La Coincidence~ Chapter 10
Title: La Coincidence
Pairings: Changmin/fc with hints of yunjae and yoosu
Rating: G
Genre: Drama, Real life, General
Length: Chapters
Summary: It all started with a coincidence. One accident, one helping hand, one small step. And soon it leads to so much more. . .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~CHAPTER 10~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The next morning Jaejoong has to go work on his drama. Micky visits his family for the day, and Xiah and Changmin go host on a radio show. Leaving~
 “So…It’s just us” Yunho says quietly to Min-Ri, once the others have left the apartment.
“…yeah…” Min- Ri says awkwardly.
A silence fills the room.
“Want to go visit…” Yunho
“Yeah” Mi-Ri nods. They quietly put on their coats and walk out.
“Car or by foot?” Yunho asks, pulling out his keys from his pocket.
Min-Ri blinks. “You’re asking me? Whatever you prefer, I don’t mind!”
“No no, you choose!”
Min-Ri bites her lip in concentration. “Well, walking on the street you might get noticed by peoples…at least in the car…you could…run away…better? I don’t know, that’s my crazy deduction haha ^^*”
“Hm, that makes sense though- okay the, save the walking for another time. Although I’ve got to say, even if we did walk, no one would notice me. You didn’t notice me the first time, even though we’re your idols ” Yunho teases Min-Ri, referring back to the first time they met.
Min-Ri turns red. “T-that’s because at the time I was shaken and couldn’t recognize voices!”
“Shaken, not stirred :D” Yunho teases once again, laughing as Min-Ri pouts.
“Wahahaaaa” Yunho as they walk through the underground parking lot to his car. His sleek, shiny, car.
Inside, everything’s black, shiny, brand-spanking-new in black suede. Très luxe.
Min-Ri gingerly sits in the co-pilot seat with legs stuck together, arms glued at her side, scared of touching anything.
“You look like the car's going to eat you, you're like a frozen statue hahaa” Yunho wipes away his tears. “C’mon! Lighten up a bit! I’m not gonna bite you or anything…but I will break your back if you break the stereo system T_T”
“Yipe!” Min-Ri jumps away from Yunho, pressing herself against the door. Yunho laughs harder and turns on the music as he drives.
“You can flip through the music if you want” Yunho suggests, still staring ahead at the road.
Min-Ri shakes her head and remains still as a statue, scared of touching anything.
“It’s an order~” he says in a half-teasing, half serious voice.
Min-Ri sighs and gingerly flips through the many unfamiliar songs until she comes across one.
 Soon they reach the hospital. Yunho drops Min-Ri off at the entrance of the hospital as he goes to park the car.
Min-Ri goes up to Soo-Young’s room and immediately walks over to her friend and clasps Soo-Young’s hand in her own.
“Soo-Young ah. Please. I’m back, it’s Min-Ri…won’t you please wake up and see who it is?” Min-Ri forces a swallow.
“T-today Yunho oppa is here! You know him right? …oh how I wish you were awake… I-” she halts, hearing Yunho’s approaching footsteps.
“How is she?” Yunho says, gently placing his hands on the bedside and peering down at Soo-Young.
“S-still…still the same…”
They stay like that a while, Min-Ri still grasping Soo-Young’s hand and Yunho looking at the two, not knowing what to do. Until Min-Ri finally sighs and stands up.
'I’ll be back again…every day I promise I'll come by...if you ever need me, I’ll be here. You’re always in my heart' Min-Ri mentally says to her friend.
“Ready?” Yunho says
Min-Ri nods. They go into the car and Yunho clears his throat.
“Well…time to…to lighten up a bit don’t you think? I know the best way! Exercise!”
Min-Ri tries to put on a smile. “Oh?”
“Yeah!” Yunho takes on a professional advertising tone speaking 100-words-per-minute. “Exercise increases adrenaline and endorphins in your body, creating a happy feeling so you feel good about yourself as you exercise! Please call us at 1-800-YunhoROX!”
 Yunho looks at Min-Ri, who’s laughing and holding her stomach, and smiles.
'Poor girl…who knows how she’ll be if this situation stretches on…she shouldn’t get depressed…'
Soon they pull up to the gym and go in.
“Oh no, if you told me earlier that we’d come I could’ve brought some gym clothes!” Min-Ri mentally smacks herself.
She looks down at her black t-shirt, hoodie, and skinny jeans. “Don’t worry…we’ll figure something out!” Yunho
They go to the basement of the gym where there are rows upon rows of lockers. Yunho approaches one and removes the lock.
“Since the guys and I are regulars at this gym, we have lockers…”
“Hmmm, o-k……?” Min-Ri says, not understanding what he was getting at.
“…doyouthinkyoucanfitintoasizesmallmen’sshirt?” Yunho quickly says in one breath.
“Are you kidding? …I-I…I’ll die” Min-Ri states seriously.
