A/N: Thank you Ann, piggyrabbit, Olieangel, Coleen, flinn, and I Love this Fic for your reviews I love reading them they make me want to grab a pig-rabbit and squeal ^_^ A lot of you have been saying I do Tae-kyung's character well and it feels like the actual show. Thank you very much, I do enjoy writing his character the most and I do try my best to write things out how I see them in my head. Also for some reason the story won't save ANJELL with periods, don't know why, it was starting to annoy me so it will be written as ANJELL.
Disclaimer: I do not own You're Beautiful...if I did this would be the 2nd season lol.
You're Still Beautiful
Ep. 3
Mi-nyeo carried her tray of food over to the table Cho-Hee was sitting at, she and another girl seemed to be looking at something on a device that looked a lot like what that little girl in church was listening to that got her in trouble.
Mi-nyeo put down her tray taking a seat; she craned her neck to see what they were looking at. "What are you guys doing?" she asked in innocent curiosity.
Cho-Hee turned to look at her. "Oh, Mi-nyeo!" she greeted her. "We're just checking out the new ANJELL music video, here look," she said turning the device so Mi-nyeo could see.
Mi-nyeo's eyes went wide at the sight of her brother, Hwang Tae-kyung, Shin-woo and Jeremy performing on the little screen.
"Um…Mi-nyeo?" asked Cho-Hee tilting her head. "Are you okay?"
"Oh! Yes I'm okay," Mi-nyeo said her voice being a little high pitched. "So…you're a fan of ANJELL?"
Cho-Hee nodded smiling. "And you? Are you a fan also?"
Mi-nyeo blinked a couple of times staring at Cho-Hee, she didn't seem to realize that she was the sister of the Go Mi-nam of ANJELL or that she knew them other than in a fangirl way. "Um…..yes, I'm a fan," she said uncomfortably.
"Really, so what's your favorite song by ANJELL?" asked Cho-Hee happy just to talk about common interests.
"Um….What Should I Do," Mi-nyeo said blurting out the first song she could think of.
Cho-Hee's face twisted in slight confusion. "Really, I'm not familiar with that—," she cut off when the other girl standing nearby nudged her, she looked up at her.
"Isn't that the song Hwang Tae-kyung sung solo at a concert?" the girl said looking at Cho-Hee and Mi-nyeo. "It was a new song, I had never heard him sing it before. I hope they put it on their next CD."
Cho-Hee sat silent for a moment and then something came to her. "Oh, you mean that concert where Hwang Tae-kyung went into the crowd and hugged that mystery girl."
"M-mystery girl?" Mi-nyeo stuttered out.
Cho-Hee turned to her. "Yeah, he went out into the crowd and just pulled some girl into a hug, it was a great act people say," she paused. "Then other people say it was for real and that the girl looked familiar, but most people believe it was an act."
"A-act?" Mi-nyeo choked out. "W-what do you mean by act?"
"An act," Cho-Hee shrugged her shoulders. "You know part of the concert to make the fans feel more involved with the song."
Mi-nyeo's head slumped forward, she turned to her tray miserably reaching for her chocolate milk as comfort food. "Oh," she said feebly taking a sip from the small carton.
Cho-Hee smiled at Mi-nyeo. "I bet you're a Hwang Tae-kyung fan."
Mi-nyeo just looked away blushing and took a gulp of her milk.
"I'm so going to marry Hwang Tae-kyung!" giggled the girl.
"Oh, no I'm going to marry Hwang Tae-kyung," laughed Cho-Hee, she turned to Mi-nyeo. "How about you Mi-nyeo? Are you going to marry Hwang Tae-kyung?"
Mi-nyeo spat out her milk, spurting and coughing. "M-marry Hwang Tae-kyung!" she choked out. "I…I don't know…I mean it's too soon…maybe someday..I don't know….you…you think he would want to m-marry me?"
Cho-Hee raised her eyebrows looking somewhat dumbfounded. "Um…we were just joking Mi-nyeo, neither of us really think we're going to marry Hwang Tae-kyung."
Mi-nyeo just stared at her for a moment, then quickly looked away. "Oh…me too!" she exclaimed smiling awkwardly. "I was just joking….ha…ha…ha."
Cho-Hee gave her a weird look but then shook it off. "Anyway if I was really considering marrying one of the ANJELL I think I would pick Jeremy, Hwang Tae-kyung just seems like he would make a …um…serious husband."
