The K-Pop Dream

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Tomorrow would be the day, I thought.

As sweat ran down my body, late at night facing the wall of glass for 8 hours straight.

I was sick of hearing this song, I was exhausted.

But I wanted, no needed this to be near perfection.

"Dylan-ah" A husky female voice grabs me attention, "I think we can call it for tonight, we have Inkigayo tomorrow" She says once more, she had tried get the young man to stop earlier but his determination kept pushing forward.

"One more time, I can do better noona" I plead still not satisfied

Hyo, recognises that dangerous look, 'this kid, he is definitely an artist… his been consumed by the monster' "Well save that for tomorrow, Go grab a shower."

"But"

"Do it, or I am calling that little girlfriend of yours"

"Fine" I answer reluctantly as I head to the studios bathroom to take a shower.

The warm water, washes away the fatigue, as I stand under the shower head not able to do anything nearly falling asleep at how comfortable it is.

Heading back to the crew, whose doing final preparation, I take a seat on the hardwood floor, next to Hyo.

"Tomorrow is the day. 3 months of Hard Work finally comes to fruition"

"Yeah" I answer as she proceeds to rest her head on my shoulder.

I breath in the smell of her floral hair shampoo, as I tense up.

"Hyo"

"Just give me 30 seconds to recharge" She proceeds to hum a slow tune.

Nodding, the world passes in fast forward as I enjoy her voice.

Slowly, my eyes close as I find myself relaxing. All the pent-up stress of the previous weeks have vanished as all I am left with is the sound of her sweet voice and the scent of summer peaches.

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The group stands in unison as Yuri, Hyo, Dylan and various supporting staff are huddled together in a circle.

"Are you ready!" Asks a fiery yet dolled up Hyo, like a commander in battle she motivates her soldiers

"YES!"

"Are you going to break the stage!"

"YES"

She takes a deep breath and yells, "Then let's Rock!"

Hyped up the group performs a motivational cheer, before Hyo and I head towards the stage and waited behind the curtains.

Deafening chants of Hyo! From thunderous male voices fill the sea, which our eyes can't see.

"Hyo… Have you performed already tonight? It's insane, I can swear there is someone out there already"

"Focus up!" Screams Yuri-noona nervously as A countdown went off in my earpiece.

Facing forward, I count with and so does the live crowd.

"5…."

"4.."

With every passing second my nerves go into overdrive as my anxiousness begin a heated debate with my confidence.

"3.."

Hyo offers one last message of encouragement, "Let's do this partner!"

"2…"

"1…"

The intro starts playing as we step on stage.

The world had just witnessed the birth of the biggest single in Korean history, and a stage which will never be repeated.

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"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! NOONA SARANGHAAEEEE!" Screamed a young male fan as the lights and music faded.

"Dylan! Marry me" Yelled a female fan in response.

Chants of Hyo, continued for 30 seconds before competing chants of Dylan began.

This continued for so long that the next group's performance was even delayed. It was the longest ovation of Inkigayo, korea's number 1 music show's entire 20 year run.

At that moment, I realised what a saesaeng fan actually meant.

I never understood, how someone could go literally insane because of some handsome dude or pretty girl that was dancing and singing.

From what Hyo had told, idols had it rough, fans wrote letters in blood, they broke into homes and even implanted camera's.

It once more reminded me that this crazy excitement had both positives and negatives with it and I had to be wary.

As we make our way down stage, Yuri was waiting us as she and Hyo share an embrace"

"Guys that was GREAT!! I had Goosebumps the entire time"

Stylists, managers and even some girl and boy group members came over to congratulate me on a successful debut and Hyo on a successful comeback.

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Sitting on the couch, I anxiously refresh the web page.

As Hora, brings a bowl of stew. Grabbing the notebook from me.

"That's enough, eat something"

"But Choo. it should be up in 30 seconds"

"30 seconds or 5 minutes it won't do any difference will it"

"So how about I check it first then eat"

"You haven't ate anything all day, Dylan… I just have to click here right?" She asks, to which I confirms

"While you eat, I will keep clicking here and when something changes …. Oh wait, something is happening"

Leaving the bowl of food I scoot over next to her as I look to the Number One Spot on the Daily Charts – Hyo x Dylan – Beneath Your beautiful, where it had been all week, now followed with by a string of 1's.

This was an All-Kill? No this was a Perfect-All Kill

It was no.1 on the Realtime, daily and weekly charts of all major recording services. Melon, Genie, Bugs, Soribada, Flo and iChart! It was first place on all of them.

Even crazier it charted on the Billboard Hot 100, at number 49. Becoming only the second Korean artists to chart ever, and nearly 30 places high than the previous entry.

It would be years before a certain Horse-riding Style would break all Korean records but until then, this was the greatest song in Korean Charts history!