“Are you that self-conscious? C’mooon! I only wore it once and I washed it myself afterwards!”
“I mean…it’s just so…awkward…plus I’ll probably smell like some sort of Calvin Klein cologne later” Min-Ri shudders.
“Hey, it's Armani cologne, and besides something wrong with the way we smell? At least we smell good and not like-“
“AHH OK, OK, YES YES, SURE!” Min-Ri plugs her ears.
Yunho grins. “So I take it you can fit into a size small for men’s?”
“I prefer my black tee, thank you!”
“They’ll never let you work out like that” Yunho motions to her clothes. “I mean, you can if you want to but…you know…you’ll get stares…”
Min-Ri frowns. “The sneakers and shirt are fine. As for the jeans-” She was about to say “they’ll deal with it” when Yunho suddenly throws a black thing at her.
Min-Ri catches the bunched up black thing and holds it up to see……a pair of shorts.
". . ."
“What! Don’t give me that look!” Yunho
". . ."
 “Oh come on, will ya stop it? We’re wasting time here!”
". . ."
 “Valuable time that could be used exercising!” Yunho sings
". . ."
 “Alright, I dun care, I’m changing right now”
“. . .WAAAAAIT!”
“At least that got a reaction from you…so, you gonna change or what?” Yunho arches his eyebrow.
“I….you….he…” Min-Ri
“We…y’all…they…” Yunho chants
Min-Ri groans “Oh Goood! I’m starting to regret coming here…”
“Oy, if you mean that you want to leave, I’m not leaving until I work out! And I have the car keys, just so you know!”
“Ok ok, I’ll…change…oooooh boy”
“Hey, wait, I think Jaejoong might have an extra set of clothes in here somewhere that he still hasn’t worn…”
O-O!!!!
“Oh wait, I forgot his locker combo…”
-.- phew~
“So you’ll just have to wear these shorts and make do. Don’t worry- one, they’re brand-spanking new and clean so you don’t have to worry about cooties and two, they match perfectly with your black shirt and sneakers, miss fashionista”
Min-Ri blinks.
“Now hurry, up, we’re wasting time!”
“Ok ok but you don’t expect me to change here?!?” she exclaims incredulously
“No no silly. I mean you can but….heheh knowing you…*ahem* anyway, there’s a bathroom for women over there at the corner. I’ll change here since there’s this” and he reaches up and pulls a curtain so it blocks him and that row of lockers from view.
Min-Ri just nods and runs off to change. Surprisingly the shorts fit but she doubted she could still walk out of there and exercise with her heart already doing double time.
She goes out to find Yunho already in tanktop, shorts, sneakers, tapping his foot and waiting. She looks everywhere but at him.
So they go back upstairs to the gym, which was relatively empty. Yunho walks to the back and opens a door to reveal a smaller room fully-equipped with weights, a punching bag, wall-to-wall mirror, and a wooden floor for dancing.
“This is kind of our room. We work out outside too but when it gets too crowded or when we just feel like wanting a little privacy, we come in here. And this is also where we practice with our choreographer our dance steps as well…” 
So the working-out starts…
The two of them work out a bit- Yunho with his heavy, manly, macho weights and Min-Ri with her lighter ones.
Then he switches over to tae-kwon-do and the punching bag as she runs on the tread mill and bikes. After a while Yunho says, "Yo, I'll be back, I'm going to go get some water from the vending machine outside. You want any?"
"Uhh...no...thanks..." by now Min-Ri was jump-roping
As soon as Yunho closes the door behind him, Min-Ri finishes the jump-roping and stretches. As she stretches, she eyes the punching bag in the corner.
Still pumped up from her workout, she's tempted to try it, seeing how effortlessly Yunho was punching it.
She stands up and starts running towards the bag, picking up sped as she went. Min-Ri jumps and slams her foot into the punching bag.
The punching bag, being too stiff and heavy, moves a fraction of an inch, as a surprised Min-Ri lets out a startled yell and throws out her hands to cushion her fall.
BAM! Her palms hit the floor, along with her derrière.
"Owww...why that...that stupid.....thing! How hard can it be to move it?!? How did he do that jumping kick then?!? Aishhhhh..." Min-Ri says as she massages her palms.
A voice comes from the doorway, in peals of laughter.
Min-Ri slowly turns her head...to see Yunho leaning against the doorframe, one hand holding a water bottle, the other wrapped around his stomach.
"That....that was priceless..." Yunho says as he wipes the tears from his eyes. "The look on your face when you hit the thing! Ah! You are too funny!"
He walks over to her and offers her his hand. Min-Ri pouts and looks at the floor. Yunho reaches down and gently takes her elbow and helps her up.
A red shade of embarrassment paints her cheeks as she quickly gets up on her own and walks back to her little corner, hoping things will go back to normal. Yunho looks at her retreating figure and shakes his head as he smiles. He walks over to the punching bag and touches it for a moment.
