"That was fun, we should do this more often." She exclaimed as she and her friends were walking to her car from dinner and a movie.
"Serves to show how truly lifeless you are." Her sister teased her.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm the most lifeless amongst us." She agrees with a giggle as she open the car's door.
From a distance a group of men surrounded by more men and a rabid group of girls who were screaming were moving towards their direction.
"Ah, we better hurry, we don't want to be caught up in the crowd." Her friend says noticing the group that was fast approaching their way.
"What?" She turns her head to finally notice what her friend was talking about. "Oh, is there a concert of some sort?"
"Wow, how lifeless are you really?" Her sister asks in amazement.
"Why?"
"You don't know who they are?" Her friend asks even more amazed.
"Who?"
"Never mind, best you didn't know. Come on let's go." Her friend insists and gets on her car.
She frowns from the sight and finally gets on her car as well. She starts the engine and shifts the gear and was slowly moving forward when a figure suddenly appeared in front of her car, she immediately hits the break as her friends screamed from the sight. She froze for a moment but immediately snaps back and gets out of the car to run towards the figure that appeared in front of her car.
"Are you okay?" she asks as she ran towards the figure who was stooped down in front of her car.
She could hear the crowd around her becoming violent and wild. Next she could hear the group of men running towards where she was with worried voices.
"Hyung!"
"Lay!"
"I'm alright." The stooped down figure finally spoke up, "I'm sorry, I didn't see you coming and I was running after Tao's cap."
"Hyung, you could've been killed, you didn't have to run after my hat." The tall man with what seemed to be dyed blonde hair spoke up.
"Are you sure you're okay, do I have to take you to the hospital?" She asked in concern and fright.
"I'm fine, please don't worry about me, it was my fault after all. I shouldn't be running around when vehicles are running around. I'm really sorry for the inconvenience miss." He told her bowing a few times after.
"I'm really sorry. Are you sure I didn't hit you?" She asked still unconvinced.
"Hyung are you sure you're okay?" Another tall figure asked the man who was dusting off his pants.
"Yes. Please don't worry about me. You'll make her worry if you treat me like I'm hurt. I'm not hurt at all." The man assured the others.
"Are you sure, because I don't think I'll be okay with you just saying you're fine." She insisted.
"I'm fine miss, you didn't hit me at all." He smiled at the girl who was still frantic.
"Well, if you say you're alright then I guess you are." The other guy says with a sigh.
"Please be a little more careful hyung, do you want to bleed out to death?" One of the other members said.
"Bleed out?" She asked confused.
"We're very sorry about this, are you sure you're okay Lay-oppa?" Her friends asked the guy who everyone was fuzzing about.
"You know him?" She asked her friend.
"You don't know who we are?" the men all asked in surprise.
"She doesn't." Her sister answered for her.
"She lives under a rock." Her friend teased.
"What are you Patrick the Starfish?" One of the taller boys asked.
At that moment she felt very embarrassed and could feel her face heating up and turning very red. "I'm really sorry, it seem you are very important people that I should know." She timidly apologized.
"No."
"We're not that important."
"You don't have to put it that way."
The men all talked at the same time making it difficult for her to understand what they were all saying.
"Okay, if no one's hurt, we better get you guys out of here. All of this is making a scene and your fans are getting worried. Do you want her to get hurt?" A man who appears to be older than all of them stated pointing at the girl, slowly guiding the rest of the group away.
"Be careful driving home." The one who every one called 'hyung' said with a smile as he assisted the guy she almost hit with her car.
"I'm really sorry." She apologized one more time as the men were walking away from her.
The one she almost hit with her car turned his head and smiled at her, "I'm really sorry for not looking where I was going."
"Eh?" she felt confused, she felt more confused when the other men started laughing at the guy she almost hit with her car.
"Let's go home." Her friends told her as they make their way back to her car.
"You do know you almost ran over Lay from EXO right?" Her sister asked her.
"Who?" She asked.
"Dear Lord. You should really get a life sweetie." Her friend patted her shoulder.
"What? Why?"
Her friend and sister face palmed.
-oOo-
"I need to make this deadline, or else, I'm dead." She told herself as she was slumped in front of her laptop. At that moment two people were walking pass her without her noticing.
"Annyeonghaseyo!" The guy greeted him.
"Hi!" She greeted back only glancing over the person greeting before focusing back on what she was typing.
"Are you feeling better now?" The male voice asked which made her stop her finger movement on her keyboard to finally lift up her eyes on the person talking in front of her.
Her blank expression explained everything going on in her head at that moment, like a big post-it was plastered on her forehead with the words 'who are you, and why are you asking me that?' written on it.
"Hello, my name is Lay. It's a pleasure to meet you." The guy politely bowed and smiled at her.
Lay? She asked herself in her mind, Have we met before? She continued to ask.
"I don't think she remembers us hyung." The young guy stated in a teasing manner.
"Ah, that's okay I didn't really remember either until you pointed her to me." The smiling boy admitted, and frankly she didn't know whether to feel better about it, or to be irritated by it.
"I'm really sorry, I think I've seen you somewhere, I just can't place it." She finally admitted.
"Oh, you can see us everywhere." The younger one said a bit arrogantly if you ask her.
"We're from EXO." The smiling one continued.
"EXO?" she repeated, no, more like asked.
"You don't know us do you?" The younger one replied, obviously he was a bit disappointed.
