Talking Eyes, Mia Lafreve Pedretti [beach read book .txt] 📗

he said. Inside there were the most envied music groups of all music industry. 2NE1 and Big Bang, the king and queens of digital sales. Ji Yong included obviously. That jerk. I instantly thought. Ignore him, ignore him. Act like he isn’t even there. I said mentally to myself stepping in the room. But they all looked likebthey were busy with something. "Oh Je som hamnida. I didn't know you were occupied." I said to the president. “I’ll get back later.” I said and I was about to walk away when he called me back. I stayed next to the door though.

"We were just fooling around.” He said. “Come ahead.” He invited me in.

"But I don't want to disturb." I replied still staying next to the door.

He stood up from the chair. “You don’t disturb at all.” He insisted. “Just come ahead and tell me what you have to say. What are you squeezing over your chest anyway?”  He asked me.

“Ah..de. These are..”I mumbled shyly. Damn it! They’re all staring at me. Better make it short and go out of here! “These are the guidelines and some songs, that me and the girls wrote for the new album, this morning untill afternoon.” I said in a hurry.

But everybody’s eyes grew wide at the word ‘album’. Just like Yang Suk Ki eoni when I told her about it. “Eh?” They exclaimed, all very surprised. The president was surprised too, but not like them.

“Borago? You have already wrote a new album?” Choi Seung Hyun asked, the most disbelieved of all.

“Aniyo! Kuge anira.” I instantly waved my hands. “We’ve just wrote a few songs and demos. Just that, for the new album.” I said. I couldn't understand why they were all so surprised. I mean they surely could  write more songs in a day than anyone else in the building. Especially that guy with blond hair that was avoiding my eyes. “I just wanted to give them to you president.” I said in a hurry again.

“I heard from your manager that you were composing new songs.” The president said smirking. “I think it’s a great thing.” He smiled proud.

I smiled too. They all nodded, but some looked still surprised. "Why did you decide to write another album so suddenly Yumi-ha?" Chaerin eoni asked me.

“Well..we were tired of doing nothing so..” I said shrugging. To tell the truth, it was me that was tired of doing nothing but read mangas. But I kept that for myself.

“But it hasn't been even a month since you've debuted!” Choi Seung Hyun insisted. “Shouldn't you enjoy your break?” It sounded more like a complain than a question.

“Hyun's right.” Dae Sung concerned.

“I know but..we were..bored.” I mumbled.

“You’ve worked hard for your mini album. And now that you’ve just debuted, you start to work again.” He said concerned too. “Slow down, take a rest and enjoy completely your break Yumi-ha. I can even see the bags under your eyes from here!" Like always Choi Seung Hyun was right and he also had that damn eagle-sight of his. Aish. What’s the big problem with working anyway? It’s my choice not his. I thought and glared at him.

I moved uncomfortably on one foot and another. “I don’t have bags.” I replied, but he and Youngbae were already coming towards me and tease mean. I acted normal till they started to touch it “kumane!” I winned in the end.

"Look here! Waaa..They're so big!" Yongbae said to his pal.

“Ok.Okay! I have them. Now stop it!" I confessed in the end and begged them to leave me alone. Yongbae returned to his chair chuckling, but that damn Choi Seung Hyun didn't leave me in peace. "What do you want Oppa?" I asked him a little irritated.

“Can I take a tiny peak at your work. Eh? Please!" He begged me, doing an aegyo face.

“No.” I replied right away. “Nobody can listen to them but the president." I holded tightly our songs upon my chest.

"Oh Come on!" He whimepered.

"No."

"Jebal!"

"No."

"Pleeeease!"

"Noooo!" We continued like this for a while. Everybody laughed seeing us "fighting". It took me a lot to not check if Ji Yong was laughing too. The president lightened his throat catching my attention back. I pushed aside that annoying yet funny guy, known as Choi Seung Hyun and went directly in front of the president’s desk.

"Sorry president. I got carried away." I excused myself. Then I layed on the desk the Lyric’s sheets and the memory stick with the songs in it. “Here they are.”

He asked to Youngbae to lend me an empty chair to sit in. And when the both of us were comfy sat on the chairs, he spoke. “So.. How many songs you guys wrote today?” He asked taking a look at the sheets.

“Three with all the members and two by myself.” Well I wrote three songs, if you want to include the one about the heroes, but I didn't want to brag.

“Did you used all the instruments? I mean for your own songs.” He asked while he kept leafing through the Lyric’s sheets.

“I just played the piano and Yang Suk Ki eoni inserted a few layers with both her voice and classic guitar. For the other one, it seemed more suitable to play it as a band, but with more delicacy of the violin of Kim Min Hae and les hard beat of the drums. A simple song that everyone could sing and play without trying too hard. But I have to admit that there are still some parts that I'd like to improve." I said pausing just one time. "Fix some ambushes in the lyrics and record the songs immediately to not lose too much time."

“There're not enough for entire album, you know that right?” He pointed out.

“Yes, I know.” I nodded. “We're gonna write some more songs obviously. We thought that we could do also some collaborations with others artists, to fill up the album you know. In case we don’t reach the appropriate number of songs.”

