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don’t run away

set: 4 dec 2022

summary: in which eve meets her idols

word count: 2.1k

warnings: mention of food and coffee

an: the only time you’ll ever catch eve being a shy, nervous wreck tbh. feedback and reblogs are much appreciated 💐

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Eve exhaled deeply as she sat on the couch in ITZY’s greenroom. She was sipping on an Iced Americano as her members had conversations around her. Slurping the last of her coffee, she placed the cup down on the table nearest to her.

“You’re drinking your coffee so aggressively,” Yuna commented.

Ryujin nodded. “Are you okay? You’re not going mad, are you?”

Eve waved them off. “I’m cool. I’m cooler than cool, I’m freezing.”

Yuna shared a look with Ryujin. “Okay,” she said.

The members went back to having their own conversations, leaving Eve to herself once more. She played with her fingers, picking at her skin. Deep in thought, she was drawn out by Yeji whining.

“My rice puff is almost done,” she said, pouting.

“Yeji, you’ve been eating them nonstop,” Lia said with a laugh. “It’s your second packet.”

Yeji huffed. “But I like them so much.”

Eve stood up, stretching her back as it began to feel stiff. Her bones clicked, drawing attention to her once more.

“Unnie, can you get me more rice puffs?” Yeji asked in a cute tone.

Eve widened her eyes in shock. “Suddenly?”

Yeji nodded sheepishly. “I’m tired,” she explained.

“Me too,” Eve responded in a similar tone. She sat back down on the couch with a huff.

“I’ll buy you Doritos,” Yeji bargained.

“How many rice puffs do you want?” Eve asked, standing back up. The staff in the room started laughing as she walked to the door.

“You changed your mind so easily,” Lia chuckled.

“I’m willing to do anything for Doritos.”

“Can I have five more rice puffs?” Yeji requested.

“I’m going to get Yeji more snacks,” Eve announced, reaching for the door handle.

“Thank you, unnie,” Yeji said sweetly, finishing off the last of her rice puff.

Eve shook her head endearingly at her member as she pushed the handle down, opening the door. She looked outside as she was about to leave before slamming the door shut with a gasp. She plastered herself against the door, breathing heavily as everyone looked at her.

“What is it?” Chaeryeong asked, holding her chest as she was startled by Eve.

“I can’t get the rice puffs,” Eve said, shaking her head with wide eyes.

“Why not?” Yeji asked, pouting.

“KARA sunbaenim is out there. I made eye contact with Jiyoung-nim.” She pushed off the door, walking back to the couch. Shaking her head, she sat down. “Jiji, I’m sorry, but you’ll just have to starve.” She shrugged apologetically.

“How did you interview them yesterday?” Lia asked.

“I didn’t. They didn’t do an interview and I just didn’t leave my green room.”

“But if we run into them later, you can’t run away,” Yeji told her.

“...Why?”

“It would be rude.”

Eve nodded hesitantly. “Okay. I won’t run away,” she weakly promised.

Ryujin stared at her. “Swear on your Kamilia identity.”

Eve gaped at her member. “Aren’t you being too harsh?”

“Swear on it.”

“I swear on my Kamilia identity,” Eve said, rolling her eyes in exasperation. “Happy?”

Yeji nodded. “Very.” She sagged into the couch. “But can somebody get me rice puffs?”

The members walked down the hallway after doing their pre-recorded stage, Eve occasionally drinking from a bottle of water. She had untwisted the lid of the bottle when a staff member ran into the group, causing her to squeeze the bottle in surprise. She closed her eyes as water hit her face, hearing everyone gasp.

“I’m sorry,” the staff member apologised as someone started dabbing Eve’s face dry.

“It’s okay, it was an accident,” she reassured the staff member when she opened her eyes. “I’m okay. Don’t stress. You can continue with whatever you were doing, it’s okay.”

The staff member bowed apologetically before walking away. Chaeryeong kept dabbing at Eve’s face.

“You need to redo your makeup,” she said. “It’s coming off.”

“I’ll go get Taehee unnie,” Ryujin volunteered, running to their green room.

