Constellation

11. Farther Away SEOHYEON

December 2014

There was one thing that Seohyeon was looking forward to, and it wasn’t their comeback. It was Christmas. 

Christmas 2014 would be the first one that the members would be spending together, seeing as they couldn’t go home because of their comeback date being so close; she had to admit, she had been slightly disappointed when Daeseun had told them that Sigma wouldn’t be returning to Korea at all until the middle of January, since she had been looking forward to spending some time with the other six girls, but so much would be going on that she figured that to be honest, seeing them would only make her more stressed, as she would be trying to make time for them where there was none.

The members had already agreed between them that they wouldn’t be buying any presents for each other seeing as they were so busy, but Seohyeon didn’t like the idea at all. Sure, in principle, it was a very sensible plan, but she wanted to buy something to show how thankful she was for her unnies, despite the fact that she always seemed so stoic and emotionless. The trouble was trying to think of what she could buy each of them because what might be appreciated by one member would probably be hated by another. Another worry was where she would hide what she bought - sharing a room with neat freak number two Lee Jimin (number one was Subin, of course) was hell on earth when you had to stash away surprise presents.

Finding the time to go shopping was proving to be a difficult if not impossible task, as Eunjung had predicted, and the maknae was getting extremely frustrated as she once again went over a step in the practice room, exactly one week before Christmas day. The tutor sighed and clicked her fingers, pointing to a spot on the floor about two feet away from where Seohyeon was currently standing.

“This is where you need to end up, Seohyeon, not where you are now. How are you not getting this right? You’re usually the first to pick choreography up, but this time you’re getting everything wrong. Do you need me to fetch Kai?” she asked, concerned. “You always learn best when he’s the one teaching you.”

“I’m fine, songsaengnim, you don’t need to call over Jongin sunbae,” Seohyeon assured her, remembering to use her manners (the months of Subin and Eunjung yelling at her to speak formally were finally beginning to work, it seemed). “I’m just distracted, that’s all.”

“Distracted by what?” the tutor asked, passing the idol a bottle of water. “You’re not fighting with your group, are you?”

“Oh no, nothing like that. It’s Christmas soon and I want to get them some presents but I have no idea what to get them and practicing for the comeback has leached the life out of me,” she explained as she took a seat on the floor. 

“Ah, I see. Well, you need to learn this step today, so distracted or not, you need to stay in here. Sorry,” the tutor explained as she walked to the door.

“Wait, where are you going?”

“Fetching Kai, of course!” she trilled before leaving Seohyeon on her own.

“I told you I don’t need him!” she yelled anyway, sighing as she sipped at her water, utterly exhausted. Five minutes later, the dance teacher turned up with EXO’s best dancer trailing behind her, looking confused.

“Kai-ah, I need you to teach Seohyeon her newly choreographed solo dance,” she explained to him. 

“Oh! So that’s what it is! I thought you were kidnapping me, noona,” he teased with a grin. 

“Just to help your hoobae,” the teacher responded, laughing. “Here, I’ll teach you the steps and then you can show Seohyeonnie.”

“Songsaengnim, I told you not to bother Jongin,” Seohyeon insisted. “I’m just having an off day, I can learn it fine with you!”