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Worlds Collide	By : CrysMarie2oo5 Category: Singers/Bands/Musicians > SHINee Views: 2240 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not know the members of SHINee and I do not make any money off of this work of fiction.

Chapter List
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-July 1st, 2014-

“Fuck. It's 4am. No one should be up this fucking early in the morning.” I said to myself as I slammed my alarm off. I pulled myself out of bed like a zombie and stretched my stiff and achy muscles. Today marked the day that I would start rehearsing choreography and recording on the album. I was excited for the day, but did I really have to fucking start this early?
I then remembered that my tutors had new schedules too with the addition of dance practice and studio recording. So that meant that Jungsu, my Korean tutor met me at 5am and tutoring sessions ran for two and a half hours before I went downstairs to the meeting room for vocal warm-ups and sitting in the meeting room was Taemin and Jin. Taemin at the piano and Jin sitting in a chair at the desk. As soon as I enter both Taemin and Jin look at me and I pause, thinking I had the wrong room.
"Hello Crystal." Taemin says hesitantly. My heart is racing when his eyes meet mine he gets up off the bench and goes to sit at the table with Jin. "You can come sit next to me if you want, or you can sit at the piano. Whatever makes you comfortable." Taemin says, and after careful deliberation I decided to sit at the piano. Jin gets up.
“I'm going to step outside and let you two talk. Crystal, if you need me, I'll be outside, you guys have fifteen minutes, make sure your voices are warmed up and ready to go.” I sat there kind of shocked and unable to utter anything for a solid minute. Finally my mind started to work and I began to process what going on.
"What is this Taemin? Why was Jin here? Aren't you still suspended?" I asked the questions flooding out of my mouth. Taemin raise his hand up to stop me and I did.
"I've been released early from suspension. I completed my therapy. I asked manager-hyung to meet with us so I could apologize to you in person. I knew if I asked you to meet me somewhere you wouldn't have come on your own accord, and I completely understand why." He gets up but I scoot further away. Taemin pauses, seeing my expression. "Noona I'm not going to hurt you..."
"I believe you but...why did you do that?" I asked, swallowing the massive lump in my throat. Taemin takes a moment to process what he's going to say next. His eyes meet mine.
“Crystal, there's no easy way to say this, but I'll try my best to explain." He walked up to me and sat on the floor in front of me. "I was jealous. I was jealous of you, I was jealous of Minho. I snapped. I know it wasn't right and I am working on bettering myself. I am genuinely sorry for everything I have done. I am asking for your forgiveness. Can we please start over with a clean slate?” I looked down at him. His gaze reflected genuineness. I let out a heavy breath and realized that I was finally ready to put this whole thing behind me. I nodded.
"Yes Taemin, I forgive you." Taemin's reaction to those words was priceless. He grasped my hands and made sure to make eye contact. He kneeled down on the floor next to the piano bench I sat in.
"Thank you Crystal." Taemin said, as he got up off the floor. "So, please show me some of the stuff your working on, I want to know what you're writing for your solo songs..."
We work on music, with Taemin being more proficient with the piano than I am, I give him the chord progressions and he works out rhythms. We both warm our voices up, bonding over the music before Jin comes in and interrupts us. He lets us know that there's a vehicle for us outside waiting to take us all to the studio.
Upon arriving at the studio Taemin, Jin and I are ushered into a large studio with the rest of the guys.
“Have a seat everyone. Mr. Mosley will be here in a few minutes, he got caught in traffic.” Tim Mosley, aka Timbaland was on his way here? Oh my God. I took in a deep breath just as Jinki patted the empty space on the large L-shaped couch. I glanced at Minho and he shrugged so I took the empty seat.
“Have you guys met Timbaland already?” Everyone nodded. “So, I'm the last to meet him?”
“Yeah, he's been wanting to meet you for a while. We've actually put together a little surprise for you.”
“A surprise? Like what?”
“Oh you'll see.” Jonghyun said, with a cocky smirk on his face. I just rolled my eyes and sat back and the guys' conversation turned to Taemin's arrival. I meanwhile fooled around on my phone playing 'Dumb Ways to Die'. I managed to level up twice before the door opened and inside walked Timbaland dressed in high-end casual clothing and in behind him, when my eyes laid on her I nearly lost my mind.
