Texting with Minsu had finally given Keke the confidence she’d lacked only hours before, and she’d left the dorm, phone in hand, and set out to find Jaehwa. It had now been over a month since she’d seen or heard from Jaehwa, and although she’d heard word that the prep for his comeback was going well, she hadn’t heard anything specific about him, and had heard nothing but radio silence from him directly. It had slowly been growing on her nerves. She was confused, and worried, and slowly, that had built into a small flurry of anger every once in a while when she tried to figure things out between them.
She expected it to be difficult for her to find him, but as she entered the ACEnt building, she heard muffled shouts from the fans who tended to stay outside the building, regardless of the weather or the time of day. She wondered what the excitement was, but as she stepped into the lobby, the fans partially visible in the distance through the plate glass of the front of the building, she offered them a wave, knowing they probably didn’t know who she was quite yet. She turned her head to look across the lobby, and stopped. There, seemingly oblivious to the fans outside, he sat. A saucer sat on the table beside him, the accompanying tea cup poised at his lips for only a moment before he sipped, and Keke gushed silently. He seemed so calm, collected, but also, cute. She could see the way the edges of his lips upturned. It seemed like he didn’t notice the fans, but he was seated there on purpose, just for the fans’ benefit.
It took Keke only a moment to steel herself and walk over to him, mind now off of the fans outside, and only on Jaehwa, and figuring out what exactly had gone on between them. She sat down opposite him, a smile on her lips as she lifted her chin to meet his eyes. “Putting on quite the show for the fans, Jaehwa...”