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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 10, 2021 10:12:41 GMT -8
Elena hung her head and willed herself not to cry. The CEO of the company continued to scold her about her clingy behavior. She wasn't fighting off tears because she was sad, she was holding them in because she was mad, and getting angrier. "You need to be aware of how much you touch others. And more than that, if you're going to touch others, which you seem incapable of keeping your hands to yourself, then make sure you are balanced in who, how and how much you're touching," he lectured. Elena took his moment of silence as her chance to speak, "you knew who I was when you recruited me," she said a little too loudly. Her Spanish blood was boiling and was starting to get the better of her. She took a few calming breaths and continued in a scarily calm voice, "I have always been like this and the fans have known that since the beginning. There has always been a little backlash against me for it, but never a significant amount. Plus many more of the fans find it cute and endearing, so please tell me what the actual problem is." She folded her hands carefully in front of her and placed them on her stomach, "you are generalizing and hoping I get your point. I can assure you, I can handle your point, whatever it is, so please be direct." She'd worry later about the fact that she'd just mouthed off, in a calm and professional manner, to the CEO of the company. For now, she just hoped she wouldn't get fired. The CEO sputtered a little. He had expected a loud blow up, not this frighteningly calm demeanor. "Direct? Fine. There are too many fans shipping you and Seojin, and it's starting to lean dangerously towards rumors about an actual romantic relationship. I've even gotten word about an article that was going to be written and we stopped it. I need you to start acting the same way you act with Seojin with some of your other members, just to alleviate some of these rumors." Elena blinked a few times. She was a little insulted that people were starting rumors about an actual romantic relationship when there wasn't one. She certainly wanted one, but they'd agreed to think things through and take things slow. "So I just need to be seen being clingy with the other members?" she clarified. "That's easy, just tell me that instead of yelling at me for twenty minutes without getting to the point," she said. She winced a little at herself. "Sorry... that snark was uncalled for," she bowed to complete her apology. An Hayun
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Post by An Hayun on Aug 11, 2021 23:06:43 GMT -8
Hayun had been practicing in the vocal studio for a while, kind of wondering if Elena would end up joining her. While they didn't have an official practice together that day, it was a time that it wasn't uncommon for them to end up both practicing, and Hayun really did prefer to get the chance to practice with the other main vocal. Elena could be almost overwhelming at times, but Hayun appreciated her caring and easy affection, and sometimes, Elena seemed like the easiest member to ask strange questions to, especially when it was something that she wasn't sure that she wanted to ask Shieon-unnie or was about Shieon-unnie. Not that Hayun had a lot of things that she didn't want to take to her favorite unnie first, but she liked having a friend who was only a little younger than her who always had an interesting perspective and encouragement to give.
She'd planned to ask Elena to come down and practice with her when she'd gotten back to the company, but Elena had been nowhere to be seen in the dorms and hadn't been in the little cafe on the ground floor when Hayun had come in from school. Seojin-unnie had been working on a dance cover though, and Shieon-unnie had a lesson, and Anya wasn't back from school yet, so it was a little strange for her to not have been able to find Elena, though she guessed that Elena could have gone out somewhere on her own, it just wasn't common for any of them to do that, and none of them really tended to have solo schedules yet.
She tried not to worry about where Elena might be or if something was wrong. She was pretty sure that the managers or Seojin-unnie would have told them if something was wrong with a member. The general anxiety over a disruption to her schedule did mean that Hayun wasn't quite as focused on her solo practice as she might have been, eyeing the door regularly in hopes that Elena would appear and assuage her worry.
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 12, 2021 6:49:12 GMT -8
"Go out now and be seen with another member," the CEO said sternly, trying to reign in their anger at Elena's last snarky comment.
Elena was humbled now, realizing she'd overstepped. "I apologize again," she said with a bow. "Hayun is usually around at this time, could we go out to karaoke and eat together?" she asked.
