Forelsket

46: Kagoshima trip

Chaeyeon's POV:

We finally finished the Chashitsu and was now inside the van, Sakura will be driving us to the shopping district of Kagoshima to get some keepsakes for our friends back in Korea. Whenever we travelled even back in Korea, we buy snacks and keepsakes first before going about our whole day. I've gotten back to collecting keychains again, since I can't buy any alcoholic drinks or risk my life as I know it. Kura-chan have warned me the last time she caught five of us having drinks at our dorm. Her eyes are what scared me into soberness. She has given me a blue heart keychain for her dorm keys, since I liked blue. I still kept the keychain with my keys for the current dorm WM has rented. She performed a tea ceremony for me. It was a very solemn and quiet venue at the Chashitsu place we've been at and after her confession, I had a dorky smile on, that I've been wearing for the last twenty minutes as she drove around Kagoshima.

The city and Prefecture was nice and beautiful. They had a lot of sites and tourist spots here. They were surrounded by seas and mountains. The scenic view was everywhere our eyes landed on, be it in the mountains or the sea side. Her house was located with a backdrop of the mountains, looming over their house at the back and the front courtyard overlooks the seas. It was a very comforting scene, I now understood how she was able to stay calm, it was where she was brought up by Obaasan Emiko, her peaceful surroundings that seemed untouched by war and technology. The town boasted of several note worthy spots such as Parks, Aquarium, Garden and other Nature spots, truly a dream come true to those in touch with Nature. I'd recommend they go to Kagoshima in a heart beat and enjoy the scenic city.

Off the coast was an active volcano island called Sakurajima. It's a shame that we only had two days and one night in the city. Otherwise, I would've explored more of Kagoshima and its impressive mountains and other scenic views. But we were on a time constraint because of our two weeks rest for January before we start for the upcoming comeback. If I would know it, we won't get to rest either way, cause we will be assigned to write lyrics for melodies on our next album and December had our schedules packed until the New year's eve. I know, we're so busy to the point of losing breath. I can't begin to explain how filled we are of activities, the reasoning behind is we were newbies to the business, when you are a newly debuted girl group member, the company schedules a packed few years for you and the team, to make your mark in the industry, it is only until the fourth year do we ease up on our schedules and actually have lesser appearances and activities. We reconsider by that time if we truly love the life we are living now and decide on our future, whether to stay together or disband after the seven years contract we signed with the company.

We soon arrived at Tenmonkan Area, she gathered all kids and instructed that we go on our separate ways and reconvene here where we are standing in thirty minutes, she's going with me and Kwangbae to the Comic Bookstore. We needed to reconvene here because she wanted to go with everyone to shop for some keepsakes. She then drag Kwangbae and I to the Comic Bookstore. Kwangbae had a spring into her steps as we made a bee line to the Comic bookstore. Once we got to the bookstore, she became Kang-chan, a ten year old otaku fanboy, who loves her beloved animé even dressing up like them on weekends as a cosplayer. Kang-chan was given by Kura-chan to her when she's being a kid. Which is like ninety percent of the time, the other ten percent she spends silently stalking everyone, not wanting to interact but lets everyone hug her and bug her. That's our Kang-chan, Kang-chan also like Takoyaki so much so that she'd buy Giant ones.

Kang-chan roamed around the bookstore, her eyes teary at the wonderland she was in, we followed her around. Kura-chan eventually got a set of books, I raised a brow at her and she responded by shushing me. She tip toes to the cashier and gave him the books, she instructed the man to wait for another purchase she was going to make, which the young man who had thick glasses nodded at her. He doesn't recognize her probably because all he cares about are these mangas and animations. She looked at the apparel section of the store, she peruses and found a black hoodie with wings formed in a shield. I would never understand Manga and Japanese Animations, they're all complex for me and has too many things going on at once. I liked Korean dramas more as there was a slow build up of plot twists and other factors in the story.