overheard
hyunseung/zinger, pg, crack?
sometimes hyunseung doesn't think about what he says, but it results in good things eventually, anyway. sort of. for
voorpret's birthday~
(Months later, in retrospect, Hana has to thank KBS’s studios for having such thin walls.)
“Guess what, I heard that the Secret girls kind of like us,” Hana hears a voice come from one of the waiting rooms on her way to the restroom, so obviously she has to stop and listen. She shushes Hyosung, who had been talking about the very nice MCs on the show they would be filming that day, and pulls her a little closer to hover outside the waiting room door. The door proclaims that Beast is inside, and well, if Hana’s honest with herself, she kind of has a crush on the boys. One boy, actually, but who needed details?
In any case, they hear the same someone - Yoseob? - saying, “no, really, I read an article about it. I was searching my name.”
There are a series of snorts, Hana’s not sure by who, before Junhyung replies, “yeah, like you weren’t totally shot down by them about this last Star Golden Bell filming.”
“No,” Yoseob protests, “this is another article, I swear. I checked the date and all. Go back to sleep.” Hana looks over at Hyosung, giggling silently, and she kind of hopes Yoseob will bring this up during the filming later so Hyosung can deny it again - she knows how Jieun likes seeing Yoseob kind of embarrassed because apparently his ears turn red and it becomes really, really cute. (No, Hana doesn’t really understand either.)
“So anyway, the article said Zinger said she liked guys who can dance! You should go for her, it’d be interesting,” Yoseob is now saying, and okay, Hana doesn’t remember saying anything about that, but she kind of has to admit that it’s accurate. Hyosung nudges her and gives her a furtive, mischievous smile, and Hana almost has to bite her lip to stop smiling back.
“Uhhhhh,” comes the mumbled reply, and it takes Hana several seconds to place the voice. “She’s not really my type.”
Which makes Hana kind of disappointed because, well, she hadn’t really been expecting anything; she wasn’t really anyone’s type especially when there were girls like Sunhwa, but it would have been nice to hear that the little feelings she had were reciprocated. Hyosung gives her arm a little comforting squeeze, and she leans into Hyosung a little.
“Oh, really,” Yoseob says skeptically, “you’re not still holding out for Miranda Kerr, are you?”
Hana pictures Hyunseung giving Yoseob a half-affronted, half-innocuous look here, because Yoseob chuckles a little. “So... which one of Secret is your type, then?”
Hana has to strain her ears considerably to make out the response, because Hyunseung is mumbling a little too much. “Uh, not really any one of them. Jieun, maybe?”
There is a pause, Hyosung looking at Hana in slight surprise, and then Yoseob starts again, his voice slightly sharper than before. “Well, I think you’d fit really well with Zinger. Both of you are dancers,” Yoseob observes as an afterthought, “maybe you guys could do a music show special duet dance or something!” Hana shrugs, turning to leave, but Hyunseung replies, “she’d probably kill me if we had to do any of those lifts,” which makes Hana freeze. Hyosung’s mouth drops open a little, and she rushes to round her arm round Hana’s waist, patting her comfortingly.
“Let’s go,” Hyosung whispers, rubbing Hana’s shoulder and scowling at Beast’s door. As they move away Hana hears Kikwang say rather indignantly, “that’s mean,” and Hyunseung exclaim, “Owch, what was that for,” and Hana faintly thinks that he deserves whatever pain that was.
Hyosung’s muttering about how Hana shouldn’t take that to heart at all, she was a perfectly fine size and weight, Hyunseung is an idiot, please Hana don’t bother about stupid boys like him, but Hana just smiles reassuringly at Hyosung. She was a little hurt, and peeved, though Hyunseung might not have meant it, but you know what, Jeong Hana isn’t a girl that’ll take something like that lying down. She’s going to show Hyunseung, and all of these other stupid boys, that Zinger’s going to bring back sexy times, no matter how far from sticks her legs are.
--
They start filming for real, Hana stealing furtive glances at Hyunseung every once in a while. For some reason, the MC brings up that both Hyunseung and Zinger are known for their dancing, and suggest they do a little dance battle - Hana allows herself a little smile because she was going to show this boy what Zinger Time really was. She feels Sunhwa’s and Hyosung’s hands on the small of her back, their reassuring warmth steeling something in her, and she steps out of her seat, her heels clicking confidently on the smooth marbled floor. Hyunseung hovers around the side of the space in front of the seats awkwardly, his limbs stiff at his sides, looking at the MCs waiting for his cue. The MCs suggests Hyunseung go first, so he does, doing some simple moves to start off, a bit of his flashy moonwalk, and then ends off awkwardly clapping, staring at the MCs and Hana.
So she starts, dancing like how Secret used to, how she used to at dance school, her movements sharp, yet fluid, and she doesn’t look at Hyunseung during her little segment, just does her thing on stage, eyes blazing at the camera. She ends with a sultry pose on the perfect note and then allows a smile to break on her face; this time the smile reaches her eyes because she’s proud of herself. She turns to Hyunseung amidst the applause and cheers, and takes great satisfaction from the barely concealed awe in his eyes. Hyunseung jerks a little as though moving to shake her hand, but Hana just flashes him a short smile before turning back to her seat, bouncing into it as Hyosung and Jieun give her a smile to say, “that’s our Zinger.”
Hana’s not so surprised after filming that day (throughout which she had caught Hyunseung chancing a glance at her occasionally) that when Jieun passes by Beast’s room, she hears Hyunseung saying quite a number of good things about Hana’s dance skills.
(Months later, Hyunseung thinks Beast should invest in large quantities of portable acoustic foam. And probably find some way to make the Muffliato charm from Harry Potter work, just in case.)