i live alone
summary: in which eve visits kibum
set: early may 2022
word count: 2.6k
warnings: mention of panic attack, mentiom of food and i think that's it
an: hey, hey, hey! who's excited to get more keyve content? here you go besties! words in [] are the confessional scenes. words in [] are the cast members comments
eve's masterlist // variety shows
“Ah, I must clean up before she gets here.” Kibum looked around his living room that had dog toys thrown everywhere and a random assortment of clothes sitting on the couch.
He had been cleaning up for less than five minutes when you could hear his door beeping, signifying that someone was entering. Both Commes Des and Garçon raced to the door to greet the guest.
[“Who is it? Who is it?” Kian84 asked.]
The camera then showed Eve, playing with the dogs in the entryway. She had a paper bag sitting next to her feet.
[“Ah, it’s his sister,” Narae said.
“I’m a big fan of hers,” Code Kunst said, pointing to the screen.
“Really?” Kibum asked, turning to face him.
“Yes. Major fan.”
“Name one of her groups’ songs,” Kian84 said.
“Uh, you know.” Code Kunst gestured with his hand, mumbling.
The cast laughed at him]
[“Today,” Kibum started, “my younger sister is going to spend the day with me. It’s been so long since we last saw each other, about two weeks.”]
[“Yah, Kibum! Two weeks isn’t that long,” Hyunmoo teased.
“It feels like a really long time,” Kibum defended himself.]
[“Hello,” Eve greeted, “I’m Key’s younger sister, ITZY’s Eve.”]
“Oppa! How do you live like this? Oh my gosh!” Eve exclaimed once she saw the state of the living room. Kibum started laughing at her expression — a mixture between shocked, mortified, and disgusted. Commes Des and Garçon walked past her to lie in the sun.
“It’s not that bad,” he said.
“‘It’s not that bad’? ‘It’s not that bad’?,” Eve repeated. “I can see all the dust on your floor!” She pointed at the floor.
“Now you’re just being dramatic.”
“Does your mom know you live like this?” she asked, crossing her arms and leaning on her left leg.
“I live exceptionally well and mom knows that.” Kibum stopped cleaning, sitting down on the couch.
“We must have different standards because nothing is ’exceptionally well’ about this.” She walked to the kitchen and screamed. “So many dirty dishes! What do you eat with?!”
[“Honestly, sometimes I think she spends too much time with Minho.” Kibum scratched his neck. “They both like to judge me.”
“I do it for fun.” Eve shrugged. “I like annoying him. It’s a favourite pastime of mine.”]
Eve put her bag on the counter and the two quickly got to cleaning up Kibum’s apartment, Kibum working in the living room and bedrooms and Eve working in the kitchen and laundry room. They took a break and sat down on the couch.
“You wanna order something?” Kibum asked, looking at Eve who was on his left.
“Burgers!” She cheered. He smiled at her and laughed.
“Okay, burgers.”
He got up to fetch his phone and ordered the food, sitting down again.
“It’s gonna get here in twenty minutes,” he informed her. She made a thumbs up in response. He looked at the bag on the kitchen counter. “What’s in that bag?”
“Ah!” Eve exclaimed and stood up. She went to fetch the bag, coming back to sit down with it in her hands. “I baked.”
[“She really enjoys baking,” Kibum told the others.
“Ah, really?” Narae asked.
“Yeah, I think it’s healing for her.”]
Kibum tried to peek inside the bag, causing Eve to swat at his hand. She pulled out two containers with food in them. “I made chocolate chip cookies and caramel cupcakes.” she opened the first container — the one with caramel cupcakes — and Kibum groaned at the smell.
“It smells so nice!”
“Of course they do, I made them.” She playfully rolled her eyes.
“Let me have one!” He whined, making grabby hands at the container.
She groaned. “You’re like a five year old, did you know that?”
He waved her off and reached in the container to take a cupcake. He brought it to his mouth and took a bite, groaning at the taste.
“Is it good?” She asked, expectantly.
Kibum nodded and made a thumbs up with his unoccupied hand. “It’s really good. Well done, Nabi-yah.”
Eve smiled at the compliment, closing the container and putting both of them back in the bag.
[“Was it really good?” Code Kunst asked.
“Totally! It was salty and sweet — perfect balance,” Kibum said.
