Take Care of My Girlfriend Chapter 19

Chapter 19 :

Gayoon opened the door to the studio and looked around for a certain blonde boy. Her face lit up as she saw him hunched over the desk, practicing a new song. She walked over to him and lightly put her hands on his shoulder, careful of not to scare him.

“Hey.” the blonde boy looked up at the voice and a smile came over his face as he put down the song and turned his chair around.
“Hey.” Gayoon sat down on the couch next to the chair.

“Practicing again?” Yoseob nodded.
“Yeah we have a new song for our new album.” Gayoon read the lyrics over.

“Wow. Take Care of My Girlfriend. Nice title.”
“Yeah. It’s my favorite song. Junhyung actually wrote the whole song by himself.” Gayoon’s eyes widen.
“Really? I thought he usually wrote the rap only. Wow. These lyrics are deep. He must have been going through something really bad.”
“I think we all know where he got the inspiration from.” Gayoon nodded, agreeing with Yoseob.

“You know, I tried to stay out of it. It’s something Kikwang, Hyuna and Junhyung should figure out for themselves. I don’t think the rest of the members have any idea what’s going on. So anyway I came to look for you for a reason.”
“Really?” Yoseob’s eyes lit up. “Do you have a present for me? Gimme Gimme!” Yoseob jumped in anticipation. Gayoon laughed at the action and got out a package from her purse.
“Here. When we went to Phillippines, I found the dried mangos that you love so much so I bought the whole big bag.” Yoseob grabbed the bag from Gayoon’s hands and kissed it hard.

“Thank you.” The boy cheered. “That’s why I love you Gayoon.” Gayoon blushed at his words. “But not as much as I love these mangoes.”
“Yah!! How can you love those mangoes more than you love me?” Gayoon pouted. Aegyo was not her thing but being around Yoseob brings out all different sides of her.
“Ok ok. I love you, way more than the mangoes.” Yoseob mumbled as he stuffed a bunch of dried mango in his mouth.
“I love you too.” Gayoon whispered but Yoseob didn’t hear it since he was too focused on eating.

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Kikwang ran down the hallway of Cube, searching for Junhyung. Kikwang had a plan and he was going to go through with it, no matter what happens next. He ran past several room where trainees were practicing and ran past the recording studio. He paused for a while, seeing Yoseob and Gayoon in there, laughing their heads off at something like it’s the funniest thing they see. Kikwang looked through the window and flinched as he saw Yoseob caressed Gayoon’s finger.

Caressed, not in a friendly oh-you’re-so-cute way but in a I-think-I-like-you way and for some reason, Kikwang’s anger boiled at the sight. Seriously, what was wrong with everyone? Don’t they have any loyalty left? Kikwang immediately thought of Hyungseung, wondering if he knew that Yoseob and Gayoon were getting so closer, day by day.

But he forced himself to look away and shift his focus back onto his plan. He already had one backstabbing member on his hand, he didn’t want to involve himself in Hyungseung/Gayoon/Yoseob triangle, although they seemed clueless that there even is a love triangle.

He finally found the rapper in the dance practice room, working on the choreography for their new song. Kikwang took a deep breath and walked in in the room and watched Junhyung dance. After the last note of Shock ebbed away, Junhyung finally turned his attention to him and Kikwang threw a towel at him.
“Thanks.” Junhyung wiped his sweat off and took a seat on the floor next to Kikwang.
“Good job.”
“Oh. Yeah. Prepix has killer choreo.”
“yeah. I really should practice more but you know when you have a girlfriend, she comes first.”

Kiwang noticed Junhyung tensed for a millisecond but quickly returned to normal. He smirked to himself.

“So you’ve been practicing a lot lately. You need to go out more and have fun.”
“Nah.” Junhyung replied. “The comeback is more important. Besides, I missed a lot since I was promoting Change with Hyuna.”
“But you got to take a break sometimes, man. I got an idea, how about we go out tonight? Just you and me.”

Junhyung raised his eyebrows. “Where?”
“I heard there was a party tonight. We can go there.”
“What about the others?”

“They can come if they want to. The person I want to be there is you. So come on. What do you say man?”
“Fine. I guess. But I don’t want to stay too long.”
“Whatever. Why don’t you get back to practicing. I’m gonna go.” Kikwang got up and left the rapper alone.

Kikwang closed the door and sighed to himself. He needed to make sure that his plan was going to go perfectly. He had a phone call to make.

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“Oh. Sorry. I didn’t know you were here.” Hyuna opened the door to the dance room to find Junhyung sitting on the floor, wiping his sweat off. “I’m gonna go.”
“No. stay.” Junhyung found himself saying. Hyuna smiled and took a seat next to Junhyung.

