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Post by Taijia Lin on Apr 5, 2016 10:21:28 GMT -8
((Admin Note: The site's location has changed since this thread!!))Yunjin stared at the list of contacts in his phone, trying to figure out what to do. He'd been on roster to chaperone a weekend field trip for weeks, and of course Kangwan, one of his best options when it came to babysitting, was also on the field trip. Originally, Hwangjung was going to be able to watch Tai in the morning, and then Sungyong would be able to watch him in the evening, and then at the last minute, the bar where Hwangjung worked had been booked for a daytime event, and one of Sungyong's coworkers at Starbucks had gotten the flu, and Sungyong had been talked into taking the closing shift that that coworker was supposed to have. Yunjin knew that the Starbucks thing wouldn't be an issue much longer, since part of the reason Sungyong had even been willing to take the shift was that he had given his notice and he was trying to stack up a few really solid paychecks from them before he actually left so that he'd have a little bit of wiggle room when getting his schedule filled in at the ice rink.
He spotted the name of Anya and Remi's mom the third time he scrolled through the list of phone numbers, and he sighed and tapped on the contact, that wasn't an ideal solution, and he hated to bother her since they certainly weren't close, but he figured it wouldn't hurt to ask. He tapped the call button, waiting for someone to pick up hopefully. He managed to not audibly sigh in relief when she picked up the phone, "Hello, this is Elena."
He replied, "Hi, Elena, this is Yunjin, um, I was calling to ask for a favor actually."
He paused, awkward for a second and then plowed ahead, "Sungyong, Hwangjung, and I all managed to have commitments we can't back out of for this Saturday, and I've been trying to find someone to watch Tai for most of the day, and I know that things can be hectic at your place, but I was wondering if he might be able to spend the day there. Um, about the latest that one of us would be able to drop him off would 9 am, and I'll be back around 6:30 pm and would be able to pick him up."
He stopped himself before he managed to go into way more detail before hearing her answer, and much to his relief, she said, "We can definitely have him over. In fact, Anya's been bothering me to allow them to have a playdate for a long time now, so this should make her very happy. And for dropping him off, any time after 8 am is fine."
Yunjin sighed audibly in his relief that time and said, "Thank you so much. You've really saved us. Our normal babysitter is on the field trip that I'm chaperoning. I wasn't sure who else to call."
After that, they exchange pleasantries for a while, and eventually, Yunjin hung up, after finalizing the plans for that Saturday.
On Saturday morning, Tai was excitedly squirming in his seat in the back while they were on their way to the Young's house. But when they actually got into the neighborhood, Tai was a little bit wide eyed, saying softly, "The houses here are so big."
Yunjin nodded and said, "I thought that too. Don't worry. I'm sure that Anya and Elena will both make sure you know where everything is. Please remember not to bother Remi if he's around, OK?"
Taijia nodded, and soon enough, they'd pulled up at the Young household. Yunjin got them both out of the car and up to the front door, glancing at his watch, it was 8:15 am, on the earlier end, but after the time that Elena had said was alright. He knocked, hoping that that would get someone's attention, and not wanting to ring the doorbell in case there were still people asleep.
Anya Young
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Post by Anya Young on Apr 7, 2016 18:37:14 GMT -8
Anya swung her legs back and forth as she sat at the kitchen table, making sure she was in view of the window for when Taijia showed up. She was coloring for now, but convinced Remi to let her borrow his iPod and speakers so they could dance a bit once Taijia had settled down a little. She went back to coloring for a moment, trying not to giggle as she noticed Remi was also looking out the window. She swayed back and forth to get her brother's attention. "Oppa, if you don't want to do any more homework, why not color with me?"
Remi made a face before sighing, "I can't, Anya. Finals are next week and I have so much shi-"
"Language, Remi." Elena interjected from the kitchen.
"stuff I still have to get done." Remi growled, looking at his mother.
Anya turned to face her mom. "Taijia's like oppa, but he doesn't swear as much. You should see him dance, mum!" She said excitedly. "It's like watching a real choreo... choreo... gra... pher." She said, still stumbling over the word, considering she'd just learned it a couple weeks ago.
"They're here." Remi stated simply, picking up his laptop and backpack and moving to the room.
Anya waited for Remi to disappear down the hall before leaping from her seat, meeting Yunjin and Taijia at the door. She gave a polite hello to Yunjin before smiling at Taijia. "Hey Tai. I got my brother to let me borrow his iPod, so you can show me dances like you wanted!" She told him excitedly. "Also I have a lot of coloring books, and mom says if we have time later, maybe she'll take us out somewhere!"
