Sparkle
GAME
EXO who have a free schedules to them spend the rest of their day practicing for a stage for the twelve of them instead of the separate team of K and M. They rather be called as EXO instead of EXO-K and EXO-M, it just doesn’t feel right to be in the same group but separated into two. Chanting the same mantra of ‘we are one’ everyday sometimes makes them miss the other half while being away from them.
When it’s break time, they always play a game of rock, paper, scissors to determine which one among the 12 of them in the room will have to go out to buy food for the rest of them. The loser will pick one out of the 11 left to go with him. Luhan sits down on the floor leaning towards Yixing while texting Jongyun who’s on a break as well but they’re using another practice room since EXO are using the basement practice room. Sehun had dragged his dumb and dumber partner to go buy lunch for the 12 of them. Though Jongin always wins in game, but Sehun always lose and he always drag Jongin together with him.
Luhan then search for EXO name on Naver to see what result came out and then he search for his name and suddenly he sees a blog that writes about him and all of his ex-girlfriends, not that they really are one though. Jongyun must have seen this before he did because Jongyun search for his name more than he does. He put his hands on his head feeling stressful over these blog that write things as if they know him personally. This explains so much why Jongyun is treating him so coldly through kakaotalk. Luhan look ahead and see that Kyungsoo can’t stop smiling, with Baekhyun smiling besides him as well. Kyungsoo must be messaging Min Yoong as well, and Baekhyun just being Baekhyun, trying to be a part of the romantic couple every chance he gets. The only thing they can find about Kyungsoo’s past are his dorky pictures and his days as the member of ‘angelic voice’, making Luhan question himself why did he became an ulzzang?
“Are you messaging Min Yoong?” Chan Yeol asks Kyung Soo.
“No!” Kyung Soo said after laughing at the text message he received.
“How’s Min Yoong doing with her injury?” Tao who’s sitting next to Chan Yeol asks.
“She told me that her body still hurts when she moves and that she’s trying to heal slowly right now,” Kyung Soo said and Baek Hyun hit him on his arm making him wince in pain while the two of the three towers in EXO high fived each other at how Kyung Soo fall into their trap. Luhan put his phone aside as Jongyun no longer replies his message, he admits it though, it is his fault but how can he explain to her without knowing the exact reason she’s giving him this cold treatment? He wanted to walk to the two leaders when the two of them suddenly rush out of the practice room, leaving him dumbfounded and the rest of the members quiet.
Jun Myeon and Kris walk as fast as they can to the meeting room right when they receive an ‘OK’ from Mr. Park when they request to meet him to ask him for another request. From speed walking, they find themselves running to the meeting room out of the excitement they’re having. When they enter the meeting room, Mr. Park is already there with a lot of files scattered on the table, making them think that probably their request to meet him is troublesome enough and maybe to ask him for another request would be more troublesome but they’ve come here anyway, so they can’t back out after he agreed to meet them. Mr. Park look up to them and give them the usual fatherly smile towards them and invite them to sit down.
“So, are you guys here for EXO or areyou guys here for Sparkle? You know, for the last few days, Sparkle have been transferring me their psychic power, so I can guess what you’re thinking. The girls always know what will happen, they always guess things right before I ever tell them what I’m going to tell them.” Mr. Park said laughing at how funny and interesting Sparkle members are. He didn’t even realize it but Sparkle reminds him so much to the crazy Girls’ Generation members, only Sparkle have a stronger image than Girls’ Generation.
“Sparkle, will we ever get to be on the same stage with them? This year?” Kris asks. Mr. Park smile as he hear the question, the same question Sparkle ask him when he had a meeting with them this morning. They were eager to be debuting since Lee Soo Man already made an announcement about coming out with a new girl group in May. The boys will be going to Los Angeles in two days and Sparkle will be going with them too, though not performing with them.
“Well, I don’t know if you’ve read what Lee Soo Man said or not but they will be debuting by the end of this month or early June, the first teaser will be out on the 18th of May. I find it weird, feels like it’s a bad strategy but well, we all think the 100 days teaser is a bad marketing strategy as well but it works on you guys. So, after releasing the teaser, another teaser will be released at SMTown concert as well, that’s all I can say for now. The girls told me to keep it a secret from you guys,” Mr. Park said smiling to the boys.
“Releasing the first teaser while everyone is busy talking about SMTown departure to LA? I’m worried but I’ll pray for the best. They’re not using the 100 days teaser concept, are they?” Jun Myeon asks sincerely worried about Sparkle. EXO too thought they would fail with all the teasers they’ve released. From what they all learn, it’s a fail marketing strategy as it might make people lose interest in them, so they are really thankful that the fans stick by them.
“No, they’re not using the 100 days teaser strategy,” Mr. Park said.
“Can’t you give us more info? After telling us all of this, I can’t help but to get more curious.” Kris said to Mr. Park. Mr. Park does their signature head move and smile to them to tease them. Mr. Park always monitor them, thus he knows all of their hand movement, head movement, everything they do, so they know that somehow they deliver some kind of message by moving their head the same way. They do that in almost every show and every interview.
“What does this mean anyway?” Mr. Park asks about the head movement. Jun Myeon and Kris look at each other and start doing the head movement, shrug their shoulders and laugh as they leave Mr. Park as curious as they are. They used to tell Sparkle every single thing about their debut but Sparkle decide to keep it a secret from them. Though feeling frustrated by the fact that they won’t know everything about the debut, they decide to support Sparkle through it all and will ask their fans to support Sparkle as they know well about the relationship between their seniors’ fans. They don’t want any of EXO’s fans to hate on Sparkle and vice versa, they hope that they will be able to go through everything together with their supporter supporting each other instead of hating each other.
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