►Chapter 2

I sat in the living room of my dorm watching as Dweji ran back and forth around the living space making sure she had everything packed for her trip. She repeatedly took her things out of her suitcase then put them back in and made me go over a list of things, causing me to laugh at her a few times and ear a flick on the forehead.

"Yah! You're supposed to be helpful to your unnie!" She scolded playfully. I couldn't help but let a small giggle slip my lips.

"You're hardly older than me by two months." I pointed stated. I stuck my tongue out at her and we both laughed.

I slid down onto the floor next to her and helped her put all her stuff away in her suitcase for the final time. It was nearing 10 in the morning and her taxi would be here in a few minutes to come and get her. We zipped her suitcase and stood up, brushing ourselves off. She looked at me and pouted.

"Are you sure you'll be okay here by yourself? You can come with me if you want. I'm sure my family won't mind." She said as we walked to the front door.

"No really, It's fine! I already made plans to hang out with Amber for the weekened." I smiled reassuringly at her. She stopped and looked at me with her head cocked to the side.

"You mean that boyish looking sunbae? Oh~" she sang out. "Look at you, already popular among the idol sunbaes." She teased and reached out to ruffle my hair. I just shook my head at her and helped her carry her stuff down to the front of the dorm building. She gave me a final hug before getting into her taxi and driving off. She waved at me one last time before the taxi disappeared around the corner.

I sighed and shoved my hands into the pocket of my hoodie as I walked back up to my dorm to get ready for the day. I took a quick shower and threw my hair up into a messy bun. I put on the Marvel sweater that my mother had gotten me before she left back to go to england and a pair of dark wash skinny jeans. I walked around the dorms looking for my red converse shoes with my toothbrush hanging out of my mouth. 

I was on my knees looking under my bed for the shoes when I was interupted by a sudden knock on the door. I sat up and blinked in confussion. It wasn't until I looked at the time and saw it was noon. It would probably be Amber. I stood up and rushed to the front door, toothbrush in hand, and opened it for her. 

Standing in front of me was a blonde Amber, her fringe falling in her face as her hair barely brushed her shoulders. She had on a plain white shirt and a black jacket along with a ligt blue pair of skinny jeans and some grey hightops on. She looked really nice, if I do say so mysel- ... 

I cut my thoughts off. Exactly what was I doing thinking these things? Ah well. 

"Morning, Claire." She greeted with a smile. She looked me up and down causing me to turn the slightest shade of red. "Don't you look cute?" she said with a chuckle before inviting herself in. I shut the door behind her and went to the bathroom, quickly finishing up brushing my teeth. I came back out and saw her already making herself comfortable on the couch. I plopped down in a chair next to her.

"Thanks again for offering to spend the weekend with me." I said and smiled at her. she shook her head, returning the gesture. 

"Dont worry about it. But, hey, Today'll be fun, That's for sure." She said and stood up. "So.. whenever your ready let's head out, okay?" I nodded and stood up as well. I told her of course, right after I found my shoes that is. 

I returned back to my room and continued searching for the nowhere to be found shoes. I opened my closet and stood on my tiptoes trying to see on the topshelf if they were there from when Dweji was picking up the room. Sure enough, there they sat. I mentally scolded myself for not checking there before as I attempted to reach them, failing obvioulsy. 

A hand reached over me and grabbed them for me. I let out a small yelp, surprised that somebody had randomly appeared behind me. I spun around only to come face to face with Amber, our noses a mear four inches appart. I imediately turned a tomato red, most likely from embarasmment. 

"You're shoes, Claire?" She held them up beside my head and I turned to look at them, quickly taking them and slipping away from in front of her and onto my bed, hurridly putting them on but having trouble tying them since she was looking at me with a silly smile on her face. After five minutes of fumbling with the laces I stood up, ready to leave. "Come on. I'll take you over to my place and introduce you to the rest of my group." She pulled me out of the dorm by my arm and out of the building we went.

