Ik Hou Van Je (Book 2) - A Julia Barretto Fanfiction

Chapter 3 - Flight to Escoda

This chapter is dedicated to Jennie Kim and the whole Blackpink. Blackpink is a brave and a classy group of the K-pop industry. Appreciated, yet being bashed. This one's for you, Blackpink. The North Collective Team loves you! Godspeed, Blackpink! 🔥

DISCLAIMER: The Blackpink timeline here in this story is purely fictional and not accurate for we follow the timeline of the Ik Hou Van Je book series. We do not intend to offend the Blackpink group, it's fans and the whole K-pop industry in this story. All of the events mentioned in this chapter is purely fictional, except for the very first hits of Blackpink.

April 11, 2016.

Seoul, South Korea.

Solar Bloom are one of the rising stars of the K-pop industry and in the world music industry. In fact, their single, Boombayah, gained international recognition, hitting million views in Youtube, gaining hundred-thousand copies of the single sold. Merchandise of the group are being bought by fans, at humantong sa punto na nagkaubusan na ng merch at mga CD's. So in short, the Solar Bloom fever has begun!

Solar Bloom are now busy promoting their singles "Whistle" and "Boombayah" around the world. At sa panahon na iyon, maraming mga K-pop fans ang humahanga sa kanila, dahil sa angas at galing nila sa pagsayaw, sa pag-rap at sa pagkanta. At lalo na sa visuals ng music video nila. It's top-notch!

But, as Eminem says in his song, maybe Stan isn't your cup of tea. And so does Solar Bloom. Hindi lahat ng K-pop fans ay cup of tea nila ang Solar Bloom. Normal yan sa industriya ng musika. (Some of our writers here in The Collective are also fans of K-pop and one is a musician) Kahit sikat ka o hindi, hindi ka cup of tea ng iilan. And some even tend to bash or worse, hate the artists.

The same day, Min Sung Kyung (Jennie Kim) or better known as Bible, one of the members of Solar Bloom, is reading the comments of K-pop enthusiasts on their performance. And as expected, some loved the performance, whilst some hated it.

Some bashers commented:

Solar Bloom's piece of crap!
This Solar Bloom is talentless, how come they became popular?
Bible, you're too skinny and ugly!
Solar Bloom sucks!
Solar Bloom's not my cup of tea, sorry.
Solar Bloom, why don't you go to hell?!? Your music's TRASH!!!

And some of Solar Bloom fans are even showing their hate too. Toxic, ain't it?

Everyone's beautiful except Min Sun Kyung.
I love Solar Bloom but I don't love their performance here tonight. They suck.

At ayaw na naming magbanggit ng mga salitang nakakasira ng kapuwa. We don't want to think about comments with profanities here at this point.

Even the media and the critics, hati ang opinyon nila. Worse part is, some critics 'criticize' but shows hatred to their criticism.

Bible and the group are being affected by it, hindi lang nila maipakita.

And as Bible read the hate comments, siyempre, tao lang siya at hindi robot, she broke down and cried. Hindi niya nakayanan ang mga hatred speech against her and the group.

"I think it's time to call it quits. This is too much for me! They thought that being an idol is easy, there's no way that their statement is true!" Bible cried.

Loud sobs and loud weeping echo inside her room. At sa lakas nito, narinig ito ng mga kasama niya sa grupo.

Lee Min Ah (Jisoo), known as Alexa, was the first to hear Bible crying. Nagmadali siya sa kuwarto ni Bible, and yes, she saw Jennie in tears.

"Bible, are you okay? What's wrong?" Alexa said in Korean.

"I can't stand these hatred to us anymore!" Bible sobbed.