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chapter four,
the one in a fake relationship

━━━━ YURI and vivienne had breakfast in a small cafe. the two girls spend the entire morning talking about their plans, catching up on a few things. vivienne did ask yuri about dae but yuri dodged that question and changed the subject.

after breakfast yuri said she had something important to do and vivienne decided to go visit the boys. vivienne walked very slow. she was 100% sure that turbo the nail could win her in a race. she was dreading walking inside of the boys dorm room and make the atmosphere awkward, especially for her and min ho.

she really isn't mad. not anymore. not as much as she used to be. she's forgotten about it now, well not completely, but it's not something she holds against him. vivienne never knew how much it also affected him until her slow walk to the dorm room, but she also doesn't understand how he's mad when she was the one left on delivered with no explanation. not that vivienne even let him explain since it all got too much for her brain so early in the morning that she asked him to leave.

she didn't want him to leave. she wanted him to stay. she wants him to be with her. vivienne liked the way that his touch felt on her skin, she liked it a lot. it was a different feeling that before. she's never felt that touch with anyone else. it doesn't really surprise her, she did have a small crush on min ho when they were 10 but it vanquished as soon as min ho started going on with other girls that weren't vivienne.

what surprises her is that it has come back after all these years. and that it came back during a small argument between them. vivienne sighed deeply pushing all of the thoughts about min ho away as she started to get closer to the dorm room.

instead she started wondering about her mom and her dad. she knows that her dad is filming a tv series in canada and it will take half a year to film since he wants to do real weather for his films. he wants autumn and winter specifically. her mom has a tour all around america, that it was going to start during august which is this month and it'll end on the last week of november since she has a few days in between for breaks.

"oh good you're here, your mom never stops surprising me." quincy said the second that vivienne walked in through the door. vivienne frowned her eyebrows. quincy was sitting on the island with a laptop in front of him and he turned it around giving vivienne a glimpse. "she's singing my favorite song of her."

vivienne closed the door and hurried over to him. she sat down on the free stool and they both watched anastasia villanueva, or just anastasia, her mom perform. she was sitting down on a stool, all lights were dimmed expect one that was shining directly at her. the guitar that vivienne grew up with watching her mom play all of her songs to her. and singing the song that mundo.

"she wrote that song about my dad and i." vivienne said softly, smiling at the fond memory. "she told me that during the time that she wrote this song, she was in a dark place and my dad and i helped her out of it. i was barely only five years old so i don't know what i did. she says it was mothers love. my dad and i were her saviors."

"you guys were her light. vivienne it's too early to cry." quincy said and awed at the same time. vivienne glanced over at quincy and he was in fact crying and was wiping away his tears. vivienne giggled softly, dropping her head to his shoulder and hooking her arm through his continuing to watch her mom through the screen. wishing deeply she was there in person.

kitty kat 🤍

where are you?
i have so much to tell you
and you're one of my only friend
at this point and i don't even mind

i'm at the boys dorm room
come over!

and they won't mind that i'm there?

i don't really care what they think
this is basically my dorm too since i spend my
entire time here and only sleep on my dorm

vivi

quincy doesn't mind at all.
come over

okay, okay
i'm going.

okieee!!!
you can just open the door
when you get there says quincy

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vivienne and quincy spend the next 10 minutes or so just watching anastasia sing her heart out to every single song that she was singing. during one song quincy started copying the background dancers and actually got the steps down. vivienne recorded the entire thing and send it to her mom.

"your mom should just hire me at this point." quincy scoffed sitting back down.

"q! q! put on the news!" min ho said rushing out of his room but stopping noticing who was there. "vinnie, hi."

"hi." vivienne breathed out dropping her head to her hand and grinning softly at min ho. quincy grimaced at their interaction knowing that that was something more than a simple hi and put on the local news. min ho sat down besides vivienne who scooted closer to quincy and min ho scooted closer to vivienne so that they were all able to watch.

yuri's dad, the ceo of the han hotel and probably the most well known and respected man, stood in front of a platinum with several microphones in front of him. the head title said, live: han hotel ceo apologizes. breaking news.

"it is important for me to own up to all my decisions..." he said.

the door then opened. "dae, have you seen this video? it's kind of blowing up." quincy said holding up his mug.

"i bet yuri's loving this drama." min ho teased and vivienne looked over at him. min ho only continued grinning while vivienne's mind was now only flooding with the proximity that the two were in.

"i don't particularly care." kitty said causing them to jump and look behind them.

"kitty, what took you so long." vivienne said turning her stool around to face the red head girl.

"i thought you left. dae said you left after he went to go talk to you this morning and you weren't there and came back looking like a hurt dog." min ho scoffed.

"speaking of, where were you this morning?" quincy asked squinting his eyes at min ho.

min ho shook his head and pointed at kitty, "she just barged in here."

"i did, but then i decided to stay. and not that it's any of your business, but this isn't all about a boy." kitty said. quincy and min ho's face dropped while vivienne held a proud expression.

"oh, sweetie." quincy whispered sticking his hand out towards kitty.

kitty held it for a second and laughed. "my mom went here, and — i don't know, being here just makes me feel closer to her than i ever have. and—" kitty then leaned forward looking at the tablet in front of them, "wait, daes on tv?"

"impossible, that boy can't speak with a big audience." vivienne said turning around on the stool. it shocked her that kitty was right. the camera pointed to dae, yuri and yuri's mom who were all standing politely looking at what yuri's dad was saying.

"but for my wife, and my daughter. family means everything to me. and so, i'd like to apologize for my behavior." han said stepping away from the podium and bowing down in a respectful matter along with the other three. kitty scooted in between quincy and vivienne. "today, i'm announcing the han hotel youth internship program."

a man came through the side blinds and placed down a board. "the first intern is dae heun kim." he extended his arm out towards dae who lifted his head up and looked at han. "son of my longtime driver. a top student at korean independent school of seoul. and he also happens to be dating my daughter, yuri. any questions? yes."

someone stood up and said that he had a question for dae. vivienne could tell through the screen the nervousness of her best friend and she felt bad because she knows that he doesn't do well with public speaking. "i'm just curious. do you believe mr. han is being sincere and not using you to repair his image?"

"he has to lie." vivienne whispered underneath her breath intrigued to this as if it was a tv show.

"yeah, um," dae stuttered at first but when he took in a deep breath and exhaled he knew he could do it. he repeated in his mind what vivienne would always tell him, breath, don't rush, speak loud in a normal pace and clear, don't think about it too much. "i believe mr. han means what he said. um, he will do better. so... lettuce move on." and always end with making people laugh or smile.

"well played." quincy said nodding his head and putting a hand on vivienne's shoulder making her unclench all the tension in her shoulder. what really highlighted the entire news to the quartet was when yuri reached for dae's hand but dae pushed it away and backed a little from yuri.

"oh my god, he's faking it." kitty pushed quincy and vivienne down a little getting much more closer to the laptop. she backed up earning the trio's attention towards her. "that's a fake relationship."

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mundo by, unique salonga