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Post by Taijia Lin on Apr 8, 2016 22:21:50 GMT -8
Yunjin smiled at Elena over Taijia and Anya's heads and told her, "Thank you so much for looking after him today. I'll be back around 6:30. but if something comes up before I'm reachable again, I've got Sungyong and Hwangjung's numbers written down here, and in an emergency, either of them could get here."
He handed the sheet with contact information over to her, and then he knelt down in front of Tai and said, "You be good OK?"
Tai nodded and turned back towards Anya, clearly happy to see her, though the smile on his face was small. As Yunjin was leaving, he said to Anya quite softly, "I definitely still want to show you the dances, but we don't have to do that first unless you want to."
He was watching her response, a little bit off balance from being in a new place, but not wanting to show the adult that he didn't know well that he was uncomfortable. He was pouting just a tiny bit though, still kind of antsy because of how big the house that Anya lived in seemed to him in comparison to where he lived.
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Post by Anya Young on Apr 10, 2016 20:08:09 GMT -8
"It's really no problem, Anya's wanted this for so long, you should've seen her waiting for you two." Elena said with a wave of the hand and a laugh. She leaned in closer, "Besides, Remi has plans with friends in a little while, so he'll be out of the house." She quipped, though she knew if any other adult could handle her son, it was probably Yunjin. She took the note from Yunjin and smiled, "Got it!"
Anya gently pulled Taijia into the living room, shaking her head. "No, I really do want to see the dances, cause then you'll have more time to teach me!" She said with a giggle. "Then when we're tired, we can maybe watch a movie or color a little, if you want." She offered.
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Post by Taijia Lin on Apr 11, 2016 23:52:12 GMT -8
Tai nodded solemnly at Anya's explanation of her plan for the day. He said quietly, "OK. Let's go dance then."
He grabbed on to her hand, letting her pull him to the living room. The living room was somehow even more intimidating, though it was clearly lived in, but Tai just felt like all the spaces were somehow too big. He stepped a little bit closer to Anya and asked very quietly, "Where is for dancing?"
He added, just a touch louder, "We have to warm up first, it's very important, my dance teacher said."
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Post by Anya Young on Apr 16, 2016 20:38:21 GMT -8
Anys thoughta moment as she observed the coffee table in the middle of their otherwise fair sized living room. "Hold on!" She chimed before pulling Remi out from his room.
"What do you want child?" Remi asked her in feigned annoyance.
"Oppa, move the coffee table so we can dance, please please please please." She begged.
Remi raised an eyebrow at her begging, looking to Taijia, "you see how bossy she is?" He joked with the kid, not really sure how else to interact with kids besides making jokes. He scooted the coffee table so it was out of the way before looking to the two, "Is that alright? Can I go back to my homework now?" He asked his sister, though also looking at Taijia.
Anya nodded, "I think so. Will this be enough space, Tai?" She asked, twirling around in the empty space. "You have to show me how to warm up, I've never done proper dances. Be my choreo... graphy teacher." She grinned to him.
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Post by Taijia Lin on Apr 16, 2016 21:16:52 GMT -8
Tai watched Remi carefully, raising his eyebrow a little bit but not saying anything at Remi's comment about Anya being bossy because he didn't really understand it. It was an expression that he'd copied from his Uncle Jin because it seemed like a good expression. He watched Remi put the table to the side though and said very quietly and politely, "Thank you, that should be enough room."
He turned to Anya at her request though, mostly ignoring Remi since he didn't make much sense, but Tai knew that his Uncle Jin liked the older boy well enough. He nodded earnestly to Anya and said, "Well, first we need some sort of music, something slow but not too slow. After we just do some basic things to get moving, I'll show you the dance that Kangwan-hyung has been teaching me, but that one's kind of hard, so I'll show you another one too maybe?"
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Post by Anya Young on Apr 20, 2016 7:52:12 GMT -8
"Okay!" Anya said excitedly, already moving to her brother's iPod to find a good song. She settled on a newish popular KPop song that obviously her brother also really liked, as it was high on the recently played list. She let it play for a bit, in case Taijia didn't know it, before pausing it and looking to him. "Is the beat for this song okay?" She asked.
She perked up a little bit at the mention of Kangwan. "Cool! Is it from his band? I love his group's songs! I'll study it really hard!" She calmed down a little, with a small giggle. "And maybe learning an easier song will be good too." She added as an afterthought.
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Post by Taijia Lin on Apr 20, 2016 22:09:53 GMT -8
Taijia nodded and said, "This works. We have to move around a little bit just to get warm, and then do some stretches. So, um, just do some for fun dancing to start I guess?"
