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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 29, 2020 11:40:13 GMT -8
Elena was excited at the prospect of food. She watched Hayun order it and grinned. "They deliver it here?"
"Do you have homework or something? Does school give you a lot of that?" she shook her head, "I never really thought of how much work it would take to be an idol and a student." Because she'd just gotten here and she wasn't even set to the right time zone yet, school and work had yet to catch up on her, but she figured it would eventually.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 29, 2020 13:03:27 GMT -8
Hayun leaned back on the couch and said, "Yeah, they deliver it here."
She shrugged about homework and said, "There's some stuff that I could work on for school, but I'm pretty ahead on my school work. SOPA's academically easier than my old school was, though it's not bad, so I've managed to stay ahead by putting in time when we have breaks from training on the weekends or when other people are in special trainings."
She didn't say when Shieon-unnie had rap classes and Hayun wasn't in training. She did add, "I try to get as much as I can done at school, and when Seoji and Felix and I can work together since Seoji and I have all the same classes, and Felix and I only don't overlap on our major classes."
She knew she didn't spend as much time as the other two on school because it was pretty easy for her and she didn't care as much as Seoji did about her academics. She was a solidly good student, and didn't get behind, but she wasn't nearly as invested as Seoji was in being at or near the top of their class.
She asked, "Are you going to be transferring into a school here or doing something else?"
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 29, 2020 17:17:42 GMT -8
Elena leaned back, lying down on the couch, her legs still draped over Hayun. "What's a sopa?" she asked. "I'm assuming it doesn't mean soup, like I think it does."
"Who is Seoji? Sorry I have so many questions," she sat up and took her legs back. "I'm doing school online, but still back in Spain so my timing will be weird..." she trailed off, looking a little worried, "I hope it doesn't make it harder for me to get closer to you all. I don't want that."
She reached out and clasped Hayun's hands, "what can I do to get to know everyone and become closer?"
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 29, 2020 17:43:16 GMT -8
Hayun blinked and then laughed, saying, "No, it's not soup. It's an acronym. SOPA is the School of Performing Arts Seoul, where I go to high school. Felix and Seoji, who are both boys trainees, and I are all in 11th grade there, so second year of high school here. Seoji is the boys team leader, and the only one of the boys who's taller than me so far, only one of Yuseong is taller than me too. SOPA is where a lot of idols and idol trainees go, so we meet a lot of other trainees there in our classes."
She thought about it for a moment and then said, "In some ways it might make it easier than if you were going to a completely different school than everyone else. Like I'm close with Seoji and Felix because we go back and forth to school together every day. And I'm close with Shieon-unnie, and she's out of high school already, so her schedule is more flexible, and I'm close with Seojin-unnie, and she's only been out of high school since a bit before she became a trainee, but she's also the leader and takes that seriously. Anya's easy to get along with, but our school schedules are more dissimilar, which means I don't spend as much time with her, and Jane is more shy and our school schedules are different, so I definitely feel like I know her the least well. And of the boys, I don't know Tai as well though he helps with dance a lot so I know him better than I might otherwise, and I barely know Meri yet because he's newer and we go to different schools. I'm pretty sure that he and Tai are both aiming for Yego too, uh, Yego is Seoul Arts High School, it's another arts high school with good music and dance programs, but it's harder to get into and has really good academics. Seojin-unnie went there."
Hayun had to think a bit before she said, "I think that you're already doing the right things, spend time with people, talk. Um, maybe be careful when it comes to how much touching. I know that Jane especially is a little more shy about it. I'm sure that you've got things in common with each of us."
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 29, 2020 17:53:06 GMT -8
Elena laughed at herself. "Going to a school makes a lot more sense than going to soup."
She felt herself leaning away more and more as Hayun named more people. At least she could recognize her bandmate's names and her brother's but the rest were definitely getting muddled. "What's a Meri? Tai... Tai..." she muttered, "TaiAnya! Tai is the one who Anya knows right?"
"I'm really worried about my first one on one interaction with Jane. I feel like I need someone to run interference for me, or I'll have to be dancing or something the whole time so I don't cling," Elena explained as she found herself stuck back to Hayun's side, clinging.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 29, 2020 18:51:05 GMT -8
Hayun laughed and said, "I just threw more names at you, didn't I? Sorry, Meri is the newest of the boy trainees. Tai is Anya's childhood best friend, and also one of the boy trainees. He worked on our choreo for debut with the professional choreographer, Taehoon-oppa, and Seojin-unnie."
Hayun thought about it a bit. She could see why Elena was nervous. The other girl had basically glued herself to Hayun the moment she'd arrived at the training room, and she'd been all over Seojin the night before. She said, "Hopefully you can get more comfortable with her in group settings first. Then you can learn where her boundaries are. I think that the rest of us will have an easier time with the cuddling. Well maybe not some of the boys, and that's potentially a weird thing in public, so maybe start practicing asking the boys."
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 29, 2020 19:02:06 GMT -8
Elena nodded, trying to add the names and information to the right boxes in her head but she wasn't entirely sure she'd gotten it all right. "No more names please," she said rubbing her temples in defeat.
"Yeah, I hope I don't do anything too much for her. Is it because she's British?" she asked. She wanted to know why Jane was so standoffish. "If it's for another reason then don't tell me. I'll ask her myself. I wouldn't want to put you in an awkward situation."
