crazy
summary: in which eve meets one of kibum’s friends
set: early nov 2013
word count: 2.4k
warnings: mention of food and i think that’s it
an: this isn’t proofread but enjoy this as i continue working on other scenarios. words in bold are english. feedback and reblogs are much appreciated 💘
eve’s masterlist
Eve tapped the edge of her pencil against her lip as she read the information from her iPad. She was in the living room working on a school project. She had earphones in as she worked, listening to music on Melon. Since she had music blasting in her ears, she didn’t hear Kibum enter the apartment, only becoming aware of his presence when he put his hand on her shoulder.
She screamed, putting her hand over her chest as she removed the earphones. “Why are you trying to kill me?” Eve whined.
Kibum looked down at Eve with a blank expression. “I called your name five times,” he said. “But why are you home? Don’t you have training?”
Eve shook her head, leaning against the front of the couch. “There’s no training today.”
“Why?”
She shrugged. “I didn’t ask. Trainer Lee told us there wouldn’t be any lessons today and that was all I needed to hear.”
He nodded. “What are you doing now?” Kibum pointed at the coffee table where her books were scattered on it.
“We have to do a project on a Korean ballerina, I’m doing Park Saeeun,” Eve answered. “It’s due in a week so I’m doing it now to get it out of the way.”
“Yeoksi, my princess is smart to do her work in advance,” he complimented her. Kibum walked into the kitchen to get something to eat.
“Your food’s in the fridge, just warm it up!” Eve told him, referring to the lunch she made. She focused again on her project.
“Thank you!” He got his food and put it in the microwave. When the microwave beeped, signalling that his food was heated up, he took it out. He fetched a spoon, beginning to eat his food as he stood against the counter. “Oh, I’m going to have my friends over for a movie tonight.”
“Okay,” she said as she continued working on her project. “What time will it be?”
“They’ll get here around seven thirty and we’ll start watching the movie at eight.”
Eve hummed. “I won’t be at home then. I’ve got my practice, remember?”
“Right!” Kibum nodded, remembering the late night practice she told him about yesterday. “What time?”
“Six until ten.”
He hummed as he ate his food. “I’ll pick you up after. The movie should be done by then.”
She nodded. “Thank you taxi driver-nim!”
“Yah, don’t call me that!” He complained, pointing his spoon at her. “You don’t even pay me.”
“You give me my allowance. If I paid you, it’d just be with your money.”
“Then I should stop giving you an allowance.”
“No! Don’t.” Eve pouted. “I need the allowance,” she said sweetly.
Kibum hummed noncommittally as he continued to eat his food. “Where are the babies?” He asked, referring to his dogs.
“I think in your room. I gave them food when I got home and then started working on my project. Lemme go check on them.” She stood up and went to her brother’s room. “They’re here!” She whisper-shouted. She reappeared, going back to her work station in the sitting room. “I think Commes Des has anger issues,” she said as she read information on Saeeun. “He kept growling at Garçon earlier,” she told him.
“He doesn’t have anger issues,” Kibum defended his dog, “he just has a strong personality.”
Eve stared at her brother. “He’s–”
“An angry dog, I know honey.” Rolling his eyes, he finished the last of his lunch. “But you’re also just scared of dogs, so you have a biassed opinion.”
“No. My fear of dogs helps me know which dogs are sweet and which dogs aren’t.”
“Whatever you say.” He walked out of the kitchen, going to sit next to Eve. Looking over her shoulder at her work, he sucked his teeth repeatedly. “You’re going to get full marks.”
“You think so?”
He hummed. “If you use a different colour to write the information for the poster, it’ll be a guaranteed 90%.”
“Which colour should I use?” She asked, laying out her highlighter on the table. Kibum leaned forward, looking over the five different highlighters.
“There’s only five colours? I thought after all these years they would’ve added new ones.”
“They added the green and blue. The standard set only has these three.” Eve pointed at the yellow, pink and orange highlighters. “But I have these markers–” she took her markers out of her pencil case– “and there’s many colours.”
Kibum gasped. “There’s even gold. What’s taking highlighters so long to add more colours?”
Eve shrugged. “You should file a complaint.”
The siblings spent the next few hours working on designing Eve’s poster for her project. The dogs woke up and started circling them as they worked. In order to keep them from chewing on her stuff, Eve threw a ball for them to play with. When she had gotten most of her work done, she changed into her leotard and tights, putting her clothes back on before going to the kitchen. She grabbed her bag, stuffing a few snacks in the side pockets so that she’d have something to eat.