The CEO went back to his desk to grab a company credit card, he handed it over, "don't go crazy with it," he said resigned.
Elena perked back up and accepted the card, "We'll be good. Thank you!" she said, practically skipping out of the room. Once outside, she leaned against the wall, hand on her heart. "Good, you didn't get yourself fired. Keep it together Elena," she muttered to herself in Spanish.
She made her way to the vocal studio she and Hayun usually ended up practicing in. She eased the door open and peeked inside to see if she was there.
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Post by An Hayun on Aug 12, 2021 10:22:30 GMT -8
Hayun was watching the door when Elena peeked her head in, and Hayun rushed over to the door and pulled Elena into a hug, knowing that Elena liked physical contact and said, "I was hoping you'd show up. I couldn't find you earlier and was a little worried."
A little was probably an understatement, but Hayun also knew that her level or worry had almost certainly been unreasonable. Anxiety did that.
She pulled back from the hug and looked at Elena though. Something actually did seem a little off, and Elena's very entrance to the room hadn't contained its usual exuberance. Hayun scrunched her eyebrows together and said, "Is everything OK? You know how you told me I could tell you if I was worried about things? That goes in the other direction too, remember."
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 12, 2021 13:21:49 GMT -8
Elena squeezed Hayun back when she was hugged. When the older girl pulled away from the hug Elena pulled her back in. “I got in trouble…” she whined.
She let Hayun go, “could you help me? I need to be seen out with other members and behave in my normal clingy way, just in public.” She held up the company card, “karaoke and dinner?”
She was trying to avoid the fact that she’d mouthed off to the CEO. She’d have to fess up to Seojin later.
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Post by An Hayun on Aug 14, 2021 21:38:04 GMT -8
Hayun patted Elena on the head at the mention of getting in trouble, giving her another quick hug and saying, "I'm sorry you got in trouble."
She lit up at the suggestion as soon as she realized what Elena was asking, giving the younger girl another quick squeeze and saying, "I'm always up for noraebang! And dinner also sounds good. Did you get in trouble because you cuddle Seojin-unnie the most? That seems strange, I cuddle Shieon-unnie the most and no one seems bothered. But I don't mind, I like getting to hang out with you."
She tried to put the thought out of her head, slightly worried now that maybe she cuddled with Shieon-unnie too much. She wasn't sure what too much meant here. She focused instead on what Elena had suggested they do, trying to keep that at the center of her attention so that she wouldn't worry over something that she couldn't do anything about.
This was something that Elena was absolutely the best companion for, the other main vocal in the group, around her age and also excited to go sing together. Plus, if she had been cuddling with Shieon-unnie too much, then this would probably help keep that from being a problem too. Hayun added, "There's a noraebang place near here that does fried chicken, I looked up the ones nearby last time we talked about it, and that one looked good, but we could also go somewhere first for dinner if you'd rather."
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 16, 2021 7:35:06 GMT -8
Elena nodded and pouted, "too cuddly with Seojin-unnie." She couldn't help but smile at Hayun's mention of Shieon-unnie. "You are cuddly with her, but in a normal Korean way. I jump on people's laps and what not....So beware, I will be overly physically affectionate with you while we're out."
She was glad she'd given her the warning but now she debated if she should text Shieon and give her the warning. Shieon already knew that Elena was a hardcore ShiYun shipper, so hopefully she'd take what she was doing at face value.
"I am so ready for fried chicken," she clapped, then put her hand on her stomach, rubbing it and looking down, "I'll just go for a run with Seojin-unnie tomorrow." She paused, "oh... Is that the problem? I go to Seojin-unnie for everything?" she tapped herself on the forward with a "duh" and shook her head. "Anyways, noraebang!!!" she linked arms with Hayun and began dragging the other girl out of the studio.
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Post by An Hayun on Aug 19, 2021 15:09:52 GMT -8
Hayun chuckled and slung a friendly arm over Elena's shoulder. She said, "Don't worry, I never expect you to be anything other than cuddly."