He nodded, put aside the music sheets and looked at me. "And did you think with whom you'd like to have a featuring?" He asked. He looked around the room and I knew what he was thinking. But it was too early to have a featuring with those gods of the music industry. And plus I wanted to have a featuring when our band was more popular. By its own, without the help of any yg artists.

“Well..we didn't think that that..for now." Of course I wanted to collaborate with some artist, I would have loved to work with Nell or Radio Head, but the problem was, do they want to collaborate with us? 

“Okay, I'll take a listen to these songs and then we will think about the collaborations." The president replied. "I'm going to wait also for the others songs you guys will write.” He added.  While we were talking everyone remained in silence. That made me uncomfortable.

“De. I hope you'll like them.” I mumbled.

“I hope that too.” He replied smiling at me.

“We worked hard on them.”

"I know you've worked hard.”

"Yeah we really worked hard.”

The president looked annoyed by my chatter now. "Okay, kuman." He sounded also concerned. “Relax. You're too nervous." Everybody nodded in agreement.

Choi Seung Hyun approached me from behind, and patted my shoulders. “You should really relax more Yumi-chan. I'm sure they'll be amazing.” He comforted me.

“I am relaxed.” I replied convincing nobody. Neither myself.

“Of course you're not Yumi-ha. You're hands are all sweating." Park Bom said pointing at them. Actually the hands weren’t the only things sweating at the moment. The president probably noticed that and tried to comfort me.

“The songs sound promising, I'm sure they'll be good.” He said. Then he stared at me with a serious expression. “But you have to be realistic and understand that if one or two of them need to be re-wrote or even deleted, you can do nothing about it okay?"

I sighed. “De.” I muttered.

“Then relax already. Too much stress isn’t good for your health." He advised me.

“De.”

“Right, we don't need another crazy person here!" Youngbae said.

“Who's the other one?” Dae Sung asked him confused.

“This guy obviously.” He said pointing his thumb at Ji Yong. When everybody looked at him, I allowed myself to do so too. We briefly exchanged glances and stared at each other, before he broke eye contact and looked away. He looked afraid to look at me, probably because of what happened yesterday, when a certain person kissed another one without her permission. Yes, that guy kissed me and it has been even a good kiss, in a certain way, but the fact that he kissed me not because he wanted too but because he wanted to shut me up and pursue me to give in ruined everything. I did had a crush on him, but I that didn't mean that he could behave like that. I really didn't like those type of attitudes. We really need to have a talk.

Everybody agreed again and so he got mad at Youngbae. “Who's the crazy one?” He asked annoyed.

“Are you saying that you're not? With all the weeks, no months, you spend in the recording-room without taking even a nap?" Youngbae replied looking at him straight in the eyes. Ji Yong didn't reply. He knew youngbae was right.

 

"For Godness sake.." The president exclaimed catching my attention back. “Don't exaggerate like him arassò?” He warned me.

“I don't exaggerate so much..” Ji Yong mumbled, but the president ignored him.

“Ji Yong-Oppa…” I begun bringing all eyes on me again. "He's surely crazy...and a idiot." I couldn't help myself, I was still angry at him. The girls didn't know what happened between us, so they were shocked when I said that. Those who knew about it, like the president and I think Choi Seunghyun too, nodded agreed. "But he does what he needs to do because he has a goal, not because he likes it. He wants to be a good and respected artist and I admire him for that. We all have to sacrifice something to have something in return and he sacrificed the sleep for his dream." I said simply and it was indeed true. I really admired him for that.

A silence spread around the room when I finished. Daesung broke it first. "Ah my thumbs! My thumbs they're curling so much!" He squealed making a face like he had too much sugar.

“Da too! Da too!" Seungri exclaimed along. I could see that Ji Yong was happy, but also something else.. I couldn't understand.

“Me too! Ah Yumi-ha, why you alwyas make such cringy speeches?" Bom asked.

“Well..It's just what I think." I replied blushing. "Je som hamnida." Sometimes I was too cringy. I knew that.

“What you said can be true." The president cut out. "But don't ever exaggerate like him. I don't want to send you in hospital okay?” He claimed.

“Oh please not that place again." All my human's senses refused to even have a sight of that place. Just the word hospital, reminded me of all months I spent in there. No, no more hospital for me. I'm sick tired of it.

"Then don't overwork and I won't have to send you there." He replied.

"De!" I exclaimed.

"Now you can go." He ended and I couldn't wait to leave the room.

"De." I stood up and walked towads the door, when he called me back. "De?"

“You do remember that tomorrow you have that appointment with Weekly Idol as guest star don’t you?” He asked me. I nodded. “Well, we decided to send just you and not the full Sweet Stones’s members." He revealed.

"Ah." I nodded. I was a little disappointed that the girls couldn’t come with me. "Okay." I replied.

“And Choi Seunghyun will come with you.” He added. The above-cited guy smiled at me.

Weird. I just couldn't help but think. “But why with Choi Seunghyun oppa?” It's not that I didn't want to go with him, it's just that I knew that Yun Baek Ki and Kim Min Hae would have loved