In behind Timbaland walked my all time favorite R&B singer Brandy Norwood. I couldn't believe it. I shut my gaped mouth and stepped forward to meet Timbaland for a handshake.
“So, this is the elusive Crystal everyone's been talking about, it's great to finally meet you.” Tim said, that unmistakable southern drawl coming out as his hand encompassed mine. He was shorter than I realized.
“O-oh my God, this is such a huge h-honor Mr. Mosley...I...wow!” This caused everyone in the room to chuckle and laugh including Tim and Brandy.
"It's quite all right, here is Brandy Norwood a woman I'm sure you know well."
"Oh my God, Brandy it's such a huge huge honor to meet you...you have no idea how much I admire you....I just...sorry I'm babbling aren't I?" This caused Brandy to laugh and she shook my hand.
"It's always a pleasure to meet one of my fans." Brandy said, her eyes meeting mine.
"All right so with that out of the way, I wanted to announce to everyone that we finally got the release date of your guys' new album and it's set to be released September 30th."
"Of this year?"
"Yes, so we got to wrap up recording by July 20th at the latest."
"That's..."
"A month away, yes. But really all we need are all of Crystal's parts and most of the group stuff recorded."
"All of my parts? We're talking like...all my stuff in Korean and Japanese too right?"
"Yep." Oh man, if a fire wasn't lit under my ass already it definitely was now. "So Crystal are you ready to begin working?"
"Uh, yeah. What song are we working on first?"
"Let go with Heat. You should've started on it already, let me just get everything set up and cued and I'll get you set up. You can have a seat until I'm ready for ya."
"Okay, sounds good." I said sitting back down on the couch again. When time was ready, he walked me into the recording area and put on earphones that would play the track back to me along with a lyric sheet clipped on a stand close to the mic so I could see the words and follow along. The music started and it was fast tempo pop with a "007" feel to it. I sang soulfully into the microphone but about three movements in, I was stopped.
"Let's go back and re-record that, but this time I wanna some stronger syllables, your barely enunciating the words and we need to hear what you are singing." Tim critiqued and I nodded.
The music started again and I sang where I was supposed to come in and this time I made it to the pre-chorus before the recording was stopped.
"That was really good. That's exactly what I needed, so now I want you to continue but you'll hear the voices of the other guys in there now too. Try not to let that throw you off.” Tim said through the microphone and I could hear the guys talking in the background. It was too muffled to hear what they were saying. The track played a few measures before where I was supposed to come in. I was to sing harmony it was hard to sing my parts over the guy's voices in my ears and it did throw me off. Tim shook his head and stopped the track.
“I'll take the guys voices out, just sing what you're supposed to right now. Hopefully you didn't forget, did you?”
“Could I get a refresher?” Tim pinched the bridge of his nose. He was getting frustrated with me. It was my first time in the studio.
“Yeah, I'm sending your voice teacher in there.” Tim said as I heard him tell my vocal teacher to make it quick because we didn't have a whole lot of time to be 'fucking around'. I frowned.
“Tim I'm sorry I've never done this before. Please be patient with me.” I said as my vocal coach came in and he went over the harmonies with me. When I got it down, I commenced recording asking Tim to lower the guys' voices so I could hear the harmony but it wasn't loud enough to throw me off.
We quickly progressed through a couple more songs before Tim and his team came in to set up more mics and the other guys came in and we were going to start recording vocals for “I am Stronger” a song that I had written. Some reason I knew Minho had something to do with stealing that song out of my folder. I hadn't heard what Tim produced for the back track.
“Crystal, come in here I wanna show you something.” Tim said, getting my attention. When I walked back into the studio, he handed me some headphones and my guitar playing could be heard before various synths, strings, electric guitars and his signature beat could be heard. I see he had also snagged my vocals and made them work in the track.
“Oh my God....this is amazing Tim...”
