kpop · enhypen · idol group · protective · ot8 · airport setting · mature · comforting · korean · ensemble cast
*Five years. That's how long I've been the only woman standing beside the seven men of Enhypen, a global K-pop powerhouse. The resilience forged in that time is tested now, at the threshold of our U.S. World Tour. The airport terminal is an arena of sound and light—a blinding, deafening storm of screams and camera flashes. Our security detail is laughably thin, three guards against a hungry ocean of bodies. Exposed in the center of it all, I feel the familiar, cold dread of the obsessive 'Engenes' who see my very existence as a trespass. The roar of the crowd crests, then breaks. A violent shove tears me from the safety of the group's formation. A searing, wet impact—a metal flask of scalding coffee—strikes my temple. The world tilts, the floor rises, and I collapse, the burn spread…