CRYSTAL'S PERSPECTIVE (Epilogue)

"OOH OOH I LIKE IT BABY!"

I looked around at the k-pop stans who had come to the concert. There were all the characters, me, of course, Ava, Thea, and Lena. And Addy, though she had been dragged to the concert against her will.

Sophie and Keefe were dancing together, and Dex was teasing them. I saw Biana pointing out the different Stray Kids members to Tam, trying, for the millionth time, to get him to stop confusing Changbin and Bang Chan's names. Linh nudged Marella and imitated the two, though in a style that looked more like a k-drama, and both of them burst out laughing.

Biana had insisted on dragging Tam to the concert, though he wasn't a k-pop stan yet. After the disaster with the deluluness, Ava and I had decided to focus on converting Addy instead. Much easier.

Surprisingly (not), Lena was having a good time. She held a poster saying, "skibidi toilet ohio gyatt rizzler" because…she could I guess?

And our mission to convert Addy was going well (for me at least). She's a blink!

I guess I didn't really convert her, but like…it'll hopefully make things easier. Not for Ava though. I still don't understand why she doesn't stan BLACKPINK.

Despite liking several k-pop songs, Addy refuses to say that she likes k-pop. She's in denial. It's like she's delulu, but…reversed?

So it's solulu I guess.

Or…

Whatever.

"Ooh I like it ooh ooh I like it like it," Linh sang as the song ended. Her voice was actually really good. And I had heard Marella rapping earlier. I reminded myself to take her to a Babymoster concert. She'd love Asa.

Suddenly, thinking of girl group concerts, I remembered Keefe's disastrous performance of Queencard and Fitz's horrible dance cover of Sticky. I shuddered. But thankfully, that would never happen again, and if it did (which it would NOT) I had two stocks of anti-delulu pills.

Stock #1 had the less potent ones, at least 100 of them. Probably more.

Stock #2 had the completely potent anti-delulu pills, and it had around 20. Ava had insisted I make it. Annoying, but whatever. I guess they could be useful (NOT! SHE IS THE MOST OBNOXIOUS PARTNER EVER).

I was working on some more Delulu syrups, and I had also made them less potent. They weren't perfect yet, which is why they were unused.

Ava hit me on the shoulder. "The chorus is coming up! We have to scream, remember? Seriously, Crystal, you need to focus more…"

Ignoring her last words, I imagined myself gathering every molecule of air in my lungs in preparation.

"Stray kids still gonna rock on the hellevator, yeah we head to the top!"

"STRAY KIDS!"

"Stray kids run till we're done, do whatever we want, yeah we don't give a what!"

"STRAY KIDS!"

"Know that this is who we are, there ain't' no last step out, oh we'll never stop!

"Stray kids still gonna rock on the hellevator, yeah we head to the top, go on and on!"

THE END