#121 "Who is Joshua Hong?" (part 1)
A famous kpop idol once said: "I want to have a girlfriend who doesn't know me as Hong Joshua of Seventeen."
A kpop group named Seventeen went on a vacation in a province far from Seoul. They filmed their variety show Going Seventeen and about to go back home. They used 5 vans to occupied the 13 members , staffs and the filming equipment. One of the van stopped to buy a souvenir in a small store- it is the vocal team van; Seungkwan, Jeonghan, Dokyeom, Woozi, Joshua and their driver.
"Oh I want to buy this!" Seungkwan exclaimed as he holds a keychain.
"Is this okay with me?" Dokyeom asked, wearing a hat made from rattan.
Jeonghan complimented, "Woah you look like Michael Jackson!"
Woozi then laughed, "Haha! Mikyeom Jackson Lee in rattan hat version."
"Oh really?" Dokyeom was smiling ear to ear.
"Do a moonwalk do a moonwalk!" Seungkwan requested.
And Dokyeom did a moonwalk while wearing the hat. Everyone, including the driver and the old lady seller of the small stand laughed. Except that one person.
"G-Guys, excuse me but..." Joshua, the most gentle looking guy among this group butted with his trembling soft voice. "Is there any bathroom here?"
"There's a gasoline station on the highway," their driver suggested.
"How far it is?" Joshua asked.
"Maybe, 20km?"
"F*ck," Joshua cursed and the four members quickly covered his mouth. They looked at the old lady and her reaction after hearing Joshua's curse.
"Don't worry. People here don't watch TV at all," their driver reassured.
They all sigh in relief.
"Can't you hold it?" Jeonghan asked worriedly, looking at Joshua's pants.
Joshua shook his head. "I'm going to pee somewhere! Wait for me!" Then he dashed away into the dark forest.
"Hey be careful hyung!" Seungkwan warned.
After some minutes, Joshua went back, now having a smile on his face. "Finally~"
"Oh you're back!" The driver noticed.
The other members, and their driver are still looking for souvenir and because he doesn't has a plan to buy one, he went inside the van. While seating on the back seat, Joshua saw a huge backpack covered with black jacket. "Lol," he chuckled. "This look likes a man sleeping with jacket on his face." He even put a warm hand pack inside the jacket so it really look like a human figure. "Pffft, this looks like Dokyeom.
Joshua leaned his back and looked at his handsome reflection at the front mirror. " How cute," he complimented himself. While observing at his pretty eyes, pointed nose, cat like lips, and ears, he noticed something. After processing what was missing, his eyes widened as he holds his ear. "My gold piercing is missing!" He exclaimed as he tried to look around the van. You "this won't do. It's an expensive item. The company will make me pay for it! Damn."
He doesn't want to tell to his member because they might get worried, and so he walked outside the van and went back to the Forrest. No one noticed that Joshua went out.
Members are finished buying the goods they want and head back to the van.
"Where's Joshua?" Jeonghan checked.
The driver said, "I saw him getting in."
They all look at the backpack covered with jacket at the backseat . "Hyung is here!" Seungkwan exclaimed.
"Shhsssh. Joshua hyung is sleeping," Dokyeom hushed.
"He maybe tired himself out when we were playing a game," Seungkwan commented.
"I am so tired too," Jeonghan yawned and leaned his head on the head seat.
"Don't wake him up. Let's go," Woozi said.
So, the driver stepped on the gas.
Little do they know, that the real Joshua is still out there looking for his piercing. He wasn't nervous that he will get left behind without his presence. Only if he realizes that making that human figure backpack will be the reason of this incident. Poor Josh.
Using the flashlight on his phone, he searched for the gold earrings at the place where he peed. After a tiring search in the dark place, he finally found the gold piercing! "It's here!" He shouted in joy and it echoed around the forest. So he decided to go back to their van. While walking, the flashlight on his phone turned off. "Oh? What's wrong?* He checked his phone and found out that it doesn't have battery anymore. " Ahhh battery empty. That's okay. I remember putting my power bank at the back seat of the van. I hope Dokyeom won't use it while I'm gone and-"
The wind blew away. It slapped at Joshua's stunned face when he couldn't find any trace of the van, his members , and the lady on the closed store.
Meanwhile...
"Do you think it's okay to use Joshua hyung's power bank?" Dokyeom asked the members in a quiet tone while he is connecting his phone to Joshua's power bank.
Back on the lonely, lost member...
Alone in the cold dark place. His phone is battery empty. The closed stored are lock. And he doesn't have any idea where he might be.
