Chapter Twenty

Taeyeon opens the door allowing for Jessica to enter, “Finally you’re back with the snacks!” Yoona and Sooyoung bolt to the front door to gather the bags only to find none, “where’s the snacks? Did you guys even get snacks?” Taeyeon nods her head as she closes the umbrella. “Really? Then where are they?”

“In Jessica’s stomach,” answers Taeyeon jokingly even though it was the truth.  “Jessica ate it all.” Jessica looks at Taeyeon before giving her a small shove and walking away.  Taeyeon smiles happily to herself.

“Well go get som-“ The door flies open startling everyone. “Hyoyeon?”

“Group meeting now,” she states slamming the door and walking into the kitchen. Sooyoung and Yoona look at Taeyeon.

“The Kim has spoken,” states Taeyeon while walking off to the kitchen. Yoona turns to Sooyoung who shrugs her shoulders before walking off after Taeyeon. Yoona follows and Yuri pushes herself up to join the group in the kitchen. She takes a seat joining the rest of the group at the table.

“So what is this meeting about that Taeyeon is not calling?” asks Yuri while looking over at the older girl.

“I want to know what’s going on here?” states Hyoyeon.

“Well…I told Jessica I had a surprise for her, and she invited Yuri and Tiffany. Then I invited Sooyoung and Yoona who both invited their respective girl friends. But I never really had a surprise and planned on winging everything. And it worked. Then you showed up and we’re having a meeting,” jokes Taeyeon lightly in hopes of calming down her sister.

“Not funny, Tae. I’m being serious,” states Hyoyeon.

“I know I know…but you’re so tense. I think you need to start thinking about seriously dating. It will do you a lot of good,” responds Taeyeon. Hyoyeon shoots her a glare. “Okay fine…speak.”

“I believe that me, Sooyoung and Yoona deserve to know what exactly you two are up to,” states Hyoyeon.

“Me and mini Boss are up to nothing,” retorts Yuri while leaning to see if the girls in the living room were eavesdropping or not.

“Let them know Yuri,” states Taeyeon. The younger girl falls backwards as the chair slips out from beneath her, causing for an uproar in the kitchen. “You should have seen your face,” laughs Taeyeon while mimicking Yuri’s facial expression, “priceless!”

“Is everything okay?” rings Tiffany’s voice from the living room.

“Yeah except for the fact that Yuri will probably have a huge bump,” shouts Sooyoung. Yuri groans and stands up, picking up her chair. She returns to her seat while rubbing the back of her head. A pout forms on her face as the group picks up laughing again.

“It’s not funny,” grumbles Yuri while fixing her hair.

“It so was,” states Yoona while trying to cover her mouth, “like Taeyeon said your face was priceless.”

“Alright,” speaks Taeyeon halting all speaking, “that’s enough. We’re supposed to be holding a very important and top secret meeting.”

“Sure we are. If they can Yuri fall then they can hear the meeting,” states Sooyoung, “we really need one of thse offices your dad has.”

“This was our office until we brought them here,” remarks Hyoyeon.

“We’re getting off track,” comments Taeyeon as she stands and walks to one of the drawers containing some silverware. Pulling it open she pulls out the envelope and throws it at Hyoyeon. “Everything that me and Yuri has been doing is in that envelope.”

“Who’s the mole?” asks Hyoyeon.

“We have no clue,” states Yuri, “we’ve been looking into everyone’s info. Including our parents. Whoever it is, is really good at leaving no traces behind.” Hyoyeon nods her head while opening the envelope. Out falls a flash drive along a folded piece of paper. 

“So what are you guys doing if you’re not trying to destroy the business,” asks Yoona while peeking over Hyoyeon’s shoulders to read the paper.

“Well…all we’re doing is trying to figure out who the mole is,” answers Taeyeon as she returns to her seat.

“And when you find out who it is?”