“You wrote the song, I just layered some more instruments around it. This is your baby, the guys have agreed to allow you to direct the song. Your name will be on the record as the sole songwriter, I'll help you produce the sound you want.” I nodded as my eyes met Timbaland.
“I love what you did with the track, this is where I was going with this track and you made it sound a hundred times better...you truly are a genius.” He smiled, and looked back down at the mixing board.
“Thank you Crystal. So...the guys have had a chance to listen to the track you've had a chance to write some vocals, is that right?”
“Yeah, I have.” I said grabbing my purse and pulling out some folded up music sheets I had been writing on. Over the past couple of weeks on my free time.
I immediately began work getting everyone on the same page with what I wanted for the song. I knew our album was going to be released on September 30th in South Korea, Japan, and all English speaking countries. So all the English songs that were written the team, with the help of everyone at SM had to translate them into Korean and Japanese as well. A lot of the work was done already, but Timbaland and Red One had to come up with beats while the guys and I come up chords and lyrics.
It was going to be a lot to accomplish in a month's time. There was virtually no room for error. It was now or never.
Our studio time was coming to a conclusion. The clock displayed 12:10pm. The session ended in 5 minutes. We had made some good progress. I knew there was going to be a lot solo time in the studio for myself just so I could record all the different lingual versions. Tim managed to get my attention and pulled me aside.
“Crystal, what are you doing for lunch today? Are you free? Brandy and I would like to take you for lunch, we have some business ventures to run by you.” I nod looking up at Tim.
“Yeah, I got a half an hour for lunch before I have to meet my next tutoring session.” I said, looking up at Tim.
“Hm...I'll send one of my assistants to get us lunch, we can sit up in your hotel room.” I nod knowing I would have to pick up some stray clothes when we got there, but I was happy to host them.
“Oh that's fine.”
“Great, I'm thinking the Green Cafe for lunch,” Just then one of his assistants came in a menu.
“What the--”
“Thank you Sean,” Tim said taking the menu and handing it to me. Let me know what you want, I'm sparing no expense. Give that to B when you're done though,” Tim said, winking at me.
“O-okay.” I said looking over the menu. I settled with a Turkey Shoot Sandwich which consisted with carved turkey, swiss cheese melted over the top, cranberry chutney with lettuce and tomato on rye bread with a side of coleslaw and a bottle of Fiji water. I also wanted to try their tiramisu so I ordered that as well. I handed the menu to Brandy who wrote her order on a separate piece of paper and handed it to Sean like I had done previously.
After talking with Jin for a little bit, Tim asked if we were ready to go and upon Brandy and I nodding we head out.
My phone buzzed as we got into an SUV waiting for us.
Where are you going? It was Minho, he was obviously feeling dejected as I was supposed to have lunch with him today.
Going to a business meeting with Tim and Brandy. Tim said he had some business to discuss with me regarding the album. I'm sorry babe. I'll take a rain check though.
It was a short drive back to the Marmara. We were there in less than 10 minutes. Meanwhile Minho had texted me a sad emoji and that it was okay. We pulled up to the hotel and walked inside and made a beeline for the elevator. We make it up to my floor and I let Tim and Brandy into my hotel room, blushing slightly as I pick up the few articles of clothing and what not strewn about on the floor.
"Sorry, I haven't had the time to really clean. I'm usually in classes all day." I said apologetically as I picked up some stray clothes around my living room and took the dishes to the sink. Meanwhile Brandy and Tim made themselves at home and sat down on the couch. There was a knock on the door and I answered it, and there was Sean with our food. He handed me the individually wrapped bags and a separate bag with our drinks inside of it.
We eat, and I enjoy my meal, before we get to the business at hand.
"Crystal I wanted to help you guys out with your album. I watched your audition video and when you said you admired my music I knew I had to convince Tim here to take the offer with SM. What I have here," She took out a folder from her purse. "are creative license contracts for three of my songs off of my 2/11 album. Basically the gist of them is that I’m giving you permission to use the backing music and melody. It’s also been signed by the respective co-writers as well. Once you sign this, you can do with the music what you like. These are more mature songs…”
“Oh I know, I’m familiar with them.” I said paging through the contracts and reading over them and I beginning humming “Slower” which caused Brandy to smile. I finished reading the documents and signed them. She gives me a hug, excitedly.
