Chapter 3

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The conversation with his aunt left Kim Ji-Hoon in an irritated mood for the night. The conversation wasn't the only thing that irritated him though, but his growing concern for Saku Hana. The next day, Ji-Hoon woke up and ran through his daily routine... daily until the end of the school day that is...

Baddobōizu slowly made their way through the crowd of screaming fan girls, a usual thing to deal with on their end. Omoiagatta attempted to calm the screaming fans down, "Come on, babes!! We need to go to the hangout! Why don't you just beat us there!!"

"If you go then maybe we can try to sign autographs there after the show!!" Amai attempts to use bribes.

Sugureta attempts to help the band get through as well, "Go to the hangout and we definately will give you a good show!!! But we need to get there to play!!"

Ji-Hoon however, uses the cold shoulder... literally... he slowly pushes his way through the crowd and glares at anyone who tries to speak to him.

Everyone suddenly fell deadly silent when a scream was let out, "SAKU LOOK OUT!!!!"

A fearful cry is let out and a crash is heard, like something breaking into a million pieces. Upon hearing Saku's name being screamed, Kim Ji-Hoon began to shove people out of his way. When he finally makes it out, Kim Ji-Hoon sees Saku on the ground, next to her, a broken pile of what looked to be... clay flower pots? As he makes his way over to Saku, the crowd follows. At the time, Saku was being helped by Irie and Goshippu.

"Saku, are you okay?!" Goshippu dusted off Saku's uniform.

Irie checked for wounds, "Saku, did you get hurt?"

Ji-Hoon runs up to the three, "Saku, what happened?!"

Saku's head snaps up in the direction that the clay pot came from. When Ji-Hoon also looked up, he almost missed two heads being pulled in from a window.

Saku snarls out, "You sons of... Come out here and face me like the freakin-"

Cutting her off before the threat could become any more inappropriate, Ji-Hoon asks, "Saku, did you get hurt?!"

Saku's glare fell on him as she growled, "Stop interacting with me!! You are gonna get me killed!!!"

As Ji-Hoon stood in confusion, his band members made their way forward. Amai rushed over to Saku and lifted her arm, and then turned her face, "Did that flower pot hit you? Are you okay?"

Omoiagatta chuckles, "Whoo, that would have been one hell of an accident!"

Sugureta scoffs, "Its not like she wouldn't be able to live through that; she is one tough chick... even had the guts to slap Ji-Hoon..."

Saku gently nudged the worried Amai away and commented to Baddobōizu, "I'm okay you guys... just stop... talking... or... making contact with me, before all of your fan girls -not just Kim Ji-Hoon's- comes after me as well..."

And with that, Saku motioned for Irie and Goshippu to follow her away. Kim Ji-Hoon notes how Saku's face healed up nicely, but she still walked with a slight limp...

 

Ji-Hoon could feel the guilt building up inside of him... it was his fan girls that tried to hurt Saku... While he tries to fight the guilt in order to perform with Baddobōizu, Kim Ji-Hoon recieves a phone call. He lifts his phone up to his ear, "Baddobōizu financer Kim Ji-Hoon, can I help you?"

"Kim Ji-Hoon... where are you?"

Recognizing his aunt's pissed off tone, Kim Ji-Hoon closes his eyes, bites his lower lip, and resists the urge to groan, "Yoo Ji-Min... why are you calling?"

"Ji-Hoon you said you'd be home!! D****t, my flight leaves in an hour!"

Kim Ji-Hoon lets out a low growl... he totally forget that he had to take care of his 2 cousins, "Ji-Min, can you come over to the local hangout? I have a gig right now and can't leave..."

"Aigoo, you troublesome... alright fine, but I need you to come out and collect them..."

"Alright I will..."

Ji-Hoon hangs the phone up with an angered snarl. Sugureta picks up on his bandmate's angered mood, "Ji-Hoon, cool it, what is the matter?"

"My aunt called..."

Amai sits down by the drum set, "Don't tell me you had to-"

"Yup, I have babysitting to do..."

Omoiagatta lets out an irritated groan, "You have to take care of those two brats? You didn't tell her to bring them here?"

Ji-Hoon doesn't answer, but plays a few strings on his guitar. His thoughts suddenly float off to Saku Hana...

 

"She wasn't so bad with them... she certainly didn't call them brats... AISH, I'm thinking about the Drama Queen again!!"

 

He loses his train of thoughts when Omoiagatta explodes, "Aw come on man!! You can't be serious!! You told her to bring them here?! We're gonna be here until at least 10!!"

Kim Ji-Hoon yells back, "So what the hell would I tell my aunt to do?! She has to go to America in an hour!"

Amai takes careful note of the crowd that happened to take note of the argument. He himself, felt his irritation rise at how immature his bandmates were acting. They were extremely feisty tonight and he wasn't going to deal with it later on... Amai growls and takes control of the argument, "You guys! Lets get to playing! Its 3 now!"

The others are left to fend for themselves when Amai suddenly began to play their first song, leaving no room for any more arguments.

The group was only able to get through about two songs before Ji-Hoon's phone went off again. The band knew exactly what that meant and Kim Ji-Hoon grimaced before making a running escape to get out of the local hangout while the startled fan girls scream. Outside, Kim Ji-Hoon is greeted by a slightly irritated aunt and his cousins.

"The least you coulda done was let me know!!" Yoo Ji-Min growls at her nephew.

Kim Ji-Hoon bows in respect, "I'm sorry... How long will you be gone again?"

