It took my halfway charged supreme confidence and all of Roshni's strength to get to this gate. And now, Roshni wants ME to check the place to for security but I'm pulling her along for this very unnecessary and risky scout mission.
Lin and the others are still waiting wide eyed at our confidence—more like Roshni's confidence — to go backstage.
Now that we're closer, I notice Suga leaning quietly on a van waiting as Jimin spoke with some men that looked like security.
"I'm really hoping he remembers me this time so I don't make a fool of myself here!" I think as we get closer
Suddenly, a hand stretches before me and I stop.
"Where do you think you're going?" The voice of the owner of the hand asked
"Of course it won't be easy to meet them" I think as I stare at Roshni for an answer
"We came to get a ride from our friends" She says boldly
"FRIENDS!!? our friends are clearly in another vehicle, few feet away and I'm very sure neither of us are friends with Jimin or suga!"
"What exactly is she thinking!?"
"Your friends are not here so leave" He says not smiling
"I'm sorry about my friend sir, seems like we're lost" I say and smile awkwardly and tap Roshni as a sign for us to leave with our dignity still intact.
"What's going on?"
Facepalm! "Can someone tell me why Suga is here at this embarrassing moment and why I didn't even hear him move!?" I think to myself and turn to my partner in horror, only to see her smiling and her eyes shining like stars.
"Sir, these girls say their friends supposed to pick them up here" the bodyguard guy tells him
"But regular cars don't park back stage.." he smiled knowingly and fear begins to seep in slowly through my skin as the realization of being caught dawn's on me. I felt her hand before I remembered she was still here with me. She shook her head at me looking really scared making me conclude:WE ARE DOOMED!
"Let them through" He laughs and says
"Huh!?" Roshni and I echo in shock. Even the bodyguard was surprised at his decision, but still stepped aside.
"Aren't you coming? we are about to leave" Suga says with a smile and starts moving back to the van. Roshni shakes my palm on hers making me snap out of the shock and follow her to the Van as I whisper "thank you" to the guard that let us through.
Jimin is already in the van so all we have to do is get in and Roshni's dream will come true.
"I can't believe he let us in!" she whispers beside me.
"Right!? I thought we were goners for sure back there!" My heart has really gone through a lot today. From meeting Jk to this experience with Suga, I feel like I'll be really lucky to not develop High blood pressure.
"You guys will join him, he'll take you where you want to go" Suga says making Jimin to notice us and smile.
"Hello"
"Hey, you're the same girl we spoke with earlier right?" he says to me and I nod shyly, relieved that he remembers
"The girl from earlier!? Ese what's he talking about?" Roshni whispered, surprised but I just tap her hand to signify, later.
"Alright, come in and tell me where you guys are going so we can drop you" he says
We get in the van and he points seats to us. "we are going the same way actually" this seat feels really comfortable.
"Oh... But weren't you supposed to be there an hour ago?" he asks with same knowing smile Suga had when he caught us.
"Yeah, I was busy so..." He laughs and I laugh to, but Roshni just stares between us like we're aliens.
"I understand you, if you need help you can call me, I'll cover for you" he winked and I nod. I'm pretty sure I'm red right now
"Did you influence your friend or..."
"All of this was definitely her idea! I don't I'm bold enough to approach you alone" I say rubbing my neck. And he nods still laughing
"what are your names?" he asks
"I'm Roshni and she's Ese" Roshni says finding her voice again
"Nice to meet you bold girls. You both should get comfortable, it'll be a long ride." We both nod and he puts on his ear pods and leans back on his chair.
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The ride is really a long one and everyone is busy with their own thing. And by their own thing I mean, Jimin is resting his head on his chair, probably asleep and Roshni is, sulking? next to me. You see, when Jimin plugged in his ear pod, she suggested we switch our sitting position. so right now, instead of sitting directly behind him, we are all the way back.
"Are you okay?" I'm whispering so won't be disturbed incase he's really asleep. She looks at me for a few seconds then rolls her eyes and looked over to Jimin at the front.
"I think he's asleep" I tell her and she nods.
she moves uncomfortably in her seat and I sit still staring at her, she has something to say to me and if she doesn't say it now, she might not get the chance later cause we will be busy.
"Ese," she starts, with her head leaned back and her eyes to the roof of the car
"What did he mean when he said he met you earlier?" she's looking at me now and I can see the smile she's trying to hide and I smile too.
"Everyone met them earlier Roshni, you should know that"
"You really want me to accept that? come on Ese, the truth, I want the truth" she smiling fully now and I suddenly feel embarrassed
"it's not like I meet him privately either" I say to her. "you remember when Bam chased me at the resort? the day were dog sitting?"
"yeah?"
"Well, I kind of had a conversation with his owner who recognized me today and Jimin was seated next to him so.... it's nothing much really" Ok maybe I shouldn't have added that last past, it made it sound like something.
"Wow! So like, you've met AND spoken with three BTS members in three weeks" she says and I laughing quietly but happily at her statement
"I think it's four if we count Suga" I wink and we both laugh.
I felt truly happy for the first time in a while that I've been here because I've gotten far more than I expected in this past two months. I got a lot of friends and a family that took me in, I met two of the most popular groups in all of Korea and I'm familiar with a few members of one group! Seriously, I feel blessed right now because all these feels more like a dream than reality and a huge part of me hopes that it isn't.
"we're here!" The driver called ahead
"looks like I wouldn't sleep after all" Roshni sighs and I laugh
Jimin goes down first before Rush then me.
"I hope the ride was comfortable" He says to us and we nod. "Okay then, don't forget what I said" he says and we nod again then walks into the set.
"We are so getting killed by the others!" I tell Roshni that just laughs and tapped my shoulder like a big sister.
We saw our friends in a pile whispering to each other frantically, Abel looks at his trusty watch and frowns
"What's got you all flustered?" Roshni asks with a smile while I'm genuinely concerned at their behavior
"Ese!" Myrah tackles me and we both fall as she begins say how they all thought we were kidnapped by the fierce guard and how Suki nearly tore their heads off for arriving late.
I could hardly understand her before she was pulled off my body by Lin and I smile gratefully and try to wipe the dust off my clothes. I love closer and listen as Roshni narrates our near death and heavenly experiences. We got a few nagging from Dam yul and Abel while the rest were so excited for us and wished they could've joined us. Everything has been set up even before we came, so we all moved to find a comfortable place to seat.