"Still...that was a pretty good kick though" he says.
"Aw come on! Are you teasing me?" Min-Ri says with suspicion in her eyes.
"No no, I'm serious! Where did you learn that tae-kwon-do move? Are you like a kick-boxing or karate person?"
"Uhhh no..."
"Come on, tell me! Did you take some sort of karate classes or something?" Yunho insists.
"*sigh*...I learned that move...in dance class..." she mutters.
"Dance class!" Yunho exclaims. 
"You mean you learned some dance moves? Like what? Urban? Hip hop? Pop?...stuff?" Yunho says happily.
"Uhh...a little bit...back in...the college" Min-Ri unwillingly says.
"Do you know any routines? Any dances?"
"Uhh...Purple L-..." Min-RI stops herself but it was too late.
"Purple Line? You mean our Purple Line?!"
She sees the glint in Yunho's eyes as he goes over to the stereo system and puts on Purple Line.
"Ok, let's see how much you remember!"
"Ohhh, you're f-funny! It's ok it's ok I'll pass I'll pass, you do NOT want to see me dance!"
"T____T Dance"
"o-ok"
So she does her best at the Purple Line dance. Although it's a little strange since she is being scrutinized by the best dancer of the group.
"Geeez you're slow at dancing! You look like you were dragged into this!" he laughs.
"Says the person that dragged me into this" she mumbles.
"Come on, I'll teach you how you're supposed to do it" Yunho walks over to her.
She takes a big step to the side, leaving a huge gap between them.
-5 minutes later-
"Min Ri ah, the way you dance...you still look like a robot" Yunho says bluntly.
Min-Ri's so startled she trips over her foot. " 'Min-Ri ah'?!?" she echoes.
"I was hoping that'd get some sort of reaction from you but..." Yunho "Seems you're not really cut out for dancing..."
"Oh, really?"
"Well, from what I see you know the moves, you've just got to let them out. Go with your own flow...Pretend I’m not standing here next to you."
"Uh-huh" Min-Ri says. 'Easy for you to say you’re already Asia’s greatest dancer!' she thinks.
"But from what I see...maybe you're just not cut out for dancing...don't worry, I won't tell anyone" Yunho teases endlessly.
"Oh? Well, that was only Purple Line...I'll show you another routine then!" So Min Ri changes 'Purple Line' to "Sexy Back" and does a dance she did back in the States. Yunho looked on half surprised, half amused, seeing her finally for once get comfortable enough to dance in her own style.
 Once the song ends, Yunho starts clapping and then laughs at Min-Ri who by then ran over and was hiding behind the punching bag.
“That was some dancing! You never told me you could dance like that! Come on come on more!” He walks over and tugs on the back of her shirt as she bear hugs the punching bag and refuses to let go.
“Ahahaha…ha…I…please forget I had just done that” she weakly laughs.
Her face was bright red as she still hugs onto the punching bag,Yunho, still trying to pry her hands off.
In the end, he somehow gets his arms around Min-Ri’s waist and pulls her off the punching bag.
“AAAHHH! Okay okay I’m off I’m off let go please, let go! Your fans will KILL me!”
Yunho lets go, startled. “…but there’s no one here but you and me…”
'...that's the problem ^^;' she thinks. She changes the subject. "H-hey, how about you teach me some more of the moves you know?”
“GREAT! Come on!” He grabs her wrist and pulls her over to the wall-to-wall mirrors. , energetic like a little kid.
-A while later-
“I take it back, what I said before…you’re not slow at some dancing” Yunho grins.
“Oh thaaaanks” Min-Ri replies sarcastically.
“Well…time to go I guess…” Yunho
They go back to the lockers and change.
“I don’t think I’ll ever wear this again” Yunho says solemnly.
Min-Ri looks mortified. “Look, I’m sorry. I didn’t want to wear it to begin with. We can wash it 5 times, ok? Ok?”
“Wash it? :D I’ma keep it as a memento and for next time if we ever come again!”
O______O
 Yunho laughs at the shocked face she has. They then drive home, but Yunho takes the ‘scenic’ route and points out various buildings and streets to Min-Ri, giving her a little info about the different landmarks.
Once they arrive at the apartment, Yunho shoos off Min-Ri, telling her “It’s my turn to cook. Don’t give me that look, yes I cook! Jaejoong’s not the only one that cooks you know! He just likes it the most! And dun worry…no poison…”
Min-Ri wanders around quietly, touching the doors to the different rooms and trying to remember which is which. She stops in front of one unfamiliar door and doesn’t remember what’s behind it. Then she remembers that it’s the door of the 'Secret Room.'
She looks left and right, making sure Yunho was no where to be found.
'A little peek won’t hurt, right?' she bites her lip as she slowly turns the knob.
