The Rocker's Dream

Minsu had never gone public with his soundcloud account, because he liked having things to himself, but in private settings he had mentioned offhand that he posted his compositions online when he felt like it. The last thing he had expected was for someone to actually deduce which one belonged to him out of the millions of accounts.

Part of him was skeptical that Jaehwa was telling the truth. This could just be a bluff to get Minsu to give away which account was his because Jaehwa actually had no idea. It didn’t really matter if Jaehwa knew, but if he had, in fact, figured this out, Minsu wanted to know how he did it.

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.

After the Keke had been on edge. She knew that some time tomorrow, sometime during her birthday, one Lee Jaehwa would be showing up at the W1NT3R dorms. He’d be there to see her, and somehow, that made everything at least one hundred times worse. She shook her head, and after changing into sweats, she cleaned.

She cleaned the living room and entry way, the kitchen, her bedroom even. Not that she had any reason to think Jaehwa would be going in there. She couldn’t stop herself. Everything had to be right. It had to be the way she hoped, because otherwise it’d be just another reason she wasn’t good enough.

Keke had spent the entire evening, and part of the morning cleaning the dorm, and she was glad that it finally looked nice. She’d changed into a nice outfit for the day, doing her make-up carefully, and eating some cereal. 

A few members of A.C.E. had had a fan meet, and Kimchi was still buzzing with energy and sass when he got back to ACEnt. He blew a kiss at the ajumma who was sweeping the floor in the main lobby of the building, He’d winked at three of the four receptionists, and only missed one because she was actually doing her job, so he’d glared at her for a moment before moving on. He was considering going to find Kiyeol to tell him how the meet up had gone, but instead he decided he needed to get more of his energy out, and was walking down the hallway past the studio rooms, towards where the practice rooms were, when a familiar face exited one of the studios, and Kimchi grinned. It only took a split moment for his face to change though. As he stepped closer to his dongsaeng, he smirked, and ran a finger over Jaehwa’s shoulder. “JeeHee, darling boy…”

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