It's You Chapter 20

"Right then, here we go!" said the DJ. "You'll have 30 seconds to answer a question. There are 3 questions. Start the clock!"
HyunJae stretched her fingers and cracked her knuckles, ready to type in the question on the search engine. I fought down an urge to laugh. I wondered if the DJ's knew how people won quizzes sometimes.
"Alright, question number 1! Among all the members, which person is easiest to cry?"
I knew that one. After all, I'd dealt first hand with him.
"DongHae - !" I said, nearly adding 'sshi' at the end of it, but luckily catching myself just in time.
"Correct!" said the Dj. I nearly screamed out loud. "Now, question number 2! According to ShinDong and HeeChul, who is scariest when angry?"
I thought about that one. HyunJae was quickly typing out the question. "Umm..." I said, trying to stall.
"You have 10 seconds left, JaeHwa," chided the Dj.
I looked at HyunJae. She had nothing. "Um... HanKyung!" I said. Come to think of it, he was pretty scary when he got angry.
"Oh, JaeHwa sshi...' said the DJ. I held my breath. "I'm sorry, but you're..... CORRECT!"
I breathed a sigh of relief. I hated it when people did that, but at least I'd gotten it right!
"Here comes your last question...! Are you ready for this?"
"Yes I am!" I sounded unusually confident. Maybe I thought that if fate wanted me to meet with DongHae again, it would help me with this.
"There are now 4 Super Junior sub-groups. Can you name them all and the two members who are caused a controversy with ELF's?"
HyunJae was scribbling on a piece of paper. I thought back to whatever little news I had read about them.
"Super Junior K.R.Y, Super Junior T, Super Junior Happy and Super Junior M!" I said. No idea where the words came from. I'd read about them being formed, but not detail. In fact, I hadn't even listened to their songs before. I didn't even know which person belonged to which group.
"Good! Now for the two other members? You have 10 seconds left!"
I turned to HyunJae, panicking. She held up a piece of paper. In big letters it said "ZHOU MI" and underneath that was "HENRY." Then it said "SUPER JUNIOR - M."
"Zhou Mi and Henry from Super Junior M!" I said, feeling like my heart were going to burst out of my chest. There was silence from the other side. I felt devastated. Was I wrong?
"JaeHwa sshi," said the DJ. "Do you know what?"
"What?" I said, already feeling downcast.
"You... WON 2 PASSES TO STAY 2 NIGHTS AND A DAY WITH SUPER JUNIOR IN TOKYO!!!" she suddenly yelled, and that set me off. I felt something like the old Super Junior fan-girl in me awakening. I felt excited.
"Congratulations JaeHwa sshi....!" said the DJ, and I could hear her own excitement. I wondered how DJ's felt when they had to give away tickets and couldn't get them for themselves. How sad....
Suddenly I was on the phone with someone totally different, a male. "Lucky girl," he said. "Now, you'll be free tomorrow to come and pick up the passes? Please bring the person you want to take with you as we need identification. The passes are customized and require some detail."
"I'll be there," I said. "Who do I go to?"
"You'll come to me," said the man. "Just ask for Jung YunHo."
"Alright."
He hung up. I slowly turned to HyunJae. Her eyes were gleaming.
"Hey JaeHwa," she said. "Guess what?"
"What?"
"YOU'RE GOING TO SEE DONGHAE AGAIN!!!!" she screamed, jumping off the bed and hugging me. We both jumped up and down, squealing. "I feel like a Super Junior fan again!" she admitted when we had calmed down a bit.
"You know what, so do I!" I exclaimed, whirling around the room. I was exhilarated. "Oh shit, what's the date today?"
"Uhh, the sixth. Why?" asked HyunJae.
"They're coming in 2 days," I said. For a moment I felt disorientated. What was I going to do now? I had the passes, I was going to spend two days and a night with DongHae. So what now?
"I need new clothes!" said HyunJae suddenly. "My clothes are so crappy!"
I laughed. I needed an excuse to. "Don't worry, I don't think EunHyuk would care about what you're wearing when he sees you," I teased. She looked up at me.
"Shit," she said. "I forgot about seeing EunHyuk again."
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"Here are your passes," said YunHo, handing me two card thingies. "They have all your details inside, as well as permissions and whatnot."
"Wow, almost like a credit card huh?" said HyunJae, taking her card from me. It had a photo of her and her signature on the back. I'd never seen passes like this before. I mean, weren't they usually made of paper and slung around our necks?
"You could say that," said YunHo with a hint of a smile. "Never handled a credit card before, now have you?"
"Nope," replied HyunJae. "This would be a lovely experience for me."
YunHo laughed. "Now, just remember that there are some restrictions, but not much. You're to go wherever Super Junior goes, and do the same things that they're doing. You'll be meeting them on the 9th, the last day of their fan-meeting, so that they can relax the next day. Be at the Nippon Budokan at Get it?"
"Yes, we do. Thank you so much for this," I said, meaning it.
"Well, somebody was going to have to get it anyway," he replied. "It just happened that it's you."
