[Disclaimer :

This story is fictional. It is totally author's imagination. Don't spread hate. Take it in entertainment purpose.

Happy Journey 😊]

Character details:

Shree :

25 year old,

Indian,

Belongs to a middle class family,

Lives with her parents,

Did excellent in academic life,

Recently got a job with quite a high salary,

Now traveling with her parents to her dream country Japan.

Kim Taehyung :

The Idol of Idols,

Member of world's most famous boy band BTS

27 year old,

South Korean,

Came from a middle class family background,

Preparing for the upcoming projects,

Now traveling with his band members to appear in a prestigious music show in Japan.

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Today is the best day of Shree's life. She is traveling outside of her country first time and that also to her dream place Japan. Everything about this trip is special to her. She was dreaming to go to Japan from God knows when.

She did lots of struggle in her life. After she got this job, she started to save money for this. Now she is traveling to Japan with the help of her own money which she earns spending her blood, sweat and tears.

But it became more special because she is traveling along with her parents. Her parents also struggled a lot for her, as she came from a middle class family. Now Shree is really happy that she could afford the comfort for her parents which they has always tried to give her.

After the checking was done at the airport, they boarded on the plane. They got two tickets together and one in front of few rows.

Shree suggested her parents to sit together and she sat in the single seat.

The announcement was done. All the passengers took their respective seats. The flight attendants gave the required instructions. And finally the flight took off.

Shree was amazed. She got the window seat and trying to watch the outside view through the window. She started to think what will she do when she will finally able to step on the soil of her dream place. Will she be overwhelmed? Will she cry or laugh? She hasn't the answer yet. But she is sure that this feeling, she's gonna experience, will be something out of the world.

Shree was in her deep thoughts when a flight attendant came to take orders from everyone. Shree came out of her thoughts and that moment her eyes fell on the passenger sitting just beside her.

Her fellow passenger is a boy. He was wearing an oversized white t-shirt and a black trouser. His face was hidden by a magazine which he was holding with his fingers. The scent he was wearing was so addictive. But the thing which caught Shree's eyes were the long, slender fingers.

Shree was frozen in her spot. She could easily recognize those fingers, even in dark.

"Am I hallucinating? How could he travel like this? How could he travel in my country's plane? There was no news about his any schedule in India. No I'm surely thinking wrong. This person could have long, slender fingers. But I never failed to recognize anything about him!"

She shrugged of her thoughts. She may be thinking wrong.

The flight attendant came near their seats.

"Sir, is there anything you want to order?", the girl asked.

"A cup of hot chocolate please."

This is making Shree insane. It's his voice. She could never fail to recognize his voice.

She gave a look at him. He was wearing a white colored mask and a black cap.

"Yes, it's him.", Shree screamed internally. But she can't show anything. It could easily invade his privacy.

"Ma'am, your order?"

"One milk coffee please."

Shree couldn't able to concentrate anymore. She tried to look at the window, tried to read a magazine, but failed to concentrate.

"How could a person concentrate when her ultimate bias is sitting next to her."

Yes, her ultimate bias Kim Taehyung. The idol of idols. Member of the most famous boy band of the world, BTS. The "Kim Taehyung", the owner of the title 'most handsome man in the world' for several years, sitting just next to her.

"Shree, you have to act normal for his privacy. Don't be so obvious.", she told herself on her mind.

So, she tried to divert her mind.

After few minutes, she noticed a little boy is continuously staring at Taehyung. She became suspicious. "Did the kid recognized him? Hope he doesn't spread it.", thought Shree. But the kid started to whisper to his family members and started to point towards Taehyung. "Oh no! He shouldn't did that. He might come to Taehyung. I should inform him."

"Excuse me"

"Excuse me", Shree asked. Taehyung looked at her. "Sorry to bother you but the little kid is spreading your identity. People could come to you. You can change your seat with mine. People couldn't able to see your face if you sit in my seat."

Taehyung checked the surrounding. "The girl informed right. This kid recognized me. Namjoon hyung told me thousand times not to travel in public flight but I insisted him. Now I'm in trouble. I should change the seat before the situation gets out of hand."

Taehyung changed his seat with Shree. Like Shree thought, the kid came to them. "You're V, right? I'm an ARMY boy. I'm your big fan. You're my bias.", told the boy. Shree tried to control the situation, "You're getting wrong kid. He's not V. He's my friend."

"No, you're lying. I know he is V. I'm going to tell everyone that V is traveling with us.", the kid started shouting.

"Kid, you're wrong. He's my friend. He's traveling with me. And why would Taehyung travel with us in the public flight? Did you get any news about him that he came to India? No na? He's not V. Don't worry, he'll come here oneday for sure. You'll get to experience a grand concert soon."

The kid was looking convinced somehow. He looked towards Taehyung one last time and went to his seat becoming upset. The situation somehow got controlled for the time.

"Thank you", Taehyung whispered to Shree. Shree nodded with a little smile on her face.

In the mean time the drinks they had ordered came to them. Taehyung took a sip from his drink and his expression got changed. "It's coffee not hot chocolate." Shree sniffed a bit of her drink and realized that their drinks got exchanged. "Here is your hot chocolate. They got confused because we changed the seats. Take it. I didn't touch it till now." Taehyung took his hot chocolate and was thinking of ordering a new drink for Shree but the scene he watched made him surprised. Shree was having the coffee. "Hey! I already had few sips from the cup. I'm ordering a new drink for you.", Taehyung said to Shree. "There's no need of that." Shree smiled a little.

