"Everyone knows Seo Tenten in Korea." A woman in fancy clothes, eating at a fancy restaurant surrounded by three other fancily dressed women said, "Everyone has the title of national singer or national actor nowadays. But they are all exaggerations. You need to have everyone in Korea know you first. I think it's ridiculous to call yourself a national actress just because you had one good piece."
"I agree," said the woman on her left, "only Seo Tenten deserves such a title."
The woman sitting across from the first woman looked a bit peeved. While the woman to her right said, "Anyway, all of our kids started as actors together. But only Tenten and Hinata stayed." She smiled, "I heard Tenten has a new drama again."
The first woman, Tenten's mother, claimed, "Yeah, she chose the drama over the film that Director Ho was begging her for." She took a bite of her food before looking at the woman across from her, condescendingly, "Oh yeah, Hinata is in it too."
The other two women looked at each other then at Hinata's mother, the woman across from Tenten's mother. "I didn't read about it." One of the women said.
"Yes..." Hinata's mom started before she was interrupted.
"She has the role of my daughter's friend. The articles only write about the lead actress." Tenten's mother was very condescending throughout the entire conversation.
Hinata's mother pursed her lips before, as well as Tenten's mother, a condescending look spread across her face. "Oh yeah, didn't Tenten move today? Shouldn't you go?"
Tenten's mom stopped chewing half way through a noodle, before wiping it off and swallowing. "Hm? She moved?" She looked surprised.
"Oh no, you didn't even know that your daughter moved?" Hinata's mother feigned concerned curiosity.
"Of course I did!" Tenten's mom exclaimed, trying not to look oblivious, "I knew she moved. I was going to visit but... She didn't want to cause trouble for me."
The other two women smiled, approvingly, and one asked, "Where did she move to?"
Tenten's mother looked nervous, but put on a smile, and slowly said, "Oh, Seochodong-" Being cut off
"It's Gold Palace in Daechidong." Hinata's mother said, looking a bit proud of her viciousness. (By the way, Seochodong and Daechidong are reigons in Seoul. Seochidong is pronounced seh-chi-don and Daechidong is pronounced deh-i-chi-don.)
Tenten's mother looked horribly startled, and began shaking her leg under the table, as the other two looked a bit taken back by her incorrect answer. "Yeah! I know, Daechidong!" She took another bite of her steak, "My mistake."
After their dinner was over, and Tenten's mother was waiting for a taxi, Hinata's mom, who was in her car driven by a chauffeur, asked him to "Hold on." He stopped by Tenten's mom, and Hinata's mom rolled her window down. "Miyon, get in, I will take you."
"No, I'm okay." Miyon said, looking away.
"Learn to drive or ask your national actress daughter to get you a chauffeur. You look pitiful."
"Tenten wants to get me a chauffeur, but I don't want to have one tag along. There are taxis everywhere!" She motioned to the completely taxi-less road.
"Okay then, be careful."
"Okay, bye!" Miyon said as Hinata's mother rolled up her window and pulled away.
In the car, Hinata's mother, named Sunyon, quietly but angrily said to herself, "You even got abandoned by your own daughter for trying to mooch money off of her. And you have the nerve to brag."
Back at the part of the road Miyon was standing by, she looked down the road in the direction of Sunyon's car and hatefully spat, "Hey, you're daughter is only a supporting actress. You're a supporting actress too. Don't act so graceful in front of the lead." She straightened up her back and tilted her nose in the air. She widened her eyes as she thought of her daughter.
She searched in her purse for her phone as she thought out loud, "Why didn't she tell me she was moving?"
In Tenten's new home, she sat in her huge living room, on the cream colored carpet, with her high quality black laptop on her glass coffee table, on top of a pink and black zebra rug. She sat in front of her couch which was a tab bit lighter than her carpet, and her matching living chair next to her couch, turned towards her coffee table. Tenten sat reading comments on her tweet from earlier that morning.
"Ignorant and stupid?" She scrolled down, "Ch. It's obvious from the screen name that it's a kid." She kept reading, "Did you get botox in your brain? I bet your brain doesn't have wrinkles." She sat up straighter, and looked away from her computer, her hair up in a messy bun, as she was already in her pajamas, "Do kids take lessons on how to write mean comments? Do they take classes?" At this point, she noticed her phone ringing. It said "mom."
"Hello?"
"How could you?" Her mom was heard screeching, before lowering her voice, "Do you have to embarrass me like that? Do I have to find out about you moving from other people?"
"You told me to never call you again. You told me you didn't want me to be your daughter anymore."
"You know what... Since when do you listen to me?"
Tenten leaned her back against her couch and answered, "I've always listened to you. Ever since you asked for money to open the French restaurant. Or the time you asked for money to open a boutique."
Her mother was slightly surprised, but quickly regained her composure. "Stop talking about the past."
Almost as soon as she was done saying the word 'past,' Tenten started again, "There are recent ones too. You started a diet supplement shop and failed. You also lost a doughnut shop."
Miyon, again, surprised, became slightly agitated, "How much could they cost? Look at yourself in the mirror. Your face and your body. I gave you that million-dollar body. Imagine if you didn't have a mother like me. You think it's that easy to look that beautiful naturally? Frankly, your acting sucks. You're making money from acting and doing commercials. It's all thanks to your looks that you got from me. Not because of your acting. You should know that."
Tenten was near tears, "I look like dad."
"My goodness! You look nothing like your dad. You know he has no looks!"
"Oh, that's right. You married him for his money." She was visibly crying now, "That's why you dumped him when he went broke."
"Hey!" Her mother yelled angrily, "What do you know, huh?"
"I'm more like dad and I hate you for that. So don't you ever talk about him again."
Miyon pursed her lips, and rolled her head to the side, "Yeah, I don't have enough money. Send me five million more. Don't you know about automatic transfer? Also," she added, "call your brother. He hasn't been home in two days." She hung up.
Tenten rested her head on her knees for a moment before looking up, "Seo Lee! Did he run away again?"
Speaking of Lee, at that current moment in time, Lee was at a video game playing store, where people pay to get online and play games or do other miscellaneous things. Lee was sitting next to two friends of his, one on his left, and one to the left of that one.
The one in the middle was photo shopping Tenten's head onto the body of a swimsuit model. "Look here," he said to the other guy, "Lee, look here. Doesn't it look real?" As Lee leaned over, he continued, "Should I do a nude picture next time?"
Lee saw the picture, and angrily got up, removing his headphones, and roughly kicked his friend's chair, "What the heck?" His friend said.
"Delete this right now. Before I get back from the bathroom." He said. menacingly.
"Okay." The friend said, before Lee kicked his chair again. As Lee was walking to the bathroom, the friend said to the other friend, "What's wrong with him?"
To which the other friend replied, "Is he her fan?"
