To Kiss An Idol

Chapter 11: The Idea

Kyung-Soo was waiting for his team members to arrive when his phone rang. It was Hu Bong. He realised it was time for the meeting with the script team. He jumped with happiness. He would get to meet her.

“You are happy and here early,” a voice commented from behind him.

He turned and saw his team members arriving. He smiled and said, “you guys are late.”

“No, we are on time. You never said why are you here early,” asked Korain.

“Oh, Hu-ssi called me, he wanted me to attend the meeting with the script team,” informed Kyung-Soo.

“You?” Young-Chul was shocked.

“Yeah, sorry, Young. He just said the script team had something special this time. It’s about Rencontre,” expostulated Kyung-Soo.

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“Don’t be sorry, I am happy, those meetings are boring AF,” laughed Young-Chul.

“Excuse me!” Kyung-Soo was taken aback.

“Yeah, Choi-ssi stands up and speaks and speaks. I fell asleep many times,” Young-Chul rolled his eyes.

“Really! Only Choi-ssi speaks?” Kyung-Soo was slowly losing interest in the meeting.

“What do you think? He is the head of the department. He explains everything like a pro,” explained Young-Chul. Kyung-Soo closed his eyes and remembered Nivritti’s face. He now didn’t care about the meeting. He just wanted to look at her again.

“Okay, you guys start with the practice, I will be back soon,” said Kyung-Soo and started walking out of the room.

“Okay,” said Young-Chul.

Kyung-Soo had no idea if she would be in the meeting. All he knew was that if he went to the script department, he could catch a glimpse of her and that would be enough for him. Excited, he entered the lift and pressed the button for the 11th floor.

He entered the script department and looked around; all were busy with their work. He looked for Nivritti, but she was absent. He was disheartened. The reason he came to the meeting was nowhere to be found. Even the CEO had not arrived.

He thought of waiting for everyone in the conference room. With his head held low, he entered the conference room and his eyes fell on the legs of a girl. They were the same legs. She was not wearing her overcoat now. He saw that she was wearing a blue shirt and white skirt. His eyes fell on her footheels. They were pink and smooth. She was placing some papers on every seat.

He was over the moon, the girl he wanted to talk to was before his eyes that too alone. His heart jumped out of his chest. He had no idea how to start the conversation. There was so much he wanted to talk to her about.

“Ask her name. Ask her name.” His inner voice shouted at him. He closed the door behind him, and the girl turned.

She was shocked to see him. For a moment she lost her voice and then asked him what he was doing there.

He tried to be witty and then they had a tiff. He even locked the door so that she could run away from him as she did in the morning, but she scolded him, called him something along the line of a child and ran away from there, again.

“What did she mean by young people? Oh god! I have so many more questions now,” said Kyung-Soo as he saw her running away again.

While Kyung-Soo was pondering over what Nivritti said to him, she came out of the conference room and ran to her seat, stealthily. She sat in her seat and grabbed her bottle of water. She sipped and gulped hard. Her heart was racing fast. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

“Nivritti!” said Chung-Ho.

She jumped out of her seat.

Chung-Ho was surprised at her reaction. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah, yeah, fine,” she lied.

“Done with the copies?” asked Chung-Ho.

“Yes, Mr Choi. I have placed them in the conference room and Mr Nam Kyung-Soo is in the conference room.

“What?” Chung-Ho was surprised. Every head lifted up after they heard the name ‘Nam Kyung-Soo’. Everyone was surprised that they didn’t notice him come in. It was rare for him to attend the script meetings. He would occasionally come to get the scripts but never attend a meeting.

“He is here. These meetings are often attended by Young,” commented Chung-Ho.

“I asked him here,” a commanding voice spoke from the entrance of the room. Everyone looked at the voice and immediately stood up and bowed down to Hu Bong.

“Hu-ssi, annyeonghaseyo,” greeted Chung-Ho.

“Annyeonghaseyo, Choi-ssi,” Bong greeted back.

“You asked King to come?” asked Chung-Ho.

“This will be a different event, I think the leader should approve the idea,” explained Bong.

“That’s actually a very good point,” smiled Chung-Ho.

“So, let’s go. Finance team and marketing team will be arriving soon?” asked Bong.