“Bye, oppa.” She waved goodbye to her brother as she opened the front door.
“Bye, Nabi-yah,” he replied, playing with Garçon.
“Love you!”
“Love you too.”
After Eve’s practice, she texted Kibum.
princess nabi [22:14] i’m done now
keybutt (ahjussi #3) [22:14] okay~~ i’ll be there within twenty minutes
She sat down on the stairs of the entryway of the school with some of her classmates as they waited to get picked up.
Ten minutes later, one of her teachers, Minji, walked out of the building. “Nabi, what are you still doing here?” She looked around, seeing Eve was the only person.
“I’m waiting for my brother,” Eve responded. “He should be here in a few minutes.”
“Should I wait with you?”
Eve shook her head. “No, you don’t have to trouble yourself. You can go home, Teacher Minji.”
Minji shifted her eyes. “I’m not comfortable leaving you here by yourself.”
“No, Teacher Minji, I’ll be okay. You don’t have to worry. The security guards are still here–” she pointed at the booth by the gate where there were two security guards inside– “so I’m not alone.”
Minji stared at her. “Do you not like my company?”
“That’s not it. I just don’t see the point of you wasting your time because of me.”
“Well, I do. And I’m the adult, so what I say goes.”
Eve huffed. “If you insist,” she said as Minji sat down next to her. Eve opened her bag, ruffling around in it before pulling out a bag of Doritos. “Would you like?” She offered the packet to her teacher.
Minji stared at her. “Didn’t you already eat Doritos during our break?”
Eve tapped her bag. “I have four packets in here.”
Nodding, Minji accepted the chips. “At this point, you should just inject these into your bloodstream.”
Eve took another packet out of her bag. “I should, right? But my mom says not to.”
They sat in silence, only the sound of their crunching chips filling the air. When they were done, Eve took the empty packets and threw them away in the nearest dustbin before returning to her position. She pulled a marker out of her bag, drawing doodles on her hand whilst Minji answered messages on her phone. Soon, a car pulled up to the gate, stopping so the guards would raise it before driving in.
“I think your brother is here,” Minji said, grabbing Eve’s attention.
“Oh! He is.” Eve packed up all the markers she used, having decided to use every colour she had, and zipped up her bag. She stood up and bowed to her teacher, who was also standing. “Thank you for waiting with me.”
“It’s okay.” Minji started walking to her car. “You can bring me a packet of Doritos next time.”
Eve saluted, watching her teacher open her car door. “Aya aye, captain.” She waited until Minji entered the car before walking to Kibum’s. Opening the back door, Eve laid herself against the seats with a groan, putting on the seatbelt of the chair behind her brother.
“You just got in and you’re already complaining,” Kibum said, driving out of the school.
Eve raised her hand in objection. “I didn’t say anything yet.” She took a deep breath before exhaling with a dramatic groan. “Being a ballerina is hard work,” she whined. “My back is sore, my legs are sore, my arms are sore… Who decided to sign me up for this?”
“You,” her brother answered absentmindedly. “It’s a left here, right?” He asked, causing Eve to stare at him in confusion — not that he could see her.
“Yeah, it is,” a voice answered from the passenger seat. A female voice. A female voice that Eve recognised but couldn’t put a name to. A female voice that belonged to a person she didn’t even notice was in the car.
Pushing herself off the backseat, Eve stared at the person. Because of the lack of light, she wasn’t able to identify her. So she instead focused on her brother. “Why didn’t you tell me someone was here?”
“You came in here crying and whining,” he argued. “When was I supposed to tell you?”
“You could’ve texted me and told me not to be annoying! Then I wouldn’t have been annoying!”
Kibum scoffed. “All you are is annoying,” he teased.
Eve gaped at her brother as the car slowed down, the influx of parents picking their kids up from hagwon causing traffic. “Wow. Just how annoying do you think I can be in however long it takes for the traffic to clear up? On a scale of one to ten, how annoying?”
“Eight. Eight point two five,” he rectified. “You’re going to fall asleep before we even make it home. That’ll give me some silence. Anyways, you haven’t even greeted my guest,” he reminded her of the woman, who was silently laughing beside him.
“You’re right.” She turned to look at the woman. “Hello, I’m Kim Nabi,” she introduced herself.
