The Idol

Chapter 2- Concert Cancelled

Babz POV

Sigh.

All I have been doing lately is sighing as I watch the video play out before me on Snapchat, my heart both filling with joy and heartache.

I am currently watching a 30 second clip of my favorite boy K-pop band the Sweet Boys. In most of their videos they always have some form of candy near them, hence the band’s name.

The lead singer is cute, but I fell for the lead dancerTae, he has a deep voice, brown eyes and lovely brown hair that covers his eyes. The moment I saw him I felt drawn to him, as if there was something about him calling out to my soul.

Of course, I know that nothing can ever happen between us as he is a global K-pop star, and I am just a twenty-eight-year-old girl living in the middle of nowhere. It is not really in the middle of nowhere, but it might as well be.

I recently got into the Sweet Boys through a friend who recommended a song of theirs, it was ‘rise again’ and spoke about when life gets you down to take a deep breath and start again. To re-write who you are and what you want, thereby to rise again and be what you want to be.

The song resonated with me deeply, and since then it has practically been my theme tune and has helped me to get back on my feet and start living again.

Since then, I have become a huge fan of the Sweet Boys but never got to see them perform live until today.

Earlier that day

“Come on! We are almost there!” Tina shouts, grabbing my hand and pulling me as I look around.

I keep getting distracted by everything in London, I cannot help it as everything just looks so nice and fun. I want to try all of the stuff, shop in the shops and explore the attractions. But we are not here for that, we are here for a concert.

As I think that I am filled with excitement.

“I cannot wait.” I say, wrapping my arms around Tina.

“Same.” She says.

“Let’s take a pic.” Tina giggles, pulling me in and snapping away without waiting for me to reply. I just stand there and smile.

We take a selfie in front of the arena before we turn and walk back the way we came, grabbing dinner quickly before we carry on our journey.

We head back to the hotel, slightly deflated that the concert was canceled last minute but there is nothing that we could do. Just means we get to go out early tomorrow and do a bit of sightseeing before getting the train back home.

So no I am sitting in the hotel room as Tina takes a shower, both of us shattered and slightly disappointed. I am watching videos of past concerts to see what I missed out on, and surprisingly it was a lot.

PING!

My phone vibrates as a notification comes through, I pull down my notification panel and see that Tina has just added something to social media. I tap on the notification.

I am in shock at the picture I am tagged in. Tina has posted a photo of me and her outside the arena in London. The tag line says, ‘Thank you guys for saving my friend #miraclesdohappen #sweetboysthankyou! #shamecouldnotseeyouperform’.

I sit there mortified. The photo only has one like….

OMG! TAE HAS LIKED THE PHOTO!! I squeal inside my head, excitement and happiness running through me.

Tae POV

“You are kidding me right?!” I say angrily.

“Sorry man, but we are not the ones who called it. It was the venue.” Hye says, tapping me on the shoulder to try to calm me.

I stomp off to my room, what was the point of traveling all of the way here just to be canceled at the last moment?

We still get paid for the concert but that is not the point, I hate it when we disappoint our fans and that is exactly what we have done.

To cheer myself up I decide to look on social media and scroll through stories and videos. Normally I find one that makes me laugh and I will just play it on repeat until I either cheer up or fall asleep. But instead, I am greeted by a face that looks angelic.

The photo is taken in London and was posted a few minutes ago, how it appeared on my page I do not know until I read the hashtags. Our band name was used so it appeared. This makes me smile as it means that I have not missed my golden opportunity.

While we are very open with our fans, there is one thing that we have been keeping hidden from them. We are actually werewolves; we came to this realm as rogues years ago and ended up being hired by a company to fill in for a group who had not turned up.

One thing led to another and soon the three of us were K-Pop stars and as we had nothing to go back to in our realm we decided to stay here and live with the humans.

None of us have ever dated or been with others, mainly because we do not want to betray our mates if we do find them and right now, I am glad about that. Seeing the broken face of my mate as I tell her of my past would break me, but I do not have this worry. Instead, I am worried that she may not have waited for me, what will I do if he already has a partner?

Has children?

Has a life and doesn’t want me?

Worry and concern fill me, along with joy and happiness at finding my mate.

I sigh.

“What is it?” Ha-Joon, walking in at the point where I sighed and growled slightly.

“Mate.” I growl, turning my photo round for him to see.