The room is pitch black. Min-Ri takes a few tentative steps inside, watching her shadow outline on the floor of the room. For some reason, it felt like something out of a horror movie. She swallows.
Then, suddenly-
“What are you doing?”
“Eep!” Min-Ri jumps and whirls around to see Yunho standing there, his arms crossed in front of his chest.
“Why have you come in here?” Yunho says
“I…I uh…”
“I though I told you not to open this door, ever!”
“I’m sorry Yunho oppa, I’m sorry!”
Yunho sighs frustratedly. He walks over and into the room, using his hand to search for the light.
“What’s so intriguing about this room? We told fans time and again, it’s nothing extraordinary. I don’t get it, it’s just-”
He clicks open the lights.
“-the laundry room” he says at the same time embarrassed and disgusted.
“Laundry room? That’s the secret room? Why didn’t you guys want to show it then???”
“That day we had just done all the laundry...wouldn’t it be awkward for the fans to see…especially since they’re girls…if they saw certain...articles of clothing…I know for certain we’d all die of embarrassment” Yunho says seriously.
Min-Ri tries hard not to laugh. It turns out these guys also have their own embarrassing moments.
“Hey…why are you giving me that look? Wha-”
“PFFF!” A chortle manages to escape before Min-Ri composes herself with a poker face. Yunho sighs.
“And we still have to do this week’s laundry…we’ve been getting lazy with the housework…aish!”
“...I could do it. Housework is supposed to be a woman’s specialty…”
“No no no, you’re our guest”
“Please, don't worry! how many times are you going to say that? Just treat me like you would with the others-it’ll all be fine!” Min-Ri lightly but firmly pushes him towards the door.
“Well…before you start, I suggest you use a large pair of pincers to pick up all our articles of clothing!” Yunho teases on the other side of the door.
Min-Ri rolls her eyes “Don’t worry, I’ve seen worse, trust me!”
“And you can wash your own clothes if you want!” Yunho calls.
The door suddenly opens, Min-Ri dashes to the living room and runs back in and bangs the door behind her carrying her pile of clothes. She did it quick so Yunho wouldn’t see but he smirked.
'Time to go back and see how the food’s cooking…' he walks over to the kitchen.
She carefully starts taking a few clothes and then puts them into the washer. Soon the washer’s humming along as Min-Ri walks to the sliding door across the room, where people hang their clothes outside on sunny days to dry.
She steps out onto the small balcony. She sighs and looks at the city below with mixed feelings, with the lights glistening in the dark backdrop of the streets.
As she looks up at the darkened sky, she shivers. Looking at the depressing black, she thinks 'I wish it was summer again…it’s so sad during the winter when the sun sets early…Soo Young get better so we can go to places where it's always summer"
She continues staring down at the city lights with a sad look on her face. She leans on the short metal railing of the balcony that reaches just up to her waist. Suddenly, she feels something banging into her from the back.
She looks down to see a pair of arms squeezing her tightly around the waist.
O______o??? a ghost maybe? ....a ghost of the laundry room?
She turns around to see Yunho half-kneeling, half-hanging around her waist, with his cheek pressed against the small of her back.
". . .?"
“Don’t even think about jumping!”
She looks at him like he’s crazy. “What? Why would you even think I’d jump?!?”
“You were leaning there, looking down so I got scared- I could just see the headlines now- ‘Girl plummets from Asia's famous boy band's apa-’ ”
“Aaaahh ok ok, I get it, I’m coming in. Could you please…let go of me? The laundry’s done.”
Yunho quickly lets go. The two of them go back into the laundry room and hang up the clothes. They put another pile into the washer and go to the kitchen to have an early dinner before the other guys come.
-Later on-
“Hey, we’re baaack!” Jaejoong calls from the doorway.
Yunho and Min-Ri look up from the dining room table.
“Looks like the company has finally come home” Yunho smirks.
She smiles as she gets up to wash their dishes.
“Oy, come sit down and eat! We’ve already eaten. We’ll wait for you guys but not for long so hurry up!”
“Wheeee!” thudding feet get louder and louder as Junsu runs in and plonks himself down in his chair.
“Hi Min-Ri ssi! How was your day today? Did you enjoy it with Yunho? Be careful…sometimes he can tease and be a meanie-OW!” Junsu pouts and rubs the spot on his head where Yunho hit him.
“Haha serves you right Junsu!” Changmin laughs as he’s the second to sit down at the table.
“Aww is my poor baby ok?” Jaejoong coos and walks over to Junsu, hugging his head.
“Hey hey! Has everyone forgotten about me?” Yoochun walks over to Junsu and hugs his head tightly.
“Waaaah! Stop it stop it! ok ok, thank you! I wanna eat now!” Junsu says.
Min-Ri laughs.
“So Min-Ri ssi how was your day with Yunho?” Jaejoong says over a mouthful of food.
Yunho grins.
She smiles back.
“Eh, it was…interesting….we got to know each other better…right?”
