OPEN YOUR EYES (BLIND I) - MUSIQ SERIES PART 2

78. WHO YOU ARE TO ME

The first dinner in Busan was one of the few moments of true relaxation they had had while filming the show. Although there were topics they could not discuss with cameras around, they were still free to do the rest and without having to think about evaluations, tasks or anything.

To Heejin, it was even more special since she got to share those moments with Jake. Ever since he became an idol, they had only contacted each other through calls and such, so seeing him after so many years made Heejin genuinely happy. She had grown up a lot, taking into account she was only around twelve when he debuted, but everything else felt the same.

Although most of them had taken naps, by one at night only Jake, Sunghoon, Heejin and Soojin were left in the backyard. They were playing very faint music and gathered around a makeshift firepit they had put up while just looking at the sky, reading or playing with their phones, so it was a true moment of peace and quiet. The filming crew had left, and they only had the fixed cameras and microphones placed around the guest house, so they could further relax.

"Heejin, now that we are alone, I want to tell you that you were right," Soojin told her with a smile. "Positive."

"Oh my gosh!" Heejin covered her mouth in shock. "Congratulations!"

"Hyunjin already knows, but we will tell the others when we go back to Seoul. I can't believe you noticed it before I did," Soojin said and stood up. "Anyway, I should rest now. I will see you in the morning. Goodnight, boys."

"Good night!" Sunghoon Jake and Heejin said before she left.

With a smile on Heejin's face happy that her CEO had finally been able to get pregnant after trying for so long, they all fell back into silence and even turned the music off that time, so they could hear the faint sound of the sea. 

"Heejin," Sunghoon called her, getting her attention. "Don't you have some funny stories about Jake that I can use as blackmail?"

"Hey!" Jake exclaimed as Heejin and Sunghoon laughed.

"Sadly, I think I do not," Heejin admitted. "We didn't see each other that much since he was in Australia and the last time I saw him in person I was in middle school, so I do not remember that much. You know him better than I do."

"Why didn't you visit her family if they live in Seoul?" Sunghoon asked Jake confused.

"It's not like we get that much free time, do we? Also, the situation in her family isn't exactly the best and I never knew if I could visit them or not," Jake explained, not wanting to dive deeper into the situation with the Kim family when cameras were around. "We did meet once after my debut, though, but it was still a long time ago."

"Oh, right. I almost forgot about that, to be honest," Heejin said. "We did meet once in a cafe, but it was coincidental and not because we actively decided to meet up. I believe it was when I just started high-school or so."

"It was really a long time ago, yes. Five years ago, at least," Jake recalled. "Let's try to stay in touch more now."

"I was going to say that it's understandable that you grew apart because of your age difference, but I just remembered that Daniel is only a year older than her." Sunghoon chuckled as he recalled the trainee from I-Land. "I find it so weird! We are the seniors to many idols now, but it feels strange every single time, and much more when Jake has told the boys and I so much about you, especially these past few weeks with the show."

"What have you been telling them, Jake?" Heejin asked him. "Should I be worried?"

"He won't admit it, but he was just talking about how proud he was and how you were getting better each day," Sunghoon answered before he could. "He has been watching the program since the beginning and we ended up watching it with him too eventually. I really liked the concept of the program. It's still about seeing who ends up debuting in the end but it's not as brutal as it was in ours, for example, where we were even asked to vote people off the show."