Secret Coach (A BTS Fanfic)

Chapter 15: Shrimp Chips

You arrive at the conference room where the five members of TXT, as well as Rosie, are sitting at a table, and you apologize as you take a seat.

"So they really just want to work on interview questions today, if that's okay?" Rosie explains to you and you nod in agreement. "So I made a list of interview questions so they can listen to you and then they can answer." She hands you a list of questions that you look over silently. The boys wait for you to ask a question, fixing their hair, and sitting patiently. 

"Okay so..." you say, starting the beginning of the practice session.

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After going through several questions, and a few confused looks with some replies, the members of TXT laugh as they remember an old memory together from their trainee days. You smile at Rosie, feeling a little awkward as you don't feel like you're very good at this interview practice thing. She assures you that you are doing fine, and it's just to help them hear the accent and also work on their own pronunciations. Rosie decides that it is a good time to take a break, and the boys get out their phones mainly to find translations of words that they struggled with. Beomgyu, however, gets a bag of gummy snacks out of his bag, opens them, and offers one to you. You thank him as you take the gummy, and Yeonjun suddenly looks at you with a gasp. He quickly reaches for something in his own bag and pulls out several different bags of snacks.

"You want a snack? We got these for you. We didn't know what you like," he says, offering them all over to you. Surprised,  you look through the mountain of snack packages, but you don't recognize any of them as all the brands/information is written in the Korean alphabet.  

"Ya!" Taehyun scolds Yeojun, "too many. I take one," he says and reaches in to grab a packet of what looks to be a bar of some kind. He unwraps it and takes a bite of the granola bar with a grin.

"They are all good," Beomgyu admits, as you search to find something you might like. You spot a bag of what looks like french fries, but when you look closer, notice there is an image of a shrimp on the bag. Confused, you hold it out to the boys.

"Saewoo-kkang!" they exclaim at almost the same time. "So good!" they converse and agree among themselves.

"Um, shrimp crackers," Rosie tries to explain, and you look at her suspiciously. You had never been one for seafood and were very confused about why they looked like french fries. The boys practically lick their lips as they stare at the snack in your hand. You start to put the bag back on the table, but Soobin takes it from you and opens the bag. The boys put their hands out for Soobin, awaiting him to place a shrimp cracker in their hands, but Soobin first takes one of the fried crackers out to give to you.

"Try it," he suggests. "Very good," you take the shrimp chip and are surprised by the smell, but they insist it tastes better. They weren't wrong, as you don't mind the taste, and you nod your head in approval. The boys cheer that you like their snack, and they hastily look through the other snacks to get you to try more foods.

"Oh, did you get my text, by the way?" Yeojun asks as the members are all eating from multiple different snacks between themselves, and you look over at him confused.

"I don't think I got a text?" you look at your phone and he leans across the table to look at the phone too. Noticing your texts with Hoseok and Namjoon, he purses his lips out slightly but then notices the unknown number. He points at it with his hand. "That's me," he says with a smile and sits back down. "That is my phone number, Yeonjun"

"Noona has your phone number?" Huening Kai looks over at the oldest member with surprise. "I want to give mine too!" the other three boys also express interest, and you are startled as to what is going on. 

"So if we have English questions, we can text you," Huening Kai starts to explain. "We will have lots of them," the boys all laugh nervously.

"Aw, that's okay," you reassure them. "It's why I am here, right?" you smile at them sweetly. You notice Yeonjun whispers something in Taehyun's ear, and they scrunch their noses, giggling, at whatever he said.

"Hey," Rosie looks at them with a stern expression. "What is going on?" they both look at each other for a moment then look away.

"Nothing," they say at the same time and laugh as they realize their unison. You are enjoying being there to help these silly and sweet boys, and Rosie tells you that she really appreciates that you came to help. Her accent isn't going to be very helpful, so she is glad to have someone who can give them more experience with a native English speaker. You express your thanks to her, and to the members, as they have to leave for dance practice, and you hang in the room with Rosie for a minute to help clean up the table.

"Hey, you okay?" she asks when the boys have all left. You look up from where you were crouching to get under the table. "Did Namjoon find you?"

"I'm okay," you tell her as you stand up and brush the crumbs off your pants. "Jae just had said something, and I got upset. Why did Namjoon come over here?" You were curious, and you really didn't know why he had ended up on your floor of the building. The idols and trainees didn't really spend time on the office floors as they had their own practice rooms and such further up in the building, so he went out of his way.

"Namjoon texted me because he wanted to know if you had said anything about last night," she begins. "He was really worried when I said you looked sad, and so asked where you were." You look over at her with wide eyes. This was not what you had been told by Namjoon.

"Wait, he texted you?" you are shocked. "But he told me...you texted him because you were concerned."

"I was...am concerned but he texted me," she looks like she knows something, but you can't tell what it could be.  "But you're okay, right?" you nod. Rosie curses under her breath, but you don't hear what she says. 

"Okay, I think that's it," she shoves the last snack bag into the trash bin by the door. "Thanks again," she smiles. "Next time, I think we could work with more words they could use for describing their music?"

"Sounds good," you say and follow her out the door.

 "Oh, and you can go home now. All done for the day," Rosie reminds you with a smile and waves goodbye as she leaves the elevator to return to the floor of your office cubicles. You still follow her so that you can clean up your desk, but then decide to go get some fresh air at a park nearby.