Hey! Real quick thanks so much for picking up by book this is the first time I've really tried writing a Twice x Reader book to please forgive me for any mistakes I may make.
I'm not sure if I mentioned this in the preview but this is a male reader, so sorry if that's not your cup of tea.
And before you say anything yes I'm an Arsenal fan that's why I chose Arsenal to be the parent club although feel free to change it to any club you support as it shouldn't have much impact on the story itself. It's just kind of a starting point.
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"Auba!"
You shouts trying to get your Captain's attention. Currently the team was having an 11v11 practice match and very luckily for you, you were able to have one of the best finishers in the league on your practice team.
Seeing Auba make a run, you takes the opportunity to slot a nicely weighted pass through the opposing defenders landing right at his feet, the captain takes an extra touch and curls it towards the far post...
*BANG*
Right off the post...
And with that the coaches blew their whistles signaling the end of the game and the end of training earning cheers from some players and groans from the others, all that was left was the cooldown to prevent injuries and soreness tomorrow.
You popped to the floor, defeated that Aubameyang couldn't score in the last kick of the game. He looks over to see his captain coming over to talk to him with a big smile on his face. Auba offers a hand, which you gladly accept, helping you up off the ground.
"I'm sorry my friend" he laughed "It was a good pass though? eh?"
"How are you going to miss that?" You joked back "You won the golden boot didn't you?"
"Hey! I'm older now, you can't expect me to do everything, that's where all you kids come in." He responds giving you a 'light' slap on the back
It was all jokes between the two but there might have been a twinge of salt in the air having been unable to get the game winning assist, even if it was training a win was a win to you.
The two of them joined up with the rest of the players and continues with the ending of practice, there was even a meeting to discuss the team selection for the next match against Newcastle.
Led by their new(ish) manager Mikel Arteta, he read off the starting XI which included the usual suspects, and a relatively strong bench. Rather questionably though you were left out of the squad entirely, despite playing well in the FA cup and Europa League, you would have to wait another week to get your Premier League debut.
As Arteta concludes the meeting you glance around to your teammates to possibly offer an explanation to your omission from the squad, some offered condolence stares while most either shrugged their shoulders or ignored you entirely.
The only one to actually come up to you was someone who had a lot of experience being left out of the side, Mesut Ozil. Putting his arm around you, he offered some words of wisdom.
"Listen, you are young my friend, when I was your age I was playing for Wolfsburg back in Germany. Your knocking on the doorstep of one of the biggest clubs in the world." He says poking your chest.
"Yeah and the next season you moved to Real Madrid." You say back, obviously with a healthy sprinkling of sarcasm
"Have patience my friend. You will get your time soon enough." He says before walking off towards the ice baths.
All you can do is sigh in disappointment and head towards the main building to follow your cooldown routine.
After finishing the cooldowns you started packing your bag and getting ready to head home for the day, Twice appeared in Running Man last night and you were maybe a bit too excited to get home and watch.
Yes that's right, you were a fan of Twice, being Korean American and moving to a new country at a new age to pursue your passion, you found whatever her could to make himself less homesick. Along with Twice you also had a strong love for all things comics, even incorporating them into your celebrations at times, much like Auba would.
Saying your goodbyes to your teammates, you walks out of the dressing room only to bump into your manager.
"Oh perfect, just who I wanted to see. " Mikel says with a smile on his face. "Come with me to my office."
"Oh uh, sure" you say, rushing to keep up.
The walk to the office was silent besides the occasional greetings and "good work today" from the training staff. You never realized it but you've gotten quite friendly with a lot of the workers here, like most academy graduates you had been here since you was a teenager, some even younger than that, they were all kinda like parenting figures for you considering he'd left everyone else back in the states.
Your teammates were like brothers and the staff like parents, Arsene Wenger especially, that man really shaped your perception of not only football but life.
"Have a seat" Mikel says, offering you a chair to which you promptly take.
"Is this about me being omitted from tomorrow's game?" You rushed to ask.
"Yes and no, how long have you been at the club Y/n? 6 years? 7 years?" Mikel asks.
"7 years sir, since I was 14."
"And have you ever thought about playing somewhere else?" He retorts
Immediately my heart drops, I can't believe this was happening, all my goals were about winning here at this club. I wanted to lift the Champions Leagues title, I wanted to lift the Premier League title with Arsenal. A move away seems so sudden and unexpected I've been playing well at every chance I've gotten.
"And before you get any weird ideas what I'm saying is that the board and I want you to go out on loan." the manager quickly adds
"Oh.. oh that's not so bad" You reply, having had the fright of you life. visibly relaxing in your chair.. and then it clicked
"Wait! Why do you want me to go on loan? I've been playing so well here!" You jump out of your seat when fully realizing the situation
"That may be true, but you're still only 21 and there's a lot of players currently ahead of you in the pecking order to be honest."
You slumped back down in your seat, you knew that was the reality of playing for such a big club, there would always be someone better than you at your position and a loan would be a a good opportunity to get more first team football and prove yourself.
