𝘽𝙇𝘼𝙉𝙆 | 𝙇𝙀𝙀 𝙁𝙀𝙇𝙄𝙓

3

I could already hear music blasting in the rooms when Ajax and I entered the dance building. There was no one to greet us, so I only followed my brother towards the noisy room. He took his ID card out and placed it on the doorknob which made a beep sound before it unlocked and we could enter.

There were four people in the dance room; three of them were foreigners for sure, which surprised me but I moved on from that quickly. The girl turned the music down and walked towards us with a bright smile.

"Ajax, is this your sister?

- Yeah, she wanted to come see us today.

- Sweet! I'm Winnie," we shook hands and I told her my name.

"Is Gab short for Gabrielle?

- No, it's only Gab."

The three other men came to see us too and they introduced themselves. The ginger was Apollo and his brother was Rupert. Vic was the one with glasses and lots of piercings.

"Gab, if you don't wanna dance, you can sit on the ground or there are chairs piled up in the back.

- I'll take the ground, thanks."

As I went ahead and sat near the big mirror, Ajax put his stuff down and the four others went back to their original positions for dance after Vic hit play on his cellphone for the music to start.

My brother hurried next to Rupert and I watched them for a few minutes as they danced to random songs that were playing. I couldn't lie, they were all pretty talented. I could see they were well trained and they took their jobs seriously. I mean, you don't want to be a professional dancer only for shits and giggles. This made me wonder if they had shows and competitions too.

I was staring at the wall in front of me when I felt my phone vibrating in my back pocket. I took it out and my heart almost jumped out of my body when I saw "Felix has messaged you" as a notification. I opened the message quickly.

Gab, I need your help

What is it?

Do you have any textbooks about Korean?

Only from school, yeah

Do you want them?

If that's no trouble for you 😅

I'm actually struggling right now...

I can't believe I have to do this all over again

How about we meet up at the same café as the other time?

Tomorrow? Because right now I'm at my brother's job

That's alright with me, thanks

What time?

I looked up from my phone a little, thinking about the right time we could meet up. There was no way I'd go early in the morning, so in the afternoon could be right.

Sometime in the afternoon?

Alr, let's meet at 2

I'll see you then!

I waited for his response before putting my phone back in my pocket and I watched the dancers again, not really paying attention even then. I was already thinking about what would happen with Felix. It still felt unreal to be in contact with him, and now that he asked for my help, I didn't know what to think anymore. This new reality would make me really delusional when I'd go back to my original one.

"What are you thinking about?" Vic sat beside me, he was panting and he held a towel against his cheek as he looked at me.

"Stuff.

- I figured that. You're making the same face Winnie used to make when we were still friends and she was nervous to see me," he then explained with a faint smile.

"Does it show this much that I'm nervous?

- Not really, I'm just good at reading faces.

- Yeah, well I am nervous. But it's nothing, really. I'm only going to teach Korean to a guy I met on the streets.

- Woah, that's random.

- Gab is always random, two days ago she was talking about some nonexistent boy group... Stray Kids I think? And she didn't even remember what my job is," Ajax came into our conversation.

"Shut up I just had a weird dream that night.

- I really hope so because you were actually concerning."

I rolled my eyes, thinking back about the morning I woke up in my J-Hope themed bedroom. I figured it would be easier to pretend I've always known what was going on in this life, so that's why I explained I had a weird and vivid dream that night, which was actually false because I clearly remember that last week I made a photocard trade with another Stay. It made me uncomfortable thinking about this now that I had Felix's number saved on my cellphone.

The day passed rather quickly after this. I got to have little dance classes too, since I was getting bored and I wanted to do something other than just sitting on the floor and watching the team. It was actually fun, Winnie showed me simple moves and after a bit of struggles I was able to do them effortlessly. I wouldn't call myself an expert now, but I would like trying again another day.

We all parted ways at 5 o'clock and Ajax and I got in his car. We were soon on our way back home and we played some chill music that we both liked. Even though we didn't have many shared interests, we were both Chase Atlantic listeners so that's what we agreed on listening to.

I don't really remember how we discovered them, but their music helped me in life, almost more than Stray Kids did. We've seen them in concert once, it was pretty awesome. I'm glad we both liked them as much in this reality.

Ajax stopped at the convenience store close to our apartment and we both got out. I didn't know why we had to go there, but I love convenience stores so I followed him in anyway.