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Chapter 4

Dara crossed her arms over her chest as the filming resumed with Jiyong talking about his life as a high school student. He was mostly sticking to the general idea, never really specific. He had pointed to the music room as where he spends most of his leisure time, obviously.

"Music has always been my escape," Jiyong was saying to the camera as he stood near the music room. "And this is my refuge." He grinned. "My friends help me a lot in building my dreams and... at the time when I thought it was impossible, they encouraged me." He smiled charmingly at the camera as he waved a finger in front of it. "You can reach your dreams if you have your friends feeding you those flattering lies."

Dara rolled her eyes at his attempt to sound funny when it's not amusing at all. Eventhough he earned chuckles from the crew and the director. Janey had outright laughed, covering her mouth to smother it. It wasn't that funny, geez.

The director called for a cut striding over to Jiyong for suggestions or instructions while Janey walked over to her. "What's the next location after this?"

"Gyeongju," Dara answered. "Jiyong's hometown." Typical of Janey not to read the script or even at least to know which locations they were supposed to go. Hell, Dara had done all of her job!

"Was his mom already contacted that we are going to film inside their home?"

Dara gave her a wry look. "Jennie had already contacted Mrs. Kwon for confirmation and don't you think Kwon Jiyong didn't inform his mom about that?" Use your brain for once.

"Just checking that we got everything covered," Janey said snottily.

"Yeah we do," Dara said then muttered. "It's your common sense we need to touch base on."

"What?" Janey glared at her even if she barely heard what Dara said. She just assumed what Dara said is something bad about her. Which is really the truth anyway.

Dara gave her a sickeningly sweet smile. "Nothing. I just said we need to touch base with your common sense since it's always filled too much with nothing." Giving her one last smile, she pirouetted causing her hair to hit Janey's face and sashayed over to the scriptwriter.

"Ya!" Janey called out to her looking like she wanted to attack Dara but the director called her attention. Janey could only give her a deadly glare, which Dara made an obvious point of ignoring, before walking over to the director.

After a couple of minutes of briefing Jiyong, the filiming continued, this time inside the music room. Dara could hardly believe this is the same music room she always barges in during high school. The room is now filled with high tech equipment with computers, sound systems, amplifiers, anything that has to do with music. She could see that the small room before had been extended to make room for all equipments.

"Woah, it's like a studio already," Jennie murmured. "And look. Everything is sponsored by Kwon Jiyong."

Sure enough, his name was written on a plaque inside a glass cabinet. Wait. Not just one plaque but actually almost all of the plaques stored inside it. Dara returned her gaze to Jiyong who was smiling at the camera as he talked and motioning on an old electronic piano keyboard that is at the corner along with some other old equipments.

She recognized that one.

"I used to play this a lot during high school with my girlfr...." He briefly glanced at her before clearing his throat and continuing. "With the girl I was dating then and...." He smiled again. "All the songs I had actually made in highschool were for her."

"Awww," came the quiet muttered voices of the staff and even Janey.

"That's sweet," Jennie, who was standing beside her, said quietly. "He must've been a really sweet boyfriend. How come my high school doesn't have guys like him?"