Busan Girl

“I…” Boys do out in the tent? “…yes, that would be good to know at some point, but something else first, actually.” They’d reached the crux of the matter and Yuji took the plunge forward. “Do you get to meet the seniors here often? Like Nell, or MyName?” She didn’t want to seem like an eager fangirl (she was gleaning information for Sunggyu, not herself—or so she sternly reminded herself) and tried to keep her expression unthreatening. “What are they like?”

“The seniors?” she repeated, then shook her head with a slight pout.  “I was in the Nell video as a backup dancer, but never actually have met them at all.” she then grew the biggest grin she could.  “I was on tour with MyName!” she squealed, hardly able to contain herself, she was, after all, one of the self-proclaimed biggest fans of the group.  “They’re all so...so...handsome~” she said dreamily, her head in the clouds, just remembering the times they actually got to spent with them.  “The oppas are seriously the coolest guys, I swear! Though they aren’t around that much now that the tour is done.” she pouted again, having missed her boys.

the crowd only brought out a more exciting part of yoona. she lived for the crowds, which was why the dreams of being an idol even occurred to her. she bounced up and down on her feet as she moved around, handing out water bottles. how nice it would be to drink one of those herself right now, she thought to herself. suddenly, she heard lizzy note that she was ready in response to her question, and she pumped up her arms before clenching her fists and turning them against her cheeks, saying buing buing as before she burst out into a fit of giggles. “i can’t do this!” she exclaimed, pretending to bury her head in embarrassment in lizzy’s shoulder area. “you do it!” she cried playfully, bouncing up again on the balls of her feet.

If only she had a camera, Lizzy would be filming every second of seeing Yoona do her aegyo for the crowd, because it was pure gold.  The older girl was adorable, even if she didn’t think she was.  She laughed, throwing her arms around Yoona when the other tried to hide her embarrassment.  “I’ve got you, unnie!” she proclaimed before letting go of the other and stepping forward, opening and closing her hands in a grabbing manner at the crowd before throwing them above her head to form a heart and puff out her cheeks, making a kissy face towards them, acting overly cute through the whole process.    

“i am talented at singing–” she chuckled softly and looked at her lyrics once again, not sure if they were up to par with anything. this song wouldn’t be anything she’d want to publish or show to the world. this would simply be her exploring the possibility of one day maybe writing a song. “if i ever get to that point, you’ll be the first one to hear it.” yerin gave the female a glance and she felt a little guilty, it seemed like lizzy didn’t know. yerin wasn’t sure if she should tell her or not, though she knew from experience that it would be best if her father told her himself.

“Talented, she says. You’re amazing! I’d love to be able to sing like you!” she praised, turning her attention to trying to cheer the other up a bit more.  “I hope so! I bet it’ll be great, I have no doubt.” she nodded quickly enough that someone might think she was doing a bobblehead impression.  “You’ll become a famous singer songwriter and I’ll have you on my show~” she grinned wide, loving thinking about possible futures. 

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“We haven’t met before,” she told Lizzy and fixed a smile upon her face that was knee-deep in persuasive charm. The elder knew she was blessed with pretty features and, therefore, was well aware that most of the female trainees viewed her in a generally unfavorable manner. It was a pity that insecurities here pandered foremost to looks rather than talents, for that fear of physical inferiority would undoubtedly linger on the heels of any unlucky ones who had the opportunity to debut in the industry. “I’m Jung Yuji, and I’ve heard a lot about you sunbaenim.” Yuji lowered her upper body in half to give Lizzy the gesture of respect she deserved for the mere reason of seniority. “I’ve only been here since April and I was wondering if you could answer a few questions I had…?”

“Well, that right there is a shame, we should have met before this, I would think.  I like to know everyone, it makes it more interesting to have a wide array of personalities to know, right? There’s all kinds of people to meet here, so it’s no doubt we’d run into each other at some point, I think!” she rambled, not really stopping to let an answer to her question occur “You don’t have to be all formal like that when it’s us!  Even if it is kinda cool!”she laughed, a high pitched giggle, always sounding just as energetic as she did, which was saying something “Answer some questions?  Is it about what the boys do out in the tent? I have some theories, but I’m not sure quite yet if I’m right.”

He opened the door for her and waited until she got bore closing it and moving around to the other side. When he got into the car he turned to Lizzy and gave her a smile. “Where should we eat? What are you hungry for?” The thing he wanted to eat the most was his mothers food but she was far way.

