1 1. K-pop?

I am standing in a dark room in front of a shining mirror. Even though it is dark , I can see my reflection in the mirror. I can see red blood dripping from my eyes. I immediately start checking my eyes. But I am fine. I plunge myself onto the mirror trying to sweep away the blood from my face. As I sweep the blood, another drop of blood drip from my eyes as if tears. Suddenly I can hear a shrink voice piercing through my ear, calling my name. I turn my head all way round to see who was it but it was dark and I can see no-one. I glance at my left once more and back to the mirror. This time I am not I'm the mirror. It appears as a shiny metal surface instead of a reflecting surface . I dab the mirror helplessly and begin crying, " Where are you, Karie? ", " Please don't leave me here alone", " I need you" But there, appears no-one in the mirror. I slid my fingers to every corner of the reflecting surface but find nothing and suddenly the mirror cracks soundlessly, leaving the traces of blood on my body and face and hands. I fall on my knees, covering my face with my bloody hands and...

Someone shakes my shoulder. I hear the same voice again but this time it was soft yet shrink. I force open my eyes and find my mom looking at me as if I have again stolen the cookies from the kitchen which I do sometimes but mostly my sister do yet I'm always the first suspect. I am startle for a moment as she is bending very close to me. But then when I come to my senses, I sit on my bed supporting my back with the pillows arranged on the bed. My mom go away, out of my room, without saying a word.

I know it was again a nightmare and my mom know it as I have been getting nightmares since my 12th birthday (not exactly). I haven't told mom, the truth about my nightmares. I have just told her that my nightmare involves me and some giant animals and dark forests.It's been 2 years now. My mom has often told me to consult a doctor but I have denied. It's not that my mom always has to come to comfort me but sometimes (including today) , my nightmares take extreme turns. My nightmares mostly comprise of mirror, dark, blood and some side heroic thing such as creepy sounds.

Well at present, it's already 6:30 and I have to reach school by 7:30. I've got one hour but it takes me 20 minutes to walk to school, 10 minutes to eat breakfast, 5 minutes to get dressed excluding shower. So if my calculation is correct then I've got only 25 minutes to spend in shower and hair. Gosh! I don't again wanna have a bad hair day. Because I don't have any time left to apply hair spray. I'll see how can I have a good hair day. My hair are my biggest problem at school as I've got bushy curly ones which have to be maintained carefully with best quality shampoo and conditioner and sprays but that doesn't mean I would give any of my precious time in shower to my hair spraying session .

The school bell rings. We all take our seats as our class teacher arrives with some sort of long and short books. He gives a 10 minute speech about something which I don't hear as I was too busy thinking about my how to control my nightmare, then he walks out leaving us. My friend sitting just before my seat turns back to well.. talk or gossip. And there again she begins with her story of a singer called BTS ughhh I'm fed up.

She starts her words including her hand gestures which makes me feel like if she was the proud mother of her son bragging about his winnings, "Karieeeee, you know BTS broke the record with 'Boy With Luv' mv getting more than 75 million views on YouTube in 24 hours and you know..... "

"How would I know when I even don't know him? " I thought to myself but still keeping my eagerness at her words.

"you know Halsey was looking awesome. Gosh ! I loved her outfit."She completed.

" Wait. As far as I know Halsey is an American singer and BTS is a Korean singer so what's up with Halsey in a Korean mv. Did she gave the feat? "

She sighed and said correcting me " Yes she did gave feat. But how many times do I have to tell you that --- BTS is not 'a' singer. It's a group of talented rappers and vocalists. "

"Oh! " I exclaimed as if I remember her saying that but the truth is that I don't.

"Try listening it. "

" Yeah. OK. " I replied like I say every time but this time I was quite a bit interested.I don't know if it was because of Halsey.

"Science would take about 10 minutes and English about 10. That means I've got the whole day to relax . Let's see if I can find something to work with maybe I'll make a portrait or I will draw some sort of painting or maybe..." I was thinking, walking home, looking down so that no-one could see me talking to myself and think that I am a psychopath until I bump into a young girl about my age, she has books which fell down. By the time I rrealize, she is already picking up her books so instead of bursting into apologies, I help her and see that one book is named as, ' The rise of Bangtan'. I pick it up looking at it's picture which had young men. I give her back the book and apologize. She takes it and goes away just bowing her head on my apology. I start thinking again how to spend my rest of the time. Actually I'm not very outgoing and I am the coldest among my classmates. My classmates admire me only because of my intelligence and my drawing skills. OK, being honest actually I don't hang out with my friends much so I get a lot of time at my home to read novels and stories. Students also call me bookworm and I sort of like it. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that today I tied a ponytail and pinned a lot of black clips which couldn't be noticed on my jet black hair unless concentrated and touched. So I didn't had a bad hair day. Good!

I reach my home, take some snacks and go to my study table in my room, upstairs, to quickly finish up my homework. Under 30 minutes, I am done as I had thought. Now I've a lot of time. I open my laptop to find something interesting and suddenly I see 'Boy With Luv' mv. And yes feat. Halsey. I click it. At first I'm startled to see their colourful hair and how they all look almost the same but I really enjoy the beat of the music. At the end, I think it wasn't that bad. I watch it all over again trying to focus at each member but there were so many.After watching third time I realize there were seven members from which I saw 3 rapping and the choreo was lit. I go straight to the Google and type in uppercase 'BTS' and there comes the photos of 7 youngsters staring at me sweetly. Wait, did I just say sweetly? I have begun to like them. I never had any interest in boys and so I never had what people say 'My type'.

But I stared at each of them for like for 5 minutes straight and I say completing my task, smiling " K-pop "

But the task isn't completed yet I've to get information about them in well... I give myself one week.