"...right..."
Pairings: Changmin/fc with hints of yunjae and yoosu
Rating: G
Genre: Drama, Real life, General
Length: Chapters
Summary: It all started with a coincidence. One accident, one helping hand, one small step. And soon it leads to so much more. . .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~CHAPTER 10~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The next morning Jaejoong has to go work on his drama. Micky visits his family for the day, and Xiah and Changmin go host on a radio show. Leaving~
 “So…It’s just us” Yunho says quietly to Min-Ri, once the others have left the apartment.
“…yeah…” Min- Ri says awkwardly.
A silence fills the room.
“Want to go visit…” Yunho
“Yeah” Mi-Ri nods. They quietly put on their coats and walk out.
“Car or by foot?” Yunho asks, pulling out his keys from his pocket.
Min-Ri blinks. “You’re asking me? Whatever you prefer, I don’t mind!”
“No no, you choose!”
Min-Ri bites her lip in concentration. “Well, walking on the street you might get noticed by peoples…at least in the car…you could…run away…better? I don’t know, that’s my crazy deduction haha ^^*”
“Hm, that makes sense though- okay the, save the walking for another time. Although I’ve got to say, even if we did walk, no one would notice me. You didn’t notice me the first time, even though we’re your idols ” Yunho teases Min-Ri, referring back to the first time they met.
Min-Ri turns red. “T-that’s because at the time I was shaken and couldn’t recognize voices!”
“Shaken, not stirred :D” Yunho teases once again, laughing as Min-Ri pouts.
“Wahahaaaa” Yunho as they walk through the underground parking lot to his car. His sleek, shiny, car.
Inside, everything’s black, shiny, brand-spanking-new in black suede. Très luxe.
Min-Ri gingerly sits in the co-pilot seat with legs stuck together, arms glued at her side, scared of touching anything.
“You look like the car's going to eat you, you're like a frozen statue hahaa” Yunho wipes away his tears. “C’mon! Lighten up a bit! I’m not gonna bite you or anything…but I will break your back if you break the stereo system T_T”
“Yipe!” Min-Ri jumps away from Yunho, pressing herself against the door. Yunho laughs harder and turns on the music as he drives.
“You can flip through the music if you want” Yunho suggests, still staring ahead at the road.
Min-Ri shakes her head and remains still as a statue, scared of touching anything.
“It’s an order~” he says in a half-teasing, half serious voice.
Min-Ri sighs and gingerly flips through the many unfamiliar songs until she comes across one.
 Soon they reach the hospital. Yunho drops Min-Ri off at the entrance of the hospital as he goes to park the car.
Min-Ri goes up to Soo-Young’s room and immediately walks over to her friend and clasps Soo-Young’s hand in her own.
“Soo-Young ah. Please. I’m back, it’s Min-Ri…won’t you please wake up and see who it is?” Min-Ri forces a swallow.
“T-today Yunho oppa is here! You know him right? …oh how I wish you were awake… I-” she halts, hearing Yunho’s approaching footsteps.
“How is she?” Yunho says, gently placing his hands on the bedside and peering down at Soo-Young.
“S-still…still the same…”
They stay like that a while, Min-Ri still grasping Soo-Young’s hand and Yunho looking at the two, not knowing what to do. Until Min-Ri finally sighs and stands up.
'I’ll be back again…every day I promise I'll come by...if you ever need me, I’ll be here. You’re always in my heart' Min-Ri mentally says to her friend.
“Ready?” Yunho says
Min-Ri nods. They go into the car and Yunho clears his throat.
“Well…time to…to lighten up a bit don’t you think? I know the best way! Exercise!”
Min-Ri tries to put on a smile. “Oh?”
“Yeah!” Yunho takes on a professional advertising tone speaking 100-words-per-minute. “Exercise increases adrenaline and endorphins in your body, creating a happy feeling so you feel good about yourself as you exercise! Please call us at 1-800-YunhoROX!”
 Yunho looks at Min-Ri, who’s laughing and holding her stomach, and smiles.
'Poor girl…who knows how she’ll be if this situation stretches on…she shouldn’t get depressed…'
Soon they pull up to the gym and go in.
“Oh no, if you told me earlier that we’d come I could’ve brought some gym clothes!” Min-Ri mentally smacks herself.
She looks down at her black t-shirt, hoodie, and skinny jeans. “Don’t worry…we’ll figure something out!” Yunho
They go to the basement of the gym where there are rows upon rows of lockers. Yunho approaches one and removes the lock.
“Since the guys and I are regulars at this gym, we have lockers…”
“Hmmm, o-k……?” Min-Ri says, not understanding what he was getting at.
“…doyouthinkyoucanfitintoasizesmallmen’sshirt?” Yunho quickly says in one breath.
“Are you kidding? …I-I…I’ll die” Min-Ri states seriously.
