Suho and the sea

Thirty Eight

One year later:

Tad is located on the couch as he looks up and sees Lily for the first time in a little under a year. It's like a different person he's seeing. Her hair has a different glow, looking more vibrant, she looks sun-kissed. Her physical appearance had changed a lot. Even her fashion, she was wearing a suede jacket and matching skirt, a white turtle neck. A pair of white designer boots, she looks flawless. "Tad." She says as she walks over to the living room table, and sits down and crosses her leg. While the maid comes and hands her a coffee of sorts. "Lily, you look... amazing." He says with a shy smile, "I know you not here to flatter me." She points out as he looks uncomfortable.

"Why are you uncomfortable?" She asks as she picks up the coffee and sips on it. "Well, the contract is coming to its end," Tad says, pulling out two envelopes. "So? It's time just to cut the ties, and be over with the charade." She says as she doesn't watch him. "Babe!" Lay shouts as he comes in through the front door, almost bouncing; "You have to hear this." He says, comes to a stop, narrows his eyes, and instantly looks disappointed; "Has it already been a year?" He asks a bit disappointed. 

Tad turns to look at Lay and then turns back to Lily, "I see you get along better than expected." She narrows her eyes and places the cup on the table a little harder than intended making Tad jump. "We did a live a few months ago, and we needed to seem genuine, so I started to call her that, and it stuck," Lay chuckles as he comes and stands in front of the table crossing his arms, still holding an Ipad that he wants to show Her. He had just lied to Tad but she was thankful for that.

"Oh, that makes sense," Tad says squirms in his seat as Lily leans back in hers, watching him intently. "Here." Lay says and hands Lily the iPad; "Listen to it." He smiles, and she nods and gives him a soft smile, and she sees Tad relax as her appearance hardens instantly; "Why are you bringing two envelopes?" She questioned.

"Well, because Chen and his girlfriend just got married and had a kid, some things have changed." She watches him. Lay walks around the table is finally somewhat more intrigued as he sits down closely to Lily, and places his arm on the back of the couch. "How is that referring to us?" Lay asks, and She turns to look at him; "Fans are expecting you to get married." Lay starts to laugh, and Lily sits up straight, while Tad continues to look uncomfortable; "You can't be serious?" Lay places his hand on her thigh; "Wouldn't be the worst thing to happen though." Lay says, trying to soothe her while she glares at him: "So what, we get married, and next year we have a contract baby?" She says sarcastically, "It's not like it wasn't on the table before, though." Lay leans in and whsiperes as she sighed and rolled her eyes: "What do you mean?" Tad asks, it was clear he had heard them, and she put up her finger to motion that it's not a conversation for them to have now.

"Anyway, You two, well Lily, you have the worst contract for the company, yet you two single hand bring in most money as separate people, even more together." Tad says, "And the company is willing to give you anything you want now." She makes a snarky sound and means: "My freedom?" And Tad looks defeated: "Doesn't matter what we give you, your in the public eye now."

"Whatever." She says and looks away; "So why two envelopes?" Lay asks, and Tad looks more relieved, Lily was guessing because Lay wasn't hostile. "One is the termination contract, but that also means all of this, will be off-limits the second you sign, you can pack your belongings of course, but you have to leave, and anything that's been provided to you by sm, except your payment will be returned to the company." She makes an annoying sound. She had enough money never to work again, plus she had bought a house in Korea too, so she was settled forever.

"The second contract is the same as before, but with better conditions, but you have to get married." Lily stands up and know that, no matter what her freedom doesn't exist anymore, she has her big bodyguards to prove it. "Let Lay decide which contract, and I'll read it over tonight, one of us has to work after all." She sighed as Lay smiles.

"A wedding it is," Lay says happily.

And all I can think of is, Junmyeon.