Love Contract / Mark Lee

Chapter 16

"Should I go with my casual blazer jacket? I feel like it's good" Areum said, holding up the jacket over her chest. Hyeri shook her head.

"But it still kind of makes it look like you're trying too hard." She added. Areum sighed, tossing it next to where her friend was sitting on the bed. Areum had a meeting with Mrs.Lee about her modeling gig for their new clothing line. It was a small meeting, however she wanted to look presentable in front of her two idols.

"Ok I'll go for the simple but nice royal blue shirt and my black jeans." She said, rushing to the bathroom to get ready.

"Don't you have a date with Mark today?" she asked. Areum sighed.

"He canceled it. We haven't talked since the day I told him about me. Which probably makes sense. He just realized he is gonna be living with a bipolar psychopath for a year." She mumbled. Hyeri decided to bring up a random topic.

"So, I just realized, there is a lot about you that I didn't know, that I'm just starting to figure out." She said. From the bathroom, Areum's faced furrowed.

"What do you mean? Also should I shave my legs?" She added.

"Yes, you should. But back to what I was saying. One, I just figured out about you having a boyfriend who was abusive to you, which I didn't know and Haechan did." She said. Areum didn't speak and focused on not cutting her legs.

"And about the baby, but you told Jeno and Haechan." She rolled her eyes, running her palm over her smooth leg.

"And I just figured out less than a week ago that your bisex-" She poked her head out the bathroom.

"Where the hell is this going?" She asked. Hyeri shrugged.

'Not necessarily. I mean why is that Haechan and Jeno know so much about you and Mina and I barely know anything about you?" She asked. Areum didn't think too much about it and hopped into the shower.

Before she turned the water on she yelled back, "I've known Haechan and Jeno longer than I've known you" She said. Hyeri sighed.

"Forget it, I'll see you in the kitchen. I'm hungry," She lied. Areum shrugged, but closed her eyes and let the water run down her body.

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Areum sat in a chair in an office that she was told to wait in. She tried calming herself down by scrolling through Instagram, however most of her feed was filled with wedding dresses, which didn't help her as much as she thought it would. As soon as she shut her phone, two people walked through the doorway. She stood up and stuck her hand out.

"Hello Mrs. Lee, and Mrs. Kang, such an honor to meet you." She said as she practically suffocated her hand into a handshake.

"Jung Areum. I have heard so much about you. I should be the one to say I am honored. I have never seen anyone who followed my work as much as you do." She said, sitting down on the other end of the table. Areum blushed.

" Oh! T-thank you so much!" She smiled. They all settled down and started to talk business.

"So we came here to discuss the next step. As you know, we would like to do a photo shoot for the pictures we upload the pictures to our website. And then, we would like you to model on the runway." Mrs.Lee said. She wanted to jump up and down in excitement, but forced herself to keep her cool.

"And for this season, we wanted you to model with someone else, you know like a couple cover." Bethany Kang said. She slowly nodded. Mrs. Lee however, furrowed her eyebrows.