Half of his brain tells him to calm down. But the other side is completely freaking out: thinking where he would sleep? What if a bear, a beast appear? What if he died in this cold weather without shelter? And why did his member leave him alone?!
"Calm down Joshua," he said to himself. "When the members realized that I am missing, they gonna pick me up here. Damn it's cold! Should I look for some house to stay in?" He looked around and he saw nothing but the rice field and the forest that suddenly looks scary now that he is alone. "Seriously! How could there's nothing here beside- "
"Are you lost?"
"Waaaaaaah!" Joshua shouted when a woman appeared behind him. He looked at her in widened eyes, chest moving up and down.
"Ohh city man," the girl gasped after observing him from head to toe.
The girl skin is tanned and her hair is black and she tied it up like how those grandma tied their hair without using a rubberband. She is wearing a pink shirt and black pants covered with mud. She is using a bag made of sack and inside of it are bottles of pure honey she is selling.
"Good e-evening," Joshua greeted with an awkward smile.
"Did you get lost Mister?" The country girl asked.
"M-Mister?" Joshua pointed. He is not that old to be called as mister.
"If you got lost, do you want to stay by my house? It's dangerous here at night," the girl suggested.
"Can I ask a question?"
"Yes?"
"Is it true that no one here watches TV?"
"Ahh TV? People here are busy of their works. Beside, it's a poor village far from the city so buying TV is quite expensive. It's a mountain side too so the signal is poor."
That's good. Joshua is so famous and if someone here recognized him together with a girl, he might get in scandal.
"I see," he nodded. "My phone is drained. And my friends accidentally left me behind, I think so. Can I charge to your house and wait until help arrives?"
"Sure. You can pay me after you found them."
"P-Pay?"
"Nothing is free in this world mister. Follow me," the girl walked away towards the dark forest.
"Huh. She must be waiting for lost tourist. What a unique business," Joshua laughed while he followed her.
After 30 minutes of climbing up the mountain, they arrived at the girl's small house located at the top.
"This is harder than practicing our whole song for ode to you concert," Joshua complained by himself, breathing in and out.
"We're here. Give me your phone. I'll charge it for 30$," the girl said offering her hand.
"30, what?!" Joshua was shocked by that price.
"You don't want? Then forget it."
"Oh no! No! I'm okay with 30$! He he," Joshua handled his phone. He doesn't have any choice right now.
The girl went inside her shanty house. "Come in. I know my house is not like those house in your place. But make yourself comfortable."
Joshua went in, looking around in awe. He was thinking how could anyone can survive in this shady house made from hut and shacks. He sat on the side while the girl charges his phone.
"Are you always alone here?" Joshua asked.
The girl looked back as she put her bag down on the side. "I live alone. And you? How did you get lost?"
"Ahh," he chuckled , scratching his nape. "I lost my belonging when I took a pee inside the forest. When I went back to our van, my friends are gone."
"Ahh, so they abandoned you," she teased.
Joshua got annoyed but he just laugh instead. "Ha ha. I hope not."
"Aren't you hungry? I can feed you some. But pay me another 50$ for it."
This girl is making a business out of this poor man who has nothing for now.
"You know, your price is kinda expensive," Joshua laughed in annoyance.
"Well if you don't want then-"
"Anything! Anything will do," Joshua murmured. He is quite hungry.
"Wait for me. I'll prepare something for us." The girl went out and go to her kitchen.
While she is preparing, Joshua opened his phone. But just like what the girl said, there are no signal in that place. "F*ck," he sighed. "Maybe I have no choice but to stay a little longer. I can climbed down after eating some meal."
So he sat on the side while his eyes observed around. There are no electric appliances he can spot, beside the light bulb that flickering after a minute. He stood up and walks around to see if there's any interesting thing that might kill his boredom. "Oh!" He gasped when he saw a guitar on the side. He went closer and saw how old it is. "This guitar looks old. But I think it's original." He was about to touch it but...
"What are you doing?" The girl went back with a tray of food. Her facial expression shows how she is not happy of Joshua touching her things.
"Ahh sorry," Joshua apologized and went back on seating in front of the small wood table.
"I'll charge you 70$ if you touch my things without my permission," she warned, putting the plate of food on the table.
Joshua smiled and responded, "your charges are getting expensive as the time passes by "
"I have a fried egg and rice here," Girl introduced the dishes.
"This is expensive for 30$," Joshua murmured.
"What did you say?"
"Nothing. Thank you for the food!" He smiled and starts to eat together with this girl. "Ahmm, I forgot to introduced my name. I'm Joshua by the way."
