9: Plans

Being a worried teenager is okay and being a busy manager is normal and if you are a manager who is also a teenager is pretty difficult to handle managing jobs and too young to do a grown up person's work. One might forget to eat their meals or skip them, lack of sleep, stressful situations, the anxiousness etc.

Though Kyung Rina is struggling to do her work better while looking after 7 teenagers of her age. Applying lots of dedication and motivation to her job.

Phone pressed against her ear, Rina is in a middle of a conversation with a person and she is getting hammered by the temper from the other side of the phone.

"Come on Mr. Oh, they are just 7 in number, plus they are much much more obedient than I am." Rina pleaded, hoping her old mentor to accept the deal.

~You're such a hard headed Nara! I said I'm retired!

Mr. Oh snarled, pushing Rina's offer away.

"But Mr. Oh, you're still 58 years old, you're not retired yet-" Rina said, almost breaking a sweat.

The phone went silent for a moment, now Rina is biting her nails, hoping that Mr. Oh will change his mind. Her expression turned worse to what Mr. Oh said.

~That's it! I'm hanging up!

Eyes widening, Rina quickly cut in before Mr. Oh could hang up the phone.

"NO! Mr. Oh please wait! I promise I will give you anything! ... Please teach the boys like what you taught me. This is the last thing I want you to do for me." Rina said, putting lots of emotions in her voice just to convince Mr. Oh with the deal.

Mr. Oh is a very strict mentor and a tough audience, I will take days for him to work for you until you lose your breath in persuading. Unless if it's his friends, he will immediately accept an offer.

Rina is still biting her nails, listening to Mr. Oh over the phone, wondering what his decision might be.

A beeping noise sounded out of the blue and Rina was left there standing, dead cold.

A heavy feeling took over Rina the moment Mr. Oh hang up the phone. She withdraw the phone off her ear and stared at it, biting her lip.

Placing down her phone, she grabbed a note on her table and scanned the checklist from top to bottom.

She already called 7 coaches a few minutes ago, she even took the courage to persuade her own junior assistant Ms. Kim for extra classes. all of them except Mr. Oh accepted the offer. It wasn't too hard persuading the others, Mr. Oh is the worst!

At least the boys can practice now.

Rina sighed, without glancing at her phone, she stomped her way out of the office and slammed the door shut.

Little did she know, her phone suddenly vibrated, lighting up the screen and a message popped up.

The boys are almost done taking piano lessons, their mentor Mr. Jang is a friend of Rina and is also a pianist in Seoul. His round glasses, black Oxford shoes, turtleneck sweater and brownish hair made him look like an upper-class gentleman. The boys jaw even dropped at the glimpse of Mr. Jang and Jeongguk whispered behind his back saying 'I'm gonna be as good looking like him when I get famous.' Jimin whispered back 'Me too!' 'Ey, me three!' Taehyung butt in. The three of them burst into quiet chuckles then suddenly stopped when one the hyungs turned to them.

The boys are propping their chin on the clenched fingers while narrowing their eyes at Mr. Jang's fingers as he tapped them on the piano's tiles, making sure they gathered everything what their mentor stated along the way.

Jeongguk gaped at his mentor dazzled by his piano skills, while Yoongi is staring like a hawk until the lesson is over.

"Okay boys, that's it for today. Well resume this tomorrow, at the same time." Mr. Jang said, standing up pushing his glasses to place.

The boys stood up to their feets and bowed to Mr. Jang.

"Thank you for the lesson Mr. Jang."

The 7 of them said.

"You are all welcome, see you then." said Mr. Jang as he walked across the room towards the door with his heels clacking then shuts the door slowly.

"That was a good class wasn't it?" Jeongguk asked, a grin forming in his face.

"Yeah, it's way better than our former piano teacher." Yoongi agreed, stretching his body from the long sit.

"Manager is really good at picking coaches." Yoongi continued, peering at Taehyung and Jimin yawning.

"Phew, all that lesson is making me all hungry!" Seokjin cried then his stomach rumbled.

"Ahh, now I'm thinking about instant noodles." Hoseok cried rubbing his stomach.

"I miss eating hamburgers!" Taehyung howled followed by a pretend sobs.

"Hey Taehyung that's okay you can endure it, besides we only have one lesson left until lunch time." Namjoon patted Taehyung's shoulder for comfort.

"The problem is we don't have money to buy food." Yoongi said, making the rest of them frown.

Then suddenly, Seokjin yelped, his eyes glimmering, frown replaced by a huge smile.

"Don't worry guys, I have a solution!" said Seokjin, grin growing wider.

"What is it hyung?" Jimin asked curiously at Seokjin.

"My parents gave me allowance for this week, and I'm thinking to buy some ingredients to cook them and share food with you!" Seokjin said joyfully then quickly fetched his wallet from his bag. When he turned to the other members, their faces were filled with weird looks.

