title: BACK-UP
author: admin DiNa
words: 1000+

It sucks but I hope you like it~~

I was one of the twenty back-up dancers for the next comeback of the famous kpop boy band Bangtan Boys. At first, I decided to accept the offer out of pure fangirling-ness because, after all, I had been an army for the last few years and it wasn’t really easy to get to actually be a dancer for their comeback stage. I had to go through at least three rounds of castings to get to this point. Today, we were deciding on the lead back-ups. I was hiding behind everyone, not wanting to stand out because of my western features and also simply because I was too red and shy to meet my favorite group. I have been playing it cool until this moment but when I saw them, my confidence decreased. They were all serious and sleepy and it seemed like I was the only fan out there. Everyone else was like ‘Eh? Just let me dance and take the money.’ so I felt even more nervous. 

Namjoon, the leader, spoke first, of course. He clapped his hands together and started talking rather loudly.

‘So, we have to decide on the most important roles today.’ We all nodded. I tried to make my heart slow down a bit since this was a really important moment. It took me a few minutes to do so, but when I went back to reality, I found someone staying right in front of me and saying something. I blinked a few times and when I realized it was the one and only Jeon Jungkook, I almost flew in the skies. Then I saw him smiling a bit ironically.

‘I guess she won’t make it, guys. She’s pretty and exotic but she’s not really smart’

Everyone laughed and I was stunned for a second. Was that a way to talk to your dancer? Was that a way to talk to your fan? I touched my neck trying to hide my necklace with BTS on it.

I sat on the bench with everybody’s eyes glued on my back.

‘Why aren’t you guys doing it?’ Yoongi growled low. ‘Even Jin understands the steps!’ He shouted.

Everybody went silent and this time I was the only one to chuckle. He turned towards me annoyed but still smiling. I have removed the necklace while nobody was watching and have decided that since they could treat me that way, I could do the same. I seemed like a pretty silent and nice girl but when I was pissed off, no metter if it was my favorite group, I’d still make them pay.

‘Do you think this is funny?’ This time it was Jungkook.

I just smiled back as brightly as them and nodded. ‘Yeah… and it got kind of boring waiting for everyone to start getting the dance.’

‘So, are you saying that you are better than them?’ He raised his eyebrows and I smirked.

‘Should I show you?’ I cockily replied but on the inside I was screaming in embarassment.

He took my hand and the music started playing. He was surprised because my pacing was exactly as good as his and we were battling for dominance and in the same time we were so well balanced as if this song was made for the two of us. At the end of our little dance competition, he was a bit breathless and as much as I didn’t want to admit, I was, too.

‘Okay.. I think we’ve just decided on our main female role.’

I had to dance separately with every member of the group at a certain moment of the song but what was making me the most uncomfortable was that my parts with Jungkook, Hoseok, Taehyung and Jimin were overly..sexual. We had to grind at each other and Jungkook had to even trail his hand over my thigh. I thought BTS made it on purpose- they knew I had the best connection with Jungkook in the entire group and in the same time we could hardly stand each other’s personalities.

‘You are moving your hips too much!’

‘Stop thrusting like that!’

‘Don’t you even dare stare at me like that!’

This was what we were always saying whenever we were together, dancing. It has been two weeks since we started practicing and we were still kind of cold towards each other. The good thing, at least, was that I was starting to get closer to the other guys. Even Yoongi. After the practice today, we decided to go eat together. When we sat at the table, they put Jungkook next to me and we both pouted. Since there wasn’t a lot to be done, we just went with it and ignored each other. Until one moment.

Namjoon stopped eating and put his hands on the table. ‘Ya, why are you two like this even on the table!’

Hoseok agreed and added. ‘When are you going to realize you two like each other?’

We both started laughing and fell on the floor. It was so funny that we got a bit teary eyed. ‘M-me liking that idiot?Are you guys crazy?’

They all wiggled their eyebrows and then rolled their eyes when I stuck my tongue at them. 

Jungkook also came back to his place and out of nowhere put his arm around my shoulder. I stiffened but didn’t remove his hand. I was interested what he was about to do.

‘Since you, hyungs, really think that we like each other, then I’ll just show you how wrong you are by making her crazy: I’m gonna pretend she’s my girlfriend until the showcase!’

Everyone screamed, me included. ‘What???’

He grinned and this was the first time I saw his real smile. He was genuinely happy at the moment and I wasn’t sure why.

I fell on the ground once again. It has been already four weeks and I was still falling on this part. I punched the floor ‘Aish! ’

Jungkook grabbed my hand and hugged me.’You are doing okay, don’t worry.’

 I rolled my eyes. ‘You know I’m getting tired of your extra friendliness..’

He grinned. ‘It’s called flirting, not friendliness.’

I sighed as if I wasn’t interested but deep down I knew that the thought of him being serious about me was making my inner fangirl show up again.