"What're the current options I have?" You say, slightly more deflated than before.
"Well, currently we have three offers on the table." Arteta says, tossing three contracts onto the table.
"New York Red Bulls"
"FC Seoul"
"And PAOK FC in Greece"
"Now, we've already spoken with your agent and everything is already set up for you at whichever club you choose, just keep in mind that your game time will vary depending on what club you pick." He points out.
"From what I saw from the negotiations Seoul gave a guarantee for at least 20 games and the number 7 shirt, which at your age could be of great interest."
"No Premier League teams came in for me?" You ask, with a slight hope that you'll get to stay here in England.
"Chelsea had some interest in you but we quickly ended that." Arteta said very matter of factly. It's not like you were interested in joining a rival anyways.
"Hmm.." You think for a second, weighing up your options, going to the Greek league was already out of the equation. Unfortunately you weren't in the market to learn Greek for a season, that only left a return to America or a trip to Korean.
"Has New York offered anything?"
"All they could guarantee was a spot on the bench."
Well that settles it, a chance to play at least 20 league games and the number 7 shirt? Despite being more of a midfielder the number 7 was well respected no matter what club you're at. Who knows maybe you'll get a chance to meet Twice you think to yourself, half joking of course.
"I think that's your answer right there." You let out a chuckle "Look's like I'm headed to Seoul."
"I'm glad to hear you made that decision, we'll get everything figured out on our end so don't worry about anything, this loan will be for one entire K - League season and remember, when you come back you can expect to start fighting for a bigger role at this club, but no promises. You need to prove yourself, both here and there." Arteta says with a smile, moving closer to bring you into a hug.
"Just play your game and you'll have the chance to prove yourself." Mikel adds, patting your back
You only give him a nod before bidding him farewell and returning back to your car. You sat there for a few moments realizing what was going to happen, at the age of 21 you were once again moving countries to peruse your dreams. You already did it at the age of 14 coming from the US to England so moving to Korea shouldn't be too bad you thought to yourself.
"I should tell mom when I get home" you sigh to yourself before starting your engine and heading home.
The next few days were a bit hectic, having won 2-1 away to Newcastle, the news of your loan broke not too long after and surprisingly to you there was much more media attention than you expected.
All the headlines read "Arsenal Talent Headed on Loan to Seoul" or some variation of that, the following training days were rather pleasant with a lot of the more senior players offering their congratulations on your move and some were even saying their last goodbye, fully knowing that they would not be there when you returned.
"And that's everything" You sigh, taking a look at your empty closet. Most of your clothes were being shipped later tonight and the rest of it was packed in the suitcase for tomorrows flight, you made sure to prepare a nice outfit for tomorrow since you knew South Korea had a thing for paparazzi to be at the airport.
Taking one last look at the outfit, a simple white t-shirt with a black suit jacket and some clean black shorts, it was summer after all. But the crème de la crème of the outfit was your black pair of Air Force 1 G-Dragon Peaceminusone Para-Noise. Looking at them you remember how hard it was to actually buy a pair, you ended up being late for training because you were too focus on getting yourself a pair.
You look at the clock to see it's already 11pm, remembering you had an 11 hour flight tomorrow and you think it's best that you hit the hay. Setting up your Spotify and turning on their sleep timer, you start up 잘자요 굿나잇 (Sleep Tight Good Night) by TWICE and you start to drift away.
Not too far away in Paris there was a certain Twice member that was wrapping up her vacation. She was looking at her newest tattoo she had gotten here, yes she may have flown all the way to Paris to get a tattoo, who were you to judge.
"Sana-unnie, I have to get to sleep, I have a flight tomorrow back to Seoul" Chaeyoung said in her cutest voice.
"Ah~ I expect some nice gifts then" Sana joked back, she knew Chaeyoung would bring her back the best gift, she always does when she travels somewhere.
"You already know I will. Goodnight!" Chaeyoung waved as she turned off facetime and plopped back onto her bed, taking a look at the new tattoo on her right wrist, a simple dandelion that she had drawn herself.
"Ah it's so nice" she said to herself before drifting off to dreamland.
"I'm sorry miss, but there appears to have been an issue with the flights." The airport staff said very apologetically to Chaeyoung
"Huh? How is there a mistake? I booked a private flight." Chaeyoung said back, very confused, looking at the manager for help
"What's the issue?" The manager asks.
"It appears there was a mix up of flight, your party seems to have been meshed together with another passengers." The worker bowed in apology "They are only a party of two so if it's okay with you we can allow both parties to travel together."
"Would it be possible to get another plane instead?" Chaeyoung asked
"It wouldn't be ready for another three days, if you can wait that long." The worker had a weak smile.
"I guess I'll have to share then." Chaeyoung let out a defeated sigh, her only hope was that whoever it was, hopefully they didn't recognize her.
You arrived to the gate around 20 minutes before the flight only to be greeted by a panicked gate attendant trying to explain to you about some mix up with flight and that you would have to share it with someone? You said it was no big deal and proceeded to take a seat near who you assumed to be the other person you would be flying with while your agent went to speak with who appeared to be the more organize of the two others.
