Fate

Chapter 133

Mina's POV
We ended the last show successfully. We did a GIGANTIC group hug Taemin-ssi, the rest of the dancers and I. He yelled out so loud. "Let's get dinner! I'm STARVING! Aren't you?"

So, the 13 of us went out at 10pm. Afterwards, Taemin and I walked back to our hotel. We were staying on different floors, but the same place. "What are you planning on doing, right now? Can't believe you'll just go to bed."

I smiled, hands in my pockets. "A shower, most likely, but I promised a live on Instagram for my Korean audience. I'll probably end up doing my night routine while I talk." I looked to my right. "Aren't you gonna do one? I feel like it's an obligatory thing each time you're done at a location."

He smiled, glancing up. "It is! I just don't feel like being alone? I miss touring with my hyungs. I had company."

I shrugged. "We could do a joint one. Both have ours running and we have a good time answering your followers as well as mine. If you'd like the company?"

His eyes lit up. "Really? You'd be fine with that?"

I choked on my chuckle. "I'm the one who should be asking that."

He pressed the button for the elevator. "I'm an older Idol. My company doesn't give a damn! I can do what I want. Your floor or mine? I feel like being a mess by taking off my makeup, drinking wine kind of thing."

I clapped my hands. "That's what I wanted to do! I have a half drunken bottle of red in my room."

He pressed my floor and raised a brow. "Half full? When did you buy it, because I can't tell if it's reasonable or if you really needed a drink."

I laughed. "I bought it two days ago. Still good for you?"

He nodded. "Sounds great!"

Namjoon's POV
"Hyuuuung! Min is live with Taemin sunbaenim!" JK yelled from across my apartment.

Really? I walked over to the living room, fixing my jacket. "They met a week ago and they're already doing a live?"

He seemed amused. "It just started with them pouring wine in tiny hotel water glasses. It's gonna be fun~"

I listened. "We both promised to show our faces online, so why not together?" Ah.. Her Hangul sounded so pretty. It was somewhat of a low tone with a higher pitch in the grain of her voice. It'd get sweet and high when she was excited. "As you can see, we still have our makeup on!" She turned to him. "I don't know for you, but I'm taking it off."

He brushed his hair back. "Me too, but how about I read a few questions from my people while you do that?"

She smiled taking some cleansing balm in her hands. "Sounds great!"

"How did you end up working together? Obviously, I saw her work with my own eyes." Taemin laughed. "To be serious for a second, she's Canadian and she's good. Even if we didn't know eachother, having someone familiar abroad made me feel more secure. She also got me more than half my dancing crew with my age requirements and criteria. Requirements? Well, yes! I won't dance my choreographies with 18 year old people, am I? She's the youngest." He pointed at her. "The rest are more around my age."

She frowned. "I can't tell if you're calling me a child or if you're calling yourself old."

"I'm almost 8 years your sunbae! I'm 33, turning 34. I've been in the industry since you're seven years old! It's both a diss on you and me." They laughed so hard.

"Point taken, I heard your songs for the first time when I was ten." She wiped the cleanser with a towel. "My turn with the questions while you take the mask off!" She read while taking a sip. "Are you friends? Uhmm.." She turned to him. "I think we're good colleagues for now? We have a mutual friend so we might bump into eachother more often."

He agreed. "She's really nice, but we don't know anything personal about eachother. I don't even know the name of her dog, you know?"

She was about to make a good point. "Besides, being great colleagues is fine. No one has to be friends with everyone. It's nice to know you can trust you'll work well with someone again if we do. I'm curious. Is there this pressure or do people assume that if you worked with someone or talked to someone that you're automatically friends?"

He nodded. "Yeah! Trust me, if I was friends with everyone I worked with my circle would be the whole kpop 00's-10's industry." She chuckled. "I feel like you're friends with a lot of people. Can I guess your closest? I've seen you around 91's to 02's artists and that is way too long of a list."

She frowned, amused. "Sure! Close friends."

He was so up to the challenge. "I'll start easy... Moonbyul." VERY correct. "Hwasa. Jungkook. Taehyung." Correct. "Leedo. RAVN." Surprisingly still correct. He hesitated. "Jessi? I feel you have a vibe."

She denied. "Not close friends yet. We worked together, but we haven't had the chance to meet out of work. I do call her eonni." A detail escaped her lips. "You only named millenials! Even tho I identify as such, maybe try my generation?"

"You get sassier with a drink, huh?" He enjoyed the conversation quite a bit. "I know you know Chaeryeong and Chaewon, but I don't think you're close.. You're a confusing person because I want to say Yeonjun because of your stage presence, but when you talk you sound like Soobin."

She applauded him. "You're good! Both are right. We didn't get to hang out a lot recently, but we keep in touch. Do you get to keep in touch with friends?"

"A lot more nowadays. I feel that I'm a bit less on the radar so I get a more sparse schedule. What I can say is that you make a lot of friends in the industry, but those who stay after popularity dies down are the true ones, you know?"

"That's a good tip to any artist I think. One last before I sign out?"

He grinned. "Sure! I'll keep going in my room after. Are you going to do a TikTok challenge together? We aren't, but maybe that's an idea for another time. What do you think?"

She happily nodded. "Sounds good to me." She waved. "Bye to my crew and bye to sunbae's people~ Have a great day!"

The maknae line was sat in front on my TV with a phone of theirs projecting the live. Live ended. "She seemed bubbly and having a good time."

Very bubbly indeed. "It's getting her mind off things. She adores putting on a show."

Jimin frowned. I didn't insult his friends or anything! "What do you mean?"

It wasn't my place, maybe? "She loves to perform! That's all I meant!"