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nine

"are you, perhaps, the fansite master of the account babying the sun? one of jinhyuk's fansites?"

"yes, i am." yeoreum politely returns with a sweet smile.

the girl with a white shirt and ripped jeans on her body frame goes extremely surprised. her name is yeseul, a hardcore fan of jinhyuk since up10tion debuted. she cannot believe that the person who took most of her most favourite previews of jinhyuk during pdx101 era is asking her a favor to take her job as his fansite master.

yoon yeseul is one of haerin's friend, they both graduated from the same high school. she used to be a part of the photography & art major and since yeseul and haerin are both passed with incredible flying colors, they are rewarded the allowances to pursue their passion directly to the workaholic world. that's why haerin already gets to work in a studio as an art director, which was owned by her aunt before, in such a young age.

but things just went a bit unfortunate for yeseul. she was already offered to work under haerin's studio but she had family business matters to be settled at australia. a year had passed and now, after everything went completely well, yeseul comes back to live in korea, her hometown.

"are you sure to give me this job? i mean, i'm very capable in managing this stuff but maybe you're still in predicament–" yeseul is interrupted by yeoreum.

"i'm willingly passing this job to you because i think you deserve it more than me," yeoreum pauses for awhile to hold yeseul's hands in persuasion. "you're in need of occupying your daily life, right? you just moved here and things are still a bit fresh for you but trust me, yeseul. you got this!"

yeseul's lips quivers and she bits the lower lip to stop the involuntary action. she feels nervous, of course, not going to lie. she's very excited to take more pictures of her beloved idol but she's also scared that there will be something trying to get in her away, again.

haerin notices her uneased reaction so she slowly pats yeseul on the back and assured, "you can come and ask for our help, anytime that you want!"

"really?" yeseul's lashes flatter, glancing at both yeoreum and haerin respectively.

"yes, of course! so, do you want this job or not?" yeoreum questions the younger one for the last time with eyes filled with hope.

yeseul moves her head up and down, nodding as the corner of her lips twitches and turnes into a wide smile, brown eyes burning in determination.

yes! yeoreum repeatedly says to herself.

after that, yeoreum begins to give some guides and advices for yeseul about her upcoming journey of becoming a fansite master. haerin blends in with the two as well, they also talk deeper about their experiences, school life, especially as yeseul reveals her past works at australia. they become so closed just in hours, the wooden table at the corner of a café were occupied with the trio's discussion and private show-and-tell.

hours flew away just like that, the sun is about to get set, the sky is in fifth shade of oranges. yeoreum, haerin and yeseul decide to go back home as the night is approaching the seoul city. it is the best if young women like them to just stay at home in times like this rather than being outside to avoid unwanted events.

before they could part away from the café, yeseul speaks to yeoreum.

"you told me that you liked seungyoun, right?" yeseul asks, and yeoreum nods in joy.

yeseul leans closer to her and recommends, "you should listen to his previous tracks! all of them are self-composed by seungyoun himself, you know? just check out later, okay?"

"well, noted this in my to-do-list! how do i search?" yeoreum feels grateful with this girl's recommendation, she assumes that yeseul has followed seungyoun's updates since long ago, which makes yeoreum to feel jealous of her.

"just search the name, woodz. you'll find more of him and—" yeoreum immediately stops her before even yeseul gets to finish her sentences.

"woodz?"

"yeah, that's the name that seungyoun used to address himself during his solo career,"

the name promptly makes yeoreum felt triggered, it is like there's an alarm ringing loudly inside her head. she has no idea why, she tries not to overthink about it but it comes to a failure when lots of unexpected assumptions start to play inside her brain.

haerin, on the other side, starts to panic as well. she already knows seungyoun as woodz before the pdx101 programme started, that's why she felt highly amazed when yeoreum told her she is texting with a stranger named woodz.

well, i guess...

seungyoun is not even meant to be a total stranger to yeoreum afterall.

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