"She's always been lucky," said HyunJae, squeezing my shoulder.
"I'll say. Listen you two, duty calls, but if you need any help just call this number." He handed me a card. "And congratulations again."
"And thank you!" I called after him we left the room. In the lift, HyunJae pushed the card into her wallet.
"I'll never lose this for as long as I live," she remarked. "I actually look good in that photo."
"Haha," I said, rolling my eyes. "As if you don't look good in every photo."
"Hey, look who's talking. You're really pretty now, you know," she retorted.
"Yeah, and you're a penguin." I never took compliments seriously. I knew that they were just words, they weren't necessarily true.
"Whatever," said HyunJae. "But DongHae's going to die when he sees you." Her face turned evil. "Let's go get you some sexy lingerie huh?"
"You're sick!" I said, hitting her. She laughed and said she was joking, even she wouldn't do that to herself.
"But seriously, I need some new tops. Mine are just disgusting," she said. "Where's a good place to shop?"
I took her to the shopping mall nearest to my house and we spent about an hour there, trying on kinky clothes and making each other laugh. In the end even I bought a new t-shirt, because it had an adorable fish on the front.
It was only after I had bought it did I remember that Fishy was DongHae's nickname. Damn.
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"JaeHwa ah, isn't that the band that you're going to meet?" said my mother from her seat on the couch. The TV was on, but I wasn't paying attention to it. I was trying to play 'Lies' by Big Bang on the keyboard. However, HyunJae turned at my mother's words, then hit me on the shoulder.
"Look!" she commanded. I turned around in my seat and immediately caught sight of HanKyung and ShinDong entering a building, the Nippon Budokan. They were surrounded by screaming girls who were carrying signs like "I Love Super Junior!" "Super Junior Hwaiting!" and "Super Junior forever!" I smiled slightly, remembering how I would've done that a few years ago.
Suddenly, there he was.
He had a new hairstyle, brown and with a fringe, and it looked a little longer than I remembered, but he looked thinner. Tired? I couldn't tell. But he was smiling that trademark smile, looking like he was happy.
If only the public really knew what he was feeling inside.
I felt a little shiver of excitement and dread at the thought of seeing him tomorrow.
"Not excited to see them, hah?" remarked my mother. "You girls nowadays, screaming one day and silent the next. I don't understand you sometimes."
HyunJae laughed. "We're nervous. They're a big group," she explained.
"Exactly. I'd be screaming and running all over the place if I was going to meet a 'big' band like them," replied my mother. She smiled. "If I'd met one of my favourite singers when I was your age, I would have married him right there on the spot."
"Umma, don't let Appa hear you," I said, laughing. If only she knew how close I was to making her dream come true. Okay, so I hadn't even imagined marrying DongHae, but we were almost like in a relationship.
"Eh, too late for that, I've been married for so many years and had a child, it doesn't matter anymore," she said good-naturedly. "Just be grateful you have the chance to meet them. It's too easy for kids these days, goodness me." She got up and turned off the TV. I caught a last glimpse of SungMin and LeeTeuk smiling and waving at the crowd. "I have to go out and buy some food, want to come with me? Get out of the house for a while."
"No... I want to learn this song," I said, gesturing at the sheet in front of me.
"And I need to help her," added HyunJae.
"You don't even know how to play," I said, turning to her.
"No, but you need someone to tell you whether you got the melody right," she shot back.
My mother laughed. "Alright girls, but don't trash the place, okay?" She pulled out her shopping bag and left.
"Since when did I ever trash the place anyway?" I asked HyunJae. She shrugged. "Right, let's get down to this," I said, indicating the sheet music.
"I don't know how to play remember?" She bounded over to the TV and turned it back on.
"Come on, you're already seeing them tomorrow, what do you need to look at them for now?"
"I want to see what EunHyuk looks like."
"Can't you take surprises...?"
"Nope." At that moment, the camera zoomed in on EunHyuk. "Oh ma gosh, look at his hair!! He looks so goooood," she squealed happily.
"Still the typical fangirl, I see," I said, turning back to the keyboard.
"Damn, they ALL look good," she said, as the camera went for a shot with everyone in it. "Except for ShinDong. I mean, can his hair get any bigger? HeeChul looks like something out of Lion King," she added, laughing. "Oh, KyuHyun's hair looks good on him."
I felt a bit annoyed. I mean, she was the one who wanted to stop me from getting the passes, now she couldn't stop herself. I turned back around. "Hey, quit it, I'm trying to play this thing."
"Oh fine," she said, switching off the TV and stretching out on the couch. I could see her grinning.
"Look, you didn't want me to get the passes at first, so quit being on top of the world about it."
Her face fell. "Sorry JaeHwa," she said. "I just feel... excited. You know, about seeing them again and all."
"I'm more nervous actually."
"Think they'd be shocked when they see us?"
"I think they already know we'll be there."
"Oh yeah? How much are you willing to bet?"
None I thought. I just prayed that everything would go smoothly.