K-pop, 2PM: Nichkhun; G. (150 words)
What Khun found most difficult was calling 2PM his family. He loved the other members in a similar way to how he loved Nichan and his male cousins, but family? Such a heavy word. There was no motivation to love family members, but idol relationships stemmed from necessity and business sense. Family lasted forever; fame was more fickle. Once 2PM’s contracts expired, would they still call each other brother? Khun had bled, sweated, suffered, celebrated, grown with this group, but he never could shake the invisible weight of it all being part of a job.
The others used the word freely, bragging about their familiarity and trust with one another, and cool, they were justified, but Khun couldn’t label 2PM as family without a small part of him screaming. Was 2PM’s bond an irrefutable truth, a sacred covenant? No. You couldn’t deny your blood, but you could quit your group.
