"Dressing Zico"

The next morning, Zico had a television interview with Block B. I decided he should wear black jeans, a bulky black sweater, and his denim jacket. All of the boys were dressing casual until the new concept was cemented. I got to sit in the audience and when Block B was introduced and they came out, I was livid! Zico was wearing light blue jeans, a gigantic red sweater, and a ridiculous scarf. The other guys were dressed similarly.
Instead of paying attention to the interview, I was looking around for one person and I found her. Alicia was standing at the end of the studio grinning that big horsey grin of hers. I watched as she did something on her phone and then my phone buzzed. I had a text. Crap! That witch has my cell number! And now I have hers!
I read the text: I dress Block B bitch!
It was all I could do not to go over there and knock those big teeth down her throat. I didn’t look her way during the rest of the interview because I knew I wouldn’t be able to sit there and be good. I wasn’t going to text back either but I couldn’t help myself. I knew it was petty but she irritated me so much and I couldn’t let her win.
I sent: I undress Zico at home! Bitch!
I watched as she read the text and the big grin was gone. She sent me something else.
It said: I’ll be undressing him tonight! Wait and see!
I sent: I can’t see into your dreams!
The interview was almost over so I made my way to Zico’s dressing room. I found the outfit that I had picked for him laying behind the clothes rack, still in the garment bag. A few minutes later, Zico came in followed by a group of people. He told them all to get out and they left. All except for Alicia. She shut the door and walked up behind Zico and before she could touch him I said, “That means you too, cupcake!”
If her eyes could throw daggers, I’d be dead right now. “That isn’t up to you,” she said.
Zico turned to her and said, “Go on Alicia.”
“But Jico,” she whined. “I’m supposed to be here. I’m the stylist on this set. If I have to go, she should too. She’s not even supposed to be here.”
“Alicia, just go,” he said.
“Not unless she goes too,” she said and pointed her witchy finger at me.
I started to get up and Zico knew what I meant to do. He opened the door and, taking Alicia’s arm, he guided her outside a lot more gently than I was going to. “Go help the others,” he said and shut the door.
“Zico! I swear to God! I can’t take much more of her! I won’t!” I said.
“Just calm down. She IS the stylist on the set and…” he started.
“AND she changed the outfit I picked out for you. AGAIN!” I said.
He had just taken off the red sweater and he looked at it. “She did?” he asked.
“YES! She did!” I said.
He started taking off his pants and I turned around. I don’t know why but it still made me blush. I heard him laugh.
“Well, like I said, she is the Block B stylist so she gets the main say in what we wear,” he said.
I spun around, no longer caring that he was in his underwear. “I thought I was supposed to be working on that too! I don’t get a say?”
“Uh, I don’t think that’s a good idea anymore. I think you should just concentrate on my solo stuff,” he said while not looking at me and pulling on another pair of jeans.
I stared at him in disbelief. “Really? Hmm. I see.” I was hurt.
He stood up and came to put his arms around me. “Don’t be that way. I just don’t want any complications. I want you all to myself anyway.” He smiled and tried to kiss me but I dodged him so he kissed my cheek. He whispered, “Come on. You know you want to kiss me. Come on…”
Sometimes I couldn’t resist him when he was being all sweet. My face smiled against my wishes and he leaned in to kiss me. I let him.
“That’s better,” he said and gave me a quick kiss before continuing to get dressed. He always knew how to get to me and I had to admit, I did feel better. It may have been more about the fact that I didn’t have to work with Alicia than the kisses but whatever.

When we left, everyone met up at Vita’s. I was surprised at how sad it made me to go there but it was nothing compared to how Zico reacted. As soon as we went in, he excused himself to go to the bathroom and he was in there for at least fifteen minutes. I don’t know why we had to come to this place but Zico insisted.
The place was packed with Block B’s staff and I didn’t know where to go so I waited by the door. A smiling Taewoon came over to greet me.
“Hey! Elizabeth right?” he said as he came toward me.
“That’s right,” I said and smiled.
“I haven’t seen you since… well, for a while. I have a seat for you. Come on.” He took my arm and led me to Zico’s table. It was already full of Block B members and Taewoon pulled out a chair for me. He sat at the head of the table beside me and it wasn’t until he sat down that I realized I was not sitting beside Zico. I didn’t like it much but I was sitting across from him so I didn’t say anything. Jaehyo was sitting to my right and he was laughing at something on his phone with Taeil.
