I watch Junmyeon drive, he looks peaceful, and I feel at full ease. "What did the boss say?" He said softly, "He wanted to sign me as an artist." Junmyeon looks at me with a smile: "Well, clearly, he can tell how magical you are." I blush, hearing Junmyon compliment me, feels like a dream, considering how we've been until now. It's sort of mindblowing.
"But he said he's matching me up with Donghae and Siwon..." I say and bite my lip, knowing that it would most likely annoy him; "My hyung's? Nah, I would never approve." He mutters, and I snicker as I turn to look at him; "Don't you want to know what I said?" I ask and wait for his reply: "I'm hoping you said no, but I'd support you no matter what." He said gently. "I'm going to be an artist." I mean, testing the waters; "I'm happing for you-" He says genuinely happy for me; "Do you want me to?" I ask, and he chuckles, "Honestly Lily, no, I don't want this life for you because you're so much more than this." I smile a little to myself: "But you do this? And you don't seem to hate it." I say gently; "I'm not sure you can tell, but I carry the band on my shoulders, if anything happens, I'm the first person to know." The whole secret thing with Sehun comes to my mind as he sighs before he continues talking: "Also, I can't date whomever, I can't be me, but it's a price I chose to do what I truly love, I live for this, you just like karaoke." He laughed softly; he was right; "Seriously, I'd be the worst idol." I say, and he chuckles, "I couldn't agree more with you, clearly had no idea whom we were after all." And I laugh. "But I turned him down." I say and Junmyeon smiles, and we fall into a comfortble soundless drive.
"Where are we going?" I ask him after a while: "Someplace familiar, and I've made sure I've cleared your schedule for today and tomorrow." I look at him in wonder: "Please explain." I say it wasn't a question this was more a statement; "I said to the others that I'm going to hang out with my cousin for a bit and won't be back until tomorrow, and they insisted I'd do a live, so I said I'll just bring you along too keep track of me, I'm sure they didn't buy it... but here we are." He says with such conviction and confidence, "Yeah, right, they didn't buy that one bit." And he laughs.
I don't know how long of a drive we are on when the car suddenly slows down, and it's now clear to me that I've been sleeping. To my defense, I'm hungover. I feel a warm hand rub my upper arm as I stirred awake and look at Junmyeon groggily, he ha taken off his sunglasses, and his kind eyes are observing me now: "Hi beautiful." He says as I jawn slightly. "I'm sorry to wake you, but I need you to go in and check us in." He said softly, "I can't really go in, and I booked the rooms in your name." I narrow my eyes at him; "We have rooms? We're at a hotel... this is an odd date." I say, as I yawn again: "So many questions." He chuckled, I now notice that his hand rests onto my arm, and I find it incredibly soothing. "But why rooms, wouldn't one room be enough?" I questioned, and he raised his eyebrow at me; "I mean it's no t like we haven't slept in the same bed before." I say quickly, so I don't sound all that thirsty but it wasnt my best save and I blush; "This day is going to be our first proper date, and you want to sleep in the same bed, fine by me." He says and tosses his hands in the air, pretending to be dramatic, and I laugh; "No, no, let's go with your plan." I say.
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As I walk inside, it's now I realize where we are precisely, we're at the small beach town where we met this past summer, and it's still gorgeous, and I'm already feeling excited about the day to come. I get inside the hotel and get the room keys and look at the bill while I shake my head as I head towards the car: "You bum, you had the company pay for this?" I laugh, and he nods: "Yeah." He smiled as he took his bag and then grabbed mine as well; we were staying two doors away from each other and, I could already tell people were noticing him, mostly because he was wearing a face mask, sunglasses, and a cap. I shake my head as we stand in front of the elevator; "Trying not to be noticed only makes you more noticeable." I point out as he chuckles behind the mask and guides me to enter the elevator as the doors open. "Such a gentleman," I giggle as I step inside.
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He hands me my bag, which now has me worried, did he pack a bag for me? Or did someone else do it? Do I want to know? I open the door to my hotel room, and we agree to meet up in about an hour for a walk. I needed a shower; I was after all the oozing of yesterday's alcohol consumption. I walk around in the room and find it very pretty, much more than the other hotels I've stayed in. Well, nothing compared to Vegas with RV, but this was nice for me, who's a supposed manager of EXO. I quickly undress as I get into the shower and let the water soak my body with warmth and refreshment. When I feel clean and rinsed from the hell of yesterday, I feel like a nap would be very much needed, but Junmyeon would probably not approve of it. So I decided to look through the bag someone else had packed for me, and the headache of knowing that it most likely were my three besties that had been up to zero good here and packed for me. There were laced sexy underwear, and a tight skimpy dress, a pair of dark jeans and a see-through blouse, the PJs, were just a t-shirt that would be too small even to cover anything of me, and I'm happily murdering them in my mind this second, thank god I have a jacket with me.
I pull out my phone and text Junmyeon, in hope to figure out what I should wear, after all this was his plan, and I was going along for the ride.
"Wear jeans?" He sends back, and I frown as I feel like he had no clue in what they sent, so I decide to do what he says, and he only has himself to blame for the rest. Once I'm dressed, I start to try to control my hair with a straightener, and it goes as it wants itself not really what I want to I end up putting it up into a tight bun at the nape of my neck.
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Thankfully they had packed a set of black sneakers for me to wear because heels and I do not always come hand in hand. Still, on a date it's not my to go shoe, then again, my dates were most with Lee, and he tended to take me on adventures more than fine dining, which had happened too, but us hiking up a mountain was more his thing and I grew used to it, and now when it comes to Junmyeon I have no idea what he'd like. When I was dressed and made up I lay down thinking I should call him, but laying down feels nice.
I feel a hand on my arm and jolt up in panic while screaming. A flashback of memories washes over me, and I'm terrified of it happnening again. It was like someone was about to get on top of me, but when my eyes land on a very worried Junmyeon, I burst out in tears. "What the hell are you doing?" I cry as he wraps his arms around me; "I'm sorry, I just wanted to wake you." He mumbles as he holds me close. I can feel how exhuasted I get from crying. He strokes my hair and whisperes; "Are you hungry?" And the fact that he doesn't ask me about what's going on is such a releif. "I think we should order in." He mumbles. And I sniffles as he holds me and I nod; "Midnight walk instead?" I mumble and he chuckles as he reaches for the menus on the bedside table.
