Getting to Know You

하나 - One

"Y/N"

You look up from your phone to see the barista placing the coffee you ordered on the counter.

"Thank you!" you say as you took the coffee and headed out the door.

It was a chilly day in Chicago, no wonder it's called the windy city. You look at your watch and knew you were going to be ten minutes late to your first class. It didn't bother you though, you never really cared about history class.

You put on your earbuds and look through your music clicking on Twice's 'Dance the Night Away'.  You loved dancing but barely had time for it so you start dancing to the beat on the way to school. It didn't bother you that other people were staring, you weren't going to see them again anyways.

The music was overpowering the noise from the outside world, you felt like you were in a different universe every time you listened to kpop. Except you could never tell anyone about it, besides your best friend, because they would judge. You finished your coffee and tossed it into the trash.

You closed your eyes to take in the music and kept dancing only to stumble upon someone and fall on the ground. Your earbuds fall out as you hit the pavement and you hear a group of guys conversing. You didn't get up right away because you were scared so you just stared at the ground.

"Oh, hey, are you alright? You took quite the fall." you hear one of the guys say to you.

"Why didn't any of you catch her?" said another.

You looked up and nodded your head then got up with the help from one of the guys' hand. You looked into his eyes and you swear they were glistening.

"Um, thank you. S-Sorry, I'm okay, really." you tell them.

"You're a good dancer."

"Yeah, you were really feeling it!"

"What's the song you were dancing to?"

You became flustered with all these questions coming at you, hiding your face with your sleeve. You examined all the boys surrounding you. They looked about your age but you've never seen them before, then again they could just be tourists since this is Chicago.

"Oh, thank you, you're too kind. I was dancing to Twice's 'Dance the Night Away'." you tell them.

Their facial expressions all changed at once to a shocked look.

"What?" you asked, confused.

They all turned their heads to look at each other and you noticed they started talking in Korean.

"Excuse me? Is there something wrong?" you asked, concerned.

"No it's okay. Hi, my name is Chan." he says as he sticks his hand out for a handshake. You shake his hand and he continues, "We're a rookie group called Stray Kids. Twice is...our older sisters you could say."

You stand there in disbelief. You've never stood this close to any kpop stars in your whole life and knowing they personally know Twice makes you freak out. You start to panic a little but immediately came to your senses and started bowing and saying, "Sorry, sorry. I'm sorry I bumped into you."

They started to laugh and gestured you to stop bowing and to calm down.

"Look it's okay, haha. Don't worry about it." said Chan, placing his hand on your shoulder, "Here, we'll introduce ourselves." Chan nods his head at his members.

"Hi, I'm Han"

"Changbin"

"Hyunjin"

"I'm Seungmin"

"I.N"

"Woojin"

"I know! You know! Hi I'm Lee Know!"

The members all laughed while Lee Know smiles shyly at the ground.

"And I'm Felix"

You shook your head and widened your eyes asking, "Whoa is that your real voice? A-And your english is really good!"

Chan and Felix laughed, "I'd hope my english is good, I'm from Australia as well as Chan" Felix says as he points to Chan.

"Oh, oh my god, I'm sorry!" you say, embarrassed and bowing...again. "My name is Y/N. I'm actually really late for school, now that I think about it."

"Sorry to keep you here, do you want us to walk you to school?" asked Chan.

"Oh my gosh, no no, I'll be fine! I always walk to school alone." you say but realized how depressing it sounded.

"Come on, let us walk you to school today, it'll be a twist to your same routine. We were just roaming the city anyways." said Chan.

Instead of arguing, you smiled, nodded, and let the boys walk with you.

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