Perhaps Love / Yug

The Staff is Hiring

[Seoul, South Korea,
Around Gangdong Gu,
08.05 am]

"Annyeong!!" a high pitched voice faked just to bother her guts screamed into her ear, making Nad regretting picking up the call.

It was Kimpi, her Korean closest friend; they befriended on internet almost two years ago, and now they were hopefully ("No, no high hopes!") on the verge of working together.
She was an energetic, hard worker girl, of twenty-seven years old... biologically.
A real teenage kid spiritually.

"And to you" Nad answered. "Where are you?"

"Right in front of the building." According to her words there was the background noise of girly screams whenever someone important came. "Where are you tho?"

Nad looked around and abruptly stopped walking.
In the second she did that, people started bumping randomly into her while running or speed walking.

In the blink of an eye she felt terribly sorry and irreverent for assuming that it would've been as quiet as in Italy, or London, where people change their way so they don't risk to bump into somebody.

She quickly moved to the corner of the side-walking, making sure she wasn't in nobody's way.

But she felt in distress anyway; there were seriously too many road signs. She was in exactly six different streets at the same time, just standing still.

"Let's just say that I'm standing beside of a huge, cute cafeteria?" she tried. Then she immediately added: "I'll send you my location in a second"

"Ne, that's a start." Kimpi mocked her. "Fool me, hoping that once would've been enough for you to remember your way to work!" the girl sighed.

"Yah! I've only been at JYPE once! And I was with a car, so totally different roads." Nad said, even tho she smiled at the sound of her friends' laugh. "And don't say the W word, please. It scares the hell out of me."

"Ne, ne, but I know how things works here, and you'll be enlisted for sure. Well, for that period of time you should really start memorizing the roads, or you'll be late to every meeting" Kimpi said to her. Nad could hear her friend moving and try to pass through crowded spaces while talking. "And trust me: you don't wanna be late to neither one meeting." she firmly said.

She shrugged into her coat while freezing on the ground.

"I'll do whatever it's in my power to do. I'll walk those streets night and day, thrice per day- No! Ten times at day! I'll check the trains and see if I can be earlier with them! I'll take the bus! I'll have a second job to pick a taxi!!" Nad freaked out. Kimpi burst out in a loud laugh.

"Ughh, I love that. I love you, noona"

"Kimpi, don't call me noona, you know it softens me..." she said, pouting.

"Course I know!" Kimpi said. But her voice this time wasn't far as on the phone, it was just behind her, clear and alive as never before. Nad turned around, happily relieved to see her friend, to see this cute, brown haired asian girl, smiling at her in the most hyped way. "Annyeooong!" she said again.

"Annyeong" Nad said back, smiling. They hugged tightly, being cautious not to bump into people, and then started to walk just like the others, fast, to reach the JYPE building.

Kimpi kept telling Nad to breathe slowly, to calm down and just think for the best.
To think at the positive things.
She had her agent with her, waiting right into the building and holding her papers, sixteenth floor, est wing;
she already met some of the most important people for this job interview the last (and first) time she went there;
and she was even chosen between fifteen other applicants.
Five out of fifteen were picked and she was part of them.