The ultimate comeback delay.
Summary: You’re a singer in a group based in Korea. When you were training for your next song. You fall asleep into the past, specifically 1982. You’re decisions can change the world. What will you do? (this is the prologue)
Pairing: Micheal Jackson x Kpop idol!reader
Word count: 1,3k
Authors note: I wrote this shit so motherfucking fast i had the idea like last night so my apologies if this is hot ass but atleast i didnt use ai. I dont even think ai could write some bullshit like this. I tried to make it kinda funny but im not that funny myself but i hope someone out there laughs.
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It was late at night, you’ve got your sweatpants and sneakers on. You were still at the company rehearsing the choreography for your upcoming comeback. Your members are probably asleep in the dorm.
You always struggled a bit more with the dances since you only trained for about a year while your members trained for longer. It wasnt like you're not talented, quite the opposite. You’re a very well trained vocalist. Ever since you were a little kid you were infatuated with people who were singing on television. You started to copy them, which lead to great results and also the situation you are in right now.
Eventually you called it wraps, you were exhausted. You’ve decided to sit on the floor for a second and doom scroll for a bit. You put your phone in your pocket and your eyes fluttered shut.
Suddenly you felt something touching your shoulder. You didn’t wake up right away. It started shaking you. Your eyes fluttered open and you see your member, specifically Hanni Pham. Your so drowsy you still need to come to your senses. Suddenly you hear, “Wake up, were in 1982!”
WHAT. HOW. WHEN.
You stood up immediately. Hanni stares into your eyes with terror. She took you into a big hug and then released you. My eyes started wandering. Hanni is wearing a brown and pink zip up hoodie with some baggy jeans. As to you’re wearing a white crop top with a blue blouse on top of it and also with some baggy jeans. You’re in an alleyway full of brick walls. You looked to your right and saw a big ass poster of Michael Jackson on a billboard promoting his album “Off the Wall” right across the street. No fucking way, they havent promoted him in years. And by the looks of the architecture, were also in the USA. How great.
Hanni started speaking, “Have you seen any of the other members? I’ve only found you and its been like an hour of wandering around.”
“No, i havent i just woke up,” you mumbled. “How did we even get here?”
“I have no clue but we need to find shelter, its probably gonna get dark soon and god decided that hes not going to make this easy for us,” she said.
“Atleast he gave us some good fits compared to what we were wearing before,” you giggle.
While you were walking around you asked her, “So how what happend when you got here ”
She looked a bit upset. “Somebody kicked my leg while i was asleep on a bench and i woke up. I started just walking around asking strangers questions. All i know its that its 1982. And were in Los Angeles.”
The two of you decided to walk on the sidewalk to find a shelter and your members. You guys decided to steal food from a convenience store further away. Is it good to steal? No. But do we kinda have to? Yeah.
You enter the store and you look at the cashier to your left. No way, its Lara Raj. “Thank the stars we found you,” you sigh. Hanni basically sprints her way to the counter. She says, “How did you get here and why are you here?” She sounded like she almost wanted to laugh seeing her friend in such an ugly work apron.
“I just woke up and i was suddenly here,” she said unamused.
“And you didnt think to leave?” you spoke.
“Well.. no, what else was i suppose to do. I cant just leave the store.”
Hanni walked behind the counter and grabbed Lara’s hand then dragged her out of the store. “Well you’re gonna leave with us.”
You left the store with:
0x Food items
0x Drinks
0x Actual stuff you need
1x Lara
“What are we gonna do now,” Lara says while shes taking off her apron and throwing it back inside of the store on top of the carts. She’s wearing a red halter top, some flare jeans and black boots.
“We need to find a place to sleep for tonight, but the thing is we don’t know where to go and we got no money AND we have to find the other two” you said like you’re tired of life.
“I’ve got money.” she replied.
“How did you even get money?” Hanni asks.
“Girl we just came from a convenience store where you saw me working, i took some money from the cash register. I think i deserve a paycheck for my work,” she said proudly.
In unison, you and Hanni said, “Did we ever say we love you?”
You and Hanni did actually steal something. A map of the city. That was in front of some random store. Again, should we steal? No, but to be fair the government don’t put their money to good use anyways. No paying. No taxes.
The sun is already setting. You guys are approaching a bench to take a rest and take time to look at the map. You sat down next to Lara and suddenly you feel something in the back pocket of your jeans. You take it out. “I STILL HAVE MY PHONE!” You stood up and yelled out.
Now you’ve got the attention of everyone around you. You started to get hot and sat back down in shame.
“NO WAY DOES IT STILL WORK!” “AND YOU DIDNT TELL US!” they both yelled with their voices overlapping eachother.
“I didn’t notice..” you mumbled.
We turn on the phone and the lock screen pops up. We open the phone and we go to the internet and search up “cats”. The loading icon was rolling and then saw a cute calico cat on the little screen. “It works!” you all yell out. At this point, i think strangers walking past think you guys are a bunch of young ladies on snow. Atleast god gave one other thing
Hanni quickly searched for the nearest hotel, but Lara realised, “Our data is way too new, it might not even exist yet.”
You replied, “Also we have an effect on the future so we should be careful.” They nodded.
You all find the way to the motel by using the map its now 22:45 (10:00pm). When Y’all were going to the reception, you meet Huening Bahiyyih. She was wearing a dark blue tank top, a leather motor jacket, work pants, but you could see black leather peeking out. You knew what it is, she’s wearing YOUR black shorts. After, Manon Bannerman walks into the room. Shes wearing blue baggy tracksuit pants and a black off the shoulder top. Both their eyes widened. They immediately ran out of the side door of the reception booth and they gave you all the tightest hug you’ve had. Everybody started crying tears of joy while saying things like, “We missed you guys so much!” and “We were so scared we weren’t gonna find you guys!”
Hiyyih and Manon eventually booked a free motel room for everybody with 5 beds. The room was quite big and it was actually clean. Not only that, they gave us food and thank god for that cause we were starving. Lara, Hanni, and you explained what happened, how you guys found eachother, and also about the phone.
Hiyyih said, “Manon and i also just woke up and got here. I was working at this motel and on my break i saw Manon walk past so i dragged her with me.”
“Well what is our plan now, i don’t think we could go to the future again,” Manon said.
“Maybe if we go back to sleep, maybe we will wake up again in 2026,” Hanni spoke.
“What if we don’t though,” Lara says annoyed.
“I mean we could start a music career here, were all so talented and we can all dance and sing, we might as well make a living out of it again. If tomorrow we dont go back into the future, we should try to get in contact with a producer.” They all nodded their heads.
“For now lets just go to bed,” Hiyyih said, already wrapped in her blanket. Everybody agreed and they started to fall asleep.
