One hour later, I was sitting in the waiting area with everyone else, with a black mask over my mouth and a cap.

It was kinda weird, but the rest of NCT were wearing them (cos they had just changed their hairstyles for a new comeback), and I didn't really want to be the odd one out in terms of the fact that I would be the only one with my hair and face fully revealed.

Plus, if fans at the airport saw me, they may have random rumours going around about me. Like what? Like...I don't know, things like a new girl member joining NCT, or dating rumours, and god knows what.

'Passengers for the Flight A654 to Heathrow, please start boarding now.'

With that announcement, we stood up and proceeded to the terminal desk. The woman at the desk asked for our passports, and all of us placed our tickets and passports in front of her; the majority being Korean passports, but mine obviously being a British one.
She went through all of them one by one, flicking through each of them to check each person and their image at the front of the passport.

'Omo, NCT!' I heard from behind me, and turning around, I discovered two girls staring at us from a distance, blushing and grinning and looking really excited; it felt slightly weird - no, really weird - that these two random people were staring at us, and in that moment, I understood how idols felt when fangirls stared at them.

I noticed their sudden gaze on me, and could almost read their thoughts from their slightly confused yet curious expression; who is this? A new idol? Someone new in NCT maybe?

Smiling to myself, I turned back to the desk, and for the first time, I saw my reflection amongst NCT in the reflective black window. Me, a tiny short person in dark blue skinny jeans and a dark pink blouse, wearing a black mask and a black cap, my hair pulled back into a ponytail; the only visible part of my face were my eyes, lined with eyeliner and with light pink eyeshadow.

'Can you remove your mask please?' The lady at the desk asked me; I guess she couldn't really see my face clearly. Nodding, I took off my cap and my mask, and pulled out the hairband holding my hair up; my long brown hair fell to my waist, and I heard a sudden short gasp from behind me. Me and all of NCT looked behind us, to see the two blushing fangirls with their eyes wide; one of them had her mouth slightly open.
Almost instinctively, Jaehyun put his arm around me, still looking back at them, and lightly pulled me in front of him, hidden from their view.
'Let's go.' Taeyong nodded to everyone, gathering our passports and tickets, and all of us filed silently into the long corridor leading to the plane.
We remained in silence until we were greeted by the air hostess, and made our way to our respective seats, all together in consecutive seats. I sat down next to Jaehyun, and Yuta sat down on the other side of me.

'YoonOh...' I started, making him turn his head and look at me. 'What are you going to do now?'

'Do?' He asked, his expression showing clear confusion. 'About what?'

'You know...those two girls being there and they saw me and then after that you were kinda protective about me so...'

'So..?'

This boy.

'Oh come on, YoonOh, the rumours! There are going to be rumours!' I exclaimed in a voice louder than I was expecting.

(A/N Let's just pretend NCT has suddenly become fluent at English to make things easier for me considering I don't know Korean)

I heard a chorus of laughter, which I assumed was all of NCT.

'Don't worry Sook.' Jaehyun smiled. 'Rumours aren't really much to be concerned about if they're not actually true and if there isn't any proof of it.'

'Yeah, but-'

'-Ya, you need to stop stressing so much, just relax.' Yuta said in between, and turning to face him, I saw his amazingly comforting wide smile and eyes. Gulping, I nodded, turning to face the front again.

'What's the worst that could happen?' Jaehyun asked, holding my hand and looking into my eyes. I had to look away.

'Think about it though. What IS the worst that could happen? Us actually going out?' He laughed, making me slightly flustered and honestly even more anxious.

'Yeah, I guess...' I mumbled, then took out my iPhone and earphones, pressing shuffle on the playlist, then going onto Instagram.

'Ah, you've got loads of followers.' I faintly heard Yuta's voice from next to me.

'What me?' I asked, taking out my earphones, then laughed. 'I honestly don't, I mean, yeah 680 is a large number but there are people with like, I don't know, 10K and over followers.'

