I don't know what it was, but I was really, and I mean really energetic. The moment we stepped out of the photobooth, the DJ played a couple of songs and I was going all out. I didn't even know I could dance like this, it was really fun. The last song ended and the DJ grabbed the mic, saying something I was barely listening to because I was so out of breath.

"I need to go get some water before the next song starts, I'm really hyper!!" I said to Ha Yeon, Maya, and Krista. They nodded without looking at me as they were intently listening to what the DJ had to say. 

I walked over to the water dispenser and smiled when I saw it was ice water. I freakin' love ice water. I started walking back over to my friends when I had the sudden urge to pee. "Shoot." I gulped down the rest of my water and ran to the bathroom as quickly as possible. I didn't want to miss anything. The bathrooms were in the main lobby so I had to run. I held my dress up and ran as fast as I could. 3 minutes later.

"Ah, I feel so much better!" I decided to walk back, to make sure I didn't trip, fall, and rip my dress. I walked through the second lobby, where some couples were checking in their personal belongings or taking nice portraits with photographers. As soon as I walked through the doors back into the main ballroom, I was blinded by a spotlight. I put my hands up to cover the blinding light and squinted my eyes. "Ow." I looked up to the stage but the light was so blinding that everything just looked white. After what seemed like forever, but was really just 10 seconds, the spotlight came off of me and I blinked fast to get the swirling dots in my head to go away. 

No one had seen that little mishap, thankfully, but then again, everyone was paying attention to what was on stage. Huh? Why is everyone paying attention to the stage? I pushed my way through the enormous crowds of seniors jumping and dancing, trying to find my way to Ha Yeon and the others. I finally found them and grabbed Ha Yeon's arm. "Ha Yeon, what's all the commotion, everyone seems pumped up now." I asked, but I was really excited, the night was just beginning. 

"Yah, Soo Min, where the hell have you been? Are you blind, look who's up on stage right now!!" she practically yelled into my ear because it was so loud. I rubbed my ear and yelled back to her. "I was in the bathroom! I had to pee!!" She grabbed my chin and faced my head towards the stage. "Look!!!!"

I guess there is one more thing a lot of people don't know about me, I'm EXTREMELY oblivious to things going on around me. I looked up and my eyes widened when I realized what Ha Yeon was talking about. EXO??!!

XOXO, XOXO, XOXO....

I practically let my mouth hang open so wide someone could've stuffed a whole chicken in there. "Why is EXO here? In America? At this ball? Of all places??" I looked back and asked Ha Yeon, but she was enjoying the song way too much. I decided to stop freaking out and just enjoy this, EXO was here from South Korea. I had been a fan of them after all, but I forgot about them mostly when we came to America because not a lot of people know them or love them as much here as they do in Korea. Unfortunately, the song ended just when I was getting into it and I frowned. I had been so oblivious that they were even here that I didn't even get the chance to properly enjoy the music. I was crying inside, but hey, what could I do?

Once the song had ended, EXO bowed and Kai was the first one to speak. "Thank you everyone. We will be performing another song from our new album later on in the evening. We know that a lot of you might not know who we are, but no worries, we are aiming to get to that point by the end of the night. We are here in America to try and widen our states fanbase like how our fanbase is back home before we do a global tour. Please take care of us, thank you!"

To my surprise everyone hollered and whooped. Our senior class was very encouraging of them and I was glad to see that. They were a pretty great K-POP group after all. I smiled and panned across all of their faces, before one of them caught my eye. Chanyeol was staring at me. Whoa, what? Am I dreaming? I blinked a couple of times before looking away. Of course he wasn't looking at me, he was probably just scanning the audience and saw someone behind me or something. Yeah, Soo Min, that's what it was.

When I looked back up, he wasn't looking at me anymore. See, total misunderstanding. I chuckled to myself thinking that he was looking directly at me. That's not even an option. Lol me and my crazy daydreams. It must be because I held my pee for so long. Ha Yeon pulled me out of my ridiculous thoughts when she grabbed me and started squealing in my ear. "Soo Min!!!! Tell Maya and Krista how popular EXO is back home!!"