“So, how have you been?” asked Taewoon.
“I’ve been good. And you?” I asked.
“Getting by. How is the chest?” he asked as he made a face and pointed at his own chest.
“Oh! It’s much better. Thank you. I wasn’t aware that you knew about that,” I said.
“Are you kidding? I was at the hospital. Somebody had to keep that little brother of mine from losing it. I can’t believe that after all of that, he went back to Alicia!”
I thought I had heard wrong. “Uh, what?” I asked.
“Yeah! That was a shock. I thought you two were it by the way he acted but then she told me they were back together. I’m actually a little surprised you are here tonight. I wouldn’t be,” said Taewoon and he took a sip of his beer.
“Um, Taewoon, she lied. I’m still very much with Zico,” I said.
He was looking behind me and he raised his eyebrows. “Really? Then what is going on back there?”
I followed his gaze and saw Zico by the bathrooms. Alicia was pressed against him and I started to get up.
“Hold up,” said Taewoon and he grabbed my arm. “Just sit down and wait. It might not be what you think.”
I kept my eyes on them as I sat down. He was right. I didn’t want to make a scene in here. Not in Vita’s place. Jaehyo grabbed my other arm.
“Alicia’s been after Jiho hardcore since she came back,” he told Taewoon.
I didn’t see Taewoon’s reaction since I never took my eyes off of those two.
Finally, they came over to the table, Alicia clinging to his arm. I took note of the fact that he didn’t try to push her away. Then I had to deal with the fact that she was sitting next to him.
Zico’s eyes were red and swollen and I knew he had been crying. His voice was also rough when he said hello to Taewoon. They gave each other a side hug and once again I was struck by how similar they were.
Zico looked at me for a second and I gave him an annoyed look. He mouthed “Sorry” and looked down.
I stayed annoyed for the rest of the dinner. She took every opportunity to touch him that she could find and I counted every touch. I promised myself that at some point she was going to pay for every single one. Jaehyo tried to keep me distracted by showing me the Photo Booth app on his phone. It didn’t work.
Zico seemed uncomfortable and irritated. He never laughed and the only conversation he had was with Taewoon. After the dinner, he came around the table, took me by the hand, and led me away from the others.
“Okay, don’t be mad okay?” he said.
“About what?” I started to get nervous.
“I told Alicia I would take her to her hotel and Jaehyo said he would take you back,” he said.
I couldn’t believe it! “Are you serious, Zico? I mean really! Can’t you see what she’s doing?”
“I’m not stupid. But she wants to discuss the concept she came up with for the new album. I need to see it to make sure it’s what I want,” he said.
“You’re going to her room? NO! Why can’t she bring them over and you can look at them in the lobby or the meeting room?” I asked.
He ran his hand through his hair. “It’s just easier this way,” he said.
“Not for me!” I said and looked at him. He didn’t speak so I said, “Why can’t I just go with you?”
“You know why. There would be a huge fight and I don’t want to deal with that tonight,” he said. He was having trouble looking at me.
“No Zico! I’m not okay with this at all. If you go, there’s going to be a huge fight but not between me and her. It’s going to be me and you! Don’t you know how hard this is for me?” I asked.
“Don’t you trust me?” he asked and grabbed my hand. He actually looked a little angry.
“I don’t trust her! Not for one second. She does something to you Zico because you are NOT acting like yourself,” I said. I waited for a reply but he didn’t give one. “Was she right? Are you having second thoughts on who you want to be with?” I asked. My heart was beating out of my chest. I was afraid to hear his answer.
Zico was quiet for a moment and that was long enough to give me a mini-heart attack. “Of course not! Look! I have to do this okay? Go with Jaehyo and I’ll see you back at the hotel soon.” He kissed my cheek and I felt like slapping his. I can’t believe he only kissed my cheek! I watched as he left with Alicia and Jaehyo came up behind me and squeezed my shoulders.
“I told you. She’s a total bitch. Actually, I think she’s a witch and she has Jiho under some kind of spell,” he said.
“Let’s just go,” I said. I couldn’t remember being so mad.
“Okay,” said Jaehyo and we left.

At the hotel, Jaehyo was going to walk me to my door but in the lobby, someone called my name. I turned and thought, Oh no. What in the hell?