“Oh this is the start of a beautiful partnership, I just know it!” Brandy said, as she pulled away and looked at Tim. Just then there was a knock at the door. I knew it was my Japanese tutor, Ayame. I got up, handing the folder back to Brandy. “We should probably get going right Tim?”
“Yeah we should, it was great spending some time with you Crystal, and hopefully we can do again soon. I know you’re a busy woman.”
“Oh yeah, we definitely will.” I said walking over to the door and opening it to let Ayame in and Brandy and Tim out. I said my goodbyes and greeted Ayame as she came in. With Ayame there, and Brandy and Tim out we settled in at the dining table and Ayame commenced with the tutoring session.
2:30pm came by too quickly and Ayame and I bid our goodbyes in Japanese. I got up to clean up for the next half hour while my tutor when there was another knock on my door. I wasn’t expecting anymore company. Perhaps someone left something here?
I opened the door to find a huge bouquet of hot pink Hyde lilies. Which I had grown a recent affinity for, and out from behind the massive bouquet poked Taemin’s head.
“Taemin? What?”
“Can I come in noona?”
“Um…sure.” I said stepping aside and opening the door wider so Taemin could come in with the massive bouquet. He was also carrying a plastic bag full of what looked like food.
“Are you hungry noona? I brought some pork and chicken dumplings?”
“Uh, yeah I guess I could eat. What brings you here? Don’t you have schedule?”
“I have some free time. Jinki-hyung thought it would be wise to bring a peace offering to break the ice and to get to know you better.”
“Oh. Well Jinki is very wise. Here let me take these from you…I think I have a vase or something around here.” I said grasping the plastic wrapped bouquet from Taemin and our hands brushed against each other. Electricity snaked down my spine causing me to pause and look at Taemin. It was evident that Taemin felt the same tingle because the kid was red faced but smiled a cheesy grin and let go of my hands.
I set the beautiful lilies in a strange glass fishbowl that I found floating around in the cabinets while Taemin set up the dumplings and various sauces. Setting the flowers on the window sill in the sun, I finally joined him in the living room. I sat next to him on the couch.
As we ate I found out that Taemin and I had a hell of a lot in common, like favorite colors, artists, and he loved the fact that I played the guitar. He wanted to get together once a week so we could jam out a bit when we have spare time.
All too soon however it was time for my vocal lessons and Taemin asked if him and Jonghyun could sit in on the lesson. I didn’t see an issue with it so I said yes. Taemin excitedly left my hotel room so he could let Jonghyun know.
I went downstairs and met with my vocal coach Vivian, and I let her know that Jonghyun and Taemin were going to sit in on my lessons and she had no issue with it. We had just started my warm-ups when the door opens and Jonghyun and Taemin step in.
“Hello, are we interrupting anything?” Jonghyun asked timidly and Vivian shook her head.
“No Jonghyun, we’re just getting Crystal warmed up for her exercises, feel free to join in if her want.” Jonghyun thanked Vivian as Taemin and Jonghyun joined in on the next warm-up exercise. I learn that I can go note for note with Jonghyun. Taemin’s vocal range is pretty much up there with Jonghyun’s.
This day though, would blow all our minds.
As I did the warm-up Vivian kept climbing up the keyboard…see this week we were working on extending my vocal range. I managed to add several notes on my low end. The lowest I could hit uncomfortably was an D#2…but I went from barely hitting a A2 to hitting a F2 comfortably in my low register. My high register needed work as well. I manage to stretch it a couple of notes, from a C6 to an E6 but I was hitting a major wall as far as adding more notes to my vocal range.
It was really frustrating.
“Crystal, why don’t you imagine that you’re making your vocal cords into a small hole and see if that helps.” So I did and pushed air through it. The result…a crystal clear bell like whistle, that resonated throughout my whole head.
"Oh?" Taemin and Jonghyun said simultaneously in shock.