"Oh, he comes off that way at first but," Mi-nyeo paused getting stars in her eyes," he's really very sweet."
Cho-Hee raised an eyebrow. "What?"
Mi-nyeo snapped out of her daydream, starting to fidget in place. "I…I mean…he just seems like the type that is misunderstood. He seems more like the type that would flip pogs with you at night in the park."
"Sure, in out-of-character fanfiction," said Cho-Hee looking on in disbelief.
Mi-nyeo looked away with her bottom lip in a pout. "But it's true," she mumbled to herself.
"Go Mi-nyeo?" someone suddenly shouted.
Mi-nyeo turned her head looking around. "Um, yes? I'm Go Mi-nyeo."
A man walked up to her and held out a package with a postal stamp on it. "Can you sign here, miss?" he said holding out a clipboard and pen. Mi-nyeo signed her name on the clipboard and the man handed her the package. "Here's your package miss, have a nice day."
Mi-nyeo said thank you then looked down at the package wondering what it was. It was sent from Korea and it was addressed to her but that's all that was on it.
"Did your brother send you something, Mi-nyeo?" Cho-Hee asked looking down at the small rectangular box in Mi-nyeo's hands.
Mi-nyeo turned the box over in curiosity. "I don't know, he didn't say he was going to send me anything."
"Maybe he was trying to surprise you?" Cho-Hee smiled. "Open it."
Mi-nyeo unwrapped the box having some trouble getting the tape off at first and finally opened it to find another box with a picture of a mobile phone on it.
Cho-Hee gasped. "It's a Samsung Galaxy S 2! The latest model! Your Oppa must have bought it for you knowing that you lost your old phone. Awww, that's so sweet of him!" she crossed her arms. "My Oppa won't even buy me new headphones and he works at an electronics store and gets a discount."
"Oppa bought me a mobile phone?" Mi-nyeo said in wonder as she opened the box and took the new phone out, she turned it on to find it was fully charged already. "What are all these things?" she asked pointing to the different icons on the screen. "My old phone never had these."
"You can get on the internet, Youtube, and buy music on this," explained Cho-Hee. "It even has GPS and Facetime on it!"
"GPS…Facetime?" repeated Mi-nyeo looking lost. But before Cho-Hee could explained further the phone started ringing causing Mi-nyeo to jump slightly; the ringtone that was playing was "Promise" by ANJELL.
"Your Oppa even put an ANJELL song on as your ringtone!" exclaimed Cho-Hee.
Mi-nyeo kept glancing nervously back and forth between the phone and Cho-Hee. "I'm just going to take this call in our room real quick," she said in a rush and got up to make her way to the room.
Once Mi-nyeo closed the door to her room, she sat down on her bed and pushed the answer button on the phone, she wasn't expecting Tae-kyung's face to pop up taking up the whole screen and for him to talk. "Good, you got it."
Mi-nyeo let out a little scream and in her surprise dropped the phone on the floor.
Tae-kyung's voice could be heard clearly through the phone on the floor. "DON'T BREAK IT ALREADY! IT'S BRAND NEW!"
Mi-nyeo got down on the floor and clawed over to the phone and stuck her neck out cautiously to look down at the phone almost as if she was afraid it would bite. "H-Hyung-nim?"
Tae-kyung exhaled thought his nose. "You're lucky I got that accidental warranty on it." He raised an eyebrow at her. "Why are you just staring down like that?"
Mi-nyeo waved her hand back and forth in front of the phone. "You can see me, hyung-nim?"
"Yes, I can see you…and stop waving!" he ordered, she immediately stopped and put her hand down. "Your phone has a little camera in it on the front and so does mine, so we can see each other. It's called Facetime, pig-rabbit…now pick up the phone."
Mi-nyeo picked up the phone and sat back down on her bed, she stared at the screen completely amazed that she was seeing her star again. "Hyung-nim, how did you call just as I got the phone out of the box?"
Tae-kyung lips twitched upward into a smirk looking quite satisfied with himself. "I paid good money so you would get it around this time."
Mi-nyeo blinked a confused expression on her face. "Wait, you paid….you mean Oppa didn't get me the phone?"
Tae-kyung raised his eyebrows. "You thought he got you the phone?" he crossed his arms looking peeved. "You know I'm hurt you didn't think it was me, I just might take it back—"
"N-no, no I'm very grateful! You didn't have to buy it but thank you very much, hyung-nim."