Jong came toward me with his arms out for a big hug. Jaehyo must have known something was off because he asked me, “Do you know Jong?”
“Unfortunately,” I answered.
Jong lifted me off the ground with a big hug and when he put me down, Jaehyo grabbed my hand and gently pulled me to his side. “Hey, Jong. What are you doing here? I heard you worked in China now,” he said.
“I’m had to come back to work on some Block B stuff for the comeback. And I wanted to see this little girl,” he said and looked at me with a big smile. “I have missed you like crazy!”
“Really?” I said in confusion.
“You know I did!” he said and smiled even bigger. “I can take it from here Jaehyo,” he said.
Jaehyo pulled me to the side and whispered, “Are you okay with this? I can ask him to leave if you want.”
I thought about it. Zico and Alicia crossed my mind as well as the fact that he was in her hotel room right now. “You know what? I’m good. Thank you for the ride.”
“Don’t do anything stupid,” said Jaehyo.
“I won’t, “ I promised.
“Well, if you need anything just call me okay? ANYTHING!” said Jaehyo. He looked at Jong suspiciously.
“Thank you. I’ll be fine,” I said and squeezed his hand. He kept looking back at us as he got into the elevator. As the doors closed I saw him shake his head and look down.
I turned to Jong and he hugged me again. He would have kissed me if I hadn’t been quick and turned my head to the side. “You always were such a tease!” he said.
“Let’s go over here and talk, Jong,” I said and started toward one of the couches in the back of the lobby.
“Can’t we just go to your room?” he asked.
I ignored his question and said, “Come on.” He followed me and instead of sitting on the opposite couch, he sat very close beside me.
“You know, I’m a little surprised at the way your acting. Are you playing some kind of game or did you think I wouldn’t really come back?” he asked.
I didn’t know what he was talking about. “Why would I think you were coming back?” I asked.
“Really? You only begged me five thousand times to come back to you and I told you I would the first chance I got. Well, I found it and here I am and you’re acting like all of that talk was just…well… talk. You didn’t mean any of it did you?”
Now I was thoroughly confused. “Huh? What are you talking about, Jong?”
“What is this, Elizabeth? Are you going to pretend all of that texting didn’t happen?” Jong was getting angry.
“Jong, I don’t know what you are talking about. What texting?” I asked.
He sat and looked at me with his mouth open. “Fine. Here. I saved our last conversation.” He pulled out his phone and pulled up some texts and handed it to me.
The texts on the left all said Elizabeth and I thought I was having a stroke or something. I read:
Elizabeth: I miss you so much. Can’t you make a special trip just to come and see me?
Jong: I wish I could. If I can find a way, will you keep your promise and do that thing to me that you talked about last time? ;D
Elizabeth: That and much more. My bed is so cold an lonely.
Jong: Mine too. I’ll see what I can do. Block B is having a huge comeback and I may be able to find a reason to come to Korea for a while. Then we can finally finish what we started before.
Elizabeth: I’m sorry about that. I was so wrong. I knew that the moment you were gone.
Jong: At least you see your mistake now. Haha I’ll let you make it up to me. Over and over.
I couldn’t read anymore. I handed Jong his phone back. “Um, Jong, I didn’t write those,” I said.
“Of course you did. It came from your phone. Who else would have written it?” he asked.
“I don’t know what’s going on. I haven’t had any contact with you since you were here before. Someone is messing with you,” I said.
He moved away from me a little. “What is this? Now that I made good and came back to Korea, you don’t want to live up to your promises?”
“I didn’t make those promises, Jong!” I said.
He looked at his phone and his hand was shaking. “We have been texting for days. Almost nonstop. I moved things around and rescheduled things just to get back here to you and now you want to pretend that it wasn’t you saying those things to me? Who was it then? Who and why?” He was so angry.
“I don’t know, Jong, but it wasn’t me. I’m sorry.” I didn’t know what was going on. Was someone messing with him or with me? Then I thought of Alicia. But how could she text from my phone? I had my phone. “You know what! We’ll figure it out but you’re here now so lets talk.” I wanted to calm him down a little before this escalated into a fight.
“Can we go to your room?” he asked.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea. Zico should be back soon,” I said.
“So?” he said.
“So, I don’t want a big fight,” I said.
“Why would he care?”
“Well, he’s sort of jealous and he already has a problem with me and you,” I said.
