The Reason? - Yoon Jeonghan

Chapter 29

She stood awkwardly in the backstage of the filming program, the tag around her neck felt weird. She wasn't used to this. She had slowly been adapting with Seventeen's busy schedule, but this wasn't something she was used to.

People ran from one side to the other, pushing and pulling props from the stage and off.

She was stressed, and so were all of the Seventeen members, her and Jeonghan had swapped before time was due so many times before this first stage due to that. She was scared that she was going to be in his stead on the stage in front of so many scrutinising eyes and cameras.

She practised the gesture they had made altogether if they were to swap places. But she mostly crossed her fingers that nothing would happen in the coming five minutes.

In the meantime, she was going to act as a newbie intern in the company, working for the boys so she could be backstage without a hitch. The plan they had devised had been simple. If the swap was to happen, then she would simply dance for the entire song and act like her mic didn't work when Joenghan had to sing. His two lines. She wouldn't try to give Jeonghan a new handheld mic, where they could touch and be back in the right body because he only sang at the start of the song, and that was it. There was no use for her to be in the light and try to give him a mic, because that was no use.

Ophely shook her head, trying not to think about the bad things that could happen. This was stressing her out and was making the swap the more possible. Whoever had made this magic, Ophely would have cursed them over and over in the last hour. She was scared out of her wits just because when stressed it worsened.

Breathing in and out slowly, Ophely started calming down.

She knew the choreography, she had practised it the day before, but her gut still churned at the possibility of doing it in front of something other than the mirror of the Seventeen practise room.

"Calm down." Jeonghan told her as he passed by, offering her a small recomforting smile.

"It's going to be alright." Jun added as he followed behind his hyung, both putting in their earpieces and getting checked by other staff. Both Dokyeom and Vernon sent her encouraging smiles as their gazes crossed.

Ophely felt better and simply got to sit down on one of the chairs in her disposition. She had been introduced as a backstage intern, and she was allowed to watch everything that happened for her future line of work. But Ophely was a bit too nervous to play her role, so the paper and pen she had to take notes had been discarded on her laps as she watched the boys from where she sat.

All she could do was send the boys one last quiet Hwaiting as she observed them get into position.

Oh, how she wished for everything to go smoothly.

How hard she wished for that.

But to no avail.

Where she could hear the music blasting from the speakers beside the stage, she suddenly could hear it much more clearly, the beat much louder than her peers' singing. It bursted through her tympants. And she was standing up, instinctively following the movement that Jeonghan had started, Ophely danced like she had practised before, putting her hand up and bouncing to the music. It was only after she had let the body do its work that she realised where she was. On stage. In front of many viewers and fans. Filmed by the multiple cameras following each and every one of them. One solely filming her. Or him. Jeonghan.