Baby, I Got Your Number (BTS OT7 Soulmate AU)

Chapter Twenty Nine: Screen Tests

*******Kit's POV*******

"Kit!" Somebody yelled as I came down the escalator.

I looked down below me and saw Mandy, Kris, and Mairette waiting for me. Mandy was bouncing around excitedly and yelling my name again. When I got to the bottom of the escalator, she pulled me into her arms and hugged me tight.

"I missed you!" She all but yelled in my ear.

"You missed me so much that you're trying to strangle the life out of me?" I asked, trying to push her back.

"Oh! Sorry!" she said, finally releasing me. "But yes, I missed you that much."

"I missed you too, babe," I told her, squeezing her arm. I turned to the other two. "It's good to see you both again. I'm looking forward to getting to spend more than a few hours with you like when you guys were docked in Charleston."

"We can't wait, either!" Mairette said, giving me a quick hug. "All three of us have been looking forward to you getting here."

"Well if everybody else is hugging," Kris said, also giving me a quick hug. "I don't want to be left out."

"The hugs probably should have waited until after I've had a shower," I said, brushing my hands down the front of my shirt. "I've been on planes for over 24 hours and I feel gross. Especially my face."

"Well then let's get you a shower," Mandy said. "Because we've got things to do."

"Things?" I asked her as we started towards the baggage area. "What kind of things?"

"We all have to do screen tests for the show," Kris said from where she and Mairette were walking behind me.

"Yeah, they want to make sure that we don't look washed out," Mairette added.

"Or that our voices aren't so annoying on camera that we have to be dubbed over," Mandy said with a laugh.

"Not a one of you know what screen tests are for, do you?" I asked them, laughing too.

"Nope. No idea," Kris said, making us all laugh again.

"So where are we going?" I ask, once we're in a car which has a private driver. Fancy. And weird.

"We're going to the condo that Hobi, Jungkook, and Mairette rented this week until they can find a place of their own," Mandy told me. "It's in Hannam The Hill, which is where everybody will be living for the duration of the show, so the place where our screen tests are is close enough to walk."

"The guys have a place there that they all share, but rarely use, too," Mairette told me. "They only use it if it gets late and they're close and don't want to go back to their own places."

"Oh. Wow," I said as I tightened my seatbelt a little because the private driver was driving like an insane person. "That sounds fancy."

"Oh it is fancy," Kris said. "Not old school Charleston fancy, but new world, lots of clean lines, lots of white, and no dust anywhere fancy."

"So...don't touch anything," I say with a laugh. "Got it."

"That's pretty much what we've all been doing," Mandy says. "It's kind of annoying, really. I just want to break into somebody else's home and mess up their medicine cabinet, which I'm sure is all organized in alphabetical order. By a maid, no doubt."

"Can I help?" I ask her, making the other three laugh.

After I was clean, I walked out of the most elaborate bathroom that I had ever seen. Mairette had to show me how to work the shower, because there were buttons everywhere and I had no idea what any of them did. I was used to a normal shower, with hot and cold faucets and that was it.