'680 is still really good.' He pointed out.

'Yeah, but.. I'm just aiming to get 1K right now.' I laughed, scrolling through the pics on my account.

'JustAKpopFangirl.' Yuta read out. 'Ah so it's a kpop account?'

'Ahaha, yeah...' I nodded, feeling the heat rise to my cheeks.

'And do you ship SugaKookie?'

'Um, well, yeah I guess, but not any more than the rest of the member of BTS, I mean, I ship NamJin, cos like Namjoon and Jin, like YES, but I don't really know why I put sugakookie1 as the name, I guess I just really liked the sound of it.' I laughed.

'So it's a BTS fan account?'

'Well, yes, but it's got NCT and EXO and Seventeen as well...' I replied.

'Ah, ok...' He replied, getting his own phone out. I put mine away, lay back, closed my eyes and listened to the music blasting away at my ears.

I guess I eventually fell asleep, because Jaehyun nudged me awake from a nightmare of rumours about me and Jaehyun and NCT and for some reason, Yuta, spreading round the Korean industry. Looking around, I saw that the lights were on.

'They're serving lunch.' Jaehyun explained.

'Oh, ok.' I nodded, getting my bag and my headphones and my phone. Opening up Instagram again, my eyes widened as I saw a notification for over 4000 new likes, 15 new followers and loads of comments. The last time I got this many followers all at once was when I first started up my account in April this year. Checking out my new followers, I discovered that they were all legitimate kpop fan accounts, not those random spam accounts that followed me asking me to follow some other account, which was surprising. But the most surprising thing of all was that all of these accounts were NCT fan accounts - well not that surprising I guess, NCT was a really really popular group - but still, it was weird that all of my new followers were NCT accounts. Their usernames confused me even further: moon_starsun, jaejungjae, japanese_angel, chittaphrr, winner_mandarin, johnny_k, leave_a_mark, hey_chan, t@eyong, doyoung_o, heyitsjeno, minjae_saranghe, littlechick, ren_jun_01, laughforever_chenle.

Reading the last username reminded me of Chenle's laugh, making me burst out laughing myself.

'Hm?' Jaehyun asked. 'What's so funny?'

'Just all these usernames, I love them so much.' I replied, trying to stop laughing whilst showing him the list of my new followers.

'Oh, lol ok.' He smiled, turning back to his phone. Suddenly, my phone pinged, and I saw the notification for a chat pop up. Clicking on it led to the typical group chat screen on Instagram, with the group name NCT and all my very newest followers.

Jaejungjae: 'Hey'

'Hi'
'Are you guys all NCTzens?'

Hey_chan: 'Yeah!'

'Oh ok.'
'I'm Sook'

Moon_starsun: 'We know 😂😊'

'....'

This kinda creeped me out. 'We know'? So what, have these people been stalking me or something..?

Japanese_Angel: 'Ya stop it, you're probably creeping her out.'

Leave_a_mark: '😂😂😂'

'Okay...'
'It was nice to meet you'
'But I'm sorry but bye'

With that last message, I left the group chat, only to find two minutes later that I was added back into it.

Jaejungjae: 'ya'
Jaejungjae: 'don't get creeped out it's just us'

'Us?'
'What do you mean "us"?'

'Us.' Jaehyun said from beside me. 'It's just us.'

I felt my eyes widen.

'You have Instagram??' I exclaimed, and Jaehyun burst out into laughter.

'Just cos we're kpop idols doesn't mean we don't have social media.'

'Yeah, well I know that, I mean, people like Chanyeol and Sehun and TOP and loads of others have insta don't they?' I pointed out. 'But just that no one knows about your accounts.'

'If people knew about our accounts, they would just keep following us and spamming us with messages.' Yuta told me, and I guess I could understand that reasoning.

'Fair enough.' I replied, smiling, and opened my Instagram again.

'I'm glad all of you have insta' I typed out, then put away my phone and eventually fell asleep listening to kpop.