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makeitmingi · 9 months

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Cause Baby You’re My Muse [Chapter 15]

Genre: Romance, Idol!AU, Music, Slight angst

Pairing: Mingi x Reader (y/n)

Characters: Producer!Reader, IdolLyricist!Mingi, IdolProducer!Hongjoong, Idol!Seonghwa, Idol!Yunho, Idol!Wooyoung, Idol!San, Idol!Yeosang, Idol!Jongho, cameo(s) by other celebrities

Summary: You always preferred producing underground, having an unknown face and governed by your own rules. But when you start freelancing for idol groups, you say goodbye to your lone wolf lifestyle as you learn to work with idol producers and lyricists.

Word count: 3.3K

You assumed Eden must have told the boys that you were working from your home studio temporarily. Of course, only Wooyoung knew the truth as to why you had to work from home.

“Wooyoung, are you sure it’s okay for you to be here so much?” You asked as you prepared lunch for the three of you.

“Yeah. Unless you don’t want me to come...?” He tilted his head.

“Of course not. You being here with Haneul has been a great help. And I think she likes you too.” You smiled softly. Another thing is now Wooyoung knows what you look like without a mask. So you haven’t had to wear a mask when he comes over to visit.

“It’s no big deal for me because I love kids. And I like her too. She’s amazing.” Wooyoung giggled. You felt your heart swell with pride hearing him talking about how great Haneul was.

“Oppa! Come!” Haneul called.

“Coming, my princess~” Wooyoung replied, prancing away to the child. Just like you, Haneul got Wooyoung wrapped around her finger.

“I’m gonna leave this to boil. I’ll be right back.” You told Wooyoung, going into your studio. You had a call with Hongjoong and Eden, just an update call about the progress of work.

“Is unnie playing games?” Haneul turned to Wooyoung after seeing you disappear into the work room.

“No, princess. She’s not playing games, she’s working.” Wooyoung explained, gently moving Haneul to sit on his lap to play instead.

“She’s always busy.” Haneul pouted.

“Your unnie works really hard. Do you know how cool she is? She makes music for people. Like me. Your unnie makes the music then I sing and dance.” Wooyoung tried his best to explain your job and his job to the kid.

“Unnie is cool?” Haneul tilted her head. To her, you have always just been the older sister that took care of her. She was too young to understand the meaning and extravagance of your jobs, producing music and meeting famous idols. But you liked that, you liked how she treated you normally. You were just her older sister, nothing more, nothing less.

“Super cool. She’s way cooler than me.” Wooyoung gave a thumbs up. Hanuel’s eyes lit up in amazement, making Wooyoung laugh and pinch her cheek while cooing.

Wooyoung decided to let Haneul watch the ‘Wave’ music video, considering it was the most ‘light hearted’ music video and wouldn’t scare her.

“Ooh, red! Like Ariel!” Haneul pointed excitedly at Hongjoong’s red hair, comparing her to the famous mermaid. Wooyoung burst out laughing at how cute she was, nearly falling to his knees for her.

“See? That’s my best friend. His name is San.” Wooyoung paused and pointed to the blonde.

“Who is that?” Wooyoung paused the video again.

“Oppa! Wooyoung oppa!” Haneul pointed the real version next to her.

“That’s right! You’re so smart.” He patted her head while complimenting her. They continued to watch the video together, Haneul excitedly pointing at Wooyoung every time he appeared on the screen.

“What’s so funny?” You came out after the call, hearing Haneul’s shrieking laughter. You turned to see the video of Ateez on the television.

“Lunch is ready.” You announced to the two. While you scooped the food and put the dishes on the coffee table, Wooyoung brought Haneul to wash her hands. You had a second, staring at the paused performance video of the entire group on the screen.

“Everything okay?” Wooyoung asked, noticing you were lost in your thoughts. You nodded, going to scoop the rice. You placed Haneul’s rice and soup together in the dish, cutting up the other food for her to eat.

“Here you go, baby.” You placed the kids plate in front of her. She picked up the spoon excitedly.

“What do we say?” You stopped her before digging in.

“Thank you for the food.” She grinned.

“Good girl.” You stroked her head. With Haneul being around you more, you took the oppotunity to try and guide her through things. Wooyoung sat on the other side of Haneul, digging into the food.

“Mmm, it’s good.” He said, taking a sip of the soup.

