The filming picks up after Jaemin's arrival. Minjeong always been overwhelmingly ambivalent about movies, so watching one come together in front of her is a whole new, fascinating experience. She never realized just how much work goes into every scene, let alone the whole film. Make-up is fixed almost every five minutes it seems, touched up between takes, which can range from two to twenty per scene.

Minjeong just stands on the side and watches the bustle around her. Compared to now, the first week seems like a vacation.

The crew's dismissed at noon for lunch, and Minjeong's on the way to her car when she walks past Jimin and a group of the other actors.

"Oh, Minjeong!" Jimin calls, waving her over. "Come to lunch with us? You know the restaurants around here better than we do."

Minjeong bites the corner of her lips while she thinks. On one hand, she's sure lunch with so many celebrities is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for a nobody like her, but on the other, she was really looking forward to it on her own.

"Please?" Jimin tries again, pouting just a little.

"Fine, fine." Minjeong concedes, walking up to the group. "Where were you guys thinking of eating?"

Jaemin, who Minjeong hadn't noticed in the group before, speaks up. "We weren't sure, actually. This is the first time a lot of us have been to here. We were hoping you had a suggestion."

Minjeong looks around the group, noting that most of the cast is with them. "Well, I might know someplace that could fit us all without having to wait for a table..."

She takes them to Grill House. The rest of the group looks around the room in wonder, eyeing the long wooden tables in the main hall and the electronic sign counting down the days.

"What is this place?" Someone mutters, in some mixture of confusion and awe, and Minjeong realizes for the first time that these types are probably more used to fancy restaurants.

"Grill House." Minjeong answers. "It's like barbecue food. And beer. Lots of beer." Most of the group turns to her aghast, and Minjeong wonders briefly, wherever these people are from, has a problem with beer.

"What do you recommend?" Jimin asks, drawing everyone's attention to her. "Beer, I mean. What kind of beer to do you recommend here?"

"Since when did you like beer?" Jaemin whispers in Jimin's ear, still loud enough for Minjeong to catch it over the dull roar of the restaurant, but Jimin just keeps eye contact with Minjeong, smiling.

"The lager is always a good choice." Minjeong says, ignoring Jaemin comment and grinning to match Jimin. "But I'm partial to their Hefeweizen."

Jimin smile grows. "Then let's sit down. I want to try this Hefewiezen of theirs." Lunch isn't actually as bad as the cast obviously worried it might be. Once they get over the initial culture shock, Minjeong has them trying the beers, and it doesn't take long for them to start singing along to the in-house band, even if none of them know the lyrics, or the tune.

Jimin keeps next to Minjeong the whole time, foregoing the singing endeavor to stay at the table and play with Minjeong's fingers as they drum on the table.

"What are you doing?" Minjeong asks, keeping an eye on the cast up at the front. It wouldn't do for one of them to get into trouble and have it come back to her for bringing them here, even if she adamantly believes no one should get in trouble for enjoying beers. Maybe she should bring the directors sometime, too.

"Flirting with you." Jimin replies lightly, walking her fingers up Minjeong's arm and tugging on her shirt sleeve.

"Oh, we're starting already?" Jimin giggles, dragging her hand back down to play with Minjeong's fingers again. "I started when you got hired. You're just oblivious."

"M-maybe you should give me a little warning next time?" Minjeong says, trying to ignore the tingles shooting through her hand and arm.

"'Next time? How many times are you going to be my personal assistant?"

"Well maybe if you came here to film more."

Jimin just smiles and lifts Minjeong's hand, pressing a soft kiss to her knuckles. "With an offer like that, how could I refuse?" She jokes, leaning in a little closer.

Minjeong almost certain Jimin's going in for a kiss, but cheering from the front of the hall interrupts them, and the next thing she knows, she's being mobbed by a group of drunken people.

She does end up being scolded for getting a vast majority of the cast drunk on a work day—during their lunch break, no less—but the actors themselves keep shooting her thumb-ups and high-fiving her, so it's hard for her to take the director's anger seriously.

Plus, Jimin kept holding her hand the whole way back to the set, so it's a little hard for her to regret anything at the moment. Not when the whole trip was so obviously worth it.

