Taehyung didn't know when this feeling of his started. The need to look through articles about her. The desire to look at her during award shows. The want to get close to one of her friends just so that he would have a reason to stare at her. It sounds like he was infatuated, but Taehyung would rather call it a mild crush. He had liked Krystal for a very long time, and he thought that those feelings would have faded off by now. He remembers getting his heart broken on the first of April in 2016. The day where her dating news emerged. To worsen the situation, Krystal was reported to be dating Kai, - one of Jimin's friends. He recalls feeling so heartbroken for a couple of months that his mind was not thinking straight. He couldn't do anything right. He even had to double-check whether the news was real by texting Amber about it.
Her reply disheartened him.
"Yeah, it's true. In fact, they'd always had a thing for each other ever since they were young but no one stepped up to confess to one another first."
Amber's statement hit him like a thousand of bricks. That was in 2016. Fast forward three years later and he still feels ... something when he spots any news about her. Taehyung even caught himself staring at the picture of her endorsing a product far too long while walking on the streets of Myeongdeong one time. He has not seen her face-to-face for a few years now. The last time he got up-close to her was during the KCON Festival in Paris during the middle of 2016. Wow, Paris. A lot of fun things happened there. 2016 was indeed a memorable year, wasn't it?
The man was currently in Seoul, on the way to the company to sort out some things with their schedule. Scrolling through Spotify, Taehyung searched up for his favourite singer that he coincidentally shared a liking with Krystal. He scoffed to himself. He could have had any girl he wanted in the world. Any pretty model, or stunning idol, but after all this time ... his heart still chose her. He's travelled so many cities but every time he closes his eyes, all of the memories of her that he had while in Paris still haunts him until this day. There can never be anyone who could make his heart move so fast like her.
An email suddenly pops up in his inbox, causing him to raise a brow. He presses onto his inbox and skims through the email. It seemed like an invite to one of Chanel's show in Seoul, and it looked legit enough not for it to be fraud. Taehyung glances around the car, holding up his iPhone in the air.
"Hey, anyone else got the invite from Chanel?"
Almost everyone opened their smartphones to look through their email. Apparently, only Taehyung had received an invite. He grins to himself. As expected from the most fashionable one in BTS. He looks at the person in the front seat.
"Am I allowed to go though, hyung?"
His manager reaches his hand out to look at his phone. Taehyung gave it without hesitation as he did not have anything to hide. Sure, their company had put on a no-dating policy, but at this rate any of the members are free to do anything because their band are the ones earning a lot of money for the company. After going through the invite, and nodding at its legitimacy, their manager looked back to give him a warm smile.
"I'll ask the company about it and double confirm with you again. Though, aren't you a die-hard fan for Gucci, Taehyung?" Their manager questions.
Taehyung looks down onto his Chanel cross-body bag that he has been bringing around the airport for a couple of months now.
"I think it's time for a change of direction in the wind, no?" Taehyung grins before pressing onto the RSVP button.
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Krystal was enjoying her solo day out around her hometown in San Francisco. She had just sent her mom home after doing some grocery shopping with her this morning, and now she plans to rediscover her favourite places around her hometown while she was growing up around her. She didn't spend much time in SF though, because she got shipped to South Korea at the age of 13 after being scouted to become an idol at the age of 5. Therefore, the list of her favourite places at SF as an adolescent wasn't that long.
She was hoping off the tram when she hears the sound of notification ringing from her Chanel handbag. Instinctively, she reaches out for her phone to see if that was a text from her parents, but shuts off her phone when she realises it was her inbox. Ignoring the notification and still walking towards her destination, she smiles when she spots the sight she misses the most: San Francisco's infamous Golden Gate Bridge.
"Now, this feels like home," Krystal mutters to herself as she starts to climb over some huge rocks to get to the spot where her friends and her would usually hangout after school last time. She jumps off the rocks and the place came into view, a smile creeping on her usually stoic face. It was a shame that none of her close friends were in town to actually be with her right now. Brittany was in the UK, Grace was in Australia and Hannah was somewhere in Asia. They were all in separate continents right now, and she missed her friends oh-so-much.
She settles onto her grass, now deciding that it was the right time to scroll through the notification on her phone. She hated that little piece of technology honestly, as it was that exact thing that robbed most of her self-confidence away from her. The articles that people wrote about her. The harsh words thrown towards her. It scarred and traumatised her for the longest of time, so if she need not to look at the phone, - she wouldn't.
She checks her inbox and reads through the new email coming in. Oh, an invite to Chanel's latest Show in Korea? As if on cue, her manager calls her.
"Nae oppa? Is this about the Chanel invite?"
"Yep. The company wants you to be there. I've booked a flight for you to come back in 2 days," he explains, on the other line.
Krystal sighs. She hated the fact that she was still tied to the exact same company that kicked her sister out of her group and stole her youth away from her. SM Entertainment. If it wasn't for Luna, Amber and Victoria, she would've left a long time ago. If it wasn't for her fans, she would've been free by now. But Krystal was a person full with conscience. She kept her contract with SM because she read a couple of fan accounts on how heart-broken they'd be if she left the group. Yes, upfront Krystal had looked like an ice princess that does not care for filial things like these but nobody knows her like she does. She's affected to sentimental things like these than more people would expect.
"Nae oppa. See you soon?"
"See you soon, Soojung." Her manager chirps back.
The call ended and Krystal gathered herself to go back home. She screenshots the Chanel invite she's gotten and sends it to her group chat that she shares with her band mates.
"Looks like I'm coming back to Korea." The group chat read.
—END OF CHAPTER—
Ok guys ... don't kill me. I know I have like 2038837373 pending stories right now ... but I really needed to just write this out.
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date: 20/7/2019
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FanfictionShe was good at pretending, but he was good at observing. When she's had everyone fooled under her facade, he was the only one who saw her right through her act. Because to him she was like his transparent glass. S T A R R I N G ; Jung Soojung (Kry...
