BTS Eighth Member | The Life: Year 2013

Chapter 40- Popping Shoulders

December 28th, 2013:

We had just come back from a performance in Beijing late last night and I was so tired, everyone was. We hadn't gotten Christmas day off and I had gotten another upset phone call from my grandparents. This time, however, my dad understood more and wasn't as upset.

Namjoon's parents had come to drop off food and wish us all well and all the other boys' families had sent presents and food. I felt kind of bad that my family hadn't given anything to what had turned into this Christmas potluck, but the boys reminded me that food wouldn't have made a trip from Canada, and anyways, we already had too much. The last argument was not true, we ate everything down to the last crumb, we were growing teenagers after all.

My toe was almost healed, but the fact I kept performing on it, the doctors said it was natural it was taking longer to fully fix itself. Now it only hurt if I put pressure on it for extended periods of time, and every time I did the flip with Jimin which made it that I had to be doubly focused to nail the landing.

We were currently all sleeping in the changing room we had been assigned for SBS Gayo, waiting for our rehearsal.

"Everyone wake up!" I hear Sejin walk around with one of those soccer hand clapper noise toys that he had started using to wake us up, "you're up in 20 minutes!"

We all grudgingly start waking up and doing our stretches.

"Can I have an elastic?" I ask Yoona. She hands me one and I use it to tie my pinnie closer to my body. They had gotten me the same pinnie the boys had so it hung so loose around my body, not only was it not very pretty, but its size bothered me when I danced. Since I was taller than average, it didn't hit my knees, but it did hit awkwardly mid-thigh.

We get to the stage just B1A4 were finishing their rehearsal.

We went up to the stage while B1A4 were still having a last discussion on positioning. I see Seokjin walk up to Sandeul of B1A4 and just pat his belly as a hello. This man has too much confidence I chuckle. I notice the confused face on Sandeul's face which makes me chuckle even more. They talk for a minute and Seokjin returns to the group.

I look at him quizzically and noticing my confusion Seokjin says, "I've met him before. We've become friends".

"Oh ok," I laugh, "I thought that was a bold move to make out of the blue".

"Please get in position BTS!" the producer shouts through the microphone, "we'll run through it from the beginning and then go over what needs fixing".

We all nod and go to the side of the stage where we would enter from. The music starts and we start the performance. We get to the part where Jimin and I climb up the backup dancers and flip over the group to start our performance of No More Dream. We had practiced the flip a lot given my lack of confidence. Jimin and I had fallen several times while practicing resulting in several bruises all over our bodies, but the last few times we had practiced we landed perfectly which gave us the confidence needed to not be too stressed out now.

We climb up the backup dancers and Jimin shoots me a quick thumbs up and a smile before we throw ourselves over everyone. I land a little wobbly, but still nice enough to be able to smoothly continue the performance. I look over at Jimin and see he also safely made the landing.