Switched

Chapter Ten

Joseon Stadium was huge. And crowded.
Scratch that, that was an understatement. The stadium was menacingly big, it could trigger panic attacks in people with megalophobia.
The number of people around was alarming, the girls had to hold their hands together to keep from being lost in the crowd.

"Wow, this place is crowded," Eun Kyung vocalized, very astonished. "Hee Kyung-ah, can you tell me the band now?"

Hee Kyung winked at her, smiling. "Have patience, will you?"

"Come on! Ace?" Eun Kyung turned to her dark skinned friend, doing a mock aegyo gesture to get the band name out of her. Ace only smiled and shook her head albeit uncomfortably, mainly out of guilt.
"Don't worry Bonnie, all your questions will be answered soon," Hee Kyung said. "Let's go in, shall we?"

Eun Kyung looked around, before entering in. The people around all seemed to be wearing outfits that had a symbol: two lopsided rectangles resembling a window pane or a book.
Just about she was about to ask what that meant, someone wearing a shirt that proudly said ‘BTS 4ever’ walked past her.

"Are you kidding me?" She said out loud, starting to get pissed off.
"What?" Ace asked.

"Can you believe it?" She said, flaring her nose. "Some hobo here had the effrontery to come and display the fact that he's a brainwashed BTS fan. Like, duh, we know that you're dumb enough to listen to robot music by plastic men, but don't show your ridiculousness in another innocent band's concert."

Ace knitted her eyebrows in disapproval. "That's not very nice, Wei Wei."

"It's true! I don't see Hee Kyung brandishing BTS in another person's concert!"

Hee Kyung cringed visibly.

Ace was starting to get very angry. Hee Kyung was right: Eun Kyung had to stop hating on BTS irrationally. It wasn't fair for any of them and frankly, she was getting tired of the meaningless fights over BTS.

"Stop. Just- just stop, Wei Wei. This is not fair, for anyone. You're indirectly saying that anyone who stans them is dumb, and that's not a very nice thing to say. Not everyone has your taste in music, Eun Kyung."

"Hah! Courtesy requires that you don't mention a Kpop group in another Kpop group's concert, no matter what! This is not a BTS concert!"

She got a few weird looks and stares from people nearby.

Ace's angry face fell. She looked... guilty.

Eun Kyung looked around. Now that she paid more attention, people were wearing BTS' merchandise. A lot of people were: from shoes, to shirts, to pants, to bags.

Something wasn't right. How could so many people wear a single band's-

Wait…
They would never…

Eun Kyung turned to her now fidgeting friends who had guilt written all over their faces.

"No. You absolutely would not. Right?"
This could not be BTS' concert.

"We had to," Hee Kyung spoke up.

To say that Eun Kyung was furious would be a great understatement. She was livid.

"You had to?" Eun Kyung asked, her voice dangerously zeroed down to a whisper, her eyes filled with angry tears. She took a step back from that, feeling greatly betrayed.

"I'm sorry, Wei Wei," Hee Kyung apologized as she reached out to her. Eun Kyung flinched in response and took a few steps back from them.

"You're sorry? Why would you? You know how much I hate them, and yet you brought me to their concert? This was supposed to be a happy night for all of us, and you ruined it."