"Yes, yes! That's it! That's an...F6...can you go higher? Imagine closing the hole up..." I did as was told and I climbed higher up on the keyboard...until I couldn't produce sound anymore. The last note I was able to sing...a F7.
"Omo! She's like Mariah Carey."
"Yeah, I didn't know she had a whistle register..."
"This is the first time we're discovering this guys. You guys just witnessed her growth yourselves. Pat yourself on the back Crystal...you are among an elite number of female and male vocalists able to vocalize in the whistle register. Good job..." Vivian said, as she got out the sheet music we had to go over the Korean and Japanese versions of the songs I had written. They were translated by Jonghyun and Jinki while slightly different they were nearly 98% accurate. All the guys were extremely talented in writing and they were teaching me the art of songwriting and taking my inner feelings and putting them to music. It was very therapeutic.
I practice the songs and we went over more material with Jonghyun and Taemin sitting in until the end of my lesson. Toward the end of my lesson however, Jinki made his appearance.
"I'm sorry to disturb you. Is..." Jinki's averted to Jonghyun and Taemin sitting at the table. "Oh, there you guys are..."
"Come on in Jinki...we're just about to start some ear training...perhaps you could be of use...I'm trying to get Crystal used to picking out harmonies. She's pretty good, but there's always room to grow." Vivian paused as she went through the stack of sheet music she had copies off of our new album. "Let's go with...Slower, this is a fairly new song for you guys, I understand that you and Jonghyun sing with Crystal on this?"
"Yes, I do the lower harmony while Jonghyun does the higher harmony."
"I see. I'm going to switch the parts around, Jinki, I want you on the melody, Jonghyun you on the lower end..."
"I can't sing that low though, can I do the main melody?"
"Hm...try Jonghyun, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by your capabilities. Crystal you'll take the higher harmony." I nodded as I looked at Jinki, our eyes meeting. Jinki looked unsure though.
"Vivian, I don't think these guys are familiar with the new song yet, can I sing it for them first?"
"Sure." She started on the piano, and I came in where I needed to. I soulfully sang the song about doing the deed slower while Jonghyun and Jinki listened to it carefully. Given lyric sheets they followed along.
Soon enough however it was time for us to form the harmonies. Jinki began singing and I swore I felt myself becoming turned on just at the sound of Jinki's voice. Jonghyun joined in adding the lower harmony, and I came in added the light higher harmony. I heard Taemin let out a shout of excitement.
The song was meant to be seductive but I focused on remaining on pitch which seemed to be an easy task for both Jonghyun and Jinki. While my eyes were boring holes into the floor focusing on their voices alone, I could feel Jonghyun and Jinki's eyes stripping me. They didn't hide this very well either since I met both of their eyes every time I looked up. Jonghyun would blush while Jinki kept this cocky smirk on his face.
We finished the song and Vivian nodded.
"That was nice. We'll have to work on that properly one of these days this week Crystal." Vivian said as she looked up at me nodding. "All of you sound lovely together, but Crystal and Jinki...your voices mesh really nice." I blushed as did Jinki.
"Thank You Vivian." Jinki said, nodding to her. I could tell she had a thing for him. It was kind of hard not to honestly. Jinki just had that quality that made him very likable.
"Thanks." I said, as I watched Vivian get her stuff together. I realized I had dance practice next along with the rest of the guys. After a short break for supper of course.
"Hey Crystal, did you want to come over for dinner? I can convince manager-hyung to get up some chicken then we can all head over to the studio for dance practice." Jinki said, inviting me over for supper. I shrugged.
"Yeah that sounds great, make the calls and I'll meet you at your hotel in ten?"
"Sounds good noona." Jinki said as the guys left and I left shortly after to get freshened up for dinner.

As soon as I arrived, Taemin and Minho were playing some sports game, but Taemin kicked Minho off.
"Crystal noona, come watch me play The Last of Us."
"Ooh I love that game...how far have you gotten?" I asked my eyes meeting his.
"To the part where that chick gets killed. I can't get past the cops after that..."
"Crystal! You should come and help me get everything ready. We ordered a 30 piece..."
"Jeez, that's a lot of chicken..."
