Your Personal Sunshine (Choi Youngjae FF)

CHAPTER 28 - STARTING SOMETHING NEW

Jaebeom

Youngjae was inside the cubicle again with Jackson supervising him. I've warned Jackson to make Youngjae stay inside the cubicle long enough but not too long that made him lose his patience. The rest started to sit in circle around me once Youngjae was inside the cubicle and couldn't hear us out.

"So, did noona manage to find something?" For once, Jinyoung was interested in mere stuff like this. I raised my eyebrow upon hearing him, "Are you sure you're Jinyoung? Since when do you care about mere stuff like this?"

"Just the crap hyung. Get to the point," Bambam urged me.

"Chill Bam, Youngjae starts to get to you as well," I slowed him down. "So, according to noona, the rumour was true. Subin noona annoyed Youngjae, probably because she had feeling for Youngjae and threw herself at Youngjae, and that made him felt uncomfortable. He told her to stop and apparently she vented her anger toward the trainees and that made Youngjae become even more irritated. As for the English tutor, what was her name again?" I scratched my head trying to remember her name. "Ah.. Hyebin. Youngjae said the lesson will be finished in one or two weeks as she deems he is fluent enough at least to handle interviews and short conversations. Probably she won't see Youngjae anymore. She still blocks his number and it annoys Youngjae even more. He can't contact her," I finished telling them what noona managed to find out.

"Why would she block his number?" Yugyeom asked.

"That was Youngjae's fault. He thought she was behind the first rumour regarding him picking up Jaehyun late at school, while in fact she wasn't. When Youngjae contacted her to apologize, she blocked his number," I explained. "So, up until today, only his manager could contact her. And she threatens to block his manager's as well if Youngjae used his manager's number to contact her."

"Wowww.. she's ..fierce," Jinyoung seemed to lost words to describe her. "No wonder Youngjae becomes cloudy Youngjae. Ah.. he'll find out something though. But wait, does she like him back?"

"That, noona can't say. She said her face is hard to read. If she did, then she covered her feeling well," I continued.

"Aisshhh.. Why do you guys have to be involved with girls and make a mess?" Bambam was pissed and stormed out of the room.

"He'll get his turn and when he does, he'll understand," I patted Yugyeom's shoulder softly. I tried to reassure him since he seemed worried with Bambam. He nodded and let Bambam cool himself down. After all, it wasn't his turn to record anyway.

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Youngjae

Today would be our last session. After this, I probably wouldn't have the chance to see her again except when I had to pick Jaehyun up at school. I've heard the others talking behind my back, calling me as 'Cloudy Youngjae' now. They thought I didn't hear any of that, but I did. And work wasn't helping. In fact, it's been adding weight to my burdened mind. Our recordings went on very slowly because we had to wait for Mark hyung part. At least we managed to record half the album for now, so we were hoping we could finish the rest quicker. I knew last time Jaebeom hyung treated us to the cafe because he probably asked noona to get some information behind my grumpy attitude. But tehy didn't know that she gave me a nice suggestion though.

"Okay, today will be our last session," she stated the obvious then continued with our lesson. I glanced at my watch, 10 more minutes and the session would be over.

"Wait, since today is our last session, that means after this, we're no longer teacher/apprentice anymore, aren't we?" I paused her lesson, making her raised her eyebrow, couldn't guess what I was about to say next to her. She nodded cautiously before letting me continue.

"Then, you don't have to use honorifics anymore. I've decided to drop it when I'm talking to you, so you do it as well. After all, you're older than me. I'll call you noona, but that's it," I spotted her phone was on the desk, so I grabbed it and held it in front of her. "Since we're no longer in a business relationship after this, I'd like to start another relationship with you, a friendship. So, unblock my number or you're not going out of this room until you unblock my number." For once I saw her squirm in her seat. Yeah, we all had temper alright. Aside from Bambam and Yugyeom, the rest of us had quite a temper. Though as the youngest one among the hot-headed hyungs, I rarely showed my angry face, that's why she was surprised when she saw my stern face. I didn't budge until she took the phone from my hand and did something with it. I checked whether she really unblocked me or not before letting her off the hook.

"Okay, good," I nodded in satisfaction when I found out that she really unblocked me. "Are you free next Saturday?"

She raised an eyebrow but still checked her schedule nonetheless then shook her head. "Good. Be ready at 10 AM. I'm picking you up. Wear something comfortable," I informed her.

"What are you trying to do now?" 

"Hanging out with my friend," I smiled softly before letting her off.

"I guess the sunshine is back," Jinyoung hyung teased me when he walked past my office and saw me all smiles after Hyebin had left. I rolled out my tongue but I wasn't offended at all with his teasing. Elle noona was right. The only way to keep her by my side was to start a new relationship, and not a business one.

[Don't forget, tomorrow 10AM] I texted her to remind her that we're going out tomorrow.

[Don't think of anything weird, Youngjae-ah]

[Yay! You dropped the honorifics]

[🙄 whatever]

I had a day off right on Saturday. No recording. No vocal training. No shooting. Nothing. I was too excited that I woke up a little bit too early, making Coco barked at me because I've been a busy body all morning, disturbing her sleep as well.

"Sorry, Coco-ah... Today I'm really excited... I'll be going out with her..." I took her paws and danced a bit with her, making her bark at me, all grumpy. I put her down and started to make some breakfast. I was waiting anxiously until it was time to drive to her house. I called her when I arrived at her building and asked her to meet me in the car. I brought her to an arcade place and surprisingly, she was okay with it. We enjoyed playing there for two hours and it was really fun.

"Oh wow, you're pretty good, noona," I was surprised to see that she was good at games.

"I'm a preschool teacher, of course I'm good at games. We do games everyday," she said nonchalantly.

"But not arcade games. Come on, let's play one more game. Whoever win get free lunch?" I offered.

"Okay, cool." I picked a shooting game. It was quite hard. I used up all my chances and only managed to get a small prize, while she managed to shot the grand prize on her third chance and got a huge bear as the prize.

"Okay, my treat then. What do you want to eat?" I asked her.

"Are you sure you're not losing on purpose?" she eyed me, totally suspicious that she could won against me. I raised both my hands in surrender.

"No, why do I have to lose on purpose? Everyone knows I like winning. You, on the other hand, totally deceive me. Who can guess that you're an expert in arcade games? Come on noona, what do you want to eat?" I repeated my question when we were in the car once again. She picked pizza. I was glad lady luck was at my side. Both the arcade and the pizza place were quiet, not a lot of people there so we could enjoy our times without having to worry about people spotting us.

"Thanks for going out with me today."

"Yeah, no problem," she shrugged indifferently.

"Wait, noona, you don't think that we're just going out for this once, do you?" I questioned her and saw her squirm again. She fiddled with the hem of her cardigan and looked down. "Noona," I called her so she looked back up at me.

"I don't know," she replied before shifting her gaze back down again.

"Well, we're not. Just so you know. Get used of me dragging you to hang out with me," I teased her before walking her back to her place.