Only Chaeryeong

Part 23: Chaeryeong's Birthday

Lillian's perspective:
Yesterday, I had spent a lot of time getting everything ready to make sure Chaeryeong's birthday is perfect. Well, as perfect as it can be. I don't believe in perfection, I think everything has at least one flaw. Even if something was considered "flawless", it still has a flaw of not being able to get better. I had plopped myself into bed, clearly tired from making sure everything was alright, especially since my twin brother, Tashi, was coming over. Chaeryeong heard me plop into bed and got kinda worried, so she had sat down next to me.

"Lillian, honey, what's wrong?" Chaeryeong asked with a concerning voice. It was nice to know she cares about me.

"I'm tired." I replied. "I've been making sure everything goes as close to perfect as things can get for tomorrow, work today was hard, and my twin brother, Tashi, is coming over in three days."

"Oh... I'm sorry. Is there anything I can do?" Chaeryeong asked again. I shook my head as I didn't want her to do anything, but she knew that my back was stiff and had decided to massage it. Almost immediately, my back popped in a part where it was stiff. "Does that feel better?"

"Yes..." I admitted. Chaeryeong smiled.

"You know, you don't have to lie to me about anything, I don't mind taking care of you!"

"Sorry." I apologized. "I just don' want you to be too exhausted for tomorrow."

"It's fine. I understand." Chaeryeong replied. "Would you like me to continue massaging your back?"

Strangely, Chaeryeong was very good at massaging, I never knew that before. I nodded my head, letting her know that I was okay with her massaging my back. She had removed my shirt and unhooked my bra, completely revealing my back so she can see where I was feeling stiff at. After just a few minutes, I had felt a lot better.

"Thank you." I mumbled. Chaeryeong smiled and nodded. Chaeryeong was about to put the clothing she removed back on me before I threw them to the side, signaling that I didn't want to wear them right now since I was comfortable without them. I could tell that Chaeryeong was blushing intensely.

Chaeryeong had laid down next to me, and was staring at me.

"You're really pretty, you know that, right?" Chaeryeong complimented. I was the one blushing now.

"Thanks, but you're prettier." I winked back at her.

"Lillian... can I ask you something?" Chaeryeong asked.

"Of course my dear, you can talk to me or ask me about anything!" I replied.

"So, I've been watching your older videos lately, before the videos that I had started wondering, and you never mentioned anything about vocal training or classes you took for vocals, or anything like that. Why is that?" Chaeryeong asked again curiously. I took a deep sigh and thought about it for a second, as I was never really clear why I never me mentioned those kinds of things.

"Well." I started. "For the most part, I'm self taught in terms of singing. I took advice of tips given to the contestants of Korean singers in K-drama that I watched like K-pop Star, but I never really took any classes."

Chaeryeong I could tell gaped in awe.

"So you're telling me, that you didn't have a teacher?" Chaeryeong replied. I shook my head. "Also, you never told me you watched K-pop Star!"

"Well, I did!" I laughed. "You were adorable back then as well!"

Chaeryeong's face was red.

"I have another question." Chaeryeong brought up. I could tell this was going to be a more serious and important question.