Hidden Mask

Melting

"Is something wrong?" Kris's voice startled Jessica back into the present day. He was staring at her, his soft dark brown eyes looking into her teary eyed ones, slightly confused. Why did he have to look at her like that? She tried to blink away the tears quickly and turned around, facing away from him.

"Nothing. Everything's fine, I'm just glad my vacation has started now...Nice working with you Kris." She turned back towards him and bowed her head lightly before walking back to her dressing room. He was saying something, but she didn't pay attention to it. She wanted to be by herself for now. Once back in her dressing room, she changed back to her street clothes and removed the heavy makeup required for the photoshoot. She made sure her eyes were dry before she applied some natural makeup. Sica made sure no one was in the hallway before she left the dressing room and made her way out of the building, putting on her black Blanc sunglasses before walking to the parking lot. Her manager had parked the car after he had dropped her off, but where was it parked...? Oh! There it was! Sica smiled as she saw her red BMW parked near the back. She unlocked her car before going in and driving home.

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As soon as she arrived home, she noticed something was missing. What was it? She shrugged and hummed quietly to herself as she closed her apartment door and locked it. Sica would probably remember later anyways.

"Aish. what to eat? I'm starving!" Sica pouted as she stepped into the kitchen. She wasn't a great cook so she had a very limited menu on what to eat.

"Hmm..." Out of habit, she went to rub the ring on her left middle finger. Whenever she was nervous, or just needed to think, she rubbed the ring and it somehow made her feel more confident and gave her lots of ideas. But...where was it? She looked down at her hand and noticed it wasn't there. Oh no...she couldn't have lost that ring! That ring had been with her ever since she was a trainee, it was that ring that gave her the confidence to not give up and debut with Girls' Generation. It was still with her on the day that she was kicked out of SNSD....it was like her only friend...the only person that did not leave her alone when everyone else did. And now it was missing...she felt herself tearing up quickly at the thought that she would never see her precious ring again. After looking everywhere around her apartment, she just could not find it. With a heavy sigh, she plopped down on her leather couch and closed her eyes as she calmed herself down. Where? Where could it have gone...? Wait...the photoshoot. During the photoshoot she had taken the ring off and set it down on a chair. She had not wanted to be accused of advertising the ring so she had taken it off...and she totally forgot to put it back on. Aish. Sica facepalmed before gathering her purse and rushing out the door. She wasn't capable of driving right now, so she hailed down a taxi instead. WIth a cap on her head and her hair down, she hoped the taxi driver would not recognize her as she told him the direction to the photoshoot building. Once the taxi arrived, she paid him before getting out and briskly walking inside the building. It was almost midnight and the building was almost empty, with the exception of the cleaning people. After turning a few wrong corners, Jessica found herself back in the photoshoot area from earlier that day. There was one light on in the whole room and she could hear something..a ghost? She shivered at the thought but her stubborness to find her ring gave her the courage to walk towards the light. As she walked closer she noticed that someone was singing.. a deep soft voice that resonated around the huge room. She finally spotted someone sitting with their back to her as she quietly stood a few feet behind that person, not wanting to disturb the beautiful voice. With a final long note, the singer, a male, finished and sat there catching his breath.

"Great job" Sica broke the silence. The person must've been startled since he quickly stood up from his seat and turned to face her. Oh..it was Kris. What was he still doing here?

"Since when were you here? And what are you doing here?" Kris gave her an emotionless face and stared her down. His tone implied that he was not happy to see someone. Sheesh, so rude and demanding.

"I just came here to look for something, sorry for bothering you. I'll just quickly take a look around before I leave" Jessica stared back at him, her voice matching his tone. Without waiting for his response she walked up to the chair that Kris had been sitting on and patted it around with her hand, expecting to find her ring. It wasn't there..but it had to be! There was no other chair, and this was definitely where she had set her ring down. Panicked, she bent down and started searching crawling on the floor. She didn't care what Kris was thinking, just as long as she found her ring.

"Looking for this?" A pair of feet appeared before her eyes and she looked up. Kris was standing right in front of her, with her ring dangling between his thumb and forefinger. She quickly stood up and took it from him, slipping it back onto her finger.

"Thank you" Was all she could mutter. They both stood there silently, without looking at each other. Sica played with the ring on her finger, happy that she got it back. Kris finally broke the silence after a few minutes.

"SM really sucks, don't they?" Kris chuckled, surprising Jessica. She didn't know how to respond so she just nodded and gave him a small smile.

"No wonder you're seen as the Ice Princes...you're attitude and face give off that aura" he stopped laughing after she didn't respond back. Well that made her mad. Who was he to judge?

"Don't say anything if you don't know me. And you don't, so please be quiet. Also, you should watch what you say since you have the same cold attitude" Sica glared at him. Kris seemed shocked after hearing her response, but then he just smiled.

"Well then, I guess we have something in common other than leaving behind the same company. Our bitchy faces." Sica couldn't help but laugh at that last part. It was true, she did have a bitchy face at times.

"Sorry for my short responses, I just had a bad day, that's all" Jessica sighed and sat down on the chair.

"Want to tell me about it? Did I take part in making your day a bad one?" Kris leaned against the wall to her right and crossed his arms, the corner of his lips turning up into a playful smile.

"You were a huge part it." Sica joked and grinned as he pretended to be offended.

"Please, I was probably the one who made it a whole lot better" He motioned towards her ring and raised an eyebrow.

"You wish" Sica laughed and rubbed her ring, feeling a bit nervous. Should she really tell him everything? About her feelings from snsd? Why not? She had nothing to lose...and somehow she felt that she could trust him.

"So here's my story Galaxy Boy" Taking a big breath, Sica looked at Kris as she told him all that she had kept inside her head since her departure from snsd.