Chapter 11: The End, Part I
A/N: I am going to pull one of those things directors pull in the last episode of the drama. I like to call it the "Cram an extremely long resolution into the last episode of the drama along with an epilogue since most of the viewers remember that episode the most so they tell all their friends it was amazing and action-packed when in fact all the rest of the episodes were slow and dreary."
It might be kind of long…
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My POV (I've been using this a lot lately…)
The F4, with Ga-Eul replacing JiHoo, were all gathered at a ski resort, solemn. Ji-Hoo had gone to pick up Jan-Di, and even an extremely jealous Jun-Pyo realized he was the best choice.
"Obviously, you need to confess. As soon as possible, and we can just pray before Ji-Ha." Woo-Bin stated, matter-of-factly.
"Ga-Eul, did you get the necklace?" Jun-Pyo asked, and she nodded. After looking through her purse for a few very anxious seconds, she took a box out and handed it to him.
"Alright, so are we going to force her on the same ledge, or something else?" Asked Woo-Bin, obviously restless from the four hour ride.
"It would be best to go with something more passive, she's seen more than enough of his controlling side. Perhaps, a dinner, or-"
Neon Nareul wonhae
Neon naega ppajyeo
Naega michyeo
Ha eon al su eobso
I got you~ Under my skin
"Ji-Hoo Sunbae? What is it?" She asked, recognizing his personalized ringtone. Her face visibly paled, all the others could hear was a deep murmur of a male's voice.
"Yes, I understand. We'll plan accordingly. Annyeong." Ga-Eul finished, and hung up the phone.
"Obviously, it's bad news. What happened?" Yi-Jung inquired first.
"Ji-Ha tagged along. He'll be arriving with Ji-Hoo Sunbae and Jan-Di." She muttered, obviously scowling.
"He's obviously figured out Jun-Pyo's going to make his move. I suppose he noticed the necklace was gone, she was the only that didn't notice she was wearing it. The question is; how's he going to affect things?" Yi-Jung thought aloud, followed by the birth of a gay baby.
"Well, he's going to do the easiest thing. Which is obviously sabotaging Jun-Pyo's confession. All we have to do is plan an insanely large amount of ways for him to confess, and one of them is bound to work." Woo-Bin said, putting it bluntly. The next two hours were spent thinking of every romantic situation to can come up with at a ski resort.
"Are you sure it'll work? Jan-Di's going to get suspicious, and probably a little irritated."
"Ga-Eul, there really isn't another option. Besides, I don't need another two hours of planning. All that romantic crap is making my head hurt." Woo-Bin whined, the rest of the F4 nodded I agreement. Ga-Eul just shook her head.
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Ga-Eul's POV
"Men…" I muttered under my breath. Somehow, in their planning, I had become Jan-Di's "host." I would change her and drag her everywhere so Jun-Pyo could confess. She is and will always be my best friend, but her temper was something I was not very fond of.
I slowly made my way to the balcony. Instead of normal dorm-like hotel rooms, the ski resort they chose had floors. The entire floor was about twice the size of a common apartment, and had all the basic rooms. A kitchen, living room, dining room, and four bedrooms spread across the entire floor, as well as two bathrooms. JanDi and I, being the only females, shared one room. They somehow drew the conclusion that Starcraft was the best way to decide who would share another room, and made me play in Ji-Hoo's absence assuming I was bad. Thanks to Oppa and Jan-Di's dongsaeng-nam, I did relatively well only losing to Woo-Bin. Yi-Jung and Jun-Pyo were then stuck in the same bedroom.
Geuraeyo nan nul saranghae
Unjaena miduh ggoomdo yuljungdo da joogo shippuh
Nan geudae sowoneul ilyuhjoogo shipeun (shipeun) hengoonae yeoshin
Sowoneul malhaebwa
Woo-Bin snickered, while everyone searched for the source of the noise. "Oi, Jun-Pyo, I think I hear your ringtone. I think your Sunny obsession has gone a little out of hand." Jun-Pyo turned furiously red and gave him a murderous glare before answering.
"Yobeseyo?" He asked, closing the door as we walked out to take the call in private.
Yi-Jung gave Woo-Bin a high-five, I threw them a questioning glance.
"He was completely obsessed with SNSD when they first debuted." Woo-Bin Sunbae started, grinning at the memory. "He would lock himself in his room for so long with just his laptop I broke the door down because I thought he was watching porn or something. Turns out he was watching all their videos on repeat, the obsession ended after 10 days though."
"We've decided to never let him live it down, we had meetings to decide how to get him off this porn addiction." Yi-Jung Sunbae finished for him, and they both chuckled. My mind couldn't grasp the concept Gu Jun-Pyo would spend hours watching fashionable anorexics act cute. I shrugged and dismissed the thought, but making a mental note to tell Jan-Di about it later.
"I-" I started, but was interrupted by a SLAM.
"Jan-Di just arrived. Heads up." Jun-Pyo said, tossing me the keys to the room and shoved her out the door. "Keep her skiing until around 6PM. If she complains buy her food with this. There's some ice statues thing somewhere around here too. I'll have some idiot deliver her dress later; they'll be one for you so she doesn't get suspicious. Go downstairs with her and leave, I'll have a butler handle the rest. See you sometime." He finished, they were at the elevator now.