“I haven’t thought that far ahead. In fact I’m just winging all of this,” states Taeyeon with a grin. “Good so far right?”

“You put us on a trail to nowhere,” states Hyoyeon as she looks up from the paper at Taeyeon.

“Well…sometimes I need to do things on my own Hyo. I’m supposed to take over. I can’t have you doing all of my work, what kind of leader would that make me out to be?”

“It’s my-“

“No. You’re job is to be my sister like I assigned,” states Taeyeon turning serious. “Not my body guard and definitely not a lackey. We have workers for that.”

“Fine…but from here on out we work as a group,” states Hyoyeon, “since we will have to do so later on down the line.” Taeyeon nods her head agreeing to Hyoyeon’s statement. “Any objections?” Every one shakes their head no. “Then meeting adjourned.” They all stand up and Hyoyeon exits out of the kitchen first to see Jessica standing by the entrance. “Did you need something?” she asks politely.

“I was waiting on Taeyeon,” states Jessica. Hyoyeon nods her head before sliding the flash drive in her jacket pocket and heading towards the front door.

“Leaving already?” asks Taeyeon as she exits out of the kitchen.

“Yeah…need to catch up on homework. Need to research something.” Taeyeon nods her head and heads to the couch with Jessica following. Jessica takes the seat beside Taeyeon and pulls her hand into her lap playing with the older girl’s finger absentmindedly.

Yoona, Sooyoung and Yuri retake their seats turning to the movie that was on the screen. The group sits in slience watching the actors on the screen, laughing when necessary. That is until, “So who’s getting our snacks?”

*****

Hyoyeon enters her room flinging her jacket onto her bed. She makes her way across the room to her desk, opening her laptop. She hurriedly cuts it on before walking away to get a towel to dry her hair. She returns moments later, taking a seat and opening up a window for the internet.

“Jessica Jung,” she says aloud while typing a way on her computer.

*****

Jessica groans while walking to the bus stop, preparing for work. School was quite uneventful since Taeyeon and her gang wasn’t there. On top of that Tiffany had caught a cold from being out in the rain for too long. Seohyun was gone on a field trip to some museum and Sunny was out of town visiting some relatives. She stops at the bus stop and pulls her phone out checking for any miss calls from a certain vertically challenged person.

Seeing none a pout forms on her face. For the past two days the small girl has been texting and calling her nonstop. And then all of a sudden she stopped. Jessica has tried calling Taeyeon herself but in the end only receives the voicemail. She even tried visiting only to be turned away at the door.

Well what did she expect? The girl is part of something. With a yawn this time she boards the bus that had recently pulled up. She walks to one of the empty seats taking it when she spots Hyoyeon taking the seat beside her. “Hello,” she greets politely. Hyoyeon nods her head in return and looks around at the people on the bus eyeing them slightly. “Paranoid much?”

“I’m not paranoid,” states Hyoyeon.

“What are you doing on the bus?” questions Jessica.

“Going to work,” answers Hyoyeon. It was Jessica’s turn to nod her head.

“What’s Taeyeon up to?”

“She’s sick” Jessica eyes widen slightly. “She’s got a fever so she’s at home with Yoona and Sooyoung running around trying to keep her calm. Yuri’s helping out also, even though she’s screaming to have a certain nurse by the name of Jessica to come take care of her.”

“Then why was I turned away at the door?” asks Jessica slightly curious.

“Because she’s sick,” answers Hyoyeon while turning to look at Jessica. “Our father no matter how heartless he may seem doesn’t want to get an innocent person sick.”

“And you’re going to work?”

“I need money. Isn’t that why you work?” Jessica nods her head, “if you wait around ‘til I get off of work I can sneak you in.”

*****

Krystal opens the door finding Yuri on the door step while holding a bear. “Yuri?!” Yuri looks up to see Krystal at the door. “Here to visit Tiffany?” Yuri nods her head and enters the house as Krystal shuts the door, “Tiffany Yuri’s here to see you!” The sound of footsteps echo throughout the house as Tiffany comes sliding into view at the top of the stairs.

