Utopia ♡ Ateez OT8

SIX: the sound of magic

"Didn't think you would ever get here!" Nayeon says as I quickly make my way through the crowds towards my friends

"I am so sorry. Work was crazy! I lost track of time." I say, hugging them all.

"I probably would too if I had to work with those 8 men." Dasom smirks at me. "How you get any work done around them I will never know!"

She has no idea how right she is. I had got so lost watching them during their dance rehearsal I had not realised I was running late. Hongjoong insisted I use one of the drivers to take me to the cafe we were meeting and made me promise to call him when I was coming home.

"Where is Jieun?" I ask.

"Like you, running late. She is on her way, though." Nayeon answers. "She says we are to go in and start without her."

"Let me guess, her boss making her close up again?" I ask as we all walk into the cafe.

"Got it in one!" Seojun says

Seojun is one of my cousins. We are the same age, so when I moved here, he was who I spent most of my time with. He introduced me to his friends, and they instantly accepted me. Nayeon, Dasom, Jieun and Seojun were my closest friends. We all went to the same college as well. Different courses, but our friendship stayed strong throughout.

Since we all graduated and began working, these moments became rare. If I was still working at the hotel, I wouldn't have been able to come tonight. So I was grateful to be seeing them. Jieun arrived after we order the food and we all log in to play our tournament.

It was such a fun night. As predicted, after we ate and played, we went straight to the karaoke rooms. It was what we always did when we hung out back in college.

"To Luna and getting her dream job!" Seojun says raising his shot glass as the others followed him. "Also got getting away from that shit hotel too!"

"Yah!! I still work in that 'shit hotel'!" Nayeon says.

"He is right, though." Dasom laughs.

"Who am I kidding? Of course that hotel is shit!" Nayeon sighs.

"Thanks guys." I grin as we all down our drinks. "Nayeon you will get out of there soon."

"I hope so. It isn't as tolerable now you have left." She says.

"So what is it like working with Ateez?" Jieun asks

I knew she was going to ask this as it was Jieun I went to the concerts with. She is the main kpop fan in our group; she loves so many bands, so it was inevitable she would be curious about my job. I am allowed to say who I work with but not give any personal information about them.

"It is... good." I answer,

"What are they like off camera?" she asks. "Sorry, I know you probably can't talk too much about them."

"I can and can't, but what I can say is they are nothing like their onstage personas." I answer.

"That Seonghwa though, he is hot!" Dasom comments

My tummy immediately flips when I think of him. The way he backed me up against the wall and touched me. How tomorrow he is taking me on a date, the anticipation of how it will go and how it will end. I know how I would like it to end, but I don't want to force anything.

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The apartment is quiet when I arrive home. I try to be as quiet as I can because I know most of them will be asleep or getting ready for bed and I did not want to disturb them.