“Are you that self-conscious? C’mooon! I only wore it once and I washed it myself afterwards!”
“I mean…it’s just so…awkward…plus I’ll probably smell like some sort of Calvin Klein cologne later” Min-Ri shudders.
“Hey, it's Armani cologne, and besides something wrong with the way we smell? At least we smell good and not like-“
“AHH OK, OK, YES YES, SURE!” Min-Ri plugs her ears.
Yunho grins. “So I take it you can fit into a size small for men’s?”
“I prefer my black tee, thank you!”
“They’ll never let you work out like that” Yunho motions to her clothes. “I mean, you can if you want to but…you know…you’ll get stares…”
Min-Ri frowns. “The sneakers and shirt are fine. As for the jeans-” She was about to say “they’ll deal with it” when Yunho suddenly throws a black thing at her.
Min-Ri catches the bunched up black thing and holds it up to see……a pair of shorts.
". . ."
“What! Don’t give me that look!” Yunho
". . ."
 “Oh come on, will ya stop it? We’re wasting time here!”
". . ."
 “Valuable time that could be used exercising!” Yunho sings
". . ."
 “Alright, I dun care, I’m changing right now”
“. . .WAAAAAIT!”
“At least that got a reaction from you…so, you gonna change or what?” Yunho arches his eyebrow.
“I….you….he…” Min-Ri
“We…y’all…they…” Yunho chants
Min-Ri groans “Oh Goood! I’m starting to regret coming here…”
“Oy, if you mean that you want to leave, I’m not leaving until I work out! And I have the car keys, just so you know!”
“Ok ok, I’ll…change…oooooh boy”
“Hey, wait, I think Jaejoong might have an extra set of clothes in here somewhere that he still hasn’t worn…”
O-O!!!!
“Oh wait, I forgot his locker combo…”
-.- phew~
“So you’ll just have to wear these shorts and make do. Don’t worry- one, they’re brand-spanking new and clean so you don’t have to worry about cooties and two, they match perfectly with your black shirt and sneakers, miss fashionista”
Min-Ri blinks.
“Now hurry, up, we’re wasting time!”
“Ok ok but you don’t expect me to change here?!?” she exclaims incredulously
“No no silly. I mean you can but….heheh knowing you…*ahem* anyway, there’s a bathroom for women over there at the corner. I’ll change here since there’s this” and he reaches up and pulls a curtain so it blocks him and that row of lockers from view.
Min-Ri just nods and runs off to change. Surprisingly the shorts fit but she doubted she could still walk out of there and exercise with her heart already doing double time.
She goes out to find Yunho already in tanktop, shorts, sneakers, tapping his foot and waiting. She looks everywhere but at him.
So they go back upstairs to the gym, which was relatively empty. Yunho walks to the back and opens a door to reveal a smaller room fully-equipped with weights, a punching bag, wall-to-wall mirror, and a wooden floor for dancing.
“This is kind of our room. We work out outside too but when it gets too crowded or when we just feel like wanting a little privacy, we come in here. And this is also where we practice with our choreographer our dance steps as well…” 
So the working-out starts…
The two of them work out a bit- Yunho with his heavy, manly, macho weights and Min-Ri with her lighter ones.
Then he switches over to tae-kwon-do and the punching bag as she runs on the tread mill and bikes. After a while Yunho says, "Yo, I'll be back, I'm going to go get some water from the vending machine outside. You want any?"
"Uhh...no...thanks..." by now Min-Ri was jump-roping
As soon as Yunho closes the door behind him, Min-Ri finishes the jump-roping and stretches. As she stretches, she eyes the punching bag in the corner.
Still pumped up from her workout, she's tempted to try it, seeing how effortlessly Yunho was punching it.
She stands up and starts running towards the bag, picking up sped as she went. Min-Ri jumps and slams her foot into the punching bag.
The punching bag, being too stiff and heavy, moves a fraction of an inch, as a surprised Min-Ri lets out a startled yell and throws out her hands to cushion her fall.
BAM! Her palms hit the floor, along with her derrière.
"Owww...why that...that stupid.....thing! How hard can it be to move it?!? How did he do that jumping kick then?!? Aishhhhh..." Min-Ri says as she massages her palms.
A voice comes from the doorway, in peals of laughter.
Min-Ri slowly turns her head...to see Yunho leaning against the doorframe, one hand holding a water bottle, the other wrapped around his stomach.
"That....that was priceless..." Yunho says as he wipes the tears from his eyes. "The look on your face when you hit the thing! Ah! You are too funny!"
He walks over to her and offers her his hand. Min-Ri pouts and looks at the floor. Yunho reaches down and gently takes her elbow and helps her up.
A red shade of embarrassment paints her cheeks as she quickly gets up on her own and walks back to her little corner, hoping things will go back to normal. Yunho looks at her retreating figure and shakes his head as he smiles. He walks over to the punching bag and touches it for a moment.
