Bulletproof girl scouts

Pad Thai

Nara's POV

The concert was sold out. The concert was a success. The concert was......amazing.

It's tiring, exhausting, and all the practice, nervousness, the blinding lights and blasting music....everything just sucks the life out of you.

I love concerts.

The truth makes me feel bitter, really. The fact that I only like it because of the attention. It makes me feel all of the names that Lizzy calls me when I forget to turn off the stove. But it's okay as long I don't think too much about it. The concert was over, we changed out of the glam tops and leather tights and were wrapping it up. I wasn't doing anything, just watching everyone pack everything. Aoi was fast asleep on my lap. I was absentmindedly caressing her hair as I thought about the number of concerts that would follow. We had already performed numerous times at melon, mnet and the like. We were a big hit too, winning on every single one of them. But it wouldn't just end there, I knew. We have yet to set foot in Japan and tons of variety shows have sent us invitations.
The other members are also asleep except for Fengh who is tapping away on her phone. Lizzy is asleep too, right next to me in fact and I can't help but huff in slight irritation when she snores. It's been three days since I shamelessly crashed RM's studio in my uncomprehending state. I haven't seen him since that day (thank heavens) but made a mental note to never step out of my room when I'm not in the right state of mind. The managers start waking everyone up when it's time to leave. We reach the dorm at two am and leave at ten the next morning for Japan. A week passes by in a blur and it's our last day before leaving for Korea.
I made the bed in my hotel room after Sunhee ended the vlive and left me by myself. I always have a room to myself. Everyone thinks it's because I'm selfish or that I can't stand the other members' sleeping habits. In actuality it's because I don't sleep very much. There were times in the beginning when we all slept together. The members don't know till today that I used to sneak out of the room and sleep in the kitchen after they were all asleep and return to our shared room before they woke up. There was one time I fell asleep before the others and they all had to witness me waking up in the middle of the night screaming and crying till I ran out of breath. I managed to convince them that it's never happened before and requested a separate room when our dorm upgraded. The nightmares stopped eventually as I started to become an insomniac. I don't remember the last time I had one. Must've been a good four years. I still have a separate room, though. No one needs to know my sleep schedule. I was trying my best to sleep when my phone buzzed on the bedside table. I glanced at the caller ID and couldn't help the smile forming on my face. I immediately sat up, accepting the call.

"LEE NARAAAAA...."

I distanced the phone from my ears, waiting for her to calm down. "Yah! Ji-eun. I need my ears"

"I SAW YOUR PERFORMANCE! IT WAS DAEBAKKK!"

I flinched, "pipe down, you're making my ears bleed"

"WHAT?"

"Lower your volume", I hissed.

"Oh! Soorrryyyyy...."

"Why can't you be more like Jiwoo unnie? She's as quiet as a mouse"

"About that, that's the reason I called you"

"What?"

"You got the internship!"

"I did?", my words gave nothing away but I was genuinely happy to hear that.

"Yup. We're going to be fellow interns~", she squealed. I cracked a smile.

"That's good to hear. Tell unnie I said thanks"