"Alright then I-" I sighed, rolling my eyes. He had pressed the |Lobby| button and left as the elevator doors were closing. What a control freak… I muttered to myself. After arriving at the ground floor, I saw Jan-Di and Ji-Hoo enter the lobby, with the only living heart donor following them. There really wasn't any rational reason I hated him, mostly because he ruined my friend's love life. It was going perfectly, the rich guy falls for the headstrong poor girl and a controlling parent (no wonder he ended up that way) trying to break them apart. She gets into a car accident, loses her memory, and his love will bring them back together. Except for the fact that thing's there. With the absence of him, it would be exactly like a drama.
"Ga-Eul! Finally, someone that doesn't stalk OR kidnap me!" She screeched, and then hugged me after limp-running. I returned the hug, and raised my eyebrow at Ji-Hoo, he just shrugged and went into the elevator.
"I never thought he was like that! Those F4 people can be so annoying sometimes… I didn't even have time to bring extra clothing or supplies."
"I got some for you." I stated, quickly. I needed to get Jan-Di far away from this hotel building for the time being. "They're in the room, let's change and go skiing!" There was enough cheesy false enthusiasm in that to make nachos with, but I ignored that for now. Jan-Di needed to be as far away from the hotel as possible for the time being.
"Ga-Eul, are you okay? You don't like skiing, remember?" Jan-Di questioned, a confused look plastered on her face. I smiled, as naturally as possible given the situation. I never was good at lying, but I had to be strong.
"I don't like skiing because I'm bad at it, so you can help me get better. Besides, we're at an expensive ski resort so we should take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!" I exclaimed, knowing free services was Jan-Di's weakness. Jan-Di stared for a few more seconds, obviously suspicious.
"Ga-Eul… It couldn't be Yi-Jung, could it? I told you that idiot was no good! Come on, we need to get you as far away from him as possible. To the mountains!" Jan-Di exclaimed, and began dragging her to the elevator. I giggled, shaking my head when she threw a glance back and almost crashed into a bellhop. There was no way she could possibly guess what I was up to, and judging by the way my wrist was starting to feel strained I could tell she and Jun-Pyo were soul mates. Not that I didn't already know that.
~0o0o0o0o0 TIME SKIP TIME SKIP 0o0o0o0o0~
"Ga-Eul, this is ridiculous. We have been out for like 8 hours already. You've dragged me to every mountain at least twice, and we've eaten like two meals. I need something relaxing… Not everyone's as thin as you are." Jan-Di whined, making me sit on the nearest bench with her and took a sip of water.
"Ice sculptures?" I asked, hoping to pique her interest. There were only 40 minutes left until 5PM, I needed some way to hold her off.
"Ga-Eul, its just carved pieces of ice. They don't even make it in to interesting things, like food. We end up with a bunch of random stuff like horses and people that you see too much anyways since their faces are all over currency."
"Jan-Di… Please? I haven't been to one since 4th grade when we went on that field trip."
"Ga-Eul, don't use the puppy dog face on me. I've been exposed to it since I was four, I'm immune to it now. Go drag Yi-Jung or something, speak of the devil…" Jan-Di trailed off, her attention caught by something else.
I turned my head, seeing Yi-Jung Sunbae (obviously). He, for once, wasn't the focal point. It was the girl next to him, clinging to his arm like her life depended on it. Jan-Di, Jun-Pyo, everything was forgotten for that one second. They walked past, probably taking the ski lift to one of those black diamond mountains so he could impress her with his skiing skills. He'd never tried to impress me before, even though it came naturally.
The only way to describe was like a music video. I was so obviously there, knowing I was rudely boring holes into his skull. Yet he passed, with the girl, completely oblivious to the fact I wanted to crawl up in a hole and die.
"Yi-Jung Sunbae!" I called, and then quickly clenched my fist, my nails digging into my palm. There was no reason to catch his attention, but the damage was already done. He glanced over, grinned, and started walking towards Jan-Di and I, with the girl of course. Okay, I could handle this. I would ask him to join us, and then tell him I was doing it to stall Jan-Di for time. I would ask him where the ice sculptures were, because I couldn't find them. I could even ask him what time it was, and pretend we both forgot our cell-phones. The situation was completely under control.
"Jan-Di, Ga-Eul, hello. How do you like the resort? This is Eun-Hye. Did you need something?" He asked, a host-like smile on his face.
"Um… I just wanted to say 'Hi,' don't need anything." I said, my happy-go-lucky side taking over. I sighed, not even wanting to know how big of an idiot I looked like. There was such a reasonable way to handle the situation… If he hadn't smiled ~_~
"Well, hello too. I'll be going now, I heard they added a new route. See you." He replied. I could tell how hard he was trying not to snicker, which was almost as hard as I was trying not to slap myself. The effect he had over me, it was
"See you later Yi-Jung Sunbae!" Jan-Di exclaimed, seeing as how I had forgotten to reply. With one last smile, he left. This ensured an awkward silence, which lasted quite a while.
