Dear Diary...

A Strange Look

< Yeri POV >

"Hurry up Seulgi-ah! We're going to be late again!" Wendy yells from the living room, making Irene cover her ears.

"I'm here I'm here!" Seulgi runs up and slides, almost bumping into Wendy.

"You know that if we are late again, oppa is goi-"

"Yes yes, he's going to come up here himself and bring us forcefully out into the van. Come on, let's make sure we aren't late!" Seulgi speedily speaks while walking to the front door. She opens it as everyone else starts walking out, her following.

Everyone is always waiting for Seulgi. It's not that she takes long to get ready, she just sleeps in too much. Thankfully, it just happens the first two-three days after our comeback. But, our manager is tired of this always happening. He got really scary..

We reach the van that is outside of the dorm building. Wow, no photographers today? Irene and I go in first, going straight to the back of the van. Seulgi and Joy following behind us to get the seats in front of us. Wendy doesn't bother following us and goes straight to the front passenger seat. Joy and I both have our ear buds in our ears, listening to our music for the long ride ahead. Wendy and Seulgi end up talking and Irene stays silent, looking outside of the van window. 4th day of promotions and it's getting close to MAMA. We are all excited to see all of the other idol groups perform their newest songs. Usually, Joy is the happiest out of us. She would be seen singing and dancing along with the other groups, especially EXO and BTS. She is such a fangirl, it's great to watch her being happy.

***

"Alright, Red Velvet, we go on in 2 minutes, you ready?"

Irene sticks her head out of the door and nods, "We will be right out." She brings her head back inside of the door and closes it, looking at the ciaos in the room. She mumbles to herself then sighs. "We have less than two minutes, can you finish in that time?"

All of us are rushing into our clothing while the hair dressers and makeup artists finish up.

"1 minute!"

Irene nods, looking at how everyone is looking good then cracks the door open, enough for the members and herself to slide through. We slide through the door and rush onto the stage, getting into our places as quickly as possible. We brush our clothing off and take a deep breath. I hear Wendy whisper fighting to us, causing me to smile, right as the lights go on us.

***

"Good performance ladies!" Joy smiles and brings all of us into a nice embrace. We stand there with a hug and smiling like a little group of children.

"BTS, you have two minutes!"

We all turn out bodies away from the hug and out to a group of boys that are going on stage after us, BTS. We look at Joy the stoned-face Joy, knowing she is having a fangirl episode inside her head right now. Seulgi tells us to start walking back to our dressing room. We start walking, Irene dragging Joy back with us. She eventually snaps out of it and walks with us, her head down. "I'll meet you guys in a bit, I need to use the bathroom." I get a nod from Wendy as the rest of them walk into the room. I watched them go in until the door was closed. The closing of the door caused me to quickly go back to look at the stage. At the moment, BTS was performing their song DNA. I watched them for a bit, looking at their well rehearsed movements. For a second, I feel a gaze on me. I look around to find myself still alone. "Hmm.." I say quietly to myself as I look back at the stage, finding one of the members staring straight at me. Once we found each other's eyes, we avoided eye contact. I couldn't see who that member was exactly, but it was clearly a member. "I should go before I get caught-" I look back up at the stage then go back to the changing room where the other four members sat, putting on their regular clothing.

"Yeri." Seulgi waved me over to her changing section. I walked over to her and leaned against the wall. She continued the rest of the conversation in a quiet tone, "Is everything alright?"

I whispered back in return, "Of course, why would you think that?"

"You came back from the bathroom awfully quick. Did you really use the bathroom?"

"When and how long I use the bathroom is nothing you should be concerned about."

"Wow, such sass. I thought we taught you better." She gave out a soft giggle then nodded. "Okay then, go get changed, I want to get home and practice."

I went into the changing section at the end and quickly got ready to go back to the dorm.

***

Joy opens the door to our dorm and falls down on the couch with a deep sigh. I keep the door held open as Irene and Wendy carry Seulgi through, carrying her into the bedroom. I close the door and go to the kitchen, grabbing two water bottles from the fridge and throwing one onto Joy. "She really needs to stop overdoing herself too much. She can't handle this for much longer."

Irene and Wendy come out of the bedroom and sit down at the table. I throw a water bottle over to each of them. "When is she going to learn this won't help?" Wendy sighs then gulps down the water. "I know she wants to practice and get better, but it's not helping any of us. Seulgi passed out as usual, Joy is out on the couch and the rest of us are about to join us." She sighs as Irene and I nod with agreement.

"I'm going to bed, we have to do the same thing tomorrow." Irene walks into her bedroom.

"I need to go and practice some more."

"Yeri, don't over work yourself like Seulgi." Wendy goes over to the entrance way of the kitchen. "You know it's not good for you."

"I'm fine unnie, it will just be another half an hour to an hour. 

After a moment or two from the both of us staring at each other, she nods. "Okay, but try not to be too long okay? We have to be out of the dorm by 11."

I smile and hug Wendy, "Gomowao unnie~" Before I could let her say anything back or change her mind, I run out the door and down to the practice room.

***

I reach the doors of the practice room and stop. "Shoot! I forgot my water!" I look around then run to the nearest vending machine. I search my pockets and my bag for money. I sigh, finding nothing and carry my bag into the practice room.

Once I enter, I already hear music playing and search the room, seeing someone already in the room. It looks like a guy. It doesn't look like he is part of SM. Could he be a new rookie? I put my bag down at the wall and watch him dance for a bit. It sounds like an earlier BTS song. That's not right, they only want us to practice our songs or SM songs. I try to make out his face in the mirror. He looks familiar.. but from where?

The song stops and he stands there, his hands on his knees, breathing heavily. I guess he didn't notice me yet. I grab a towel from the rack and walk over to him. I don't want to just scare him..

"Don't worry, I was just going to leave." I jump as he talks. He has such a deep voice for his graceful movements. I try to say something when he brings his head up to look at me. His sudden smile went to a blank stare. By the looks of it, he thought someone else came into the room besides me.

He looks at the towel I'm holding. I stutter then bow my head down, extending my arms to him to hand him the towel. It takes a moment, but eventually he takes the towel. "You can stay, I can practice later-" I put my hands down and slowly put my head back up to meet his gaze."

It looks like he was nervous and maybe even a little shy. "Are you-"

I smile a bit and nod, "Yep, Red Velvet's maknae. Are you a new rookie?"

He shakes his head, making my curiosity getting way out of hand. He's not a rookie, and I'm positive he isn't in any other SM male group. He's not a soloist. Who is he? "I'm actually, not in this entertainment."

I must have such a weird puzzled look on my face, cuz it made him laugh a little. "I know, it's a long story. But, I'm surprised you didn't recognize me." Recognize him? He has a black mask on. "I'm Jeon Jungkook." He holds his hand out, that's not holding the towel, for a hand shake. "I'm the maknae of BTS, nice to meet you."