Aria Chun, a British Korean girl ventures into the world of Kpop with the help of her brother and falls into the hands of seven chaotic males under a crackhead company with more crackheads but at least they're successful.
Please welcome the nation's...
After a few days of multiple breakdowns, I finally got the clear that I could start promotions so I did the only thing a sane person would do when their mental health starts to deteriorate. I called Taesul Unnie and got her to dye my hair for me. Would I be in trouble? Very likely. Do I care? at this point, I really didn't.
We dyed it a nice Auburn colour on Thursday morning at the company because Chanmi Unnie had a special surprise to get ready for. We had Music Bank Tomorrow then I would have some sort of schedule on Saturday then, probably, Inkigayo on Sunday.
The boys were unaware of this sudden choice of mine too. Jay probably got some hints somehow and probably Niki too but besides that, I've done a good job keeping it under the wraps.
Maya had a comeback scheduled sometime next week so I obviously couldn't wait for that. I called TXT the other day too and Yeonjun gave me a pep talk explaining that everything would be fine.
"Oh my God-" Were the first set of words I heard when I walked into the practice room at 12:37 pm from the lips of none other than Sim Jake. His statement alerted the other 5 in the room as they turned to look at me their jaws dropped.
"Do you guys not like the colour?"
"No, it's fine! We just didn't expect it." Heeseung spoke up before I felt an arm around my shoulder
"Your hair is lovely Ari, It's great."
"Thank you, Niki, I'm glad you guys like it."
"Does Chanmi Noona know?" Sunghoon asked
"She'll see it later."
"And the rest of the staff?" Sunoo continued
"It'll be fine guys, live a little. Now, Let's start practice."
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Practice went on for hours so we could perfect our stages for Music Bank this morning. Sunghoon was already at his table reading and we were just getting the finishing touches before we perform Future Perfect. Everything was pretty calm and Chanmi along with Dokyun weren't as mad or angry as I thought they would be, in fact, they weren't even angry at all.
I was tangled in Jay's arms because we were the only two who had finished their hair and makeup and we talked about random things, especially my mental health but whenever I tried to ask him, he deflected the questions.
"So you and Niki got closer."
"Yeah, what about it?"
"Nothing really, it's nice to see you guys have each other's back. I know there was some type of tension between the two of you but from the looks of it, you guys pushed through."
"I guess you could say that."
"What happened that pre-new years break? We never got an answer." For a split second, I got flashbacks of that day and how horrible I was to him and the events of later on but I just shrugged
"Nothing important. It's childish, don't worry about it." I looked up and my gaze fell on Niki who seemed to also be looking at me from across the room before we averted our eyes elsewhere.
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"ARIA!" One of the girls yelled through the screen at my earlier statement.
"I just said what was on my mind, Chae." The 06 liners were on a group facetime call gossiping about the little topics we caught a whiff of when we were at broadcasting stations
"Still Ria, that was uncalled for."
"No cause if that were to happen to me who am I to complain?"
"She has a point, Chae, if it were me I wouldn't even bat an eyelash," Kyujin spoke up
"Exactly what I'm saying!" I exclaimed
"Aria is living her main character era, you could tell her the craziest crap and she would be on board with it like look at her," Maya called out making me roll my eyes. I had a face mask on much like the others and my hair was up with a headband pushing away my baby hair
"I still can't believe you dyed your hair, just wait till the boss finds out when he comes back from his trip to where was it? the Maldives? Or is it Bahamas this time?" Eunchae said dramatically
"Oh no, I'm pretty sure he went to Milan or Paris to 'scout' for talent." Kyujin mocked
"Of course, only the best for HYBE! I mean he could be in Switzerland for all we know." Maya continued
"Our dear boss, how wonderful he is isn't he?" Sarcasm dripped off all our statements forming ponds as we continued to mock him. He really wasn't the best. Not Bang PD, he's an angel, our other boss.
After a few more hours of talking about random stuff, we decided to call it a night.
"With the way you dye your hair, I'm surprised it's not dead," Kyujin spoke
"It represents me, dead on the inside but fine on the outside."
"Honey, that is our group dynamic, we're all a little dead yes?"
"We really are."
"Take care of that hair okay?"
"I'll see you at the company."
"You too, safe comebacks Maya!"
"Yeah Maya, safe comebacks."
"We're waiting for yours Jinnie."
"Keep waiting."
"Goodnight guys!"
"Goodnight!" I disconnected the call
*knock* *knock*
"Come in!"
"You didn't eat dinner so here are some snacks."
"Thank you so much Hoonie!"
"Don't stay up too late!"
"I'll try."
With that, he left the room and I started getting ready for bed. I took some of the snacks, brushed my teeth, and called it a night.
