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Chapter 7

One of the reasons you initially came to Korea was because you were a huge fan of kpop. Likewise, so were Caitlin and Julia. Likewise so were a few other people in your exchange program.

In-between classes, and now work, you all got together and began to practice doing dance covers to your favorite songs.

Oneus' Valkyrie, Twice's Cheer Up, Gfriend's Sunrise... You guys practiced dancing to it all.

You also all were pretty musically inclined and decided to sing along with it, just like idols would. Yes, wow, it screamed Koreaboo, but when your professor found out about it, she had been thrilled. It was apparently a great way for you guys to get in touch with Korean culture and practice your Korean.

So with the encouragement of your teacher and the backing of your fellow students who all secretly knew that this idea was a little bizarre you all got together one night to perform your covers.

You were not the most talented dancer, and you weren't the most powerful singer, but you believed that when you put together both of those two aspects you were pretty good.

You worked hard at dancing so it made you a pretty good dancer in general and you were also a pretty good singer, you could hit the high notes that you needed to rather well and you enjoyed singing and dancing. So you tended to follow the vocalists.

Seoho, Jihyo, and Eunha.

You were in all three of the dances that you guys were performing.

A lot of people showed up. You hadn't really expected a lot of people to show up.

Surprisingly enough you weren't too nervous.

"Oh god, what were we thinking," Caitlin breathed. You patted her back.

"Relax, you're going to do fine," you assured softly. Caitlin huffed out a nervous laugh.

"Shut up, what do you know? You never get nervous."

Sometimes, when you were really anxious your entire body revolted against you. It transcended your body shaking and your reddening face. It transcended all of that and became this awful feeling like your entire body was alive, it's own entity. Like... Electricity was running through your joints... Like you could barely take in a single breath because all you wanted to do was get up and run but no matter how hard and fast you ran you won't be able to kill the feeling, because you don't really want to run, your body just senses your stress and thinks that running is the best way to cure that.

You wanted to run... You wanted to run so badly.

"It's going to be fine Caitlin. We've been practicing this for ages, and we're really good," you assured softly. You looked out at the crowd of people. You sucked in a sharp breath.

There were so many people.

"You remember Callum?" You asked. Caitlin nodded. He was a friend of theirs. He was Korean and when you had all first met him you had hidden that you liked Kpop till the death because you were afraid that he would think that was the only reason you guys liked him was because you were interested in idols. He found out when he walked in on you guys practicing a dance once time for fun.

He had been so nice about it. He always told them that they were good dancers and politely corrected their Korean if it wasn't very good.

"If Callum was as nice as he was, what makes you think anyone in this crowd will be really mean about our performance? This is just for fun. So don't stress okay? Just have fun."

Caitlin's worried expression melted into a smile.

One down.

You went to every other student. Everyone was so nervous. You understood why. You really wanted to run but as one of the originators of this ridiculous idea, you had to help make sure that everyone was emotionally okay before you were. Part of the job of any person in a leadership position was to ensure everyone was happy and felt good about themselves. You may not be a leader but people came to you for emotional support, and whether good at giving it or not you were always willing to try and help soothe everyone's nerves.