Yeji ushered them to the side so they weren’t blocking the hallway as Chaeryeong finished wiping the water off Eve’s face.

“Now you can prove to people that you’re a natural beauty,” Lia joked.

Ryujin soon returned with Taehee on her heels. The makeup artist got to reapplying Eve’s makeup for her. A manager called the other members to the end of the hallway, leaving Eve and Taehee to themselves.

“We have to go now,” Eve heard Yeji say.

“Unnie, hurry up!” Yuna urged.

Eve shifted her lower body in the direction of her members as Taehee continued touching up her makeup. “I’m trying, but I’m being held hostage.”

Taehee poked her in the side. “I’m not holding you hostage, I’m fixing your makeup because you ruined it.”

Less than a minute later, Taehee let Eve go and she ran to her members. Ryujin and Lia immediately held onto her arms when she reached them, disguising it as holding her hands.

“Where are we going?” Eve asked.

Yeji shook her head. “Don’t worry.”

They continued walking until they reached the hallway leading to the room with a glass window. Talking by the window, there were five women standing in front of the glass. Eve squinted her eyes, trying to figure out who they were before gasping upon realising who they were.

“I need to go,” she whispered. Lia and Ryujin tightened their hold on her, preventing her from running away.

“Unnie, you can’t go,” Ryujin said. “You swore on your Kamilia identity.”

“I didn’t mean it, I just needed you to stop pestering me about running.”

“Well, we’re about to go talk to them, so control yourself,” Yeji said through her smile as they arrived in front of their seniors. They lined up along the wall, getting ready to greet the senior girl group. Yeji did the group intro for them, Eve whispering along. She tried to avoid making eye contact with the KARA members, ignoring Nicole’s chuckle at her awkwardness.

“Should we go that side?” Jiyoung pointed to the area by the window.

“That’s fine,” Yeji agreed.

The two groups walked to the area, their managers following them.

“Nicole told us that Eve-ssi is a fan, so you should do the dance challenge with her,” Gyuri suggested.

Yeji shook her head. “I’m sorry, but she can’t.”

“Why not?”

Lia shook Eve’s hand that she was holding as she spoke, “If we let go of her, she’s going to run away.”

Eve pursed her lips, feeling her face get hot with embarrassment. “I won’t run away,” she whined softly.

“She will,” Yeji insisted with a nod.

Gyuri nodded in understanding and the groups decided that Yeji and Yuna would film the TikTok’s with Seungyeon and Nicole. The other members stood back as they watched the four women go over the dances.

“Are you a Kamilia?” Jiyoung asked Eve, who was trying to wiggle her way out of Ryujin and Lia’s grasp.

“Me?” Eve asked, her voice shaking. She scoffed before shaking her head. “No. I don’t even know what a– what a Kamilia is,” she lied. “Do you know what a Kamilia is?” She asked Ryujin. Not waiting for a response, she continued speaking, “It sounds like that one animal, chameleon, but it’s not a chameleon because if it were then I couldn’t be one, you know? Because I’m not an animal,” she explained in case nobody understood what she was saying. “But then again, technically, according to scientists, humans are animals because we were monkeys, but not anymore, or something, and it’s kinda–”

“Unnie, it’s okay,” Ryujin interrupted. Flexing her hand, she let go of Eve’s arm. “You can run if you want to.”

“No, she can’t,” Ari said, pointedly looking at Eve, who was staring at the wall.

Ryujin shook her head, grabbing hold of Eve once more. “Nevermind, you can’t. But just stop talking, please,” she whispered. “I’m embarrassed for you.”

“You got it,” Eve whispered back, shifting on her feet out of nerves. The KARA members laughed lightly at Eve’s cuteness. They all watched as the other four members began to film the dance challenge to Cheshire, seeing how dedicated Chaeryeong was to filming for them. They then checked over the video, deciding to film another one. After filming, they checked over the video before posting it to ITZY’s account.

“You sure you don’t want to film the challenge?” Nicole asked Eve, who looked away and ignored the idol.