I looked at Maya and Krista and they too were fangirling over EXO. I mean, who wouldn't? They were 10 of the most attractive boys ever. Well, to me at least. "Guys, they are seriously sooo popular back home. And hopefully they will be here in the states soon too." I smiled. They squealed. "Hey, do you think you guys will be able to like introduce us or something? I mean, they're in such close proximity, it's not like they're gonna leave, and backstage is literally like 20 feet away." Maya said, not even looking at me. She was trying to look for EXO. 

I laughed before Ha Yeon and I turned them around. "Guys, just because they come from South Korea like us, doesn't mean that we know each other. We live in a whole other world from them. I'm just average, they're going to be universal superstars." It was the sad truth, all anyone like me could do was dream that someone as famous as them would even glance at people like us. They just have different prioritites, and it's not their fault, that's just their life. Maya and Krista pouted. "Well we can at least see if we can get their autograph or something? I am not going to ever forget this night, and by the way, that song was awesome! Even though I couldn't understand half of it." Krista laughed. 

"Oh, right." I chuckled, realizing that she couldn't say anything in Korean besides what Ha Yeon and I had taught her. "Hey, they're still performing another song later. Maybe at the end of the night we could get autographs and pictures with them." I smiled. I actually wanted to. I don't think we'd ever get a chance to meeet EXO in Korea, even if we did live there. It's almost impossible unless you go to every single concert. 

"Yeah, okay, let's do that." Ha Yeon agreed. "Let's just have fun in the meantime." The DJ continued to play some great music to dance to, and we planned to dance and eat the night away. 

"Yahhhhhhh, that was a great performance guys. I'm surprised, they were all very supportive of our music. They all seemed like they were having a lot of fun." Baekhyun said as he plopped himself on the couch in our little backstage area. 

All of the guys nodded in agreement, panting a little from the choreography we had just done. "Hey, why is there no water back here?" Tao asked.

"Oh the iced water is in a dispenser out in the ballroom." Kai said. 

"We have to go out there to get water? Why? It's too farrrrrr." Xiumin pouted. 

"Calm down, it's not that far and I doubt we'll get mobbed if we go out there." Kai said sitting down next to Baekhyun.  I sat next to the both of them as I rubbed my forehead lightly to get rid of my sweat. "I'll go grab us some water if you guys really need it that badly." I said, mocking them.

"Really hyung??" Sehun said as he sat up from lying down on the floor.

"Yeah, haha, there's something I need to see anyways. Er, someone rather." I said the last part to myself quietly. Luckily, no one really noticed anyway since they were all pretty tired. I hadn't really told them what had just happened when we were just on stage, but I don't think they really needed to know anyways.

I walked out from behind our little "backstage" area and headed towards the water dispenser. To my surprise, some of the teens dancing around asked for my autograph, which made me smile a lot. I was happy they were being so supportive of us. I tried to discreetly look around for this person, but they weren't in view. I still had the whole night to look though, so I wasn't worried about it. I walked over to the water dispenser and quickly filled 10 plastic cups with the cool liquid. But then I realized that I wouldn't be able to carry all ten at the same time. "Aish." I tried to think of a solution and looked around to see if anyone would be willing to help. I barely spoke English and I didn't want to embarrass myself in front of anyone, but I had to try. 

"Uh, hello, could you help, please?" I tapped a guy on the shoulder. He looked at me a little confused. Wow, I can barely even make small talk. 

"What did you say?" he asked.

"Help?" I asked, gesturing towards the plastic cups on the table. 

"No man, you can just leave them there, I'm sure whoever had those waters will come back to get them." he smiled and patted my back before walking away with whom I assumed to be his date. Well now I was just stuck. I was about to head back to just ask one of the guys to help when I heard a couple of people speaking Korean. I quickly whirled my head in the direction of the distinct voices and smiled.

Like a dream. 

"Ha Yeon, c'mon let's dance some more!!" the girl pleaded to her. 

