For You- Lee Know x oc

16

"Minho. Minho come here." I whispered.

Now in this moment, standing behind the curtains, this seemed a lot harder than it did at first.

"Sora?"

He turned around to me, just done with talking to the students who volunteered to do technical work. Sound and stuff.

"Is anything wrong, Sora?" He said, this time quieter.

"Uh, no. Well, yes, no. Um. I'm scared."

He looked at the clock on the wall.

"Of what?"

"Well, I have a traumatic memory from last time I presented in front of a big group of people and I thought I'd be able to handle it and feel fine but I have serious cramps in my stomach, like I'm about to vomit. I feel sick."

Minho's expression became sour and angry, almost.

"And you think it's a good time to tell me that now?"

"I'm sorry, I thought I wouldn't fuck up but I'm scared I'll ruin the presentation."

"The presentation? No, Sora, you. We're mentally ill as FUCK, if you lose your cool you'll have a panic attack that lasts for 15 whole minutes, and then you will feel like shit after. When you're vomiting in the toilet."

That hurt. It really did. It's not like I had a choice.

His features softened when he realised how harsh his words were.

"Look, what I'm trying to say is, I'm not worried about the presentation but about you. You should've told me earlier and we could've figured something out."

"I might freeze and forget everything I'm supposed to say."

"So what if you forget your part? There's two of us and you've already spoken a lot in the video, I can take it. Don't think I can help with the vomiting issue you mentioned though."

"No and like I'm kinda being serious, I feel sick."

"Can you try to destress?"

"I'm doing my best."

I looked at the clock, and the stage. The first group was almost done, it was almost our turn.

"There's no way we win against them though. Those floods are way more urgent than constant child labour."

"I know, they really got an advantage with that subject, it's like, all over the news. Maybe they gave it to them because their presentation fucking sucks."

I had to suppress a laugh.

"What did they try to do with that badly edited, embarrassingly uninformative video? And now they're wrapping up with this dumb speech. Oh, if we got this we would have completely slayed. I'm sure of it."

"Sora, no joke now, whatever happens to you on stage, I'm there too. If you need to vomit run to the toilet, it's fine. Just don't vomit on the carpet, I don't want to clean that up. Okay?"

I didn't answer, it was time to go. Introduction, to the left side of the stage while the video plays, then speech. Then it would be over.

Unreal was the moment I climbed on stage and realised I was being blinded by the lights on me. Relief flooded through me. There was nobody I could see.

"Hello, everyone! My name is Kim Sora and this is my friend Lee Minho, we are the representatives for C4! Today we will be presenting the cause for which C4 wanted to raise money for. Video, cue!"

This was going smoother than expected. I sounded normal but my brain froze after the intro. I felt Minho's grip pulling me to the side. The left side, as rehearsed.