4 Visiting the store

Opening the inventory, as Jun clicked on the song, the audio started playing in his ears.

Slowly, the song started with piano, followed by the soulful voice of a female singer.

As the song continued to play, Jun felt the lyrics and the composition clearly in his mind, which made him started humming, going with the flow and as the song reached the climax, unknowingly, Jun opened his mouth and finished it by raising his vocals.

"Yeogi na yeogi gyeote neul seo issuelge naui mami umjigyeo~

(Here, I will always stand by your side, my heart moves)

And I'm still I'm here…"

"Whoo…" *Clap*Clap* Jun clapped himself twice, feeling excitement all over his face, "Damn, it's been a while since I last heard this song. The lyrics look beautiful as always. But, I…"

Jun, then, took a glance at his room and mumbled, "I also need to check whether my piano skills from the past life also transferred to these fingers or not. But, I don't have the keyboard here..."

*Knock*Knock*

Right then, the door was knocked twice and the voice of his mom was heard from the other side, "Jun-ah, I'm leaving for the store. I already prepared the lunch. Don't forget to keep it in the fridge after it cools down and then, reheat it in the noon."

Upon hearing his mom, Jun's eyes lit up and he quickly opened the door, surprising his mom.

As soon as Sa-Eun saw Jun, making those green eyes of his big, she immediately understood he was about to make a request. She quickly asked, "What is it? Do you need me to buy anything while returning?"

If it was Jun from before, he would have asked directly to bring Piano while she was returning from the store but she didn't expect the present Jun making a weird request.

"Mom, can I come with you to the store," asked Jun, unknowingly maintaining his expression of widening his eyes.

Upon hearing him, Sa-Eun was taken aback, "Why?"

"No reason. I was just bored, sitting at home and watching tv, all day," replied Jun.

Believing him, Sa-Eun nodded, "fine. Change your clothes. I'll wait."

As Jun closed the door, Sa-Eun sighed in relief, "this is good. Now, I no longer need to feel anxious all day. Maybe, I should take this chance and keep him busy at the store, letting him forget about chasing that impossible dream."

Meanwhile, as Jun changed his outfit to new ones, he takes a look in the mirror, and sighed, "it's been three months since I came to this world, yet, it very difficult adjusting to this face but at the same time, it also feels natural. It's as if I'm feeling cold and hot at the same time… I wonder how long would it take to shake off this feeling."

"Jun-ah… How long will you take…"

"Coming, mom."

Taking one last look at the mirror, he grabbed his chin with a smile, tilting his head slightly, "but then again, I look damn handsome, aren't I?"

Jun suddenly shivered for a second, "That's so embarrassing… let's not do that again…"

Half an hour later, Jun stepped out of the car and looked at the music store before him, which is a little bit different than his memories from the old Jun, especially, the size. The store had another floor, where he can see a grand piano through the transparent glass.

'S&D? I wonder what that means… Is it perhaps me and Dahyun?'

"Jun-ah, what are you staring at…" A voice was heard from beside.

Jun shook his head, "nothing mom. Just amazed that you renovated and even expanded the store.

"Well, your grandfather paid for the renovations and expansion..."

Upon hearing his mom, Jun looked at her in surprise, "grandpa paid for it? I remember you mentioned that grandpa helped you with the apartment. Since when did he have that much amount…"

"This is from your dad's father. He's very happy after getting to know Dahyun finally debuted…"

Feeling sore a little bit, Jun didn't make any comment on that and silently followed his mom into the store, and saw the store is busy with customers and a lot of teenagers hovered around a specific section to take an album.

"Mom, Which Idol group, that section belongs to?" Jun asked as he pointed at the crowd.

Following his direction where his finger pointed, Sa-Eun replied, "that's Angels on Earth's latest comeback."

"AOE?" As soon as he heard the name, a lot of memories flowed through his head, and Jun, who also knew about them in the past life fell into thoughts, 'so, SNSD became AOE, here. Good thing is that they are sticking around and it also looks like this old Jun had a very close relationship with them.'

Meanwhile, both of them walked towards the counter, where a pretty boy part-timer is busy with billing.

"Sajangnim (Boss), good morning," greeted the part-timer with a bow as soon as he saw Sa-Eun.

Sa-Eun greeted back in return, and then, as the customer left, she introduced Jun, who was standing next to her, silently.

"Jae-min-ah, this is my son, SungJun." Then, she turned towards Jun and introduced the part-timer, "this is Na Jae-min."

Removing his mask, Jun looked into his eyes for a brief period before offering a handshake, instead of the usual bow, forgetting that he was no longer a twenty five year old, "Hello, nice to meet you."

But, by the time he realized the mistake, the part-timer already bowed a little and shook his hands, and greeted in return, although with a trace of surprise.

Thinking that it's a weird taste of a normal young man, wearing green contact lenses, Jaemin decided to ignore the situation and turned towards Sa-Eun, "Sajangnim (Boss), a new shipment arrived this early morning but there's no space to place them."

"New shipment?" A frown appeared on Sa-Eun as she mumbled, "but, we weren't expecting anything until next week…" Then, she suddenly slapped her forehead lightly, "that's right. I forgot about Clover's recent comeback because of AOE's hype…"

"I will handle the job at the counter. Meanwhile, quickly, make a list of unpopular albums we fail to sell in the past month, and make sure to empty one section.

Then, transfer the albums of Resonance to the one that was emptied and replace them with new ones. We need the albums of Clover to stick together and…"

She then glanced at Jun, who was looking around, and called him as she got an idea, "Jun-ah."

"Yes?"

"Can you help out Jaemin with the work?"

"Sure, mom." As a part of the plan to try out instruments, Jun agreed to help, not knowing this little help will be bring a troublesome brother into his life.

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