“I thought you said he’s back with Alicia Wright. I don’t think he’ll have a reason to be upset about us now,” he said.
“No. We are still together. She’s just working on the clothes for the comeback,” I said.
He tilted his head and smiled. “Where is he now?” he asked.
I didn’t want to say. “He’s looking at her ideas but he’ll be back soon.”
“Sorry to break this to you but if he’s at her place right now, they’re doing more than looking at ideas. They were crazy when they were together before. It was almost impossible to get them out of the bed without turning a hose on them.” My heart stopped for a second and I had to catch my breath. “I know a way you can get back at him. You can keep those promises you made!” said Jong and he ran his finger up and down my arm.
“I didn’t make those promises!” I almost yelled.
“Sure you did. Let’s go up to your room. I’ll make it worth your while,” he said.
“No, Jong. I trust Zico. He’ll be back soon and I don’t want him to have any reason to think I’ve been doing anything that I shouldn’t,” I said.
“I’ll bet he’s doing all kinds of things he shouldn’t right about now.”
“Stop it!” I said and pushed his hand away from my arm. I shivered.
Jong laughed. “Alright. But you’ll see. I’m right”
I pulled out my phone and sent Zico a text.
“He’s too busy to answer,” said Jong.
I put my phone on the coffee table and waited for Zico’s text. Then I thought of something. “Jong? Why did you tell Zico that we did things that we never did?”
“Oh, sorry. He was being a total ass and I wanted to bring him down a peg or two. So I told him I had you first,” said Jong. He sounded like it was a perfectly acceptable reason.
“You know that caused me all kinds of problems!” I said.
Jong laughed again. “Sorry.” He wasn’t.
Zico still hadn’t sent a text back. I picked up the phone and sent another.
“Told you so,” said Jong.
That really made me mad so I dialed Zico’s number. There was no answer.
Jong raised his eyebrows and smiled.
I dialed Alicia’s number. It went straight to voice mail.
I felt sick to my stomach. I looked at Jong and thought, I should just take him to my room. But I had made mistakes before by acting too hastily so I decided against that. For now.
“Jong, I have some work to do. Maybe we can get together later and catch up, okay?” I said.
He looked disappointed. “When you figure out that he’s back with her and you’ve been loyal for no good reason, you’ll call me.” Jong got up, kissed my hand and said goodbye. I watched him go to the elevator. He was as good looking from the back as from the front. The other elevator opened when his closed and Jaehyo, Taeil, and Minhyuk came out. I was going to call to them but I just watched and they left the hotel.
I was just going to have to trust Zico. He cared about me. I knew he did. Jong did make me think that I was being a little naive and I was starting to wonder how much I should put up with before I did something about it. For now, I was going to go to Zico’s suite, work on his upcoming schedule and call him until he answered.

I worked until 10 when I finished the last set of outfits for a big solo show he had planned. It was sold out. I had called at least twenty times and there was never an answer. Alicia’s phone always went to voice mail. I left him texts which went unanswered and it had been five hours. Going into the kitchen, I looked for something to eat but nothing looked good. I made some tea and went into the bedroom. I watched television and called Zico until I finally fell asleep. He still wasn’t home.
Around 2 a.m., Zico tried to sneak in beside me. I waited for him to get settled and then I turned to him and asked, “Where have you been?”
He mumbled, “Can we talk about it tomorrow? I’m exhausted.”
I could smell alcohol on his breath. “It is tomorrow, Zico! We need to talk about this now so I can decide if I’m going to stay in this bed with you or not!”
“You can go back to your room if you want,” he said with his eyes closed.
I sat up and turned on the lamp.
“Dammit! Let me sleep!” he said.
“Where in the hell have you been?” I yelled.
He still didn’t open his eyes. In fact, he turned his back to me. “I told you I don’t want to discuss it tonight. I can’t even keep my fucking eyes open. Shut up and go back to sleep.”
“WHAT! WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?” I stood up in the bed.
“AAAAHH… FUCK IT, ELIZABETH! LEAVE ME ALONE! I’M NOT UP TO THIS SHIT TONIGHT!” he yelled.
I didn’t say another word. I walked out and slammed the door as hard as I could. I didn’t want to go to my room either so I called the lobby and asked for Jaehyo’s room. It rang twice and he answered.
“This is Elizabeth. Can I come to your room? I’m sorry. I know it’s late,” I said as I started to cry.
