Ex-Idol's Role Afterwards

Chapter 7: Lending a Hand

Friday morning, Taejin checked out his clothes. Wearing a black and blue vertical striped dress shirt atypical to his white-colored ones, he also wore matching dark navy pants that cut neatly to his ankle. Pulling back his hair, he turned his head and stared at his face. Lots of people, when looking at their reflection would not want to look twice. Taejin felt similarly, however, he's disassociated his face from his own body after being an idol and seeing himself so much that he can only look at his face objectively. Anyone who had complaints with his face was not the typical person. Taejin breathed out and then left, leaving the apartment quietly in order to not disturb his mother who was still sleeping.

The blue tinted view of the world occurred in the mornings. The cloudy dark blue sky that started to part slightly was cool. Taejin rubbed his hands together before checking his phone. The views today slowed down. Perhaps around 600 new views, it seemed to be reaching its peak. As he walked to his workplace, he wondered what song he would like to sing in the future. Taking one of his earbuds, he pushed in into his ear as he swiped on the screen of his phone before tapping a few times. Then, he could hear music.

Getting a gist of the song, he tapped and skipped the song. Adding the new pop songs he found interesting, he also included a few older songs. Supposedly, Taejin's voice was good at emotional songs. He then thought back to his group. It felt like the typical male idol group where they were decorated as kind and playful, like a group of handsome guys who happen to be friends, and sung electronic pop songs about love. The concepts fell into that attempted chic yet attainable relationship type. Everything was so ordinary, yet Taejin though that they could do it because everyone was unique and stood out. However, they just never got there. So, this sudden epiphany of his, wanting to sing and be known for it, became important. His drive to be better than a college graduate was both draining and idiotic, became slightly less important as he found himself another way to prove himself. A second chance of sort, he wants to prove himself as a person that deserves to be here on Earth.

His phone buzzed and he saw a text message from Yuseom.

"Hey... I have a huge assignment for my finals. Wondering if you could help... maybe? I have to make a short film and I thought about having you in for a few shots. And maybe a line or two? Or three or something like that, I haven't finished the script completely but it will be done and checked over by noon. It's for a class assignment, so at most my class is going to see it. If you don't want to, I won't be forcing you."

Taejin, who didn't mind things like those, even though he wasn't an exceptional actor, he could portray basic emotions sufficiently and the most important part was that he was extremely attractive. A classic face that felt like it's been done before, yet was extremely unique in a charismatic manner, it was slightly old-fashioned, however that made his face more attractive. A lowering of his eyebrows and a slight pout, even though it wouldn't be extremely convincing, it would however be considered handsome. However, he was 33. Yuseom was 23, and he wouldn't doubt that others in his film would be even younger than him.

A concern that bugged him as being the old man out, he however wrote a reply.

"I could do that. When?"

Not getting a reply after a while, he was about to put his phone away, but he then got a message.

"Well... as soon as possible would be nice. But thst's not really good considering that you're preparing for the busking for Monday and you work and stuff. So, my short film is about a young college student who finds herself consumed by love for a senior she admires. I wanted you to be the senior. I need scenes with you and the protagonist. I managed to talk my way to getting a famous alumni who does plays and stuff, and she's available this afternoon and tomorrow morning. I know it's a lot to ask on such short notice, but I just can picture the two of you perfectly for this role. The other guy I recruited suddenly became busy shooting for his first major show and couldn't make it. So... are you sure?"