"Yah, let me grab some water first ya weirdo." she said, trying to hit the girl off of her. 

"Fine, fine." she said, letting go of her friend's arm and walking back towards the dance floor. I assumed this was my chance to just ask about what was peaking my curiosity at the moment. The girl walked over and I spoke in Korean, to see if I was right.

"Hi. Did you enjoy the performance?"

She looked up at me and her eyes widened. "Y-y-you're THE Park Chanyeol!!" she squealed.

I cringed a little at the sound, but I really didn't mind. "Haha, yes I am. I don't mean to be rude, but who's your friend over there?" I pointed towards the girl who walked back towards the dance floor.  She looked towards the direction I was pointing in.

"Her?" she said, distinctly pointing out the girl I was looking for. "That's my best friend, Kim Soo Min." she smiled at me but then looked confused. "But why? Do you know Soo Min?" 

"No, I was just wondering who she was." I said honestly. And that was true. During the middle of our performance on stage, the stage lights rose up and all faced to the door leading into the ballroom. When I looked up it was like dreaming. A girl in a beautiful dress walked in and stood there for all of about 10 seconds before walking into the crowd. It's not like I liked her or anything like that, I mean, I didn't even know who she was yet. She just, peaked my curiosity.

"I can go grab her if you want!!" she said kind of excitedly. She started running back towards her when I grabbed her arm, not realizing that would make her blush. I let go when I had her attention again.

"No, that's okay, i'll introduce myself later, maybe. If time allows." I said swiftly. I waved at her with a smile before walking back. I had to think of something to talk about before I would actually talk to her. I am shy when it comes to meeting new people, even if I am superstar Park Chanyeol. Smirk. "... I'm so weird." I said to myself, before heading back to the rest of the guys. 

"Hyung, where's our water??" Sehun sat up. 

"Forget your water, there was too much to carry. If you want water that bad go get some." I teased them.

"BUT IT'S SO FAR!!" Baekhyun groaned. I laughed and walked over to the curtain leading to the stage. I peeked out into the crowd and saw her dancing there. She looked like she was having so much fun. I turned back around. "Hey, let's get ready for this last song."

"You're kidding me right?" I scoffed at Ha Yeon. "There's no way that Park Chanyeol could've possibly been talking about me."

"Oh, he was definitely talking about you ." Ha Yeon was in her dreamy state, she snapped out of it for a moment to look at me straight in the eyes. "You have to talk to him! He pointed at you, and I talked to him about you! He said you 'peaked his curiosity.'" she tried to mimick his voice but failed miserably. I couldn't help but laugh.

"That was a terrible impression." I started laughing hysterically. Ha Yeon only pouted at me.

"That's what you decided to focus on? Not the fact that the Park Chanyeol is interested in you??"

"He's not interested in me. I peaked his curiosity. He's a worldwide star in EXO, he'll forget about me once they leave tonight. I can promise you that." All that I was saying was true. This kind of thing was inevitable anyways. What does someone like me expect? A romance like they have in kdramas? I scoffed at the thought of it. I had to admit though, I did feel a little flustered that I did peak his interest. What was so special about me that I caught his eye?

Mid thought, the DJ stopped the current song that was playing and announced EXO coming out to perform their second song of the night. They were going to be perfroming 'Baby Don't Cry' from their new album. I decided to sit this one out and just enjoy the song since I'd been dancing for a while now anyways. Ha Yeon followed me. "You're not gonna dance?"

"No, I'm kind of tired, I'll get up and dance after a couple more songs. I just want to enjoy the song." she sighed and sat down with me. "Now that you mention it, my legs are pretty tired too." 

The song began and I looked up to see all 10 members rising up from the bottom of the stage. I've always dreamed of going to an EXO concert back in Korea, but it was always too expensive and I guess it wasn't really that big of a fan to go crazy over tickets like other people are. Usually their concerts are sold out in 10 minutes, but I've never been that sad about it. To tell the truth, I was completely mesmerized by their performance. It's not all about image. Sometimes you can just really see when they put their heart and soul into something like this, into something they love, and I could see it in their eyes. Chanyeol looked at me in that moment and I couldn't help but smile. I didn't even know him, but he seemed so genuine at the moment. 