“Thanks. There’s not much in the refridgerator, I’ll have to order groceries soon.” You noted. Haneul has only been with you for a little over a week and yet you found yourself having to adjust to a new schedule like ordering more groceries, having to cook more instead of ordering take out and remembering there was someone who you needed to care for.

“Do you miss the others?” Wooyoung asked. He knew that look you had earlier when looking at the screen.

“I guess I’m used to seeing them everyday. Then now, I’m not seeing them at all. Except you, of course.” You chuckled. Even if you didn’t directly answer his question, Wooyoung knew your answer.

“You can still meet them. I’ll watch Haneul for a bit.” Wooyoung said.

“It’s okay. It’s not like we’re forbidden to see each other. Besides, I should be spending more time with Haneul now that she’s here.” You stroked Haneul’s head.

“Yeah, take this time to relax too, Indigo. Just have fun with Haneul and rest.” Wooyoung advised.

After lunch, Wooyoung had a schedule to go for so he left. You didn’t want to leave Haneul alone to work so you decided to both get dressed and go to the grocery store. It was more fun than to get them delivered.

“Ready?” You asked. Haneul nodded her head, slipping her hand into yours. The bus ride to the grocery store wasn’t too long. Haneul was constantly amazed by the scenary and everything in the big city, no matter how many times she came to stay with you.

“Up you go.” Upon arriving, you carried her so she could sit in the cart. It was good that she could rest and you wouldn’t have to constantly watch her.

“Eomuk!” She pointed excitedly.

“Want eomuk?” You asked. She nodded her head vigorously. You usually made stir fried fishcakes with a sweet soy sauce for her to eat with rice, it’s the only time you see her eat two bowls of rice.

“Alright, let’s get some eomuk.” You took some bags off the shelf and placed it into the cart.

“Yoghurt... Strawberry or peach?” You asked, holding up the two.

“I like both!” She grinned.

“We’ll get both.” You put them into the cart. Haneul was a little upset when she came back to your house and all her yoghurt was gone. Maybe you shouldn’t have brought them all to song camp for Hongjoong to finish.

When you were out with Haneul, you never wore your mask. No one would recognise you anyway. Plus, Haneul liked it when you didn’t wear your mask.

“Cereal, biscuits, fruits, meat...” You checked your list, looking back to the cart to make sure you what you needed.

“Last stop, vegetables.” You went to the vegetable section to get what looked good. After that, you paid for everything and took a cab home with Haneul. You didn’t want to struggle with carrying the groceries and taking public transport with her so taking a cab was easier. You loaded a game for Haneul to play on your phone, just so you could put the groceries away.

Hongjoong was sitting by the pantry tables, eating his food when his phone rang. He swallowed his food before picking up the call.

“Hello? Indigo?” Hongjoong wasn’t expecting a call from you, considering how he had a conference call with you and Edenary this morning regarding the projects. There was no noise on the other side expect some rustling.

“Hello...?” Hongjoong was going to hang up, thinking you may have accidentally butt-dialed him.

“...Hi?”

“Huh? Who is this? Indigo, if this is some sort of joke or prank call. You’re not very funny...” The voice that Hongjoong heard was definitely not yours. If you were doing an impersonation, it was rather convincing.

“Haneul.”

“Hanuel?” He frowned in confusion. Pulling the phone away from his ear, he double checked that the caller ID was yours. Wooyoung walked into the pantry, fresh out of his fitness training.

“What’s wrong, hyung? Who are you talking to?” Wooyoung asked when he noticed the captain’s weird expression.

“Not sure. Some kid named Haneul is using Indigo’s phone and called me. Either that or Indigo mimics a child’s voice very well.” Hongjoong explained. At his words, Wooyoung visibly stiffened. He tried to hide his expression of shock but it was too late.

“Yah. Jung Wooyoung, what are you hiding?” Hongjoong glared at the younger male. Wooyoung gulped, opening his mouth to deny knowing anything but he forgot Haneul was still on the line.

“Wooyoung oppa?!”

“Yah! Haneul ah, what are you doing?! Who are you talking to?!” Your voice was heard on the other line and just like that, the call was cut.

“Explain.” Hongjoong frowned. Wooyoung winced, if only Haneul didn’t call out to him. He gulped, unsure of what he was supposed to tell Hongjoong. It wasn’t his story to tell.

“Hang on.” Wooyoung ran away, despite Hongjoong yelling out his name. He took his phone out to call you.

“Ouh, Wooyoung.”

