What About Henry and Zhou Mi pt.8

As I walked in, I noticed a bunch of guys stare at me. It's almost as if they've never seen a girl before. Come to think of it, they probably haven't in a long time. I drifted my attention towards finding Kyuhyun, and I walked to the used games section. There he was, in a typical T-shirt and jeans with his sunglasses. He didn't notice me at first until I "accidentally" bumped him trying to reach for something. "Mianhae," he said. Then he saw it was me, "Oh, Jojo! What are you doing here?"

I pointed to a random game on the rack, "Just looking for something." I lied.

He picked up the game and handed it to me. "You like to play Starcraft too?" He smiled really goofy-like.

I blushed. I hadn't noticed that I just pointed at his favorite game. "Well, I don't really have money with me."

"I have it at my place. You could borrow it if you want."

I shook my head, "Uh, that's okay. I mean… Uh.. I actually wanted to talk to you about something." I quickly changed the subject.

"Did you?" He said, "We can go somewhere else if you want."

"No, no it's okay. I know how much you like being here. Maybe I should call you later or something."

"I have plenty of time to kill," He said as he put down the game he was holding. "What did you need?"

"Okay, well, remember when you asked me to take care of my Eunhyuk problem?"
He glared at me, "Yeah.."

"I guess in some sort of way it's been taken care of. Even though I don't think I handled it very well." I scratched the back of my head.

"What happened?" He asked.

"He thinks it would be best if we weren't friends anymore. No more contact, no more visiting each other, no more anything anymore." I sighed, and Kyuhyun just looked worried.

"That wasn't a very good idea on his part. You two really don't know how to put your differences behind you and just make up, do you?" He looked like he was angry with me, and then he asked, "Why did he say that anyway?"

I walked over to another section to make it seem like I was occupied by something else. "I don't know the reason, but I think it has something to do with Hyoyeon."
"Why does this involve her? I'm completely lost."

"He doesn't want his relationship with her to be strained. And since she got mad at him that I visited him last night, he doesn't want her to worry if he cares about me more than her, so he doesn't want to be friends anymore." I was getting choked up and I didn't mean to.

"Give me a break, I'm sure it wasn't like that. It must've not been that bad."

"How would you know? You weren't there." I snapped a little bit there, but I didn't want to act rude toward him.

"But I know Hyukjae. I'm sure he wasn't trying to be mean about it. To me, it looks as though you took what he said to a whole different level. Don't you think about your actions before you do them?"

I grunted, "Why do I feel like you're making me seem like I'm the bad guy here?"
"I'm not saying that. What did you say to him after he told you he didn't want to be friends anymore?"

"I basically said 'I never thought you would say that. I thought you cared about me'."

"Did he say anything else?" Kyuhyun raised his eyebrow.

"He said… He still cares about me, but he would do anything for Hyoyeon. Then I told him I never wanted to see him again and I stormed off."

"See, that was your first mistake right there."

"What?"

"He still cares about you. Why would you get so angry like that?"

"I don't know, I was just mad that he said he would do anything for her."

"Why? Are you jealous of her or something?"

My face grew hot as soon as he said that, "Jealous? No way! I'm not jealous of her! She can do whatever she wants. If she wants to hypnotize him into doing her every will, then let it be so."

Kyuhyun laughed. "Yeah, sure. You seem pretty jealous to me."

"I am not!" I could feel my face turning redder.

"Let me sum it all up for you. You went to Hyukjae's dorm to apologize to him for being ignorant. Then, you realize that he cared about you so much and you've never been cared for that much in your life, and you were upset because he is very happy with his new life and you're not in it. Then you left to come see us, he called you a billion times leaving messages that he was looking for you. You felt bad, so you went back to his dorm, and you probably had some kind of weird moment that I'd rather not ask about. And Hyoyeon found out about it, and she was upset because that IS her boyfriend. Since he didn't want to lose the only happiness in his life, he went to tell you that he didn't want to see you anymore because he fears that if you two get any closer like you just did, he might lose his girlfriend. Then you got furious because you'd rather be with him instead of Hyoyeon. Did I get that right?"

"You're completely pointing the finger at me. That's not what it was like at all." Even though, deep in my mind, I knew he was right about everything he just said.

"Just admit that you're in love with him already and get on with it. This whole drama thing is tiring me." He looked at me like he wanted me to admit to it, but I refused.

"I'm not going to admit something that's not true. I'm not in love with him!" Never for a second did I ever stop to think that I'd actually have feelings for Eunhyuk. I've always tried to get Kyuhyun's attention, and I didn't think the events that occurred that past few days would end up this way.

Everyone at the videogame store started staring at us. "Let's go outside, Jojo." He must've been embarrassed, so he led me outside to talk.

