Gratefulness~ pt.4

"You should ask Ji Yong to come here," he glances at me.
"Ji Yong? Why" I wonder and put my the chopsticks down on the tray. Hyun Suk clears his throat and wipes off the excess sauce on his lips with a napkin.
"I left my phone in the office," he explains and continues eating.
"Oh, okay," I'm still wondering why he can't go and get his phone so that he can call Ji Yong himself. Because he's the CEO, I thought he would love to take care of his business by himself.
"Does he have something scheduled, or...?" I ask out of curiousness.
"Yes. Actually," he begins and wipes his lips again. "You two are invited to Weekly Idol TV show."
"Weekly Idol?" the tone of my voice becomes high-pitched. very quickly.
"You know it?" he looks at me.
"Yeah, I do," I keep nodding as I try to not freak out. Why us?
"Ne," he eats a mouthful of noodles. "You have to be there at twelve."
"At twelve?!" I shout and I can feel the other people staring at me. Why couldn't he inform me any earlier?
"I'm sorry, Minea. But someone cancelled and they asked if anyone could come, especially if Ji Yong could come before he leaves to America."
"But --. What do I have to do with him going to the show?"
"They asked about you since you have become more popular among the trainees. It could be nice promotion for your future activities."
"But --," I'd like to ask why he didn't ask me first but he's the CEO after all.
"But, should I really go?" I stare at him. All the rumours about me and Ji Yong that have been circling around comes to my mind again. What if they ask about it? I don't like the idea of us two going to the show together. Why not separately? Is he out of his mind?
"Yes. Why not," he just answers quietly.
"Does Ji Yong know about this?" I ask.
"I called him in the morning."
"Great," I mutter and bite my lip. The surprise was only meant for me. DIfferent kind of thoughts are bothering me. I guess Hyun Suk wants to see how I behave when something unexpected happens, although, I still will never understand why he puts us two together in the show. If it's only about promoting me and the new group to be put together soon, it makes sense somehow. No matter who shows up with G-Dragon surely becomes known to everyone. But then again, why did Ji agree to this? It was only last night I found a text written on a fansite saying "Huge scandal! GD is in a relationship with a trainee? At least she's under YG Entertainment." If the fans don't link us two together, it will be a miracle.

I'm sitting on the car seat quietly, frozen. I stare at the points of my shoes and rub my hands against each other nervously. A man's hand lands on my knee.
"Are you okay?" Ji Yong asks beside me and smiles a little to make me feel comfortable. I give him a weird look and look back down.
"Why did you say yes to Hyun Suk..." I mutter silently and his arm wraps around me so casually.
"I didn't," he laughs and then he takes his arm off as he gets startled of his own bold actions although his manager is sitting in the front seat, looking at his papers.
"Seriously," I am not amused.
"He wanted us to do it. And it's okay. Somehow, I didn't think it sounded like a bad idea."
I have nothing to say anymore. I'm feeling extremely nervous.

Hyeong Don and Defconn promise to take good care of us but I'm not an idiot. The more I think about it, the more I'm sure that something's going to happen and they will want to talk about us together. I just know it..
"We promised Hyun Suk," the translator tells me what Defconn said to me and shrug. I can see Ji standing farther away alone and acting all weird. He's walking around and I can see he tries to hide his facial expressions and it makes him looks like he was in pain. What's wrong with him now?

"We are on air!" somebody shouts behind all the monitors and cameras. I straighten my posture and make sure my dress looks nice. Ji Yong is leaning comfortably on his left leg and he crosses his arms on his chest
The intro music plays. I believe that Ji is nervous as well although he doesn't look like it. He presses his black sunglasses up his nose and touches his hair. The MCs move restlessly.
"Woaa," they yell in unison and the translator begins translating the main points to me right from the beginning.
"What a wonderful day it is today!" they talk. "We were supposed to get the rookie group Seventeen here but nevermind, we don't need them. Sorry, boys! We have something much more interesting and valuable. I think we need silky gloves to handle them. .."

I'm already waiting to get out of the situation although I would not like to feel that way. It's my first time in the TV but this is really not what I expected. I'm here because of Ji Yong and it feels so wrong. It feels cold inside. I'm not ready for this. I wanted to become famous because of how hard-working I am. Not because I'm close to Ji Yong or that I work in the same company with him and showed up in a program with him. But I guess it's too late to complain. I have already been seen with him so many times. Suddenly I feel so disappointed about myself. I have made a huge mistake.

Notes

Sorry for not posting for a long time again~
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Teaser for chapter 34