call me shakespeare

minja? it’s quite hard to say whether minja is smart or an idiot. she is smart, but however often she does dumb stuff. climbing onto trees and then not being able to get down, mixing pepper and chili? it’s both stuff that shouldn’t happen yet happens way too often for minja. 

mirae turns back to the stove to life the lid again and fan the smoke from the pan. she can tell from the scent that wafts her way that she was right to think they wouldn’t be eating what they’d originally planned to. that was fine. people only learned through making mistakes and she hadn’t been starving to start with.

she’s broken out of her thoughts by the sound of minja falling, and this time, she’s too shocked to disguise the concerned furrowing of her eyebrows. the younger girl is clearly asking for help up, so mirae goes over and grasps her hand, pulling her up into standing position again and making sure she’s steady with a hand on her shoulder. “please be careful,” she requests, that older sister voice she really shouldn’t have down as well as she does when she hadn’t had much time to play that role to her actual younger sister coming out. “what do you want me to order us?”

was minja clumsy? probably. she was always a little too carefree and going to fast, she doesn’t put much thought into a lot of the things she does. it does not bother her however when she falls, because it’s not the first time, no minja probably falls multiple times a day, sometimes the female questions how she is still alive, one day she’ll surely fall and break her leg or something, won’t she? maybe not, she hopes she won’t. the other helps her up and minja smiles, “ill try” minja sends the other a smile as she tilts her head. the female then walks over to the window and opens it.

“it’s not that hard!” minja begins showing the move to the other once again. minja, while not being the youngest, is still not old, hence she’s on the app tik tok. she of course has her profile private, and she doesn’t even post, she just saves them as drafts. however minja does sometimes use a lot of time learning tik tok dances, and today she had asked a friend over, and somewhat the two had gotten here, now minja was learning the other a tik tok dance.

she liked to dance, though. on days jeonghwa’s body wasn’t feeling too stiff, it would be hard to not catch her dancing at least once during the day, even if it was a little excited shimmy of the shoulders. so, jeonghwa gladly accepted minja’s teaching, and followed along as best she could. a half second behind, she’d mimic minja’s moves, most of the time lazing about, until it came to trying together, at the same time.

today the lucky guy had been sehoon ( @fmdxsehoon​ ), a member of charm, a group which minja was quite close to. after all, they were under the same company. minja was sitting on a chair in front of sehoon, she emptied her back for everything and at least a million pieces of make up came out. minja looks around for a while before finding what she was searching for, a rose face mist. “just tell me if i am getting too close” minja says before putting her pink bunny headband on the other. “close your eyes” minja tells the other before spraying his face with the rose face mist. “it smells good, doesn’t it?” minja smiles softly.

sehoon isn’t really well versed with make-up despite the fact that he’s had to use it for years. it’s always felt like a normal necessity in their line of work, so he’s never paid actual mind on it. he’s interested enough to be curious on how minja will do his make-up today, though, and appreciates  the fact that the products she’s using actually smell good instead of smelling strongly of chemicals. it makes him smile as he ponders over her other question.

“i don’t particularly hate or like it… i’m more on the neutral side, i think” he admits, closing his eyes as he’s instructed and relaxes a little in his seat. “but i am interested, to some extent… if that makes sense?” he adds. he doesn’t know how to put make up properly by himself, if he’s going to be honest. and if he really thinks about it, he doesn’t mind going out or being seen bare faced when he’s not headed to any specific schedules.

“i mean, i know it isn’t exactly the easiest thing to do. how are you guys so good at it? color mixing? shading? it’s like… painting in a way, right?” he says. “also this does smell good. what is it?”

minja listens happily as the other talks, normally she isn’t exactly the best at listening to others, not that she doesn’t care about others, she truly just easily gets bored. however as they speak about make up and their interest in it, minja listens carefully, listening to what the other has to say. “i used to be neutral too, i only used it when i had schedule or something” minja puts down the face mist, thereafter picking up her sunscreen. “then i joined wish and magically i was super interested in make up” truly minja knows why she got to interested in it after joining, but she’s not about to say it, wouldn’t that ruin the mood? 

“it’s not that hard!” minja begins showing the move to the other once again. minja, while not being the youngest, is still not old, hence she’s on the app tik tok. she of course has her profile private, and she doesn’t even post, she just saves them as drafts. however minja does sometimes use a lot of time learning tik tok dances, and today she had asked a friend over, and somewhat the two had gotten here, now minja was learning the other a tik tok dance.

yoojin stares over at minja with a blank expression. **“ **minja-unnie, ” she mimics in the same whiny tone the elder had given to her. **“ **i told you – i simply don’t have anything to shake. it’s not giving up if i don’t have it anyway. it’s putting myself in my own lane, **” **yoojin explains, shrugging. she doesn’t want to make a fool of herself, after all – **“ **you go right ahead, you have more of an ass to shake than i do. **” **she points out, shrugging. she wasn’t exactly sure if that was true, after all she didn’t spend a terrible amount of time staring at her friends behind – but considering how little assets yoojin had, she could imagine anyone had more than her. **“ you go right ahead and learn – i’m not stopping you. go be hip and trendy – but a reminder that you’re the unnie here, ” **yoojin retorts.

