IMPORTANT NOTE: This is not a conventional fan fiction. So if you're looking for a nice story about Kai falling in love with you/OC/other-bias, this probably isn't the place for you. I recently took a class called "Popular Culture in East Asia" in college and the course was awesome. For our final project, we were given the option of taking on a creative endeavor, i.e. writing a fan fiction. Since I write fan fiction, I decided to try it for this class. However, what ended up happening is, I didn't actually write a fan fiction as much as I ended up writing a story about fans. In particular, this story is about sasaeng fans because I chose the sasaeng phenomenon and obsessive fan culture as my research topic for my final project. I'm not posting my research paper up because that's kinda risky, but if you're interested in learning what I've found out about celebrity worship syndrome, feel free to contact me and I'll tell you all about it. 

DISCLAIMER: I borrowed the main premise of the storyline from some anonymous sasaeng fan account that I read years ago about a girl who decided to stop being a saaeng after realizing how much she was hurting her bias by being one. If anyone can find a link to it, please send it to me so I can properly credit it! I really tried hard to portray sasaeng fans as accurately as I could. I am honestly not trying to insult anyone with this portrayal. Most of this story was an experiment in characterization. My original character's personality is informed by the following research:

Ferris, Kerry O. 2001. “Through a Glass, Darkly: The Dynamics of Fan-Celebrity Encounters.” Symbolic Interaction 24 (1): 25–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/si.2001.24.1.25 .

Gamson, Joshua. 2011. “The Unwatched Life Is Not Worth Living: The Elevation of the Ordinary in Celebrity Culture.” PMLA 126 (4): 1061–69.

McCutcheon, Lynn E., Diane D. Ashe, James Houran, and John Maltby. 2003. “A Cognitive Profile of Individuals Who Tend to Worship Celebrities.” The Journal of Psychology 137 (4): 309–22.

McCutcheon, Lynn E., Vann B. Scott, Mara S. Arguete, and Jennifer S. Parker. 2006. “Exploring the Link Between Attachment and the Inclination to Obsess about of Stalk Celebrities.” North American Journal of Psychology 8 (2): 289–300.

Rose, Randall L., and Stacy L. Wood. 2005. “Paradox and the Consumption of Authenticity through Reality Television.” Journal of Consumer Research 32 (2): 284–96. doi:10.1086/432238.

Stever, Gayle S. 2011. “Fan Behavior and Lifespan Development Theory: Explaining Para-Social and Social Attachment to Celebrities.” Journal of Adult Development 18 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1007/s10804-010-9100-0.

Also, thank you to Anj for coming up with the clever title.

Excerpt:

"Although she was sure she must have sprained her index finger or something, she too couldn’t wait to tell their fellow fans about their exhilarating experience at the airport today. But in the back of her head, Jiha pondered whether or not to write about Kai’s fall, or the look of disgust in his face when he turned and looked at her. Jiha decided to shrug off the encounter. It was natural of him to feel that way; he must be tired. That didn’t mean he didn’t appreciate her or her efforts to see him. And besides, now that he’d had a substantial amount of time to look at her face, Jiha blushed at the thought that Kai would recognize her. She was no longer just another face in the crowd. She was the girl he fell for."