0 ]Fanfiction: [Wondergirls] We got what? - Chapter 1

Chapter One
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“The Wondergirls have arrived home! After a gruelling tour schedule in the U.S, the five member group has finally arrived back in Korea for upcoming promotions and performances...”
The girls had just returned to their Seoul apartment, with most of them automatically going into their rooms. The loud news report coming from the lounge television however, quickly brought Ye Eun out of hers.
“Ahh Sohee do you really have to be watching TV right now?,” Ye Eun asked their youngest member.
Sohee, who had currently taken to curling up on their couch with her head under one of the pillows merely groaned out a short response.
“Tv?”
“You turned it on,” Ye Eun replied as she sighed and reached for the remote, thinking how tired Sohee must be.
“Oh that. Yes. I turned it on for no reason and then I was too tired to turn it off,” Sohee said.
Ye Eun switched the television off and took a seat next to her.
“You are like a cat,” Ye Eun said with a sad smile. “Sunmi was right.”
Sohee sat up for a moment and looked thoughtfully at her unnie.
“You miss her don’t you?,” she asked the older girl.
“Of course I do,” Ye Eun replied. “Don’t you?”
Sohee nodded slowly.
“I miss her,” she conceded. “And I know Sunye-unnie and Yoobin-unnie miss her too. But you miss her.”
Ye Eun swallowed the frog in her throat as she tried to avoid eye contact.
“I think you burnt yourself out Sohee, maybe you should get to bed, she said.
“Well you’re right about that unnie, you only want to take care of me so I’ll do as you say,” Sohee replied with a yawn as she made her way up off the couch and started wandering to her room.
Ye Eun was almost able to breathe out a sigh of relief until Sohee suddenly stopped. A short moment passed between them. It was as if Ye Eun’s silent prayer to have Sohee drop the subject made the younger girl a little hesitant to pursue it further.
Unfortunately for Ye Eun, recent events caused Sohee to care a little too much.
“Ye Eun unnie?”
“Hmm?”
“I’m right about Sunmi.”
Ye Eun paused for a second before a surge of honesty escaped through her lips.
“I know.”
She merely hoped it was the tiredness speaking.
==/==
Sohee nodded to herself before continuing to walk back to her room. Her body was tired but she couldn’t stop her mind from drifting to Sunmi, to the memories they shared to the laughter, the teasing, the happiness and the tears.
Memories from their trainee days flashed through Sohee’s mind like a slideshow and she felt old emotions invade her senses.
“I understand why you’re scared Ye Eun unnie,” Sohee said as she consciously stopped her hand from landing over her heart, forcing it to messily run through her hair instead. “Feelings are dangerous.”
==/==
“What the heck was that about?,” Sunye asked Yoobin as they thought about what they had just seen transpire between the other two members.
“No idea,” Yoobin replied. “It was kind of emotional. I felt... emotions. Did you feel emotions?”
“I think everyone is feeling emotions right now,” Sunye said amusedly as she caught Yoobin’s look.
“Even you?,” Yoobin asked with a wink.
“Oh be quiet.”
“Unnie this and that when there are cameras but when it’s just us it’s ‘be quiet’? Oh Min Sunye what a sly fox you are!”
Sunye replied with an eyeroll as she pushed Yoobin out of her room and shut the door, a smile playing on her lips as she heard the older girl still standing outside.
“Min Sunye! SunMinye! Minye! You shouldn’t treat your unnie like this!”
==/==
The following morning the girls were surprised to find that Ye Eun had left a note saying that she’d gone for a walk.
“Gone for a walk?,” Yoobin asked quizzically. “When has she ever just ‘gone for a walk’?”
“There was that one time, when we first arrived in New York,” Sunye replied as she helped a silent Sohee prepare breakfast.
“That was different,” Yoobin said while shaking her head.
“That’s true,” Sunye quipped. “Wasn’t that more like ‘gone for a walk, want to eat bagels’ or something like that?”
“I’m going for a walk,” Sohee suddenly said after a while.
The unnies watched her quickly gather her phone, wallet and jacket before walking out.
“Why are walks so popular these days?,” Sunye asked.
“Maybe it’s the mood. The love mood,” Yoobin replied earning herself an eyeroll from the leader.
“I don’t know how you can convince people you’re normal unnie I really don’t,” Sunye said with a laugh.
==/==
Just outside the door of the Wonder-apartment Sohee stood staring at her phone.
“To call or not to call,” she said softly to herself.
She flicked through the numbers until she found the one she always subconsciously tried to skip when skimming her address book.
“Call,” she said out loud when she’d decided. A few moments later, after she’d pressed the hang-up button after she’d heard a voice answer Sohee lay her head against the door. “That call did not go well,” she told herself.
Staring once again at the phone, she accused it of betraying her.
“How could you let me make that call? Bad phone!”
As if in reply to her, the phone suddenly started ringing.
“I take it back I take it back!,” Sohee said in a panic as she flipped it open and unwittingly answered it. “Hello?”
“It’s rude to hang up on someone you called!”
“H... Hyun-A...”
“That’s my name! So I heard the mighty Wondergirls had arrived back in town, when do I get to see you again? It’s been so long and you don’t even bother to contact me!”
“It’s not ... like that,” Sohee said as she tried not to stutter, getting even more nervous due to the other girl’s confident laugh on the other line.
“It’s fine it’s fine,” Hyun-A said. “As long as you treat me the next time you see me.”
