Dormitory (3)
Dormitory (3)
- N...ne? I'm the ajumma's... daughter, you say?
The television was filling the living room with only the sound of the drama Taehee had put on.
It was an old daily drama being shown as a rerun.
"N...ne? I'm the ajumma's... daughter, you say?"
Taehee sitting close beside me quietly followed the dialogue on the screen.
She followed it a few more times in a small voice, then soon perfectly took the breathing of the actor on the screen.
The point where the end of the words trembled, the timing of swallowing breath, even the moment when force entered the corners of the eyes, she copied everything.
"......No. It's a lie. That can't be."
Taehee covered the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand and quietly inhaled.
In that short moment, moisture gathered in her eyes.
"......What are you doing."
"Ait. Oppa wait a bit."
Taehee, without taking her eyes off the screen, brought her finger to her mouth.
When the actor's line ended, she quietly nodded her head.
"Eum. That eonni cried too fast here."
"......Fast?"
"Ne. You have to hold it for one beat and then burst it so the person watching feels sadder."
Taehee pointed at the screen and spoke with a quite serious face.
"Because she cries right away, the emotion looks cheap, you know."
"You notice even that kind of thing?"
"Eng. Isn't that obvious? An actor should know when to burst the emotion so that people empathize."
"Ah... I see."
"Hehe. I'm really good, right?"
Starlight's youngest Seo Taehee.
In fact, when our group started to get popular, her popularity wasn't actually that high.
Fans liked her saying she was cute and puppy-like, but compared to the other kids, she didn't have any outstanding talent.
However, her talent was in a more unexpected space than I thought.
Namely acting.
Thanks to her suddenly making a bombshell statement in an interview that she wanted to become an actor without prior discussion, we had no choice but to send her to the audition venue.
We were in a state of not expecting much, but afterwards the director who contacted the agency didn't spare any praise for us.
- Taehee-yang's acting is close to synchronization. If she reads the script and constructs the character, it feels like she has become that person.
When she acted, it was as if she became a completely different person, to the extent that even her emotions, way of speaking, and even her gait would change, her character analysis ability was outstanding.
Perhaps because of that, she started getting attention in every work she participated in, and soon became the first idol-origin actor to become a 10 million movie actor.
"Oppa. Why aren't you answering."
Taehee puffed her cheeks and shook my arm.
"Sorry. I was thinking that you're amazing. What did you say?"
"Hehe. That's not what's important."
Taehee's mood quickly improved from the praise, she suddenly turned her body and looked at me facing.
"Oppa. I said what are we going to play now."
"......Play talk again?"
"Of course. I even canceled all the schedules today to play with oppa."
She hugged my arm with both hands and shook it as if acting spoiled.
"Watching drama is good too, but this isn't doing it together with oppa. I want to do something together with oppa."
"......You said you have a date tomorrow too."
"That's that and this is this."
Taehee pouted her lips.
"Tomorrow is playing outside, today is playing at home. They're different, you know."
It was illogical, but she was so confident that there was no gap to refute.
"Oppa. Eung? Play with me. Ne?"
Taehee, clinging to my arm, tilted her head this way and that.
If I refused, it was a momentum as if she would really burst into tears.
And just a moment ago, I had seen that if she put her mind to it, she could produce as many tears as she wanted.
"Taehee-ya."
At that time, along with the sound of slippers dragging from the kitchen, Yujin approached the living room holding a plate with peeled fruit.
"Oppa is troubled. What are you doing clinging like that."
"Eonnii."
Taehee made a crying face and looked back at Yujin.
"Oppa keeps trying not to play with me."
"Not play with you, as if."
Yujin put the plate down on the table and sat next to Taehee.
Then she slowly brushed Taehee's messy hair back.
- Seuk. Seuk.
"Oppa went all the way to the old dorm today so he's tired. Right?"
"That's... true but."
Taehee hung her head dejectedly.
It was a face that looked like tears would well up any moment.
Yujin looked at such Taehee quietly, then smiled small.
"Even so, our youngest waited all day because she wanted to play with oppa."
Her hand patted Taehee's back.
"Shall we let you play specially today?"
"......Really?"
Taehee lifted her head with a snap.
In the eyes that were welling up until just now, life seemed to circulate in an instant.
"Eung. Instead, you can't make oppa too tired. Got it?"
"Nee! I got it!"
Then Taehee grabbed my hand tightly and pulled.
"Oppa! Eonni said it's okay to play! Hurry, hurry!"
