"You look like a princess," Heeseung told her for the 100th time that evening. 

"Stop, you're making me blush," she said, laughing and looking away, her eyes catching on someone else. "Oh!" She said, gesturing towards a corner of the room. "Isn't that Sunoo?" 

"Probably. His parents are shareholders," Heeseung said casually. As though it wasn't strange that his group mate would be a shareholder at the company he himself would one day inherit. It was a little wild, definitely very different from most people's lives. The fact that they were training to be idols made it even more interesting. 

"Let's go dance?" Heeseung asked her. 

Her eyes stayed on Sunoo, and she shook her head. "I'm going to go check on him," she told him. "He looks lonely. I'll be right back," she assured him, patting his arm and running over to Sunoo. 

Sunoo looked up as she approached, and his eyes brightened, a giant smile coming to his face as he bounced over to her, tackling her in a hug. 

Aera laughed, hugging him back. "You're so cute," she said, patting his head. "Can you be my little brother?" 

"Of course," Sunoo said happily, laughing too. 

"You seemed really happy to see me," she said gently. "Are you alright?" 

He pouted at her. "I was a little lonely," he admitted. "But now you're here!" 

"Yay!" She said, linking her arm with his. "Do you want to come get something to eat?" 

"Actually... I have a problem. Can I talk to you about it?"

Aera nodded, unlinking their arms and turning back towards him in concern. "What's up?" 

"I'm kind of close to failing my math class," he said quietly, his voice wavering. "What should I do? I can't get a tutor," he whimpered, a tear tracing his cheek. "My parents aren't very happy about me wanting to be an idol. If I ask them to hire a tutor, they might make me stop," he said, sniffing and furiously wiping at his eyes. 

"Hey," she said, placing her hands on his shoulders and forcing him to look at her. "How about this? How about I tutor you?" 

His eyes widened. "Would you? Would you really?" 

Aera laughed. "Of course I will. Now," she said firmly, placing a hand on her hip. "Today, you're going to have fun. You're going to dance with me now, right?" 

"Let's go!" He cheered, pulling her onto the dance floor. 

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A/N 

Do you guys use Spotify? Did you receive your Spotify wrapped? I got mine and it's great😂💀 If you wanna see all of it, it's in my personal book, but here's the run down:

My top song is memories and they said I've streamed it 527 times (it came out in October btw), and my top artist is The Boyz and I was in the top 0.5% of their listeners this year. I'm proud🥰😇

Who were your top artists and top tracks?