"Uhh Y/n could you come here real quick?" Your agent beckoned "I think they're speaking Korean and I can't understand."
"Ah sure no problem." You said, getting up and walking over to the two.
"Hello?" You said hesitantly with a small bow, unsure if your agent was right or a bit crazy
"Ah Hi, I'm glad you speak Korean." The man said "The woman over there and I are also headed to Korea, we hope this flight can be easy for both of us. We're sorry for any inconveniences this may have caused."
"Oh no no, it's no issue at all." You quickly say back "We both got kinda screwed over with this so no hard feelings at all."
You weren't too pressed about sharing a flight, you didn't even plan to get a private flight at first but your agent convinced you to with the argument that you were a little too well know to be safe on a regular commercial flight.
All the while, as this conversation was happening, little did they know a certain Son Chaeyoung was staring rather intently at the strangers that would be sharing their flight. More specially she was look at someone that looked around her age dressed in a rather simple outfit but he certainly wore it well.
"Maybe the flight wouldn't be as bad as I thought." She thought to herself.
Soon enough the flight started boarding with the four of them all looking a bit surprised at the seating arrangements of the flight. Since neither of them were intending on have two extra passengers, there was a noticeable lack of seating.
Instinctively, the seats by the table were taken by both Chaeyoung's manager and Y/n's agent since there was still work to be done even if they were 31,000 ft. in the air. This left Chaeyoung sat on the couch next to the mystery man, who was preoccupied on his phone, Chaeyoung wondered if he recognized her and didn't say anything or if he didn't have the slightest clue who she was.
That being said, it didn't really matter since she would likely never see this man again, so she just put in her headphones and continued messing around with her journal. She would start to draw and jot down whatever lyrics came to her mind, instinctively humming along to their Eyes Wide Open album.
Everything was going smoothly until she felt a tap on her shoulder. Taking a look to her left it was the stranger, taking out her headphone she looked at him.
"What's up?" She said.
The next words that came out of his mouth made her heart pound with anxiety, he didn't seem to be a bad guy but she has no way of knowing. But who knows who he is and now she had to be stuck on a flight with him?
"I'm sorry to bother you, you seem busy, but are you any chance Son Chaeyoung?" He asked.
You nodded at your agent as he gave you a look, taking the individual chair, you knew that he had work to get done while you just had to endure the flight. You say endure but it was your first time on a private jet and you had it admit you were a bit excited.
To keep your eyes from wandering in amazement you pull out your phone and start checking the notifications. The majority of them were from Arsenal fans and FC Seoul fans alike, one was wishing you all the best with your loan while the others were excitedly welcoming you to their club. It was a nice feeling you couldn't lie.
You continue to browse social media until you get an JYP Bubble notification, it was from Sana and the message read: "I can't wait to see our Chaeyoungie tonight~ She's flying back from vacation as we speak."
You couldn't help but smile to himself, he was glad that at least some of the members were able to have some time to themselves. You switch back to Instagram to see if there was any new post from TWICE and that's when he heard something familiar.
"I can't stop me, can't stop me~"
It was the girl next to you, she was humming along to I Can't Stop Me by Twice, and that's when you couldn't help but notice something. The voice, the short stature, the fashion sense, the more you thought about it the more it seemed realistic. That would explain why she was able to afford a private jet.
It was all but confirmed that you was sitting next to The Son Chaeyoung, but what really made you certain was when she flipped a page in her notebook, three very specific tattoos decorated her fingers and that's when you knew.
Obviously you wanted to say something to her but you assumed she would prefer to have her privacy kept secret. But how could you be in the position of a lifetime and not at least say hi? You might be playing her Arsenal but you sure was starstruck right now, which was weird considering you've met players, like Mesut Ozil, Mo Salah, and even Eden Hazard.
But no, 5′ 3″ Kpop idol Son Chaeyoung was making your hands shake. Mustering all the courage you had available and channeling every fiber of your being to remain calm you gave her a tap on the shoulder.
She took out her headphones and looked towards you.
"What's up?"
Taking in a deep breath and as quietly you could while still be audible you said,
"I'm sorry to bother you, you seem busy, but are you any chance Son Chaeyoung?"
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It's me again. Thanks so much for reading the first chapter I hope it was enjoyable.
I just wanted to shout out both @Vorrentis and @nineandone for writing Twice x Reader stories of their own that served as a lot of inspiration for me to write this story myself. If you haven't read either of their works... what are you doing here? Go read them right now and come back.
This was obviously a very expositional chapter and the future chapters will hopefully have a better balance of Twice, Y/n, and their integrations.
And if you like how I write but don't like this story itself I have other fics up on other websites like Archive of Our Own and AsianFanFics under the OurChaeyoung name and I even have some on Twitter (@ OurChaeyoung) so I have other options.
That being said, this is only the second time I'm doing a multichapter story so please look forward to my writing improving as this goes on.
Also another special shout out to @nineandone for being cool enough to read and give me feedback on this chapter before I released.
Thanks again for reading :*