash the car and get us dead, will you?" Hyun shi was still nervous about my driving.

"No," I said.

"You are not sleepy, are you? Because sleepy driving is more dangerous than drunk driving." He repeated.

"I am not sleepy." I was tired though. And I was not that used to late-night driving like this and I was nervous. "And we don't have any choice anyway, because Hyun shi doesn't have a license anyway," I told him.

"Right." He grinned. He did not learn to drive yet.

I drove on, and he had gone silent after a while. I turned to look at him and he had fallen asleep. He falls asleep fast. And do not wake up when called. I noted that in my mind. I was noting everything about him in my mind nowadays, to make a mental note about everything about him and do a better job. So he does not eat onions, and he is scared of big dogs because he ran away last time when he saw the big dog owned by a guy in his apartment. And he likes colours like pale-blue, beige, or yellow and hates brown and dark green. And oh yeah, he liked Iced Mocha. Or every coffee in general.