“Of course. Room 310,” he said.
I hung up and got into the elevator. Zico must have gone straight to sleep because I didn’t hear another sound from him. I felt weird going to Jaehyo’s room but I didn’t want to be alone and I thought he would be a good listener.
I only knocked once and the door opened. He must have been waiting for me. As I walked in he said, “I guess you need some answers.”
“What?” I asked. I didn’t know what he meant.
“About Jiho,” he said and sat on the edge of one of the beds. I sat on the other.
“Do you know something?” I asked and looked at the two beds. “And do you have a roommate?”
“Yeah, Taeil but he’s not up here right now. I can tell you what happened at Alicia’s,” he said.
I felt stomach acid rising into my throat. “Do I want to know?” I asked.
“Well, when we got there…” he began.
“You three went to Alicia’s?” I interrupted.
“Yeah. We wanted to stop a fight before it started but actually we walked in on one,” he said.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
I figured if we went over there, nothing could happen and I could stop Jiho from doing something stupid. When we got there, he had already had two glasses of wine and he was working on a third. He was yelling at Alicia and she was crying and yelling back.”
“What were they yelling about?” I asked.
“He was saying something about her coming back and ruining everything. He said he was finally starting to get over her and she shows up and starts stirring up old stuff. He was really mad about her messing with you.”
“Well, he was very hateful to me just now. I mean, I was yelling at him but I felt like I had a good reason to,” I said.
“He’s very upset. It took us a couple of hours to get him out of jail,”
“JAIL?” I yelled.
“Someone called hotel security during the fight and when they came in, Jiho hit one of them. We talked them out of pressing charges and he had to pay a fine but he doesn’t have to go to court.” Jaehyo opened a mint and ate it.
“I was calling him all night! Why didn’t he answer?” I asked.
“His phone was in his car,” said Jaehyo.
I rubbed my forehead to ease the headache that was starting there. “I asked him not to drink anymore. Especially not around her.”
“I don’t think he counts wine as drinking. Also, she can talk him into anything. I told you about the hold she has over him. I don’t know what it is.” He grabbed a soda from the mini-fridge and offered me one. I shook my head.
“Why did he get so drunk from wine?” I wondered out loud.
“Personally, I think she put something in it. He said something about her being all over him the minute they got to her room and he had to fight like hell to keep his clothes on. He was acting more drugged than drunk in my opinion but I couldn’t prove anything. I’m telling ya, she would stoop to anything to get what she wants,” he said and took a drink.
“Thank you, Jaehyo. I’m going to go to bed now. You helped a lot and thank you so much for going over there,” I said and stood up.
“If I could get rid of that witch completely I would,” he said and walked me to the door.
“I know. Me too,” I said.
“Need me to walk you to your room?” he asked.
“Nah. I’m good.” I smiled and put my hand on his cheek. “Goodnight.”
“Night.”
I went to my room and tried to sleep but I tossed and turned all night.

The next morning, there was a knock at my door. When I answered it, I was surprised to see Zico standing there. “Did you lose your key?” I asked and went back into the room.
“I didn’t know if you would want to see me this morning,” he said. He came in but he stood across the room.
I shrugged and continued getting dressed and fixing my hair.
“I’m sorry I was such a jerk last night. I can explain if you’ll let me,” he said in a low voice.
“Jaehyo already told me what happened,” I said.
He nodded and looked down at his feet. “It doesn’t excuse the way I talked to you last night. I’m sorry,” he said.
It was my turn to answer with a nod.
We didn’t say anything as I moved around the room putting on my shoes and straightening the bed.
“Are you going somewhere?” he asked.
“I have a breakfast date,” I said and went into the bathroom to get my purse.
“What? With who?” he asked. It was the most emotion he had shown since he came in here.
“With Jaehyo and Taeil. Is that okay with you?” I asked picking up my key card off of the dresser and dropping it into my purse.
“Mmm…” was all the response I got.
“Well, if that’s all, I need to go.” I opened the door and held it open, indicating that he should leave. He walked out without looking at me and watched as I got into the elevator. The doors closed as he stared into my eyes.
When I got to the lobby, Jaehyo and Taeil were talking to the girl behind the counter. Flirting was a better word for it. She was the girl that I had threatened on the day that I left and when she saw me, her eyes got big and she remembered something she had to do in the back office.
