May 29, 2015
Note: I believe this was a fanmeeting. Holy shit there was a lot of fan service. (and my biases are Hoshi and Wonwoo atm) The place was huge. It seemed like we were in a huge gym. To organize us they led us to our seats by having the members dance to a song while guiding us. At first everyone was confused, Seventeen members appeared out of nowhere. I was in a daze until one of the members linked arms with me and basically dragged me around (I wasn’t going to dance because I just didn’t want to). He(I don’t remember who) skipped on my right, I followed him(but I was walking). All the members were so excited and happy. They asked fans to dance along to the music; some people were really good... the rest of us... kind of tried. After dancing, we were assigned to tables. One person sat at one table(or if you were in a group, your friends would be with you). Each table had four chairs. The chairs and table were high, so when you sit it seems like you’re standing. Once we sat down we waited as they went through the room in groups and provided fanservice one table at a time. First group that went around was Mingyu, Seungcheol, Seokmin, and Seungkwan. I was doing my school work and randomly glancing up to see if they were coming to me. I saw them go to the table next to mine where one girl sat. Mingyu was like “Um….. You have really pretty lips!!!” They surrounded her and leaned towards her. I looked back down. They came over, and I quickly covered half of my face with my hair because I was too shy. Mingyu was on my right. Seungcheol on my left. Seokkwan were in front of me. It was super awkward for the first few seconds because none of us knew what to do. I panicked and did something completely random. I tilted my head back and made a weird face at Seokmin. He burst out laughing while Seungkwan did the face back at me. I smiled. Mingyu leaned in and looked at me thoroughly. He laughed and said “Oh~ you seem to be my fan?” (In my head I was thinking “Sorry, Mingyu but I’m not and my mind won’t change”) Then Seungcheol started arguing with him, and I brushed my hair back and laughed. Mingyu pointed at my mole(on my face) and said it was cute and ruffled my hair. I got a side hug from him and Cheol while Seokkwan awkwardly smiled. (Mingyu spoke in Korean, and I understood him; I told them “Thank you” in English before they left)
Next group was Chansol. I was self-conscious about the mole, so i covered it by resting my face in my palm. Hansol came and thought I was bored. He copied me and just stared at me. Then Chan started dancing and approaching from the left. I laughed at him and waved hi. He waved back, and i went in for a highfive. He highfived me, and i moved my hand over to Hansol for a highfive. But my fingers were bent(since i was still moving my hand), so it was a fail highfive. I laughed and said “awkward hand greets”(or something like that), and we started doing a lot of weird hand stuff like he would go down for a handshake and I’d go for a highfive. Then chan started acting(?) because he realized I didnt know Korean. So i started guessing what he was trying to tell me while Hansol watched amusingly. Chan put his hand on his neck and rolled his head around like he was in agony. “You’re neck hurts?” I guessed. He nodded. I used my hands and made a massaging the back gesture and said “Massage?” He turned around and asked me to do it for him, so i started massaging his shoulders. At this time a member randomly yelled something, and Chan looked over and nodded his head. After that he turned around and kind of bowed while holding my hand(like saying thanks). I smiled at the two and expected for them to leave, but Hansol crawled into the seat to my right.Â
I didn’t think much of it. I started clearing the table. I was putting my color pencils and pencils up when Hansol slips this tiny eraser into my bag and said it’s my magic eraser(I don’t know why he was carrying that around). I smiled and said thanks. He continued watching as I put my stuff up to leave the place. I closed my backpack and stood up. Almost all the fans were gone by the time I finished. I noticed how a lot of fans forgot their jackets; I pointed that out. Hansol was indifferent. I saw the girl from the neighboring table had dropped her phone under her chair. Hansol bent down to pick it up, and a call came. I encouraged him to answer the call. Hesitantly, he did. The person on the other line asked who it was. Hansol replied “It’s Hansol” then we hear the mom(presumingly) handing the phone to her daughter while explaining it’s one of the idols. “This is Hansol??” the girl asked. “Um, yeah you left your phone here, but you can pick it up in the front. I’ll leave it up there.” I smiled. After Hansol sorted things out, he hung up and had this look on his face. I asked him what was wrong. He facepalmed “Agh, I keep forgetting to introduce myself as Vernon! My name is Vernon now.” I told him honestly I’m going to just call them by their real names because I would have to learn a whole new set of names with the stage ones. Then i startled babbling about how music programs kinda make me unconsiously learn the name. I pointed out how they keep spelling Hoshi and Wonwoos name wrong. He seemed surprised(I guess they’ve been too busy to monitor the programs… that or hansol was dazing off when they were) and said “oh really?” I explained to him how they left out the “h” for Hoshi so it was “Hosi” and how Wonwoo’s name became “Woonwoo”. I don’t know how, but we started talking about “Wonwoo’s wedding”. As we talked, Hansol walked me out of the place.
