mixtape | yoongi

0.2 - hotel

[edited 05/18/18]

[re-edited 09/01/18] 

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after an hour long ride in another taxi - a korean one, mind you, which made us ooh and ahh - bella and i finally arrived at the hotel complex near the center of seoul that i had somehow worked a deal with. how i managed it was beyond me.

they'd agreed to let us stay in one of their rooms for an entire year, or longer if we decided to stay and they actually liked us, as long as one of us worked among the staff. the job itself paid off more than half of the rooming bill per month. 

of course, that job fell to my younger friend, for i had actually been consulted by a widely popular company in seoul for my talent.

no, not the rapping talent.

no no no

the cosmetics talent

back in the states, i had graduated high school from a career school with my certification in cosmetology and took the qualification exam to be licensed in korea.

not just 'makeup', no. all of it. massage therapy, hair, makeup, nails, facials, you name it, i could do it.

so, with our two jobs combined for a year, or more depending on how long we stayed, bella and i had more than enough money for our room, shopping, going to fan meets, and concerts.

"i still can't believe that you didn't recognize him!" isabella raged from in front of me.

"yes, you've only said that about seventy times."

"but how do you not know them? they're amazing!" isabella argued.

"bangtan is my way of life, so other groups come and go from my mind." i rolled my eyes and moved back. "now sit still, bells. i'm almost done."

bella had decided that for our first day, she wanted to go for a natural-looking, minimal makeup look. and what better way to do that when your best friend is a certified cosmetologist? 

"how much longer will this take?" bella whined, wiggling in her seat.

"like ten damn seconds if you stop moving. all that's left is a little mascara." i sighed in return.

once we finished her makeup, we checked ourselves and nodded.

"lets go see if we can run into any celebrities?" bella offered hopefully.

"yeah, sure." i replied idly, knowing it wasn't likely, "lets shop some while we're at it, because we both start working tomorrow."

isabella cringed, "please don't remind me."

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the silence between bella and i was nice as we walked around the large shopping district. that was, until we walked into a store and immediately froze, as bangtan was playing. we immediately started whispering excitedly to each other as we explored the store.

one of the clerks must have noticed our obvious excitement because she came over with a smile as we looked at the bangtan and exo merch.

"you know," she spoke up, obviously trying to catch our attention. "there's a fan event coming up soon. these bangtan albums out now are the last of our shipment. they've decided to do the lottery approach for those who wish to attend the fansign. it's unlikely as these are the last ones, but you two could have a chance of getting in with these."

bells and i gave the woman a clueless look, blinking.

"lottery approach?"

"oh!" she laughed sheepishly, "i thought you didn't speak korean for a minute.. the lottery approach is when they go through and randomly pick an amount of winners to attend the fansign based off of albums. most people bulk buy their albums online, as it's more likely to be picked, but we've gotten a lot of business here as apparently bangtan has been picking from physical sales too."

"aah.." the two of us nodded in understanding and looked at each other before shrugging.

"it's for their most recent album right? the most beautiful moment in life part two?" bella asked the woman curiously.

"mm, both the blue and peach versions." she nodded. i glanced at her name tag and clicked my tongue.

"thank you... jiyeon-ssi." she smiled knowingly and moved back to her station at the register where her co-worker immediately began speaking to her animatedly.

the two of us grinned at each other mischievously, though we knew it was unlikely. we decided on buying a few merch items of bts, exo, seventeen, and vixx to show hyuk that i would support his group as we were now friends.

as a last minute decision, the two of us raced back to the section where the bts CDs were. we rummaged through the stack of them and picked randomly from each stack, one peach version and one blue version for each of us.

we crossed pinkies and smiled, both hoping we would be picked by some kind of miracle.