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Chapter 2

The other girl, the one with her friends was smiling too. She playfully hit one of her friends on his arm and loudly proclaimed something you couldn't hear. Her smile seemed real too. She was in the center of her group of friends, if she wasn't happy then there would be no need for her to be in the center. She would slink towards the back, trying to draw attention away from her. It was nice to see four people all so genuinely happy with one another. They all seemed to be platonic too. None of the guys watched the girl more closely than they watched one another. It was oddly refreshing.

The girl stuck her tongue out childishly at one of the boys. He protested and began to chase her, he scooped her up and lifted her over his shoulder. Her mouth opened in what you imagined was a squeal and the boy carried her around the sidewalk. It was loud enough that the girl with the earbuds looked up surprised.

The girl on the shoulder of the boy turned meek when they made eye contact. She smiled and waved. The girl with the earbuds laughed to the point that she covered her hand with her mouth and waved as well.

Both girls returned to their own activities.

You wondered what it would be like if either of the girls had seen you. Would you have been able to share their state of innocent bliss? Would you be able to smile with them and let it be completely genuine?

You tried to spread your lips into a smile.

It shrunk after only a moment.

You knew that you used to be able to smile like those girls down there. You knew that once upon a time, you had been able to smile for the stupidest reasons over the stupidest things. No matter how hard life got, you could make a smile cross your lips and it had always been real.

When did your smiles stop being real?

"Oh my god."

You looked away from the city below you and glanced at Caitlin. She was sitting on the couch, but now her expression was morphed into one of pure excitement.

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god."

"What? Did V tweet a good picture or something?" You asked.

"No, your picture on instagram oh my god your picture on instagram, they commented on it."

"What are you talking about?" You asked, moving away from the window.

"Oh my god, they really did," Julia exclaimed. "You have to see this! I can't even believe my eyes!"

You rushed over to the couch and grabbed your phone. On the screen were the normal notifications.

Liked by Sunrise_sunset, Liked by sarangyou, Liked by emilykennedy, Liked by otakulife, Liked by...

You froze.

Liked by woozi_universefactory, Liked by chwenotchew, Liked by pledis_boos

"No fucking way," you murmured. You slide open your phone and loaded the photo. You went under the comment section on your page and sure enough.

Chwenotchew: Wow, The six of us look good together! We should meet one another again!

Pledis_boos: @chwenotchew we're together all the time what are you talking about?

Woozi_universefactory: I can't believe we weren't tagged in this. How are people supposed to know who is who?

You stared at your phone screen, your mouth gaping wide.

"H-how-"

"Well, your account is on public."

"They still shouldn't have been able to find it!" You protested.

"Didn't you spam Seungkwan's account once? And you comment on all of Woozi's pictures. Maybe they glanced at your account one time and recognized you when we met," Julia suggested. You scoffed.

"Do you even hear yourself, they are idols," you exclaimed. "How could you try to rationalize this? There's no rational explanation to why idols would leave comments on my instagram."

"She's right. It is a little bizarre," Caitlin agreed. "They didn't even like our posts."

"We're both on private," Julia pointed out. Caitlin pouted.

"Well, they didn't try to follow us."

"I don't think any of the members of Seventeen have ever done something like this," Julia stated after a long moment. All three of you stared at your phones. The comments seemed to blur in your vision. You couldn't even focus on the comments anymore. You couldn't understand what you had done for them to pay attention to you. It was bizarre the very first time they paid attention to you. It was bizarre now.

You kept thinking that the comments would disappear.

"You're so lucky," Julia breathed. Caitlin made a soft noise of affirmation.

The comments didn't disappear.