After a fifteen minute walk shrouded in nothing but awkward silence and even more awkward small talk we finally made it to the dorms where the idols resided. I followed close to her as we entered into a lobby-like area. I tried to contain my girlish screams as I saw a few members of EXO walking in front of me. 

Let me explain. I may not have been a huge fan of kpop despite the fact I was now in that genre of the music industry but if there was one group I did love, not like, but LOVE, it was EXO. The god-like members I was in the presence of were none other then Lay, the healing unicorn, Chen, the 'dancing machine', and- Oh dear god I can't breathe- Sehun, the adorable, parsel tongue speaking maknae. 

Amber obviously took notice of my struggling appearence and hooked arms with me. She snickered to herself.

"A fan are you?" She asked, talking about EXO if anything. I nodded wildly, not speaking mostly out of fear that if I did I would probably scream like a crazy junior-high fangirl. "I see... Follow~" She sang out, pulling me with her, not really giving me a choice to do so either way. 

I nearly choked on my own spit after seeing she was taking me in the very direction of the three gods, erm, boys. The three beyond words to even describe their looks boys. 

"Guys!" she called out, claiming the attention of the model-worthy men. "I have somebody I would like for you to meet." Her deeper then most females voice rang out in the open space. I was greeted with slightly confused looking faces as she pushed me in front of her. 

"Um, does she speak Korean?" Asked Chen.

"Maybe Chinese?" Piped up Lay.

"Hi I'm Sehun!" The youngest nearly screamed in lispy English, causing me to smile and giggle as he waved. "Nice to meet you!" he continued on. I bowed politely to the three.

"Hello. I'm Claire Lee. I'm a trainee for SM." I stated in my accented Korean. I gained surprised looks from the guys as Sehun literally face-palmed himself. 

I swore I heard "Could have spoke up sooner.." being muttered under his breathe. 

I looked over to a smiling Lay who greeted me with a bow along with Chen. They both introduced themselves and then we slipped into an awkward quiet. Amber cleared not too long later.

"So guys. This is Claire. She set to debut in our new Co-Ed group here soon. And if I'm not mistaken I think she's a fan." She grinned over at me and I smiled shyly looking down, my feet now becoming far more intersting then the gazes of the three gods that were now set upon me. 

"Really? This is something! She's completely foreign!" Chen exclaimed. I bit my lower lip. 'oh great. Just met and I'm already not getting accepted into the company.' I thought. "You guys are totally going to be big." He then added. My head snapped up and he grinned at me. 

"You really think so?" I asked and he nodded along with the other two boys.

"With somebody as pretty as you in it you're sure to do well." Sehun then added. I thought I was dead. This had to be a dream. It wasn't? oh. ok. I was only mentally dying then. 

I blushed a bright shade of red and looked at the ground to hide the blush. "Thanks, Sehun-shi.." I said quietly. The others errupted into laughter and I looked up, stealing a quick glance at them. I didn't see Sehun near until Lay mentioned something about him locking himself in the restroom just now after realizing what he said. I let out a giggle.

"Ah, well, we better get going. I promised to introduce our precious Claire to the rest of f(x) today. Later guys." Amber bowed to the remaining two and the Sehun who was seen walking back to the group with a bright red face. 

"It was nice meeting you, Claire-shi. Good luck on your debut! Fighting!" Lay said as him and Chen brought their fists to the air. We bowed to each other and walked off. I bowed my head to Sehun as we passed. 

"Nice meeting you, Sehun-shi. I hope to see you around sometime." I added, so he wouldn't feel as awkward. He nodded and smiled. "Same to you. Good luck!" He smiled and ran off to catch up with Lay and Chen.

Taking the stairs up seven flights is sure as hell not fun. The elevators were down for service today so Amber and I were forced to take the stairs. After reaching her floor we sat at the top of the stairs completely out of breathe. 

"I'm so sorry about that." Amber said inbetween trying catch her breathe. I shrugged, unable to reply. 