She mulled over what Elena had said about the different ways they were cuddly. She kind of understood what Elena meant. Hayun would put her arm around someone's shoulders (usually Shieon-unnie) or sit close beside someone and lean against them (usually Shieon-unnie) or hold hands (usually Shieon-unnie) or a whole realm of other things that she did in fact see other people do out in public on a regular basis. Elena was more vibrantly loud in her existence than Hayun though, and it was echoed in how she cuddled with people.
Hayun wasn't sure that it was actually as different as Elena was portraying it though. They both had one person that they preferentially hung off of, really only migrating to other members of the group when that person wasn't within arm's reach, or in the room.
Hayun said tentatively, "I don't think that you going to Seojin-unnie for things is the problem always, the fans definitely like seeing the two of you together, but if the CEO is scolding you for acting too different towards Seojin-unnie in public, then doing some things with the rest of us out will probably be good. That doesn't mean that you should stop doing what you normally do with Seojin-unnie, it just gives us an excuse to go to noraebang."
Hayun started leading them back to the dorm so that she could grab a change of clothes and a few things for the outdoors. She smiled a little bit and added, "I'm excited to have fried chicken too."
She didn't have much to gather at the dorms, mostly making sure that she was wearing a coordinating outfit and grabbing a mask since they were generally supposed to do that now out in public unless they were in makeup. Hayun could in theory have done her makeup, but a mask seemed easier.
She got quiet as they headed out of the building, a small line forming between her eyes as she thought about trying to understand the difference and if there was one between the way Elena was with Seojin-unnie and the way Hayun herself was with her Shieon-unnie. It felt like something important to understand, but like she was missing a crucial piece of understanding the puzzle.
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 19, 2021 18:17:08 GMT -8
Elena followed Hayun to the dorms and waited while she grabbed her things. She checked herself in the mirror and grabbed a mask too. She didn't feel like putting on makeup, plus it would look weird if one of them was wearing it and the other wasn't.
As they headed out of the building Elena was her bubbly self, flitting around Hayun excitedly. She laced her fingers with Hayun's and swung their hands back and forth while they walked. "What should we sing at noraebang?" she asked, taking mental note of the paparazzo following them.
"I really want to try weeekly-sunbaenim's songs, I really like Monday-nim's voice so I want to try to emulate that."
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Post by An Hayun on Aug 20, 2021 13:48:19 GMT -8
Hayun smiled at Elena's enthusiasm, comfortably lacing their fingers together when Elena grabbed her hand. She wasn't sure that this was as much clinging as Elena was going to do, but she figured she'd let Elena figure out the pacing and tone of that. She wasn't surprised when she noticed that there was someone taking pictures of them, a few someones. At least one was a reporter-ish person, and some of them were clearly fans. This was definitely a part of the job that made her antsy, and she crept closer to Elena as they walked, taking some reassurance in her side being nearly pressed against the other girl's even if it did make their linked hands slightly more awkward. Hayun found herself overthinking how to move their arms, maybe put her arm around the shorter girl's shoulders, but she wasn't sure if that was the right thing to do, and now she was thinking in far too much detail about what the right kinds of contact where.
She was glad for the mask obscuring her face so that any faces she might make from overthinking things would be at least somewhat hidden in pictures.
She said, "Then you or we should definitely sing some of their songs. I've got some regular songs that I do, most of Yuseong-sunbaenim's songs, and I like doing Sistar-sunbaenim's songs and Lovelyz-sunbaenim's songs. But I sort of flit from thing to thing given the opportunity. I like giving myself challenges though, that's a big part of the fun of it. We should definitely pick some things that we can sing together."
She had read that this place had a good song selection, so she figured that they'd be able to do OK finding things.
She grinned as the sign came into view and pointed it out for Elena with her free hand. She said, "Look, there it is, see, it's really close to the company."
