The mating call

I was trying to study but my best friend seemed oblivious to that fact. After I realized that staring menacingly at her wouldn't do anything, I finally dropped my textbook and huffed in annoyance.

“Okay, what's so funny? “

She looked at me, and then started laughing even harder. I felt my eyebrows raising as I started becoming genuinely curious.

“Either you tell me, or I'm never buying you chocolate. Never. Ever. Again.” I know, I know, it is pure evil playing on the chocolate card, but I was always too curious for my own good.

“Soo...I was on Tumblr-“I interrupted her mid-sentence with:” Oh God.” “-and I saw this post where they said that the new screeching sound that your boyfriend insists of making is his mating call.” She finished, ignoring my remark.

I wanted to disapprove it, I wanted to say that it wasn’t even funny, but so help me God, I think that the Tumblr people were right.

So I looked at my best friend, and burst out laughing, her laughter soon joining mine.

Watching them on Inkigayo never got old. Although, I do admit, the conditions for the idols were less than stellar. However, just seeing them interact with the audience, singing and enjoying themselves, always made my day.

And then he made that sound. Oh. God.

Even after a week I still couldn’t forget about the whole mating call joke, and so, there I was laughing my off backstage, earning