Couple T-shirts / jung hoseok(#17)

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Wendy

I sat down at the couch with my other 4 roommates, staring at the TV screen in great concentration. Any minute from now, something is going to show on that screen and honestly, I am very nervous about it.

The first episode of my first drama is going on air today and I'm afraid of a lot of things, I am afraid that the drama might not turn out to be something that I had envisioned in my mind for weeks, I'm afraid that it might turn bad and it might make me feel bad.

It is so different from what I have been doing so far, writing books and writing for a drama is so different from each other. They have a different target audience, people who read books are better than those who watch dramas and movies.

For those who read books, they depend on their imagination from the lines of each paragraph to make a picture or visual of what they want the story to be like, everyone has their own version of the story that is intended for them and no one is being repeated, their interpretation of the story is different.

But it is different for dramas or feature films, the visuals are already there provided for them so they don't need to think much of how the scene is going to look like. Because they would only need to use their eyes and their brains, they would have more time to think about the mistakes in the dramas, be it major like a loophole in a particular scene or something trivial like a missing hairpin that appeared on the last shot.
"No matter what happens, it is going to be good," Irene reassures me while having a sip of water. "It couldn't be that bad."

Yeri nodded in agreement. "I agree, you spent such a long time writing it and you have such excellent writing skills, it is not going to be shitty."

Seulgi placed a reassuring hand on top of mine. "We have faith that it is going to turn out fine, don't worry."

"I hope so," I said weakly and the first few seconds of the drama began airing, the opening song blasting through the living room and all of us focused on the screen and nothing else.

I had my eyes focused on Hoseok who is smiling in the introduction and my heart started pounding hard, it is such a simple thing and yet my heart is reacting to it so much as if it is something that I have never seen before.

"He is so hot, I wonder if he is even hotter in real life." Joy exclaims and the rest just laughs at her, she is the only one who hasn't seen him in person.

"You bet that your jaw is going to drop to the floor when you get to see him, he is at the level of handsomeness. That is why he is in BTS, where all the members are equally handsome in their own ways." Yeri commented. "It is just that not all of the people think that way."

The rest of them have all seen him at least once, Irene when she came over from her workplace to pick me up from work, Seulgi when she came to the café when I was arguing with Hoseok whether to take up the role of the scriptwriter and Yeri, she is the luckiest of all, she has seen Hoseok even before I have even met him officially, in short Yeri is the first person to ever meet a member of BTS in real life.

"It is bad that I work the furthest away from all of you that I don't even get a chance to drop by for lunch." Joy pouted. "I feel so jealous."

"Then quit your job and work with me, I bet you will love it so much," Yeri suggests but Joy slammed it down right away. "No thanks, I will keep my job. I don't like pouring coffees and skimming milk."

Irene shushes the two of them. "Are we watching a drama or what? Keep your voices down or I'm kicking you girls out of the house tonight." They apologized immediately, afraid of the mom's fierce side. "Good, I thought that we were in a nightclub for an instance."

"Thanks," I said and we quickly got back in the mood, focusing on the drama as much as we can until another one started screaming. Seulgi was the one who started it, then Joy straight after with the other two following a split millisecond. I was the last one who started screaming and it was for a bad moment, dark history of my acting chops.

The scene which I made a cameo appearance in has finally appeared and I prayed to myself that it wouldn't come so early but it has, the female lead gets bullied in the first episode by 3 bitchy girls and I am one of the bitchy girls and the leader.

I immediately covered my eyes with my hands, unable to watch the scene properly without cringing. It is my first acting role after such a long time, it has been almost 5 years since I graduated from university and I have only been focusing on writing ever since, my forte being an author and nothing else even though I had a flair in acting.

"Yeah, I thought that you are supposed to be behind the camera? Why are you being dressed up like that?" Yeri speaks after a long minute of cringing and yelling. I haven't told anyone about that, about me appearing in my own drama as a cameo appearance. I was afraid that they might react like this and indeed they are all screaming once they have seen me appear on the screen.

"It is a long story, the person for that role couldn't turn up at the last minute and so I was up for the role," I explained to all of them after the episode had ended. "Was it very bad that all of you were cringing like that?"

It must have really been that bad because I haven't acted in so long and my acting skills must have done rusty after not being used. "It is a great role." Joy commented. "Although it is an antagonist's role you pulled it off very quickly, way above my expectations."

"Right, it is something so refreshing that I have never seen a cameo role do so well. Are you sure that she is not the main antagonist for this drama?" Seulgi stared in awe, not knowing what to say.

"Like what I said, it is just a cameo role and it is a one-time thing. She is never going to appear again and so is me myself." I told them and Irene and the girls groaned. "If a cameo role would appear again, she would then really become one of the main characters and I don't want that."

"But I want to see you act more often." Joy replied. "I'm sure that you can change the script right away since now only the first episode is being aired, there are still 19 more episodes."

My phone rang at that moment and it was from my director, the other member of BTS who stepped up at the last minute to replace the previous one. I picked up the call and the four girls huddled together, all holding hands and looking at me on a call with my director.

"Hello?" I greeted him.

"Right, I have something major to tell you." He pauses for a moment. "You just finished watching that episode right?"

I nodded. "Yes, it is great, better than what I have expected."

"Yes, the drama is so popular that it has reached the top of the search engines and it is all about Hoseok. He has acted really well and many people loved him for his acting skills."

"That's right, that is what he deserved," I replied.

"Right, there is another thing that I should tell you about. It is more about your cameo role."

I gulped my saliva. Is it good? "What about it? Did I perform well? Did I not?"

"Actually you have done well for that role and they want you to continue acting for that role, think of a name for that character and we will discuss with the others." I couldn't listen on and I placed down my phone, slowly looking at my friends for support.

"Girls, your dream came true." I told them. "They loved me." They really did.