Seriously Heart?

My alarm goes off the next morning and I see Chanyeol’s face on the screen.

I have a text from “CHANYEOL”. Wait, Chanyeol? Since when do I have Chanyeol’s number? Oh, he must have put it in when we mixed up phones.

I open the text and it reads:

“Hey this is Chanyeol, I put my number in your phone (obviously). We were wondering if you wanted to do something again with us. How about it?”

“Sure,” I text back, “what are you planning on doing?”

“Eh, I don’t know. We’ll figure it out. Oh, by the way, I gave everyone else you number as well so… yeah.”

“Haha, okay Chanyeol, just make sure they tell me who they are before they start texting me.”

“Okay! See ya at work!”

“See you!”

And in less than three minutes, I got eleven more texts from unknown numbers telling me who they were and that they were a part of EXO, just in case I’d forgotten.


At work, my manager ran up to me.

“Claire, I have great news and bad news, which do you want to hear first?” he asked.

“Uh, the bad news I guess.”

“The bad news is, I’m not going to be your manager anymore.” he said, “Well, at least I think it’s bad news.”

I open my mouth to reject the bad news.

“Now before you get all emotional I’l just say I’m still going to be working with you but not as much.”

“Who’s going to be my new manager?”

“She’s from America actually, her name is Abby. Great girl. She’s both fluent in Korean, Chinese, and English.” he smiles, “She’d be a great translator.”

I laugh, “Okay what’s the good news?”

“EXO has offered to do a song with you, along with a music video. This is a big chance to become bigger once you debut.”

“That’s awesome!”

“So you want to try it?”

“Duh! I’d love too!” I say, enthusiastically, “What song?”

He thinks for a moment, “Gosh, I can’t remember!” he shakes his head “Anyways you’ll be working on recording it today and tomorrow. The dances the next week, and you’ll be filming it the week after that.”

“Awesome! I’m so excited!” I say a big grin plastered on my face. “What room number?”

“266.”

“Okay, thanks!” I say and start walking to the elevator.

“Oh! And Claire!” I turn around, “You’ll meet you manager tomorrow.”

I nod and continue walking to the elevator, and go to the second floor to meet EXO.


I find room 266 and knock. Lay opens the door.

“Hey Claire, come on in.” he says widening the doorway.

EXO’s manager walks up to me and hands me the lyrics to the song. “Is your manager coming?” he asks.

“Um, I don’t know. Do you want me to text him and ask?”

“Nah, it’s fine. Just take a seat by Baekhyun and start practicing the higher parts. I’ll go find him.”

I sit next to Baekhyun whose group consists of Chen, D.O., Luhan, Suho, Baekhyun, and now me.

We start singing and Baekhyun’s voice cracks. We laugh a little and remain singing.

After a minute, my voice cracks, only worse and a lot more noticeable.

The five boys crack up and I laugh while I can feel my face heat up.

“You better not do that in the concert!” D.O. laughs.

“I’ll try not too.”

“What happened?” Chanyeol asks, standing behind Chen and looking at each one of our faces.

“For us to know and you to never find out.” I tell him.

“Hey, that’s not fair!”

“That’s what you get for keeping so many secrets from me!” I stick my tongue out at him.

Chanyeol moves Chen’s chair out of the way and picks me up while tickling my sides, “Tell me!” he whines.

“No!” I say, biting back my laughter. He is holding me like a baby and I squirm around, trying to get out of his grip. He stops tickling m but doesn’t put me down.

“I’m not gonna put you down until you tell me what happened.” he said, tightening his grip on me.

“Why do you want to know so bad?” I said, squirming. I stop and look down. It’s a long drop and I realize Chanyeol in standing on my chair. I get a rush through my body, like the feeling of falling, and I wrap my arms around his neck. “At least stand on the floor.”

Chanyeol jumps down to the floor and I squeal a little. He walks a little bit and sits on a chair, and moves me into a new position. I am now sitting on his lap, in the rapping group. His arms securely around my waist.

“Okay, let’s get started.” Chanyeol says and I look around the circle. Sehun, Kris, Kai, and Tao sit around staring at us.

“Dude, I need to go back to my group.” I whine.

“As soon as you do a rap for us and tell what happened.”

“Fine. I was singing and my voice cracked really bad. Now what rap do you want me to do?”

“English rap.” Tao says.

“Okay…” I think for a moment and start rapping one of the only raps I know. The rap is from the song “Classic”.

“One more, one more!” Sehun says when I finish.

I smile as I think of one more English rap I know. It’s from their song “The Star”.

“You may know this one, Kris.” I say and start the rap. “Hey, every night, you know you always look so fine, You’re just the a rock star, to know how fine you are. Yeah.”

Kris starts rapping with me, “Imma take you to a secret place. Drop the shades and crack the bass. Uh. Hey girl/boy you know how to play. Huh. I know how to play.” Everyone starts clapping. I mean, everyone. I guess they all stopped what they were doing to listen to the rap/

I gave Kris a high five and Chanyeol let me go.

“You fool.” I said in English, as I walked away. I turned back and smiled brightly.
Kris, being the only one who understood me, started laughing.

“What’d you say?!” Chanyeol yelled.

“Just don’t worry about it.” I say shrugging.

“Hey!” Chanyeol said, standing up.

“She called you an idiot, now sit down.” Kris said and pushed Chanyeol back in his seat.

“I did not!” I said, pretending to be offended.

“Then what did you say?” Baekhyun said coming up behind me.

“I called him a fool. Those two words are very different.”

“Not really.” Chen said.

“I know, be quiet.” I shushed him.

Everyone laughed as Chanyeol pouted.

“Ah, Chanyeol oppa, it was just a joke.” I said patting his head like a dog.

Chanyeol suddenly moved really fast and wrapped his arm around my waist, spinning me around. In the end, I was back on his lap.

“Another punishment?” I ask.

“Yep, how’d you guess?”

I just growned, and everyone laughed.

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