“Sorry it took so long guys,” I said and went over to them.
“We know how girls are,” said Taeil.
I laughed but not for long because the elevator doors opened again and Zico stepped out. He hurried over to where we were and asked, “Can I join you guys? I’m starving.”
None of us seemed very happy at the prospect but Taeil said, “Sure. I’m in the mood for steak and biscuits!”
When we got into the car, I ended up sitting in the back with Zico but I sat with my arms crossed and I looked out the window the entire time. He joked around with the other two and it was the same at the diner we went to. He made a few comments to me but I just smiled and ate my food. I mostly talked to Jaehyo. It was uncomfortable and I was in a bad mood the entire time.
Back at the hotel, we ran into Jong in the lobby. Zico reached down and grabbed my hand as soon as he saw him. “What are you doing here?” asked Zico?
Jong looked down at our intertwined hands and his smile faded. “Do you mean in general or right now?” he asked.
“What are you doing in Seoul?” asked Zico.
“I have business to conduct for the big comeback. You should know that. Right now I have a meeting with some merchandisers,” said Jong.
Zico pulled me into the elevator. “Well, I would say it’s good to see you but it’s not,” he said and the elevator doors closed. He turned to me and let go of my hand, “Did you know he was here?” he asked.
“Yes.” That’s all he was getting from me.
“Why didn’t you say something?” he asked.
I looked at him. “When was I supposed to do that exactly? I found out he was here when you were at Alicia’s and you never answered the phone when I called. You wouldn’t talk to me last night except to be hateful so when was I supposed to tell you?”
“I said I was sorry. And you could have told me today,” he said.
“I didn’t think about it today. I don’t sit around thinking about Jong like you think I do.” I turned back to the doors and stepped out ahead of Zico when they opened. I didn’t care if he followed me or not. He did.
He didn’t speak again until we got in the room. “Did you just see him yesterday or did you talk to him?”
“We talked,” I said and got a water from the fridge.
“What did you two talk about?” asked Zico.
“What did you and Alicia talk about?” I asked him back.
“I told you, I went over to see the designs for the comeback. That was all,” he said and sat on the bed.
I sat in the chair across the room. “They must have really sucked if you had to drink wine to look at them,” I said and twisted the top off of my water.
“You said Jaehyo told you what happened,” he said.
“He did. I know that you were upset with Alicia for stirring up old feelings and then you went to jail.”
“It wasn’t exactly like that,” said Zico. He stood up and walked to the window and ran his hand through his hair.
I looked at his back for a minute and then said, “Do you still have feelings for Alicia?”
He didn’t answer for a moment and I thought he wasn’t going to. Then he said, “I don’t know what’s going on with me.”
“Well then, how do you feel about me?” My stomach churned.
“You know how I feel about you!” he said and turned to face me.
I took a long drink of the water and said, “Do I?”
“That’s what makes everything so hard!” He came over and sat in the chair across from me. “I’m in love with you! But I used to be in love with her too so now I’m very confused! I didn’t think it was possible to be in love with two people but it is.”
That was not the answer I wanted to hear. I felt sick. “What if I were to ask you to get rid of her? Send her packing? Don’t talk to her ever again? Would you do that for me?” I asked.
“I can’t get rid of her. She works for the company and I have to talk to her because I have to work with her.”
“Okay, then only do business with her when I’m there,” I said.
“Can you guarantee there won’t be any fights?” he asked.
“I can promise that I won’t start anything. Beyond that, no,” I said.
He put his head down and scrubbed the back of his head with both hands. “You know what I’ve been thinking?”
“Not a clue,” I said.
He sat back up and stared at his hands. They were shaking and tears were running down his face. “I’ve been thinking that maybe I should step away from both of you until I can figure out what’s what. I think I need to sort out my feelings and I can’t do that with both of you pulling me in separate directions.”
I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. I couldn’t breathe. “Are you breaking up with me?”
“I guess I am. Just until I can figure out what I really want. I’m sorry.” He stood up to go. “I still need your help with my solo project but if you want to quit, I’ll understand.”
I couldn’t speak. He turned and left.
I didn’t know what to do. I sat there in stunned silence for what seemed like forever. Then I picked up my phone and sent a text.
Elizabeth: Jong, are you free tonight?
Jong: I can be…
Elizabeth: I need to go out and get very very drunk! I need to have some fun!
Jong: ;D

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