Chapter 26: Sightseeing Day Part 1
After a brief morning of script reading for 2 hours, TVXQ were released for the day at 11am, and I had to continue on with the team for pre-production meeting about production details.
I felt my heart sink when I saw the guys left, and I was left alone with the team... Knowing that they were going to go sightseeing with the girls, while I was stuck at work...
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Meanwhile...
TVXQ had planned a full day of sightseeing for the girls. First on the agenda was the largest and most comprehensive amusement park in Seoul - Seoul Dream Land, followed by Kyongbokkung Palace.
"Hey guys and girls hurry up over here!!!" U-Know shouted excitedly.
When nobody responded to him, U-Know ran over to the gang.
"Hey come on, hurry up, isn't this exciting!!! We're at the Seoul Dream Land!!!" he raved.
"Hyung... We've been here so many times already for performances, aren't you sick of it already?" Max replied.
"How can anyone get sick of amusement parks!!! Come on guys, let's go...." U-Know took Theo's hand and dragged her towards the amusement rides, leaving the rest of the gang behind chasing after him.
U-Know dragged Theo into one of the rides, and the rest barely made it to the ride in time before it started.
A couple of hours later, and all rides in Seoul Dream Land have been exhausted, and the gang were moving onto the next location - Kyongbokkung Palace - a 40-acre palace which is a splendid symbol of the Choson Dynasty.
"Hey!!! Fifi!!! Come on!!!" Theo shouted as U-Know dragged her along again.
"Alright, alright... I'm coming..." Fifi dragged her feet along as she hurried towards them.
"You don't like what we've arranged for you today?" Xiah asked.
Fifi turned and looked at him in surprise, as she didn't notice him beside her earlier.
"It's not that... It's just that it's the same kind of things everywhere we go, it gets a bit deja vu after a while..." Fifi replied.
"Do you wanna go somewhere else then?" he asked.
Fifi turned and looked at him in surprise.
"But what about what you guys have planned? We're meeting Kiki later for dinner also..."
"We can slip away for awhile and rejoin them later for dinner... I can bring you somewhere else to just chill out if you don't wanna do sightseeing anymore..."
"Sound enticing... What do you suggest?"
"Hmm..." Xiah thought hard.
Fifi looked at him as he concentrated so hard that he was frowning.
"If it's so troublesome, then it's alright if I stay here... I'll just try to bear with it..."
"Nope... It's fine... I've thought of something already..."
"What?"
"You'll know when we get there... Come on... Let's make our getaway now..."
Xiah took a glimpse at the gang, and slowly slowly stepped backwards, away from the gang. And when they were far enough from the gang, he grabbed Fifi's hand.
"Come, now's our chance... Run for it...." And he started running, dragging Fifi along with him.
The rest were too busy trying to catch up with the over-enthusiastic U-Know dragging Theo everywhere in the crowd, to notice that Fifi and Xiah were missing. In fact the crowd was unusually huge that day in the palace, and they had to push and shove their way through the crowd.
"AHHHH!!!!"
U-Know turned around when he heard Theo's scream, and he managed to catch her just in time to break her fall.
"Are you okay? Are you hurt?" U-Know asked as he helped Theo back to a standing position.
"Yeah I'm fine."
"What happened?"
"I think someone pushed me just now, and I lost my balance."
U-Know looked around Theo and noticed a guy standing behind Theo looking at them guiltily. He walked up to the guy.
"Hey, did you push her just now?"
"No I didn't."
"Yeah you did. You have a guilty look on your face."
"So what if I did."
"Well. Don't you think you should apologise to her? She almost fell down you know."
"I don't think so."
U-Know looked at the guy who was nonchalant to his inconsiderate actions that almost caused someone to get hurt, and he felt a gush of anger raise in his bloodstream. He took a deep breathe and stepped nearer to the guy.
"Are you apologising or not?"
"Nope. I don't think that's necessary."
"Why you..." He raised his voice. Theo grabbed his arm and pulled him back.
"It's fine... Let's not bother with him... I'm okay... Let's just continue with our tour..."
U-Know looked at Theo and tried to calm himself down by taking another deep breath.
"Okay... I'll let it go on your account..."
"Yeah... It's not my fault anyway, why should I apologise..." The guy rebutted.
U-Know was again agitated by the guy's remark, and turned back and glared at him angrily. He walked back towards him, even though Theo was trying to pull him back.
"You apologise for what you did and said NOW!!!" he shouted at him.
"Hyung!!! Cut it out!!!" Micky rushed over and tried to pull U-Know back. But he was much stronger than Micky, and he couldn't hold him back.
"GUYS!!!" Micky shouted for back-up from Max and Jaejoong, who were still trying to push themselves through the crowd to where they were.
"Don't think if you have more people, then I'll be afraid of you... I'm not okay..."
"WHY YOU!!!!" U-Know raised his clenched fist, and swung it towards the guy.
"HYUNG!!!" Micky shouted.
"U-KNOW!!!" Theo shouted.
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Meanwhile...
"Take my hand... Close your eyes now... And don't peep..."
"Okay..."
Fifi took Xiah's hand and closed her eyes, anxious to know where he is bringing her to. After a short taxi ride, he led her out of the taxi and across what seemed like a field of grass. Then he asked her to wait for him, but not to open her eyes.
Fifi felt lost and lonely when he let go of her hand. After what seemed like eternity to her, she heard his voice again.
"You can open your eyes now..."
Fifi opened her eyes, and she realised that Xiah had taken her to a sports stadium. And they were standing at the centre of the field.
"Are you wondering why I brought you here?" Xiah asked as he walked slowly over to Fifi with his hands behind his back.
"Yeah..."
"As you should probably know, I am a huge fan of soccer... And this is one of the soccer stadiums that I love to watch matches in... I've always wanted to be one of the players on the field... With the audiences watching me play.... So..."
"So you brought me here to watch you play?"
Xiah smiled, "Yeah, something like that... Is it okay with you?"
"It's something new... And different... So I don't mind... But don't ask me to play with you cos I'm hopeless in sports..."
"Really?"
"Yeah..."
Xiah took a soccer ball from behind his back and threw it towards Fifi. Fifi blocked the ball from hitting her clumsily.
"Xiah Junsu!!! How dare you throw the ball at me!!!"
Xiah gave a cheeky smile and stuck out his tongue.
"You're gonna get it from me!!!"
Fifi started running towards Xiah, and he started running away from her. After running for a few rounds, Fifi pretended to be very tired and stopped chasing Xiah. And once he moved nearer to her, she started running again, and it gave him a shock, but he was too agile for her to catch up with him.
After chasing for awhile, Fifi gave up and walked over to the audience stand to take a rest. Seeing her walk over to rest, Xiah jogged over to where she was. Once he was sitting next to her, she suddenly pounced into action, and grabbed him.
"GOTCHA!!! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!"
Xiah got a shock. Not only from her sudden attack, but also because she was actually hugging him. As Fifi had placed her arms around his shoulders and his chest to stop him from escaping, she was hugging him even without realising it.
Xiah looked at her in shock. And when it finally dawned on her that she was hugging him, she let go of him embarrassedly and sat herself a metre away from him.
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