Talking Eyes by Mia Lafreve Pedretti (bill gates books to read txt) 📖

suspiciously fast.” I commented looking at the driver.

“I drove normally like always do.” He replied avoiding my eyes.

I didn't believe him a bit, but I had no choice but to fix myself. I looked at myself, I wasn't so messed up, well not like Yumi was. Her hair was total mess and her dress had raised upper than I thought. I could see her white and pink slip, and the feel of her butt under my touch was still palpable. I looked away, because I was getting turned on again. I lifted up my eyes from them and looked at her face instead. She probably felt my gaze, because she blushed.

She looked at me and said.“Stop staring at me Op-” She didn't finished the sentence and blanked. “Oppa!” She exclaimed loud enough to freak me out.

“What?” I asked her.

“Your face!” She pointed her thumb at it.

“What's wrong with my face?” I asked. She didn’t answer and giggled instead. She then inserted her hand in her bag and pulled a kleenex out of it. She came closer to me and started to clean my face with it.

“Your mouth is all messed up.” She said cleaning it.

“Messed up?”

“Yes. It's full of marks of my lipstick.” She finally revealed.

“Ah.” I smiled. She cleaned up the lower part of face, but she lingered too much on my  lips for her standards. And her narrowed eyes and continuous stare, were a clear hint that she was thinking about dirty stuff.

I grabbed her chin, she looked at me surprised. “It's not a good manner to stare at people's lips milady..” I whispered near her mouth, scanning on purpose the latest words. She blushed and looked away.

“I-I wasn't staring..at your lips.” She tried to reply.

I moved my thumb upper to feel her lips. I caressed them while I kept talking to her. “If you want to kiss me, just do it. I won't mind it at all. I'd rather like it.” I said with a low voice. She took me literally, leaned on and kissed me. That surprised me. I didn't lose time though and I kissed her back.

“YA!” My adorate manager shouted again. “I just said to stop kissing and you two start again. Are you two deaf?” He yelled us again. Yumi's manager hid a laugh with a cough. I gave up and stopped kissing her. I sighed angrily. What a breaking balls.

 

 

YUMI

You could tell that we were almost there, the screams were almost unbearable. The fans's screams. So loud! We were at the traffic-light, more than 500 meters from the building, but we could hear them anyway. Before the traffic light turned green, Ji Yong and Choi Seunghyun’s manager turned his head to look at us. “Choi Seung Hyun, Ji Yong.” He called them out.

“De?” They answered looking at him.

“Exchange your spots.” He ordered.

“Wae?” Ji Yong asked confused.

“Just do it. I don't want problems.” He replied annoyed. Ji Yong obeyed and exchanged his spot with Choi Seunghyun’s.

I was confused too, but then I figured out. Ji Yong's fans would have gotten jealous if they had seen him sat next to me in the back seats. Ah Jinjia. When we finally arrived, paps and journalists surrounded our car, the screams grew so louder that I couldn’t understand what Ji Yong's manager was telling us. I asked him to repeat louder.

“DON'T CAUSE ANY TROUBLE TO THE PRESIDENT.” He shouted at me and Ji Yong.

“DE!” We responded together.

“AND REMEMBER, THERE ARE CAMERAS EVERYWHERE! THEY'LL KEEP THEIR LENSES ON YOU FOR THE ENTIRE TIME.” My manager added shouting as well. “ARASSO?”

“DE!” We nodded again. Ji Yong had to exit first, he secretly sent me a flying kiss before and then stepped out of the car. The crowd went nuts and screamed even louder. Calling his name here and there.

His manager sighed. “That boy is gonna drive me crazy.” He mumbled shaking his head.

“Yumi-chan are you ready?” Choi Seunghyun asked me cheerfully then. I didn't replied, my eyes were too lost in the view. The view of Ji Yong’s fans, which was causing me bad thoughts.

The sight of his fans freaked me out. I knew that behind those overly happy and lovable faces, there were the same people that posted all those insults and wishes of death on my social profiles. It’s true that I acted like it didn't bother me, but now that I was about to face them, I was terrified. I could have won against two or three of them, but if all the crowd had started to shout bad words and throwing things at me, I didn't think I would have made it. I'm not that strong! My mind went crazy and started to picture me in all sorts of bad situations.

 

Someone shook me energically off my trance. I looked up to see Choi Seunghyun. “Yumi-ha listen to me!” He exclaimed. He was visibly very worried.

“..yes?” I answered absently.

“I know what you're thinking, but I assure you, they won't do a thing to you.” He tried to convince me with a smile. "For real, you can do it." He said less tensed.

“How do you know that?” I replied not smiling at all. “They are not normal fans. They are Ji Yong sasaeng fans. Not all of them, but most of them hates me to death.”

“No, they're just norm-”

I cut him off immediately. “We're talking about Ji Yong's sasaeng fan! They are not absolutely normal! Neither inoffensive!” I said before he could say something lame like ‘They’re normal”. If people like that are normal, Naega mol?(then what the hell am I?) “They're going make a piece of me ON LIVE TV FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! DON'T TREAT ME LIKE I'M STUPID!” I ranted on him. My heart had never beat that fast in my life.

