Taeyeon sat in a daze. But who wouldn’t? Jessica just kissed her. Jessica. Not just any Jessica, but THE Jessica.
Just then, her phone rang. Taeyeon looked around for her bag and fished out her phone. Her bag was a little high up, but Taeyeon was able to reach if she went on her tip-toes. There was a text message from Sunny.
Are you okay? Tiff told me what you said to her earlier over the
phone, and we’re still worried. Call me back when you get this message.
It’s not like Taeyeon could call back. Not when she didn’t know what Jessica already told them. But she wanted to tell her friends how lucky she felt to be in the ZoNE house. She felt bad. She had a shorty-pact with Sunny, too: they wouldn’t lie to each other or do anything to hurt one another. Telling them a lie isn’t the same as not telling the truth, right? Taeyeon sighed.
Yoona walked passed Jessica’s room. She stopped at the door and watched Taeyeon as she fiddled with the phone. Yoona was not one to just spy on someone, but she was not comfortable with Taeyeon’s presence. If she was one of Jessica’s friends, then Yoona would be chatting with Taeyeon like there was no tomorrow. But that’s the thing: Taeyeon and Jessica aren’t friends. They are strangers no matter how you looked at it. And strangers were dangerous no matter how you look at it.
“Yah!” Yoona said from the doorway.
Taeyeon turned around. “Hi! Wow, you’re Yoona, right?” Taeyeon threw her phone onto Jessica’s bed and rushed towards Yoona. “I’m such a big fan of ZoNE. Gosh, you’re so pretty in person. I mean, not like you aren’t pretty on TV and in the pictures and stuff, but wow. You’re skin is so amazingly pretty in person, too.”
Yoona was startled by Taeyeon’s reaction. She didn’t quite recall hearing this same spazz when Taeyeon first woke up and saw Jessica. “Thank…you?”
“You’re welcome! Ah, you have no idea how much I love you guys. You are my favorite people EVER! I’ve been following you since your guys debuted. You guys were like…14 when you got started, right? Well I know Jessica was 14, cause she’s only a month younger than I am and I was 14 when you all started out. And you’re all around the same age, like wow…”
“Calm down, lady!” Yoona wasn’t sure if she could really be mad anymore. Taeyeon was crazy, but Yoona couldn’t help but feel happy from all the compliments. “Jeez. You ate and stuff already, right?”
Taeyeon nodded her head. She was out of breath from her onslaught of spazziness.
“Okay. Do you know where Jessica went?”
Taeyeon pointed down the hallway. “The shower.”
Yoona turned towards the bathroom. She heard the water and a faint voice – likely Jessica singing in the shower. “Thanks. Um…I guess I’ll talk to you later.”
“Wait!” Taeyeon stopped Yoona before she could walk off. “Do you know where I can find Sooyoung? I wanted to thank her for making some food for me.”
“If you go down the hallway, take a right. Check the second and third door on your right. If she isn’t in either of those rooms, then I don’t know where she would be.” Yoona turn and walked to the kitchen.
“Thank you!” Taeyeon bowed before scurrying towards Sooyoung’s rooms. The hall was deceptively long. When she took a right, she almost bumped into Sooyoung. “Eep!”
“Ah…Oh…Taeyeon, right?”
“Yes! Um, I’m sorry about making the mess in the kitchen. We cleaned it up! And all the groceries are put away.”
