"HEY HYEJOO! GET YOUR BUTT OVER HERE! WE HAVE MORE DANCE PRACTICE!"

I groaned as Heejin called for the seventy millionth Butterfly rehearsal today.

Look, I was sleep deprived. I was sick of dancing. But most importantly, I couldn't even stand to be in the same room as her. 

Not because I hated her - no, it was far from that. When she does that little half-smile thing, my heart skips a good twelve beats. When she laughs, my stomach becomes inhabited by butterflies. If she so much as looks at me for more than half a second, my face turns a red color that honestly looks terrible on me.

But dance practice is dance practice and Heejin is scary when she gets all rabbity on me, so to dance practice I go.

When I get down to the practice room, everyone is already there. Heejin, Hyunjin and Haseul are eating snacks together in a corner, Vivi is staring at Haseul eating snacks in a corner, Yeojin, Cheorry, Jiwoo, Sooyoung, and Lip are sort-of-not-really dancing (Jiwoo is belting her heart out, what's new?), and... her. Chaewon. Chaewon and Jinsoul are standing beside the dancers and cheering them on - Chaewon is laughing with Jinsoul and pointing at Lip. But I could care less about what she was doing. Chaewon was downright radiant when she laughed. She glowed. She was like a human firefly, a human fairy light. Her eyes were scrunched up and her smile could've lit the world up. 

I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me that I was a puddle of goo on the ground at this point.

"HEY GUYS NUMERO DOCE IS HERE TIME TO DANCEEEEEEE!"

Drat. I've been spotted. 

Grumbling, I trudge over to put my water bottle down and then go to my place. 

Music starts. Heejin does her fancy center stuff. We rise.

"Dreams, dreams may come true"

"Fly like a butterfly"

"Wings, wings"

Occasionally, someone will point out that someone else's foot is a whole half an inch too far from their other foot, or their hand is a centimeter too far down. Booooring.

"Aish, Chaewon, you're half a beat off again."

Chaewon looked genuinely apologetic. "I'm really sorry. It's just... this song is new and it's just so-"

Jungeun's face softened. Even she can't stand Chaewon's guilt. No one can stand her guilt.

When Park Chaewon is guilty, her bottom lip trembles and she laces her fingers in front of her body and I swear it is my biggest weakness.

"No, no it's fine," Jungeun says. Then taking a super, super well timed, well hidden glance at me she continues, "Hyejoo can help you later. Actually, you know what? I think we can be done for today, right Haseul?"

She ignores my face, which I think is portraying the words "HOLY SCREW NO THANK YOU" very well.

Haseul smiles. "Sounds good to me. Come on guys, let's go make cookies or something!"

She grabs Vivi's hand and the rest of the girls leave the room pretty quickly. I give Lip one more look of protest, but she just winks and runs to catch up with Jinsoul.

I burn holes into the back of her stupid sleeveless turtleneck with a glare all the way out the door.

Biting the inside of my cheek, I turn back to Chaewon and then almost immediately looked down at my feet, regretting looking at her adorable, beaming face because my cheekbones feel warmer than usual already.

"So... should we just start from the beginning?"

We dance from the beginning, just starting and stopping the music as needed. I am hyper aware of how close we are, and I try not to take advantage of my "dance teacher" position just to touch her soft hands in the process of moving them.

"Just separate your fingers a tiny bit more... and then twist - perfect!"

Chaewon's cheeks turn a rosy pink that accentuates the loveliness of her face and continues to dance. I often catch myself admiring the grace of her movements or the little grins that keep spreading across her face instead of focusing on the dance.

I shake my head, clearing my thoughts.

We run through one more time. Everything about her is so perfect - her eyes, her nose, her lips, her hair, and now her movements.

"Hey, I think you got it!"

Chaewon smiles really wide and then suddenly, unexpectedly, she pulls me into a hug. 

I think I gasped, embarrassingly enough.

Her warm, bare fingers touch my skin, sending tingles through up my spine, making me shiver. 

My entire body feels too hot.

I think she's thrown me into cardiac arrest.

I thank the universe for making Chaewon super tiny so her face is sort of in my shoulder, which is really a stroke of luck because from there, she can't see my very, very red face.

She pulls away and fondly pats my cheek.

"People think you're the scary one, but really you're just a ball of fluff."

She runs out, probably to go get some cookies from Haseul.

And all of a sudden, it hits me.

I have a massive crush on Park Chaewon.

I run right behind, yelling crap about how they'd better save at least three cookies for me because "do you even know how much sleep I've missed this past week 'cause let me tell you it's nOT HEALTHY-"

*

"Okay, so that's Hyejoo's 'I fell for my girlfriend story', or rather her 'My oblivious butt figured out I'm in love with Chaewon' story, we already got Chae's story, so now it's time for... drumroll please..."

Haseul pulled a piece of paper from the bucket. "Chuuves, or Jiwoo and Sooyoung!"

Everyone cheered. Sooyoung and Jiwoo groaned. "This is rigged! How come you haven't picked you and Vivi yet?"

"At least you weren't first. I had to spill all my precious secrets FIRST."

"Calm down Heekkie. It was totally adorable."

"You are so whipped."

"Like you aren't."

"I-"

"It would be wise not to argue with that one, Jinsoul. Your girlfriend is right next to you."

"Kim, how do you find every single freaking loophole!? I swear I'm going t-"

"SHH DON'T SAY ANYTHING WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF MINORS!"

"HASEUL CAN YOU TELL YOUR STORY INSTEAD OF ME? MINE IS EMBARRASSING..."

"WHICH KIM? WE'VE GOT A KIM JIWOO, KIM HYUNJIN, KIM KIM LIP-"

"UNNIE YOU'RE ONLY A YEAR OLDER THAN ME AND I'M NOT A MINORRRRRRRR!"

"KIM IS A VERY COMMON NAME IN KOREA, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT-"

"I LIKE BREAD! What? Everyone was yelling and I felt the need to be included."

"YEOJIN I DIDN'T EVEN SAY YOUR NAME!"

"KIM JUNGEUN, KIM JIWOO, OR KIM HYUNJIN JINSOU-"

"GUYS JUST BE QUIET WE NEED TEA FROM CHUUVES-"

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