Chapter 29

//Mark

Just a few more weeks and we can finally go back home to Korea. Its been nice visiting different places for months now, but nothing beats home and just being in my own bedroom

"Hyung, our manager asked us to pack our things now" Youngjae knocks to my door and tells me what our manager asked us to do, they've been running around from place to place to make sure our safety so this is the least we could do to help them. Youngjae left me after seeing me understand his words, he didnt ask me about the things in front of me because honestly speaking, my room was a mess. All my clothes were scattered everywhere and so was the gifts given to me by our fans here. We usually put all the gifts in a box then send it back to Korea so we can just open it there since it so much for us to bring along.

I packed all my things first before dealing with the gifts scattered around my room. By the time I was done packing and fixing all my stuff, one of our managers came and took my luggage together with the gifts I received from the fans. I followed him behind and together we went inside another room which I assumed on of the guys room.

"Hyung, come taste this dessert. Its good" Bambam saw me first and offers me the dessert they were eating and so I grabbed a piece. It tastes like strawberry shortcake but it doesn't look like one. Its not my usual kind of sweetness level but its good. "It came from one of our fans here. Instead of sending it back to Korea, Jb-hyung suggested that we eat it now. Avoid spoiling" Bambam informed me.

"You like it sweeter don't you?" Jackson commented seeing my reaction. I nod but that doesn't  mean I don't like the dessert I'm holding. I walked to the other side of the room to where Jb and Jinyoung was talking among each other. 

"Are  you ready to go back?" Jb asked me first as I got near them and Jinyoung looks at me with curiosity written in his eyes. 

I know the reason why they are still asking me if I'm ready to go back, they still don't believe me when I tell them that I've already forgotten all the things I need to forget back home.

"I'm fine, I miss Korea too you know" I told them but that didn't seem to convince them "Seriously guys, its been months I'm sure shes doing fine as well. I believe that whatever happened between us was for the best." Jb kept looking at me and so was Jinyoung. I released a sigh and patted both their shoulders "Trust me okay? I'm fine" I gave them both a smile and they just shrugged and went back to what they were talking about earlier.

// EUNJEE

Today is one of those days where I get to do whatever I want because its finally my glorious day off and i'm not going to waste it idling. Anne's not home and so I was left to decide whatever I want to do to make this day ridiculously fun. 

I scanned through my phone and I just realized, I don't really have enough friend to hang out with in this place. I keep scanning through my phone and found a name I haven't talked to in awhile. Who knew i'd actually miss his nagging presence? 

"What the hell, might as well" I pressed the call button and it started ringing, who knows, he might just reject my call now after all the rejections I did to him.  The line kept ringing and after awhile I almost ended the call until the line stopped ringing the voice of the man I used to hear back then welcomed me.

"So now you're calling me back?" he laughs at the other end of the call and I almost laughed at how much he hasn't changed.

"By the sound of your voice I'm guessing you still value me as a friend?" 

"If you still consider someone who ignores you after a long time a friend then maybe I can count you as one" He adds

"I'm sorry okay" I plead " Let me make it up to you" I told him "Are you free today?" I asked 

"Lucky for you, I actually have a free schedule today since the other guys are doing their recording I was given the day off today" He cheers "Where do you want to meet?" 

"I'll text you where, don't even dare bring your wallet with you. I'm treating you to whatever you want today." I told him. 

"Its nice hearing your happy voice again Eunjee. Okay then, I'll see you in awhile" he tells me

"See you  then, Minhyuk" 

I grabbed all my things and prepared for the day. I know its been awhile since I last went out to hang out with some friends. I'm sure Minhyuk will ask me a lot of things later so I might as well ready my heart for anything. His been nothing but a good friend to me, if it wasn't for the fact that he was also Marks friend I might have listened to him or come to him back then but I know he was also conflicted, between me and Mark, he was much closer to Mark than he was to me. I know that he wants us both to be happy and the best thing I could give him right now is the thought that i'm fine now and I'm happy. That way, he wont think of me and just focus on being Marks friend. 

I took a quick look of myself at the mirror and decided that I look  decent enough to hang out outside. I wore one of my outdoor jeans and my plain white lace, I even wore a nice pair of wedge high heels. I know people think Minhyuk is quite small so why the heck am I wearing a high heels? Well, his quite tall in person, he only appears small in his shows but once you're with him, his actually a bit taller than what he looks like. So wearing  shoes such as the thing I'm wearing now is not so much of an issue. 

Satisfied with my look, I took my car keys and messaged Minhyuk where we should meet up. He quickly responded with an okay sign and an emoji. 

// MINHYUK

"Yes hyung. I'll be just with a friend. I'll just use some disguises then use my own car so no would recognize" I informed my manager just in case he looks for me and I'm not back at home yet. Since we decided to do our separate shoot, I was scheduled to do my solo shot the day after tomorrow so I was given the free day today. The other guys are busy doing their own solo shot and so I was left alone at home. Since we are still on our promotion days, we were instructed to atleast stay at home whenever we have a free schedule. If it wasn't Eunjee asking me to hang out I would just stay at home and just rest. 