"That's right, you should be grateful," he said then pressed his lips together in annoyance. "As if that brother of yours would buy you anything, he's too busy buying flowers for that demon fairy." His irritation seemed to disappear as he suddenly became somewhat shy. "So…how are you doing Go Mi-nyeo?"
"Oh, I'm doing good…h-how are Oppa, Shin-woo and Jeremy doing?"
Tae-kyung's glare pierced through the screen, his mouth in a tight line. "Aren't you going to ask how I'm doing? Aish, don't even know why I bothered calling you—"
"No, I…I didn't mean..," Mi-nyeo shook her head then paused. "I'm very happy to see you, hyung-nim."
A smile started twitching on his face then he glanced away for a moment then looked back at the camera. "You are?" he said in a seemingly nonchalant manner.
Mi-nyeo bobbed her head up and down. "Yes," she said, then paused looking down. "Are…are you happy to see me, hyung-nim?"
Tae-kyung paused as if he was thinking about it, he shrugged his shoulders. "Yes," he said quickly.
Mi-nyeo grinned widely into the camera. "How are you doing, hyung-nim?"
"I'm fine, I've been very busy," he said. "I have so many things to do being a star and all."
"Oh, what things, hyung-nim?"
"Things, Go Mi-nyeo what is this twenty questions!"
"No, I was just wondering," she mumbled then asked. "Have you been eating your carrots, spinach, and liver hyung-nim?"
"Who are you my mo—"he cut off as his complexion went pale.
Mi-nyeo noticed this in great concern. "Hyung-nim, are you okay? Your face looks—"
"I'm fine," he said tensely, then avoided looking into the camera, after a moment he looked back at her, his eyes looking up and down. "Seems like your hair has grown."
Mi-nyeo looked down at her hair. "Oh…yes, it's right above my shoulders now."
"Oh," said Tae-kyung kind of being at a loss for words. They both kind of seemed lost in the moment just staring at each other not saying a word. Mi-nyeo broke the silence as she took a gulp and tried to ask the question weighing on her mind.
"Hyung-nim, are you my…."
"Am I your….?" He said after she didn't complete her question.
"Are you my….my….."
"Spit it out already!"
"Are you my….sushi?" she blurted out. "Sushi" meaning boyfriend in Mi-nyeo speak, since she couldn't get the actual word out.
"Am I your….sushi?" Tae-kyung raised his eyebrows giving her an odd look. "What?" he paused. "Are you sure you don't have malaria?"
Just at that moment a knock came at the door causing Mi-nyeo in her jumpy state to drop the mobile phone onto the floor again. The door opened to a crack and Cho-Hee peeked it. "Hi, I don't mean to interrupt, I was just wondering if you were done with your call yet, I need to get my toothbrush." She glanced down and noticed the phone on the floor. Mi-nyeo held her breath as she watched Cho-Hee walk over to it and pick it up.
"Why is this on the floor?" Cho-Hee asked, then looked at the screen. "Wow, it's Hwang Tae-kyung." She glanced at Mi-nyeo. "Is this off of YouTube? I've never seen an interview with him just staring into the camera like that…,"her eyebrows knitted together,"….he looks kind of angry."
"That's because I am," said Tae-kyung into the camera.
Cho-Hee's eyes popped out. "What the…that was weird, did he just answer me?"
Tae-kyung rolled his eyes. "I'm not a YouTube video, stupid. Give me back to Go Mi-nyeo."
Cho-Hee gaped at the mobile phone in her hand then looked at Mi-nyeo. "Mi-nyeo? You…you…know Hwang Tae-kyung?"
Mi-nyeo nodded guiltily from her bed.
"Wait, you mean stupid here doesn't know who your Oppa is?" said Tae-kyung.
Cho-Hee gasped. "Hwang Tae-kyung's your Oppa! I didn't even know he had a sister!"
Tae-kyung groaned. "No, she's not my sister!" he snapped. "Are you that stupid? You don't notice any resemblance between Go Mi-nyeo and Go Mi-nam whatsoever?"
Cho-Hee's eyes went wide again as she pointed at Mi-nyeo. "Oh my gosh, you're Go Mi-nam's sister!"
"She figured it out quicker than I thought she would," said Tae-kyung. "Now…give me back to Go Mi-nyeo!"
