Is This a Dream?

It was 4:30 pm and the plane finally landed. I woke up and saw that we landed and thanked God that we made it safe; I woke up Tia.

“Tia wake up, we’re here!” Tia wakes up and looks out of the window.

“We made it.” I said smiling. Few by few, people slowly started getting off of the plane so we grabbed our things, put them in our bags, grabbed them, and when it was time for us to get off, we got up from our seats and walked off the plane into the airport; I started vlogging again.



“So we finally made it! We’re here at the LAX airport and we’re walking now to where we go pick up our checked bags and…yeah. We’re so excited, we made it safely. We slept through the entire flight honestly. But now we’re here where we need to pick up our bags and we’re just waiting for them.” I stopped vlogging. After a few minutes, the machine made a noise signaling that bags are coming through. Luckily mine and Tia’s bags were the first ones so we quickly picked up our bags and walked out the airport. Automatically, we felt the nice weather hit us and we saw palm trees. We thought we were in paradise. I called the taxi to take us to the LA Hotel that was near the venue. When we finally made it to the hotel, we grabbed our bags, and walked in the hotel. The hotel looked very nice just like my dad told us. We walked up to the reception desk.



“Hi, how may I help you” the receptionist said with a heart-warming smile.

“Yeah, I had made a reservation about a couple weeks ago”

“Okay, what’s your name?”

“Jonece” and then the receptionist types in my name and searches for it.

“Ah yes, you made a reservation to stay today: July 16th to August 15th and you have the penthouse suite in which you get training room, dining room, room service, the good stuff” “Here’s your key, all you do is take that card and wave it front of the door handle and the door will open and it’s on the 3rd floor, room 315” I grabbed the key card,

“Okay, thank you!”

“Enjoy your stay!” With that being said, we took the elevator to the 3rd floor. Once we got out of the elevator, we looked for our room number.

“Here’s our room!” I took the key card and waved it across the door handle and it made a beeping noise signaling that the door was unlocked and we walked in slowly. We couldn’t believe our eyes. It looked just like the pictures we saw on the website. It had two full-sized beds, plasma TV mounted on the wall, then we walked through another door and there we had our separate normal sized bathrooms. It was the best hotel room we’ve ever seen. We unpacked our bags and put our clothes in the dresser drawers and put our bathroom stuff in our bathrooms. I fell back on my bed, relishing the softness of it, and cut on the TV.




“What should we do?” “It’s almost 5…are you hungry?” I asked.

“Yeah, I am”

“Well how about we go out to go eat and after we eat, we go shopping for a bit?”

“Sounds like a plan” We didn’t bother changing into different clothes and just kept on the clothes we put on this morning; I started vlogging.

“Hey guys so as you can see, we’re here in our hotel room. We’re staying at the LA Hotel, this is the hotel that me and Tia, JRE, Cortney and Jasmine, Michael, and Patrick are staying in because it’s not that far from KCON so that’s a good thing. But look at this room, it’s amazing. I totally recommend this hotel if anyone is gonna come to LA. But we’re about to go out to eat and then go shopping, I’m just waiting for Tia to get freshened up so we’ll see you guys when we get back!” I stopped vlogging.

“Alright, you ready?” I asked.

“Yep!” Tia says.

“Alright! Let’s go!” I grabbed my phone, wallet, the key card, and we walked out of the hotel and stood outside trying to figure out where we wanted to eat at.

“Where should we eat at?” Tia asked. I took out my phone and started looking for restaurants.

“Oh! There’s a Japanese sushi restaurant called ‘Katsuya’” “It’s in the heart of the Hollywood”

“I want sushi!”

“Sushi it is!” I called a taxi to take us the restaurant. Once we got there, we got out of the taxi, and walked in the restaurant, stunned at how amazing and beautiful it looked inside.



“Woah, this place is amazing!” and that’s when a waitress comes up to us,

“Konnichiwa, how many?”

“Two” I answered.

“Okay, follow me” she says smiling. We followed her to the sushi bar, “What do you girls want
to drink?”

“Can I get strawberry Ramune?” I asked.

“Sure! And you?”

“Me too” Tia says.

“Okay, do you want to look over the menu before you order?”

“Yeah” I responded.