"Still...that was a pretty good kick though" he says.
"Aw come on! Are you teasing me?" Min-Ri says with suspicion in her eyes.
"No no, I'm serious! Where did you learn that tae-kwon-do move? Are you like a kick-boxing or karate person?"
"Uhhh no..."
"Come on, tell me! Did you take some sort of karate classes or something?" Yunho insists.
"*sigh*...I learned that move...in dance class..." she mutters.
"Dance class!" Yunho exclaims. 
"You mean you learned some dance moves? Like what? Urban? Hip hop? Pop?...stuff?" Yunho says happily.
"Uhh...a little bit...back in...the college" Min-Ri unwillingly says.
"Do you know any routines? Any dances?"
"Uhh...Purple L-..." Min-RI stops herself but it was too late.
"Purple Line? You mean our Purple Line?!"
She sees the glint in Yunho's eyes as he goes over to the stereo system and puts on Purple Line.
"Ok, let's see how much you remember!"
"Ohhh, you're f-funny! It's ok it's ok I'll pass I'll pass, you do NOT want to see me dance!"
"T____T Dance"
"o-ok"
So she does her best at the Purple Line dance. Although it's a little strange since she is being scrutinized by the best dancer of the group.
"Geeez you're slow at dancing! You look like you were dragged into this!" he laughs.
"Says the person that dragged me into this" she mumbles.
"Come on, I'll teach you how you're supposed to do it" Yunho walks over to her.
She takes a big step to the side, leaving a huge gap between them.
-5 minutes later-
"Min Ri ah, the way you dance...you still look like a robot" Yunho says bluntly.
Min-Ri's so startled she trips over her foot. " 'Min-Ri ah'?!?" she echoes.
"I was hoping that'd get some sort of reaction from you but..." Yunho "Seems you're not really cut out for dancing..."
"Oh, really?"
"Well, from what I see you know the moves, you've just got to let them out. Go with your own flow...Pretend I’m not standing here next to you."
"Uh-huh" Min-Ri says. 'Easy for you to say you’re already Asia’s greatest dancer!' she thinks.
"But from what I see...maybe you're just not cut out for dancing...don't worry, I won't tell anyone" Yunho teases endlessly.
"Oh? Well, that was only Purple Line...I'll show you another routine then!" So Min Ri changes 'Purple Line' to "Sexy Back" and does a dance she did back in the States. Yunho looked on half surprised, half amused, seeing her finally for once get comfortable enough to dance in her own style.
 Once the song ends, Yunho starts clapping and then laughs at Min-Ri who by then ran over and was hiding behind the punching bag.
“That was some dancing! You never told me you could dance like that! Come on come on more!” He walks over and tugs on the back of her shirt as she bear hugs the punching bag and refuses to let go.
“Ahahaha…ha…I…please forget I had just done that” she weakly laughs.
Her face was bright red as she still hugs onto the punching bag,Yunho, still trying to pry her hands off.
In the end, he somehow gets his arms around Min-Ri’s waist and pulls her off the punching bag.
“AAAHHH! Okay okay I’m off I’m off let go please, let go! Your fans will KILL me!”
Yunho lets go, startled. “…but there’s no one here but you and me…”
'...that's the problem ^^;' she thinks. She changes the subject. "H-hey, how about you teach me some more of the moves you know?”
“GREAT! Come on!” He grabs her wrist and pulls her over to the wall-to-wall mirrors. , energetic like a little kid.
-A while later-
“I take it back, what I said before…you’re not slow at some dancing” Yunho grins.
“Oh thaaaanks” Min-Ri replies sarcastically.
“Well…time to go I guess…” Yunho
They go back to the lockers and change.
“I don’t think I’ll ever wear this again” Yunho says solemnly.
Min-Ri looks mortified. “Look, I’m sorry. I didn’t want to wear it to begin with. We can wash it 5 times, ok? Ok?”
“Wash it? :D I’ma keep it as a memento and for next time if we ever come again!”
O______O
 Yunho laughs at the shocked face she has. They then drive home, but Yunho takes the ‘scenic’ route and points out various buildings and streets to Min-Ri, giving her a little info about the different landmarks.
Once they arrive at the apartment, Yunho shoos off Min-Ri, telling her “It’s my turn to cook. Don’t give me that look, yes I cook! Jaejoong’s not the only one that cooks you know! He just likes it the most! And dun worry…no poison…”
Min-Ri wanders around quietly, touching the doors to the different rooms and trying to remember which is which. She stops in front of one unfamiliar door and doesn’t remember what’s behind it. Then she remembers that it’s the door of the 'Secret Room.'
She looks left and right, making sure Yunho was no where to be found.
'A little peek won’t hurt, right?' she bites her lip as she slowly turns the knob.
The room is pitch black. Min-Ri takes a few tentative steps inside, watching her shadow outline on the floor of the room. For some reason, it felt like something out of a horror movie. She swallows.
