My Love Standing Next to Me

Chapter One

It was always a fangirling moment when I woke up. Thanks to my phone, I would wake up to the beautiful sound of South Korean pop music, or K-Pop for short. I love and always will love K-Pop. Not to mention the amazing and heart-felt Korean dramas. I have so many favorite groups and I can’t help to be biased to one. Call me crazy but they are just so dreamy and perfect, I want to marry them! My name is Clara, an average seventeen year old teenager with obsessions, hopes and dreams. And if you couldn’t tell already, I really like the South Korean culture. One of my many impossible dreams is to one day fall in love with a cute and hot K-Pop idol, he will love me for who I am, he would protect me, and he would prove to me that even if he is an idol and adored by many fans, he would still choose me over anyone. Ah, I always have dreamed of that moment where I would just look into his eyes and he would look into mine and sparks would just fly. Like it was love at first sight. And I have come to think that my expectations are high and is a little overboard. I guess those things just happen in the fanfictions and dramas, right? Thankfully, there is a concert of two K-pop boy groups coming next month and I am so excited, it would be my first and hopefully not the last K-Pop concert. My thoughts race through my head, one after another. Then, I soon realize I am late to school.

I rushed out of bed and straight into my bathroom. I quickly do my morning routine and I peeked out the door to see the projected time from my projector clock. It reads, 7:45 am. All that was going through my head was that I am going to be so late. I was going to be late, again. My train of thought would always control me, it takes over my reality sometimes. I was doing my hair and suddenly reality kicked in. Did I do my math homework? English? Oh my god, did I study for the Social Study exam?

As always I forget to study, which is a horrible habit. I won’t blame it on K-Pop or my charming idols because it was all on me, it’s not their fault they're so addicting and cute. I sometimes wonder how I got so into K-Pop. It’s practically my life ever since day one. But I sure did not regret it. Believe or not it got me through the good and bad. It is a stress reliever and my motivation to study hard. Though, the dramas are also a perfect way of making me more of a hopeless romantic.

Arriving at school, I could see that I was late to the first period of the day. Which is sad because this wasn’t my only time being late. I was feeling semi-embarrassed about walking into class late but I soonly enough, I got over it. Luckily, my bubbly personality clears it all up.

“Ms. Clara, why are you late, again?” My teacher, Mrs. Marlow said.

“Sorry Mrs. Marlow, there was really bad traffic this morning, please forgive me!” I said, trying to conceal the truth with a sad puppy face.

“I know that that’s not the reason, but I’ll let you off easy this time. Don’t make it a habit.” She said in a tone that sounded like it was an everyday thing.

“Thank you Mrs. Marlow! I’ll try not to be late again!” I said enthusiastically then I breathed a sigh of relief.

Before I know it, school was over. Same routine every day. I had friends and best friends but I decided not to hang out with them today because I had to finish up my homework that was long overdue and I had to head straight home today. K-Pop is my life and it was my school life too. Even if I try to study and learn, I just can’t stop thinking of it. Am I a sasaeng? A sasaeng is the Korean term for a excessively obsessed K-Pop fan, the people who don’t just enter fandoms or fan clubs, buy merchandise, goes to every concert, but is extreme fans that stalk idols and invade their privacy. I don’t think I am one though, since I am short the stalking quality, which I think is a good thing.

I’m just on the way to finishing my senior year in high school, and I already have a job waiting for me in South Korea. My generous and supportive aunties who already live there are willing to give me a place to live and also give me full support. I just can’t wait for this school year to end!

I was hoping that I could get a ride home from a friend, but it seems like nobody couldn’t so I decided to ride the bus. I’m the type of person that would just listen to music from the point of waiting for the bus at the bus stop to arriving at home. I plug in my earphones to my phone and then I play on shuffle my hundreds of K-Pop songs. The moment that I arrived on the doorstep of my home I quickly kicked off my shoes and ran upstairs. I went on my computer because I knew the day before that today was when they would release the new music video of Exo (a popular K-pop boy band.) I clicked away and I started feeling very eager to watch them. I’ve waited weeks and watched many teaser videos leading to this one video. I clicked the play button and I started watching. The very few seconds melted away and while I was watching I heard something.

“Clara, take out the trash!” My mom shouted through my door.

“What?” I said because I couldn’t hear her over the new music video of Exo playing in the background.

“I said take out trash! Turn that off and finish your chores!” My mom said as she walked past my door.

I just quickly finished the music video, took a sigh, and went downstairs to take the rubbish outside. Moments ago, I was watching the new Exo music video, which I love very much. Exo, in my opinion is the most popular Korean boy band out there. I’m sure all K-Poppers know them as well as some non K-Poppers. Although their deemed the most popular boy band, their not my absolute favorite. My unconditional and most favorite boy band of all time is Beast. Just thinking about them makes my heart explode! I cannot imagine my life without them, and I wouldn’t last a day without thinking about them. I wish that one day we would meet. One day.