Of Friendship & Sweet Romance - Chapter 6

The next morning the girls woke up early, washed up and went up to their roof garden to enjoy the fresh air.

“Mmmmm~! It feels so good to breathe in fresh air! It’s been a long time since I enjoyed my morning like this!” Elise said cheerfully.

“You’re so right, Elise unnie! I finally realized that mornings can be this nice and pleasant!” Chriz exclaimed in excitement.

“Omo!!!! It’s feels so nice right now and the weather is simply fantastic!” Tiffany said, gleefully.

Just at this moment, the SHINee boys went over to their dorm and knocked on the door. Getting no response, they got worried and immediately opened the door with the spare key that was given to them. Realizing that the girls were not there, the boys searched for them frantically until Jonghyun realized that roof garden door at the top of the stairway is open, and he signaled his brothers to climb up there with him. Seeing that Chriz was at the roof garden, he immediately ran over with his jacket and hugged Chriz tightly.

“Chriz, my dear Chriz, do you know how worried I was, when you’re not in the house? What if you got sick again, being in the cold like this without a jacket with you?” Jonghyun stated, while he threw his jacket over Chriz to keep her warm.

“Mianhae Jonghyun oppa! It really touched my heart to know that oppa care so much about me…” Chriz said to Jonghyun, with a sunshine smile on her face. “Oppa is blushing… hehehe!”

“Oh? Am I?” Jonghyun said, trying to act as if nothing happened.

“Yes, you are blushing!” Onew, Key, Minho, Taemin, Elise and Tiffy said in unison.

“Our “bling bling” Jonghyun hyung is obviously in love…” Key said in mischief.

“… with Chriz!!!” Taemin added.

The rest chuckled at Key and Taemin’s remark. Meanwhile, Taemin took his scarf and put it around Tiffy’s neck and threw his jacket over Tiffy’s shoulders and he gave her an innocent smile upon doing so.

“Here’s the warmest scarf and jacket to protect you from the cold weather.” Taemin said, giving Tiffy a sense of warmth.

“Thank you Taemin oppa, I’m touched… really touched by your kindness! Gamsa hamnida!” Tiffy replied.

“Come, put on this winter cap and throw on the jacket. Manager noona got both items for you on my behalf when she told me that you need a couple more winter jackets. I’m sure the cap and the jacket looks cute on you…“ Onew said, showing his gentleness unknowingly.

“Gomawoyo Onew oppa! I love it very much and thank you for everything!” Elise said, expressing her gratitude.

“Ah, you’re welcome…” Onew said in his cutesy dubu voice.

“Hahaha! I never knew that Onew oppa could be this cute… hehehehehe!!” Elise teased. Onew smiled with his face turning pink, out of shyness.

“Girls, we’ve prepared breakfast for all of us at our dorm. Come over to our dorm and join us!” Key said, as Minho poked Key with his index finger to get everyone over to their dorm to have breakfast.

“Ah~ our oppas invited us over to their dorm. Am I dreaming? OMG!!!” Elise thought.

“Really? Our SHINee oppas invited us to their dorm for breakfast?” Chriz asked herself, as though she was in a dream.

“Hmmmm… It feels just like a dream… SHINee oppas made breakfast for us and invited us over to their dorm... heehee!” Tiffy giggled to herself. “It shows that they have built up their trust in us!”

“It seems like a dream to you girls isn’t it? We heard from manager noona that you girls liked us, our dancing and our music even before you came for the auditions… You’re not dreaming, my sisters… we guys worked together to make the breakfast for all of us!” Minho said, with a charming smile, similar to baby Yoogeun’s.

“We’ll really enjoy it a lot! Thanks oppas!” Elise said with a cute toothy grin.

They went down to SHINee’s dorm and had breakfast together and the whole group of eight, enjoyed the meal very much. The girls said something.

“Oppas, next time we shall prepare breakfast to share with you guys too… we really appreciate whatever you have done for us.” Tiffany spoke.

“Kuraeyo? We’re really gonna look forward to it!!” Jonghyun replied.

“Hmmm… it’ll be interesting to find out how good you girls are at cooking…” Key gave out a cheeky smirk.

“I should say ‘Yayyyyy!’… because… that’s something I’d been looking forward to! Hehehehe!!” Taemin remarked, mischievously.