“How are you calm?! Haneul just called Hongjoong and she recognised me, even called out my name! Now Hongjoong hyung is demanding an explanation and I don’t know what to tell him. He looks so scary. I think he’s going to come hunt me down until I give him some sort of excuse as to why I know the child that called him.” Wooyoung rambled.

“It’s fine, Wooyoung. Calm down. Anyway, it’s my fault for letting Haneul use my phone and not watching her properly. It’s not like Haneul is in witness protection. You can tell him.”

“Are you sure?” Wooyoung paced up and down. He had no idea why he was more stressed about this than you.

“Yeah. Maybe it’s better that he knows so he will understand why I am not in the studio and won’t be suspicious of you when you leave the dorm.”

“Oh, that’s true... Okay, I’ll tell him about Haneul but I won’t tell him that I’ve seen you without your mask. I think that’s irrelevant information and it’s my special secret with you.” Wooyoung declared, making you laugh.

“Sure, Wooyoung. Thank you. It might be easier for me to invite him over to work on music. And he can meet Haneul, I’m sure she will be very intrigued by his hair.”

“No way! Haneul is mine. She can only look at me as her oppa.” Wooyoung scoffed.

“Alright, alright. Geez, I’m starting to think I’m not the most protective and possessive over her anymore.”

After you hung up, Wooyoung emerged from his hiding spot (which was just the accessibility bathroom with the door locked) and went to find Hongjoong. But before Hongjoong could yell at Wooyoung, the younger covered the older’s mouth with his hand and dragged him to his studio.

“What’s wrong with you?” Hongjoong crossed his arms with a frown, watching Wooyoung look around the corridor to make sure there was no one before closing the door and locking it.

“I’ll explain to you who Haneul is. But it is a secret and you cannot tell the others. I’ve already asked for permission from Indigo.” Wooyoung said.

“O...kay?” Hongjoong tilted his head.

The two sat down and Wooyoung told Hongjoong everything, even having to suddenly go get Haneul out of nowhere while the rest were making their way back from song camp. And that being the reason he knew about Haneul.

“So she’s been supporting Haneul this whole time? On her own?” Hongjoong asked. Wooyoung nodded in confirmation.

“But she’s still working a lot so I go over to help her with Haneul some times. Especially when she has calls and doesn’t want to leave Haneul on her own, unattended.” Wooyoung explained.

“That’s where you have been disappearing to?”

“Yeah, when we don’t have schedules, I just drop by. Been doing it since the end of song camp.” Wooyoung said.

“Indigo should have just told us. She could take time off work and be with Haneul rather than have to juggle both work and caring for the child full time.” Hongjoong shook his head.

“That’s the thing. You know how dedicated she is to her work. She won’t take any breaks or stop working. And Indigo is very protective of Haneul, more than she is of her own identity. Like she doesn’t want too many people to know about her or meet her. There might be an underlying reason why but I don’t know it to that extent.” Wooyoung said.

“She must be special to Indigo then.” Hongjoong stated and Wooyoung nodded, noticing how you just look at Haneul with so much love and adoration.

“I’ll respect her wishes. I won’t say anything to the others but now that I know the actualy reason why she’s working from home, I’m glad everything is actually okay.” Hongjoong let out a sigh of relief.

“She said it would be easier if you knew since you might need to go to her home studio to work.” Wooyoung conveyed.

“I guess so. We were trying to avoid that so as to not intrude on her privacy and personal space. But if you say so, I’ll drop her a text later.” Hongjoong said.

“Haneul... Same name as San’s sister.” Hongjoong chuckled.

“Right? You will see it when you meet her... But all I can say is, you can tell that the kid was raised by Indigo. She’s so... smart and independent. Yet, all you want to do is take care of her.” Wooyoung laughed.

“She’s adorable. An amazing kid.” He continued to gush over Haneul. Wooyoung was always a fan of kids but Hongjoong has never seen him this head over heels before.

While you didn’t scold Haneul for calling Hongjoong, you did tell her how it was wrong to speak to strangers and that she wasn’t allowed to leave the game to do other things on your phone. You conveyed it as keeping her safe, which Haneul understood and apologised for.

“Sleep well.” You whispered as Haneul napped. She must have been tired since she fell asleep while playing so you carried her to the room.

“Alright.” You took the opportunity to clean up. You cleared the toys, cleaned the floors and did the laundry. To clean the floors, you did Seonghwa’s four step method; sticky roller, vacuum, mop and sticky roller again.

After that was done, you sat down to do some work. You made sure you didn’t fully cover both ears with your headphones to be able to hear if Haneul needed you.

