Gratefulness~ pt.3

"Mineeha! Mineeha! Wake up! NOW!" I can hear someone yelling to my ear and shaking me.
I startle and my eyes break open. I get up quickly and see Daesung who looks pale and chocked. Seungri is sitting in front of my desk and leaning his face against his palms. TOP is leaning against the door and staring blankly at the floor.
"What is it? Why are you shouting?" I shout.
"Ji Yong has been in a car accident", Daesung tells. I can see Seungri twitching. Is he crying? Sobbing? I stand up, stare Daesung in the eyes and squeeze his arms.
"Is he okay? What happened? Is everything okay?!" I'm worried sick and Daesung tries to calm me down.
"Don't worry. We just have to leave right now."

I start packing immediately the most important things that come to my mind. I bet someone can send me the rest of my stuff afterwards if I forget something.
I run around the house holding tears and my family looks at me confused. I put on cozy leisurewear, hug my mom and then it's time to go.

Inside the train I tell Daesung to explain me everything. He says that Ji had been fighting with Kiko again about something and that GD had then went out for a ride. He had driven very fast and collided with another car. The other driver didn't get hurt, fortunately, but Ji had hit his head and he had been taken to hospital with an ambulance. This time the guilty girl wasn't me. It was Kiko.

"YG is very angry with Kiko now. He wants her to stay away from Ji Yong", Daesung tells me and something sounds so familiar to my ear. YG told me to stay away from Ji Yong too. It feels like he really protects Ji like he was his own son which is kind of cute and, on the other side, annoying.
Daesung calls to Helsinki and asks about Ji Yong's condition. I can sigh of relief with Seungri and TOP when Daesung starts smiling.
"Everything is fine", he whispers and we rejoice.
"Actually, he's on his way to the airport already."

I can see GD getting off the car as we get to the airport. I feel like running to him and asking him if he really was okay, that maybe he should stay and rest. But I have to control myself and wait for the right moment. Red ropes, that go around the airport, shelter GD from the photographers as he walks first to the check-in section with some people from the staff. I follow him with Young Bae and other boys. The reporters keep on wondering my existence. Some of them mistake me for a staff member though.

When I get in the plain, I see that I can't sit next to Ji after all. He doesn't even look at me once. He just stares at the seat in front of him with a blank cold face and chews a gum. A safe guard has sat beside him, so I sit next to YB.
The jet looks fancy but I have not time to admire it because I'm pondering what's wrong with Ji the whole flight. I don't think that I have done anything wrong so his low mood must result from Kiko. Does he really care about that witch? Or is he just very disappointed with her? Is he afraid of Kiko? I would like to make him feel better but just as usual I just keep quiet.
I read magazines and watch a movie with Tae and a few episodes of some drama. It's unusually silent during the whole flight. TOP, Seungri and Daesung sleep most of the time and I guess that they haven't got enough sleep in Kokkola.

Taeyang asks Ji Yong how he is and I strech my neck to see him answering but Ji is listening to music and writing lyrics, so he won't answer.
"Well, at least you've got me", Young Bae smiles and I sneer.

At the airport we get in the black cars after walking through the crazy media persons and fans by the help of our guards. I sit down next to Young Bae again.
"Are you OK?" Seungri nudges GD to his shoulder and Ji grins a little. But he does nothing else, just keeps staring blankly.
We get off at another hotel and go inside from another door than the normal people do. The suite is located in another floor than the other rooms and that floor is closed from guests completely, so it's perfectly peaceful.
I walk inside carrying my suitcase and take a look around. The place is huge. No, I'm still not used to this.
"How... How much does this cost?" I cough. I'm really impressed. TOP utters a laughter beside me.
"Sponsors", he mutters briefly and smiles.