**“ **i don’t think shakespeare said that, **” **yoojin states, frowning. **“ **i’ve only heard to shake what your momma gave you – which wasn’t shakespearean – and unfortunately my momma didn’t give me anything. **” **she points out. **“ **hey, my lack of participation is not saying that you’re not allowed to shake what you have; just that i’m not going to partake. ” she shrugs. **“ **maybe you can shake your ass, and i’ll become inspired, yeah ? let’s try that. ” yoojin suggests, crossing her arms over her chest.

unnie. even after all these years minja still has yet to get used to it. it’s weird, she was so young when she debuted the first time, her second time she was also young, but now she’s been in this group for so long and now. now she’s becoming one of the older ones, now people are beginning to call her sunbae, noona and unnie, and she still has yet to get used to it, used to the fact that she’s truly old. still she smiles when the younger calls her it, though it feels weird it does not feel bad and she does not mind it. minja let’s out a big sigh as she looks up “noooo, you’re trying to give up” minja looked at the other and showed her puppy eyes, as if she was the young one. “come on, we got to keep going” minja grabbed the other’s arm, pulling it a little. “you know, you’re just young, born yesterday” minja let’s go of the other “and i can be hip and trendy, i am still young” minja stomps in the floor and thereafter chuckles while putting a tot of hair behind her ear.

minja? it’s quite hard to say whether minja is smart or an idiot. she is smart, but however often she does dumb stuff. climbing onto trees and then not being able to get down, mixing pepper and chili? it’s both stuff that shouldn’t happen yet happens way too often for minja. 

biyu wasn’t entirely serious herself, though she wouldn’t lie, she’d certainly entertained the idea of spending a night or two with minja. she was pretty in her way, charming, and she blushed in a way that made her understand the appeal of cuteness in a partner. biyu flirted perhaps aggressively, but there was always a note of sincere interest in her mind.

she chuckled at minja’s words, looking away for a brief moment. “you’re at least as troublesome as me, you know. your managers must hate you.” hers certainly didn’t seem to be her biggest fans, through some fault of her own, she would admit. she was aware that much as she wanted to be, she wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea, especially not those who genuinely spent time with her. oh well. she’d save her tears over it for her pillow.

minja, often at times, would flirt without it being her purpose, she was a natural flirt, but currently she was aware of her flirting. it wasn’t like other times where she unintentionally was flirting. she smiled, tilted back and forth. her heart was beating a tad faster than usually, but that it always was when she flirted with others. so much stuff made her nervous, excited or just gave her heart reasons to beat faster.

“it’s not that hard!” minja begins showing the move to the other once again. minja, while not being the youngest, is still not old, hence she’s on the app tik tok. she of course has her profile private, and she doesn’t even post, she just saves them as drafts. however minja does sometimes use a lot of time learning tik tok dances, and today she had asked a friend over, and somewhat the two had gotten here, now minja was learning the other a tik tok dance.

ash tried not to make his skepticism too obvious, but he failed, his doubt reading across his face. if asked, he couldn’t really convey what his idea of fun even was anymore, but ash was pretty sure it didn’t look like seeing how many different versions of the woah and how much finger pointing could fit in one “dance”. he didn’t want to be any ruder than he’d already been, so he kept that fact to himself.

“if someone demands i do a tiktok dance to get their number, it sounds like they don’t actually want to give me their number, so i’d leave them alone.” ash had never had anyone demand a performance of a social media trend in exchange for their number, but maybe he just wasn’t up to date with the dating habits of the kids these days. he hadn’t been on a real date in years.

“besides, aren’t most people on tiktok born in the 2000s? they’d probably be a little young for me if they’re demanding that.” there’d be a generational gap, for sure, but that could be his fault seeing as minja seemed to know plenty about tiktok and she was only a year younger than him. “have you ever had to do a tiktok dance to win someone over?”

minja doesn’t want to speak, because the other is making sense. if someone demanded minja to do something so absurd in order to get their phone number, minja would most likely just walk away, unless of course, they were pretty, then she would reconsider and try her best to do the tik tok dance. most likely she would get their number, because there’s basically not a single tik tok dance minja doesn’t know.

“ah, well, what if they are super funny, super pretty and super smart? ah” minja scratches her neck “well, my point is, learning tik tok dances could be important, so we must learn this, you shall shake your ass, even if it takes five years” minja sends the older a smile.