"Ahh Joshua," the girl keeps eating, uninterested to this guy who has millions of fan out there.
"And you? What's your name?"
"(Y/n)."
"(Y/n). Nice to meet you (y/n)."
(Y/n) didn't respond.
"So how old are you miss (y/n)?" He continued to interrogated.
"(Your/age)"
"Ahhh. I'm a 1995 liner. Guess I am older than you. He he. So I think when you talk to me, you have to use respectful words rather than..."
"Can we just eat old Mister?" She looked at him after a long sigh.
"O-Old M-Mister? Me?" Joshua pointed himself.
"Yeah. You are so talkative. Let's talk after eating. Okay?"
Joshua went speechless of how rude and cold she is! So he ate and finished his meal without saying any word. He even made it possible to chew and gulp his food silently.
After finishing his meal, (y/n) get the empty plates. "I'll charge you 10$ for not washing the dishes."
"Wait!" Joshua held her hand.
(Y/n) looked at his hand and to his eyes.
"I'll help you wash the dishes. Can you not charge me with this?"
The girl nodded "sure. Let's go out and wash this."
How to wash dishes at the top of the mountain when there is no water supply there? Simply, they climbed down to get water from the river. Of course, Joshua is the one who carried the bucket of water.
"Put the bucket here," the lady asked him. "Then the other bucket, put it inside the bathroom."
Drenched in sweat, Joshua said, "hey. Telling me that you'll charge me for washing the dishes is a lie, right? You just said that so you can make me carried these buckets of water."
"Aren't you glad to help people for free?" The girl smirked.
"You should tell that to yourself. Witch," Joshua whispered.
"What?"
He forged a smile. "Nothing. Let's wash the dishes now."
They both sat down on the ground and washes the dishes with cold water.
"Its cold ~" Joshua complained. But he stopped when he saw her calmed reaction while touching the cold water. He got embarrassed and tried to be natural as possible.
"After washing this, let's wait for your cellphone to get full battery. Then I'll accompany you where there is a signal," she offered.
"Okay. Thank you."
As they washed the dishes, Joshua noticed how she rarely look straight at his eyes, as if she wasn't use of having someone around her.
"Hear, I saw a guitar inside your house. Do you know how to play it? He asked.
The woman stopped. For the first time, she made another expression besides her poker face. " I know how to."
"Oh! Really? Me too. How long have you been playing it?"
"13 years."
"That's long."
"But I don't play it now."
"Why?"
"I'm busy to work so I can feed myself."
"I see," he sighed. "But can you play one song for me?"
"Are you going to pay me?"
"Again?" He laughed.
"If playing it and singing will give me money, then I will."
"Well, I am getting paid by singing and dan---" Joshua stopped. He almost forgot to hide the fact that he is a celebrity!
"You know how to sing?" She asked, seemed interested.
"Yup. Wanna hear it?" He offered.
"You don't have to-" she was about to declined but Joshua already sings.
He sings an old western song titled "Vincent".
" Starry starry night~ Paint your pallets blue and gray, look out for the summer hay~"
His soft, gentle, soothing voice is enough to make her stop. She was mesmerized by his voice and by the song she used to sing with her father when she was a kid.
And so she opened his mouth, took deep breath and sing along, "Now I understand, what you tried to say to me~"
Joshua was surprised, not because she sings along but her voice is so great! She could be a singer!
When the song finished, Joshua clapped his hands. "Wow! Your voice is so beautiful! You could be a singer!"
Singer? That is a profession she hates the most.
"Singer?" She smirked. "What a kind of bullshit."
"W-Why?"
"What will you accomplish being a singer? Money? Fame? The people I know who became a singer turned into a greedy man who will do anything to maintain their fame. Even if leaving your own family." She stood up and made a step away.
"What will you accomplish you ask? Well, when you sing and people love it, don't you feel happy? When I heard your voice, my heart is beating so loud and I can't wait to hear more from you. Does this make you feel proud? And inspired?"
She looked back, and they stared at each other.
Joshua stood up but unfortunately, slipped at the soap.
"Oh look out! " she warned and tried to stop him from slipping. But holding him put her out of balance.
"Oooooh!" They exclaimed.
At the end, they both fell down, Joshua beneath and (y/n) on the top. When they opened their eyes, they both surprised of how the event turned into this!
Their lips bumped each other!
And the worse part is when...
"Joshua hyung! where are--" Seungkwan came with a flashlight. His eyes widened when he saw the two kissing each other on the ground. And so he shouted,"JOSHUA HYUNG IS GETTING RAPE!"
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