I hang my coat and turn to my suitcase but it has disappeared. I lift my head and see Ji Yong carrying it into one of the rooms. I smirk by myself. Babo... I follow him.
Ji places my suitcase near the wardrobe and his next to it.
"You may want to unpack it because we are staying for a while", he says with a low voice without glancing at me and sits down on the bed to take a better look at his fresh lyrics. I'm too lazy to start unpacking my stuff now.
"Have you written new songs?" I lift my heels and stretch to see the papers. Ji Yong presses them against his chest and looks at me angrily. I back up right away. But then he laughs. I can see his real smile again after a long time.
"You can't see them yet. You know, I wouldn't know if you stole them and sold them."
I stick my tongue out.
"Aiish..." I huff and cross my arms on my chest. Ji smirks at my cute Korean expression and pats the bed. I smile and sit next to him. Ji puts the lyrics aside and wraps his arms around me.
"Are you ready to write the contract?" he smiles mysterically and my eyes almost pop out.
"Now? Today? What?" I stare at him confused. Ji laughs attractively.
"YG is coming", he says and only then I remember that we were supposed to meet when we get to Paris.
"Where is he now?"

And right then somebody knocks on the front door and I can hear Seungri greeting someone. GD walks me to the livingroom, to the huge livingroom. YG walks in like he just stepped inside his own house and sits down on the sofa, lifts his leg on the other. I gulp. He glances at me and then the boys. Ji smiles at me and leaves to the rooms with everyone else. I'm alone with YG now.

"Sit, please", he says and I sit down opposite him. I'm so nervous. Hyun Suk takes a pile of papers out of her bag and hands me a pen.
"Here's the contract. I really hope you are serious about this."
If I wasn't before, I certainly am now, looking at his scary face.
I nod and take a look at the papers. It's written in English. I don't dare to read all the fine little prints under YG's eye, I just scan it quickly through and write my name on the line. He takes the paper and taps on the next one. It says something concerning my freedoms. Looks good, I think and sign it and a few other papers too. Then YG takes the pen and offers his hand for a handshake.
"Welcome to our family", he smiles for the first time and I feel a little more relaxed. I don't feel like I had just lost a bit of my life, the normal life. It's more like I had started a new chapter in my life. And I like this chapter already.

"Here's your trainee day and month schedule", he hands me the papers.
I sigh deeply as I see how busy my days look like: an early wake-up, many lessons, sing and dance classes, a vlog...? I get stuck with that word and YG explains it to me:
"We are making a video blog of your journey to kpop idol."
"Oh." I get goosebumps as he says the words kpop idol. Me, a kpop idol? Really?
"We have to make your nationality Korean so it's official but I have connections. It won't take long."
Korean nationality? So, I guess I will become a hundert percent Korean then... I start to realize that I'm not really going to be the same Minea as I was just under a year ago. I have come a long way in six months and I'm about to start some amazingly big and great in my life. I'm Mineeha, YG trainee and a kpop idol-to-be, if everything goes well.

He hands me a small book.
"Korean language and culture", I read out loud and Hyun Suk nods.
"You have to start studying right away and study whenever you can. Because the other girls have already been trainees for a while and they are all Asian, it would be good if you understood some Korean too. When we are back in Seoul, the lessons begin. But start studying already. We are forming the group in October."

"What? There's only... One month?" I exclaim and my jaw drops. YG smiles at me in a weird way. I haven't gotten used to that thing either.
"Yes. We have to rush. And you have to work hard. Are you ready for it?"
"I-I guess I have to be", I sigh. I collapse a little. After a month I'll be placed in a group... What?

YG stands up and pats my shoulder.
"I approve you."
I look at him astonished.
"You are better for G-Dragon than Kiko. I approve you"
I'm holding my laughter and nodding him with a smile instead. YG goes and knocks on the bedrooms' doors and Ji Yong walks to me. He's checking my expression.
"I'm in", I say cheerfully and he sits down immediately. Ji smiles widely and I can see that he'd like to hug me right now but there are eyes keeping watch on us, so he doesn't dare to do that.

Because it's late already and we are suffering from jet lag, we go to sleep. I can't wait to see what the next day brings.

Notes

Things are getting pretty serious, huh!
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Teaser for chapter 9