Forever Young 영원히 젊은 Park Jimin

Chapter 4: #sugalecollab

"Okay everyone, let's take a quick break." Our choreographer said. We've been practicing for the past two hours for our comeback. We had two new songs again, but this time, we only had one new choreography since one of our songs was an acoustic one. We already knew the steps, since the dance practice video has already been released, but singing while dancing was hard work, and right now we were trying to get through the entire song without running out of breath or looking like we were dying.

"Whew that was hard." Rosé said to me in English as she lied down on the floor. When it was just us two, we spoke to each other in English. I knew that I should be speaking Korean every chance I get since I've only been here a little over a year and my Korean wasn't the best yet, but it kept me from missing New York too much.

"I know." I replied, lying down as well. Jisoo-eonni approached us and looked down on our half-dead-from-exhaustion forms.

"I'm going to the cafeteria to get some food. You guys want anything?" She asked.

"Water jom juseyo." Rosé requested. "I already ran out."

"Me too." I added as I closed my eyes. Maybe I could get at least five minutes of sleep.

"Two bottles of water, coming right up!" Jisoo-eonni said. I heard footsteps going away from us so I assumed that she already left.

I wasn't even fully asleep yet when I felt someone poke my cheek.

"Gale-ah~" a voice said.

"Please go away." I murmured.

"Galie~" it said again.

"Jebal, just five more minutes." I begged.

"Fine. I guess you don't want to hear this interesting piece of BTS news."

"What? Where? Who?" I asked as I bolted upright. I opened my eyes to see Jennie's smiling face.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say that you have a crush on one...or two...or three...or all of those boys, Galie." She teased. I felt a light blush cover my cheeks as I sat up properly and stretched my legs.

"Of course not. I just really admire them." I defended. To my right, I see Rosé and Lisa sleeping next to each other on the floor. I grabbed my phone from my pocket and took a picture of the two cuties.

"Whatever you say~" Jennie replied.

"And they're not boys. They're men." I continued. "Well, except Jeon Jungkook. He's a fetus."

"Now what was it that was so important that you had to wake me up?" I asked as I let out a yawn and rested my head on her shoulder. Jennie tapped something on her phone's screen and handed it to me.

"That has been trending since last night." She said. BLACKPINK's social media were flooded with different comments and posts, all tagged with the same hashtag.

#sugalecollab

My eyes grew to the size of dinner plates. My mind then flashed back to last night when I mentioned in a VLive that I wanted to do a collab with Suga from BTS. It was a joke! I mean, of course I wanted to do a collab with him, but I didn't think that anyone would have taken what I said too seriously.

"And it's not just our social media. Even Bangtan's Twitter and Instagram are flooded." Jennie added.

"Oh no." I whispered. What have I done?

"I don't think it's a bad thing. Who knows, maybe we'll get to meet BTS because of this." Jennie said, trying to cheer me up. I just gave her a small smile.

As a rookie group, our image as idols was still very fragile. One wrong move could destroy our entire career, and I knew how sensitive fans could get, especially fangirls. They didn't want other girls linked with their oppas, and even though there was nothing romantic at all with what I had said last night, netizens can be ruthless.