"I really don't know... I was called on emergency notice... and I have to visit your mother too, so not only America, but Korea too..."

Yoo Ji-Min bends down to hug her children, "You two be good and don't cause your Hyung any trouble..."

Kim Ji-Hoon takes both children's hands and nods to his leaving aunt. Inside, he settles them down at a table where he could see the two clearly from the stage. Ordering food, Ji-Hoon makes his way back to the stage to continue from where the band left off.

The time seemed to move slowly and Baddobōizu was exhausted. It was around five in the afternoon... they had only been playing for two hours... but their tiredness was quickly catching up to them. Ji-Hoon felt his energy draining with each minute that passed by... but when he looked towards his cousins' table, his adrenaline went racing... The two children were gone! Kim Ji-Hoon's voice ceased, shock taking over his body, he was positive that the two children were there a moment ago... so where the hell could they have gone?!

Omoiagatta snarled from behind and Sugureta growled at the sudden stop... the crowd began to question Ji-Hoon's sudden voice loss as well.

Amai was about to ask what was wrong when he too, realized the table with the missing children, "Ji-Hoon! Where are they?!" he whispers urgently.

Ji-Hoon looked back and shrugged his shoulders... he was panicking on the inside... but he kept cool and used the mic to call out for his missing cousins, "Um... Hong Hyun-Woo!! Kim Seo-Hyun!! Are you out there right now?!"

Not long after calling out their names, the children came forward and jumped onto the stage as well. They clung onto Ji-Hoon's legs and cried, "We're tired!"

"I want to go home!!"

Kim Ji-Hoon's irritation hit the roof, "D****t, you two just gave Hyung/Oppa a heart attack!!!!!"

The fan girls squealed... Ji-Hoon looked back at his band members, "I have to take them home... we have to cut the gig short!"

The others abandoned their instruments and circled by Ji-Hoon. Omoiagatta growled quietly, "Can't you do something? We're only gonna get paid like, $14 for tonight if we quit it now!"

Sugureta offered a suggestion... a crappy one, "You could take them home and leave them there."

"You damn idiots! I can't just leave my cousins home alone, I need to take care of them!! Cause they aren't going to shut up here! Trust me, they are plenty trouble and I'd rather just cut this act short then get fired!!" Ji-Hoon snarled.

Curiosity being their best trait, the two kids begin to mess with the abandoned instruments.

Omoiagatta races to save his guitar just as one of the strings snaps, "NOOOO!!!!! That cost me a fortune!!!"

The kids run away and knock down the microphone. When it falls, they take it and begin to sing into it. Sugureta grabs the mic from the two and growls at Kim Ji-Hoon, "Do something, idiot!! They are causing so much trouble!!!"

While Kim Ji-Hoon, Omoiagatta, and Sugureta try, and argue, about how to work things out, the crowd is watching, a mixture of laughter and awz over the children. When Hong Hyun-Woo and Kim Seo-Hyun make their way to Amai's drum set, Amai takes control of the situation yet again, quickly picking up Kim Seo-Hyun while Kim Ji-Hoon grabs Hong Hyun-Woo. Amai glares at the three and quietly hisses at them over they're failure to act quickly and efficiently, "It takes a little bit of patience... no need to get worked up..."

He quickly puts on an innocent/embarrassed smile on for the crowd and takes, more like snatches, the mic from Sugureta. Before speaking, he comments to Ji-Hoon, "I'll help you with them... get them home..."

Amai, taking full responsibility during the issue, begins using his cute, childish charms, to sweet talk the crowd and the manager of the whole hangout, "I'm sorry, but because of an important issue, lead vocalist and guitarist Kim Ji-Hoon cannot perform... neither can the drummer Amai -me- and the guitarist Omoiagatta... I apologize for this, but we cannot let Kim Ji-Hoon's cousins suffer like this... or ruin any more equipment..."

Amai gives Kim Ji-Hoon a signal to use his popularity with the girls to get him out of trouble. Kim Ji-Hoon takes the mic, "So we must cut this short... I am extremely sorry to the manager... but will you just let this issue slide... we'll work twice as hard next time. And, I know you fan girls understand me, right?" The girls squeal... a perfect signal that they understand.

 

True to his word, Amai helped Ji-Hoon take care of his cousins. When the two fel asleep, Amai took the time to speak to Ji-Hoon, "You know, they are just kids..."

"TROUBLESOME LITTLE-"

Amai hushes Kim Ji-Hoon with a scolding, "Keep it down Ji-Hoon! And come on, I thought you could at least hold it together... You were a lot more snappy with Omoiagatta and Sugureta... you never let them get to you like this... unless... something was bothering you..."

Ji-Hoon rubs his head and closes his eyes, "I have to babysit them for who knows how long, I can't believe I agreed to doing something I hate... and on top of that, I'm getting really worried for no reason at all!"

Amai digs deeper, knowing exactly what is worrying Ji-Hoon, "Are you feeling guilty that it was your fan girls that almost hurt Saku?"

"Shut up Amai..."

"You seem really interested in her nowadays... actually... she is the first girl you ever took interest in... and the first to react differently to the way you drop girls..."

"Shut up Amai!!"

Amai grins and lists her great traits, "She is really unique... Has guts... pretty, independant..."

Kim Ji-Hoon suddenly puts Amai in a choke hold, "Don't you turn into a troublesome kid too!!!"

Amai fights back, "Alright!! But admit it first!!! You are interested in Saku!!!"

"You really are asking for a death wish!!"

"Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow OW!!!! Okay!!! I give!!!"