"Well, Jinki can eat a whole chicken by himself and Jonghyun and I enjoy chicken too. It'll get eaten, with little if any leftovers..."
"Key-hyung, I wanted to play games with Crystal." Taemin said, trying to sneak past the cops using stealth.
"You've seen her quite a bit according to Jinki-hyung,"
"I was suspended remember?"
"Pfft. I think we all know why Taemin." Key said, this caused Taemin to get mad and pause his game.
"Of course, throw that back in my face. Minho the console's yours. I'll hang out with Crystal some other time." Taemin said stomping off to his room he shared with Key. I turned to Key who grabbed a couple of Pepsi's from the fridge before handing one to me.
"Why did you have to say that? I've forgiven him for it, there's no need to keep rehashing history." I said grabbing the soda and setting it on the counter.
"How are you doing? Regarding all of this?" I shrugged, tapping the top of the aluminum can with my fingernails before pulling back the tab. It opened with a hiss.
"I'm doing all right I think. I mean I just don't think about it much and Taemin and I seem to have a lot in common."
"I would be careful if I were you though. I just worry about you..." Key said, his hand touching my exposed left arm and giving it a light squeeze before leaving the kitchen and setting the plates, napkins and plastic ware on the table before he gave the Pepsi in his hand to Jinki before leaving the living room and headed off to the bedrooms.
Speaking of Jinki, I figured now would be the best time to pick the man's mind. I joined him and Minho in the living room. Jonghyun was writing music in his room and I knew he treasured that time.
"So, what are you guys doing?"
"Watching Minho play his game," Jinki said opening his soda and taking a sip. "and you?"
"Key's acting funny."
"Ah, that? Don't let it get to you. Key's a very complex man. Sometimes he's a moody as a woman." Jinki said, a smirk appearing on his face.
"Yeah, Key's in a mood. Don't pay him mind babe." Minho chimed in as he winked at me before finishing his soccer game. I was about to open my mouth but I was interrupted by a knock at the door. Jinki went to answer it immediately.
Jin brought in the chicken, along with numerous sides. Coleslaw, Corn on the Cob, Green Beans, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy, Red Beans and Rice, Biscuits, Mac and Cheese, and Cajun Fries. I looked at Key who scratched his head.
"Manager-hyung I just said a few sides, not the whole menu..."
"I didn't know what Crystal would like...I apologize. I'm sorry."
"We'll have left-overs for days." Taemin said, coming in to see what the commotion was all about and seeing the vast amounts of food.
"It's okay I like variety. I might gain weight from all of this."
"No. Don't do that." Jin said, looking at me hungrily. "You're perfect the way you are..." There was an uncomfortable silence as everyone looked at him strangely. He cleared his throat. "There's the food. I'll be leaving now." With that he made his way to the door.
"Thank you manager hyung!" Jinki thanked before Jin left the hotel room. Jin nodded hearing Jinki and promptly left. "He's so awkward sometimes..." Jinki remarked, his eyes meeting mine. "Let's eat!"
Key and I dumped all the food into easily storable Tupperware containers and let everyone help themselves. Everything was so delicious. I found myself going up for seconds which was something I hadn't done in a while. Before we knew it our ride was there to pick us up for choreography practice.
Our practice consisted of learning the new choreography for Heat, our first single. It goes smoothly and I catch on rather quickly. It's a 007 themed video, where I'm the spy breaking into the guy's fortress. We're given prop guns to work with separately and it was fun up until the part that the choreographers tell Jinki to push me down and get on top of me to put the chains on my wrists. Jinki showed some hesitation.
"Um...I don't know about that...I don't feel comfortable doing that." Jinki said, looking at me and Minho.
"What's the big deal hyung, it's just choreography. It's not like you're going to be having sex or whatever." Jonghyun said, looking at Jinki. Jinki bit his lip in hesitation.
"But she's Minho's girlfriend..."
"You didn't think about that when you were feeling her up a few weeks ago..." Key said, glaring at the leader. Jinki's eyes widened as both of our eyes widened and Minho's jaw dropped.
"What?"