“I nearly forgot that you’re still a growing kid, Taemin! Hahahahaha!!” Minho teased. “But seriously, I agree with Key hyung. It will be interesting to find out for ourselves how good you girls are in terms of cooking.”

“My hunch tells me that the food they prepare will be just as good as Key’s cooking! Especially my performance partner Elise.” Onew mumbled.

“Onew hyung, you’re blushing while you said that your hunch tells you that the girls’ cooking will just be as good as our brother Key, especially your performance partner Elise!” Jonghyun said cheekily.

“Ehhhhhhh????!!!! I don’t mean that way. What I meant is that I think Elise’s cooking skills will be just as good because she’s the eldest among the group and she’s expected to take care of her dongsaengs.” Onew said as his face turns pink again.

“Aigoo!!! Onew hyung… your face and your words don’t tally with each other. Your face just turned pink again. Hehehe!” Taemin said while grabbing hold of the chance to tease his Onew hyung.

The other two guys, Key and Minho, together with Chriz and Tiffy, nodded their heads in agreement to what Jonghyun and Taemin said, leaving Onew and Elise feeling embarrassed at the same timing. Chriz took a walk around the roof garden after breakfast. Jonghyun went to look for her with two cup of ginger tea, one for Chriz and the other for himself.

“Here you are, Chriz! You’ve just recovered, do have some ginger tea to keep yourself warm inside.” Jonghyun said, with lots of care and concern for her.

“Gomawo, Jonghyun oppa!” Chriz responded. “It’s amazingly nice and sweet!”

“Gwaenchanayo! I am glad that you enjoy drinking the ginger tea.” Jonghyun replied.

“Let’s just relax a bit over here together, if you want.” Chriz said with a sunny smile on her face.

While seated down at the garden bench, Jonghyun had tons of flashbacks regarding what his SHINee brothers had said about him falling in love with Chriz.

“Am I really in love with Chriz?” he asked himself in his own thoughts. More flashbacks came into his mind.

“Omo!!!!!!!! I think I’ve really fallen in love with her… I got so worried about her when we found the girls not in their dorm just now. And I even gave her a big warm hug and asked her if she knew that I was so dead worried about her when we found out that they were not inside their dorm.” Jonghyun thought to himself. “And I actually missed Chriz terribly when I don’t see her! Nouideuli wonhadeon reality ingoya?!!!”

Moments later when the group of boys and girls got back into the boys’ dorm, Key, Minho, Taemin. Elise, Tiffy and Chriz went to the open area of the living room when the girls bugged Key to teach them the girl-group dances he knew of. Jonghyun pulled Onew to the balcony area and had a bit of guys’ talk with each other.

“Key oppa!!! Teach us how to dance to SNSD’s ‘Oh!’ pleassssseeeeeeee?” Chriz started talking in the cartoon voice that never fails to amuse Elise and Tiffy. The three boys burst out giggling, being amused by the ‘cartoon character’ in Chriz.

“So we’ve got Donald Duck and Spongebob Squarepants amongst us!” Taemin said, while struggling to fight his giggling.

“Aigooo… I didn’t know that we’ve got such hidden talents among the girls! How amazing!!” Minho said as he was laughing hard.

“Oh my!! Here comes Spongebob again!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!” Elise said, as she burst out into hysterical fits of laughter together with Tiffy.

Meanwhile, at the balcony area…
“Hyung, could I ask you something?” Jonghyun asked.

“Yes, of course. Like you said, I’m your hyung. What is it about?” Onew replied.

“I have been getting strange emotions. I missed Chriz a lot whenever I don’t see her around and this does not happen to just anyone but her. Do you think I’ve fallen for her?”

“Well, Jonghyun, it’s really obvious that you have fallen for Chriz. Even Key and Taemin could tell that you’re in love with her. What are you going to do about this?”

“I guess I will remain silent on this for the moment. I don’t want her to get distracted from her trainings that she’ll be undergoing with Elise and Tiffy. But I will confess it to her when the time comes.”

“Okay, that’s good.” Onew said.

“How about you, hyung? What’s your outlook on your own love life?” Jonghyun asked out of curiosity.

“Well… there is a girl I have a huge crush on…”

“Who? Who? Who? Tell me quick!” Jonghyun responded in excitement.

“I’ll tell you when the time is right…” Onew said sheepishly, keeping Jonghyun in suspense.

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Disclaimer: This is purely a fanfic and similarities + coincidences are unintended. Thank you. :)