Taehyung started to think, "She is strange. This girl saved me from disclosing my identity and now she is having 'my already sipped' coffee. Wait, that means she knows my identity, she knows me. Is she an ARMY too? Who is her bias? Should I ask her? No leave it. But she saved me from disclosing my identity. That means she won't leak out anything."

Taehyung was staring at Shree for a long time. She was wearing a white loose fit shirt and a beige colored pant, little to no makeup and a beautiful, innocent smile just what Taehyung likes.

On the other hand Shree was dying inside to talk to him. She thought to have a quick look towards Taehyung. Then their eyes met. They smiled to each other.

"Official schedule or personal?", Shree finally asked. "Official.", Taehyung replied. "But there wasn't any official notice!", Shree murmured but it reached to Taehyung's ear. He smiled and continued, "Surprise appearance in a music show. The official notice will be published when we'll reach there." Shree created an 'O' with her lips. "When did you come to India? We couldn't come to know!", Shree asked. "It was an inspection visit, you can say. We are thinking of inclusion of India in our upcoming world tour. Don't leak it, it's a surprise.", Taehyung teased a little. Shree showed a huge smile.

"From when you are an ARMY?"

"Not so long, from 2020."

"Umm, and your bias?"

"OT7"

"I thought I'm your bias, your style somehow matches with mine."

"I said OT7, that includes you too."

"That means you like me the most."

They started laughing together. The rest of the time they chatted, shared their not so serious random thoughts, laughed, watched movies, listened song together. Taehyung is always a social butterfly, if he gets like minded people. They both had forgotten about their identities and spent time like old friends.

But time flies like a blink of an eye. The time for the landing of the plane came finally.

The time for the landing had come finally. Both of them couldn't figure out how the time flew.

"Time for parting ways.", Shree gasped a little. "Hmm", Taehyung hummed. "By the way, are you traveling alone or the members are here too?", asked Shree. "All of them are here. Wanna see?", Taehyung said. "Yepp.", Shree became extremely excited.

Taehyung smiled, "Look at that person, light blue shirt, a huge book in his hand." "Namjoon oppa!", Shree exclaimed. "Yes, and there, the man with the giant RJ plushie", "Seokjin oppa! OMG! Why didn't I recognize him before? Okay. Let me find out rest of the members." Shree started searching. "That man, just woke up from his sleep,in all black, Yoongi oppa. Umm... There is Jungkookie. He is almost fully covered. And there Jimin oppa, in that blue jeans. But where is Hobi oppa? I can't able to find him."

"He's just beside your eomma."

"OMG! My mother couldn't recognize. How lucky she is!"

The flight attendant did the announcement. The smile on Shree's face faded out. She wore the seat belt.

The plane finally landed. Passengers started to stand up. "It was a very beautiful journey." Taehyung finally spoke. Shree wasn't able to reply. Her heart was aching so badly. Taehyung continued, "Thank you so much for today. You not only saved me but also saved all the members. Because of ARMYs like you, we are willing to go back to the stage every time."

"Don't thank me Taehyungssi. We are not just idols and fans. We are a family. And it's a duty of a person to secure their family member's well being.", Shree told in broken voice.

"So, where's next in Tokyo? Feel free to ask if you need any help regarding hotels. I've came to Japan multiple times", told Taehyung. "Thank you for your concern. I've booked a hotel in the city.", informed Shree. "May I ask the name? I mean, I can tell if it's good or not.", Taehyung asked hesitantly.

"Hotel Sakura."

"Oh! That's a hotel with great stuffs. I've stayed there once."

Then there's a pause.

"Umm, so... bye I guess."

"Hmm bye. Best of luck for your show. Please come to India soon, that we all can watch you."

A single teardrop fell from her left eye. She lowered her head to hide it. Taehyung noticed but didn't utter a word. He started walking. But then he returned to Shree again. "I forgot to ask your name", he asked.

"Shree"

"Sh..sh..shee.. Suri?"

"Shree", she smiled a little.

"Ahh... tough to pronounce. No worries. It'll be easy in future."

"Huh?", Shree didn't get what Taehyung said. He didn't reply. He just put off the mask for a second and flashed his signature boxy smile to her. Then went away.

"Whom are you talking with? We are getting late.", Shree's mother asked. "Maa, do you know who was sitting next to me?", Shree almost cried.

"Who?"

"Taehyung!!!"

"What!!!"

"And maa, guess who was sitting right next to you?"

"Who?"

"Hobi oppa maa, Hobi oppa!!!"

Shree started screaming. "You just can't imagine how much I was controlling myself not to scream and not to cry. He was chatting with me like a friend whole time. I am soooooooooo lucky."

"If you are done then can we go?", asked her father. "Yeah, let's go."

Then they went for the hotel. She shared every single thing to her mother. How Taehyung spoke to her, how was he looking, about the kid, about the members, each and every thing.

Finally they reached to their destination. Taehyung told her right. The stuffs of the hotel were really well mannered and helpful. Shree took two rooms, one for her parents and the other one for herself.

After the long flight journey they were feeling jetlagged. They decided to take nap first. So they went for their respective rooms.

After getting freshed Shree threw herself on the mattress and started to recall the encounter with Taehyung. His face, his deep voice, his boxy smile, everything was lingering on her mind. She drifted into deep slumber.