To Kiss An Idol

126 The Onesie

With a large smile on his face, Kyung-Soo drove away from Nivritti’s building. Nivritti stood in her parking lot watching Kyung-Soo drive away. She kept staring at the car till it vanished before her eyes.

She walked all the way up to her house and after punching in her code, she entered the living room. After placing her bags on the hook by the door, she went to her bedroom. She stood before the closet that a large mirror on the door and was shocked to look at her face.

She was grinning like a Cheshire cat. Immediately she pressed her cheeks with both her hands and stopped smiling. “What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you smiling that too like an idiot?” she scolded herself. She gasped loudly as she realised something. “Was I smiling like this when I was with NK? No, no, no, no, no, no,” she kept repeating over and over again and turned away from the mirror.

She hit her head with force and shouted, “why do I act like an idiot in front of him? Why were you smiling, you stupid, stupid girl? Oh shit! I grabbed his face and bumped my head on his.” Screaming loudly, she covered her face with embarrassment. “Oh, what would he think? I am a moron,” she cried and jumped over the bed. She hid her face with her pillow and screamed loudly.

After a minute of tantrums, she raised her head from the pillow and smoothed her hair. “Okay, from now on, be vigilant. No stupid actions in front of him. No unconscious moves. Be stoic. Be indifferent. BE NORMAL.”

She stood up from her bed and shook her head to compose herself even more. “No more stupidity! Be normal, be normal.” She gave herself a pep talk and opened the closet door. Taking out a fluffy yellow onesie, she went inside her bathroom. She needed the comfort of the furry cloth after acting like an idiot in front of Kyung-Soo.

She changed into the onesie and went into her kitchen. She opened her fridge and as usual, stared at the food inside the boxes. Finally, today she would be able to finish the food that the San family brought for her. After taking out the boxes, she left them on the kitchen counter to let them get warm.

She took out her laptop and her phone and started working on finding brilliant scripts. She was disappointed when ASD didn’t like any of the scripts. She had to give them a nice one next time. For once she glanced at the phone as she was waiting for Jae-Hwa to call but her phone was sitting on the table, silent.

She fired up her laptop and opened her server. She again went back to the oldest script she could find and started reading and slowly moving towards the newer scripts. Every day they were receiving hundreds of scripts. A single person would send them multiple scripts. The finance team was literally bathing in money. Every script was generating $20 each.

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Sitting in her warm, fuzzy onesie, her legs were extended on her table and the laptop was in her legs. She was too focused on reading when her doorbell rang. She was surprised. She didn’t order anything. She was not expecting anyone. She didn’t even know anyone except a few people in Korea, then who came to her door?

She gasped at the thought that Kyung-Soo might have come back. But it was hours since he left her, why would he return now? Did she forget anything in his car? She looked around, everything she took to the office was in her house. She didn’t forget anything in his car. Then who rang her doorbell?

She removed her hoodie that made her look like a cute yellow bunny and peeped through the peephole. A tall man with his back to the door was standing at her door. He had something white and metallic in his hands, she could not see clearly.

“Who is that?” she pondered. She twisted her lips to the left side and thought for a second about her next action.

“Yes?” she asked in Korean.

“Oh, Nivritti, it’s me, Jae-Geun,” replied Jae-Geun from the other side of the door.

“Jae-Geun!!” she shouted and looked at herself. She was looking stupid in her onesie. “Oh! Why did I have to wear this today?” she cried.

“Yes, Jae-Geun,” he replied. “Sorry for coming here unannounced but this is regarding what Jae-Hwa asked me to do.”

“Oh, what should I do? What should I do? I can’t let him stand outside for long and run to change my clothes. This is how you act normal, idiot,” she facepalmed.

“Is everything alright?” he inquired.

“Ahhh...” she pouted as she had no idea what to do. It would be rude to leave him standing outside for long so she decided to open the door dressed in a onesie. “No, everything is fine,” she replied in a sad voice.

Defeated and with her head hung low, she opened the door. Jae-Geun turned at the sound of the door and Nivritti appeared before him. The fluffy yellow dress made her look like a cute bunny but with a sad face.

An amusing smile flashed on Jae-Geun’s face as he looked at her. He wanted to touch her red nose and tease her about her cheeks that kept turning redder and redder. He was about to open his mouth when Nivritti warned, “don’t laugh.”

Jae-Geun immediately stopped smiling and replied, “I was not going to.”

“Why didn’t you call ahead?” asked Nivritti.

“My phone stopped working as it fell down the stairs in the hospital, so couldn’t call. Sorry!” replied Jae-Geun.

“I would have changed if you would have called,” sulked Nivritti.

“Why this is fine? You don’t like this dress, you are wearing? If you don’t like it, why are you wearing it?” asked Jae-Geun, confused.

“Who said I don’t like it? I like it that’s why I am wearing it. But no one is supposed to see me in it,” pouted Nivritti.