Just as I was beginning to start to breathe normally again I felt somebody lean against my shoulder. I look over and saw Ambers head resting next to mine. I stared at her, not knowing exactly what to think. A few minutes she look up at me, our faces close again for the second time today.

"We should get going now." She said softly and smiled. She stood and offered her hand out to me. I took her hand in mine as she pulled me up. Her hands were soft and warm but I wasn't thinking about that. I was more concerned over the fact that I pressed up against her. Her eyes bore into mine and I quickly looked away, coughing awkwardly and muttering a thanks to her. 

I followed beside her as she led me to her door. 

"You're going to love them." She said to me. She went on to tell me their names as she opened the door to their dorm. "YAH! I'M HOME. AND I BROUGHT A FRIEND." She shouted suddenly. I jumped, cought off gaurd from the loud yelling being so close to my sensitive little ears. 

We kicked our shoes off and walked into the living room where there was a girl with bright red hair sitting on the couch. She looked up at us, a peice of popcorn sitting on her lips. 

"Welcome back." She said then averted her gaze to the blaring TV in front of her. Amber rolled her eyes and nudged Red with her foot. "What?" She asked. Amber pointed to me and Red jumped up. "Oh god! I'm so sorry! Aish, I didn't know we were gonna have guests over. The house is such a mess. I'm Krystal by the way." She said as she picked up her bowl of popcorn and shuffled into a room off to the side that I assumed to the kitchen.

Just as Amber and I sat down on the couch a girl with shoulder length-ish hair and a cute appearence came walking out with earbuds in her ears. She was louding singing and dancing around. I looked over at Amber before we burst out laughing. 

This was probably Sulli, the fake maknae Amber told me about. She spun to face us, earbuds still in and bowed. 

"HI. I'M SUULLLIII~" she sang loudly. She giggled and pulled the buds out. "It's nice to meet you! You're a trainee here right? It's good to see SM trying something new for a change." She grinned at me. "Call me 'Unnie' okay?" She clapped her hands together. I just stared at her. Ha! This would be the time to try something..

"Neh, Unnie~!" I smiled up at her, attempting this thing called aegyo for the first time. She squealed. 

"YOU'RE SO CUTE." She ran out of the room and came back with a shorter woman with black long hair who was complaining about why her nap was being interrupted. "LOOK AT HER. IS SHE NOT ADORABLE?" Sulli cried out. The woman just rolled her eyes and walked over to me.

"Mian, she's a little weird off camera." She spoke to me slowly. She had have assumed I was a fan. 

"Luna. This is Claire. she's a new trainee for the company. She's set to debut in that new co-ed group that was being talked about." Amber introduced me. Luna looked at me with wide eyes.

"Wow. SM must really gone crazy! Good luck! You guys will do amazing when you debut! Work hard, don't stop trying!" She was spewing advice. A good few minutes later of her talking Amber stood up and cut her off.

"Well we must get going. I don't see Vic unnie around so we'll stop by later to introduce them. Come on, Claire. Say bye!" She grabbed my arm and pulled me up, already heading for the door. I said a quick bye to the other girls before slipping my shoes on and heading out with the blonde sunbae. "Sorry.. Theyre kinda of spazzy." She chuckled and I smiled.

I couldn't help but smile. Her laugh sounded nice...

"Anyways," She went on. "We can have fun now." She spun to face me and grinned. "You ever been to a club?" She grabbed my hand and started to run for the stairs.

Whoa wait what

Did she just say...  A CLUB?!?!

AN: UPDATE. HOLLA AT MEEE. Okay so I hope it wasn't that boring. and I know it was kinda short ;-; I'm just now starting to get into the story so these next few chapters are going to be kinda of boring while I still introduce the mains to you all. upvote, sub, comment. Do whatever ^^ I don't mind. I thanks the few who have taken time to read and subscribe already :D Anyways. It's like 11 at night so I'm gonna get going :o mmk, night/morning/afternoon~ Ppyong~<3