Its been weeks since I talked to Eunjee and those were the times that she looks like a walking zombie with a smiling face. Even after my talk with Mark, I kept calling Eunjee to check up on her but she just kept rejecting me and even when Changsub and I visited her at her job, she didn't meet us. So meeting her now is very important since I'm really curious how shes been doing this past few months.

I took my car keys and went behind our dorm to where our cars were parked. We usually go to sets or places with our managers driving us and we don't usually use our own cars so using my own car wont do me harm since no one recognizes my car except the guys and my management.

I opened the garage doors with my shades and mask on just so I could avoid someone seeing me going out of the dorm. I quickly reversed my car out of our garage and closed the garage doors after. I drove my car to the cafe suggested by Eunjee, its a bit nearer to my place than hers but it is also very secluded so that place is safe for us to meet especially if I want to talk to her about a lot of things.

I know she knows it too that we have to talk about it, I know Marks busy doing his tour but I dont know how Eunjee feels right now, Mark  may look like he had moved on but I still have contact with the other guys and they tell me otherwise. Now I want toknow about how Eunjee feel so when Mark comes back, me and the guys can come up with something for them to meet up again and maybe let them talk once and for all. 

//EUNJEE

I learned about this cafe from Anne few days ago, she told me that only a few people comes in this place since its very secluded and only a person whose like a wild explorer can discover this space. This place is quite from the apartment but I got here so fast thanks to my amazing GPS. 

On the first look the place isn't something you'll notice right away, the outside is like any normal cafe only that its a bit bigger and looks like a home instead of a cafe, but when you get inside, everything changes. The place ambiance is very relaxing, the sits looks comfortable enough for anyone, there's a little decoration on the sides like paintings showing different scenes, there is also some books in some shelves and some welcoming quotes. I looked at the place and it smells really good, like a coffee-smell like of good. The place is almost empty but the silence is very comfortable, even with the little people inside it is still comforting. 

I found myself a table and sat on one of the soft chairs, a cute lady approaches me to give me their menu and left me for awhile to choose. I decided to wait for Minhyuk before ordering anything, he might not like the things I order so its better to be sure than waste the food. 

After a few minute Minhyuk finally came with his signature mask on and glasses. He looks for me first and so I waved at him. He walks fast to my sit and so I stood up welcomed him with open arms. He hugs me and so did I.

"Its been awhile, you looking good" Minhyuk releases me first and takes off his mask and glasses. He moves to the other side and moves his chair near me, we both sat on our chairs and I gave him the menu. 

"Before you nag at me for not talking to you sooner, lets order some food first." He laughs at my comment and takes the menu in my hands after a second  he calls for the cute lady awhile ago and she came with a notepad on her hands.

"Ready to order sir?" she asks and I nodded so did Minhyuk. 

"Give us some of this and this. Then two ice coffees please" He orders and the cute lady smiles before leaving us with our orders. 

"So?" Minhyuk started

"So?" I added

"How have you been? What's new?" He asks, not even sparing a second

"I've been very fine. My boss quit messing my life, so that is a plus."I told him and he keeps looking at me. "What?"

"You look a bit different, but not the bad kind of different but the good kind of different." He tells me and so I did a super girly gesture in front of him, his eyes grew wide but it was soon replaced by a loud laugh and hands clapping. I looked at him, but he kept on laughing holding his stomach and losing breathe because of his continuous laugh. What I did was not supposed to be funny, why is this guy laughing?

"What is so funny?" I asked him after he calms down. 

"Promise me one thing" he sighs then I nod "Never do that again. You are not some teenager who can just bat their eyelashes and act cute, you look like a cougar trying so hard to look younger than what she actually looks like. You were crazy" He laughs after remembering what I did. Fine I did try batting my eyelashes to him and I also acted cute, but its not because I wanted to show him the  things he said, but because I was making fun of his words, but that didn't seem to get him. 

"You are so mean, even if I bat my lashes to someone else i'm pretty sure they'll find me cute" I flicked my tongue at him but he just kept on laughing. Good thing our food came and so was our coffees, he calms himself and looks at me again. "If you are going to laugh again, i'm going out of this place and I will never talk to you ever again" I warned him and he tried to conceal his laughter. 

"Anyways, I want to congratulate you, I heard earlier your new comeback songs, they all sounded nice. Hows the guys so far?" I asked Minhyuk. They just recently releases their newest mini album and although i'm not that into doing research of groups and stuff, I do know that they won an award because of their music. Also I know how busy they;ve been recently, I've seen Sungjae's photos almost everywhere, well most of them. They even appear in some advertisements and sometimes I even hear some of my younger patients, screeching and screaming inside their rooms when they see Minhyuks group. 

"Thank you, it was a huge success but hopefully not our last" he breathes out

"What do you mean?" I took a bite of the food that is in front of me as I urged him to go on with his story. 

