Keeping a secret

Sharing My Celebrity Boyfriend

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Written by Authoress Kamara

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Episode 4

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~~Park Eunji~~

My mouth gapes open and i furrow my eyebrows at the man who I'm starting to slowly recognize.

"Minjun-Oppa ?".

He shushes me again at my loud and surprised voice. "You need to shut up ".

Scowling, I repeatedly smack him on the arm and he flinches back in confusion. "Hey, what are you doing? Eunji, stop! Eunji". He helps helplessly at my attacks.

I stand to my feet. "Why the hell did you kidnap me? Are you crazy ?". I once again yell as I'm still pissed off at him.

He also stands to his feet and scoffs taking off his black mask. "Me? Me being crazy? You are the one who's screaming at the top of your lungs like a mad woman".

"Only because you thought it was a good idea to kidnap me".

He pinches the bridge of his nose. "I wasn't trying to kidnap you ".

"Then why did you drag me along with you ?".

"It was an impulse, I panicked ". He raises his hand in defense.

I sigh and place my hands on my hips.

"Well because of your so called impulse, I've now lost my new earrings which I just literally bought ".

"Who cares? My life was in danger". Minjun then places his hands on his knees still trying to catch his breath. "You have no idea how long I've been trying to run away from those girls ".

"Why were you running from them in the first place ? Well other than the fact that they looked crazy while constantly shouting 'Minjun Oppa!' ".

"You remember in the airport when I mentioned that I'll be recognized if people stare too long ?".

I nod. "Yeah ".

"Well they stared for way too long and they recognized me. They immediately started to scream and run after me so I tried to lose them in the city".

I walk towards the street and to the end of the alleyway, turning my head to look left and right for the girls. "It looks like they are gone so you are good for now ".

He hesitates before also stepping out, taking a look around and breathing out a sigh of relief, placing his mask back on his face just incase. "I swear, all I wanted to do was buy ice cream but no, apparently I can't even go shopping anymore ".

"What? So they are your stalkers?". I say a little bit confused.

Minjun shakes his head. "They are just not any stalkers."

I furrow my eyebrows and gesture with my hands for him to tell me.

"Sasaengs".

Huh?

"They are a pain in the butt". He continues speaking, huffing as he places his hands on his hips looking around. "Anyways it's too late to do what I wanted to do so I'll just head back ". He concludes nodding to himself.

I feel a little bad for him now. "Wait ".

That one word makes him stop himself from turning away.

"It isn't that late, come on. ". I gesture for him to follow me. "Or aren't you hungry for ice cream anymore ?".

Exhaling, he narrows his eyes whilst staring at me. He gives in and nods, shoving his hand into his side pockets.

"Fine. Let's go".

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I bite my lip whilst staring at all of the ice cream flavors. All of them look extremely tempting to eat right here and now.

The store Minjun and I have come into is just a local one.

We picked an empty one just in case.

It has both ice cream in tubs and ice cream to eat straight away in cones.

Everything is tempting and starting to make me want some more.

I turn around to find where Minjun went.

I spot him looking at masks on a stand and grabs a white one. He pays for it, then takes the black mask off and shoved it in his pocket.

Immediately, he puts the white one on his face replacing the other one.

He then comes over to me seeing my slight confusion. "This won't hide my identity completely but it will throw people off the scent ".

I nod. "What flavor do you like then?". I ask and look back at the ice cream tub.

He takes in a breath. "Anything, really. Oh, I don't like mint however but others are okay ". He says pointing at the light pastel ice cream tub.

"How much money do you have ?".

"Just enough ". Minjun simply replies.

I tilt my head and chuckles. "Fair enough ".

He then takes his hat off his head dumping it on top of mine a little too far down which ends up covering my eyes.

I quickly push it back up and take it off my head. "What are you doing ?".

He sighs, putting it back on my head. "Keep it on and keep it low, Eunjinie. Just in case, someone sees you with me".

What did he call me?

I peer up at Minjun from under my hat and place my hand on my hip. "Did you just call me a nickname ?".

He hums in agreement and casually carries on looking at the ice cream, like giving me a random nickname was normal for him.

Groaning, I pull the front bit down. "I still don't get why I'm wearing this but fine ".

He opens his mouth to talk but then he suddenly stops and snaps his head up to the ceiling and around him.

From his face, it looks like he's listening to the background music playing in the shop.

"What ?". I ask also listening.

He walks away from me and looks to the television playing the music in the corner of the shop, a music video.

I follow him and look at the T.V. "Oh it's that JaeMin guy". I point out remembering the music video Jia had shown me.

"Now watching it more clearer, He looks a lot like you ". I chuckle watching the man on the screen rap like crazy with the bandanna over his head looking pretty badass.

"Hmm? Oh yeah, I get that a lot". Minjun quickly blurts out and scurries back to the ice cream tubs.

My eyebrows furrow while watching him panic.

Huh, that's odd.

I turn my head back to the screen and the rapper guy appears again, coming closer to the camera, still rapping.

Wait a second.

I tilt my head, staring more and more at the man on the T.V, at JaeMin. I then turn my head to look at Minjun, who was helplessly staring at the ice cream tubs.

Is it ...?

I walk towards Minjun slowly, stopping next to him and shoving my face next to his properly to inspect him.

His eyebrows furrows and he flinches backwards. "What are you doing ?".

I gasp and cover my mouth with my hands, eyes doubling in size. I glance back at the T.V and back at Minjun, then back at the T.V and back at Minjun again.

He notices and his eyes widens when he realizes what I'm doing.

"You ... you are, ...you are JaeMin?!". I accidentally yell and he once again slams his hands on my lips and hushes me harshly.

"What is it with you and yelling my name in public?". Minjun whispers. He then sighs and removes his hand from my lips.

