“Yes!” she says, turning her phone around to show a picture of me at Incheon Airport this morning.

“No freaking way,” Jiyoon says in awe, a green biscuit stick hanging out of her mouth like a cigar.

I squint at the phone screen. Loving Rachel Kim’s casual look in my blue blazer! the photo caption says. Perfect for traveling. Rachel, how about you make your next trip my spring fashion show in Paris? Consider this an invitation!

Holy shit. She’s even tagged me in the photo. Is this real life?

“What’s going on?” Mina asks, walking over with wet hair to see what the commotion is about.

“Rachel’s airport photo went viral, and Nell Kramer posted it on her Instagram!” Sunhee gushes, looking possibly even more thrilled than I am.

“She invited me to her spring Paris fashion show!” I say.

“Wow. Congrats,” Mina says mildly. “Bathroom’s free.”

After my shower, I find Mina, Lizzie, Eunji, and Sunhee sprawled out on the sectional sofa, watching a variety show on TV. It’s an episode of Let’s Go Camping!, where celebrity guests go on short camping trips around Korea, usually involving a lot of hijinks and not enough socks packed.

“Rachel, come watch!” Sunhee says. “It’s a rerun of the episode Mina was on.”

Mina groans. “Do we have to watch this one? I swear, I still have nightmares about how they made us fish for our dinner. Do you know how many worms I had to touch that day?”

She shudders at the memory and grabs for the remote, but Lizzie holds it over her head, out of Mina’s reach.

“You look so cute here, though,” Lizzie coos, pausing the screen on an unflattering angle of Mina, eyes half-closed and face pulled in disgust as she slaps a mosquito on her arm. “Look at you! Next album cover?”

“Very funny,” Mina growls, grabbing for the remote again while Eunji and Sunhee laugh. She whirls on Sunhee with a glare. “Yah, are you really going to be so disrespectful to your unni?”

Sunhee stops laughing, her cheeks turning red, but before she can reply, Youngeun enters the living room wearing low-slung sweatpants and a faded Greenpeace T-shirt. “Ugh, that looks like me the last time my mom made me come to her café,” she says, nodding at the screen, which is now showing Mina gobbling a hot dog. “She made me sit there for three hours and eat six bowls of patbingsu so that customers would get to see their Girls Forever bias go into a sugar coma.”

The parents of K-pop idols sometimes try to capitalize on their children’s fame to boost their family businesses. All of our biggest fans know that Youngeun’s mom runs the place, and it’s not uncommon for crowds of +EVERs to visit the restaurant hoping to catch a glimpse of the Yoons’ famous daughter and her friends.