Chapter 1: A dark room with a small light
So the story takes place February 12 2026 a 22 year old girl, who never seemed to grow out of her "phase" sits on her bed a couple hours before her birthday and reads. It was basically like every other day her, her dark room, and the only light was coming from her kindle and a faint clock showing the time in the corner… 11 pm still early for Cadence Perks to be tired. She was rereading her favorite fan fiction it was pretty simple actually a couple small chapters each about a different color, of course it dealt with k-pop but you didn't have to know anything about that to understand it. She ends up falling asleep roughly around 2am without realization and wakes up as her phone explodes with messages. I know what your thinking, "someone must be popular huh?" but Cadence only had about two super close friends and one of which always made sure to spam her phone on her birthday with a weirdly long text explaining how brilliant she was and how she was a crazy EXO-L (a term her best friend, Miya had to Google). For those who don't know what it is here is the definition Miya came across while trying to please her friend with her very limited Exo knowledge "EXO-L is the official Fan club name for EXO." She also found out it stood for EXO-LOVE but that isn't the important part about today, Miya scored two tickets to an Exo concert in Atlanta Georgia, which Cadence has wanted to go. Flash back to December of 2016 when these two girls were talking at might I add 1am, about k-pop concerts, of course Cadence was the one doing the talking after all she was the one obsessed with k-pop. Miya just wanting to take her on a plane and throw her into a concert so she would shut up and have her dream come true. But of course they were young, broke, and had no way of transportation so Cadence was stuck watching videos and Miya was stuck hearing about them. Back to the present, Miya now 23 capable of driving the short distance too Atlanta with her best friend, just picked up Cadence who still had no clue where they were going. They took a stop at what looked like a shady truck stop for some lunch, for some reasons these girls always came here grabbed two milkshakes and talked in the "rustic" diner seats for hours. Today was different; Miya cut to the chase and placed two EXO tickets in front of her friend's milkshake. I believe Cadence nearly choked to death on the milkshake she was drinking then flung herself across the table to hug her best friend. To every other person in the restaurant it might as well looked like a now 23 year old got possessed by a squirrel and decided to sprawl across a table to tackle her friend. The two walked out after Miya had to explain that yes they were real and yes they were for today, with unfinished milkshakes in their hands they got back into their car. Let me just summarize what happened in the 4 hour drive, Miya drove the whole time cause Cadence wasn't the best driver in the world plus she knew Cadence would want to blare and dance along to every single Exo song before they got there, which was a good opportunity for a clueless Miya to get familiar with the songs. Fast forward to the concert, some epic dance moves, and serenades later. It's over. Yes its cheesy but Cadence Olivia Perks just had her dream come true.