"I'm sorry. I really am. But—no." She shyly admitted.
"Wow! Hyung, a woman in this country exist who doesn't know who we are!" The younger one commented, the tone of which was unsure to her if he was happy about it or not.
"Should I know you then?" She asked innocently.
"No, it's okay, you can just remember us as Lay, that's me; and this is Sehun." He smiled more brightly, "Right Sehun? We're fine being remembered as that?"
The younger one's brows raised, then he smirks, "Yeah, we're fine with that. He's Lay-hyung, and I'm Sehun."
"Okay." The girl replied.
"And you are?" The one named Lay asked.
"Me?"
"No the person behind you." The one named Sehun sarcastically stated, yet with a hint of platfulness.
"Ah-." She went blank.
Lay's eyes widened, waiting for the answer.
She then laughed.
"Eh? Why?" Lay asked, his facial reaction quickly changing from excited to worried.
"This is funny, I forgot my own name." She admitted.
Sehun then laughed out loud, "Hyung, she's like you, she forgets her own name."
They all then began laughing together, until she finally catches her breathe and replies, "My name is Adda."
"That's a pretty name." Lay replied, seemingly amazed by the girl's name.
"Sounds foreign right?" she shyly asked.
"But, hyung is right, it is a pretty name." Sehun affirmed.
"You are not from here?" Lay inquired some more.
"Oh, uhm, well, my family kind of moves around a lot. But, I practically grew up here." She politely answered.
"I'm not from around here, I'm Chinese." Lay continued.
"Ah, I see."
"I'm Korean." Sehun interrupted.
"Yes you are." She politely agreed.
"So, you really can't remember Lay-hyung?" Sehun asked, finally returning to the original topic.
"I'm sorry. Have we me before somewhere?" She politely asked.
"Well, I wouldn't really call it meeting." Lay replied scratching his head.
"Yeah, you almost killed him." Sehun continued laughing.
"Oh-." Adda nodded not really understanding what Sehun had said, until, "Wait! What?" She asked in shock.
"Last week near the mall, you almost hit him with your car." Sehun contiud to remind the girl.
"Ah!" Adda covered her mouth and pointed at Lay. "That was you?"
Lay smiled and lightly nodded while scratching his head.
"Are you alright? Are you hurting anywhere? Is that why you came up to me? You need me to pay for medical expense?" She bombarded him with questions.
"Ah, no, no, no! That's not why we came up to you." Lay clarified.
"Then why?"
"Well, we came to buy bubble tea, then I saw you sitting there, and I pointed you out to Lay hyung. Honeslty he had completely forgotten about that almost getting hit by a car thing until I reminded him about it. And hyung insisted we greet you." Sehun explained.
"You were looking kind of depressed sitting there." Lay continued.
"I was working actually." Adda explained.
"Oh, we disturbed your work." Lay suddenly realizing and feeling apologetic about it.
"Oh, no, well, actually, I was running out of ideas." Adda assured that they were not disturbing her.
"Everyone was actually worried about you that night, because you looked traumatized." Lay furthered.
"Everyone?"
"The members were all worried I might have caused you some shock. So it's really nice to see you doing well like this." Lay timidly explained.
Sehun, who was busy sipping on his bubble tea was silently staring at the two who were conversing.
"Members?"
"Ah, yes especially Umin-hyung; he said you looked so scarred that we should've made sure you were really okay before we left you. But all the fans were there and we didn't want them to attack you or something so we just left instead." Lay continued, completely unaware that the girl was utterly confused of what he was saying.
"Attack me?"
Before Lay could continue any further, Sehun interrupted him seeing how much of a puzzle these information was for the girl, "Noona, you are a noona right?" he first confirmed.
"Huh? I would definitely say, yes, I am." Adda replied closely examining the young face asking the question.
"Noona, you really do not know EXO?" Sehun asked in disbelief.
"You know, I really feel bad about this, because it seems I should know who this EXO is." Adda replied.
"We—." Sehun pointing at himself and Lay, "—are EXO."
"The two of you?" Adda clarified.
Sehun face palmed.
Lay chuckled, "We're both members of EXO, I'm from EXO-M, and Sehun here is EXO-K."
"EXO-what?"
Sehun couldn't stop himself from laughing. "This noona is really funny."
"I am?" Adda asked confused.
"We're members of a group, we sing, we dance, we've been appearing a lot on TV." Lay patiently explained.
"Oh you mean you guys are artists?"
"Ding!" Sehun replied.
"I'm really sorry, I kind of—well, I'm not updated when it comes to the entertainment industry." Adda admitted.
"Oh, yeah, I remember your friend say you lived under a rock." Sehun continued chuckling.
"I sort of do. I'm practically lifeless." Adda replied chuckling as well.
"You should go out more. Don't over work yourself, it isn't healthy as well." Lay replied.
"Ah, the manager-hyung is here. Lay-hyung, let's go." Sehun grabbed his bubble tea from the table and began to stand.
"It was nice meeting you here Adda." Lay smiled and bowed about thrice before finally walking away.
"Yeah, it was nice to meet you both as well." You replied.
"See you around Adda-noona." Sehun waved at you.
"Ah. Bye."
She goes back to her typing and freezes for a moment, EXO huh? I wonder. She open her search engine and types the keyword 'EXO', and began her journey on discovering who EXO was.