“Umm, ok I guess I could do that,” Sohee said as she found herself agreeing.
Hyun-A gave a happy squeal on the other end of the line and Sohee smiled to herself. The Hyun-A speaking to her was incredibly different from the sexy 4minute member and successful solo artist adorning posters these days.
“Great, when are you free today?,” Hyun-A asked, breaking Sohee out of her silent reverie.
“What?,” Sohee replied with undisguised surprise.
“Oh come on Sohee that’s cruel! You didn’t just agree and think that you’d never come to see me right?”
“No I’ll see you. I need your help with something anyway,” Sohee replied. ‘Control yourself Ahn Sohee control control control.’
“I’m free now! Meet me at the recording studios ok? I’ll wait for you. Don’t be too late!”
“And she leaves me with a dial tone. Way to not be in control Sohee,” the girl told herself as she made her way to their meeting place.
==/==
Just outside the recording studios-
“Sohee! You’re late!,” Hyun-A said as she pounced on her old friend.
“What did you expect me to do, fly here?,” Sohee asked as coolly as she could.
“Ha, I wouldn’t put it past you to have super powers! So what’s the news? You need my help with something? Is it a love thing? Are you in love?”
“Yes,” Sohee replied, cringing as soon as the word left her lips.
Hyun-A’s mouth gaped at the surprising information.
“What did you say?!!”
“It’s a love thing, shut up!,” Sohee said as she tried to hide her blush.
“I love love things!”
Sohee then spent the next fifteen minutes explaining the situation to the easily excitable Hyun-A.
“Ye Eun-unnie?! With Sunmi?! Ah...”
Sohee frowned at the reaction. It seemed to her that Hyun-A was thinking something strange already.
“What, what ah? What’s that ah?,” Sohee asked the other girl cautiously.
Hyun-A struck a thoughtful pose and began stroking an invisible beard.
“Predictable. You should mix things up a bit, makes the story more exciting.”
‘How can this idiot be so weird and yet so sexy... I mean styled sexy... imaged sexy... for work... why can’t I control my thoughts?!’ Sohee thought to herself as she frantically massaged her temples. “Ya. I didn’t make that up!,” she said aloud when she figured out that Hyun-A was smiling at her while waiting for an answer.
“I have a plan,” Hyun-A stated as Sohee cleared her throat.
“And I have worries,” Sohee said causing the other girl to laugh again. “Does it involve dangerous animals?”
Hyun-A paused for a moment.
Sohee developed a twitch in her right eye.
“No,” Hyun-A decided.
The twitch stopped.
“But it does involve me calling in a few favours,” Hyun-A continued as she pulled out a pad of paper out of nowhere.
“What are you doing now?,” Sohee asked.
“Shh genius at work,” Hyun-A replied.
After a few moments, Hyun-A waved stood up and made a show of clearing her throat.
“Are you ready for this revalation Ahn Sohee? Are you? Are you ready?!”
Sohee took the opportunity to snatch the pad away from her crush and was surprised to find only one line of text written on it.
Hyun-A looked at her expectantly waiting to be showered with praise.
“Huh, huh? What do you think? I’m a genius right? Right?”
Sohee didn’t know whether to laugh or cry so she chose to smack Hyun-A with the pad instead.
“Are you out of your mind?!,” Sohee asked incredulously.
“I might be now since you hit me so hard!”
“Get them married?! That’s what you wrote down?! We can’t just ‘get them married’ Hyun-A. This isn’t a show.”
“Boy have you been out of Korea too long Sohee-ya. Let the Hyun-A effect take you over!”
Sohee made to stand up.
“You’re still an idiot I should leave.”
“Wait wait. Sit there and watch the magic happen!”
Sohee, hoping that most of the ridiculousness had probably passed, sat silently and wondered what else Hyun-A happened to have up her sleeve.
The other girl, sensing that Sohee had been semi-sedated for at least a little while quickly pulled out her cell phone and dialled a number.
“Hello GaIn-unnie? That producer we joked about the last time after we met with kwonnie-oppa? Yeah... what was his number?”
==/==
Meanwhile back at the Wonder-apartments...
“Sunye did you feel that?,” Yoobin asked suddenly.
“That... that weird feeling that something odd is going on?,” Sunye replied. “Does it bother you somehow?”
“It bothers me that we’re not being involved in the planning of whatever it is! We’re the unnies!”
“How are you so sure it’s the younger ones planning it?”
At that moment a tired looking Ye Eun walked through the door.
“Sunye, Yoobin-unnie,” she began.
“Ye Eun!,” Yoobin interrupted before she could say anything else. “Someone, somewhere is probably planning something that might be for someone else and its not us! Is it you?!”
Ye Eun shook her head.
“No... I think... it might be Sohee,” she admitted.
The three unnies sat down on the closest seats they could find.
“Sohee huh. We heard her taking a phone call from Hyun-A outside before she dashed off somewhere,” Yoobin said as the three of them met each other’s eyes before speaking together at once.
“Uh oh.”
==/==
At a modest home...
A young student was finishing up the final draft of her assignment.
“Too much study, not enough time to save the world,” she said to herself as she stretched herself out and reached for her ringing cell phone.
“Helloooo?,” she answered happily welcoming the interruption to her solid study hours.
The sudden bombardment of information from the phone jarred her study tired brain awake.
“Producers? But... I’m on hiatus, not really working right now... just once a week? I don’t... ok... ok thank you. Yes if its for a friend I guess I’ll be there.”
==/==