knight in amor | na jaemin

The morning after

She groaned as she woke to the sound of an alarm ringing beside her but she was too tired to do anything more than swivel around in her position in protest, waking Jeno up in the process.

He rubbed his eyes as he sat up, the arm that was under Yeseul completely numb of any sensation. He reached over to the nightstand on her side to look at the phone. Without reading the caller ID or checking who's phone it was, the tired boy answered the call, falling back into the position he was previously in

"Hello" he mumbled with a morning voice, clearing his throat after

"Is Yeseul there?" The voice asked and he looked to the girl sleeping beside her

"Yeah...one sec" he mumbled

"Put it on speaker" Jeyi ordered through the phone and he did so, too tired to not oblige.

"Ah" Yeseul shouted as she sat up unexpectedly, listening to the shouting coming out to the phone with Jeno had just put on speaker. It shook them both awake at the vulgar speech coming out from the other line on the phone

"Jesus christ Jeyi what the hell?!" She groaned as she heard Jeyi shout infinite strings of curse words with Jungwoo snickering in the back

"WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?!"

"At....what's your name again?" She mumbled as a joke and Jeno raised his eyebrows in shock before chuckling

"Guess I fucked you too hard...Jeno" he said and she sheepishly looked away with the red flush on her cheeks as she covered her top naked half more tightly with the blanket

"I'm at Jeno's place, I'll come over soon" She said

"Who's Jeno?" She asked and Yeseul looked over her shoulder to watch him put his clothes on

"A really hot guy that drives a motorcycle" she said and Jungwoo and Jeyi cheered on the other end of the phone making her and Jeno exchange smiles at each other

"Nice nice~ damn girl you did a good-"

"He's also the son of my boss"

"OKAY BAD BAD BAD BAD! BAD GIRL! DASHI RUN RIGHT NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN!" Jeyi shouted through the phone making Jeno laugh a hearty laugh

"I'm hanging up" she said

"Wait wait! Before you go, you have a meeting at SM at 2pm" She said

"Oh shit yeah, thanks" Yeseul said, ending the call as she looked at the time.

"We still got loads of time before 2, wanna grab some lunch?" He asked and she nodded slowly

"I'll drop you off at the company, i need to go in anyway" he said

"Thanks but...it's my first meeting and i get to meet the team...I don't think being at the back of your bike would...help me in any shape or form" she said

"Fine, at least let me drop you off a few blocks away" he said and she sighed

"Okay but I'm only agreeing because I don't have a car" she said

"You don't have a car?" He asked

"Well i did but....it got towed away" she said with a sad smile

"I'll miss her, honda civic"

"That car is gross"

"You're gross"

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Jeno had dropped her off a few blocks away from the company as promised after the had got lunch together at a cafe near his apartment. They both continued to talk about things that they went through in past relationships, him saying he wasn't ready to commit himself to a stable one and herself saying that she wasn't over the last person she was seeing either. Jeno had no idea who she was or who she was talking about until he looked her up on instagram as he sat inside his dad's office waiting for him to come in.

His eyes immediately widened as he saw that she was mutual friends with Renjun and Jaemin, knowing that they didn't follow just anyone. He clicked onto Jaemin's name seeing one of his recent pictures, the picture him and Yeseul took before they last talked to each other.

"Shit" he mumbled as he clicked on the user name that was tagged at the photo, leading him back to her account. He figured that she hadn't know him or recognised him, or maybe she did but he didn't want to jump to any conclusions. He was planning to ask her first before doing or saying anything further.

Yeseul sat at the office chair, fighting the urge to spin the wheel around in circles as she listened to one of the dance team managers give a presentation on their schedules.

"Zhong Yeseul, you'll be lead dance for Kai at his performances-"

"Wait...like THE Kai?" She said and the girls on her team giggled at her surprise

"You do realise we're in THE SM building right?" Arin said from beside her, a girl she had grown close to from the dance team.

"Right" she said sheepishly as the team shared a laugh with the managers

"Right, so that and about 6 of you will be æspa's backups as well for award show performances, the transport, food, and hotel rooms if necessary will all be paid for. Anything you guys buy for exercise or training can be reimbursed by the company so please hold onto your receipts" the manager said with a smile as the powerpoint ended and the team clapped their hands in appreciation

"Ugh...looks like I'm gonna have to quit my day job" Naeun said with a pout

"Where do you work?" Yeseul asked, sipping from her bottle

"At this small fried chicken restaurant, family owned" She said and Yeseul smiled at her.

"I'm so happy we all got picked for the team" Alexa said

The dance group was named 9ine and it consisted of 9 girls who swap in and out in units of members to suit the backup dance needs for every idol. There was an equivalent group being put in place for the boys in the company as well and she was considering encouraging Jisung to join.

"So the group did a vote earlier today before you came and we all think that you would be the best leader for the group" Alexa said and the girls nodded with a smile as they looked to Yeseul

"W-why...i mean...there's probably a much better option-"

"You're really easy to talk to especially about problems and you're really good at getting your point across, you have leader qualities. Plus you're not in college so you probably will have the free time to do those board meetings with the company" Arin reasoned with her

Being a leader meant that she had to keep tabs on her group at all time, communicate with their two managers, argue for the team at board meetings, meet managers of other groups and idols, sometimes even the idols themselves since she would most likely be picked for main dancer positions.

"Umm" was all she could say as a smile landed on her face, this could be really good for her in terms of recognition if she ever wanted to advance in the dance industry, or any entertainment industry at all.

"I'll do it"

Things were finally looking up for her.