“So what are you doing here?” Junhyung asked. Then his expression went from a tired one to a concerned one when he saw Hyuna. “Are you ok?”
Hyuna smiled sadly. “Yeah. I just talked to my mom. I’m just a little homesick.”

“Is she ok?”
“Yeah. She’s fine. Everyone’s fine. I just miss her a lot. Her birthday is coming up soon and I can’t even go back home for it. We have schedule all next week. It’s just around those times, I just want to be back home.”

Junhyung smiled in understanding. “I know what you mean. I miss my family too. Especially my mom. You know when I was living at home, she would nag at me a lot.”
“So that’s where you got your nagging from.” Hyuna teased, hoping to lightened the mood. Junhyung glared at her a little and soon broke into a smile.
“Yah!” He pouted. “Like I was saying, I never realized how much I miss her nagging until she wasn’t there to nag at me anymore.”

“So you’re saying, if you stopped nagging, we’re going to miss it?” Hyuna thought about it for a while. “Nah, I don’t think so.”
“Yah, so what? You’re not going to miss me if I’m gone?”
“of course I would.” Hyuna replied quickly. “I don’t know what I would do if…anyway, I want to get something really nice for my mom. Any suggestion?”
“Hmm.”

“What? You seem to be thinking of something.”
“Yeah. But I don’t think you’ll like it.”
“Tell me.” Hyuna pulled on Junhyung’s sleeves, begging him to tell her what he was thinking about.

“Ok ok. Geez, you’re impossible.”
“You know you love me.” Hyuna retorted as Junhyung could only smile. “So tell me, you seem to have a great idea.”
“I was just thinking of what I wanted to do. You know how I always wanted to get a tattoo right?”

“Yeah since forever. So?”
“I was going to get one but I had no idea what kind I should get. But hearing you talk about your mom, it gives me a great idea. I think I want to get a tattoo about my mom.”
“Really? That’s so cool. But what do it have to do with me?”

“I was thinking you can get one too. For your mom’s birthday present. You know, dedicate it to your mom.” Hyuna stared at Junhyung and suddenly her eyes lit up.
“Omo, Oppa. That’s such a great idea. A tattoo dedicated to my mother. You know she has a tattoo too so I’m totally sure she’ll love it.” Junhyung smiled.

“Glad to know I can help.”
“But would the President let me, let us have a tattoo?”
“We can get permission. But I’m sure he will. He’s lenient on stuff like these. Not like other Presidents.”
“Let’s go ask him right now.”

“Right now? I’m sweating.” Hyuna wouldn’t take no for an answer and pulled Junhyung up and dragged him to the President’s office, excited about their tattoos.

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“Come on, man. Look more excited will you?” Kikwang was literally dragging Junhyung out of the van and into an unknown building. Junhyung growled at Kikwang, shrugging himself off from Kikwang’s strong grip. He made a mental note to himself to work out more so he wouldn’t be so weak.

“Where is this?” Junhyung asked as he looked up the building. He was pretty sure that it was one of the idol’s dorm seeing as how there are other several idols that lives in the same building. But he had no idea where Kikwang was dragging him off to. He just wanted to go in, drink a little and go home so he can wallow in self -pity and think of ideas for what his tattoo should say.

“It’s a surprise. Come on. Man hurry up.” they entered the elevator and Kikwang pressed the button for the 13th floor. The ride up there was quiet, Junhyung was dozing off and Kikwang was twitching in nervousness. Finally they arrived at their destination and stepped off the elevator.

“This way.” Kikwang led the way and knocked on the door. Junhyung raised his eyebrows in confusion. Kikwang had said that there was a party but it was too quiet for there to be a party and there weren’t enough shoes outside the door. Something was up.

Finally the door opened and Junhyung was face to face with smiling Hyomin. She quickly opened the door and gestured the two guys in. Junhyung immediately turned his fiery gaze towards Kikwang who had an innocent look on his face.

“Kikwang.” He growled quietly but he was ignored.
“Come in guys.” Hyomin invited the guys in and Kikwang dragged Junhyung inside.

Junhyung looked around the dorm and found it to be empty, just the three of them. The party that Kikwang was talking about was obviously a lie, a complete set up, concocted by his member standing next to him with a victorious smirk on his face.

“I thought there was a party tonight.” Junhyung asked Kikwang.
“I lied. Hehe.” Kikwang smiled. “I just wanted to get you over here.”
“What the hell are you doing?” Junhyung whispered into Kikwang’s ear and then turned to Hyomin who had a smile on her face.

“I made dinner.” she pointed to a table set up for two in the dining room. “Are you guys hungry?” she asked, her question directed for Junhyung only.

