Winter Hearts

Siana Steps Up

She grabbed N's arm, her eyes wide. She searched his face for any signs of laughter. Was he joking? He seemed to take her reaction in his stride.

"Are you serious?" she asked, letting go of him. Hyuk nodded, a wide smile on his face.

N continued, "You will be standing in for our dancer back home. But we will need you while we work out the choreography for a reference guide."

Siana could feel a hysterical excitement welling up inside, making her want to squeal and giggle like a little girl. Working with any choreographer was exciting, but here she would be working with oh, just a couple of kpop idols who would be creating their own dance for, you know, their CONCERT!

She controlled herself, not wanting even a hint of the insane excitement she felt inside to show in her face. She didn't want to come off as too green or excitable to handle the situation.

"Well, uhm, let me think about it - YES." She said, allowing it to be known that she understood that this was a wonderful opportunity for her.

N and Hyuk laughed aloud, causing Ravi and her dad to turn and look.

Siana smiled with glee, looking at her dad with such happiness that he raised an eyebrow. Next to him, Ravi asked the boys, "What?" as he watched Siana's expression with curiosity. N and Hyuk clapped their hands as Joon explained to Ravi that N had an idea for a dance routine, and Siana must have said yes to helping him.

Mikhalis nodded at her proudly, then asked, "Who will be dancing?"

"Me and Ravi," said N.

Siana looked up at Ravi in surprise. She had thought she would be dancing with N and Hyuk.

Ravi looked about as surprised as she was, and they both blinked at each other for a moment, before he turned to N.

"Nobody told me about this," he said to N. "I want to work on some music. I promised something new for a JellyBox release before the concert. I won't have time, N-hyung."

"It's a love triangle. If I am one corner of the triangle, and Siana-ssi is the another, the third corner can only be you," N said matter-of-factly.

"Why me?" asked Ravi, his eyebrows raised, guffawing. She thought he looked like a little kid.

"Well, it can't be Hongbin, because for our onstage personas he and I wouldn't fight each other - we would be fighting FOR each other," said N with a pleased smile. True, thought Siana, thinking back to their Toxic live performance together. She had always liked how gender boundaries and sexuality were blurred lines in kpop, and particularly when it came to N.

"And it can't be Ken, because he would lose the match," said Hyuk, smiling. N held his hand up for a high-five without looking, and Hyuk obliged. 

Ravi nodded in agreement. "Yup. Total K.O." He thought for a minute.

"What about Leo?" said Ravi. Siana felt her heart jump up into her throat. There she went again, not being able to think straight whenever Leo came up in the conversation. Dancing with Leo? In a love triangle scenario? Well, as a professional, she could do this without any anxiety. Of course she could.

"Oh, no, me and Leo onstage, no we would never fight over a girl. It wouldn't work. We would be too nice to each other and the girl would get tired waiting for our bromance to stop spoiling the mood. Ugh, Ravi-ssi! We've discussed this before for all our previous concerts, you know it can only be you! You are the bad guy who doesn't get the girl in the end," N said smugly, throwing a proud but playful smile at Siana. "Because the good guy is me in this scenario."