“Aigo! Now I want one,” Narae muttered.
“You can have one,” he said. One of the staff brought in a paper bag, causing everyone to exclaim. “She said that since you’re all going to see the cupcakes, you should also taste them,” he explained, taking containers full of cupcakes out of the bag. Giving everyone a cupcake, he waited for them to open them.
Kian84 gushed, “The packaging is so nice! You didn’t buy these on your way here?”
Kibum shook his head, laughing. “No. She baked them for you. She tried to do some for even the PD’s, but she had a schedule that she had to attend so she ran out of time.”
“Oh!” Hyunmoo exclaimed. “There’s writing on the box. ‘Hello! I hope this finds you well. I made this for you to re-energise you, so please enjoy! From, Eve. P.S, I’m sorry if the icing is a bit smudged.’ Wow! Why do I feel like becoming her manager for the day?”
“She’s so nice, right?” Narae asked, bringing her cupcake out the box. She sniffed it and hummed. “It smells so good!”
“Please hurry and eat it,” Kibum pleaded, “she likes to receive reviews after people eat her food.”
“Oh, really?” Kian84 asked.
“She’s probably watching, waiting for you to eat already.”
“Let’s not make her wait longer.”
They all bit into the cupcakes, groaning at the taste.
“Is she a pro?” Narae asked, examining her cupcake. “This is too good!”
Code Kunst cleared his throat. “I don’t want to eat it too fast. I want to just nibble on it.”
“Right,” Hyunmoo agreed.]
“Actually,” Eve began, “I have a bone to pick with you Kibum-ah.”
Kibum looked at her with wide eyes. “What? What is it?”
[“Did she call you Kibum-ah?” Hyunmoo asked, finishing off his cupcake.
Kibum nodded. “Whenever she’s angry or annoyed by someone older than her, she speaks casually to them because, in her mind, they don’t deserve her respect at that moment.”
The cast laughed.]
“When it was your first episode of I Live Alone, you said you had been living alone for eight years.”
“Yeah.”
“Am I a ghost to you?” She asked. “Have I not been living with you since you moved out of the SHINee dorm?”
He laughed, throwing his head back.
[“When Eve became a trainee, she had to move to Seoul for training,” Kibum explained. “I had moved out of the SHINee dorm by then, so we lived together until she went on Produce 48, then she came back and then she moved into ITZY’s predebut dorm and now she lives in a new dorm with her members.”]
“Let me explain,” he said. “I don’t see you as your own person; you’re an extension of me. So, technically, I was living alone because we–” he gestured between the two– “are one.”
“That’s the most nonsense I’ve ever heard in my entire life.”
[“She keeps you on your toes,” Hyunmoo noted, Kibum nodding in agreement.
“Does she have a room in your house?” Code Kunst asked.
“Yes. I think it’s going to be shown,” Kibum answered.]
[Eve’s room was shown.]
[“Her room is so neat,” Narae observed.]
“Let’s finish cleaning,” he said, standing up from the couch. “I’ll go tackle my room–”
“You also need to clean your room?” She interrupted, shocked.
He sighed, closing his eyes. “It’s not a big mess, don’t worry. Can you vacuum here?” He gestured to the living room.
Eve nodded, going to fetch the vacuum and returning soon after as Kibum went to his room. Commes Des raised his head when she plugged the machine in, looking away when it switched on.
[“Wait, wait,” Narae said, raising her hand. “Whenever you try to vacuum, doesn’t he bark and growl at you?”
“He does,” Kibum confirmed.
Hyunmoo pointed at the screen. “He looks very calm, though.”
“Yeah, it’s because when I was in my old apartment, Eve was vacuuming and– she’s a bit scared of dogs,” he mentioned, “and Commes Des suddenly barked loudly at her and jumped at her and she got so scared that she burst into tears.”
“Ah.” Kian84 nodded. “So Commes Des doesn’t complain when she vacuums?”
“I think he still feels bad about that, so he just doesn’t react.”]
As Eve vacuumed the room, Garçon walked up to her, sitting by her feet. She patted the dog’s head as she moved around the room, Garçon following her the whole time. When she was done, and had put the vacuum away, she picked up the dog, placing kisses all over its face.
“What’s new in your life?” Kibum asked. Their burgers had arrived and they were sitting at Kibum’s dinner table, opposite each other. The dogs were both eating their own lunches not far away.
