Chapter 93: Meet the Boys (1)
After a quick chat with Jamie, where they agreed to meet up in a couple of days when Ari wasn’t so sick, Ari spent some time completing his phone call errands.
First, he messaged Grandma Kim and Grandma Lisa, promising to see them after the next filming session when he wasn’t sick.
Then, he spent time calling his school and easily convinced them that he was still sick since he was coughing his lungs out every 3 seconds.
After agreeing to take his missed quizzes at the end of the week if he was feeling better, Ari went to visit Priest Steven Choi before forcibly cleaning the church like he was supposed to.
He then dragged his feverish body to the bathhouse while wearing a regular face mask and a baseball hat instead of the snail mask he usually wore.
He doubted that the people who visited would watch an idol survival show and recognize him, but he didn’t want to take any chances.
The moment he stepped into the bathhouse, Granny Choi caught sight of him, and a giant bowl of soup was forced into his hands, before he was forcibly sent back to the church to sleep.
After somehow forcing his body to complete the repeat missions except for running, he chugged his soup and went to sleep, completely missing the release of the first 3-hour episode of the online-only mini series titled ’Meet the Boys’.
*****
After a long, boring day at school and doing the bare minimum at her family restaurant, Grace Choi settled in the back corner of the restaurant where she usually ate with her new, slightly strange co-worker, Ariel.
As someone who wanted to become an entertainment journalist, she was especially tapped into the music scene, especially the Korean and American music markets that thrived in Los Angeles.