“Yeah. He’s starving.” Kikwang answered for Junhyung who was starting to piece together what’s happening. “Come on man. Go sit down.” Kikwang pushed Junhyung toward the chair and pushed him to sit down.

“Great.” Hyomin looked at Kikwang and hinted to Kikwang toward the door, signaling for him to leave.
“Oh. I forgot. I have a date with Hyuna. She’s probably waiting for me right now. So I’m gonna go.”

“I’ll go with you.” Junhyung started to get up but Kikwang pushed him back down.
“No stay. Hyomin made all these food. It would be horrible for it to go to waste. Just stay and have dinner with her. I’ll be heading out first. And Junhyung, I’ll take the van back first. You probably won’t need it tonight.” he winked at Hyomin who was now blushing, hint of red on her face matching the hint of red in Junhyung’s eyes, showing his anger.

“Bye-yum.” and with that, Kikwang was gone, his plan executed perfectly.

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“So.” Hyomin started nervously. She has been sitting across Junhyung for over thirty minutes now and it had been awkward to say the least. Junhyung just sat there, not saying much and not eating anything, looking as if he would rather be anywhere else in the world but there at the moment.

“It was really great running into you and Hyungseung the other day.” Hyomin tried to make conversation which only got a tight smile in return. “Soyeon and Hyungseung really seemed to hit it off too.”

“That’s impossible. He likes Gayoon.” Junhyung answered quickly.
“Are you sure? Because he has been calling Soyeon ever since that night.” Junhyung looked at Hyomin.Hyungseung and Soyeon? What happened to Gayoon? Honestly, he had been so wrapped up in his own drama with Hyuna that he had been totally clueless with what’s going on with everyone else.

“That night, I think it started a lot of things.” Hyomin started. “I mean, it started a lot of feelings. Didn’t it?” Junhyung took a sip of his water and shrugged.
“Sure. I guess.”

“I know it did for me. This is kind of embarrassing to say but ever since that night….aigoo. I think I have feelings for you. I even had Hyuna give you my number.” Junhyung suddenly seemed to perk up at the mention of Hyuna and Hyomin seemed to noticed.

“DId she give it to you?” Hyomin asked, wanting to make sure that her so-called friend did what she asked her to do.
Junhyung couldn’t stop himself from thinking back to that night. The night that Hyuna gave him Hyomin’s number. He remembered everything perfectly, as if it happened last night instead of several nights ago. He remembered how Hyuna’s lips tasted, how she felt under his touch, how he felt kissing her. It was something he couldn’t get out of his head.

“Junhyung?” Hyomin’s voice broke him out of his thoughts. “Are you ok?”
“I got to go.” Junhyung said, standing up. Hyomin stood up too.

“Why?”
“I just…I can’t. I’m sorry.” Junhyung said but was stopped by Hyomin grabbing his hands.
“Why? Why can’t you? I told you I like you. I confessed to you. Why can’t you accept me?”

Junhyung didn’t answer but instead just stood there, emotionless.
“Is there someone else you like?” Hyomin asked, her voice small. “There is isn’t there?”

Junhyung looked away. “I’m sorry.”
“Yong Junhyung. Tell me who it is. Tell me who it is that you like.”
“I can’t tell you. I’m sorry Hyomin but I just see you as a friend.”

Hyomin started to tear up. “But Kikwang told me you liked me. He told me that you had feelings for me too. That’s why he offered to help me. Why would he lie to me?”

Junhyung thought it over in his mind, his anger growing by the second. Why did Kikwang offered to help Hyomin when he had no idea how Junhyung felt about Hyomin? Why did Kikwang dragged him here to her dorm in this lame set up? Why would Kikwang do it?

“I don’t know.” he mumbled to himself. He shrugged himself out of Hyomin’s grip and made his way out of the apartment.

“Hyuna!” Junhyung suddenly stopped at the word. “It’s Hyuna isn’t it? The person that you like is Hyuna.”

Junhyung turned back to face Hyomin, unable to say anything. “You like Hyuna.” It was more of a statement than a question. Hyomin suddenly pieced everything together in her mind. Junhyung likes Hyuna, Kikwang is dating Hyuna, Hyomin likes Junhyung so Kikwang used her to get Junhyung away from Hyuna. She closed her eyes in frustrating, anger and embarassment. And judging by the look on Junhyung’s face, it looked like he figured it out too and he wasn’t too happy with it.

“I gotta go.” Junhyung’s voice was raspy, anger and hurt mixed in and he left the dorm, on his way to see Kikwang.

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He opened the door in anger and found the person he was looking for immediately. He marched over to him and lifted him over by his collar, his eyes piercing with hatred.

“WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING LEE KIKWANG?” Yoseob was taken aback by Junhyung’s attack on Kikwang but even more surprised by how Kikwang didn’t look so shock or scared at all. Instead he had a satisfied smirk on his face. What was going on?

