❄︎ 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘖𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘴

+ Chapter Nine: In One Place +

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soobin's pov

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Yesterday before I went to sleep, I was told by Namjoon sunbaenim that we should go to the gift giving program later at lunch. He said it was for the kids, and it will be nice for us to see the brightest smiles of the youth, so I agreed. Kids maybe annoying at times, but it's fun hanging out with them. Especially when they think you're cool~

We're walking towards the nearest gift shop, to obviously buy gifts for the children. I told Huening Kai and Taehyun to buy cute plushies. Beomgyu and Yeonjun hyung are in charge of the toys. I was in charge of the books.

Walking towards the book shelves, I let my eyes wander. The gift shop looks undeniably beautiful. It has stunning decorations, but it does not look complicated at all. It feels cozy like our rest house back in our country.

I arrived at the book shelves section, and I took all of my favorite children's book. I also put notebooks and pens on the cart, so they can write stories they imagine.

I went to the cashier much earlier than the boys that is why I was in front of the line.

I looked up to the sales woman, and she looked quite odd. Her makeup, her dress, her aura. Everything feels odd about her.

Her eyeshadow has a Santa Claus hat art. Her left cheek has a name made with a red eyeliner. Claus.

Her outfit has white fur and red silk coat with white fur on the inside too. She has the black belt like Santa's, and the cloak with hood too.

"Good day young lad," She greeted in English.

"Good day," I said very awkwardly.

"You look like you're going to have an amazing Christmas." I chuckled. Oh yeah sure. I'm not having it.

"You don't look like you don't enjoy it now, but trust me young lad. You will." She winked, and gave me the paper bag full of books.

"Thanks." I said. "jeulgoun hyugareul bonaeda" [ have a nice holiday ]

My eyes widened, and I looked back at the sales lady. She's gone.

What?

I almost jumped when I felt an arm held my right shoulder. "Yow you good?" Yeonjun hyung said while laughing.

I breathed heavily and nodded. "Yeah."

"Let's go. We're all done." He said lifting his paper bags full of cute plushies.

"Huening Kai bought two new dolphin plushies." I glanced at our youngest member, and he was holding two dolphin plushies. The other one was pink, and the other one was blue.

"Alright boys let's go."

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We arrived at the venue, and it was crowded with BTS fans.

"Look it's Tomorrow By Together!!!" I heard someone scream.

Some of the cameras were now focused on us. I heard the familiar noise of the crowd, and the familiar flashes of cameras. It was so familiar, and I used to love it. But now it makes myself think about a lot of things. Do they like me? Should I hide? What should I do? they're expecting a lot from me.

"Hey. Soobin. Let's go." Yeonjun grabbed my shoulder, and I nodded.

We both went inside the event's place, and we saw a lot of boxes and staffers inside. Boxes with logos of BTS sunbaenim are there too.

"Hello are you TXT?" An American man who looked quite old asked.

"Uh... yeah we are," Yeonjun hyung answered.

"Right this way please." He lead us to an open truck filled with boxes.

He gave us t-shirts with the program's logo print on it. "We have to wear uniforms so that everyone will recognize you as one of us." He smiled.

"What's your name, sir?" He smiles once again. I don't know but I think his smile flashed like a camera. Quite blinding actually.

"Just call me Mr. Cholas." He said.

"I'm the one who runs this program." We all nodded, and did our greet for respect.

"Alright alright. After changing, I'll send one or maybe two of the helpers to guide you all." We thanked him, and changed quickly.

"I actually liked what my outfit looks like today." Yeonjun hyung whined.

"The shirt looks good though." Beomgyu said, and we all agreed. It looks good on us.

"Tomorrow by Together?" We all heard a female's voice, so we all turned around.

"Lia?"

"Oh sir Soobin! It's nice to see you again here," she said, shaking my hand. Her hand is so soft. She doesn't really remember me huh?

"We've placed your gifts on that station over there. My father assigned you to that station, where we are also in." Father? We?

"We?" I asked.

"Oh yeah. Me and the girls. The four other girls are on the stage fitting room because we have to perform later." We all nodded our heads, and I noticed that she was still looking at me. So I asked her why.

"You're an idol. You should perform too. The kids would love it." She smiled showing her cute chubby cheeks.

"Uh... I don't know about that. We're in a break right now."

"Oh my tinsel. Don't think of it as work." She chuckled. "Think of it as a gift that you will give to the kids." She holds my hand and smiled at me. W-What is she doing?

Yeonjun cleared his throat, and whispered that we should do the performance. "Okay. We'll do it." I said. Lia smiled brighter.

"Great! I'll tell the performance manager." Then she ran away. When she was no longer in sight, I looked down at my hand.

Beomgyu whistles, and teased me about what just happened.

"Shut up you guys. Let's plan what we're going to perform later." I said and we all formed in a circle.

Then I spoke. "Okay so... wow why is it so hot in here?"

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I told you all that I will be doing daily updates hahahaha I was about to do that, but then I had to do a lot here in the house and in my online school too. So I was busy for the past few days. Hehe. Sorry about that.