She dragged me to her own room at the end of the hallway and opened the door.
- Deureureuk.
When the door opened, her room came into view at a glance
It was wider than I thought, but somehow messy.
On one wall, the scripts of the works she had appeared in were piled up like a tower.
They had hand stains and worn corners, traces of being flipped through dozens of times.
Pages with lines drawn with highlighter and tiny notes written in every margin were sticking out jaggedly.
On the bed, a large teddy bear was sprawled haphazardly, and on the floor a pair of taken-off socks was rolling around.
On top of the vanity, colorful hair ties and accessories were tangled in a mess.
"Come in, oppa. What are you doing. Hurry."
Taehee hopped up onto the bed and hugged the teddy bear.
I awkwardly stepped into the room.
- Dalkak.
The room door closed, and she was looking at me with only her eyes showing, using the teddy bear as a shield.
"Oppa. What should we really play?"
Beyond the teddy bear, two eyes sparkled.
I awkwardly looked around the room, then my gaze stopped at one shelf.
On the shelf under the television, game titles were densely organized.
There were several piled up in boxes looking brand new.
Come to think of it, Taehee liked games from a long time ago.
Before debut, even in that narrow semi-basement, she lived clinging to one old game console.
On days without schedules, she always stuck next to me and nagged to do it together.
"You're still playing games."
"Of course! I do it every day when there's no filming."
Taehee who followed my gaze threw the teddy bear and stood up with a snap from the bed.
"Ah! That's right. Oppa let's play a game, game."
She excitedly took out the latest game console and connected it to the television with familiar hand movements.
- Cheok. Cheok.
"Here. Oppa take this."
Taehee put one controller in my hand and sat close next to me.
On the screen, a game of the two racing appeared.
"You know the rules, right? The one who comes in first wins."
"......Roughly."
"The loser grants a wish."
"Wish?"
"Ne."
Taehee smiled brightly.
"If I win, oppa grants one of my wishes."
"......If you lose?"
"Eum... I don't know because I have no intention of losing."
She answered naturally and pressed the start button.
- Ppibik.
When the game started, Taehee's expression changed in an instant.
The youngest who was grinning until just a moment ago was nowhere to be seen, and the eyes glaring at the screen were quite fierce.
"Ya, you've really played this a lot, haven't you."
"Hehe. It's a secret."
Taehee's fingers moved dazzlingly over the controller.
Her character on the screen sharply dug into the corners and pulled ahead.
I hurriedly followed, but my hands just wouldn't keep up.
"Oppa you're too bad. You can't do it like that."
"Ya, it's been a long time since I played this kind of thing."
"Excuse. You're just bad at it."
Taehee laughed kkal kkal and teased.
Then when my character caught up a little,
"Where do you think."
- Syung.
Taehee used an item and pushed my character right off.
My character on the screen rolled off the course.
"Ya, you've really played this a lot, haven't you."
"Hehe. It's a secret."
Taehee's fingers moved dazzlingly over the controller.
Her character on the screen sharply dug into the corners and pulled ahead.
I hurriedly followed, but my hands just wouldn't keep up.
"Oppa you're too bad. You can't do it like that."
"Ya, it's been a long time since I played this kind of thing."
"Excuse. You're just bad at it."
Taehee laughed kkal kkal and teased.
Then when my character caught up a little, her eyes became fierce again.
"Where do you think."
• Syung.
Taehee used an item and pushed my character right off.
My character on the screen rolled off the course.
"Ya! That's cheating!"
"It's not cheating. This is also skill, you know?"
Taehee stuck her tongue out and shrugged her shoulders as if teasing.
I got angry without realizing and gripped the controller again.
"Do it again. I won't lose this time."
"Oh. Oppa unexpectedly has a competitive spirit?"
Taehee pressed the start button again with an excited face.
Like that two rounds, three rounds.
The result was disastrous.
I couldn't beat her even once.
The more that happened, Taehee got more excited, stomping her feet and liking it.
"Oppa you're really bad. What to do."
"......You're just too good."
"Hehe. That I admit."
She smiled satisfactorily and put down the controller.
Soon she suddenly turned her body and looked straight at me.
"Well then."
The playfulness until just now was gone, and her two eyes sparkled strangely.
"Since I won. Oppa, you have to grant the wish, right?"
"Haa... I got it. What's the wish."
She pondered for a while, then put her two hands together and looked up at me fixedly.
"Eum... I decided."
"......What is it."
"Oppa."
Taehee leaned her body close.
"Kiss me."