“I’m asking you Kikwang? What’s the big idea?” Junhyung’s hold on Kikwang tightened but didn’t seem to affect Kikwang.

“Junhyung. Stop it! Let Kikwang go!” Yoseob, the only member there, tried to loosened Junhyung’s grip on Kikwang but the rapper wouldn’t budge. “Let him go! What the hell is going on with you guys?”

“Why don’t you ask him?” Junhyung finally let Kikwang go and Kikwang shrugged it off.
“Kwangie, what’s going on? What did you do?”
“I didn’t do anything.”

“Yeah right. You didn’t do anything. You freaking set me up. You had no right to do that.” Kikwang scoffed.
“I had no right?”
“Hyomin told me everything. How you offered to help her! How you told her that I liked her even though you knew shit about how I felt about her.” Junhyung yelled out, his frustration clearly showing.

“What?” Yoseob was still not following what’s happening. When did Hyomin get in the picture?

“Hey she liked you and I thought you should find someone. I was trying to help you and this is how you repay me?” Junhyung’s glare got colder.
“You were trying to help me?” Junhyung scoffed. “Yeah f***ing right. You were doing it for yourself and you know it!”

Kikwang suddenly saw red and couldn’t contain his anger toward Junhyung any longer.

“What if I was huh? What if I was? I had to do something to get your f***ing hands away fromMYgirlfriend.”
“I told you I would let her go.”

“REALLY? Is that why I saw you kissing her the other night in the park? Because you let her go.” the two were yelling at each other now, Yoseob unable to stop what was going on.
“You saw us?”

“Of course I freaking did. How dumb do you think I am? I saw everything Junhyung. How you were all over her. As far as I’m concerned, you are the one who effed up here! I’m just simply repaying you and keeping you away from my girlfriend.”
“So you just used Hyomin? That night what you saw was an one time thing.”

“I don’t give a damn if it was one time thing. It shouldn’t have happened!” Kikwang screamed. “I asked you specifically if you were ok with it. I even asked for your damn permission and you said yes. You let her go to me. I trusted you man. You were like my brother! I believed you even though my gut was telling me not to.”

Junhyung didn’t want to say anything. He just shook his head. “I did want to let her go. I did everything to forget about her. I wanted you to have her.”

“Yet, you were kissing her behind my back!”
“I’m sorry.” Junhyung whispered.

“I don’t give a damn if you’re sorry. Because you still kiss my girlfriend. MY GIRLFRIEND. And for that.” Kikwang suddenly punched Junhyung across the face. Junhyung fell back and landed on the floor with a thud. Yoseob immediately rushed over to Junhyung to help him up but Junhyung shrugged his helping hands off.

“Get up man.” Kikwang ordered. “Get up and take it like a man.”

Junhyung wiped the blood off his mouth and forced himself to get up and face Kikwang. Kikwang clenched his fist and punched Junhyung again.

“Kikwang. Stop it!” Yoseob interjected, stopping Kikwang from hitting Junhyung again.

“Yeah you would take his side Yang Yoseob! After all, you’re doing the same thing he is.” Kikwang turned his anger towards Yoseob.

A look of confusion swept over Yoseob’s face. “What are you talking about?”

“I saw you and Gayoon together. Of course you would defend that backstabber since you’re backstabbing Hyungseung with Gayoon yourself.”

Yoseob looked like he was punched in the gut by Kikwang himself, an expression of guilt and unbearable pain was written all over Yoseob’s face. He looked like a baby wounded by someone he trusted.

“Kikwang, leave Yoseob out of this. The person that you’re angry at is me.” Kikwang scoffed.

“WHAT THE HELL?” Doojoon, Hyungseung and Dongwoon walked into the mess going on in their dorms. Their eyes shifted from Yoseob who looked as if he was about to cry, Kikwang with such hatred in his eyes that they have never seen before with his fists clenched tight and Junhyung who was bleeding.

“TELL ME!” the leader took charge. “What’s going on?”
“Why don’t you ask him?” Kikwang pointed at Junhyung. Doojoon turned to Junhyung, anticipating an answer.

Junhyung sighed. “I messed up. I kissed Hyuna.” Doojoon closed his eyes, understanding everything.

“I knew this would happen.” the leader whispered to himself. “Kikwang, Junhyung let’s just calm down and talk about this.”

“No. I don’t need to calm down. And I certainly don’t want to talk to that traitor right there.”

“Kikwang sit!” Doojoon ordered. “We avoided for long enough. It’s time we solve this problem. NOW!”

The six members sat down on the floor, ready to solve this dilemma once and for all.


End of Chapter Nineteen. (Credits to twinkinglibra@4-Minute.com)