She got in with a thank you as she pulled the seatbelt across her, buckling in as he closed the door, it was pretty nice to have a good looking guy doing this for her, even if she knew now it was just the way he was, not so much flirting like she had hoped.  “I am up for anything, really!  Maybe some meat?” she said in a whisper, as if anyone would hear her planning on breaking her diet.

She felt a surge of energy come back into her as more people gathered around. This is what she lived for, after all, was the opportunity to get fans and make them happy.  She helped pass out the bottles to those who hadn’t gotten them yet, smiling brightly the whole time.  “We want you to be as loud as you can, okay!?  We’ll be getting back to dancing in just a little bit!”  the people started cheering along, and Lizzy nodded quickly to Yoona’s question “Ready, unnie!” she grinned, always prepared to act her heart out for anyone that showed up “Isn’t Yoona unnie cute?  Show them what you’ve got!”

They were nearing the spot in their chat, and the boy swallowed slightly at the colorful tubs. “Strawberry would be awesome,” he hummed along, nodding, “but cookies and cream, yes.” There wasn’t that much time to think about it, with only two more people in front to go before them. “Uh, uh, uh! I’m picking strawberry!” He said in his haste, turning to look at the new comrade, “you? are we suppose to make our orders together or something?”

She couldn’t help but laugh at him getting flustered over picking his flavor, and she pointed firmly at her own selection “Cookies ‘n Cream, please!” she chose, in her usual animated fashion.  “I dunno, but I did!” she laughed, now bouncing in place, waiting for their order to come up.  

When he finally show her, he gave a smile and waved. “Hey, how was practice?”

“It’s so hot in there today!” she whined, but her smile didn’t go away fro long “It was okay, though, they had the air con on, so I could stand in front of it on breaks~“

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Making friends in this place didn’t come naturally to her, so Yuji naturally dealt with the inescapable loneliness by trying to find those she had something in common with instead. It proved to be a more daunting task than she expected until a chance whisper from an overheard conversation had caught the woman’s lazy attention. “Lizzy… and Myname…” –the connection struck a chord inside Yuji’s head. As ignorant as she was of Nova’s senior artists, what better way could there be than to seek out someone who was well-known for speaking often of them? “Lizzy, I was wondering if you could help me.”

“What’s up?” she asked, as the other woman was scanning her over.  She thinks she had seen the other around in a few of the trainings that they had together at Nova.  Lizzy was often in her own little world, so it really wasn’t that surprising that she might not have meet everyone that came through those training doors.  “Help you?” she repeated, tilting her head, this was certainly something new.  She wasn’t normally asked for her help, she normally volunteered it, even when not needed.  “Sure!  What can I help with?”

it felt like cruel and unusual punishment. of all days that they could have chosen for an outdoor performance, they had chosen what felt like one of the hottest summer days of the year. or maybe she was simply being oversensitive after spending the majority of her days indoors where it was nicely air-conditioned. she supposed it could be worse, but still. when the first dance was over, she grabbed a small towel, quickly wiping down the perspiration forming on her forehead before she started to grab cold water bottles, handing them out with cheery smiles to the fans and thanking them for watching. she caught sight of lizzy doing the same so she quickly rushed over, giving the younger a little bump on the hip before chuckling. “think we should practice our aegyo on these fans?” she asked, mischievous grin resting on her face. “they’d like that, wouldn’t they?” yoona liked to think that she was able to do aegyo well, but she wasn’t really sure if her fans would agree. she wanted to find out.

On a break between performances, she started handing out bottles of ice cold water for the fans, her usual excited smile beaming out to them.  She laughed loudly when Yoona came over, grinning wide at the question, but nodded. “Yes!  Aegyo time! Unnie! Show me how to do it please~?” she said, already using a cute voice cooing at her roommate.    

“Making you my new pal is totally the game!” Throwing up finger guns, “Bang!” giggling. “I know I’m probably intruding, and I’m sorry for being all excited. Forgive me. But if you don’t mind, can we just take a little walk together before you fly off into the world?” She asked, her eyes begging for a yes. Then again she thought she was far too cute, to say no to. 

“Well, it’s nice to meet you, Bang Minah~” she grinned, laughing a bit.  It was rare for her to find someone else that she thought could keep up with her own energy level, but it seemed this Minah was up for the challenge.  The finger guns just made her laugh, reminding her of this girl, Boah, that she met at a party once.  “I don’t mind at all!  I’m just going around and enjoying my day off!  Adventure is more fun when you have other people to share it with, isn’t it?”  The other girl seemed to be in need of some friendship, and Lizzy wouldn’t mind hanging out with a non-Nova person for a bit, it had been quite a while.