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oohsehun started following you.

baekhyunee_exo started following you.

real_pcy started following you.

Florencia looked at her notifications, which seemed to have a spike in followers, mentions, and comments over the last couple of hours since she had last checked on her instagram account. Most of her notifications were about three specific people that had been added to her list of followers. People speculated and asked why they had followed her, though she herself didn't know the answer to that either. A lot of the comments under her most recent picture were in Spanish, a few in English, while there was now an overwhelming amount of comments that she couldn't understand in Korean.

"A bunch of really hot Asian guys just followed me on instagram, and everyone on my feed is making a huge deal of it." Florencia commented to her sister Acacia who was sitting cross legged atop the hotel bed. Their other sister Margarita had gone out with their mother to buy some lunch for them to eat.

The girls had arrived in Mexico City that morning, on a flight from Orizaba on the coastal state of Veracruz for a photo shoot. Florencia Orizaba--Mexico's most beautiful woman, according to many--had been chosen to be on the cover for Estrallas Y Mas, a popular teen magazine. 

"Mm." Acacia hummed to her sister's words, almost uninterested. She was scrolling through her own social media feed. When her sister's words fully sunk in, she offered a few words of information that she had learned. "Well, I heard there's this thing called Music Bank and a bunch of Asian artists are coming here to perform at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico in a few days."

Florencia sighed, not seeing the connection. "So?"

"Woman, weren't you crowned Miss Universe in front of the entire world two years ago?" Her younger sister pointed out. Acacia was only one year younger than her sister Florencia and they had a very close bond between them. They had never in their lives gotten into an argument--not once. They weren't just sisters, they were the best of friends. "Maybe they're fanboys who want to meet you now that they have the chance. Hot and talented fanboys, apparently." Her sister added, wiggling her eyebrows at Florencia.

Of course Florencia Orizaba remembered that moment perfectly. Being crowned Miss Universe--the most beautiful woman in the world at only eighteen--was the very thing that put her on the map. Before then, she was only known in her country after being crowned Miss Mexico--the most beautiful woman in her country at seventeen, and Miss Veracruz--the most beautiful woman in her home state at sixteen. She was one of only three women who had ever achieved that honor for her country--alongside Ximena Navarrete who was crowned in two thousand ten, and Lupita Jones who had been crowned in nineteen ninety one. That moment was what opened the doors to her acting career and put her several steps ahead in her modeling career.

"I wouldn't mind meeting them, to be honest." Florencia thought aloud, clicking on the instagram profile for Park Chanyeol. He had been the one who had most captured her attention of the three.

"Follow them back and see if they talk to you." Acacia encouraged, finally setting her phone down on the bed and showing some enthusiasm for the conversation. She pounced forward, now laying on her stomach by her older sister who sat at the foot of the bed.

Florencia rolled her eyes playfully at her sister, but clicked on the usernames that people kept mentioning in the comment section of her pictures.

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florizaba started following you.

florizaba is followed by three people you follow: baekhyunee_exo, real_pcy, & gutilozz.

florizaba started following baekhyunee_exo and real_pcy.

real_pcy liked gutilozz's photo.

baekhyunee_exo commented on real_pcy's photo: -.-

Sehun had been rehearsing for the group performance at the Mexico City Arena when he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. When they were given a five minute break before resuming their rehearsal, the maknae of the group pulled his cellphone out of his pocket and clicked on the home button to find a notification from instagram. 

It was informing him that Florencia Orizaba--or florizaba, as was her username--had followed him back. His instagram had been specially set so that he would only get notifications when verified accounts interacted with him. Not only had she followed him back though, she had also followed his two group mates back. It wasn't like she would ignore them anyway. Perhaps--he thought to himself--she was only following them back to be polite. Baekhyun and Chanyeol weren't going to be involved in the photo shoot. It would only be Sehun and florencia.

He sat down on the stage--near the back--and clicked on her profile. Not even ten minutes prior, she had posted a picture to her account. 

♥ 32K likes

florizaba: mom & @morizaba are taking long to bring lunch, so @babygreeneyes (acacia) & i are snacking on pastries from hotel room service >.< #hungryaf

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"Sehun-ah," He heard the voice of one of the other members calling to him. The youngest of the group immediately recognized the voice as belonging to Baekhyun. He had his cellphone in hand, walking towards him as though he wanted to show him something. No doubt he had probably seen that Florencia had followed them back on instagram. The vocalist of the group stopped when he was standing directly in front of him, saying, "Sehun-ah, remember that Miss Universe you're going to be on that magazine cover with?"

His group mate looked up slowly, lifting his gaze from his phone screen with a slowness, as if barely realizing he was standing there. "What about her?" He pretended not to know, but he figured what his friend was going to say.

"She followed us back on instagram." He announced with a grin. Now Baekhyun was squatting in front of Sehun, shoving his cellphone in front of the maknae's face to show him the notification on his phone. It was the same one that Sehun had gotten just moments earlier. And he looked at the time stamp on the notification. His notification was a few minutes older than the one Baekhyun was showing. At least she had followed me back first, Sehun found himself thinking.

