Fan Meeting

I wake up in the hotel room where I stay. I take a towel to take a shower but on my way to the bathroom, I notice some kind of flyer or paper that shows something on the nightstand. I grab it, sit on the bed, and read it, it shows that there'll be breakfast at 7 am in the dining hall while right now is... *Look at the time on my phone* 6 am. I have one hour to spend time.

Then, I notice a second layer, showing facilities that are available such as a swimming pool, a playing area where you can play ping pong, snooker, video games, etc, a park, a playground area for kids, and a gym. Well, I'm interested in a gym so I'm gonna use that. It says here that the gym is open from 6 am to 6 pm. Oh, I can use it right now, better be fast!

I change my cloth to a more suitable for a gym and grab a small towel for wiping my sweat. I go to the front door, wear my shoes, and go to the gym. The gym is located on the ground floor, right of the hotel building, in one medium size separate room, outside the building.

Before going in, there's a sign in front of the door saying that I need a card if I want to use the gym, the same card I use for my room. Huh, I guess they don't want anyone else except for the hotel guests to use it. Quite a tight security but okay.

I show the card to a scanner, it makes a bip sound, and the lock of the door opens. I open the door and go in. The inside is full of equipment and machines like a treadmill, stationary bike, flat bench, skipping rope, dumbbells, barbells, etc. But, because the space is not so wide, there is only a limited of equipment that can be placed here, and most of them are already occupied. So, I use dumbbells first.

While I'm lifting the dumbbells repeatedly, I notice a man wearing a mask and a headphone using a pec deck machine. Then, I realize that he is Shadow. Why is he wearing a mask while exercising? isn't bad for him? But, damn, he's buff! He has a fit body for a gamer. Not too big and not too thin, just right. You can even see the outline of his muscle through his shirt.

So, I greet him. "Hm? Oh, you. Didn't expect to see you here." He looks at me and says that with a cold tone. He has a quite deep voice that will melt any woman. I have a deep voice too, not too deep but he's deeper than mine. I wonder if he always has had it since kid or if it just happen when he became an adult.

"Hey, can I use this machine? Other machines are already taken." I ask if I can use it since he looked like has done using it.

"Yeah." He says and gets up while wiping his sweat. I sit on the seat, put my hands on the bar(?), and pull it together. But, I struggle to do it, it's like the bar won't move! Then, I release it, I'm panting, and turn my head to see what weight he used.

... ...What the f*ck!? 120KG!? What is this monster!? Even I can't do that! I usually do around 80 kg only. This is another level. *Sigh* I shall not ask him anything about this and adjust it myself.

Thus, I adjust the weight to 80 kg. I sit and do it again. Aaah, now it's better. This is normal. After that, I do other things until the time shows 6.50 am. I get up, grab my towel, say goodbye to Shadow, and go back to my room.

In there, I take a hot shower and wear cloth to go to the dining hall for breakfast. On my way there, I bump into Rena. "Good morning. You're going to the dining hall, too?" I ask.

"Good morning. Yeah, can we go together?" She asks. She wears a long sleeve shirt and black jeans, she says that this is just breakfast, so she doesn't want to wear anything fancy yet. After breakfast then she gonna change into more fancy clothes as today is a fan meeting.

We go there, have breakfast, and go back to our room. Before that, she tells me to wait for her because she wants us to go together to the event which I agree. She tells me her room number and expect me to wait in front of her room. "Wait! Your room is on another floor, how can I go there if I don't have the card?" I stop her before the elevator closes.

In this hotel, you need a card to go to a certain floor. For example, if you have card numbers 3-27, it means that you can only go to the third floor, and other floors are prohibited. You need another card with a different number of floors if you want to go to other floors. The security here is quite high, huh?

She realizes that "Oh, hahaha! You're right. Um, how about we meet in the lobby? You don't need a special card, right~?" She suggests while teasing me. She can be quite a teaser sometimes but I'm okay with that.

Then, I go back into my room and prepare to go. I have everything I need. I turn off every electronics in the room, get out, and go to the lobby to wait for her. She doesn't take too long to arrive and we go to the place by walking.

We arrive and the staff there show us where we need to sit to meet with fans later. Then, followed by their instruction, we sit in our own place. She and I are at different places and are blocked by some kind of thin wall.

Imagine this, there is one row and five tables for five people. Each table is for each VIP and both sides of the table have some kind of barrier made of a thin board that is about two meters tall, blocking from us seeing other people on both sides. I'm placed at the first table while she's at the fourth. So, the distance between me and she is quite significant.

We have to wait there for half an hour before the event begins. Luckily, there allow us to have a drink but there's a special team assigned to bring us anything we ask. Each staff for each VIP. I'm confused, why're they doing something like this? This is on another level of service! I don't think that we're worth it to be served like this. But I can't do anything about it.

15 minutes have passed and I start to feel thirsty. I ask the 'servant' boy to bring me a bottle of water and I tell him that he can get one for himself too if he wants. He looks happy when I say that and excitedly goes to the vending machine. He comes back with two bottles of water and gives me one. I take it and thank him. He smiles.

Then, the event has begun, and oh boy, what a people! A swarm of people comes in and pushes other people to get in line first. It's so chaotic that the security guards have to control them to make sure that they are in line properly. I-I don't know it can be like this. Are we that famous?

One by one comes and asks for autographs, selfies, handshakes, and give gifts. The same process repeats for an hour before a break of 30 minutes. *Sigh* That's so tiring!

a boy who is standing beside me, the same boy who brought me a bottle of water looking at me and asking, "Are you okay, sir? Do you want another drink? It was always like this every year when the event was held. A swarm of lunatic fans will come in and behave like crazy."

"No, thanks. Really? Wow. How old are you, boy? You look young." I ask because he really looks young.

"Oh, I'm 17 this year, sir. I've worked like this for three years since I was 15." Whaa...? You're young, young man. What about school? Don't you have to go to school? We talk until the next section begins.

This time, there are fewer people than before, so the queue is behave properly. While I was greeting fans, there was one person that I didn't expect to come, comes, and she was standing in front of me with a notebook and a red marker in her hands. She's wearing a mask and a black dress and her blood-red eyes are staring right into me as if she can see deep into my heart. Even with the mask, I can instantly recognize her just by the way she acts with me and the noise she makes.

"Hanako!? What're you doing here!?"