Daehwan, who had been watching all of this scene from behind the stage, crossed his arms and stood crookedly, letting out a hollow laugh.
Who’s talking to whom right now. At least Sangjun was between Chan and Yechan – if they were placed together, the two Chans would be even worse than the ones who had already caused trouble. For now, it was just buried because people’s attention was focused on Evan and Siwoo, but an uneasy premonition came that those guys would also cause trouble soon.
“Should I quit being the main manager at this point and ask to be transferred to office work?”
“As if Evan would do that for you. Who else but us would cover for those guys?”
At Hyunsuk’s outburst, who put her hand on his shoulder and shared the same feelings as him, Daehwan couldn’t laugh or cry.
He was always grateful and thankful for the gifts fans gave them.
However, seeing the gifts that kept piling up in front of him, Siwoo now couldn’t laugh or cry. As soon as they piled up beside him, the staff took them away, but just recalling the ones that had passed through his hands until now was dizzying.
Moreover, right now in front of him were white, cute, very pretty baby shoes contained in an equally adorable box.
“……”
Siwoo, who couldn’t easily say anything to the fan, silently clasped the hand she extended and just nodded his head.
“Fighting.”
He kept his gaze on the back of the fan who made a fist and even gave him encouragement to cheer up before going down, then Siwoo’s eyes widened as he looked at Evan.
Continuously, various things were settling on top of their heads and then disappearing.
There were flower crowns, cute hats, and they had also worn things like hairpins. And right now on Evan’s head was a black panther headband.
Animal headbands were commonly seen at fan meetings. However, the headband Evan was wearing now was something you couldn’t see at domestic amusement parks. Siwoo’s gaze, which had been on Evan’s head, turned toward the fan in front of him.
Siwoo’s lips trembled slightly when he saw the cat headband handed over by the fan who had moved to a position in front of him.
“Huh? There was one for Coco too? Actually, I wore that thinking Coco was a tiger.”
Siwoo, who had received the headband but couldn’t easily put it on and was touching it with his hands, blinked his eyes rapidly at Evan’s voice heard from beside him.
“You knew it was a cat?”
“You thought it was a tiger until the end.”
The headband Siwoo had been touching passed through Evan’s hands and settled on Siwoo’s head.
“Have you been to the amusement park here too?”
At the words of the fan sitting in front, Siwoo was biting his lower lip and couldn’t answer right away. To the question of the fan with light brown hair and bright blue eyes, Evan quickly answered in English that it was fun.
“I wanted to go there again sometime to buy this, so thank you for giving it as a gift.”
The time when they had only missed each other. The place where there was emotional synchronization for the first time.
At the words that the fan who had visited the amusement park they went to during the ‘Journey’ filming remembered them and bought it, emotions surged again.
At the words that she had thought about buying the headband they wore in ‘Ocean Story,’ but personally the headband that appeared in the duet song stayed in her heart more so she bought this, moisture welled up in Siwoo’s eyes.
On top of that, at the words that she came to Korea for vacation wanting to see their activities and participate in the fan meeting, Siwoo opened his mouth that he had been keeping firmly shut.
“How is Korea?”
When he made an effort to hold back tears and spoke, he listened to the fan’s words listing the good points of Korea while quickly picking up his pen. No matter what question is on the post-it note, I should answer it well.
I’m pretty good at English, and these are clearly a string of words I know.
Siwoo’s head tilted to the side in puzzlement after reading the question.
[Q. What position do you like?]
What position? Pose? When, where, and in what situation?
The corners of his eyes that had been getting moist quickly dried up. Is she bold about these things because she’s a foreigner?
“Um, I was at the concert venue. I also heard the ‘imprinting’ on the live broadcast.”
While Siwoo’s hand stopped in mid-air, unable to make any decision, the fan whispered secretly. And when the thought ‘surely not’ turned into certainty at the fan’s meaningful expression, Siwoo’s face flushed red.
“Not yet?? No way……”
This person is not ordinary. While Siwoo, who had fallen into a predicament, was stammering, Evan from beside him approached again. Evan, who gestured for her to come closer, even went to the trouble of lifting his butt from his seat and standing up to say something in the fan’s ear.
And their whisper didn’t reach even Siwoo, who was closest. The face of the fan going down the stage without asking Siwoo any more questions was redder than Siwoo’s.
“What did you say?”
The post-it note with nothing written on it had also disappeared.
“I said I like it when he does it voluntarily on top anytime, anywhere. But I also said I make sure to finish properly at the end. I said it verbally without writing it in the memo, so there’s no evidence. I did well, right?”
Is this fan meeting really going to be okay? Siwoo covered his face with both hands.
As the fan meeting moved toward the latter half, Siwoo let everything go. After receiving baby shoes, a baby hat, and even a baby’s first outfit, he reached a level where he could smile without being flustered at the fans’ words wishing him congratulations on his marriage and eternal happiness.
When stiffness came over him from sitting in one place continuously, Siwoo leaned against the chair and stretched both arms out while languidly stretching. At that moment, at the cheers that were heard and Evan’s sudden touch, Siwoo looked around while his body was stretched out long.
