Thespians | Kim Taehyung

Chapter Ten

Rain, Eunae, and Haneul sat in the living room of the Lee house; they had just gotten home from their respective trips. The Lee parents were cooking while the younger ones freaked out over Rain's increasing popularity.

"Yah, what the hell are we going to do, now? You're going viral, Rain."

"You're kidding," Rain replied.

"She's not kidding, Rain-ssi. You're trending on YouTube. Your cover video has over five million views already," said Haneul while aggressively scrolling through Rain's socials.

"Look at your subscriber count! Fifty thousand! It has not even been an hour since that tweet went live. Kim Taehyung has power, let me tell you," beamed Eunae.

"I feel like you two are my managers. The Lee Management Corporation. Please, do take care of me as I become a star," Rain replied dramatically while putting a hand over her head.

     "Will do," replied Haneul with a smile.

     "Hey, can we go to a café or something? I'm kind of hungry and I need my coffee," said Rain.

     "Sure!"

      "Oh, I have an idea," the foreign woman said.

      The Lee siblings stared at the small pale woman in curiosity.

      "Let's do a livestream and address the whole situation. I could also introduce you to my viewers, Nae. That is, if you want to. You could appear, too, Han. I will not do it if I do not have your consents," Rain said with a small smile. "It would be a great and easy way to engage with the new followers. Plus, I need to give Kim Taehyung a proper thanks. This way, I'm making sure he sees it, be it live or not."

      "I love the idea. What do you think, Haneul?"

     "I'm in. Let's do it."

     "We have to make sure that the café allows the streaming. I sometimes do live-streams from the places I eat, but I always ask their management if it's okay."

     "You're a genius," said Haneul while giving Rain a small shoulder squeeze with both of his hands. "Let's do this. I think I know where you want to go, noona."

"This is also peak hour," Rain said casually. "We should get going if we want to catch as many viewers as we can."

"What are we waiting for? Let's get going!"

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Tokio, Japan

     The Bangtan men were heading to an exclusive event they had with Japanese ARMYs. It consisted of a meet and greet in which each ARMY had five minutes inside a closed space with one random BTS member.

     The boys were told by management that they would have to travel for around two and a half hours because the venue was quite distant from the hotel, as it was quite big. Indeed, it would be a long day for BTS.

One hour into the trip, most of the members were fast asleep in their comfortable van. It was rare to have them all in the same car. Taehyung found himself listening to some jazz while looking out the window. He was in a very nice mental trance when his phone buzzed abruptly, interrupting his whirlwind of thoughts. He unlocked his device and he saw a notification from YouTube: Rain was live. He quickly tapped the notice and the app opened automatically, showing an image of Rain's translator. Then, the redhead blinked and smile.

"Yah, stop pretending to freeze. People will leave the livestream," said a masculine voice. Taehyung stiffened. Before he could continue watching, he was tapped on the shoulder by none other than Seokjin. TaeTae took one of his AirPod's off to listen to his elder.