"Oh yeah, didn't think I saw that did you Jinki?" Key said his glare intensifying. Jinki stammered.
"Jinki, what is he talking about?" Minho said looking at the leader. Jinki's jaw snapped shut as his face turned fire engine red with either embarrassment or anger. I couldn't tell which. I know my own face reflected my own embarrassment. Jinki wasn't about to give himself up. So I decided to speak up.
"He did feel me up, but I don't think he meant anything by it...I was talking about my mom. It was just on my side here, it wasn't like he was touching my breasts or other intimate areas." I said, clarifying the situation while shooting a glare in Key's direction. Key folded his arms over his chest and rolled his eyes, letting out a huff as he did so.
"Whatever. I'm getting a drink."
The choreographer noticing the tension in the room decided to call a ten minute break and I chased after Key. I found him at the water fountain refilling his water bottle.
"Key!" He looked up at me, rolling his eyes and muttering something I couldn't understand. I ran up to him and our eyes met. "What the hell was that in there? You really pissed Jinki off. That's no way to treat your hyung."
“Oh shut up Crystal.” Key spat back as he moved past me and set his water bottle on the back of the water fountain.
“What the hell did I ever do to piss you off? Perhaps I should tell Minho about your little stunt you pulled with trying to kissing me a few days--” Key cut me off by grabbing my arms and pinning me against the adjacent wall.
"No you won't. Why are you—you know what, forget it." Key said, his eyes meeting mine seeing my scared expression. I swallowed. "I care about you Crystal. I don't want the other guys to take advantage of the fact that you're a woman. What Jinki did that night pissed me off."
“It’s not your fucking place Key. I'm a grown ass woman Key.”
“Oh really? Tch, yeah, okay. What about Minho hm?”
“I love him Key, but you’re also not the only one who’s tried to get closer to me you know.” I confessed, looking up at him.
“Oh?”
“Yeah, Jonghyun too.”
“That cheeky fucker.”

“Either way, nobody has a chance. I love Minho and while I like all of you, lines are going to get crossed eventually due to the nature of material we’re presenting to the public. We were all warned about it. Minho unfortunately can’t say much about it. Neither can anyone else.” Key frowned for a moment before letting me go.
“Okay noona, I get what you’re saying, I just...worry about you, that’s all.”
“Thank you Key. We should get back inside.” Key nodded and we headed back into the studio where Key apologized to Jinki and Minho for his outburst in which both forgave him and I apologized as well. Jinki managed to get the courage and Minho’s permission to complete his part of the routine. The guys completed the routine before I supposedly escape at the end.
It was fun, and I had a blast. As we went downstairs and loaded into the shuttle van Minho issued a look my way that told me he was bothered. I knew he needed to talk about what Key said earlier and I didn’t blame him.
When we arrived back at the hotel, Minho pulled me toward my apartment.
“Hyung I need to talk to Crystal, don’t wait up for me.” Minho told Jinki when I could tell by his tone he was agitated. I swallowed as Minho took out his spare key he had for my room and opened my door and allowed me to go inside before him. As soon as we were both inside Minho let me have it. “What the hell was Key talking about earlier?”
“Look, before they go blabbing their mouths, Jonghyun, Key, and Jinki have all tried to kiss me.” I confessed my eyes meeting his.
“What? Like, what? They tried to kiss you?"
"Yeah,"
"Did any of them--"
"No Minho, nobody's kissed me." I said truthfully, my eyes meeting his and I could see the relief break through on his features. His finger intertwined themselves in my hair as his eyes met mine again, closing the distance between us.
"Good. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to break anyone's neck today." Minho said, jokingly. His stare became smoldering as I found myself trapped between him and a wall. "I miss you Crystal...I wish I could just stay here and make love to you." I swallowed. The sexual tension was thick in the air.
"Why don't you?" I asked, and Minho shook his head and pushed himself away from me.
"We can't. We both have schedules to abide by tomorrow...I love you Crystal." Minho said as he leaned down and captured my lips in a passionate kiss before pulling away and leaving my hotel room. I let out a breath and figured now would be a good of time as any to get ready for bed.
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