storytime: i met vernon and hao at the airport and they signed my cigarettes(?)

**DISCLAIMER** : as of writing this, they should already be in LA and out of washington. i won’t be revealing any information i accidentally found out about their flight or anything like that because that’s weird.

okay so i flew to washington for the tacoma show or the tour! this was my first seventeen concert (it was so amazing and i had so much fun) but not my first time navigating washington state/seattle/tacoma! my friend who was supposed to pick me up overslept and i was stuck at the airport for a really long time. i don’t usually smoke cigarettes unless i’m really stressed and i was rightfully super stressed in this moment (being stranded and all) so i went to a little store in the airport and bought a pack of camel originals (i hateee camels but that’s all the shop had that wasn’t even nastier)

to smoke at this airport, you have to go all the way to the other side of where i was at in the airport to the outside smoking area. i go all the way out there and light up my cigarette and BOOM…seventeen walks out of the back doors out of there to get into their cars. i took a video but i was like so nervous so its pretty bad quality and i was nursing a cigarette in the other hand trying not to accidentally swallow it in my shock. those camels i bought tho became a running joke of being my “lucky” camels since i saw svt while smoking one.

so fast forward, the concert happens it was SOOOOO AMAZING LIKE OMG and i have to go to the airport superrr early even though my flight leaves in the after noon because my friend had church etc. so i go through security and sit around doing homework for a while until i decide to go to my gate. i go to the trains in the airport and i’m like heaving and huffing and out of breath from rushing. tell me why when i turn to my right CHWE HANSOL AND XU MINGHAO ARE STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO ME. when i tell you my heart STOPPED. obviously i didn’t take any pictures of this, but i did turn to vernon and just kindly say “you guys did so well the show was amazing!” and he thanked me for coming. we then got on the train together and i stg vernon was either checking his appearance or taking selfies or something but he had his phone up. hao is pretty quiet just standing next to the manager in the corner of the tram. my stop was different from theirs so i got off before them and went to my gate.

fast forward again, i had fallen asleep at those gates for like 20-30 minutes (i was off like 2 hours of sleep from the night before ((insane bender weekend guys)) so i was tired). i woke up to find that my gate had changed to a different part of the airport so i gather my things and started heading that way. i come up from the train stop to the airport main floor and tell me why AGAIN vernon and hao are standing there with their managers literally right across from me. at this point i felt kind of conflicted because i didn’t want to go up to them and have them think i was stalking them, but i was also like “there’s no way i can’t pass up this opportunity like only FATE would mean we were supposed to meet again”. so i kindly walked up to them and vernon goes “hi 🙂” before i said anything and i started lowkey rambling like “omg omg i saw you guys earlier but i was just hoping to see if i could get a picture?”…hao starts giggling and he’s like “no no pictures sorry” and the manager says no pictures so i’m like “that’s totally fine i understand, would i be able to ask for signature instead?” they both looked at the manager and the manager was like “yes that’s fine”

it was at that moment i realized i literally had NOTHING for them to sign. i started rummaging through my purse trying to find anything and i see my camels from earlier so i’m like ykw fuck it we ball and was like “can i have them sign this?” the manager looks at me funny but he’s like looking at me like “i mean i guess 😅” i go to hand hao the cigarettes to sign and he’s like confused and looks at the manager and the manager is like “sign it” and i was like “i’m so sorry this is all i have 🥲” and hao BUSTS OUT LAUGHING when he realizes what’s happening 😭 he takes it and signs it for me and then hands it to vernon who goes “oh wow…this is my first time like signing cigarettes before” i immediately freak out and i’m like “omg can you guys like not sign it because it will look like you’re endorsing it??!?” and vernon laughs and he’s like “no its just we’re not used to that, it’s kind of sick!” he then asked how to spell my name and i spelled it for him and he wrote it with his signature.

i thanked vernon and hao and the managers and then walked the wrong direction, embarrassing myself again and having to pass them going the other way lowkey covering my face in humiliation 😭

TLDR: my lucky camel originals were signed by hao and vernon and i had a y/n experience straight out of wattpad.