Suho and the sea

Eighteen

I feel slightly faint, not to see Junmyeon, but with the fact that I had already broken my contract at least twice. Also, I hadn't seen him since I sneaked out of the bedroom. But he doesn't look all that pleased to see me, and I now realized he might actually hate me.

"So, this is Exo?" I mutter, and Simon slap my back in a friendly manner: "Of course!" and as I break my eye contact with Junmyeon, and my eyes drift between each member, a total of eight guys, six of them look over the moon ecstatic, two looked unamused.

Simon's phone starts ringing, and it distracts me from the males in front of me, "Excuse me, I have to take this, but boys, be nice and take care of Miss Crown." Simon says before answering the phone and excuses himself. When the door closes, four boys jump out of the seat, run over to me, and start hugging men and screams noona. I feel suddenly happy. It was surprising, but it made me feel so relaxed. Jongin, Chanyeol, Jongdae, and Kyungsoo each take time to hug me separately. I feel their love as they hug me, and I realized how much I've missed them.

"Finally, I was waiting for this." Jongin exclaimed as I look confused at him: "Oh my god, the car?" I end up asking as he laughed: "So you knew?" He looks smug and shrugs: "You should have told me." I say and swat his arm, and he laughs out loud as the others watch us: "How have you guys been?" I end up asking: "More like how dared you leave us?" Jongdae asks, and I shrug: "It was an emergency, and I had to go." I smile as they nod: "A little bird told me that you'd live with us." Kyungsoo smiled: "Yes, mother hen, I'll apparently will, but you guys never hated that idea, to begin with." I joke, and Jongdae and Chanyeol speak at the same time: "That's true."

As I look around, Junmyeon and Sehun were nowhere to be seen. I think the guys caught on and started to distract me: "So when are you moving in?" And It shook me slightly because it hasn't hit me yet. "I just need to pack I guess, Jung is living at my place now, because of him and Callie." I said, and Jongin looks at me; "He dumped her, and he lives with you now?" He questioned, "I got back a few days ago and been living with the girls." Jongin raised his eyebrow as Kyungsoo asks, "With Misty?" And I shook my head: "She's been working with Red Velvet." Another voice said and when I now realized that Simon mentioned Beakhyun earlier, and he's, of course, one of those I hadn't met this summer. "Well, I will be damned." Chanyeol said as the boys chuckled; "Now I know why your name seemed familiar." Baekhyun said, and I smile: "I guess I've been mentioned." I said low: "Mentioned? we have a freaking group chat about you." Baekhyun said, and Kyungsoo hit him over the arm, and I feel nervous.

"Well, I have to go." Another man said: "I'm Minseok, but please call me Xiumin." His greeting was swift and easy, and he was out the door as I didn't even get a chance to shake his hand. "Wait, Jongdae, didn't you mention someone Chinese too?" And Jongdae looked at me, confused; "Oh yeah, wait, you remember that, impressive." He laughed, and the boys looked at each other confused, mostly because I never really had the chance to spend alone time with Jongdae.

"When I said goodbye to Jongdae at the house, why so curious?" I question, and they all seemed to put the pieces together. "Back to work, is the Chinese guy Loey?" And they start to laugh, was I being funny? "I'm Loey." Chanyeol said, "What?" I ask, and they force me into a chair; "It's my writing name." Chanyeol said, looking amused. "Oh, okay, so I'm going to manage you and Baekhyun primarily." I mean, and Baekhyun comes out from behind Chanyeol, "Boys pay up, I knew it." Baekhyun holds his hand out as the rest of the boys hand him bills.

"I have a feeling I'm in over my head." I sigh and Jongin snickers: "You have no idea."

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"It's good to see you again." Kyungsoo said, and it just hit me; "You didn't know?" I asked them, and most of them shook their head, each boy was heading in different directions, so we started to leave the conference room; "Well I did." Jongin said, but the rest had no idea I'd work with them, then again, I had zero clues myself, but that wasn't that unexpected. Jongin placed his hands on each side of my cheeks as he made me look him in the eyes, this entire situation was off; "You'll sleep in my room this time." And by pour instinct, I punched him in the stomach making the others laugh: "That's not happening." The rest laughed as we walked over to the elevator as my phone buzzed, and I pulled it out and sighed as I had seen Lee's name on the screen and put it back in my pocket.

"Should we get lunch?" Kyungsoo asked, and I smile, and I remembered that Lee would most likely be waiting on me downstairs; "Rain-check? like tomorrow?" I laugh, and they nod as I step into the elevator. As I leave the reception and walk out onto the street, I hear his voice, and I come to a halt, I turn to face Junmyeon, and he looks cold. His body languish is hard, almost stone-like.

"Just answer a question for me," Junmyeon said I observed him as my heart cried out for his touch. I knew since the middle of the summer that I had fallen very much in love with him, and I missed him terribly. And knowing that in not only seconds Lee could show up, or him asking about feelings wouldn't be easy to answer. "Did you know when we met?" He asked me, and at first, I didn't understand what he meant; "Who you were?" I asked as he nodded once stiffly; "No, honest to god, I had no idea." I reply as he sighs, he seems to relax a bit and just when I was going to say the I'm sorry a voice calls for me: "Lily" And my heart drops as Junmyeon becomes a rock-solid stone again and looks like he's been stabbed a million times in the back.

I'm about to explain, but Junmyeon interrupts me: "Don't bother. " He said, and he turned his heel. I sighed as I watched Junmyeon walk off, I felt so guilty I just wanted to talk to him about this situation, when I see him turn a corner and walk away I finally turn to face Lee's direction.

He's smiling at me, and I look at him, I felt confused on why I let him back into my life in the first place, but it's not like we're dating, I'm not dating him at least. "I appreciate that you came to pick me up, but it was very unnecessary," I say softly, crossing my arms around my chest as I study his face. His eyes are smiling at me, and it's confusing because I still feel like I'm being tricked or cheated on, and we aren't even dating. "I came because I wanted too, and you do know why." I did agree on being his friend though; maybe I shouldn't have, he tries every single time to step over the line, but he knows, I don't work like that.

"I know, but.." I start; "It was him, right?" Lee asked, looking at me and I sigh and nods, he knows what happened with Junmyeon and me, also he knows where my heart is, but he's trying. As we stand there, his phone buzzes, and he checks, and he now sighs: "She's still calling you?" I ask, knowing Lauren is still calling asking to meet and whatnot. Lee had the fortunate experience of becoming a tv host. It wasn't all out of the blue because he apparently was big at his works youtube channel, which he had run up till the point he was handed this new job. Of course, she was trying to make amends, and whatnot, but Lee had ignored Lauren since that day at the summer house. Or at least that's what he's been telling me.

I know his feelings towards me are genuine, but at the same time, I think he got some feelings for Lauren too, but circumstances made it impossible to like her more. I sigh, "Answer it." And he shakes his head as another call starts to light up his screen, "This I have to answer."