She was excited to get to go to noraebang for the first time in a while. She'd missed it.
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 20, 2021 16:23:00 GMT -8
Elena noticed Hayun's awkwardness and shifted so her arm was around the other girl's waist. She leaned in to whisper in her ear, "are you okay?" She could hear the camera shutters clicking in a frenzy. Maybe this wasn't going to be so hard.
She nodded, "I probably haven't even heard of all the songs you sing. We should definitely try a lot, and if I try to challenge myself it'll probably be Davichi-sunbanim's songs."
When the noraebang came into view Elena let Hayun's waist go and grabbed both her hands, spinning them in a few circles, "whoo hoo! Yay!" she squealed, excitedly.
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Post by An Hayun on Aug 20, 2021 16:50:12 GMT -8
Hayun wrapped her arm around Elena's shoulders when the other girl's arm moved to her waist. She was enough taller than Elena that it was comfortable to do, even if it did increase the rate of pictures. Hayun whispered back, "I'm mostly just over thinking things, but the fans and other picture takers sometimes make me nervous."
She smiled at Elena's thoughts on songs and said, "I like Davichi-sunbaenim's songs. I'm sure that you'll have songs I've not heard too. This place has a good selection of music other than Kpop too."
She laughed at Elena's enthusiasm, letting herself be pulled around for a moment and then leading Elena by the hand to the entrance, laughing, "Come on, let's get a room and some chicken and do some singing."
Upon entering the waiting area, she put in a request for a room for two people for the minimum time, which was an hour. She whispered to Elena, "We can always extend it, but I don't know how long we're supposed to be out, I'll need to check the schedule."
The person at the desk led them back to the room pretty quickly and said, "You can use the tablet by the door to put in a food or drink order."
Hayun decided that the first order of business was the food order, and then they could figure out songs. She asked Elena, "How much do you want to order, and how spicy? Do you like interesting flavors? I bet they have a few different versions."
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 20, 2021 19:11:37 GMT -8
“Yeah, pictures can be weird. But thank you for being willing to be photographed with me. I know the CEO will appreciate it too,” Elena said.
She followed Hayun into the noraebang and then into the room. She looked around fascinated, “I’ve seen noraebang in Kdramas but I’ve never been to one.” She started to excitedly look through the song selection.
She looked up when she realized she’d been asked about food. “I like everything so your choice. I like spicy food but if you don’t then it doesn’t have to be spicy.”
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Post by An Hayun on Aug 20, 2021 19:19:25 GMT -8
Hayun hesitated and then said, "There was about a year where noraebang was the only thing that I'd go to outside of the house other than school, the doctor, and my therapist. They're comforting."
She meant it too. She was more relaxed than they had been. While it wasn't exactly like the one near her house, the set up was similar, and even the menu was as well. She grinned as she flipped through menu options and said, "I really really like spicy food. So I'm going to do an order of their very spiciest chicken, but they also have a black vinegar one that looks good and cheese balls, so if the super spicy stuff is a little bit much, there will be other options. If you like garlic, we could get garlic ones a little spicy too?"
She wasn't sure how much food was too much food, but she also knew that if they took it back to the dorms, someone would eat it, even if it was just Hayun eating leftovers. She looked at Elena, trying to gauge what sounded good to the other girl as she put in the start of the order. She asked, "Are you finding songs you like?"
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 20, 2021 22:12:18 GMT -8
Elena continued to be distracted by the songs so she decided to put the remote down and scooch over next to Hayun. She leaned over to look at the menu, "I like garlic, so that sounds good. This is my first time here and I'm not sure I've had fried chicken here yet, so you get to be my first. Teach me oh wise one," she teased.
She reached out to brush an eyelash off of Hayun's cheek, only to make eye contact with a paparazzo through the glass of their room. She jumped back in shock, then grabbed Hayun's hand and pulled the other girl towards her. "I didn't know they'd be that persistent and that invasive.
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