He was uncertain since he'd never been the one really giving directions, but his dance teacher definitely just had them jump around a lot at the start of some of the group dance classes. As they were doing that, he thought about the stretches that Kangwan usually did to show to Anya. He knew that she probably wasn't flexible to the point that he was, so he didn't want to have her get hurt trying some of the things that he did in a warm up. While they were dancing around, he said, "Yeah, the song that Kangwan has been teaching me the choreo to is one of the songs from his group that Uncle Hwannie wrote, so it's double cool."
He eventually stopped dancing around as the song was nearing its end and said, "Here let me show you some stretches."
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Post by Anya Young on Apr 24, 2016 10:02:37 GMT -8
Anya nodded, somewhat mimicking Taijia in the warm ups, a little confused but ultimately having fun. She perked up at the mention of the song again. "That's right, you said you have a uncle that writes songs. But that's so cool that he's famous enough to sell his music!" She sighed wistfully, pausing her warm up for a moment to look off into space dreamily, "I wish I could write music. It's so cool. My brother plays violin, too. I wanna learn an instrument too, but I don't know which one yet." She rambled. She focused back on the now, blinking a couple times before giggling and resuming her warm ups. She slowed down as the song ended, looking to Taijia as he spoke. "Okay. Like in P.E?" She said, following his moves despite the question.
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Post by Taijia Lin on Apr 25, 2016 9:43:26 GMT -8
Taijia nodded and said, "Yeah, like in P.E."
He led her through what he could remember of Kangwan's stretching routine and then said, "You should do any others that you remember from P.E. I'm going to do a few you shouldn't try at least yet."
He went down into the splits, stretching the different directions at an extension that he could actually feel the stretch. He was pretty sure he was showing off a little bit, but he was also trying to get warmed up properly.
Once he was done with stretching, he smiled at Anya and said, "Let me see if you have the song. I do have my MP3 player with me but it's not always so great at connecting to things cause it's old."
He scrolled through the list, relieved to find the song, and put it on, waiting to start it for a moment, and said, "I'll show you this one, but we should start showing you how to dance a song with something a little less hard."
He started the music, rushing to a starting position and danced through the choreography. It was probably his favorite thing to dance, and it was cool to do it with Anya watching. He was pretty much foot perfect through the dance, and he was obviously happy to be doing it.
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Post by Anya Young on May 1, 2016 9:48:10 GMT -8
Anya nodded, beginning to do the stretches she had learned in P.E, but occasionally pausing because Taijia's stretches were so much cooler and he was so cool. She nodded as he searched for the song, finding it soon after. She sat back on the couch to watch him show her Kangwan's group's dance, curling her legs up and her chin on them. "Your so cool when you dance..." She praised dreamily afterwards, clapping after a moment's pause. "That definitely looks hard, though." She agreed.
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Post by Taijia Lin on May 2, 2016 0:03:47 GMT -8
Taijia smiled and looked down at Anya's compliment, muttering a shy, "Thank you." Even though they'd been friends for over a year at that point, he was still uncertain when it came to compliments, even though Anya was pretty free with them. Many of their classmates had used things that sounded like compliments at first as a round about way of teasing him before he and Anya got close.
He told her softly, "I can teach you the choreo to one of the girl group songs I like, it's cute and fun and it was supposed to be simpler. I learned this one a few months ago, but I like it."
He told her the name of the song, hoping that it would be in the iPod so he didn't have to dig out his old and battered MP3 player that Hwangjung had passed along to him. He didn't think that Anya would care, but he was less certain about Remi or Anya's mother. While he waited, he ran through the choreo in his head and by half steps.
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Post by Anya Young on May 2, 2016 9:48:13 GMT -8
Anya nodded, beginning to search for the song, "Got it!" She said excitedly, pressing play so it was set, but then pausing it. She tried to remember the music video, though she couldn't remember it well. "I don't know how often I've seen the dance for this song, but it's one of my favorite songs lately!" She said excitedly, grinning. "So I can't wait to learn it!" She looked to him for the cue to press play again.
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Post by Taijia Lin on May 4, 2016 9:20:44 GMT -8
Tai smiled. He had been pretty sure that he'd heard Anya mention the song, and quite possibly hum it, so he'd thought that it would go over well. He liked the song too, and had learned the choreography months and months before, right after the song had come out. It was one that he liked to use to warm up because it was just hard enough to push him a little bit while still being and easy way to move into a workout. Plus, it was just fun.
He told Anya, "Here, I'll do it once, and then I'll show it to you piece by piece."
He started the music, doing the entire routine for her to watch, being careful to make it sharp and polished looking all the way through. Then once he was done, he went over and dragged her by the hand to the side of the room where he'd been dancing, "Come on, let me show you from the start."
He started doing the first section of the dance slowly, adding, "Try to do it along with me."
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