“Okay, I’ll give you time to look at it and then I’ll be back in a few minutes” With that, we both look on the menu trying to find what we want to eat. After those few minutes was up, the waitress comes back.

“Have you ladies decided what you wanted?”

“Yeah, I want the Bento Box Lunch and the Rainbow Rolls”

“Okay, how about you?”

“Same thing” Tia responded.

“Okay, here are your drinks and your bento lunch boxes will be out in a few” the waitress said smiling.

“Thank you!” I said returning the smile. Before we knew it, the chef was making the sushi in front of us and we thought that it was pretty cool. In a matter of minutes, our bento boxes came. It was filled with hot, delicious-looking Japanese food. When we started digging in, our sushi was finished and the chef put the plate in front of us. We both chowed down our food happily. After we finished eating, we paid the bill and decided to go to the Grove where it has a lot of shopping places to go to. To my surprise, there was a ‘Hood By Air’ store. Hood by Air was my favorite clothing brand and I would always order their clothes online since in North Carolina, there wasn’t a Hood by Air store. Tia and I excitedly walked in, figuring out on what we want to buy. To our surprise, they started playing kpop music; to specify, it was ‘Bounce’ by JJ Project. Without a care in the world and just knowing that the store was playing kpop, we were dancing proudly. Because I was dancing too proudly, I had accidentally bumped into someone, making them drop their clothes that they were carrying; I turned around not even bothering to look up at the person and started helping by picking up their clothes.

“I’m so sorry, I guess I kinda got too—“ and that’s when I looked up at him and our eyes met. I couldn’t believe my eyes, Jackson Wang from GOT7 who was also supposed to be at KCON was standing in front of me. I continued to stare into his eyes and he did the same. Being star-stricken, I covered my mouth, froze, trying my best to form a sentence; I started stuttering.

“Y-you’re…J-jackson…from G-GOT7” I stuttered slowly moving my hands away from my mouth and then out of nowhere, he put his finger on my lips to keep me quiet. He moves closer to me and whispers,

“Sshhhh, don’t get too loud but yes, I am” I nodded telling him that I will keep quiet.

“What are you doing here?” “Where are the other members?”

“Mark, went to go visit his family and the rest are at the hotel and I wanted to shop around”

“But shouldn’t you at least have bodyguards with you?” “You’re popular y’know?”

“I can get away with things” he says giving a smirk and by me being lost in his eyes, I didn’t understood what he meant, “Since you already know my name, what’s yours?” at that moment, I had to look away, I couldn’t look at him with the state I was in. He softly grabbed my chin and turned my head so I was forced to look at him in the eyes.

“What’s your name baby girl?” Did I hear that correctly? Did he just call me baby girl? So many things were running through my mind but I sucked it up and told him my name.

“J-Jonece” I said stuttering a bit; he starts smiling.

“That’s a very unique name…..I like it” he says giving me a wink. At that moment, I felt like fainting.

“Thank you” I said as I started forming a smile.

“How old are you?” Why did he ask me for my age? Without giving it any thought, I told him my age.

“I’m 17” and then out of nowhere, I became a bit cocky and asked, “How old are you?”

“I’m 20” and then before the conversation could get any further, I heard Tia calling my name, “It looks like your friend’s looking for you”

“Y-yeah”

“See you around baby girl” he says. I could’ve sworn that his had gotten deeper when he said that. He smiled at me, took the clothes out of my hands and that’s when I had the chance get a good look of his body. He was wearing a black wife beater so I was able to see his huge biceps. I gulped hard as I continued to look at his biceps, his pecks, and then looked at him in the eyes again; I was frozen again. With that, he walks away and continues shopping.

“Hey, I’ve been looking for you. You wanna try these on?” Tia asks.

“Y-yeah”

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine” With that being said, we continued shopping. The encounter that happened between me and Jackson was still rumbling around in my mind. I was truly thinking about telling Tia but I decided to wait until KCON. We finally made it back to the hotel, we got undressed, laid in the bed, and watched TV. When I started dosing off, I started vlogging.

“Hey guys so we’re back in our hotel room and we’re just watching TV now. But we’ve had a long day today and we’re tired *yawns* so I’m gonna end the vlog here, edit this and upload tomorrow and continue with the vlogs then. Goodnight everyone” I stopped recording. Before we both knew it, we both fell asleep soundly.

Notes

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