Page 53 of This Place is Magic


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Jungwoo- How dare you! (pretends to shove Ari off his chair) Which song do you think is the best, then? It’s some random B-side, isn’t it? You always pick some random B-side, you do the same thing with Apollo songs. What’s wrong with my title tracks, Ari? Why do you have to be like this?

Ari- (bowing again) Boss Jungwoo, please accept my sincere apologies, but the best Jewell song is a random B-side calledSay There’s Tomorrow.

Jungwoo- I knew it! You picked a B-side! Wait, which album is that from?

Ari-Crystal Clear. Oh, but I also thinkWhen You’re Hereis really good. That was from a drama soundtrack. It was Soyeon’s first solo track anywhere, if I remember it right.

Jungwoo- Alright, fine.When You’re Hereis amazing. The lyrics are so good. And obviously the vocals, too, but the lyrics. (low whistle) I hope I can write that well, someday. I bet I could write that well if I found… true love.

Cartoon wedding bells pop up over Jungwoo’s head

Ari- (laughing) Good luck, hyung.

Jungwoo- She's out there, Ari. (winks at the camera) Sunshines! Maybe it's one of you!

The occupants of the neighboring room begin pounding on the wall; we hear a chorus of muffled voices yelling ‘Ari, make him stop!’ and ‘Did he wink when he said that? I hate it here!’

Jungwoo- (gets up to pound on the wall as well) Shut up! I'm not asking for much! One, find my soulmate. Two, write a song for Red Velvet. Three, sing at Ari’s wedding.

Ari- You can't all sing at my wedding.

Jungwoo- What? Who else said they're singing?

Ari- Everybody. And there’s eight of you. If you all sing, the wedding will take eight extra hours.

Jungwoo- Which is exactly why I’m the only one who should be singing! Of course it's me, I'm your best friend. That time you broke your ankle in Dubai, who carried you on his back? Me! (epic instrumental music starts playing in the background) Who did all your laundry for two years? Me! And that time you broke your glasses on tour, who read all the signs for you? Me!

Ari- Okay, plenty of time to figure it out, right? No one's getting married in the near future.

Jungwoo- (nods) Fair point. Your love life is completely dead.

Ari- We belong to our fans.

Jungwoo- (exaggerated conspiratorial tone) Fans, I can confirm that this guy has never — to my knowledge — dated anybody. Not even secretly. If he did, I’d know. Well, I guess everybody would. All the members know the passcode to Ari’s phone.

Ari- (shrugs) I wouldn't want to keep her a secret. If I found someone, anyway.

Clapping and whistling from the other side of the wall, along with cheers of ‘Lion-niiiimmm!’

Jungwoo- Our dorms have zero privacy and Ari has zero relationship experience.

Ari- (blinks) I don’t need any secrets. I’m too busy keeping all of yours.

Jungwoo- No comment! But I think the real answer here, Sunshines, is that anytime Ari is talking to a girl, she ends up crying all over him. True story. (pauses) Well, I guess it's anybody, not just girls.

Ari- It does happen a lot.

Jungwoo- I need you guys to cry on me. Don’t you want some songs written about your broken heart?

Thumping on the wall. ‘Jungwoo, shut UP!’ ‘I’d rather cry on Ari.’ ‘Yeah, he smells nice.’

Ari- Hey, remember when we were trainees and you used to write song lyrics on any piece of paper you could find? Those brown bags from the bakery, when they let us go there on Saturdays. Oh, and the backs of receipts.

Jungwoo- We weren’t allowed to have phones back then so I couldn’t type them in the notes app. Man, how did I survive those days?

Ari- And so many of those songs are out there in the world now.

Montage of Apollo singles, starting withU Shinein 2014 and ending with the most recent at the time of this video,Trickster