BTS - Behind The Showbiz

I Shoes You - Hoseok

It was a quaint market town they'd rolled into.

Their original plan had been to spend an extra free day in the city that they were playing in tomorrow, but all of the group members had fallen in love with this small town as they'd been driving through it, so they made some last minute changes to their schedule.

After having been dropped off at a hotel and signed in, they had all decided to go about their own ways as they walked through the town to whatever caught their interest – for Hoseok that involved doing some window shopping so he made his way towards what was meant to be the main street.

It appeared as though today had been market day, but that it had just ended as the stalls were slowly closing on the square that he walked past. He couldn't help but feel that the current song that was playing through his earphones seemed to fit the market atmosphere quite well. He spotted a variety of goods on the stalls that hadn't entirely packed away yet – candles and jams to name just a few.

But that wasn't the kind of stuff that he was looking for.

He continued walking down the street, looking left and right to find was he was searching for, when he spotted an entrance into a shopping centre and he knew he might have more luck in there. Shooting a quick look left and right, he swiftly crossed the road and made his way through the extravagant entryway.

Indeed, straight as he made his way into the building, there was a shoe shop only a few shops along – he made a direct beeline for it.

He didn't walk straight in; instead, he stood at the window for a bit and had a look at the kind of shoes that they had available; he quite liked the look of a few of them.

He wasn't aware of it, but plenty of people shot strange looks at the guy wearing a white mask and just staring into a shop window.

She saw him before he saw her, standing at the window looking in. He seemed to be looking around a bit, but seemed to mainly be focusing on a single pair of shoes in the display. Curious, she walked a bit closer to the window to have a look; it wasn't very often, if ever, she saw people with a mask covering their face. What was he hiding?

"Caroline, will you go and see if that customer needs help, please?" the boss asked one of the older ladies, who gave an affirmative answer as she started to make her way towards the guy on the other side of the glass.

"Wait!" she said as she walked away from the window and towards her two older acquaintances. "Please let me talk to him?"

The two shot each other knowing glances as the boss agreed. "But don't scare him off."

She nodded. "I won't."

Hoseok was deep in thought when she appeared behind him and greeted him. In a swift twirl of surprise, Hoseok immediately spun around and came face to face with the young woman. She said something, but he couldn't hear it through his music; he quickly pulled out his earphones.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?" he asked.

The young woman let out a small sigh as she took in the mask on his face and repeated what she'd just said. "Can I help you somehow? You seem to be very interested in one of our window pieces."

"Ah. Hm," Hoseok said, once again turning to look at the pair of trainers he'd been admiring in the window. "I do quite like the look of these trainers; I was just debating on whether I need another pair."

"There's no harm in trying them on," she reasoned. "Besides, things break all the time. Even if you like them, buy them and don't wear them until an older pair of yours breaks, at least they'll be there for you."