chasing him.

01 : First meeting.

It all started at a variety show I attended as an international guest along with my classmates. That was when I saw him. And I knew he was the one for me. We sat at opposing panels, him at the celebrity panel and I at the student panel. I didn't pay attention much during the show so I can't really explain what is it about.

I was simply caught up with his smile, his laugh and his gentleness. He was so perfect. Funny, I never heard of him before from my best friend. He belonged to a famous Korean boy band called BTS and apparently they really made it big in Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia. And around the whole wide world as well.

Before I get to grasp what was happening, the MC of the show announced that the show was coming to an end and people around me clapped. Sorn, my best friend, was jumping in her seat as she clapped. She was that excited to be in Korea, especially being invited as a guest on a famous variety show.

"Lisa, let's go say hi to them." Sorn pointed to celebrities at the other side of the set. They were huddled together and were bowing at each other.

I know she referred to the whole lot there but all I can see was him. I felt myself gratified towards him (although it was actually Sorn dragging me towards the celebrities' panel) and started forming words in my head. Only to realized that these people most probably don't speak any English.

My perfect guy and his group members noticed that we were coming over so they stopped whatever they were chatting about with the other celebrities and smiled at us.

Sorn bowed and tugged my hand down, forcing myself to bow too. They bowed too and we all smiled, descending into an awkward silence. The language barrier was too thick and since Sorn and I didn't learn much Korean since it was only our sixth day stay there, we can't really say anything.

"annyeonghaseyo!" I said, saying the only bit of Korean I know. They replied and smiled.

"You wait a bit; I'll go find our translator." Sorn made a 'wait here' gesture to the celebrities and ran off to find our translator.

"Um, you speak English?" I asked my dream guy. He looked a bit alarmed when I spoke to him in English and smiled, shaking his head.

"Uh...you. From?" I felt my nerves fly away when he tried to communicate with me. He made the wildest hand gestures and one of his group members snickered.

"Thailand." I simply said. Before things got any more complicated as both of us tried to communicate with each other (the other celebrities totally gave up at this point), Sorn arrived with our translator.

The rest of our conversation from there on consisted of general information of which I'm sure he's going to forget the minute we said our goodbyes (though I'll never forget whatever he told us about himself and his group mates).

"Picture time!" Sorn fished out her brand new hot pink camera which she bought a few days ago and signalled us to get closer to each other.

While his group mates made some excessive V-signs and puffed out their cheeks, he wrapped one arm around me and made a single V-sign with his other hand.

And that was the last time I saw him in awhile.