i felt shaking, which stirred me up from my sleep, i realized my surroundings and i was in the car. i rubbed my eyes and felt someone raking through my hair, "hana, we're here. the 127 hyungs are in your fitting room so they can see you girls before you guys go on. let's go." mark said softly. still waking up slightly, i nodded and opened the door. i realized everyone seemed tired because when i opened the sliding door, i found everyone sleeping. mark helped me wake everyone up. since we were pulled right in front of the inkigayo building, i heard yelling from behind me which was the front of the building. i turned around and found taeyong and johnny coming to the car and waving hello to us. i greeted them back and threw them irene's and yeri's bag so they could carry it. mark made haechan carry soyeon's. while i was looking for my bag after everyone got out of the car, waiting for me before entering.
i heard mark come beside me and put his hand on my shoulder, "i got it no worries hana, let's head inside before everyone leaves us." i turned to him, and before leaving i thanked the manager and he told me, he was gonna go park the car and that we could go ahead. i let everyone go before me and i was behind everyone because i just woke up and felt groggy still. mark stayed by me to make sure i didn't fall behind. we talked a bit until we entered the fitting room. frantic staff from both nct's dream and 127's managers were speaking to staff while the boys got separated from us because the stylist took all the girls straight to the make-up table because we were all supposedly 'behind-schedule' but when i read the clock, we were only like three minutes late. as the boys sat on the couches on the other end of the room watching us get ready. soyeon and yeri got their make-up and hair done first while irene and i got dressed because we had the most layering garments to wear. this is the clothes our group was told to wear:
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a/n: hwasa is hana / wheein is yeri / solar is soyeon / moonbyul is irene. i paired the characters under the idol i thought represented their appearance/persona the best. now back to the story.
after irene and i helped each other get dressed, we walked out to see yeri and soyeon waiting right outside the door holding their outfits, ready to change. their makeup matched while yeri's hair was in a high ponytail while soyeon had her hair straightened. "wow you guys look good-" irene said excitedly before hearing soyeon reply, "ah you too irene! you look good too hana but, we gotta get dressed, see you in a bit!" as they wave bye, i lightly grabbed irene's hand to go to the stylist. i sat down in the chair and the stylist started doing my hair. she curled my hair then started brushing through the curls to make it more wavy and loose. while my hair was getting sprayed down, i slightly looked over to irene to see the stylist putting clear gloss on her lips and retouching some of the makeup. i threw up a thumbs up to my right so irene could see it when looking in the mirror. after holding it up for a couple seconds, i hear irene lightly laughing at my gesture. and told me to stay focused because we were debuting tonight. after 15 minutes, the yeri and soyeon finished getting dressed and was waiting for irene and i finish our finishing make-up touches. after i looked in the mirror, i was pretty shocked at how i looked. for once, i thought i looked pretty.. hot. i smiled at myself to find the room a lot less crowded. the manager noticed my confusion and told me the fitting room had a connection to another room where the dreamies and most of the 127 boys were gonna watch us perform through a big tv screen. i nodded and started conversing with the girls. we went through vocal warm-ups and started stretching lightly to make sure we didn't rip our clothes before we perform. we felt prepared but we didn't know what to expect. our manager said we were the next performance and brought our four roommates to help us with our mics. mark came in and helped me set up my mic while johnny did the same with yeri, taeyong helped irene and haechan followed his hyungs and did the same thing. while the boys were individually giving a mini pep-talk to the girls, after mark set up my mic, he stepped back and gave me a good look. i didn't know what to do so i looked down at my black heels.
"hana, don't worry you got this. im not good at this haha sorry hana. but, you look good.. don't overthink. just have fun with the rest of the girls. everyone will love you, i promise." mark says before grabbing my hands gently and swaying it from left to right to help me release my nerves. since the manager wasn't in the room and it was just the four boys and four girls. after mark's pep-talk i thanked him which left me and mark holding hands and watching everyone else be all 'lovey-dovey'. little did i know, me and mark was basically the same. mark and i started to tease the girls and guys by making weird noises when taeyong attempted to kiss irene, johnny gave yeri a big bear hug, haechan was trying to take some cute selfies with soyeon. mark and i was just joking around and as the boys started to leave the room one by one because our call time was coming close, it left me with the three girls talking on the side waiting for mark and i to finish.
"i guess i gotta get going mark" i mentioned after looking back at him, then to our connected hands then back to him.
mark came closer to my right ear and said, "go get em princess" and left me with a stunned face. i was in shock that i wasn't even prepared for what happened next. he kissed my forehead, let go of my hands and walked over to the other room.
in complete astonishment, i walked to the girls and said, "did mark r-really just do t-that in front of you guys?" i said while pointing to my ear, then my forehead out of confusion. 'ah, let's focus hana. we'll talk about it later. girls we worked so hard to get to this point. let's show the industry what's up and we ain't here to play around. okay? i love you all no matter the outcome.' irene yells nearly making her voice crack.
we all smile, got into a big group hug and yelled out our cheer, "let's show them whats up girls!". and with that we went on stage to perform. the lights dimmed and we got into position on stage. we heard the roars of cheering and yelling. i got in the center of the stage after irene went on. with that, the lights suddenly brightened and the music started.
a/n: imagine they're wearing the outfits that was previously shown. back to the story.
after performing full-out for the first time on stage, in front of fans felt exhilarating. i caught myself looking at the members and giving them big smiles as we danced and sang our hearts out to our debut song. after the three minute performance, the lights darkened and we ran off stage hugging each other as soon as we got back to the fitting room. "we finally debuted girls!" i said as i jumped around in happiness. we all huddled around each other and i started crying without even realizing. the girls and i were so absorbed in our emotions, we didn't notice that the dreamies and the 127 boys were watching our entire 'somewhat' happy breakdown/realization that our dreams were coming into actuality. the girls started crying heavily while irene teared up a bit trying to be a leader to us, and not let her emotions truly affect her.
"girls, stop crying. we're gonna look ugly if we have to go back on stage for awards." irene said trying to lighten the mood and she had an unexpected voice crack from all the crying. i started laughing at irene and hugged yeri and soyeon so that we could start retouching our makeup. i turned around to find the boys staring at us. the dreamies made eye contact with me first and jisung ran to me giving me a big hug and said congrats on my debut. since jisung awkwardly stepped out, the rest of the boys started stepping forward and congratulating the girls. after a bit, the girls and i headed to the make-up table and started retouching our makeup for the awards ceremony. then as i was rubbing off the messed up mascara on my face, i saw a plastic water bottle being offered to me. while still wiping the make-up to fix it, i turned to my side to find mark opening the water bottle for me to drink it.
"you did good. maybe it was because i gave you a good luck charm." i put the wipe in the trashcan and grabbed the open water bottle. not knowing what he was genuinely talking about, i replied.
"what do you mean?" i said grabbing the cap from his open palm. i closed the water bottle and grabbed the mascara wand to start reapplying the make-up.
"you don't remember?" mark said smirking while i turned my face to him with my eyes wide open because i didn't want the mascara to smudge.
"ah, whatever mark. don't bother me. you're flustering me and i'm trying to fix my makeup." i calmly replied then went back to fixing my makeup. mark lightly chuckled and went on to annoy me more while i was doing my make-up. but to be completely honest.. i didn't mind.
a/n: idk where im going with this plot tbh. i hope its ok!
