Title: of new houses, phone calls, and speechless brothers-in-law
Pairing: Sooyoung/Jungshin
Rating: G
Genre: Fluff
Coming from a privileged family, visiting other people's house is not something new to Sooyoung. It's a normal childhood activity which reverberates memories of "hello, nice to meet you" and "oh my how sooyoung has grown". And come to think of it, it's a normal childhood activity which might have attributed to her flair for words and ability to bring herself sophisticatedly in front of other people.
"Were you together?"
"Aniyo, we just met outside"
Visiting houses should be a piece of cake but visiting YongSeo's love nest was quite an experience.
It might be because it's her dongsaeng, her beloved maknae's "marital abode". Or the fact that seeing a boy, whose not their manager or one of their SM sunbaes, prancing around the living room is something rather unusual for her. However, Hyoyeon's dubious look and Tiffany's eyesmile-which-implies-a-hidden-meaning says the answer is none of the two mentioned above.
"What do you think of SNSD?"
"Good"
His answers were irritatingly short and the way he acted was annoyingly awkward; and it puzzled her how Korea's bubbly national chingu went from "sooyoung-ssi sunbaenim, nice to meet you are you going inside too? it's been a long time since i've visited hyung. haha. ah, i am glad to meet you, but i feel embarassed all the way. and gee, i can't stop talking. haha, okay, should we enter now?" to a series of short monosyllabic grunts.
She was getting annoyed and frustrated as he kept his silence as the camera rolled along. Her reputation for "flair for words and ability to bring herself sophisticatedly in front of other people" suddenly crumbling before her very eyes. And to think that she acknowledges visiting houses to be a normal childhood activity.
The filming ended to give way to their departure but Jungshin's tongue remained stuck to the roof of his mouth. He kept his indifferent face to match Yonghwa's apologetic one on why CN Blue's resident Avatar suddenly decided to go mute all of a sudden.
"yeobseyo?"
"yah, what were you playing at a while ago?"
"s..sooyoung-s..sunbae? whe-where did you get my number?"
"yonghwa gave it stupid. simply answer my question and don't try changing the subject!"
Curses flew silently towards Jung Yonghwa as Jungshin absent-mindedly scratched his head. He muttered a string of apologies, occasionally getting tongue-tied on the process until the girl's tinkling laugh at the other end of the line cut him off.
"i'm really sorry, can you forgive me?"
"is being adorably stupid a necessary requirement to be a member of cn blue?"
"h-huh?"
"meet me at the steakhouse on the corner of myeongdong near eulji-ro station tomorrow."
"wha--"
"i'm bringing yoong along. dress your best okay?"
"wait---"
"see ya!"
Three, four months later, a quarter of the netizen population of South Korea forgot about the fail attempt to a funny conversation and awkward lamp cap attaching moment of the two gigantic shikshins in WGM. Jungshin remained national chingu to all goguma tuners and Sooyoung never had the chance to visit the YongSeo house again.
"yeobse--"
"noona, congratulations on your hoot promotions!"
"yah, what a---"
"your new hair is awesome! but have you observed how we look-alike now more than ever?"
"shut up, do you pride yourself in looking like a gi---"
"i heard the noonas call you jungshin now"
"are you stalking me?"
"seohyun told me. keke i miss eating at the steakhouse. should we go grab some bite later?"
"lemme think abou---"
"see ya!"
Months after that fateful episode, Jungshin completely forgot how dumb and speechless he was the first time he met her.
He's been playing the national chingu role alright; sharing hour-long phone conversations and occasional dine-outs with her and any random SNSD girl she'd tag along (usually Yoona). He still finds Yoong cute; though he hopes there'd be another chance for him and Sooyoung to meet in WGM (or any show where in excessive idol talking/laughing/interaction is not considered taboo) again.
For when that time comes, he's sure he'd have more things to do than finishing food and attaching lamp caps to ceilings.
A/N: This is a terribly terrible (yes, there's a need for redundancy) Sooyoung/Jungshin fic. But it's 3AM and I just arrived from a four-hour trip so I am forgiven HAHAHA. Accept the lulz
unknowntoyou18 still part of the 24 fic challenge xD