"Oh my God, I mean goodness. Ga-Eul, are you crying?" Jan-Di screeched, looked up at her. My fingers went to the skin right beneath my right eye, which result in me getting snow in my eye since I had forgotten about the fact my hands were clad with expensive black gloves.
"I don't know… Am I?" I asked stupidly, turning to look her straight in the eye. She sighed, pushing the hair out of her eyes.
"Rant." She commanded, I shook my head.
"You don't need more to worry about, besides-"
"No, just stop. You've been acting differently lately. So distant, tired, and non-Ga-Eul. I can't help but think this is my fault, I've just been stressing everyone out even more because of the car accident." She started, and I tried to cut her off.
"Jan-Di, it really isn't your fault. It's not like you wanted-"
"No, I'm not done. I spent hours complaining about the F4, about Jun-Pyo, about Ji-Hoo, about Shinhwa in general. The entire time, you were probably cringing the entire time because all of it reminded you about Yi-Jung. I annoyed you for hours on end, selfishly. You have to think of yourself for once Ga-Eul! I heard about how you found Eun-Jae's confession spot, about how you convinced him to start pottery again. Stop hurting yourself like this! You need to- Oh my God, I made you cry didn't I? I'm so sorry-"
I hugged her, causing her to shut up. I didn't need another eyeful of snow or Jan-Di to tell me I was crying this time.
"It's alright, you just have to forget about him-"
"That just hurts more!" I started, full out bawling now. Luckily Jan-Di had managed to drag me in a secluded area, off-course and completely surrounded by trees.
"I don't want to forget about him! I WANT to be in love with that sex-addicted jerk! That time I tried deleting his picture off my phone I had a mental breakdown and started crying! I stopped watching any form of film because the rich guy falling in love with the girl just makes me delusional! I even started listening to YounHa, even though she's a female singer and they usually just stand on stage and act cute, because her love songs remind me of Yi-Jung. This isn't even passion anymore, I feel like I'm sinning just obsessing over a male idol!
I used to be okay with it, thinking there would be some nice guy who was nice and ideal and I'd fall for him the same way, but that's not happening! Last week, that blind that Jae-Kyung made me go on, with HyunMin or whatever the heck that guy's name was. He was so nice to me, he was polite, but even now complimenting another guy makes me feel like I'm cheating on Yi-Jung! That other guy was so much better for me, but I don't even care about that anymore! No matter how nice that guy is to me, I feel a million times happier just seeing the picture of YiJung that pops up on my phone when he texts me!"
"Ga-Eul, as your best friend, I cannot allow you to wallow in you puddle of depression any longer. It is good to express your feelings, but you're just getting more depressed! Tonight... We will watch the angst-filled-chick-flick collection." She declared, my jaw dropped.
The "Angst-Filled-Chick-Flick" collection was something we'd put together after Yong-Hwa Sunbae, my crush of three years, confessed to a guy. After months of morning, I had finally started to see the humor in the confession. A lot of them were American movies, since Korean ones, although lovely and filled with cute actors, were a bit too happy to watch after a breakup. We would watched, in this exact order;
Daddy Long Legs
Dear John
A Millionaire's First Love
A Walk To Remember
Love Me Not
The Notebook
The Classic
Windstruck
Jan-Di, although she hated most of these movies, would comfort me accordingly as a bawled my eyes out. Around this time was when we'd be completely out of popcorn. Too depressed to do anything else, we would fall asleep. After waking up around 2 in the afternoon, we would watch My Little Bride and our movie marathon would be over.
My thought process was interrupted when I felt something in my pocket vibrate. It was the timer, meaning it was already 5. Time really passes quickly when you're miserable.
"Jan-Di, we can't cry on an empty stomach!" I exclaimed, feeling refreshed.
"Ga-Eul, it's fine. Besides, I won't be doing any crying." She rolled her eyes at me, and I playfully shoved her.
"Either way, we should eat. It's been 5 hours since lunch, let's head back and go to dinner."
"Fine, let's go. Rich people food, although unnecessary, is really good." She said, I giggled a little. We headed back, I smiled in anticipation of what was going to happen.
Jun-Pyo, I'm handing you my best friend. You'd better not mess up this time. I muttered, luckily Jan-Di was too busy drooling at the thought of fatty pork to hear me. This evening would be fun.
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Jun-Pyo's POV
I sat at the table, my feet sore from pacing for the last four hours. I went over to the kitchen, since there weren't any more waiters to boss around. The Chefs would have to suffice in their place. Jan-Di, this better work. Hopefully you're not as dense as you used to be.
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THE END
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A/N: Okay, plan imitate a drama director failed since this is already almost 3K words and I decided that was bit excessive since I'm less than halfway through what was supposed to be the chapter.
Anticipate ^_^
Also, Ga-Eul's ringtone was MIROTIC BY DONG BANG SHIN KI
Jun-Pyo's ringtone was GENIE (TELL ME YOUR WISH) BY GIRL'S GENERATION (SNSD)