" Ahh, hyung is it really necessary? " Namjoon asked awkwardly, scratching the base of his neck.

" Your parents gave it to you, you should be the one to benefit the allowance."

Seokjin laughed at Namjoon's words.

"Guys, blessings should be shared, and my allowance is one of my parents blessings to me, I'm just gonna buy ingredients and cook us delicious food, and besides I don't want my fellow trainees to starve to death." Seokjin said then all of them exchanged smiles and agreed to their hyung. They can't refuse the offer of the eldest, now that they already bonded like family. All of them planned on what their hyung will cook soon, gimbap and tteokboki was decided, well Seokjin is a pretty good cook.

As the boys took another lesson, Rina on the other side is attending another meeting, still the same old boring financial plans and future investments. Should have signed as an accountant with all this financial meetings.

She didn't listen to the CEO's discussion, all she could think about are the boys and how she will hoist them to the top. She needed a good plan and to train the boys well, of course they need to be ready for their debut soon, still thinking when though. But first she needs to find another good vocal and dance coach, now she got her hands full.

If only Mr. Oh isn't so hard to persuade.

Frustrated, Rina and her assistant walked out of the meeting room afterwards. Da young invited Rina for lunch at a café, her senior denied, saying that she packed herself some lunch and didn't want to waste it.

Her assistant appreciated Rina's denial and just went her way for lunch carrying her bag.

The truth is, Rina didn't pack her lunch, she was planning to eat street food again, this time the plan is canceled.

Rina rode on a bus on her way to her apartment, she doesn't feel like eating at all, and if she thinks about food, a weird feeling rises up to her throat from her stomach. Probably her stomach is upset, be losing lot of weight soon if her stomach continues to be mad at her.

As Rina walked to her apartment, she heard loud noises from her neighbor's, she leaned back to take a peek to their window. She smiled in pleasure when she noticed the boys are having fun inside, having lunch, with the cooking and all.

She broke her stare then heads to her apartment.

Rina left her shoes as she entered the house, taking her jacket off and hangs it by the door.

She went straight to her cupboard and gathered two packs of instant noodles. Placing a small wok with water on the stove then placed the noodles in as usual.

She needs to eat in order not to starve and to gain weight. Rina is actually

169.3cm tall and 99.2 pounds, been obsessed in gaining weight over the past years, but all the results are useless. Now she just doesn't care, the important thing is that she is alive and breathing.

The noodles is almost done, she carefully placed it on the table and fetched a small bowl and spoon and chopsticks from the cupboard.

Just before she was gonna have a first bite, a knock on the door stopped her. She stood up and heads to the door, wondering who could it be.

When Rina opened the door, a young boy with a boxy smile is standing before her, bearing a bright aura and light emotions.

"Taehyung?" Asked Rina bewildered.

"I knew it was you manager! And why didn't you tell us we were neighbors?!" Taehyung pouted, looking as cute as ever.

Rina laughed. "I just wanted you to know figure it out yourselves. Anyways what are you doing here?"

Taehyung scratched his head and smiled nervously.

"I was just curious, I spotted someone looking through our window and thought that it was you, so I went out to check it."

Rina nodded, looking convinced at Taehyung's reasons.

"So you guys finished your lunch?"

"Yeah, Yoongi hyung and Jimin are washing the dishes now, and you know what manager? Seokjin hyung is a very good cook and also very generous, he bought ingredients for the food using his allowance, I kind of felt awkward when hyung offered it." Taehyung replied. Rina's eyes were wide when hearing the part about Seokjin. It must been hard for the boys not to have food to eat, thankfully Seokjin was there to take care of the boys. And that worries her again.

Rina was looking at the ground dazed, Taehyung was peeking at his manager's face, wondering if she is not stressing out.

"Manager? Is everything alright?" Taehyung asked worried, Rina snapped up the thoughts and lifted her head at Taehyung and made a fake smile.

"I'm okay Taehyung, really." Rina said.

Taehyung didn't seemed to believe it, but then he lighten up.

"Okay, I believe you manager!" Taehyung exclaimed, his expression was so overwhelming that Rina's glum face vanished.

Taehyung is so cute...

Rina thought

Rina looked back at her small kitchen, darting her eyes at her noodles then back at Taehyung who is still wearing the same smile.

"Taehyung, I was planning to buy things at a store, do you mind helping me?" Rina asekd nicely.

"Sure! I will carry all those heavy stuff manager, as you can see I am strong!"

Taehyung answered happily, showing his small biceps in his right arm which caused Rina to laugh.

"Haha, alright we'll go right now."

"Okay, I'll go get my jacket in a jiffy manager!"

Taehyung ran back to their apartment as Rina quickly ate her noodles until nothing was left, almost choked though.

Afterwards, the both of them rode on a bus, as Manager and trainee relationship slowly starts to grow.