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04

Jinae

I probably fell asleep at around one in the morning, which is pretty early for me, but Daehyun and Eunkyung fell asleep at like midnight. I guess it's good, though, that I got more sleep than usual. I mean, I am meeting new people today.

I wake up sometime around seven and I go straight to the kitchen for tea. Eunkyung is still sleeping on my bed and Daehyun is just barely waking up on the couch when I walk by.

"Good morning, Daehyun-ah," I say quietly, offering him a cup of tea. He greets me and accepts the cup. We talk for a little while until Eunkyung walks into the room looking like a zombie. 

Her hair is sticking up in every direction and her eyes are almost completely closed. Her pajamas are super wrinkled and her short hair is sticking to her face where she drooled.

"Your phone keeps going off," she says with a deeper tone than usual from just waking up. "I can't sleep with it going off."

I hold my hand out and she walks it over to me. She sits down between Daehyun and I and grabs Daehyun's tea out of his hands and starts drinking it. She closes her eyes and curls her legs underneath her while I check my phone.

Misun: Jinae-ssi! Are you still coming with us today??
Misun: Jinae-ssi!!
Misun: We're going to the bookstore first!!
Misun: Jinae-ssi~ I need to know if you're going to be there!
Me: Misun, yes I'm coming with you today. What all are we doing so I know what I need to wear and what I need to bring with me.

I turn my screen off and look over at Daehyun and Eunkyung. Eunkyung has just finished Daehyun's tea. She hands him the cup and tells him she needs more. He refuses to get more for her, so I roll my eyes and take both of our cups to the kitchen. I go to the cupboard and I take out another cup.

I hear my phone go off and I tell Daehyun to bring me my phone. I pour the hot water from the kettle into our three cups and put teabags into each cup. Daehyun appears in the doorway while our tea steeps and hands me my phone.

Misun: Bookstore, grocery store, park, and maybe back to the studio.
Me: Studio?
Misun: Yeah! Their dance studio!

"Do you know what she's talking about?" I ask Daehyun as Eunkyung makes her way past us and to her tea. I show Daehyun my messages and he nods.

"Yeah," he says. "They're in this boy band thing and they're super popular. I'm surprised you haven't heard of them."

My jaw drops. Misun is the sister of a famous idol? I mean, I haven't really listened to any Korean music, but I'm sure I'll like it. 

Me: Okay... What bookstore and when?

Misun replies immediately and I grab my tea to sit down with. We go back to the couch and my grandparents come into the living room from wherever they went before we woke up.

Misun: Yesterday's Books and be there by 10:30??
Me: Okay! I'll be there with Daehyun-ah. See you then.

I tell Daehyun what Misun told me and I go to my room with Eunkyung trailing behind me. Eunkyung agrees to help me pick out an outfit to meet everybody in. I haven't unpacked my suitcase yet, so all my clothes are slightly wrinkled, but I don't really mind much. 

Eunkyung unzips my suitcase and starts rummaging through my clothes, laying them on my bed one by one so they won't wrinkle any more than they already are. She picks out a white button-up blouse and a pair of shorts, telling me to put them on. While I put on the outfit, she finds me a pair of sandals in the bottom of my bag and tells me to wear my hair in a ponytail. 

I roll my eyes at her and do everything she suggests, adding a little bit of makeup for my own sake and slipping on my glasses. I slip into the sandals and she asks me to get her a book while I'm there, handing me the money for it and handing me my little backpack. 

"Oh!" she exclaims loudly, making me jump a little in surprise. "I wanted to show you some of their songs!" I smile and laugh quietly at her while she scrolls through her phone, probably finding the "perfect song" to show me. Finally she settles on one called Converse High. I start to throw my hair up when she plays it and I immediately love the sound.

When the song ends, I compliment it and tell her that even though it isn't much something I would have as my first choice to listen to, it's still really good and I can appreciate it. I glance at the time and see that it's nearing ten o'clock. I walk out of the room with Eunkyung following close behind asking if I could tell them she loves their music for her. I tell her I will even though I probably won't remember to and see Daehyun already dressed and waiting.

"Jinae-yah?" Grandma Song calls from her chair where she's knitting, presumably a scarf for one of my younger cousins. "Would you make dinner tonight please, dear?" 

"Of course, Grandma Song!" I answer politely. I say my goodbyes and Daehyun and I leave in search of the bookstore. 

Daehyun says he's passed by it a few times on his way to school, so we start walking toward the high school in the area. I realize after we walk a couple blocks that I didn't have anything to eat and only had tea and I immediately feel like I have to eat, mixed with the uncomfortable feeling of needing to pee. 

I tell Daehyun, but he brushes me off and says we're almost there. It takes us at least another seven minutes to get there and once we do, I see a few different groups of people. The first person I really notice is Misun standing next to a group of boys and I practically run up to her.

"Misun!" I say, exasperatedly. "I have to pee so bad! Please show me where the restroom is!"

I hear giggling on all sides of me and I can feel my face heat up in an instant. I turn to face the other boys and a give them an embarrassed smile.

"Of course, Jinae-ssi," Misun says, then turns to the boys. She snaps at them, "Will you shut up? She has to pee. Oh no. Kill her, why don't you?" She turns back to me and says with a sympathetic smile, "I'm sorry for them. Come on; it's this way."