The performance ended and I had to go pee yet again. Shoot. "Ha Yeon, I'm going to the bathroom again, okay? Tell me if anything interesting happens." I poked her arm. 

"Duh." she smiled and shooed me off so I could go pee. 

5 minutes later. "There's just something about emptying your bladder that's so satisfying." I said to myself in the mirror as I washed my hands. I walked out of the bathroom and into the main lobby. There were groups of people just hanging around outside. I didn't know any of them as I glanced around, so I began to walk back to the ballroom. I took 7 steps before someone grabbed my arm and whirled me around. "You're Min Soo, right?" I looked up at the jock that had grabbed my arm, politely pushing his hand off of my arm. 

"Uh, it's Soo Min. Kim Soo Min. Not Min Soo." I corrected him.

"Same thing. So! I hear you're from Korea, who knew asians could be so pretty." he looked me up and down before smiling at me again. Ugh. Was that supposed to be attractive to me?

"Well, that's racist." I commented plainly. I started to walk away before I was whirled back to him. I was face to face yet again with this guy. 

"What's racist about it, that's supposed to be a compliment." he said before caressing my face. Uhm, ew. Get your hands off of me. "I've seen you around school, you and your friend seem to be pretty special, huh? I didn't think I'd see you guys here, but, here you are!" he laughed. If this was his idea of flirting, it was definitely not working. All I wanted to do was get back to my friends and enjoy the rest of my night, I didn't want any trouble from anyone. 

"Look." I said pushing his hands away from me once again. "I gotta get back to my friends, alright? So if you'll excuse me...." I tried to walk away for the final time before he pulled me back for the third time. 

"Oh, c'mon. My date left me, I need someone else to spend the night with, you'll do." he smirked at me this time. "Man, I seriously didn't think I'd have the hots for an asian girl in my life!" 

I scoffed loudly before pushing him off of me. "You're a racist pig." 

"What did you just call me?" he said through gritted teeth. 

"A racist pig." I said simply before turning away. He grabbed me for the fourth time, pulling me back. But this time, he didn't grab my arm, he grabbed my neck, almost cutting off my breath. 

"You don't even know me, how dare you call me a racist pig!" he said quietly, but with anger in his voice. I guess it was my day to play with fire because I definitely didn't respond how I should've to make this whole situation go away.

"I know guys like you are terrible. No wonder your date left you." I blinked. Apparently that was the final straw for him. He tightened his hold on my neck before looking around and started dragging me over to the elevator. I started to scream but he was covering my mouth, muffling my attempted screams. I didn't know what to think besides, what did I do to deserve this? I tried to fight off this guy but it was no use, I now recognized him as someone on the football team, so my attempts to escape from his strong grip failed. 

The elevator opened and he dragged me inside before throwing me against the railing. I groaned in pain, I felt a million bruises forming on my arms and lower body. He pressed the button to get to the top floor penthouse and I shuddred in horror. I didn't actually think there were people like this in high school. Monsters. The elevator doors started to close, leaving no possible way for me to escape. He stood over me and watched me to make sure I didn't escape. The doors were halfway closed now, everything was going in slow motion. Just when the doors were about to close completely, signaling my ultimate doom, a ding went off and the doors opened up again. I looked up and saw Park Chanyeol standing there, staring at the culprit with anger in his eyes. I did what I thought was best at the moment. 

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed at the top of my lungs to try and grab attention from someone who would maybe be nearby. The both of them were shocked, but Chanyeol understood why I did it before grabbing the guys collar and punching him. I tried to get up to crawl out of the elevator but the amount of strength that guy had used to pull me into the elevator had left immense pain. I could only try and scootch my way out of the elevator. 

Eventually I rolled out and I lie in pain holding my ribs and arms. I looked up and saw that Chanyeol and the guy were now having a full on fight. It took all the might and energy in me to do what I did next.