The days bled into weeks as you conducted daily lessons at the SM building, the occasional review at their apartment and all of a sudden a whole month had already passed. You soon found yourself back in Mr. Kim's office sitting nervously in the chair as he conducted a review of your efforts to far. He was reading through the notes EXO's managers has passed onto him whilst you fidgeted and prayed for something to break the nerve wracking silence that had settled over the room 15 minutes ago. Were the managers saying nice things? Did they think you worked to slowly? Did they think you were being too informal with the guys? What had the members told their managers about your lessons? Your brain was going into overthinking overdrive and if Mr. Kim didn't address you soon you felt like you might explode.

He finally set aside the papers and closed the folder they were in and cleared his throat. "Y/N, you have been working with EXO for one month so far to prepare them for their US tour later in the year. How do you think you are doing so far?" Seriously? He'd spent 15 minutes reading evaluations on your performance and now he wanted you to self assess?

"I have been conducting daily lessons at the SM building during times that suit the members schedules. These lessons have been group oriented to promote interactions between them in English and so far they are progressing quite well. Obviously it's never all of them at once but it's usually 4 members. I have also been doing one on one sessions at the request of the members. They can request a session at any time of the day or night and where to meet. I go and either assist them with questions and pronunciations that they are having trouble with or I do a premade lesson to help them memorise their speeches. I have only done 3 one on one sessions so far but I believe that they were successful."

"Have you hung out with them outside of your lesson times?" If you hadn't remembered the feedback from when you worked with Blackpink you might have freaked out and thought Mr Kim knew how close you were with the guys. Instead you realised he was testing if you recalled the feedback, you did, but Junmyeon and you had planned this out. For the first month you were to appear formal and only as a teacher. During the second month the members would start inviting you to hang out with them and you would appear to get closer with them and less formal. During the third month you would essentially be an extension of their family. So far it was all going to plan.

"No. They are preparing for their comeback as well as a tour. Some members are fitting in other recordings, filming dramas or movies and a sub unit is in the works as well. I didn't want to overstep my boundaries yet. I do remember your suggestion from my time with Blackpink and I am working on it. A few of the members have invited me to dinner with them tonight so I had planned to start being more personable from there onwards now that I have proven my abilities as a teacher. I was worried that if I came across as too casual at the beginning they might just think I was a fan trying to get closer to them so I remained professional and formal."

Mr Kim nodded and wrote down a few notes of his own after you finished speaking. "Shall I share with you the evaluations from the managers and members?"

That you weren't expecting. Which members evaluated you? Since when did members partake in the evaluations? "The members evaluated me as well?"

Mr Kim nodded again. "A couple have. It's not that uncommon when one on one sessions are conducted to have them also submit an evaluation. I'll start with the managers." Mr Kim opened the folder and picked up one of the sheets of paper.

"Miss Y/L/N is a professional and hard working individual. We were concerned that due to her age that she might be too informal and weak to take charge. We are glad to report that so far she has surprised us. She is extremely well prepared and adjusts her lessons to suit the members who attend. Her group lessons focus on the interview questions so that the reactions and interactions between the members is not only genuine but they can also respond to each other in English. She has been available every day. Even though this was one of the requirements we listed many translators we hire are not always available. Your employee is, and she is to be commended for that. Our group have a very busy schedule and she works around it with us to ensure that everyone has time for a session during the day. We have also had people pose as members of the press, fans and staff to see if she would provide information about the groups' activities and we are glad to report that every time she has either kept silent or avoided answering. The only thing we think she should work on is becoming closer with the members since she will have to travel with them within a month and we would prefer it if it was not awkward or always formal."

He placed the paper back on the desk and let the words sink in. They think I'm doing well. I mean I thought I was doing well in my standard lessons but it's nice to hear that from your bosses. They want me to get closer to them... haha if only they knew. You fought to keep a smirk off your face as you tried to imagine if it was actually possible for you to get closer to some of the guys. You were relieved that the managers had given you a good evaluation and believed you were capable at completing the tasks they'd assigned you. Mr Kim watched as you processed the evaluation before he continued to speak. "And now for the members evaluation. I was told that two members wrote this evaluation for you but I have not been told which two."

You braced for the next evaluation. You had no idea who had evaluated you.  Mr Kim picked up another piece of paper and began to read.

"Teacher is always free to teach us during the day when we are at SM building. When we have free time in our schedule we can go to her assigned room and work on our English skills. We work in small groups and she makes sure we are all included. She makes sure we interact with our other members as much as we can in English to help prepare us for our interviews. The lessons aren't boring and they are different every time. We haven't had a one on one tutoring session yet but from observing the members who have we noticed that they practice memorising daily and whenever they do, they smile, so we can only assume that the one on one lessons are of excellent value since they won't tell us about their lessons only that we will be pleasantly surprised. Each of those lessons seems to be specifically tailored to the member she is tutoring so we look forward to ours very much. She is available at any time of day or night and always works in with our busy schedules. We only know her as our teacher but we would like to get more familiar with her since she will be travelling with us on our tour. A dinner and games night would be fun, we think everyone would like that."

 The evaluation seemed good to the likes of Mr Kim but you could read the teasing in it. You were certain that Baekhyun was one of the members. The nerve he had, to taunt you in an official evaluation, you were going to have to make sure you remembered this for later. Bringing up a dinner and games night was an obvious throwback to the debacle that was the game of truth or dare from last time. If he thinks he's the only one who can taunt and tease then he is ing wrong. Now wasn't the time to plot your revenge though. You wondered who the other member was. You figured you'd find out soon enough.

"They have given me such lovely evaluations. It would seem that all I need to work on is to become closer to the group outside of my role as their tutor. I will make sure I start to form a bond with them tonight at dinner. It will still take a little while since it's not something that will just occur in one night but it will start from tonight." Mr Kim nodded and continued to discuss your work with you. You had to tell him about your one on one sessions, you omitted the highly unprofessional things you did but he praised you for the tailored lessons. It was agreed that you would have another evaluation in a month but it might be over the phone as you could be travelling by that stage.

You left Mr Kim's office feeling good about the progress you were making with the group. You were teaching them English and your lessons were working, even if they were unconventional. You were also over the moon that you could start to be friendly with the guys in front of their managers and staff. You would just have to make sure they didn't get too comfortable with you so as not to raise any suspicions.

You arrived back to your apartment and found a note under your door. You picked it up and unfolded it. It read Dinner is at 7pm. Please come up to the apartment no later than 6pm so that a manager can speak with you then we will all head out to the restaurant. Dress normally, it's nowhere fancy and make sure to bring your staff id for when we are outside. The last thing we want is for fans to attack you. - Suho

You put the note on your table and headed down the hall to your room. You had a few hours to rest and clean up for dinner and what you were certain was going to be a lecture from one of the managers. As you lay down on your bed you figured you should send a quick text to update Junmyeon. You just hoped Baek was in a normal mood and would pass your message on without probing too much.

Y/N - Hey! Please tell your 'mom' that stage 1 was successful and we can now move into stage 2. I'm going to nap now so please field all of your questions to your 'mom'.

Unknown - ..The fu- ooooh I think I get you. I'm so confused... If my 'mom' doesn't answer my questions I will wake you to make you answer them.

You rolled over and got comfy. You alarm wasn't due to go off for at least an hour. The last thing you saw before you fell asleep was Baek's last message.

Unknown - Have a good nap :)