“This needs a re-recording of the guide...” You typed out on your notes.

‘I think I’ll need to re-record the guide for draft 27B before submitting it. There were some revisions made to the chorus, as per our conversation yesterday. - Indigo’

‘Sure. I’ll take note of it and ask Jongho to come in. - Eden’

‘I added the extra percussions to draft 29A like you asked for. Let me know if you need any edits. - Peperoni’

‘Draft 42′s chorus is done and ready for vetting before the guide recording can be done. - Oliv’

‘I’m still working on the arrangement for the chorus for draft 91. I’ll need more time because I need to work with Seonghwa on his next cover release first, which is the priority now. - Maddox’

This is usually how you communicated with each other, everyone in a group chat, updating on the status of their works. You all never needed to address each other, you just knew what information was relevant to you. With so many projects that were going on simultaneously, this was the best for Eden to keep track of everyone.

‘LAKOV sent back the raw piano for Hongjoong’s upcoming cover song. I’ll need to overlay it with Hongjoong before I can start the recording. - Jangmoon’

‘I just saw the track you sent me from song camp. I will do the MIDI mixing by the end of this week and send it back to you. - LEEZ’

‘Thanks everyone for accommodating to me working from home. - Indigo’

‘No need to thank. We hope you’re resting well, family comes first, work can be done later. - Eden’

With how hard everyone was working and the boys being excited over the tracks you have been working on together, there was no way you could take time off. You just had to manage your time between Haneul and work.

“Unnie?” You heard Haneul and turned around. She stood there, holding her stuffed rabbit by the foot.

“Hey, baby.” You rolled over to her. While she yawned, you picked her up and sat her in your lap. Still half asleep, she leaned her head on your chest. You wheeled yourself back to the desk and continued to do the last bit of your work. Haneul didn’t mind, content with just sitting on your lap.

*Kim Hongjoong is requesting a video call*

“Oh, Hongjoong.” You answered the call, wearing your mask and propping the phone against the bottom corner of your computer. Hongjoong’s face came to view. Although, he leaned in when he noticed Haneul.

“Is that her? Hello~” Hongjoong gave a friendly wave and smile. Haneul was disinterested, not moving to greet whoever was talking.

“Yes, I’m assuming Wooyoung told you already... This is Haneul. Sorry, she just woke up from a nap.” You apologised.

“No worries, we’re all like that after a nap.” He laughed.

“You work too hard, Indigo. You should be resting more, I’m sure you’re using whatever time Haneul is sleeping to work in the studio right? Tch, I know you too well.”

“If you just called me to nag at me, I’m hanging up.” You threatened, eyes on your computer screen instead of him.

“Okay, fine. I actually called because Wooyoung said you’re fine with me coming to work with you in your home studio. So I just wanted to check what your schedule is like. I am free tomorrow night... My schedule ends at 5pm. If night time is not good, we can just reschedule or we can work separately and discuss it online like we have been doing.”

“No, night time is actually good. I usually try to get Haneul to bed by 9 ish. I’ll prepare your share of dinner then.” You said. Haneul started whining and squirming to get off your lap.

“What do you need?” You asked her.

“Yoghurt...” She mumbled.

“Okay, hang on.” You told Hongjoong, holding her hand to take her to the kitchen. Haneul chose one of the strawberry yoghurt tubes to eat. She sat on the ground next to you, enjoying the sweet snack.

“Now, I want some yoghurt too.” Hongjoong mumbled. You watched him take the phone to the company fridge.

“You’re a 5 year old, Kim Hongjoong.” You scoffed, looking at him rummage through the fridge for a yoghurt cup. He found one with ‘Park Seonghwa’ on it.

“I’m sure Seonghwa won’t mind. I’ll just buy him another one to replace it.” Hongjoong shrugged as he tossed the label aside with no care in the world. You clicked your tongue, shaking your head at him.

“That’s very bad behaviour, Hongjoong. I’m telling Seonghwa right now.” You screenshotted Hongjoong eating the yoghurt before opening the messaging app to send Seonghwa the picture, telling him that the yoghurt Hongjoong was eating in the picture was his.

“YAH! KIM HONGJOONG!” You heard Seonghwa.

“Wow, I didn’t think he was actually still at the company building.” You laughed in amazement while Hongjoong starting running.

“Why would you do that?! ...curse you!” Hongjoong said to you as he ran. He would have actually cursed at you but he remembered that Haneul was within earshot and you definitely wouldn’t want her to hear that.

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