My New Roommate (An EXO FF)

10) Launching My New Career

"Jihyun!" Miya Sumi, a stylist noona I had previously met, suddenly appeared out of nowhere and hugged me tightly in front of the doorway to the dressing room that EXO was trying to enter. They were all behind me.

"Sumi noona!" I hugged her back, completely confused to how she got there so quickly.

"I'm so glad you remember me!" she grinned as she pulled away.

"Get it, Jihyun!" Baekhyun laughed.

"Hyung!" I scoffed, looking back at him.

"Oh, we're blocking their way," Sumi pulled me aside so the boys could enter.

"What? You're quite popular with the ladies, aren't you?" Baekhyun smirked and waggled his eyebrows suggestively.

"What lady would want to be with someone as sharp tongued as him?" Jongdae hyung teased, pointing his thumb at me.

"Yah!" I whined.

"And so he whines and complains and only wants to play," Sehun joined in.

"Hyung!" I pushed his shoulder.

"So violent!" Zitao hyung cooed.

"Why are you all being like this?" I pouted.

"That's my line!" Jongdae whined.

"Look who's whining now," I smirked.

"Yah!"

"The tables have officially been turned," Minseok hyung laughed.

"Lets all bully Jongdae now!" Luhan pointed at him. Zitao was about to say something when Kris hyung interrupted.

"Bully ChenChen later. We have to finish up here. Plus this isn't the place to play, there's hot and pointed objects in here," he waved his hand around the room where there were dangerous things. "We don't want Yixing getting hurt."

"I'll be fine as long as I stay away from everyone else," the latter giggled.

"You could stand near Kyungsoo hyung. Everyone tends to be calm around him," Jongin pointed to Kyungsoo, who was ignoring everyone else and listening to music.

"I'm thinking about what to cook later," Kyungsoo mumbled to no one in particular.

"Chicken! Glorious chicken!" Jongin exclaimed. Once that was out there, all hell broke loose around Kyungsoo as people started yelling different foods.

"I think it's safer over here instead," Yixing hyung stood next to Sumi noona and I.

"Good grief! That looks like fun! I want to yell at him too!" Sumi bounced over and joined the guys in yelling random things at Kyungsoo hyung.

"Poor hyung. Getting mobbed because Jongin hyung wants chicken," I shook my head with a smile.

"This is still normal though. This always happens when Jongin wants chicken," Yixing hyung smiled his dimpled smile. I poked one and he laughed. "What was that for?"

"Just because. It's fun. Keep smiling," I stared intensely at his cheeks.

"Jihyun, stop raping his cheeks!" Baekhyun laughed, spotting me.

"I'm not!" Yixing hyung started giggling again. It was so adorable that it took a large amount of effort and lip biting to suppress the 'Aw!' that I desperately wanted to say. I used to say it every time he laughed when I was actually allowed to fangirl.

"You were!"

"Were not!"

"Can we all please stop yelling! We still have work to do! You can yell about food when we leave!" Joonmyun hyung desperately tried to calm everyone down. Somehow, Kyungsoo had slipped through everyone and gotten out, but they were still yelling foods at each other.

"Yah!" Kris shouted and everyone turned to look at him. "Shut up already." And that was how everyone stopped yelling and started getting ready for their photo shoot. I poked Yixing's cheek one last time for good measure because it was soft and fluffy before he left to join everyone.

"Don't you wish you could be like that too?" Sumi noona asked me, coming to stand beside me.

"Like Yixing hyung? Cheeks are cool and all-"

"I don't mean have his cheeks!" she rolled her eyes with a laugh.

"Oh! I do, but I can't-"

"You can! I'll help you. No one else will have to know about your secret. Well, besides their managers."

"What?"

"That you're not a boy. I know. I'm a gifted stylist, of course I would know. But you remind me of one of my cousins so I like you. Plus you're adorable. I was able to talk with Sehun about it so I know why you're doing this. I completely get it too. I promise you're secret is safe with me, but you have to promise to be my model. Pretty please?"

"What?"

"Is that really all you can say? What? What? What? Say something good, Kal Jihyun!"

"Um, you want me to be a model. That won't last-"

"I mean as the girl you, silly!" she pushed my shoulder.

"But then they-"

"They won't. Well have you go by a different name. I even talked with SME already. Sehun showed them some pictures, I told them about your conditions, they want to work with you. Besides, you have past experience, so you won't even need to train!"

"Well, that it true. But, I don't know. It's risky."

"But worth it! You'll be able to keep the job even after you stop living with EXO! And I'll be your main stylist, no one else will have to know!"

I thought about what I was being told for a moment before I met eyes with Sehun. He raised an eyebrow at me as if to ask why I was looking at him but I just looked away quickly.

"You need time to think about-"

"I'll do it."

"You will?"

"I'll be your model. You're looking at Kal Unji, the newest rising model," I nodded with a smile. Sumi started squealing and jumping up and down excitedly, causing EXO to stare at us. I pretended that I was embarrassed so it would seem like I did something that made her fangirl or something.

It had always been my dream after all. Why not give it a shot? And so I began preparing for launching my new career.

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*THESE ARE NOT THE REAL LYRICS, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT WONDER.

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