Finding the Right Words

Part Three; A Falling Star: *Chapter 134- Bold, Loud, Super Junior-Loving

*Em's POV*

Mel had seemed a bit strange to Em when they had hung out together in Wisconsin. After Mel had finished filming, but before Twelve had come out in theaters. At that point, Em hadn't really noticed what was weird. But now that she was gone, she felt like she could identify it: worry. 

Mel had been worried about something. She'd seemed fidgety, like she was eager to be somewhere else. She'd been weird, avoiding topic, and sounding only mildly excited about her movie.

After Twelve had come out, the girl had become almost unreachable. Em saw her face all over the news, saw the reports on her, on what she wore at the movie premier, about how well she got along with her fellow cast members. 

Em had watched the movie, of course. She'd watched her friend act, watched her portray the dirty, sassy, determined street rat, and had found it hard not to laugh. When it was an actor you'd never met, it was easy to feel yourself dragged into serious themes. But when it was Melissa, bold, loud, Super Junior-loving Melissa, it was hard to take the movie seriously at all.

It was like re-watching To the Beautiful You, and trying not to laugh at Minho. It was just ridiculous, even when it wasn't supposed to be. She wondered, briefly, if he even knew she was just pranking him. That she wasn't actually crazy. That she didn't actually believe he was a wizard who'd used magic to look like Minho, and that the real Minho was a frog that lived in Mel's pond. She wondered if she'd ever tell him. Well maybe... 

Nah.

While Mel became more and more "Queen Be" and less and less "Mel", Emily did her best to stay in concact with her Korean boyfriend. She laughed at him, she laughed with him, she told him about going to college, and about still being a B.A.P fan, and he told her that it was okay, because he was their fan, too.

She chatted with him a lot over the phone, even though it really hadn't been that long since RStory had come back from South Korea to continue attending college.

"SM Gold's at the top of the charts this week," Em said over the phone to Minho. "I guess they finally made it." She almost tried to hide the annoyance in her voice, but didn't.

"Why, does that bother you?"

Em winced. "I don't know. I guess I'm just a little sick of hearing people talk about her. 'That movie was so great! The girl who played Rat is just so awesome! How does she know so many languages?! Oh, she's a singer, too?!' It just gets a bit annoying to hear people talk about my friend that way."

Minho sounded a bit sad. "It's not her fault, you know. She's not trying to be everywhere. If you were in her shoes, wouldn't you take the opportunity?"

Em grumbled. "...yeah, fine. Maybe. But more likely, I don't think the fame thing is the best for me. We're pretty sure that the girls of RStory are going to go their separate ways soon."

"WHAT?!" Minho sounded like he was going to explode. "You mean the group is breaking up?!"

"Eliz said goodbye to Kevin. Ali is dating Hanbyul. None of us are really interested in fame. We didn't become famous on purpose in the first place. We just don't really want it."

Minho was quiet for a little while. "You want to find a quieter life?"

"Yeah, basically. But that doesn't mean we can't date idols!" She quickly amended.

He laughed. "I know. But what are you going to do when you graduate from college?"

"Photography? Maybe I can help from the sidelines."

"Oooh, now that's an idea. You can work for us! It would be great!"

They talked for a while, about their future, about what would happen if she finished her degree and then got a contract with SM. They didn't talk about their friends much. Even though they were mutual friends, or that some were more famous than others.