Chapter 1: Sweet Dreams

Another boring day of school finished. Boring classes long forgotten and taunting remarks pushed away. The ride home uneventful as always and as soon as she got home she made a dash for solitude, to her room.

Turning on her laptop, Ozzie expected nothing out of the ordinary. A below-average high-school student on the verge of graduating, she was fumbling with her bag when her screen flashed with an excited MSN IM. Rolling her eyes, she made her way to the bathroom to wash her face. As she looked at herself in the mirror, she sighed. "Gaining weight again, Ozz? No wonder Justin left you…" As she spoke, she splashed her face with water, giving an annoyed huff as her laptop exploded with IM sounds.

Back in her bedroom, Pink pajama pants and all, she brought up the IM window…and got a very unexpected surprise.

Sharpii: OZZ!!! OZZIE!! Thank god you're home! I'm gonna explode here! 0x0

Sharpii: GUESS WHAT!!! 8D

Sharpii…Ozzie?

Sharpii: Heeeelllllooooo~

Sharpii….WTH did you go? D

Raptor: Sorry Rini went to wash my face ^^;

Sharpii: Oh. XD

Raptor: Justin broke up with me today… u.u

Sharpii: Who'd he ditch you for this time? =/

Raptor: Some hobag…

Sharpii: Awww I'm sorry luv ; ^;

Raptor: I'll get over it. I need to lose weight. =.=

Sharpii: You're fine the way you are, Ozz. =3

Sharpii: OH! RIGHT! MY BIG NEWS! 8D

Raptor: Big news? o.0

Sharpii: Okokokok guess what! 8D

Raptor: you're engaged? 0.o
Sharpii: NO! Better than that! D

Raptor: no clue. Tell me? =3

Sharpii: Okay #1, pack your bags. 3

Sharpii: #2…WE'RE GOING TO SEE SUJU!!! 8DDDD

Raptor: Why? 0.0

Raptor: WHAT!?!?!?! 0_______________________0

Ozzie nearly fainted at the sight. See Super Junior? How? Why? When? Her friend Rini answered all her questions, and before logging off…they both gave each other YouTube links, a tradition of theirs. Too stunned for words, Ozzie made her way down to the living room. She wanted to see them oh so badly. It had only been a year since she'd learned of them, but she knew a lot of things about them. She cried when they cried on their shows and they made her smile even when she was depressed. A chance to see them was…She'd trade anything in the world. After all, there wasn't much time left…

In the living room she found her parents, watching TV. Taking a deep, but silent, breath, she approached her mother first. Nothing happened except a command to get out of the way. At this point, she knew that all was hopeless. Her parents wouldn't allow it, especially since the person she would go with she'd only met on the internet. Sighing deeply, she went back to her room.

Flopping on her bed, she allowed herself to cry. She definitely wasn't SuJu's longest fan; neither was she probably their biggest. But she wanted to see them so badly that it hurt more than…

Shaking off those thoughts, she pondered what she would actually do when she met them. For one, she'd have to talk through Henry. The other members knew only minimal English to her knowledge, but she didn't really mind. After all, she could maybe learn a little bit of Korean and Chinese in a few days. Rini knew a few basic words so that would help a bit.

"Mrooooww?" Ozzie nearly jumped as her cat rubbed up against her leg. "Oh, it's only you, Heenim."

Heenim was an unusual cat. Most looking at her would wonder what laboratory she was sewed together in. One of her legs and few splotches on her body looked like orange tabby coloring, but the rest of her was gray tabby. One of her eyes was golden yellow, and the other was green. More than once Ozzie has had to turn down offers of buying her.

As a matter of fact, she was extremely lucky. Ozzie's mother was allergic to pet dander and had never wanted a cat. But after finding Heenim a few months ago as a stray kitten, Ozzie had been able to keep her on the condition she use her own money for the cats' needs. Heenim's name was a controversy in the household, as Ozzie's mother had wanted to name her 'Patches' and her dad, 'Rosie'. But being the SuJu fan Ozzie was, the cat's name became Heenim. But, refusing to call the cat by such a 'stupid name', she was known around the household as 'Nimmie'

The two had become inseparable in just a few months, and Heenim even got along very well with the family's toy poodle, Copper. Both were spoiled by their owner, and both were attached to her.

As Ozzie petted her cat, Copper joined them on the bed, curling up next to a pillow. Both Copper and Heenim were used to sleeping on Ozzie's bed, and she was happy to share it with them. They were her closest friends after all, the only ones who would listen to her problems. And the only ones who didn't tell her to turn down her music and stop singing so loudly in broken Korean.

Growling in agitation, she opened up her e-mail window and began to type up a letter to her friend.

Rini,

As much as I hate to say this, I can't go. My parents won't let me go with someone I met online to a different country obviously, and they don't want to pay for a plane ticket. Please find someone else to go with you, ok? They'll be more fun than me anyways. I won't be online tomorrow because I'm going job hunting so you can go ahead and write me back whenever. Please have fun and if you meet the members, tell Wookie and of course the others that I say 'HI!'

Ozzie 3

After pressing the 'send' button, the computer was shut off and Ozzie snuggled into her bed, still fully-dressed. As she stroked Copper's head and adjusted so that Heenim rested comfortably between her neck and shoulder, she drifted into a deep sleep. Tomorrow could wait for now. Her dreams of dreams coming true were all that mattered now…It's all that would ever matter.