“You mean from when we talked three days ago?” Eve joked, taking the gherkins out of her burger. “Nothing much. I got a new sweater. Ah! I had my first therapy session yesterday.”
“Therapy?” Kibum stopped moving, burger halfway to his mouth.
“Yeah.” Eve said and took a bite of her burger. Kibum put his burger down and wiped his hands on a napkin, leaning back in his seat.
“What’s going on? Are you okay?”
“Yes, it’s just two or three weeks ago I was going through my schedule with Ari unnie. my manager,” Eve added upon seeing Kibum’s confused expression, “and I was writing down things in my daily planner and when we were done, I looked at it and saw that the pages were full because I had many things to do. And then my hands suddenly started shaking, and I couldn’t breathe and next thing I know, boom! I’m having a panic attack. Ari unnie helped calm me down and comforted me saying how I must feel very stressed because of my schedule and she suggested that I see someone.”
“Yah, why didn’t you tell me?”
“I kept forgetting and when I did remember I didn’t know how to bring it up in conversation. I can’t really just say ‘Hey oppa, I had a panic attack and I’m going to therapy again’ out of nowhere so…”
“But still. Even if I was talking about Commes Des you should’ve interrupted me and told me,” Kibum said, clearly upset.
“Sorry. Next time I have something big like this to share with you, I’ll tell you right away. I’m feeling better now, so you don’t have to worry,” Eve added upon seeing Kibum’s hurt expression.
“Yah, you’re my little sister. I’m always going to worry,” Kibum said as a tear fell out of his eye.
[“Ah, he’s worried for her,” Narae said.
“Nabi isn’t the type to tell anybody if she’s struggling,” Kibum explained and the other cast members nodded in understanding. “She just lets her emotions build and build until she reaches her breaking point. And so I’m always worried about her, wondering if she’s really doing okay or if she’s just saying that.”
“Maybe she doesn’t want you to worry if she tells you she’s having a hard time,” Hyunmoo suggested.
“Maybe.” Kibum rubbed his chin. “But I’m never going to stop worrying.”]
“Yah! Why are you crying?” Eve passed Kibum a tissue.
“Because you’re my little sister and I want to know that you’re okay.” Kibum dabbed his eyes as more tears streamed down his face.
“Aish, now I’m gonna cry.” Eve looked up to stop her tears from falling out her eyes. “And I did my makeup so nicely today!” After some time, she stopped trying to not cry and just pouted as tears fell down her face. “Look what you did to me!” She complained and pointed at her face.
[The cast members laughed.
“She’s so hard to take seriously,” Kibum jokingly complained.
“She said it’s your fault!” Kian84 laughed.]
“Yah! Why are you blaming me for that?” Kibum asked.
“Because if you didn’t cry then I wouldn't have cried. And I hope you know you’re an ugly crier.”
[“She said he’s an ugly crier!” Narae cackled.]
Eve grabbed tissues and wiped her eyes. She then passed some to Kibum who blew his nose. The two siblings wiped away their tears and quieted down.
“Nabi, you can talk to me,” Kibum said, placing his hand on his chest.
“I know, don’t worry. It’s not that I was trying to keep it a secret from you, I just kept forgetting. Really,” Eve assured him.
“Are you going to the same therapist as last time?”
Eve nodded. “Yeah. She gave me a sticker at the end of our session. And a lollipop,” she bragged.
[“She used to go to therapy?” Hyunmoo asked.
“Yes. Before her debut in ITZY, but then she got busy after her debut and was feeling a lot better so she stopped going,” Kibum confirmed.
“Ah.”
“It takes a lot of bravery to take that step,” Code Kunst said.]
Kibum exhaled and clapped his hands. “Should we eat before the food gets cold?”
“Yes!”
The two continued eating, speaking every so often. They finished eating and cleared up their stuff. They went to the kitchen to wash their dishes, working in silence, until Eve started sniffling.
[“What? What? What?” Narae asked, leaning forward in her seat.
“What’s going on?” Kian84 questioned.]
“Yah! Why are you crying again?” Kibum wiped his hands dry and went to hug her, resting his chin on her head.
“I feel bad,” Eve said through a hiccup as tears streamed down her face.
“Ah, why?”
