signed | choi seungcheol

➢two

-Jiyeon-

I sighed and looked at my phone, debating on whether I should tell Jinhwa as my thumb hovered over the screen. Finally I made my decision and pressed the call button on my contacts.

"Hey." I whispered, a bit unsure about how I was supposed to structure this conversation.

"Yeonie, what's wrong?" he whispered back, worried something might've happened.

"I don't know what to do." I said, I was about to continue when my mother walked in, "Uh, okay um got it. Thanks." I mumbled as I hung up and acted like it was nothing that she needed to know.

"Are you still looking for a job?" my mother asked as she closed the door behind her and walked up to me, sitting down on the floor.

"Yeah." I lied, "I feel like I should continue looking for one."

"Did Jinhwa find one for you?"

"No but he says he's still looking." I smiled trying to hid the truth. Suddenly my phone rang violently, "Wait a minute mom." I smiled as I picked it up and quickly walked out of the room.

"Jinhwa, I'll tell you later."

"Um, excuse me miss." a different voice replied. It was a deeper voice and much more formal even though the speaker seemed to be older than me.

"Oh, jwesong. I thought you were my friend."

"It's okay, we have a little matter to discuss."

"May I ask who you are?" I asked the man.

"I am Pledis' CEO Han Sungsoo." he mumbled into the phone. A bit anxious, I looked around out of habit before replying.

"Oh, annyeonghaseyo nice to meet you." I said politely, bowing a little even though he couldn't see what I was doing.

"I am calling you to discuss matters about Seungcheol and the marriage contract."

"Oh yes." I coughed lightly, feeling kind of awkward.

"If someone was to see you on a date-"

I choked on my own spit, "Uh um." I coughed much more violently than the previous one, "Please continue." I said although I really didn't want him to.

"As I was saying, if someone was to see you guys on a date together we will have to come up with something to stop a scandal, I know many fans understand but let's just say someone starts a wreck we have to prevent it. But we can't prevent it, what we could do is allow the media to understand what you guys are going through."

"Okay." I nodded to myself although it wasn't okay. I was basically going to expose myself to the public and get attacked by people online.

"So when you guys go out be careful, let's keep this story quiet for now. Since you are now placed with Seungcheol we've decided you could visit him at work sometime and meet his bandmates and see what he does."

"Sure." I mumbled, playing with my fingers, "Is that all, because if you excuse me, my mother is expecting me."

"That is all, thank you." he said as I hung up without a word and rolled my eyes as I trudged back to my room like a zombie. I entered my room and sat down in front of my mother.

"That wasn't Jinhwa was it?" she asked.

"No, the CEO of Pledis just wanted to tell me somethings about the dating and all and how I should be careful." I faked a smile.

"Yes, you should be careful. There are some reckless people who can be very crazy."

"Yes, mother I know."

"I know this is hard and all but you will get use to it. Thank you for helping me out, helping yourself out, we could survive well if this continues."

"When are we receiving pay," I asked as my mother sighed and shook her head, "Probably in about a month or less. If we don't pay by the end of the month, we could lose this place but the money should make up for it. I'm sure the landlady wouldn't mind."

I nodded a little and hugged my mom as she hugged me back, "Let's continue saving money so we could do other things for fun sometime. We could go shopping together and have lunch at a fancy place together."

"Of course," my mother smiled as we pulled away, "Anything for my precious baby."

I was about to say something when my phone rang, "Oh," I looked at the contact name, "It's Jinhwa." I picked up and ran out of the room again.

"Yah, why didn't you pick up before? Why did you hang up on me?"

"Mianhe, my mother came in, and then I received another call."

"Oh so what is it you wanted to tell me?"

I breathe in and breathe out as I started my rant about what happened within just three hours. I talked so quickly I almost couldn't understand what I was saying but Jinhwa caught it all. As expected of a sharp man like him.

"Oh, jinjja?" I heard him sigh and then there is a pause before he asked the question I didn't want to deal with at all, "Does that me we have to break up?"

"No," I whispered, "We could still be together secretly. No one would know if our dates didn't seem like we were dating just really close friends. We can't kiss in public or else someone will know. I'll do my best to worm out of this deal some how along with keeping my mother happy. Jinhwa?"

"Yes?"

"Remember, I love you so don't leave me alone to deal with this." I told him, pouting a little at the empty feeling I felt as I spoke the words.

"Are you sure you don't want to tell your mother?"

"No, she's really happy right now and I don't want to make my own day worse."

"Arrasseo, go back and talk to your mom."

"Nae." I smiled as I hung up. I walked back in and acted like I wasn't so happy.

"Did Jinhwa find a job yet?"

"Ani, he just told me he will have to look for other jobs. I might just end up being a janitor again. That was the worse experience ever."

"Gwenchana, we could still live for a month right?" she asked.

I nod and smiled, "Eomma, do you want to go out tomorrow perhaps."

"Ah," she sighed, "Mian, you have a date with Seungcheol for basically the whole day. Sorry, I can't, they want you to spend lunch to dinner with him." [play TRACK 2]

I acted calm on the outside but on the inside I was going crazy.

No.

Tomorrow already?

Lunch to dinner?

I mentally held my head as my thoughts jumbled into chaos. In panic, I felt my heart run in place as I bit my lip, stopping myself from letting out a scream.

I just signed the contract TODAY! And then I have a date TOMORROW?