"You've got it all backwards, oppa. I'm in love with someone else."

"Oh yeah? Then who is it?"

"It's you." My heart started to beat really fast.

He laughed again. "Let's not play games now. Do you even know what you're saying?"

"It's not funny. I'm serious. I've always loved you, you just never acknowledged it."

Kyuhyun just kept giggling, "You sound like one of my fans now. You can't be in love with me. You don't even know me that well."

"I want to get to know you better. I can't help what I feel, why won't you get that?"

"You're right, I'm sorry. I should consider your feelings. I mean, I really don't know you that well either. But it's kind of hard to get to talk to you when you're acting dramatic over Hyukjae."

I looked at the ground because it was hard for me to look at him directly. "What am I supposed to do now? Everything is all messed up."

"I'll tell you what, let's go back to the café and find Hyukjae. Maybe I can help you talk with him. This whole thing shouldn't be worth losing a friendship over."

I looked back up at him. "Okay. I'm not exactly sure how he'll react because of how I stomped away like that. But it wouldn't hurt to give it a try."

I then followed him down to the café, and I was shaking from nervousness. When we walked in, I noticed that only Henry and Sungmin were left. "Where is everyone?" I asked them.

"Eunhyuk was very upset after you left, and he went somewhere. I'm not quite sure where he is," Henry said while he actively sipped his tea, "And Zhou Mi had some business to attend to. One of the manager hyungs needed him for something I guess."

Kyuhyun and I frowned. "What are we supposed to do now?" I asked.

"You can sit down and stay a while." Henry replied as he took out a chair for me to sit down. "Everyone says that you never stay in the same place for too long. You need to relax, Jojo."

I took a breath and sat down, and Kyuhyun pulled out a chair and sat down next to me. "So what's the big news with the group?" Kyuhyun asked, "Are we still able to pull through?"

"The manager hyungs said that SME is replacing Hankyung with Eunhyuk and Sungmin in the group so they can help us out," Henry answered trying to catch his breath from talking too fast, "I wasn't sure exactly about all of the details that are going into it, but I do know that we're in the clear for right now. In fact, I was about to ask Eunhyuk some questions about it, but before I could say one word, he got up and left."

Kyuhyun sighed at this, "Well, the good news is that we won't be disbanding. But poor Hyukjae. We were just about to talk to him about this whole thing going on with him and Jojo." I tried my best to ignore my pity for Eunhyuk because of how I acted towards him.

Henry said, "Well it looks to me like there's nothing going on. He didn't want them to be friends anymore. Didn't she tell you?"

"Yes," Kyuhyun replied as he glared at me, and I turned red with embarrassment, "but I figured with my help, they could finally be on good terms for once and I can finally get relief from this dramatic occurrence."

Henry chuckled, "I know what you mean. I'd do anything to help too so I can stop hearing about it. To be honest, this whole feud is becoming ridiculous. This isn't something worth losing a friendship over."

"That's exactly what I was thinking," Kyuhyun said as he looked over at me again, probably expecting me to jump into the conversation any time soon.

I finally spoke up, "Listen to me, I didn't mean for anybody to be wrapped up in this. This is my problem, and I can fix it all on my own."

"No offense noona," Henry said, "but you've been doing a lousy job so far. I really think you could use our help."

Henry and Kyuhyun looked at me with serious, yet almost pleading faces. "Okay, fine. Thank you; I'd appreciate your help, oppas."

They both smiled then, and Henry asked me, "So what do you think about Super Junior M's future now? It's not going to be rocky like you thought it was, is it now?"

Henry was efficient in getting my mind off of the current subject. "I did worry a little too much, but that's only because I care about you guys. I'm so happy now that that Super Junior M is staying a group. I feel very protective over you guys. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen, you know."

"I'm glad to hear that," Henry said, then he pulled out something from his pockets, "because I would love it if you'd be there to support us in our upcoming show as a newly formed Super Junior M." Then he handed me two concert tickets.

"Thank you," I said as my eyes gleamed, "but I didn't think I needed these. I always get into your shows for free."

"The staff suggests that you start carrying these around until we get you and Lia VIP passes." Henry suggested.

I took the tickets from him and said, "Okay. Thanks, Henry." Then I smiled at him and he winked. "I'll be there." I thought to myself that it was such an amazing feeling to be friends with these guys. And even though I've been trying so hard to get into SM Entertainment for so long, the staff never approved of me becoming an idol, yet they let me train with them. It was weird that they couldn't find it in themselves to find more girls to form a group with my sister and me, but they made us feel like we were a part of them. I guess I didn't mind being kept in the dark from everyone, because maybe the fame would get to me, but I could never really tell for sure. I was just happy to always be there for the groups when they needed full support. We were always like a family, and I still love them all very much.