He stubbornly shook his head. “No no no no..Listen to me.” He insisted. “They're not gonna do such thing. I assure you Yumi.” He said serious.

“I don't believe you.” I expressed what I thought.

“I swear, trust me.” He replied firmly. “The aggressive fans, never do such things in public or most of all when there’re so many cameras around. They'll risk to be arrested. They aren't so many to be scared of either. In fact on a large scale from one to ten, they're barely three.” He explained. “So please don't get so afraid of them.” He added.

I thought about what he said. I had to admit he was convincing, but still.. “Three people can do a lot of things together." I replied because he could not ignore the reality.

“But you're not letting three idiots ruin your day with Ji Yong, are you?” He changed tactic, and challenged me instead. “Are you?” He asked again.

“..no.” I never thought that way before. “I don’t want that.” I admitted.

His face lightened up a little. “Then go out with me and show them you're not afraid of anything.” He knew he was on the right path, so he kept talking. “I know that you're not that weak either.” He said,  knowing better than anyone else how many times I destroyed him in wrestling.

My heartbeat got back to his normal beat. I also stopped torturing my fingers. “You’re right.” I stated slowly.

“Of course I’m right!” He replied a little arrogantly.

I smiled. “I can do it.” I couldn't gave up on Ji Yong, just because of those three idiots. I made a promise to him. Choi Seunghyun was right. “I won't let them take me down. I can’t let them do this to me and Ji Yong.” I stated.

He smiled widely. “Si, brava!” He exclaimed. Yes, I influenced him too with my italian.

“That's it. I've made up my mind.” I said. “Let's get out of this car.” I added. I was mentally stable now, I just had to physically fix myself.

“You know Yumi-shi.” Ji Yong's manager said catching my attention. “You shouldn't worry so much about them. If you give them attention and worry about what they say to you and keep worrying about their reactions, you’re not gonna live in peace. They’re just happy in seeing your weak side.” He stated. “So I suggest you to not show anything to them, but bug them with a bright smile instead. It's ten time more effective than an insult.” He suggested me. I thought that he was coldhearted and insensible, but after what he said, I changed my mind. He was indeed a good man.

“Grazie mille for the advice sunbaenim.” I thanked him and bowed along.

"You're welcome." He just replied back.

“Do not cry like this because of those no life people okay sweetie?!” My manager begged me, brushing away the tears on my face. I didn't even notice that I cried. “The make up is almost all gone.”

“De, je som hamnida.” I nodded. When he finished fixing my face, I hugged him and I thanked him for the help. “Komawò bujang-nim.”(manager)

“You're welcome sweetheart.” He said hugging me back.

I pulled away and looked at Choi Seunghyun. “Thank you too Oppa.” I said and hugged him as well. “If it wasn't for you, I still could be carried away by the bad thoughts.” I confessed.

“Don't even mention it.” He replied squeezing me in his arms. We pulled away, I grabbed my bag and was about to take also the box with the food in it, but my manager said to leave it to him. He would have took it himself.

“Now, let's go!” Choi Seunghyun exclaimed when we were ready.

I nodded. “Yeah, Let's do this!” I added. After that he opened the car's door and stepped out of it. I did the same.

The first thing that hit me, has been the shining sun. And then the crowd. A rowdy mass of people, screaming Ji Yong's stage name all over the place. But when they noticed Choi Seung Hyun, or should I say TOP, they started to shout his stage name as well. I was still nervous, but I straightened up  my shoulders, lifted up my chin and faced the crowd with a confident expression.

The shout of someone frightened me though. “YUMI!” The voice shouted.

At first I thought that he was my manager, but he couldn’t be him, since he couldn’t reach such high pitch note. So I looked around, I searched in the crowd and I found a girl, shouting my name. She was also waving her hands to catch my attention because she was shorter than the people around her. That's why I couldn't see her right away. “YUMI! YUMI-EONI! HERE! YES HERE!” She squealed insanely excited when I looked in her direction. And when other people recognized me along, they all started to call my name out loud as well. It was surreal. Almost unbelievable. Am I daydreaming again?

 

“WAAA! YUMI!”“YUMI-EONI! AAAH!”“WAAA! YUMI!”“WAAA! YUMI!”

“YUMI-EONI! AAAH!” ∼ “WAAA! YUMI!”“YUMI SARANGHEYO!!” ∼ “WAAA! YUMI!”

“WAAA! YUMI!”“WAAA! YUMI!” “YUMI NOMU YEPPEOYO!!”  “WAAA! YUMI!”∼

“YUMI-CHAN JJANGIDA!!”“YUMI-EONI! AAAH!”

 

Just a few people shouted my name at the beginning, but later almost all the crowd started to shout it too. The joy I felt inside, couldn't be described with words. Tears tried to come out, but I blinked a couple of times and held them back. Some fans kept screaming Ji Yong and Choi Seunghyun's stage names, but they shouted my name along with their name.

I took a deep breath and headed towards the first fan that called me out. When I arrived in front of her, she covered her mouth with her hands and looked at me with her eyes almost popping out. “Annyeong Haseyo.” I firstly greeted her. She greeted me back, with a very low voice. And she bowed to me along. “Are you the one that called me out