—

Their little dating scheme doesn't go much further until the Friday after the third week of filming. Minjeong and Jimin keep playfully flirting whenever they're in public, but it's that Friday that Jimin catches Minjeong on the way to her car and asks her out in front of the whole cast and crew.

Well, more like demands to be taken out, really.

"What?" Minjeong asks, car keys dangling loosely in her hand.

Jimin just smiles her infuriatingly-sweet smile. "I said, you should take me out to dinner tonight. To celebrate getting out early today."

Minjeong opens and closes her mouth a few times, utterly dumbstruck. "Why am I the one taking you out?" She responds in lieu of an actual answer.

"Because I don't know the restaurants in the area that well." Jimin says, laughing brightly. "It'll be my treat."

Glancing around the set and noticing the sheer number of people watching them, Minjeong knows she has no choice but to go along with it, as unexpected as it is. Things like this are probably a part of the whole fake dating deal.

"Alright, but I don't think we'll be able to get in anywhere fancy on such short notice."

"That's fine. It doesn't need to be anywhere fancy. Pick me up at six?"

"Actually..." Minjeong says, remember how frustrating the crowd outside the Fairmont Hotel was. "...we could just leave here together. I'm not going to take you anywhere that would make you need to change, and I can just drop you off at the hotel afterwards."

"If I want to go back to the hotel." Jimin jokes with a wink. "Sounds like a plan to me. I just need to grab my bag, and we can go, alright?"

"Alright." Minjeong agrees, chancing another glance around the set as Jimin walks back to her trailer. Most of the crew looks at her in surprise, while the cast is torn between bemusement and approval. Jaemin, who she spots near the trailers, seems to be amongst the former, though he also appears somewhat upset.

"He wanted to ask you out." A voice from behind informs her. "Probably annoyed because Jimin got there first."

Spinning on her heel, Minjeong nearly bumps into a girl. "And how do you know this?" She asks, eyeing the girl.

The girl crosses her arms and gives her the most deadpan looks she swears she's even seen. "I overheard him telling some of the actors yesterday. He was the one who convinced the director to cut the filming short today."

"Oh..." Minjeong says for lack of a better response. "Thanks for the heads up, uh..."

" Yeri." The girl fills in for her.

"Right. You're one of the sounds crew."

Yeri looks almost impressed that she recognizes her. "Yeah, and you're the girl who's about to end up in every major tabloid." Minjeong frowns at that. "Just letting you know. Everyday people like you don't get to hang out with celebrities without other people noticing."

Minjeong opens her mouth to protest (though what she's not entirely sure), but she's interrupted by a tap on her shoulder.

"Ready to go?" Jimin asks, smiling like she hasn't noticed how tense the air is between Minjeong and Yeri.

"Yeah, of course." Minjeong answers, offering her arm for Jimin to take. "Thanks for the help, Yeri-sshi, but I think I can handle it." Yeri just raises an eyebrow and shrugs, walking off. Jimin doesn't say anything about Minjeong's dismissal until they get to the parking lot.

"Okay, what was that about?"

Minjeong rolls her eyes and leads them to where she parked her car that morning. "Nothing. She just decided to stick her nose in our business."

Nodding, Jimin waits for Minjeong to unlock the doors of her car and takes her place in the passenger's seat. "About that. Our 'business' as you put it," She starts hesitantly. Minjeong smiles at her gently, encouraging her to continue. "Sorry about asking you out so publicly and out of the blue like that. I know we should have talked about it beforehand, but I heard Jaemin was planning on asking you out today and—"

"Hey, it's fine," Minjeong says. "I heard about it too and I don't mind you dropping that one me, really."

Jimin doesn't look convinced, frowning harder than before. "I'm glad I didn't upset you, but that doesn't make it fine. Our relationship right now has a weird power dynamic anyway, and I don't want you to ever feel like I'm coercing you or forcing you to do anything you don't want to do. You're allowed to tell me 'no' whenever, alright?"

"Yeah, alright." Minjeong agrees when Jimin looks at her expectantly.

"More than that..." Jimin continues. "I want you to tell me 'no' if I ever step out of line or go too far. Even if we're surrounded by people."

"I will, Jimin." Minjeong says, reaching out and grabbing Jimin's hand, as though it will help convince the other girl. "If you want, I can even start initiating things too. I was okay with letting you set the pace, but if you're worried about making me uncomfortable, I can start contributing to this more too."

