a little crazy | winrina

- 3

The filming picks up after Jaemin's arrival. Minjeong always been overwhelmingly ambivalent about movies, so watching one come together in front of her is a whole new, fascinating experience. She never realized just how much work goes into every scene, let alone the whole film. Make-up is fixed almost every five minutes it seems, touched up between takes, which can range from two to twenty per scene.

Minjeong just stands on the side and watches the bustle around her. Compared to now, the first week seems like a vacation.

The crew's dismissed at noon for lunch, and Minjeong's on the way to her car when she walks past Jimin and a group of the other actors.

"Oh, Minjeong!" Jimin calls, waving her over. "Come to lunch with us? You know the restaurants around here better than we do."

Minjeong bites the corner of her lips while she thinks. On one hand, she's sure lunch with so many celebrities is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for a nobody like her, but on the other, she was really looking forward to it on her own.

"Please?" Jimin tries again, pouting just a little.

"Fine, fine." Minjeong concedes, walking up to the group. "Where were you guys thinking of eating?"

Jaemin, who Minjeong hadn't noticed in the group before, speaks up. "We weren't sure, actually. This is the first time a lot of us have been to here. We were hoping you had a suggestion."

Minjeong looks around the group, noting that most of the cast is with them. "Well, I might know someplace that could fit us all without having to wait for a table..."

She takes them to Grill House. The rest of the group looks around the room in wonder, eyeing the long wooden tables in the main hall and the electronic sign counting down the days.

"What is this place?" Someone mutters, in some mixture of confusion and awe, and Minjeong realizes for the first time that these types are probably more used to fancy restaurants.

"Grill House." Minjeong answers. "It's like barbecue food. And beer. Lots of beer." Most of the group turns to her aghast, and Minjeong wonders briefly, wherever these people are from, has a problem with beer.

"What do you recommend?" Jimin asks, drawing everyone's attention to her. "Beer, I mean. What kind of beer to do you recommend here?"

"Since when did you like beer?" Jaemin whispers in Jimin's ear, still loud enough for Minjeong to catch it over the dull roar of the restaurant, but Jimin just keeps eye contact with Minjeong, smiling.

"The lager is always a good choice." Minjeong says, ignoring Jaemin comment and grinning to match Jimin. "But I'm partial to their Hefeweizen."

Jimin smile grows. "Then let's sit down. I want to try this Hefewiezen of theirs." Lunch isn't actually as bad as the cast obviously worried it might be. Once they get over the initial culture shock, Minjeong has them trying the beers, and it doesn't take long for them to start singing along to the in-house band, even if none of them know the lyrics, or the tune.

Jimin keeps next to Minjeong the whole time, foregoing the singing endeavor to stay at the table and play with Minjeong's fingers as they drum on the table.

"What are you doing?" Minjeong asks, keeping an eye on the cast up at the front. It wouldn't do for one of them to get into trouble and have it come back to her for bringing them here, even if she adamantly believes no one should get in trouble for enjoying beers. Maybe she should bring the directors sometime, too.

"Flirting with you." Jimin replies lightly, walking her fingers up Minjeong's arm and tugging on her shirt sleeve.

"Oh, we're starting already?" Jimin giggles, dragging her hand back down to play with Minjeong's fingers again. "I started when you got hired. You're just oblivious."