“You’re always looking after me,” she said, hiccuping. "When you’re old and can’t bend your knees anymore I’m going to take care of you, okay?”
He chuckled against her head. “Okay.”
“Promise.” She brought her hand up, pinky waiting for his. Once he linked his pinky with hers, she looked up at him. “You… have looked after me too much. Turn old quickly,” she instructed through her tears.
“I’ll try my hardest.” He squeezed her shoulder as she put her head against his chest again. “Are we going to finish washing dishes?"
“No,” Eve simply said.
“Okay.”
[“I was really shocked when she started crying,” Code Kunst said.
“Me too,” Narae agreed.
“I didn’t think she was still thinking about how worried Kibum was.”
“That’s how she is,” Kibum said, nodding. “She hangs on to random words you say and thinks about them a lot until she’s become emotional about it.”
“I see why you worry about her now,” Kian84 said, shaking his hand around.
“Right?”
“She didn’t seem upset until she started crying.”
Kibum nodded. “You never know what she’s thinking until she has no choice but to express her emotions. It must be hard for her.”]
[“The reason I cried is because he’s always been looking after me. When we were younger, we lived with our grandmother because our parents were busy with work, and he always played with me and entertained me to make sure I didn’t miss our parents too much,” Eve explained, gesturing with her hands. “Even when I went to New York, he’d call me as often as possible to make sure I was doing okay. When I became a trainee, when I moved to Seoul, when I debuted… he’s always been taking care of me. And the conversation we had made me realise again just how much he cares for me, and I felt bad about making him do so much for me.”]
“Are you okay, now?” Kibum asked, stroking Eve’s hair.
She nodded. “Yeah.”
“Should we watch a movie?”
“Yes.”
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[Areumdaun! cheongchunui Han jang~] The loud singing appeared from the darkness of the bedroom. Her alarm ringing.
[“Oh gosh! That scared me” Narae exclaimed.
“Is that your alarm?” asked Code Kunst.
“Yes it is,” Jangmi sheepishly answered, “I want to wake up right away, so I used a loud song”
“Do you like Day6?” Key asked.
“Yes. I’m a big fan of them.”]
“Dolce-ah~, Latte-ah~” A voice from underneath the pile of blankets called out. The pitter-pattering of footsteps was heard before her bedroom door opened, revealing her beloved babies. Hopping on the bed, they are quick to the awaiting arms of Jangmi.
[“So cute.” Key exclaimed.]
Sitting up and stretching, Jangmi got out of bed and exited her bedroom; finally showing the world her bare, morning face. Rubbing her eyes, and covering her yawn, she goes to the kitchen to feed her darling babies.
[“Wow! You look so pretty in the morning.”
“That’s what you look like without makeup?”]
Feeding her dogs, she walked back to her bedroom to freshen up. The sound of water pouring and music starts to drift out of her room. Meanwhile her dogs have just finished eating when the sound of the front door being unlocked caught their attention.
[“Who is it? Who’s there?” Narae asked.”]
The camera panned and showed two males coming in, face covered by a question mark, each holding a paper bag filled with flowers. Dolce and Latte went to guard her bedroom door, sitting in front of it. “Dolce-ah~, Latte-ah~” the mysterious figure cooed. “Are you doing a good job of protecting our princess?”
The question mark is lifted off their faces, revealing Jin-young and Tae-young of FATE.
[“Ah, It’s her older brothers” a collective sound of understanding was heard around the studio]
[“Hello~” Jangmi bowed, sitting behind her on her couch was Wilson the bear, sad idly. “Today, I have a free day from work, so I am spending with my older brothers.”]
Getting right to work, Jin-young and Tae-young placed the flowers on the table. A cake was pulled out from one of the bags and placed on the table. Setting up the cake and flowers as quickly as they could, they fashioned the flowers prettily.
[“Hello,” both Jin-young and Tae-young bowed in greeting.
‘Why are you setting up the table with all those flowers?’
“We couldn’t celebrate the release of her newest album when it came out, so we decided to surprise her today.” Jin-young explained, gesturing with his hands.
‘Were you nervous that she would be outside? You guys looked worried when coming in.’
“It wasn’t that we were nervous, but we just wanted to make sure Dolce and Latte wouldn’t bark.” Tae-young answered.]