Cracking a grin and then descending into giggles, Jimin reclaims her hand to cover her mouth. "God, it's like we're an actual couple or something."

Smiling right back, though somewhat lopsidedly, Minjeong starts her car. "Well that's kinda what we're going for, right?"

—

"Cut, cut! Take half an hour to dry off! We're doing another take." The director orders. As if on cue, the crew starts buzzing around, turning off the rain machine and getting the cameras back in position.

Minjeong hops off the chair designated for Jimin, grabbing the towel that some staff member had slung over the back of it before filming started that day. Moving to meet Jimin as she walks off the set, Minjeong holds the towel out for Jimin to take.

"Thanks," Jimin says, taking the towel and bringing it to her face immediately. "Rain scenes are the worst, let me tell you."

"Is half an hour really enough time to dry off?" Minjeon, asks, taking the towel back when Jimin holds it out to her.

"To dry me off? Yes." Jimin starts, wringing out her hair as she walks towards the trailers. "To dry these clothes? No way in hell. Costuming has a few sets of the same outfit so we can run more than one take at a time."

"That makes a lot of sense." Minjeong says, following along. Biting her lip in thought, she walks faster until she's right beside Jimin and reaches out to take the older's hand. Jerking slightly in surprise but not rejecting the hand, Jimin smiles brightly at her as she intertwines their fingers. "Taking the initiative, I see." She jokes, thumb lightly stroking Minjeong's hand.

Minjeong just smiles back. "I did say I would start taking charge more. I'm as committed to this as you are. After all, I am getting paid for this."

With a laugh, Jimin pulls her into the trailer and pins her against the door. "Careful who you say that around. People will talk about me corrupting my cute personal assistant."

"Maybe this cute personal assistant wants to be corrupted." Minjeong quips back, painfully aware of the way she can feel Jimin's breath on her face from their proximity.

Jimin's laughs harder, hand darting up to cover her mouth, and takes a step back. "Oh, well in that case, you can help me out of these clothes." She says with a wink, more playful than sultry. "They're wet and uncomfortable, and I need to be back out there in twenty minutes."

"Tempting offer," Minjeong chuckles, running her hand through her hair and face feeling warm. "But I think I should grab you another towel or two instead."

"What are you waiting for, then?" Jimin jokes, fingers already working the buttons of her soaked cardigan, and Minjeong slips out the trailer door.

There's a table of towels not too far from the trailer bay, so Minjeong makes a beeline for it, hoping her timing's right to get back when Jimin's decent. Walking just a little faster than her normal gait, she's right about to reach the table when a crew member backs into her, clipping her and sending her careening towards the ground.

Eyes scrunched and ready for impact, Minjeong surprised when seconds after the initial collision, she doesn't collide with the ground or the table. Peeking one eye open, she catches sight of black hair, messy and wet.

"Glad I caught you." Jaemin says with one of those charming smiles Minjeong sure it works great on girl who aren't fake dating their extremely attractive actress.

"Yeah, me too," Minjeong replies, regaining her balance and untangling herself from Jaemin's hold. "Thanks for the save."

Jaemin grabs the towel draped around his shoulders and uses it to rub at his hair, drawing attention to his shirtless state. Minjeong resolutely keeps her eyes above the neckline. "It was my pleasure." He tells her, that same grin fixed on his face.

Minjeong laughs nervously, wracking her mind for something decidedly platonic to say, when her phone goes off. "That must be Jimin," She says, biting back a sigh of relief. "I need to get her a towel."

"Duty calls." Jaemin jokes with good natured chuckle. "Don't let me keep you, but do me a favor and get free of her long enough for me to buy you a drink, alright?"

"We'll see about that." Minjeong replies, snatching a towel from the table and rushing back to Jimin's trailer. She nearly knocks the door down in her hurry to get in, panting slightly from her half jog on the way there.

Jimin quirks an eyebrow at the sight of her, a grin playing on her lips. "Where's the fire?"

"I'll tell you later," Minjeong says through her heaving breaths, holding the towel out like a trophy. "Dry off now."

"If you say so," Jimin laughs, taking the offered towel. "But I'm expecting full details once this scene is done."

Minjeong watches as Jimin towels off her hair, the view doing nothing to calm her breathing.

"Roger."

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