“Unnie knows the choreography to the whole song,” Yuna said, “but she’s seriously going to run away.”

“Stop being weird,” Nicole told the younger girl.

Eve looked at Lia with an offended expression on her face. “Why am I being bullied?” She whined softly.

“It’s not bullying, it’s not bullying,” Lia whispered.

“I feel bullied.”

“No, it’s just… It’s just.”

“Just what?”

“It doesn’t matter.”

“You can carry on with filming the challenge,” Chaeryeong said to the idols who were watching Eve and Lia’s interaction. Jiyoung volunteered to film the challenge for When I Move, showing as much enthusiasm as Chaeryeong.

Eve unconsciously tapped her foot along to the music, marking the dance with her hands. She didn’t notice how Lia was smiling at her. When Nicole, Seungyeon, Yeji and Yuna were done filming the challenge, the two groups bowed to each other.

“Thank you,” Yeji said. “Good luck with your promotions!”

Youngji nodded, lips flattening in a smile. “You too. Fighting!” She gestured for ITZY to leave first as they still had something else to do.

Eve peeked out the corner of her eye to Ari, and upon seeing the nod sent her way, freed herself from Ryujin and Lia’s hold. She turned around, sprinting down the hallway before anyone could say anything until she disappeared around a corner.

“She’s very fast,” Gyuri gasped as Yuna widened her eyes in embarrassment.

“Sorry,” Ari apologised, stepping forward. “She’s just such a big fan.”

“No, it’s okay,” Nicole waved her off. “I know she’s… interesting. We understand.”

Ryujin nodded her head. “Goodbye,” she said as the members bowed again before walking away.

Eve was the last person to leave the green room, having had to return because she forgot her power bank. She had just closed the door when someone called her name. She looked up and saw Seungyeon and Jiyoung. Her grip on the door handle tightened in shock.

“We wanted to give you this.” Jiyoung held out a Move Again album that had been signed by all of the members. Eve stared at it, not quite knowing how to function like a normal person, before looking up at Jiyoung.

“Me?” She asked in a high pitched voice, using her unoccupied hand to point at herself.

“Yes. You’re a big fan, so we wanted to gift it to you,” she explained.

“Me?”

“Yes,” Seungyeon said, smiling. She stepped forward, taking hold of Eve’s hand as Jiyoung placed the album in Eve’s hold before stepping back again. “You would always mention KARA a lot and that brought a lot of new fans to listen to our music.”

Eve stared at Seungyeon, struggling to wrap her head around what was happening. “No.”

“No, what?”

“People… listen to KARA because your music is nice, not because some… idiot told them to,” she softly disagreed.

“You threatened to slice off peoples kneecaps if they didn’t listen to Rock U once a day,” Jiyoung reminded her of one of her most viral moments.

“I don’t remember… ever saying that, but… I didn’t do anything. Only smart… people listen to KARA.” Seungyeon was about to say something, but she continued, suddenly being filled with passion. “Rock U is a good song! Shouldn’t people appreciate it? I think they should!” She had started to whisper-shout her love for KARA. “It’s the least they could do considering the effort sunbaenim put into your albums. So, like… don’t make me responsible for your success or whatever.”

The two KARA members failed to stop themselves from smiling at Eve’s words – and cuteness. “Thank you for saying that,” Seungyeon said as she bowed to Eve, who followed suit, still gripping onto the door handle.

“Let’s take a selca!” Jiyoung cheered.

Eve smiled shily. “Can we take it here?” She pointed at the ground with her feet. “If I let go of this handle, I’m going to faint.”

“Okay!”

The two older women stepped closer to Eve as Jiyoung pulled out her phone. She took a few selfies, with them standing on either side of Eve. When they were done, Jiyoung airdropped the photos to Eve’s phone. Waving as the women walked away, Eve tried not to scream, cry or throw up from excitement.

She can’t quite remember how she made it to the car, or the drive home, or if she did her nighttime skincare routine after she ate dinner. She does, however, remember putting the Move Again album on her vanity and watching old KARA variety shows on her laptop before she fell asleep.

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