“Ah……”
Soon realizing that the crop tee he was wearing had ridden up, clearly revealing up to the middle of his ribs, and that Evan’s hand had hastily covered it, he pushed his hand away.
If he had just slightly covered it, it would have passed, but Evan’s warm palm was touching exactly on Siwoo’s belly.
After the one-on-one meeting with fans and autograph session ended, the Ocean members, who had presented their new song on the continuing stage, were watching the things being installed on the stage.
Since it wasn’t just a simple fan meeting but carried the meaning of communication with fans, several simple games also followed.
“The member who eats the snack last must draw three questions from that question box over there and must answer any question without exception. No comment is not allowed. You understand, right? Now, rock-paper-scissors.”
Sangjun spoke into the microphone while looking at the snacks hanging in the air and moving here and there.
And as expected, the members’ hands, who instinctively responded to rock-paper-scissors, gathered in the middle.
“This isn’t right.”
Chan looked at the remaining snacks and blatantly glared at the three, no, three bastards leisurely playing around in the back.
He had no particular thoughts about eating the snacks in the order of Yechan, Sangjun, Evan, Chan, and Siwoo. But the problem was that the three tall ones ate the snacks that had been hanging at the very bottom as if planned. They were clearly hung low for Siwoo and Chan……
Yechan and Evan were laughing together about something so fun, high-fiving each other and playing around.
“Ah…… This already went over time, right? Our leader Chan-hyung. Questions are waiting.”
At Sangjun’s provoking words, Chan bent his knees and jumped up, but the dangling snack touched Chan’s forehead instead of his mouth and swung dazzlingly.
Although he hopped and jumped several times, the snack kept only hitting his forehead, nose, and cheek, and unable to eat the snack, Chan changed his method.
He stretched out his hand to stop the swinging snack, gauged the distance, then slowly raised his heels. Ah, this time it’s his lips…… It touched his lips.
Along with the fans’ cheers, as the snack that had precariously touched his lips got closer, he quickly bit into the snack.
“3 minutes 19 seconds. Last place is already reserved.”
Chan, who was eating the snack and going to the back, didn’t notice at all. The fact that Yechan, unable to watch any longer, had approached and slightly lowered the string while Chan was concentrating on the game.
“Last, our Siwoo-ssi. Please tell us your mindset in approaching the game.”
“……This is too much.”
At Sangjun’s words, Siwoo looked at the snack swinging here and there with a devastated expression. After the snack, Siwoo sent a sharp gaze to Evan and Yechan who were feigning ignorance, then exaggeratedly clenched both fists tightly.
Although he was confident in jumping, Siwoo, who had tried jumping a few times, warmed up his body by jumping lightly in place. Each time he bounced and jumped, the fans’ cheers rang in his ears.
“Now, challenge!”
Siwoo, who felt it wouldn’t work just by jumping in place, stepped back and ran lightly forward, jumping up with all his might in front of the snack he had chosen.
“Ah…… It seems like you’ll succeed if you do just a little more. Siwoo-ssi, don’t give up.”
Siwoo, whose cheek the snack had touched, moved his neck lightly and returned to the spot where he had started running.
Twice, three times – Siwoo stopped jumping while hearing the fans’ cheers and raised his hand to sweep back his hair.
If it seemed like it absolutely wouldn’t work, he would give up, but since it seemed like it would work but didn’t, a subtle desire to challenge arose.
“Are you giving up?”
At Sangjun’s words, Siwoo put strength in his eyes and quickly shook his head.
“Since Chan-hyung also had a little trick.”
Siwoo looked at Evan suddenly approaching and instinctively hesitated and stepped back. Whenever he stepped forward, nothing had ever gone smoothly.
“Why! Why!”
Siwoo’s feeble gesture of hastily stretching out both arms to try to stop Evan from approaching was, as the words say, just a feeble gesture.
The two hands of Evan, who stood facing Siwoo, grabbed Siwoo’s waist and lifted him up, and at the same time as Siwoo’s body floated in the air, Siwoo’s two hands touched Evan’s shoulders.
At first he had grabbed Siwoo’s waist to lift him up, but rather than stretching both arms straight up to lift him high, when he lightly tossed him upward, a tremendous sound enveloped the surroundings.
Before Siwoo could fall, Evan caught and held him by supporting not his waist but his buttocks and thighs, and Siwoo, who wrapped his two legs around Evan’s waist, lowered his head to look down at Evan.
“Hey!”
“Which one are you going to eat? That one?”
Despite surprised Siwoo’s exclamation, Evan spoke calmly and headed toward the place that was at least the lowest.
What a mess, truly a mess.
“Evan-ssi, isn’t this too blatantly against the rules?”
“There were no regulations about rule violations.”
When the snack that had been precarious even when jumping like crazy just moments ago was right in front of his nose, Siwoo bit into the snack without complaint. He didn’t even ponder whether Sangjun and Evan were bickering or whatever.
“Well…… That’s true. Now, Siwoo-ssi has also eaten the snack. The time taken is…… Ah, what should we do with this? 3 minutes 23 seconds! Siwoo-ssi, please draw a question from the question box.”
Against the backdrop of Sangjun’s clear hosting, Siwoo’s body slid down Evan’s body.
