Adulthood is difficult but it became easier when I met you. Not totally easy but easier.
Well, it was easier until it wasn't anymore because dating an idol cannot be easy, right? And it is certainly not easier when you are yourself an actress.
My...
Seoul is as busy as always. Some people are busy running to catch the metro and others use the horn of their car to express their anger towards the traffic. The ajummas are screaming: "One hottoek for 2500 won. Two for 4000"
"Tteokbokki! Tteokbokki! Who wants tteokbokki?".
Kids are running to the gate of their school if they are late the teacher will be on their back and it's too early for that.
In the crowd of people, everyone seems the same but still one thing can be noticed: a group of people shouting and flashes illumining the early sky. Some people stop to see what the commotion is all about but with all the flashes they can only distinguish a small figure trying to cross through the mass of reporters.
"Miss Jung is true you are in a relationship with actor Park Seo Jun?" screams one. "Miss Jung, are you confirming the rumors that say you are pregnant? Are you pregnant?" "When is your next drama coming?". A flood of questions is bombarding the apparently Miss Jung who is now running to escape the reporters.
People started to recognize the person at the origin of the noise, and they also tried to join the group of screaming men and women.
"Who is that? What's all of that about?" asks one ajumma clearly annoyed that the customers aren't coming to her stand but to the group of people.
"That's Jung Izzy," responds another woman.
"Who?"
"Ah you know the actress, the one who played in this drama. You know the one your daughter always talks about."
"Ah, yes Never something," says the ajumma while drying her hands on her pants.
"Yes, this one" acquiesce the other one.
"She is a big sensation," the middle-aged woman continues. She slowly approaches the first ajumma to whisper into her ear "I heard she is having an affair with a married man". A gasp is heard, and they glance back at the small figure throwing a disgusted look at the crowd.
Izzy doesn't know where to go. She is encircled by flashes and screams. Fucking dispatch, the one time she decides to leave the comfort of her home she is trapped by these vultures. Next time she will not ditch her security detail because while it is annoying to be followed by 4 giants all day long that's better than having Dispatch following you, ready to make you their own personal headline of the day.
She looks around her to find an escape and she found it in the form of a luxury hotel's entrance; that was her chance to make a run for it and she took it.
Izzy's pov
I am now running to escape the crowd of reporters and fans, it's too early for this, it's freaking 6 am. I arrive at the entrance of the hotel running past the security guards who seem to recognize me and block the reporter outside, I finally have some luck.
I think I will stay here the time everything calms down, renting a room is the best option for now. I will deal with the bad press later; I can already see the next headline of Distrash "Actress Jung Izzy see in a hotel! Is she there to meet her lover?" "Female lead of drama Nevertheless seen in a luxury hotel, happy news soon?".
"Hello, is it possible to take a room for a d-"
"Oh, I'm so curious, yeaaaahhhh,"
"Shit, sorry, one minute please," I say to the front desk lady. The tune of Sherlock by SHINee is still blasting while I search for my phone. And of course, the dumb thing is at the bottom of the bottom of my bag. I finally find it when the second chorus is nearly finished. I see the contact and slowly go where nobody can hear my discussion.
"Jung Hoseok, you just embarrassed me," is the first thing that goes out of my mouth the second I accept the call.
"What? I only called you once this week and this is how you talk to me you ungrateful brat," says my dear cousin. Yes, the J-hope of BTS is my cousin, but this annoying gremlin is more of a pain in my ass than anything else. I do love him; I do but that's when he doesn't change my soft commercial unoriginal ringtone to a music louder than a screaming toddler throwing a tantrum because I refused to buy him a lollypop after he already had five of those. Sorry, out of subject.
"Changing my ringtone is nothing?" I say "Yes, take it easy, Izzy," this dumbass began laughing at his own joke, "Anyways I saw on Twitter that you are stuck in the Haneul Hotel and fate is that I am currently doing a photo shoot with V in this hotel so if you want you can join us."
I have known Taehyung for a while now after all we debuted acting together in Hwarang back in 2016. He was so kind and sweet to me back then (and still is). Since then, we have been friends, and the fact that I also often start in drama with one of his Hwarang Hyung helps with that (he drops by when he has time). I like to think that he is one of my closest friends with the Hwarang oppas (his Hyung, my oppas)
"And you plan to tell Taehyung that during the last 5 years, I have been consciously leaving out the fact that I am the cousin of one of his best friends or the fact that YOU left out during the, how many years again, 8 years of friendship that your cousin is an actress, and that that cousin is his friend," I exclaim. I should have told him, me and that stupid << I don't want to be known as J-hope's cousin>> be damned. I don't want Taehyung to think I am making fun of him or anything like that.
"About that..." I can hear Hoseok taking a small breath before finishing "he knows."
"Ah okay, he knows, that's great. Wait. What? HE KNOWS?" I am screaming, fuming, "How does he know? Since when? When did you tell him? Why didn't you tell me?" sentences are fusing out of my mouth faster than Jin's angry raping.
"Wait," He stops me before I can continue my rant "Come and I will explain it to you. We are in room 1609," he says.
"Okay, coming. Bye" As soon as I finish my sentence, I cut the call short without letting him utter another word and go to take the elevator. I have an explanation to get and a cousin to kill.
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Hello there,
As promised here is the first chapter and the next one will either be posted this week or next week.
Have a nice day,
Love,
Ndiff
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