Cho-Hee walked in a dumbfounded state over to Mi-nyeo holding out the phone which Mi-nyeo took from her.
Mi-nyeo held the phone and turned it towards Cho-Hee. "Hyung-nim, this is my roommate and friend Seung Cho-Hee."
Cho-Hee waved awkwardly at the phone. "Um…hello, nice to meet you?"
Tae-kyung just crossed his arms and pressed his lips together in a smirk.
"Hyung-nim, don't be rude say hello," Mi-nyeo pouted.
"Hello," he said in a monotone.
"Um…why do you call him, hyung-nim?" asked Cho-Hee in confusion.
"That's what I'd like to know," mumbled Tae-kyung.
"It's…it's an inside joke," Mi-nyeo said awkwardly.
"Oh," said Cho-Hee then glanced at the phone to see Tae-kyung glaring at her. "Um…I'm just going to go now, sorry for interrupting," she said in rush and exited the room.
Tae-kyung and Mi-nyeo talked for a little while longer until Mi-nyeo started to get tired as it was getting late. "Tomorrow around say 3 o'clock I might call, so keep your phone with you," said Tae-kyung.
Mi-nyeo nodded as she let out a yawn.
"Goodnight, Go Mi-nyeo don't let the mosquitoes bite."
Mi-nyeo giggled. "Hyung-nim, it's don't let the bedbugs bite."
"What are you laughing at?" he snapped at her. "I meant it literally! Don't let them bite, I was watching this thing about Africa and…," he cut off sighing,"…never mind, just stay clear of them."
"Okay, I will hyung-nim," she paused for a moment suddenly growing sad. "So…g-goodbye," she said feebly.
Tae-kyung looked down his eyes moving around filled with unspoken words and then finally he said. "Good-bye."
Then after a couple of moments they both hanged up.
Cho-Hee later reentered the room after making sure she wasn't interrupting anything and sat down to talk with Mi-nyeo.
Cho-Hee glanced at Mi-nyeo. "You know you did seem familiar to me, but I couldn't figure out why." Her shoulders slumped forward. "Now I do feel stupid."
Mi-nyeo bit her lip looking at the brink of tears. "It's my fault! I lied...I...I..sinned!" she shook her head. "Do you hate me?"
Cho-Hee took Mi-nyeo's hands in hers. "No, I'm not mad or anything, just really shocked. You know, I won't tell anyone about you knowing ANJELL if you don't want me to."
Mi-nyeo's eyes started to water as she sniffed her nose. "Thank you, Cho-Hee! You're such a good friend! Now I feel even worst about lying!"
Cho-Hee shook her head. "Really, it's okay." She paused. "So…you and…Hwang Tae-kyung what's that about?"
Mi-nyeo looked down. "It's complicated."
Complicated like she dressed up like her twin brother and found herself falling for the lead singer of ANJELL who just happened to be the son of the woman who was in love with her deceased father complicated, but she really didn't want to get into that now.
"You're the mystery girl…that was real," said Cho-Hee as she realized something. "Mi-nyeo, is Hwang Tae-kyung the don't-know-if-he's-my-boyfriend guy?"
Mi-nyeo's silence and blushing face was enough to answer her question.
"That's why you reacted that way about marrying Hwang Tae-kyung," Cho-Hee smiled and patted Mi-nyeo's hand. "Don't worry, Mi-nyeo I'm a fan but I'm not one of those crazed fans. If Hwang Tae-kyung does turn out to be your boyfriend I'm happy for you."
"Cho-Hee!" Mi-nyeo cried out happily pulling her into a hug.
"I only have one question," said Cho-Hee hugging her back.
"Yes?"
"I am invited to the wedding, right?"
Mi-nyeo let out a hiccup as her face turned red in an instant. "CHO-HEE!"
That night Mi-nyeo laid in bed feeling much better now that she told Cho-Hee and had someone to share her secret with. Though the question whether Hwang Tae-kyung was her boyfriend still bothered her since she wasn't able to ask him earlier. Seeing him again, even if it wasn't actually face to face, had lifted her spirits considerably.
She looked at her star necklace lying on her nightstand glistening faintly in the moonlight and then picked it up and gave it a peck. "Goodnight, hyung-nim."
And she closed her eyes dreaming of the day she would be reunited with her star again.
A/N: I keep forgetting to say that Cho-Hee is my O.C. but you probably already knew that :) Anyway, did you enjoy it? Please review, thank you-writetress.