[“My siblings wouldn't do this for me”]
Hearing the door open, they both got ready to surprise Jangmi. Stepping outside, Jangmi wasn’t prepared to see her brothers in her dining room; holding big bouquets of roses and carnations in different shades of pink and red.
“Hwa-young-ah~ Congratulations!” Both Jin-young and Tae-young shouted.
“Oppa! What are all these?” Jangmi asked, as she was led towards her dining table.
“To celebrate your new album,” Jin-young replied, patting her head. Looking up at both her older brothers, eyes twinkling in appreciation, she hugged both of them. “Jin-oppa, Tae-oppa, Thank you very much. I really love it.”
[“Wow, is this how you guys really are?” Key asked.
“You aren’t faking it for the camera?” Kian84 questioned
“The three of us are really this close. Even from a young age we were always close with each other.” Jangmi replied]
They all sat down and enjoyed the cake, which was strawberry short-cake, her favorite.
Sitting in the passenger seat of Jin-young’s car, Jangmi played around with the music, finally settling on Day6. “Aish, you and your love of Day6” Tae-young said, rolling his eyes. Turning around, she pokes him. “You can’t say anything you shawol.”
“But I can say something,” Jin-young pipes up, keeping his eyes on the road. This causes both Jangmi and Tae-young to look at him. “I’m friends with both of them, it feels weird when you keep gushing about how cool they are.”
“Yes, yes,” Jangmi and Tae-young replied at the sametime, looking at each other.
[“Oh, Tae-young is a fan of Shinee?” Hyunmoo asks
“Yes he is.”]
Arriving at the restaurant, they all got out of the car. “Jin-oppa! Tell Tae-oppa to stop poking me.” Jangmi clinged to Jin-young. Internally sighing, he told Tae-young to stop bothering Jangmi.
“Hyung~, she kept bothering me first.” Tae-young retaliated, clinging to Jin-young’s other arm. Not being able to hold back, he let out a long, exasperated sigh. “Both of you, stop annoying each other please. If you keep at it, I will go to the restaurant and leave you here until you both promise to stop annoying each other.”
“Yes.” Both of them promised.
[“It looked like kids being scolded by their mom.” Kian84 commented.]
Inside, once seated, they started to look at the menu. Calling the waiter, Jin-young starts ordering. Soon the food starts arriving; both Jin-young and Tae-young start grilling the pork bellies and pork loin. When the stew arrived, Jangmi portioned it into bowls and gave her older brothers their stew. Before giving some pork belly to Jangmi, Tae-young cuts the fat off and gives her a plateful of pork belly.
[“Eh! Why is he cutting the fat off?“ Narea asked.
“That’s the best part of pork belly.” Hyunmoo sighed.
“Actually, if I eat too much pork fat, my tummy ends up feeling sick.” Jangmi explained.
“Really?” Narae asked, surprised, “How much can you eat then?”
“Last time, one, two slices before my stomach hurt.” Jangmi gestured.
“Wow, I can’t imagine that.” Hyunmoo said, shaking his head.]
When they were all finished with their meal, Jin-young went to pay, whilst Jangmi and Tae-young shared looks at each other. When Jin-young returned, he was met with a gleeful looking Jangmi and Tae-young, holding a paper bag and box respectively. “Oppa/Hyung, since you’ve always taken such great care of us, we wanted to appreciate our thanks.”
Receiving the gifts with thankfulness, he opens them. In the paper bag were films for a film camera; and in the box was a Canon AE-1. placing the gifts down, he gave hugs to his younger siblings. “Thank you so much guys.”
Jangmi, not wanting Tae-young to feel left out, had prepared a gift for him. “Tae-oppa, I have something for you too.” She hands him the paper bag. Inside was the book he had been meaning to find. Grateful he hugs his little sister.
[“Today, although it started unexpectedly, I had a great time hanging out with my older brothers. It was nice to be with my family again, especially since our parents live far from us.” Jangmi expressed. “Even with our busy schedules, we always like to spend some time hanging out, catching up. I had a really great day. Jin-oppa, Tae-oppa, I love you.”]
[“It was fun hanging out with our younger sister again after a while. Since we are all idols, it’s sometimes hard to even talk with each other if not by calling. So we are thankful to be able to have fun with her today. Hwa-young-ah we love you.”]
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