behind the stars // chaelisa + hints of jensoo

Taking a long swig from her water, now almost lukewarm and tasting stale, Chaeyoung plops down on her chair.

She's exhausted. Enough that she can't even be bothered to grab another water bottle, enough that she will fall asleep right there in that folding chair, if she's left alone for longer than five minutes, enough that she's more on autopilot than anything else when she lets her shoulders sag and leans on her fist, her eyes closing on their own accord.

This isn't Chaeyoung's first rodeo.

As far as shooting a music video goes, getting everything done in two fourteen-hour days is the best case scenario. But it's hour eleven in their second day and the minutes stretch menacingly before her.

Most of what they had planned for the video is already on tape. They've done all the outdoor scenes yesterday and even got some of the indoor ones before they all went home starving, possibly dehydrated and exhausted to the bones. Today was supposed to be a light day, all shooting packed under six hours.

But there seems to always be something that needs to be shot again, a scene that didn't quite work like the director wanted - let's try that in a different light, from a different angle, without this or that prop. Chaeyoung is pretty sure she'll have nightmares about Namjoon yelling at everyone for the next month.

"It's the home stretch now, Chaeyoung," he had told her in a tone that was somewhere between comforting and demanding, like he understood how tired she was but she needed to get her shit together and pull her weight, "We just need to check the footage one more time, make sure we got everything we need."

It's not that she's being ungrateful - even if it does look like that when she's almost napping as crew members work around her to shift the entire set to Namjoon's liking. But she's tired beyond words, can't remember the last time she ate and the braids in her hair almost tug at her very brain until she can feel the tendrils of a headache clinging to it.

Her phone buzzes somewhere near her and Chaeyoung peels her eyes open with much more effort than she'd admit. She's almost grateful for the distraction - anything to keep her awake - and shuffles awkwardly out of the chair.

In the past day and a half, Chaeyoung has been in more outfits than she could count, but the one she has on feels particularly restraining. The leather corset pushes her breasts up and hugs her waist so tightly she can't slouch, can barely breathe, and the skirt doesn't do her any favors - her butt looks great it in, but it hikes up with every step she takes, so she had to resort to just shuffling everywhere. But what troubles her the most is the cape half draped, half tied over her hips that works like a damn cathedral train, trailing behind her for a few feet and while it does make her look regal in the video, it's just a bother as she tries to make her way to her phone.

Chaeyoung left it on the table where she grabbed her water, the table with a few forgotten trail mixes and stale coffee that people dare to call a snackbar, and as she shuffles towards it, she lets herself long for the holed jeans and battered quilted jacket she wore most of the day yesterday.

Sighing more tiredly than before, Chaeyoung wakes her phone up and reads the text from Jungkook: dropping by with a surprise.

Make that surprise something from In-N-Out, she shoots back. She hasn't eaten since this morning and she would be more than willing to kill for a burger if it came with extra spread.

Chaeyoung won't be able to eat anything while she's in this outfit, but it doesn't keep her from daydreaming about their Animal Style fries until her mouth is watering. She leans against the table - standing up means less chances of falling asleep - and opens up a mindless game on her phone, just addictive enough to keep her entertained until someone call her back to shoot something else or Jungkook gets there.