Beakhyun was especially excited about it. He saw it as his opportunity to act as something of a cupid for his younger group member. Ever since Lu Han--Sehun's best friend--had left EXO, the maknae had been seen for the most part with a downcast expression on his face. Shoulders always slumped, a lack of a smile on his face, and saddened eyes. He thought that his group member needed something--or someone--to make him feel better, and he saw getting him a girlfriend as the best way to do it.

"Why'd you follow her, hyung?" Sehun wondered. "I didn't go and follow Narda-yah when we found out she liked you. I only followed her back after she asked me to."

"I saw that you followed her, and then I followed her so it wouldn't seem creepy that you were the only one who followed her out of the group." Baekhyun said in what seemed--to him--a perfectly logical explanation. "I made Chanyeol follow her too, even though he said we should stay out of this. Besides, Narda-yah would never go for you. She's too hung up on me to look at anyone else." Baekhyun informed his group member about the foreign girl who was trying to creep into his heart. 

Thank you, Chanyeol hyung, Sehun thought to himself, even though his words of wisdom had done nothing to deter Baekhyun.

"You sound strangely proud about that fact, hyung." Sehun eyed him suspiciously. 

Baekhyun shook his head. "Not even. But this isn't about me, its about you and this girl. You know," He paused for a moment, scrolling down her posts with a devilish grin on his face. When he found what he was looking for, he stopped and turned his phone around for Sehun to see. "She has posed in a swimsuit for a magazine photo shoot." He wiggled his eyebrows at his friend.

Though Sehun would never admit it out loud, he had already seen the photos. He had spent most of the previous night scrolling down her instagram posts instead of sleeping. He only stopped until he got to her very first post, one from when she had been crowned Miss Veracruz as a sixteen year old. There she was, a smiling, sixteen year old, green eyed beauty with a tall crown on her head that seemed almost too heavy for her to lift, and a bouquet of red roses nestled in between her arms.

He hadn't even met her yet, and he was already getting all kinds of feelings for that girl.

Perhaps his heart was just looking to fill the void his best friend left when he announced his exit from EXO. 

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oohsehun liked your photo.

That was the only notification she had gotten from the Asian boys that had followed her the night before, apart from the ones where she had been informed that they had followed her. Florencia had curiously scrolled down their posts--each of them was more handsome than the previous one. But none of them talked to her. Only one of them had liked her most recent post.

She quickly shook the thought away. Maybe they had only followed her because of what her sister said. She was a former Miss Universe. Maybe that was all.

Florencia thought it didn't have much importance whether they liked her posts--or talked to her--or not. She would only be in Mexico City for a week, then she would return to Veracruz for another shoot with the football players of her family's first division team, Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz. The photo shoot and filming were for seasons greetings videos, as well as promos for the upcoming season in January. Her parents were always proud to display their Miss Universe on the team's promos, and the team didn't seem to mind her presence either.

By this time, Florencia and her sister had eaten, and with a few days before the shoot, she decided to go out to see the town. Mexico City was the capitol of her country and she was rather disappointed that she never got to see much of it since she was always busy and travelling. 

Her mother who was her manager--in addition to getting her on the cover of Estrellas Y Mas--was trying to get her a leading role in a Mexican soap opera. That was Florencia's top aspiration--to become a celebrated actress.

Before clicking out of her instagram app, she clicked on the account for oohsehun and scrolled through his posts. The most recent picture was of him and five other boys posing in the lobby of a hotel. In the background, she could see the name of the hotel. It was the Marriott right across the street from where she was staying. 

The night before, she remembered hearing screaming girls from her balcony that faced the hotel across the street, but she had assumed they were there for the national football team. She knew that the team was training in Mexico City before they would head off to Europe in a few days, to face up against the Netherlands and Belarus in friendly matches. But the national team normally stayed at their official training camp, somewhere near the edge of town close to the Estadio Azteca.

Barging in through the door to the room, her sister startled Florencia out of her notions. She was thinking too much about those guys that had followed her. Famous people followed her every day--it wasn't a big deal for her. Only it was in this case because no one so foreign had really followed her before, and she didn't mind that. She just wanted to know the reason.

"I'm going shopping at this mall I found nearby on google maps." Acacia informed her sister, with her purse hanging off her shoulder and her phone ready at hand. "I need to film a haul video for youtube. Wanna come?"

Florencia sighed. "Sure." And pushed  herself off her bed, following her younger sister out the door.

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i should be working on the update for replacement (and i am), but here i am posting the second chapter for mexico. i'll try to restrain myself and not post another update for this story until its absolutely necessary. its just that i was feeling inspired and these chapters dont interfere with the other books bc they dont overlap much at first. thank you all for supporting my and being patient.

anyway, i hope you like the update.

*quick note* pretend sehun ACTUALLY FOLLOWS people on instagram in this universe. lol

-clary xx