Fame or Fortune - Choi Beomgyu

4

December 2021

Galaxy gets invited to attend the 2021 MAMA awards as a nominee for 'Best New Female Artist'. They only go to watch and possibly win as they didn't get requested to perform. Youngie and Jia blast music from a speaker as they get dressed. They dance along but Jia stops a few times to adjust her skirt, pulling it down as she felt it showed too much of her legs every time she jumped.

"How do they expect us to sit in these." Jia sighs.

"Life of a female artist I guess." Youngie just shakes her head and continues getting ready.

The rest of Galaxy are standing at vanities on the other side of the room, quietly finishing their make up.

"What do you think they're talking about?" Woori ask Hayoung, but Mi-sun interrupts.

"Something stupid because they never take anything seriously. Maybe if you practiced your own music instead of listening to other groups we'd actually be charting." Mi-sun scoffs, glaring across the room.

"If were so bad how come we were invited to MAMA? It's just some pre-show jams, dance with us, just be careful because of the skirt."

"Just be careful because of the skirt." Mi-sun mocks before the girls leave the room.

They get to the venue and find the seats with their names on them. They arrive pretty early but so do some of the people around them.

Youngie notices as Itzy fills in the seats behind them and rushes to quickly give Chaeryeong a hug.

The Itzy members take out blankets to spread across their laps, Youngie silently cursing at herself for not thinking the same sooner.

"Do you guys need a blanket?" Lia asks, probably noticing the destress on the younger's face.

"Only if you have extra, we're new to this whole sitting in front of cameras thing." Youngie replies.

"Aw, baby's first award show!" Yeji coos as she offers two blankets to the girl. The rest of Itzy just sit close and share the few they already have.

Youngie makes her way back to Galaxy. Hayoung is sat on the left end, Woori next to her so Youngie gives a blanket for the two to share. Then she sits down on the other end, covering Jia's lap alongside her own. Mi-sun who is sat in the middle of the two pairs was left bare, but her dress wasn't as short as the others. Still Youngie does her best to ration her end and give some despite Mi-sun being quite stubborn and denying. Jia, whose sat in between them objects, pointing out that Youngie's the youngest and should have the most coverage.

More and more groups fill in, Stray Kids occupying the seats to the right of Galaxy. Youngie and I.N. sharing a small exchange before the boys sit.

The night goes on and Galaxy enjoys all the performances, even keeping high spirits when best artist are announced and their name doesn't follow.

It's finally TXT's time to perform and Youngie and Jia couldn't be happier. They sing and dance along to 'Frost' and Youngie tries not to smirk at Jia every time Soobin appears on the big screen. Between those two and the entirety of Stray Kids, you wouldn't be able to tell who was cheering louder.

Starlights (Galaxy's fandom) recorded the members singing to TXT and the clips were quite popular among the fanbase, but not recognized outside of it.