𝑴𝒊𝒏-𝒆 || Min Ho x Reader

✧˖° | 25

I slept in that morning, while everyone else went outside to explore. Exploring wasn't my thing, especially outside. My mom had dragged me to enough hiking for a lifetime when we visited Alaska the third time.

Kitty had told me the night before what she would say at the Dae confrontation. I'd said a silent prayer for him. She had trusted him with her heart and soul, and then she didn't. She just couldn't. I could understand that, but I still felt bad for him. It was like the thing between Min Ho and Lulu and I, except that only lasted two days.

"Wake up, __!" Madison shook me awake. "We have to go help clean up Ocean Park's grandma's garden!"

I threw a pillow at her. "Did you really have Principal Lim cancel the ski trip for that?"

"He's amazing, you don't understand." Madison gushed. "He'll be coming later, too. AHH, I CAN'T WAIT TO MEET HIM!"

"Amaze-balls." I agreed flatly, my voice muffled as I grabbed her pillow and shoved it onto my head.

"Amaze-balls!" Madison repeated, squealing happily. I groaned.

'Amaze-balls?' I'm going to punch him in the b—

In ten minutes (accompanied by Madison's fangirling), I was up and ready to pile out dead leaves and plant some flowers. For the most impressive school in Seoul, the trip wasn't very impressive.

The only thing actually relatively nice about it was meeting Ocean Park, but I literally had the teenage heartthrob of the generation as my boyfriend and an insanely rich CEO's daughters as my close friend, so even Ocean wasn't that big of a deal. Why couldn't we just go on that ski trip?

Soon, we were all gathered together with supplies and gardening tools, ready to begin work.

"Everybody, start cleaning!"

Florian and I gathered together piles of weeds and dead leaves with a rake and gardening gloves while Q and Min Ho dumped them in Professor Finnerty's giant waste bag. Yes, no matter how many times or how close Kitty and Yuri were to "Alex," I would still always call him Professor Finnerty. He wasn't my brother, after all.

Speaking of the two, I spotted Dae, Kitty, and Yuri doing the usual canon event of figuring out who's the love interest on the side of the cleanup. I sighed. Of course they weren't cleaning. They were busy developing the plot.

After a long time and a lot of cleaning, Ocean finally showed his face.

"OH MY GOD IT'S OCEAN PARK!" someone screamed.

"HE'S HERE!" another person shrieked as his fancy, expensive little vehicle and bodyguards pulled up.

"AHHHHHHHH!" Everyone went completely unhinged as Ocean and his grandmother walked out of the car.

A security guard stood in front of them with his hands out, as if he could stop a horde of hysterical high schoolers. I made a silent note to myself to remind Ocean to get smarter bodyguards.

"IT'S ME, MADISON MILLER!" Madison yelled, pushing against the security guard. He signaled the guard away and smiled at her.

I knew that smile; it was the I hate this but I'm famous so I have to smile through the pain of interacting with these imbeciles kind of smile.

"I went to your show in New York, Istanbul, Tokyo, Dubai..." Madison was busy telling him.

Min Ho was whirled and pushed around in the blur of students trying to reach Ocean. His fingers were stuffed in his ears at the loud squealing. (PLS THIS WAS SO FUNNY IN THE SHOW)

I also walked up to greet Ocean. We'd been close acquaintances once, when he worked with my mother. It'd be rude not to say hi.

Ocean's face lit up when he saw me, before he frowned.

"__, is that you?"

"Hi," I said awkwardly.

"Hello, I'm Min Ho." Min Ho pushed himself to the front of the crowd to greet his fellow famous guy-that-everyone-simps-for. "My mother, Dami, says 'hi, Mr. Park.'"

"Dami?" Ocean's face was contorted with confusion for a second, before he smiled knowingly. "Dami, of course! Your mother is an incredible woman. Did she tell you about when I ran into her at Sundance?"

Min Ho frowned. "Uh..."

"She kept me warm on a very cold night."

I covered my mouth with my hand to stop myself from laughing out loud. PLEASE— Ocean, that's not something you just say to someone's kid!

"Excuse me?" Min Ho questioned, looking both distraught, bewildered, bamboozled, gobsmacked, flabbergasted, and offended.

Ocean ignored him and addressed the whole crowd.

"Let's take a selfie, shall we?"

I patted Min Ho's shoulder grimly.

"Scandalous," Min Ho replied with a shiver.

Everyone in the background shouted CHEESE as Madison took a selfie with Ocean.

"One more! I want a selfie with KISS students Madison, Yuri, Min Ho, and..." he checked a notes list for a moment, before looking straight at me. "__ Novoselsky."

Damn, my full name too? Mustering the urge not to kick Ocean into the ocean, I put on a smile and posed in the camera as the close-to-celebrities gathered for a picture.

"Should've named yourself Ocean Spray." I whispered to him through a smile, referencing how I told him that Ocean Park sounded like a fruit juice brand, and Ocean Spray was an actual fruit juice brand.

"__, Eunha told me what a hard time you're having with their relationship.. and I just want to say, I'm really sorry." he flashed me a smile that would cause a fangirl's heart to stop, but one that I found quite silly.

I ripped my hand from his grip and glowered at him. "Okay, keep it in the family, I guess... I MEAN, thanks but no thanks. I have a boyfriend and actual friends now."

He frowned. "You have a boyfriend now?"

It was my turn to tease. "Uh-oh, someone needs to get back on social media."

Min Ho's arm suddenly grasped around my body as he faced Ocean Park with a smirk playing on his lips.

"Yes, actually, she does."

I rolled my eyes at how cocky he was getting over the subject but still let him drape his arm protectively over my shoulders.

"You?" Ocean asked with his eyebrows raised.

"No, not him, it's Shrek." I answered sarcastically. When I looked back at Min Ho, I made a hm, oh well face. "I do see the resemblance between the two, though. I can see why you'd think that."

Ocean chuckled. "That's witty."

I smile-grimaced, trying to mimic his own cool, annoying demeanor. "Thanks."

Min Ho wheeled me away with his hand now behind my back and wrapped around the other side of my waist.

"I don't like that guy." he stated grumpily.

"I wonder why." I grumbled back. Maybe because he told you that your mom kept him warm on a very cold night?

When I was younger, maybe a couple years back, I had a crush on Ocean. But since then, my standards had elevated, and I was now with someone who I wasn't ashamed to be with. It felt good knowing that, too.

Thinking back to when Min Ho told me we'd be the 'it' couple, I knew it was true. One it girl plus an it boy equals two it people, which is just-as-great-as-one-because-being-single-is-better-but-two-is-fine-too; another inspiring quote to live by.

And the math may not be mathing, but Min Ho and I together was togethering.

a/n ~ i did not make it out of season 2 mentally coherent

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