The Wedding Planner

Chapter 23

Tuesday 3:00 at 'Lovely Bakery'

"This cake looks good" Naeun was looking at strawberry cake with thick white frosting and pink roses as the decoration.

"It has roses as well, but we must look at the other cakes and compare them and see which one is the best one" Mrs. Son said.

"I agree with that" I said and wrote down more of the cake choices on my clipboard.

"So, Naeunie, make a choice, Chocolate, Vanilla, or the Strawberry you saw a while ago?" Mrs. Son asked and Naeun made a choice. "I like the strawberry one" Naeun said and I checked the strawberry cake on my clipboard.

"Good choice" Mrs. Son said "now we need to get the top part of the cake, which is a small figure of you and Jimin on top".

I suddenly dropped my pen at the mention of Jimin's name.

"Just so you know, I don't love nor like Naeun because you still exist"

"Chorong? Cho~rong? Hello?" Naeun waved her hand in front of my face until I snapped back to my senses. "Are you alright?" Naeun asked.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine" I shook my head "I'll just inform the baker of what cake Naeun wants". I left them and went to the baker who was a close friend of mine back in college.

"Chorong-ssi, may I speak with you first?" Naeun's small hand landed on my sleeve as she gently tugged on it. "What is it?" I asked, and she looked around as if she were looking around if the coast was clear.

"It's about Jimin, The wedding is in less than five days and I haven't seen him around lately. He's my soon-to-be husband, I'm worried" Naeun's eyes were filled with worry that it made me pity those bright eyes.

"Don't worry, I'll try to contact him and call his friends to reach him. I'm sure he'll be back for the wedding and for – " I didn't want to finish my own sentence " – you".

Naeun smiled "Thank you Chorong-ssi".

After a while, when everyone left the bakery, I called Taehyung to ask if Jimin was with him back in the studio. But, I didn't get the reply I wanted and hoped for.

"I haven't seen him for two days, I thought he was with you or something"

"WHAT?! You haven't seen him for two days?! Can you call him?" I began to panic, my breathing increased as it turned into gasping for air.

"Chorong, calm down, no panic attacks. The wedding is getting closer" Taehyung reminded me as if he was right next to me and could see how worried and panicked I was.

"I'll do what I can but you better take care of yourself okay?"

"I know, Thanks Tae" I hung up and stared at my phone. Should I just call him? No, if Tae can't reach him then I can't either, but then, I'll never know unless I try. Ugh, this is very stressful.

I let out a depressed and tired sigh, I searched for his number in my contacts. Hesitantly, I pressed call and held the phone against my ear. Even though I need him to answer the phone, I don't want to talk to him yet, just not yet.

After a while, I waited for an answer and just as I was about to give up and hang up, he answered.

"Hello?" his voice sounded so depressed, my heart was aching even when it shouldn't.

"Jimin? You- you- a-a-are y-y-you a-a-alright?" I kept stuttering out of nervousness. It was annoying me, I wanted to shut myself up, and keep myself from doing anymore stupid things.