'Aaargh!' I screamed at the sudden unexpected surprise, and then burst out laughing with the four NCT members who I had never met sitting down in front of me.

'Annyeong haseyo Ae Sook!' All four of them waved at me in unison, grinning. My hand clasped over my mouth as I tried to stop laughing, and I stared at each of them in shock; Yuta, Doyoung, Ten, Taeyong, then finally Jaehyun himself.

'Mwo?' I started, surprised to say much more. 'What's going on?'
Jaehyun glanced at the others, and all of them said those same words I had heard before.

'En-See-Teeee LIFE!'

'Omo, really?!' I exclaimed, excited. 'That's awesome, where are you going?'

'We haven't been told much by the managers, but we're heading to Seoul.' Jaehyun replied. All the others nodded in agreement.

'Ah ok.' I said, finally sitting down next to Jaehyun and pulling the seatbelt across my chest and locking it in place. Ten sat down on the other side of me, that being the last available seat.

As soon as the van started moving, I started to fidget, feeling the awkwardness build up. Glancing at the other members, I noticed that both Taeyong and Doyoung were looking out of their respective windows. Yuta, sitting in between them, noticed me looking and grinned at me with his wide smile. I smiled back at him awkwardly, then turned to face the front again.
For a while, I just sat there, looking down at my sneakers; the white laces, the black shoe itself, then, unknowingly, my eyes slipped to the shoes that were next to mine; they were the exact same as mine, down to the Converse logo with the white star.

'Hi!' I heard that slightly high-pitched voice from next to me. I turned my head to my left to discover Ten smiling at me.

'We have the same shoes.' He laughed with something in his voice which made my heart skip a beat.

'Oh.' I replied, looking at his shoes, and at mine.
'Yeah, I..guess we do..' I laughed nervously, glancing at him momentarily, and then back at the floor.
Suddenly, I felt a hand tap me on the shoulder. I turned around to see Yuta's slightly concerned, yet smiling face.
'Kwaenchana?' He asked me. I paused a while, then nodded.
'Hm...Wae?' I asked him. I didn't understand the reply I got at all.

'Yuta, she doesn't know Korean.' Ten laughed. I laughed along with him, but then looked at Jaehyun in a hopeless try to somehow get him to explain what was going on to me.

He didn't seem to get the message.

'Yuta said he thought you looked a bit worried, and that's why he asked.' Ten explained to me, with that smile of his lighting up his whole face.

'Oh.. ok...' I nodded, biting my lip, and turned to face the front again.

Suddenly, the van pulled to a stop, and I glanced outside to see the unfamiliar airport sign.
'What, we're flying there??' I asked Jaehyun, bewildered for some random reason.
'No, we're swimming there.' I heard Ten laugh from next to me, and looked at him, but seeing the look on my face, he stopped.
'Let's go!' The Manager said, sliding the door of the van open.