name | k.jd (chen)

5.2

"Oh... about that..." Jongdae trails off, seeming embarrassed.

"It's a nice account though, right? I helped make the background colors all match up." Xiumin butts in, happily overlooking the surprising new realization.

"That explains why Chen always knew stuff before I did!" Cami exclaims, luckily not drawing the attention of the others who sat nearby.

Chen hadn't turned around to investigate Cami's conversation, rather now talking to Suho, as well as Lay who sat the next seat down.

"Did you like my new solo songs?" Lay asked, nearly cut off by Chen's loud "Of course!"

"Your voice is incredible, and it's nice since I-" Chen began, sentence only to be completed by Lay.

"-speak Chinese, right?"

"Right..." Chen smiled for the first half of the word, then realization trailing for the second half.

"I just assumed, since you're name..." Lay carefully worded, talking slowly.

"Oh. Right, yeah that makes sense." Chen nodded, a smile reappearing on her face. She heard a loud sound of a slap to her left, her head instinctively turning the direction of the sound. It had come from Chanyeol, who's hand now covered his forehead.

Chen opened her mouth to ask, but Baekhyun tapped the table to get her attention. "We probably want to speed up," he said, looking towards the leader of the group. Suho nodded, leaning forwards to count how many people were at the other end of the table. Lay pulled up his sleeve to reveal a shiny silver watch.

"We've got to get make-up redone at 5:15." Lay said, tapping the glass outer layer of the watch.

"That means we only have, like, 5 minutes left." Baekhyun said quietly, looking towards Suho.

"We can drag it a little longer," he said, glancing at a door in the back of the room. "They can't do all of us at once either. It'll be fine." he smiled.

Lay handed the hat to Baekhyun in exchange for a box that was most likely Cami's album box.

Chen gave Cami a large grin as they passed each other, Cami flashing a big smile back before passing her friend and letting her smile evolve into an open mouth of disbelief. Cami laughed silently, shaking her head and holding a hand against her head.

Lay raised his eyebrows in question, only to be responded with Suho's laugh.

"Same though." he said simply, uncapping the marker next to him. "You're seeing this, right?"

"I'm seeing all of this." Cami stated, taking a quick glance at Chen, who was awkwardly laughing at something Baekhyun had said.

"Seeing all of... oh." Lay trailed off, starting some sort of eye-communication.

"She knew?" he asked, raising and eyebrow.

"Did you not see-" Suho began, cutting himself off and moving his hand around in a circle to gesture towards Chen and Chanyeol.

"Well I didn't-" Lay began, ending his sentence early and making a gesture towards Cami.

"And you're not weirded out by this?" Lay asked, genuinely curious.

"I would be if I actually thought about it." Cami said simply, "but I'm distracted by EXO."

"EXO," Suho repeated, laughing a little. "Is that how it works?"

"Yep." Cami said simply, continuing on with life as the conversation went on. She pointed at a side of the album box, then turned it around and showed Lay the small picture card of him that was inside.

"Aye, you got me!" Lay laughed, picking up the card and flipping it back and forth to observe each side. They did some sort of pointing communication and Lay figured out where to sign, Cami smiling and thanking him multiple times as he put the picture card back into the box and passed it down to Suho.

"Cami," Lay began, and she turned her head at her name without any question of how he knew. "If we chose you and Chen for the backstage passes, you'd come right?"

Cami made a nod, replying, "How else would we help Jongdae get through Chen's slow mind?"