My Photographer || [Chaerji]

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Third person POV
Early in the morning, Yeji woke up as she needs to go for work. She was hugging Chaeryeong's pillow.

She stretched herself and went down to the bathroom to clean herself. She looks at herself in the mirror.

She looks so pale.

After cleaning and changing her clothes which is in all black, she went to the kitchen to make breakfast and left Chaeryeong's apartment to go to her company.

Mostly everyone were looking at her when she walks into the building of JYP Entertainment. It's not because of Yeji's dating rumour but because of how she looks.

Indifferent.

Emotionless.

The girl who smiles and greets everyone back then were gone. They were all shocked.

Yeji went to the dance room as she's having dance practice for today. It's for her upcoming comeback.

She warmed up herself and played some songs to lit up the atmosphere, but then it reminded her about Chaeryeong.

That time when they danced together.

Yeji shifted her gaze to the music speaker. She closes her eyes and took a deep breathe, then she sighs deeply when she opens her eyes.

Turning around, she saw her manager, Sana walking towards her with a smile on her face. She's happy to see Yeji again, knowing she finally came back for work.

As Sana was happy about it, she's also very worried. Yeji only bowed to greet her and still, there was no expression on the singer's face.

Sana and all the colleagues who had seen her today was worried, seeing how a cheerful person became so indifferent and her face were expressionless.

What could possibly happened to cause her have such big changes?

A heart break.

Yeji kept dancing and dancing and she was unsatisfied of her own. She didn't wanted herself to rest just yet. She wants herself to be perfect.

She kept pushing herself to work harder, she wanted herself better. She kept having thoughts that she's not good enough.

"I'm not good enough, that's the reason why you choose to leave, I guess." she thought.

Sweats rolling down all over her face from her forehead to her chin, droplets dripping on her clothes and some on the floor.

She's exhausted, but she didn't care.

No one could stop her.

She needs to do something to distract herself from thinking about the missing girl.

But she couldn't.

Almost everything could easily reminds her about the girl, Lee Chaeryeong.

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(*3 years later*)

"Yeji, JYP pdnim wants to see you." Sana said.

"Mhm." she answered coldly.

She just got back from New York yesterday as she was working for commercial shoots there.

As she's heading to her pdnim's office, some people who's at the corridor took glances at her when she passes them. Some of her juniors and those trainees who just joined in recently or joined in these few years were quite scared of her.

Of course it's not Yeji being fierce or rude but cold. After these few years she's still having her indifferent look hanging on her face.

They always greets Yeji when they sees her as a respect but only receives a nod every time. Yeji became so quiet and would only talks when necessary.

Even when she's on camera, she don't smile very often. She rejected all programs and shows invitation and only focused on her comebacks.

Her fans were worrying a lot. They noticed it too. After the dating rumour, their idol's personality changed. More like it became a different person.

No one has ever seen Yeji smiling for once after what happened.

"JYP pdnim, I'm Yeji." she said in a deep tone as she knocks on the door.

"Come in, Yeji."

She walks in and sat down in front of her pdnim's desk.

"There's another photo shoot for Vogue tomorrow, do you remember that?"

"Yes I do, pdnim."

"You can still work, right? Or do you need rest?"

"I'm fine, pdnim."

"Good then. Your schedule is going to be tighter for this upcoming weeks so be prepared."

"I will, don't worry."

"If you're too tired, come and talk to me. Don't overwork yourself."

"Mhm."

"And also thank you, for being professional as always. I'm very proud of you, Yeji."

"Thank you, pdnim."

"Well, if there's no problem for you, then you can leave now. I'm only here to tell you about your schedule and mostly to check up on you."

"Don't worry, I can take care of myself. I'll be going now, pdnim. "

"I hope to see you smiling again one day, Yeji." the man looked at her with a concern expression.

Yeji stunned when she heard his words. Smile? She hadn't smiled for years now, she probably forgotten what does it feels like to be happy.

Leaving no response, she only nods and bowed at the man and left his room.

She returns to work after meeting her pdnim. 10:46pm shown on the clock. She worked till late night and now she's heading home.

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"Yeji, I just arrived at your apartment." her manager called her.

"Coming."

It's early in the morning, 6:45am to be exact. Yeji went inside her manager's car and they headed to the destination where the photo shoot takes place.

Yeji felt tired due to the jet lag she's having right now but she didn't care as for her, work is more important than resting.

She's always been a workaholic. This is the only personality that she never changed through these years.

Looking outside from the window, the trees passes by quickly as the car was moving in a fast speed. She's eating breads for her breakfast.

Soon, they arrived and Yeji went down and headed straight to the dressing room to have her makeup done by her makeup artists.

Just like how things normally works, sitting in front of the makeup table and the makeup artists starts to apply makeups on her face.

After applying makeups, she would go out and discuss on how she's shooting later with the directors in charge and the photographers. There's nothing special.

So she left the dressing room and walked up to where the directors are.

"Ah, Yeji! You're done? We'll be shooting soon." One of the directors said.

"Mhm." she answered coldly. As usual.

"Um... oh r-right. Your photographer that is in charge of taking your photos is right over there. You can talk to her about the shooting later."

"Mhm."

"Uh.. Let's g-go there and I'll introduce h-her to you." the director said awkwardly.

"Mhm." Yeji nodded her head and she followed the director.

They walked up to the photographer and the director pats on the photographer's shoulder, which makes her turns around, making Yeji shocked and she was stunned to see the photographer in front of her. The female photographer was surprised too.

She blinked her eyes for a few times and it wasn't a dream.

Maybe this photo shoot... isn't just a normal one.