Kyuhyun’s POV (ofc)
It’s a nice, warm day in the month of april here in Seoul. The weather suddenly got warm after a blast of annoying ass thunderstorms. And I finally arrived at the SM building whose entrance is nearly blocked by cars.
I open the door, and you’ll never guess who i see.
“Zhou Mi-shii!” I yell.
“Kyuhyun-ah!” he asnwers, hapily hugging me.
“What brings you here?” I ask him.
“I have a meeting with teacher Lee Sooman.”
“Me too!” I say. Weird….
“What time is your meeting with him at?” he asks me.
“Now, at 2PM.”
Zhou Mi blocks.
“Okay now he either scheduled it wrong-” I start saying.
“Or he wants to meet both of us.” Zhou Mi finishes for me.
“I hope it’s not the first thing…I have nowhere to go…” I say.
“What do you mean?”
“I live near the SBS studios, they’re quite far away from here and from the nearest subway station…” I reply.
Zhou Mi nods.

“Well then let’s go inside!” I say.
And we go up the stairs and arrive into a long hall which has a closed balcony with red couches and a door right at the end.
Zhou Mi and I sit down on one of the red couches and stare at the pretty view on the windows. I can see the Namsan tower from here…which reminds me that Zhou Mi and I used to go there a lot to pratice singing. We should go again sometime…since we finished college we haven’t seen each other that much. He finished before me and moved into a tiny apartment somewhere in Seoul and left me studying for the exams. Oh wait, I actually didn’t take that many…anyways, seeing him again after so long feels weird.
“Kyuhyun-ah…” Zhou Mi mutters..
“What?”
“What about a dinner at the Namsan tower tonight?”
“Only the two of us?”
Zhou Mi gasps. I think he knows what i meant…
“What? Did something happen between you and Qian?”
“Not really…she was hired as a choregrapher at SM and i barely see her. We haven’t gone out in ages.”
That’s sad.
“You’re so unlucky it makes me sad.” I tell him.
Zhou Mi laughs.
“What are you two doing there?” teacher Lee Sooman says, coming out of his office.
Holy sh-
“Oh, we’re sorry!” we say, getting up and bowing.
“It’s okay, you haven’t done anything bad. Come in!” he says.
YES! He finally turned around. Now i can laugh my ass off at his voice. Zhou Mi joins me a few seconds after. I don’t think he knows why I’m laughing…
Teacher Lee Sooman’s office is huge! But not like that man’s in Skip Beat, and it’s decorated vintage style (ew.). We sit down on the couch facing his desk and then we watch him sit down.
“I called you two today…” he starts saying.

Zhou Mi-ah, for the love of God, please punch me. Why? Because I couldn’t help bursting in laughter when he started talking.
“What?” teacher asks me, seeing that I’m laughing.
“I’m extremly sorry, teacher…I suddenly remembered a part from last night’s Gag Concert.” (-> Korean comedy show)
Now I really hope he won’t ask me about any part of it, I haven’t watched it in ages.
“Oh, alright.” he replies.
Huh, I’m safe.
“So I called the two of you today to ask you something.” teacher says.
“What?” we both ask.
“I really like your voices and I can’t just forget you two. I thought a lot and I have some ideas.”
“Like what?” I ask.
“First, you two can debut as a group based on ballads.”
The two of us together? I don’t know about that…
“Or Kyuhyunie can be a vocal teacher and our Zhou Mi can be a writer for our artists.”
The duet thing doesn’t sound bad at all…
“We’ll debut together!” Zhou Mi and I say at the same time.
“Good, the two of you seem to have a tight bond. You won’t mind living together, right?”
“We already live separatedly…” I tell him.
“Of course. Your two live with your parents, right?”
“No, we’re both quite old…Zhou Mi is 26 and I’m 24. Plus Zhou Mi’s parents are in China. We just live alone in apartments.”
“Paying rent?” he asks us.
“Yeah.” both of us say.
“Is is expensive?”
“Yeah…”
“Well I have a 2-room dorm available for the two of you.”
Zhou Mi and I look at each other.
“Alright…”
“Good. Well, all you have left to do now is to sign the contract. I’ll ask Inwhan to give you the key and the address of the dorm and you can go look and then move.”
This fast?
“It’s really close to here, you can just walk, it’s only a few streets.” teacher Lee Sooman adds.
Zhou Mi and I look at each other and then nod.
“Inwhan-shii, give the boys their key and the address.”
Teacher, Zhou Mi and I are adults, not 5 years olds.
Inwhan gives us our key and we leave.
“83 Apgujeong-dong, Gangman-gu… Zhou Mi-ah…how the heck do we get there?”
“Well, teacher says that it’s only a few steets away.”
Zhou Mi-ah…your Korean didn’t improve a slight bit.
“But in which way?” I ask, starting to laugh, making Zhou Mi laughs as well.

It’s the “we’re screwed” laugh.
“Wanna go shopping?” I ask him.
“Fuck yeah!” he replies.
I did not expect that.
“Myeongdong or Dongdaemun?” I ask him.
“I haven’t been in Dongdaemun in a while…” he replies.
“Dongdaemun it is.”
And we go towards the subway station since it’s quite far away. Zhou Mi didn’t change much these two years. His style is still the same; now he’s wearing a red t-shirt and light blue skinny jeans which might seem normal but he paired them all up which hipster glasses and some red tennis shos. Meanwhile I changed a lot. I can’t tell how, but Sungmin hyung keeps saying so so i just believe him.
We take the subway quietly and wait until we get there.
“Zhou Mi-ah…you’re too quiet.” I say, breaking the silence.
“Well, we haven’t seen each other in a while…” he says, laughing loudly.
Half of me missed his loud laugh while the other half didn’t.
“Did you make new friends or something?” I ask him.
“Not really…I’ve been hanging out with Amber a lot these past few months.”
“Amber?”
” A trainee at SM whom i met at random one day. She’s really nice.”
“Is she American?”
“Yeah, but we speak Chinese to each other.”

Interesting…
“What about you?” he asks me.
“I hung out with Donghae and Eunhyuk a lot after you graduated, but I felt like a third wheel many times.”
Zhou Mi laughs. Damn you, that is NOT funny.
And we arrive to the station and walk to Dongdaemun. Now i realized I haven’t been here in a while either.
We start looking around the cosmetic stores – Zhou Mi has an obsession – and go inside one of them/
“I have to get a new BB Cream!” I yell when i see one.
“You use BB Cream?!” Zhou Mi asks me.
“Shut up, you use it too!” I say.
We both laugh and try to pick one. To those who don’t know, BB Cream is a type of foundation for oily/blemish-prone skin. (but how do you not know?!)
After I get one, we go towards the clothing section, when…

“Yah!” I say.
You will never guess who i can see.
“Qian!” we both say.
But she’s not alone.



































