Forgotten Night

Chapter 10

7 November 2018, 5:11 PM

I was busy at the fan meeting venue. Only four of the seven fans were with me. Mr Kwon had not participated in much of the preparations because he was busy driving taxi. JinAh could not miss school. So she had gone back to Busan. But she still communicated with us and coordinate with and told us her opinion on the phone, and video call. We had made a chat room in KakoTalk with all the seven fans and me. And tonight even alternate WooHyun was not available, because he had a date. But actually, Mrs Lee and RaYeon was really enough to plan and arrange things. They were always so enthusiastic and overexcited. And I had to stop Mrs Lee from offering to do anything over the top fancy with her money because this was an event conducted by the company and the company holds responsibility for the expense. Mrs Lee wanted to invite a world-famous French patisserie to make WooHyun's birthday cake and was willing to personally take care of the expense. That was way too unnecessarily fancy and expensive. I had a difficult time convincing her.

But we were in the final touches, and the function was already tomorrow evening. And all the arrangements were supposed to be a secret from Hyun, coz we wanted to surprise him.

But while we were at it, Taepyonim called me. He said he needed to say something really urgent. So I had to leave. I left RaYeon and Mrs Lee in charge of the space, along with DaRa and Seo GaYeong shi to help them. DaRa and Seo GaYeong shi still did not get along that well with each other. Or more like Seo GaYeong shi did not get along with anyone. RaYeon had complained that she is 'eerie'.

6:35 pm

When I went to Taepyonim's room, he pushed a script towards me. "Take a look at this," he said.

"What is it?" I asked, taking the script.

"It's Director Kim Ki Ryul's new movie." He said. "He wants a good looking face for this particular role. It's a lead role too. I suggested WooHyun. And he was not negative about that."

"Huh?" I looked up, super excited. Coz Director Kim Ki Ryul is someone everyone super respects. He is an award-winning director. All of his movies end up in Cannes Film Festival, and other renowned awards and film festivals. He is one of the most revered and best directors in the world.

"What do you think? Will WooHyun take it?" CEO asked me.

Hyun has a tendency to be scared of art movies and world-renowned directors. He is underconfident about his acting skills. He feels he is still not that good as to play a role in such a great director's movie.

"I will talk to him," I told Taepyonim. He has to take this role. Because this is major. This can get him free of the talks that he was just a handsome face. And it may not do so much commercially. But is sure to land in many awards and that can take his value as an actor to a very higher level. He has to do it.

8 November 2018, 8:00 AM

The next morning he was as usual asleep when I reached his home. "Kim Woo Hyun, get up," I said looking at my watch. "I will give you five minutes." And I walked out of his bedroom and went to the kitchen, and made some juice. He came out of the room rubbing his eyes, looking as cute as ever in his bed hair.

He yawned. "Can't I sleep in a bit more?" He asked. "It's my birthday."

"Happy Birthday." I wished him. "But you have to get ready and get dressed and look handsome and take a selfie of you and upload it in Instagram and Twitter, for people to wish you on your birthday. I don't care if you go back to sleep after doing that."