* // REALITY vs. EXPECTATION!
Your muse’s ideal New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day
With EXID’s schedules that have been increasing each and every day, special occasions would often be spent performing special stages for the audience -- they never have much time to themselves anymore. 2015 was nearing its end, the last page of the day at which people would be in sparkly attires, sipping wine or perhaps, getting drunk in night clubs. For EXID, it wasn’t anything like that. The staffs were running around the backstage, checking if all her members were there, and so she sat with her serenity in front of the mirror with flashing lights for the makeup artists to transform her into Hani rather than Heeyeon.
“Heeyeon-ah, yah! Are you day dreaming, it looks like you’re drooling?” Once her attention was caught by her roommate’s voice, she turned to look at the older Ahn with a sweet smile. Alright, so the dressing room would always be rather quiet when all of them had to apply makeup -- and of course, LE would strike up conversation with her, it’s the way they had been since forever.
“Mhm? Ah, no, no. I just zoned out for a little... schedules have been unbelievably exhausting, don’t you agree?” With a soft chuckle, she continued look through her phone when LE’s question reached her ear despite her not paying full attention. “How would you like to celebrate day? You know, I never really asked.” She thought on the question for a little. There were so, so many things that she wanted to do when she was younger. A childish grin grew across her face.
“When I was 16, I wanted to have a boyfriend and I would want to go on date with him during New Year’s Eve -- people always talked about New Year’s kiss and that had been how I’d want to spend the last day of the year for a few years. Quite cheesy, right?” She nudged the older’s elbow, face turning entirely red at her own statement - not out of shyness, but perhaps embarrassment that she decided to share such a cheesy fantasy of hers in her teenager years with someone who would be bound to make fun of her in the most loving way possible. Though, Heeyeon fell silent for a short minute, her eyes crept around the dressing room to look at other members conversing ever so softly, smiles here and there all over their faces. Perhaps, they really did exceeded in dreaming.
“Unnie, do you remember when we had that interview with Hashtag? I said one of my biggest wishes is to be invited to year-end ceremony... and look at where we are now, I even got to host one. This is my ideal expectation of how to end a good year. With you guys and with our success.”