"Mi hermano is excluded from the boys, right? I haven't even met him yet and I know we're going to be close," Elena was convinced.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 29, 2020 19:28:35 GMT -8
Hayun nodded and said, "No more names, I'll try at least."
She made a face and said, "I don't know, maybe it's because she's British. As far as I know, she's mostly shy, and I've not had many chances to interact with her because she's dance line, and I've been focusing really hard on vocals because I didn't have any official vocal training before joining the company."
She bit her lip over the question about Felix, suspecting that Elena wouldn't love her answer, and said, "In private, at the company and stuff, you would know better than me probably. Felix and Seoji are pretty cuddly, but I've never really considered how that applies to other people. But in public, it still applies. That's the sort of thing that scandals are built on even if it's stupid."
She was relieved when she got the notification just then that food had arrived, and she leapt to her feet saying, "Food is here!"
She hurried over to the door and grabbed the bags that had been left there, bringing them inside so that she could lay everything out on the table.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 29, 2020 19:51:58 GMT -8
Elena crinkled her nose at the idea of having to change her behavior inside versus outside. "Do you think they'll let me get away with things because I'm Spanish? I'm pretty sure my first words were 'it's my Spanish blood'" she laughed.
She perked up when Hayun mentioned food. She helped her take things out of the bags and arranged them on the table. She clapped excitedly. "I can't wait to try the spicy stuff!" She grabbed a pair of chopsticks and handed them to Hayun, then grabbed her own.
She debated for a minute which food to try first, but she knew her heart was set on the tteokbokki. She picked up a piece and took a bite, bouncing up and down happily as it tasted even better than she'd hoped.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 29, 2020 19:59:25 GMT -8
Hayun thought about it for a bit as she took her first few bites of food, enjoying watching Elena be enthusiastic about the food. She said, "I think that they'll likely let you get away with more because you're a foreigner, so you don't do things exactly the same, but at the same time, you're half-Korean, so they'll have higher expectations of your interactions with acting Korean. I don't know if that entirely makes sense, but just, be a little careful? Especially right after debut while people are still learning things about you. It will probably be less of a problem once people know more about you, though shippers will probably be interested in who you're cuddly with."
She focused on the food again, pointing to the jajangmeon and saying, "You should definitely try a little of everything, but make sure you try this one. What do you think so far?"
She grabbed some tteokbokki of her own, not wanting to take too much of it, but also wanting to make sure she got a decent amount because it was her favorite.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 29, 2020 20:07:27 GMT -8
Elena nodded but continued her happy dances with every new thing she tried. "The tteokbooki is really good and so is the kimbap."
She went and grabbed a bite of jjajangmyun next. "My dad is in so much trouble the next time I see him. He didn't tell me there were all these delicious dishes I could have been eating! Years! He took years of joy from me!" She was being overdramatic and laughing.
Next, she took a bite of the cheese tonkatsu next, then picked up her spoon and dug into the sundubu jjigae. "Wait, I can double dip, right? Like, I can use my chopsticks and spoon again?" she hadn't even been thinking about the logistics and felt bad if she'd contaminated the food before everyone else got a chance to eat.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 29, 2020 20:39:55 GMT -8
Hayun couldn't help but laughing at how much Elena was enjoying the food. It was good to see. She said, "I'm glad you like them. I guess you'll just have to have lots of food adventures now that you're here."
She was slightly startled by Elena's question, but she said, "It's fine! We normally share. If we weren't going to, we'd order our own separate dishes. We usually just try to pick things that everyone likes."
She wasn't sure if that was different or similar to what Elena was used to, or if Elena had just gotten over excited about the food. Elena's enthusiasm was definitely catching though. Hayun asked, "What's it like in comparison to Spanish food?"
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 29, 2020 20:45:51 GMT -8
"The taste is very different. Spanish food can be spicy but in general uses completely different spices than Korean foods. Also, I don't know if you can taste love or family, but I definitely taste that back home. Not that this isn't amazing food, because it is, but it feels like it's missing something that's not an edible ingredient." Elena twitched her lips to the side, knowing she probably wasn't making a lot of sense.
She finally managed to actually sit herself down at the table, "so did you know you always wanted to be an idol?"
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 29, 2020 21:01:37 GMT -8
Hayun said, laughter in her voice, "I mean, it's take away. It's cooked in big batches made to be delivered quickly. Home cooked food by a good cook is of course better. Maybe we can find a Spanish restaurant here someday and you can tell us how it is in comparison."
Hayun was startled at the question, but she shook her head, a little less stressed about the discussion now that they'd already talked about it once. She shook her head and said softly, the laughter gone, "I thought I was going to be an internationally competitive skater until I couldn't do that anymore and then probably coach or choreograph. That, uh, obviously didn't work out. Music was one of the things that helped after that, and I started getting really into Kpop because it was such different music. And Dreams Ent was the only place I ever auditioned."
She wan't quite ready to dig into talking about her therapist and how she'd adored Yueseong with someone so new quite yet.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 29, 2020 21:14:22 GMT -8
Elena munched and nodded along. "I think you'll all be able to judge for yourself how good the food is by then, I definitely plan to do some cooking."
"I never really thought about being an idol. I didn't really have any sort of plan for my life. My family owns a restaurant so I was kind of expecting to take that over. A few of my primos are really into Kpop and tricked me into auditioning with them. They're still a little made I passed auditions and they didn't." Elena said digging into the kimchi jjigae.
"Do you think people will get mad that I didn't have this passion to pursue being an idol? Does it make you mad, unnie?" she asked.
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