"Eunkwang enlisted. His going to be gone for sometime and we are going to be left alone. I also need to enlist while i'm still capable of doing hardcore stuff. So we might need to rest the group fo awhile until we all can be complete again, but lately some netizens are spreading false statements about our group disbanding now that we all have now our own stuff to do." he tell me and I felt kind of sad, it is true that all Korean citizens should go according to law with no exemption, its also true that a lot of group disbanded because one or two of them need to serve the military for many months. Its going to be hard for them but i've seen BTOB's work and how they value each other I'm sure they'll surely get through this. 

"I should say bye to Eunkwang next time. When is he going?" I asked

"On the coming twenty-first, we'll be doing some live show tomorrow to formally say goodbye to him. Do you want to come?" he asks

"I'll probably just meet up with you after your live, some of your fans might get the wrong idea if they saw me with you guys" I answered. He nods then takes a sip of his copy.

"Then, where should we start? You choose, do you want to talk about hows your heart now? or do you want to go with what's your plan now first? Either way, you'll need to spill the beans to me." He tells me and I almost laughed at how blunt he is with his  opinion and I also know that his very curious as to what happened between Mark and I.

"I'll go with what's my plan for now, I still want to succeed and so I'm pretty much making my life all about work. That's why I called you out today because I realized that I never usually go out unless I have to or its because of work. I'm getting old and my life is getting boring" I pouted just to prove my point but he just keeps looking at me. 

"What I mean is, do you have plans to talk to him? I mean you can still have a chance you know. This maybe the right time for the both of you" he tells me with the most serious tone and face.

"Time has already made us both apart. I don't have any plans to talk to him, or even just see him. I'm sure his happy now and I don't think we still have anything to talk about" I aswered

"Some wounds, they can only heal if you allow it to get exposed, if you keep on hiding it, it will never heal, it will only get worse." he tells me

"Why are you being persistent about this? Can't we just talk about something else. We haven't seen each other for quite a long time, dont you have anything else to ask me?" I told him and he just gives me a nod. 

"I do have other question. The question is, are you really ready to answer them all without holding back anything." He throws back at me and I just grew speechless. Courage gone so was my confidence level. Its at this moment that those things he  keeps reminding me flood through my head and everything I've done to forget all this lingering feelings are back. 

"I finally know the real reason why I didn't want to see you nor hear from you back then?" I told him.

"Why is that then?"

"Its because you always find a way to make me comeback to that moment"

//MARK

We were at the airport when Bambam suddenly halts in his steps then looks at us all. He was holding his phone and he was looking between me and his phone.

"What is it? Why do you look like you've seen a ghost?" I curiously asked 

"Yeah, what got you so speechless?" Jackson added

Yugyeom came to his side and looks to what he was looking and then he covers his mouth before snatching the phone from Bambam.

"What's wrong?" I asked again getting worried. 

"Oh my, this is bad" Youngjae whispered to Jb and then they both looks at me

"What is it? Let me see" I tried approaching both Bambam and Yugyeom but they both went behind Jb and they both hid Bambams phone behind them. What is wrong with them?

I took out my phone but before I could successfully open my own phone, Jackson tackles me then takes my phone away from me. "What the heck? Are you crazy?"

"Trust me you'll thank me later" He tells me, they were all looking at me as if I did something bad and i'm about to face my verdict.

"Hyung, you need to tell him" Bambam whispered to Jb

"Yes, it should be you, you are our leader" Yugyeom added

"But he'll break again" Jackson comments

"He needs to know though. He'll find out eventually" Jinyoung points out

"Then you tell him. Your our mother afterall, this should be your area of expertise" Youngjae replies

I was getting pissed because they're talking as if I wasn't in front of them'

"Hello!! I'm just right here. Whatever it is just tell me, it wont bother me I promise"  I console them, they kept shaking their heads no until Jackson looks up then his eyes grew big

"Mark, no matter what happen don't look back" he suddenly panics 

"What do you mean don't look ...?" I turned around and there I saw in one of the televisions placed between pillars here inside the airport, Eunjees laughing face and Minhyuk-hyungs happy smile. There were a couple more pictures of them talking and laughing.

" BTOB's LEE MINHYUK Secret Date gone viral,    Earlier this afternoon, an anonymous fan posted this photo on Naver saying that he or she saw BTOB member Lee Minhyuk having a very special date around and all the Melody fans went crazy looking for answers about the girl in the photo. Now we know that BTOB's leader Eunkwang just recently said his farewell for he is being enlisted this year. Also the group has been very busy with their back to back endorsements from different known brands in Korea, however, the oldest member of the group might not had been so busy at all.  He appears to be very much free to date and see his girlfriend who happens to be a good doctor with a good background, maybe that's her way of capturing Minhyuks heart. Lets find out about it more later, this Mimi Caster reporting for KPOP buzz" I kept looking at the screen and Eunjee's smiling face was the only thing that stayed on my mind. I dont care about the other things, but I felt the need to protect the smile shes having right now. 

"Contact BTOB's manager, make them cover up this issue right away" I told one of our manager and the guys were just looking at me. 

"Mark, it might not be true" Jb said but I only ignored his words and just focused my mind on finding a way to protect Eunjee's smile.