Music Sounds Better With You (2Jae)

Chapter 5

JB goes out the door before me while I'm still standing there in shock. I snap out of it and try to catch up with him.

"Why did you do that?" I say, trying to be angry at the fact he just signed us up for a duet.

"Because I wanted to. And no way was I going to do it by myself, at least now I'll have to be the confident one on stage while you take the role of being the nervous wreck." He says this with a smirk but yet he still says it like it's nothing, like it was just a simple response. He continues to just look at the sheet music in his hand, he didn't even bother to tell me what song it is.

"That's really not cool," I say to him. I know it sounds lame but at the moment I didn't care, I just hoped he realized that he had no right to just sign me up like that. Especially when he knows I'm shy yet that's the main reason he wants me to sing with me, using me.

"Youngjae, you do know I'm kidding right? I just wanted to do this duet with you because I wanted to get to know you."

I hate how one minute he can be so mean, so cruel, and then the next minute he is so nice, sweet, and caring. The only thing I hate more than his changing personalities is that I like both sides of him so much.

"If you really don't want to do this duet with me then we can go talk to Mrs. Forte, I can get you out of it. I'm sorry for doing that." He lookes sad but understanding of it.

If he just told me that if I didn't want to the duet, then I don't have to, then I wouldn't have done it. But since he added, "with me", it made me rethink it.

"No, it's okay. I'll do it, but next time talk to me before you do anything involving me."

His face lit up and the whole situation just lost the whole sadness and sympatheticness to it. "Really? That's great! Come over to my place at around 6, we can work on it then."

He walked away. I kept the thought of his smile in my head, I would be lying if I didn't say it was contagious.

***

It's 5:59 and I am standing outside JB's door. I don't really have the courage to knock on the door.

I look down at my watch, not even a minute passed by. I took a deep breath, right when I was about knock on the door I felt hands on my shoulder.

I jump and spin around quickly. I look at the person who was standing in front of me. Auburn hair, dark eyes, and that annoying yet gorgeous smirk. It was JaeBum alright.

"Sorry, I just love doing that." he says. I don't respond still a little shocked at his appearance.

"Where were you?" I say.

"I had a few errands to run," he says. He opens the door and gestures for me to come inside.

His place looks just like mine, just reflected. He still had boxes all over the place, but seeing that he's only been here a few days, he was making good progress.

"I had to ask Mrs. Forte about the duet so I could get 2 sets of the music. One of us needs to play the piano for the song, or we can both do it, I think that's the best idea because if you played you would get flustered and if I played I would be too into looking at you and mess up the whole piece."

I was going to reply back to him with a saucy remark but then I fully heard what he said. He would mess up, thinking of me. I was stunned, flabbergasted. I didn't know what to say, which for me, isn't saying much I guess.

I blush and try to just shrug off his comment.

"Should we just start?" I ask him, he nods to me and walks over to his couch. He gestures for me to sit down next to him.