Please Smile (EXO Fan Fiction)

Chapter Nine.

The pain in my head hasn’t calmed down a single bit since I woke up this morning.  Pain pills won’t work, not even a hot shower.  I’ve been clenching my jaw tightly just so I don’ show any sign of me being in pain.  It’s been affected my performance slightly lately, but I managed to ignore it for the most part.

                However, with the millions of flashing cameras and mixed voices of people yelling at you, it’s almost impossible to ignore the pounding in my head.  It takes all my willpower to not just curl myself into a ball and cry the pain away.  However, I’m sure it isn’t that bad.

                From the stage, I was forcing myself to grin.  We already had our interviews and all of us described ourselves before the debut stage.  The media already knows I barely ever smile and talk, so they mainly focused on Minri, who was the best public speaker out of all of us.

                Yes, we debuted.  Yes, my heart is still pounding.  Excitement ran up and down my spine the entire performance and even though I was bearing with the pain in my head, I poured my heart into the performance.  The debut stage is where we must be perfect and charismatic; and if I say so I, we totally owned the stage.  Nothing was out of place and none of our voices cracked.  We already received fan chants and I even recognized some of my classmates.

                Especially one in particular.

                Luhan POV – 1 hour earlier

                All twelve of us managed to find good seats thanks to the tickets Hyori’s manager gave us.  We’re exactly in the front row, where we can watch her, Minri, and Hyuna debut.  Next to me, Sehun was practically jumping in his seat and on my other side; Yixing’s eyes never tore from the stage.  I saw the others talking among themselves and preparing to record and take pictures of their performance. 

                Within minutes, the stadium’s noise was growing incredibly fast.  I flinched a bit at some random screaming for reasons I don’t know.  Maybe they caught sight of one of their biases backstage or just screaming for the hell of it.  I don’t even want to know.  My eardrums hurt from random fan girls screaming who they love behind me and the endless waves of camera shutters going off.

                About twenty minutes passed until every light in the stadium shut off, except this faint orb on stage.  It grew, and suddenly an entire screen lit up.  It flickered, catching all of the audience’s attention.  The stadium grew quiet as it flickered and once again it was pinch black.  I sucked in a breath for a few seconds once the light grew, this time revealing three silhouettes.   The corners of my lips tilted upwards into a smirk as the spotlights hit them and all three of them turned around simultaneously, going along with the music playing.

                Their voices blended perfectly and despite dancing, their voices were absolutely clear and non-breathless.  Hyori didn’t have any facial expressions, but her eyes were shining.  Hyuna’s and Minri’s expressions were practically identical.  The only thing that differed both of them was their hair, outfits, and height.

                The song they’re singing right now isn’t one of the songs they sang for the school, but I know it isn’t their debut song.  Usually there’s a special video like usual for debut songs.  This is just for warm up or whatever.  But even so, they look so natural on stage, so happy.  I could feel their energy seeping from the stage down to wear I’m standing, taking pictures and cheering.

                Soon, the jazz like song ended and the lights dimmed.  Exactly how I predicted, they exited the stage and a screen popped up, with the three of them on it.  My mouth almost fell to floor as I glanced at Hyori—she looked powerful and was full of sex appeal.  There was a voice playing, and it started playing along with the video that played on the screen, introducing each and every one of them.  It started off with Hyuna, then Minri, and finished off with Hyori.  The teaser video totally blew my mind and when I glanced at the others, they replicated my exact expression.