"My best friend was freaking out over you just last week, she was watching your music video". I say in a whisper recalling that day.

"Yeah. That was my new mixtape I just released last week".

"That's why those girls were chasing you, right ? They recognized you !". I say whilst thinking to myself.

He nods. "Yeah. That and a more bigger known reason ".

I chuckle to myself and look at him with a smile on my face. "So you are like a Kpop idol ?".

"Umm, I wouldn't call myself that". He laughs quietly.

He looks away and back to the T.V when his smile quickly fades and he looks alarmed.

Confused, I follow his gaze and see a group of girls, around 5 or 6 of them staring at us mainly at Minjun.

They are different girls to the ones chasing him before but by the looks on their faces, they pretty much have the same intentions.

Minjun doesn't speak a word instead looks around the shop but lowers his head to my level and whispers something into my ear.

"On the count of three, we run like hell".

I blink, releasing eye contact with the girls and stare at him. "Huh ?".

"One!". He takes his hands out of his pockets and to his sides still avoiding eye contact with the girls who are moving closer and closer by the second.

"Two !". Instead of grabbing my wrist like earlier, he grabs my hand properly this time.

One of the girls began screaming. "Oh my God! Look! It's JaeMin. It's Kim Minjun!!".

She yells at the top of her lungs making the other girls around her squeal and scream in realization that it's actually him.

My eyes widen as I begin to get a little creeped out.

"Three!". As soon as the number comes out of his mouth, we've already legged it out of the shop so fast that we are gone in an instant.

We hear the screams following behind us, the girls whipping out their phones and bolting straight after us.

We don't stop our pace and keep running down the street. Our hands slip out of the grasps but we still stay together whilst running.

"Where do we go?". I yell.

Minjun pants and looks around groaning frustratedly as he doesn't know himself.

"Just keep running ". He shouts back.

You don't have to tell me twice.

The sidewalk starts to end as it's cut off by a little road but that doesn't make us stop our speed of running.

However what does slow our pace down is when a black van comes skidding from around the corner, halting to a stop right in front of us.

The door slides open and a face which I've seen somewhere before emerges. He looks panicked and his panic only rises when his eyes avert to behind us, where the girls are running.

"Come on!". He yells, grabbing Minjun's arm and pulling him in.

The man then turns around and grabs my arm and does the same. He quickly slides the door back shut before the girls can attack us, literally.

"Chang-woo, go!". He yells to the driver, and the driver doesn't hesitate before pressing his foot down on the accelerator.

Both Minjun and i are extremely tired when we sit down in the van with a thud and attempt to gain our breaths back.

"You okay?". The man asks Minjun, putting his hand on his shoulder.

He nods in response too out of breath to speak and raises his thumb up at him instead. He takes his white mask off and puts it to the side, resting his head backwards on the seat.

The man then turns to me. "What about you ?".

I nod in approval to him and he smiles as a reply. "Good!".

He sits down opposite Minjun and I extending his right hand towards me to shake. "Hi. I'm Wooshik. Kim Wooshik ".

I take his hand in return.

He notices my hat and chuckles.

Oh yeah, I forgot I was wearing it.

I immediately take it off and hand it towards Minjun.

But he shakes his head pushing it back into my grasp. "I gave it to you for a reason, keep it ".

I keep the hat in my lap fiddling with the three rings pierced in the front part.

The van then pulls over to the side of the road and then stops. The driver turns around and looks at me with a stern but friendly facial expression. "Where do you live ?".

I cock my head back, surprised by his words.

He sighs at my slightly worried face. "So we can take you home ?".

Oh.

I chuckle in embarrassment and lean forward informing him of my apartment address. The driver nods and starts up the van again beginning to drive.

The van is filled with silence, Wooshik occasionally looking at the two of us and then moving his eyes out of the window.

His shoulders really are big, aren't they?

Minjun also just glues his eyes out the window.

I can't help but feel the awkwardness in the van.

I think Wooshik and Minjun feel it too as he shifts uncomfortably in his chair every now and then.

"Oh yeah". Minjun then breaks the silence and turns to me. "Sorry for losing your earrings ".

Huh.

I had forgotten about them.

I shrug. "It's fine. They are gone now, so there's nothing we can do about it ".

Wooshik sighs again at him. "Really? You lost her earrings ".

"By accident". He replies. "I ran into her when I was trying to get away from some sasaengs and I accidentally knocked them out of her hands ".

His friend goes still. "Sasaengs ?".

Minjun nods. He then looks over at me and I look at him. And as soon we make eye contact, we began to smile.

We then burst out laughing at the same time, our laughter filling Wooshik's ears who doesn't seem impressed.

"Why are you laughing ? This is serious !". Wooshik's loud voice rises at both of us.

To be honest, he makes a valid good point.

We both could have gotten jumped on and mobbed and probably would have been more violent with me after they saw I'm a girl with their 'Oppa'.

So maybe this wasn't funny as I thought.

Maybe it's because we both looked like lunatics whilst running crazily down the street from also crazy girls.

Wooshik groans frustratedly and massages his forehead. "It's been a very long night ".

After our laughter dies down, we finally reach my apartment building and the van slows down to a stop outside it.

Wooshik gets out of his chair and slides the door open peeking his head out. "Ok, coast is clear". He says and looks back at me with a smile.

I smile and nod. "Thank you. And uh... ". I trail off whilst looking at the driver. "Sorry, what's your name ?".

He sees me looking at him with lost expression and sighs adjusting his glasses. "I'm Kim Changwoo ".

I nod. "Thank you, Changwoo". I repeat.

He bows his head with a smile. "No worries ".

He then remembers something and leans forward a little. "Oh and it's best you stay quiet about all of this".

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TBC

Written by Authoress Kamara