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"And we finished!"
The group of people inside the small room that was dedicated for the photoshoot started to move around, looking at the dark haired boy that was leavening a white mask on a table.
"G-Dragon-ah, thank you so much for your hard work, it was a pleasure, as always." A middle aged man bowed in front of him, shaking his hand.
The boy smiled softly "I really appreciate you accepted the session, I have always admired your work."
The man shook his hand away, smiling gratefully and walked to his staff that was calling him.
Ji Yong Kwon was a 21 year old boy with pale skin, dark hair and beautiful features, but his dark eyes always showed a glimpse of loneliness, not that anyone, except from his only friend Youngbae, noticed anyway.
"Ji Yong, let's go." His manager called him so he waved goodbye to the staff and followed the man "You have free time until five o'clock, you have a meeting with the CEO."
"But I was going to present him the song tomorrow..." He sighed, resting his head on the seat.
"It's nothing related to the song, it's a new project." The man glanced at him and sighed "You should call Taeyang, you have two hours free."
"Yeah... maybe I will."
The rest of the trip was silent; Ji Yong was looking at his phone and the road at random intervals while the managed kept glancing at him and sighing.
"I'll be here at five, be ready." Ji Yong nodded, walking away from the car and opening the door to his house.
"I'm home..." He whispered, looking at the floor where his two dogs ran to him "Hey Jolie, Gaho, how are you?" He smiled, caressing their heads.
The two smallest dogs barked enthusiastically, looking at the boy with happiness.
"You hungry?" He stood up and walked to the kitchen, where he pulled out two bags of food and emptied them in two metallic bowls, he placed them in front of them and looked how they pleaded at him with their eyes to be allowed to eat "Go." He smiled again when the two started to eat quickly.
The boy stood up and looked around his huge house, every single room was big enough to have, at least, two people living there but he was completely alone. His almost mansion was empty most of the day; the two younger sharpei's were the only living beings moving around, waiting eagerly for his owner return.
Ji Yong couldn't lie, he felt lonely and almost depressed, yes, he was the most famous rapper in Seoul, one of the icons of YG Entertainment and the eighth richest person in the country, but money wasn't happiness and he perfectly knew that.
He didn't have real friends apart from Youngbae, better known as Taeyang, he knew him since he was 13 years old and both were able to become idols, have a successful career and preserve their friendship, Ji Yong was really grateful for that, his friendship was the only thing that kept him from suicide, actually. The other idols and people from his work weren't able to see Ji Yong, they only saw G-Dragon, the famous rapper. He tried to make friends, even having a girlfriend but it only archived in knowing two things, first there were a lot of superficial people and second, he was gay.
He decided that he was lucky to being famous and that his personal life was in second term, that in this life, you can only have one thing.
"Hey, you busy? I have free time and I was wondering if you could come." He asked when his friend picked up the phone.
"Ji! It's weird to hear those words from you" He could hear him chuckle "I would love to but I can't, I'm working right now and today is Hyorin's mother birthday, I promised I was going."
"I see, it's okay, I can see you later..." He fought to hide the tremble on his voice "Wish Hyorin's mother a happy birthday from me."
"I will and, Ji, seriously, I'm sorry."
The rapper could hear he was feeling really bad "Don't worry about it, really, I understand."
"Thanks, bye."
GD sighed and collapsed on his sofa, what was he going to do during that time? Only thinking on that made him feel even lonelier. After several boring minutes, his dogs climbed the sofa and rested on his chest and legs, falling asleep almost a minute later "At least you have each other..." He smiled, caressing them.
"Ji Yong, it's time." He almost jumped when he heard his manager's voice, he didn't even notice when he fell asleep in the first place.
"Sorry, sorry I fell asleep apparently..." He sat up, helping is dogs to reach the floor "Taeyang couldn't come so..."
"Come on, you know how punctual the CEO is." The man exited the house, and for the other that was arranging his clothes and looking at the mirror to fix everything that was out of place.
"Ji Yong, nice to see you, place take a seat." The CEO smiled at him, pointing a char that was in front of him.
The rapper saw that, apart from his manager and the usual people that was with the director, was another black haired man, looking at him. He sat down and bowed slightly, deciding to ignore him.
"I'm eager to hear your new song but we're not here to talk about it, we're here to propose you something" He said, when Ji Yong nodded, he continued "I'm so eager to hear a collaboration with one specific person, I'm sure your voices will sound great."
The boy was a taken aback, in all his years, they never asked him to collaborate with someone in specific, they only told him that they wanted a collaboration and, of course, he choose Taeyang. He felt a little bit insecure, what if he wasn't able to get along with that person? He was sure he or she had to be like the others, superficial.
But of course, he couldn't say no, it wasn't even a question in the first place.
"His name is Choi Seunghyun."
He looked at the man that was sitting on the other chair, he didn't look like an idol, actually, was he a trainee?
"Oh, TOP is not here, he couldn't come to the reunion but you'll meet him soon. He's his manager, mister Chang."
"Nice to meet you, Ji Yong-ah." He said politely "I'm sure you'll be able to work well with TOP."
TOP, Choi Seunghyun... the name didn't tell him anything, it have to be a trainee...And he must be a really privileged one.
"I'll do my best." He answered, glancing at his manager who seemed slightly entertained for his confused expression.
"Good! I knew I could count with you!" The CEO smiled "Maybe tomorrow, when you present us your song, you can meet him."
"That will be great, sir." He stood up when the others did.
He left the building wondering what he was going to do. Being honest with himself, the idea of working with a trainee wasn't pleasant at all, it felt like he was being used. He worked hard to reach the place he was standing now, he shed tears and blood, literally when he fell from the stage one time, to become what he was, why would a beginner was going to use his fame to scale faster? Not even mentioning that he didn't even assist to their first reunion. But he didn't dare to say anything about this, it was going to be a complete trouble if he did it...
To: Tae
From: GD
Hey, do you know someone by the name of Choi Seunghyun? I think they call him TOP too.
He quickly sent the message to his friend, trusting him better than anyone from the company.
He entered the car and plopped down on the seat, browsing through fan pages to find anything about this mystery guy. It was hard, there wasn't much information about him, only some fans saying "he was hot" and a perfect rapper but couldn't find good pictures, he just found a couple that showed a man with sunglasses and black mask covering almost, his whole face, although he could see some blue strands coming out of the hat he was wearing.
When he was about to give up, he find a page that caught his attention "Everything about TOP" he read the title and clicked on the link, hopping he could find something interesting.
"TOP is cute! He was born in blah, blah... is-" He gasped when a picture was displayed, it showed a man with sunglasses and electric blue hair, he couldn't see him completely but hell, he felt something inside him that made him unable to move his eyes away from the screen.
"M-Manager hyung, I want to meet him..."