“Yes, Hu-ssi. I have informed them. They are on their way,” replied Chung-Ho.

“Good! Get your team then,” said Bong and walked inside the conference room.

“Seong Dae, Hae-Ran, Jae-Hwa, you all be joining Nivritti in this meeting,” announced Chung-Ho

“Yes, Choi-ssi,” all nodded in unison.

They all stood up and went inside the conference room. Nivritti noticed that Hu Bong had his hand over Kyung-Soo’s shoulder and was smiling at him. It appeared as if the father was proud of his child. She smiled at the scene. It was too pure.

Hu Bong noticed the arrival of the script team and they all took their seat. Hu Bong sat next to Kyung-Soo and the script team sat in front of them.

Kyung-Soo was happy to see that she came back. She was part of the script team that was allowed to sit in the presentation. He was impressed too as this was just her second day. Being a part of an important team that too on the second day was outstanding.

He could not take his eyes off her. She had minimal make-up on, yet she was beautiful even though she had dark circles. She used to work all day, all night on a computer, it was obvious that she would have dark circles. Her blue shirt was complimenting her wheatish skin. her braid was softly resting over her right shoulder and reached till her stomach. He knew the length of her hair, hell, he even touched her hair. It was as soft as her skin.

Nivritti was actively avoiding his gaze. She kept looking at her papers but was aware of Kyung-Soo’s gaze.

She was so relaxed when the rest of the team arrived. For a few minutes, all exchanged greeting and the atmosphere was happy. The marketing team and finance team chose to sit next to Kyung-Soo. After everyone was seated, Chung-Ho stood up. Kyung-Soo remembered the words of Young. “Only Choi-ssi speaks and the meeting is always boring.”

He exhaled loudly and tightened his seatbelt for the boring session. But he was also happy that she was sitting before him to distract him.

“First of all, thank you for coming here to listen to the idea prepared by our team. The idea is in its budding state, nothing is rigid. Improvements can be done at a later stage. Please refrain from asking questions during the presentation. Time for questions will be at the end of the presentation.”

He then looked at Nivritti and announced, “this is Nivritti; she is our new script coordinator from India. This is her idea.” Kyung-Soo was more impressed now. Second day and she had the best idea. Chung-Ho continued, “She joined us two days ago so don’t be too harsh on her. Well, you can be a little harsh as she has a lot of experience in this field.” All smiled at his tease.

“So, your name is Nivritti,” Kyung-Soo thought and smiled at her.

Avoiding his gaze, she stood up and Chung-Ho went back to his seat. “Hello everyone,” she bowed down. “I would like to begin by thanking all of you for giving me the opportunity to work here.” She took a deep breath and started her presentation, “So, for every ‘Rencontre’ you have been doing live videos, posting short videos, performing concerts FOR ASDians but this year we want you to do all those things WITH them.

All looked at her confused, but she continued, “We want them to participate in the ‘Rencontre’.”

“What? What?” The finance team was worried.

“As you know many writes fan fiction, many edit ASD videos, many acts and insert themselves in ASD video beautifully so we want them to use their skills WITH ASD. Seven lucky ASDians will be given chance to write a five-minute video, direct the members in it and edit the same. So basically, ASDians will get to spend a whole day with their biases. We will release the video and behind the scenes on each day of the celebration, i.e., 7 days, 7 videos and 7 behind-the-scenes videos. Rules for the participant will be following.”

She picked up the sheet of paper and started reading the rules. Everyone looked at their copies while she kept reading

“1. You can only use one member from the team in your video.

2. Video cannot exceed the time limit of 5 minutes or word limit of 650 words so the script should be written accordingly.

3. ASDians will only direct but cannot act in the video.

4. Intimate scenes or violent scenes or adult scenes will be grounds for rejection.

5. Script writing software provided by K&Q should only be used.

6. Six blog sites with Script writing software will be set up according to the continent.

7. Entry fee for the competition is $20.

8. Winners will have to travel to Korea and stay in Korea for two days.” She placed the paper down.

“So mostly, this is a gist. We can elaborate on it further if you like the idea of celebrating with ASDians rather than performing for them.”

She finished her presentation and looked at everyone.