“What are you doing here?” asks Tiffany.

“Came to play nurse,” answers Yuri. Tiffany shakes her head and runs back to her room. Yuri turns and looks at Krystal.

“She doesn’t want for you to see her looking a mess with snot hanging from her nose,” states Krystal.

“Oh,” was all Yuri could produce.

“Well have fun.” Krystal walks back into the kitchen leaving Yuri standing alone in the middle of the living room. Yuri releases a breath of air before walking up the stairs to Tiffany’s room.

“Tiffany,” she calls out looking in the room to see the older girl hiding under the covers. “Tiffany.”

“Go away,” states Tiffany. “You’ll only get sick.”

“I’ve been with Taeng who’s also sick. So I think I can bear.” Tiffany pulls the blankets away from her face allowing Yuri to take in her appearance. “I brought you this,” states Yuri while entering the room and handing her the bear.

*****

The door opens and Taeyeon looks up from her laptop to see Jessica entering her room. “Jessica?!” exclaims Taeyeon a little excitedly. She fumbles out the blankets and stumbles on her way to greet the girl who was standing at the door.

“Go lie back down,” orders Jessica. “You need to be resting.”

“Are you going to be my nurse?” asks Taeyeon before running to her closet. “Where did Hyoyeon put that nurse’s costume?”  Jessica chases after Taeyeon to the closet, pulling the older girl away from the closet.

“I won’t need that,” states Jessica while pushing the Taeyeon back onto the bed. Taeyeon climbs back to her spot and grabs her laptop. “Did you eat?”

“Earlier,” answers Taeyeon while pointing at the empty bowl on the tray beside her bed.

“Are you hungry?” questions Jessica while looking around the room. Taeyeon shakes her head no. She reaches out and grabs hold of Jessica’s wrist pulling her down upon the bed.

“Sit,” states Taeyeon never pulling her eyes away from the screen. The bedroom door reopens and in walks Hyoyeon while holding a bowl.

“Here’s some soup. Mom made this one,” states Hyoyeon. She walks over to the tray and swaps out the bowls.

“Thank you,” states Taeyeon finally looking up from the laptop while closing it.

“Yeah well now your nurse is here. So I’m taking the night off,” responds Hyoyeon while leaving. Taeyeon smiles and turns to look at Jessica her grin becoming wider.

“What?”

“Feed me.”

“No.”

“Yes.”

“No.”

“Please,” begs Taeyeon.

“No.”

“You’re supposed to be my nurse.”

“I never agreed to that. You just assumed that I would be if you got sick.”

“Yuri’s being Tiffany’s nurse,” mutters Taeyeon while crossing her arms and pouting. Jessica rolls her eyes before reaching across Taeyeon grabbing hold of the bowl; she scoops up some soup before poking Taeyeon with the spoon. Taeyeon grins widely while eating the soup. “Thank you,” states Taeyeon between mouthfuls.

“Yeah…yeah. But you wouldn’t be in this mess if you’d kept your jacket. Next time keep your jacket, do you hear me,” orders Jessica.

“No can do,” states Taeyeon while halting Jessica from shoving another spoonful in her mouth. “You like collecting my jackets.”

“I do not.”

“Yeah you do.” A knock upon the door halts their conversation as they both turn to see Yuri, Yoona and Sooyoung enter.

“Um…we need to speak to Taeyeon alone,” states Yuri. Jessica nods her head and stands.

“I have to get home anyways,” she leans over and places a kiss on Taeyeon’s cheek before exiting the room. Taeyeon reopens her laptop.

“Speak.”

*****

Jessica enters her house and heads straight to her room. Taking off her jacket she jumps onto her bed and pulls her phone out of her pocket. She dials a number without even looking at the screen and places the phone against her ear. “Hello, dad, it's Jessica...”