Then, suddenly-
“What are you doing?”
“Eep!” Min-Ri jumps and whirls around to see Yunho standing there, his arms crossed in front of his chest.
“Why have you come in here?” Yunho says
“I…I uh…”
“I though I told you not to open this door, ever!”
“I’m sorry Yunho oppa, I’m sorry!”
Yunho sighs frustratedly. He walks over and into the room, using his hand to search for the light.
“What’s so intriguing about this room? We told fans time and again, it’s nothing extraordinary. I don’t get it, it’s just-”
He clicks open the lights.
“-the laundry room” he says at the same time embarrassed and disgusted.
“Laundry room? That’s the secret room? Why didn’t you guys want to show it then???”
“That day we had just done all the laundry...wouldn’t it be awkward for the fans to see…especially since they’re girls…if they saw certain...articles of clothing…I know for certain we’d all die of embarrassment” Yunho says seriously.
Min-Ri tries hard not to laugh. It turns out these guys also have their own embarrassing moments.
“Hey…why are you giving me that look? Wha-”
“PFFF!” A chortle manages to escape before Min-Ri composes herself with a poker face. Yunho sighs.
“And we still have to do this week’s laundry…we’ve been getting lazy with the housework…aish!”
“...I could do it. Housework is supposed to be a woman’s specialty…”
“No no no, you’re our guest”
“Please, don't worry! how many times are you going to say that? Just treat me like you would with the others-it’ll all be fine!” Min-Ri lightly but firmly pushes him towards the door.
“Well…before you start, I suggest you use a large pair of pincers to pick up all our articles of clothing!” Yunho teases on the other side of the door.
Min-Ri rolls her eyes “Don’t worry, I’ve seen worse, trust me!”
“And you can wash your own clothes if you want!” Yunho calls.
The door suddenly opens, Min-Ri dashes to the living room and runs back in and bangs the door behind her carrying her pile of clothes. She did it quick so Yunho wouldn’t see but he smirked.
'Time to go back and see how the food’s cooking…' he walks over to the kitchen.
She carefully starts taking a few clothes and then puts them into the washer. Soon the washer’s humming along as Min-Ri walks to the sliding door across the room, where people hang their clothes outside on sunny days to dry.
She steps out onto the small balcony. She sighs and looks at the city below with mixed feelings, with the lights glistening in the dark backdrop of the streets.
As she looks up at the darkened sky, she shivers. Looking at the depressing black, she thinks 'I wish it was summer again…it’s so sad during the winter when the sun sets early…Soo Young get better so we can go to places where it's always summer"
She continues staring down at the city lights with a sad look on her face. She leans on the short metal railing of the balcony that reaches just up to her waist. Suddenly, she feels something banging into her from the back.
She looks down to see a pair of arms squeezing her tightly around the waist.
O______o??? a ghost maybe? ....a ghost of the laundry room?
She turns around to see Yunho half-kneeling, half-hanging around her waist, with his cheek pressed against the small of her back.
". . .?"
“Don’t even think about jumping!”
She looks at him like he’s crazy. “What? Why would you even think I’d jump?!?”
“You were leaning there, looking down so I got scared- I could just see the headlines now- ‘Girl plummets from Asia's famous boy band's apa-’ ”
“Aaaahh ok ok, I get it, I’m coming in. Could you please…let go of me? The laundry’s done.”
Yunho quickly lets go. The two of them go back into the laundry room and hang up the clothes. They put another pile into the washer and go to the kitchen to have an early dinner before the other guys come.
-Later on-
“Hey, we’re baaack!” Jaejoong calls from the doorway.
Yunho and Min-Ri look up from the dining room table.
“Looks like the company has finally come home” Yunho smirks.
She smiles as she gets up to wash their dishes.
“Oy, come sit down and eat! We’ve already eaten. We’ll wait for you guys but not for long so hurry up!”
“Wheeee!” thudding feet get louder and louder as Junsu runs in and plonks himself down in his chair.
“Hi Min-Ri ssi! How was your day today? Did you enjoy it with Yunho? Be careful…sometimes he can tease and be a meanie-OW!” Junsu pouts and rubs the spot on his head where Yunho hit him.
“Haha serves you right Junsu!” Changmin laughs as he’s the second to sit down at the table.
“Aww is my poor baby ok?” Jaejoong coos and walks over to Junsu, hugging his head.
“Hey hey! Has everyone forgotten about me?” Yoochun walks over to Junsu and hugs his head tightly.
“Waaaah! Stop it stop it! ok ok, thank you! I wanna eat now!” Junsu says.
Min-Ri laughs.
“So Min-Ri ssi how was your day with Yunho?” Jaejoong says over a mouthful of food.
Yunho grins.
She smiles back.
“Eh, it was…interesting….we got to know each other better…right?”
"...right..."