“Ah, you must be the sister,” the woman said, Kibum nodding in confirmation. “I’m Nicole,” she said, turning back to look at Eve, who immediately gasped.
Sitting back against her chair, Eve nodded. “Cool. Cool. Amazing. Great!” She chuckled nervously, trying not to freak out over the fact that Nicole of KARA was in the same car as her. Giving up on being chill, Eve tried to open her door, frowning when it wouldn’t open. “Is the door locked?” She asked her brother.
“Child lock just for you,” he answered sweetly.
Eve sighed, lowkey panicking. “Do you think I could break the window?”
“No.”
“The door?”
“No.”
“The–”
“You can’t break anything, this is a rental.”
“Just buy a car already!” Eve whined in distress. “You’re gonna make little girls cry.”
“What’s happening?” Nicole asked.
“I told you about how she’s a big fan, right?” He asked, waiting for her to nod before continuing, “Whenever she sees someone she’s a fan of, for some reason, she runs away like a weirdo.”
Nicole nodded in understanding. “So she’s trying to run away?”
“Yeah. But I don’t understand why because we’re friends and she knows that.”
“There’s a reason I’m almost never home whenever you have friends over. Or if I am home, I don’t leave my room,” Eve said. “I think I’m having a heart attack.”
“Drink water. You’ll be fine.”
Eve took her bottle out of her bag, gulping down the rest of the water. Sighing once she was done, she felt herself relax. “I do feel better. But I would like to leave.”
Kibum shook his head. “No. You kind of have to stay.”
“Okay,” she said, nodding sadly.
“You’re a Kamilia?” Nicole asked, looking back at Eve, who shook her head.
“Not even. I-I don’t even know who you are. You look like somebody, but everybody looks like somebody. Which makes sense because… everybody is somebody so they-they’re gonna look like somebody, you know? And isn’t it so crazy how people have the same features but look so different? I think it’s crazy. You know what else is crazy?” Eve asked, not giving anyone time to answer. “People. In general. Because–”
“What’s your favourite song?” Nicole interrupted.
“Lupin,” Eve answered without missing a beat.
“Oh! I thought it would’ve been one of the more upbeat songs like Pretty Girl or Mister.”
“I was also surprised by how much I liked it,” Eve said, playing with her fingers.
“This is a bit of a cheeky question, but who’s your favourite member?”
“Um, you and Seungyeon sunbaenim.”
“Really?”
Eve nodded. “Seungyeon sunbaenim is a great singer and you’re a great dancer.”
The three people spent some more time talking, Nicole trying her best to make Eve feel comfortable around her, until the latter girl started feeling sleepy.
“Go to sleep, gongju-yah,” Kibum told her, glancing at her through her in the rearview mirror and noticing how the pout on her face had gotten less prominent the more tired she got. Eve nodded, lying sideways with her head on her bag as she fell asleep.
“Why is she so cute?” Nicole cooed. “It’s crazy!” She squealed. “Does she pout in her sleep?”
Kibum nodded. “It’s annoying,” he complained. “But if you tell her she’s cute, she’ll deny it.”
“She’s the cutest person to ever exist. Why would she deny it?”
“She’s a weirdo.”
“Can I steal her to be my sister?”
“Why are you asking me? You have to ask my parents!”
“Would they let me?”
“Of course not.” He scoffed. “She’s the princess of the family.”
“That’s too bad,” she said with a sigh as they approached her apartment building. Kibum parked outside the gate, unlocking the car to let her out. “Bye, Key.”
“Bye, Cole.” He watched her get into the apartment complex before driving back to his place. When he parked, he turned around to wake Eve up. “Nabi-yah,” he called out softly a few times until she stirred from her sleep. “Let’s go up.”
Pushing herself off the chair, she unbuckled her seat belt and held her bag before leaving the car with her brother. They rode the elevator to their level, Eve immediately going to the kitchen to get something to eat. As she waited for the food she picked out to warm up, Kibum walked up to her, looking at his phone.
“Nicole said she hopes the next time you see her you’ll feel more comfortable,” he told her.
“Absolutely not,” Eve said, shaking her head. “I was only semi-comfortable because I was tired.”
Kibum typed, waiting a few seconds for her to respond. “She said she’ll just have to spend a lot of time around you until you’re comfortable.”
Taking her food out of the microwave when it was done, Eve sighed. “This is crazy.”
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