Syncing Dream [Aespa x M!Reader]

3. Right room?

The day had started off smoothly enough. Y/n, feeling more confident in his role, had arrived at the music show venue early, managing to snag the right passes, triple-check the schedule, and even memorise the girls' performance time. Today, aespa was competing for a potential music show win, and the excitement was palpable.

As he sat in his seat, scrolling through his phone, he couldn't help but feel a bit proud of himself. It had been a few weeks since he first started, and he'd come a long way.

Sure, he still fumbled here and there, but at least now he wasn't completely drowning in confusion every time someone asked him to do something. Today, he was ready.

Or so he thought.

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"Y/n-oppa, can you grab lunch for us before we hit the stage?" Ningning asked, poking her head into his makeshift manager's office - consists of a chair and himself in the other corner of the waiting room.

Y/n looked up, giving her a nod. "Sure, what do you guys want this time?"

"Chicken stew for me," Winter said casually, not even looking up from her phone.

"Fried rice for me," Giselle added, stretching her arms.

"Something light," Karina said, as usual, her focus entirely on the performance ahead.

Y/n nodded to himself, mentally repeating the order—chicken stew, fried rice, and something light. It seemed simple enough, and considering how much he'd improved in his job, he figured nothing could go wrong.

After heading out to grab their food, Y/n returned to the waiting room, his arms full of takeout bags. But when he swung the door open, expecting to see the familiar faces of aespa, he was instead met with... Le Sserafim.

"Uhh, hi?"

The members of Le Sserafim stared at him in surprise, clearly not expecting a guy holding several bags of food to barge in. Y/n froze, the room silent for a moment before Chaewon broke it with a smirk.

"Did you bring us lunch?" she teased, her eyebrow raised.

"Oh, how do you know I want fried rice?" Yunjin followed suit, clearly amused at the mishap.

"Sorry, wrong room!" Y/n quickly backed out, shutting the door behind him, his face burning red. He let out a nervous chuckle once outside, whispering to himself, "I'll never live this down."

He was correct. He could hear the chuckles on the other side of the door.

After a quick check, he finally found aespa's waiting room and rushed inside. As he set the bags down on the table, the girls looked at him expectantly.

"You took a while," Karina commented, her eyebrow arched. "Everything okay?"

"Yeah, just... had an accidental run-in with Le Sserafim," Y/n muttered, handing over their food.