Chapter Eight
“Get off the bus.”
“Why?” asks Taeyeon as she looking at Jessica.
“Because you can’t bring her to the house, Tae. You want a normal life right?” rings Hyoyeon’s voice through the phone, “then you cannot bring Jung to the Manor.”
“How about the other one? You know…”
“Yeah, let’s take her to the empty house,” responds Hyoyeon sarcastically.
“Hyo, you know what I mean.”
“Tae, no. And that’s final.”
“Fine…I don’t want a normal life,” huffs Taeyeon a little childishly. Jessica turns and looks at her while tilting her head.
“Alright, alright I’ll let our parents know that we want to stay at the smaller house.” Taeyeon happily hangs up and turns to Jessica who had returned to her conversation with Tiffany, Seohyun and Sunny. Tiffany takes a quick look at Taeyeon before turning back to Seohyun and Sunny.
“So Jessica this means you’re hanging out with the group today, right?” asks Taeyeon causing for Tiffany’s eyes to widen and for Sunny to choke on her drink.
“That’s what I said right?” answers Jessica.
“Your hanging out with the idiot group?” asks Sunny in disbelief. Jessica nods her head as she avoids Tiffany’s gaze.
“Our stop,” states Taeyeon as she gets up and heads for the exit. Jessica follows after the older girl aware of the fact that Tiffany and Sunny was following her while dragging Seohyun along. “Oh…You guys are joining?”
“Yes!” exclaims Tiffany as she grabs hold of Jessica’s arm.
*****
Hyoyeon enters her father’s office causing for the elderly mad to look up from his work, “Hyoyeon?”
“Taeyeon wishes for the family to use the smaller house for the evening; she’s invited a few new friends over,” states Hyoyeon.
“You don’t think they’re good enough to know Taeyeon’s lineage?”
“Taeyeon has a slight crush, nearly obsession with the one of them. But I have this feeling that Taeyeon’s heart will be crushed unintentionally. And you adopted me to protect Taeyeon from others who will use her. But Tae’s more of a sister than a master and I want to protect her from being heartbroken.”
“Very well then. I’ll tell your mother and we’ll be there later on this evening.” Hyoyeon nods her head before turning on her heels and leaving.
*****
Taeyeon sits on the grass in front of her family’s smaller house, drumming her fingers on her legs while watching the younger girls converse and waiting for her sister. She looks over at Jessica directly to see the girl was looking back at her. She gives Jessica a smile, before sticking her tongue out. Jessica in returns give her, her icy glare before turning away as Hyoyeon pulls up in Taeyeon’s car. “You’re here!” exclaims Taeyeon as she jumps up and dusts all the grass off herself.
“Yeah. I had to do something,” states Hyoyeon as she heads towards the front door, unlocking it. Taeyeon’s group rush into the house as Jessica and hers enter it slowly looking around. She feels someone grab her wrist and looks to see Taeyeon smiling at her.
“Come on…we’re all heading to the kitchen where I’ll cook,” states Taeyeon as she leads the group into the kitchen where Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona and Hyoyeon were being rowdy.
