Chapter 24

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I wake up Sunday morning to the alarm on my phone. When I'm semi-awake, I lie in bed and take in the calming melodies of the song "Lost" by BTS.

Yes, I'm ARMY. But I'm just a casual listener, I'm not too deep into the fandom.

After hearing the song's chorus play on loop 5 more times, I get up and make my way to take a shower.

While in the shower, I have to remind myself why I was up instead of still being asleep. I'm supposed to be getting ready to meet the boys to watch them practice again, right.

After getting dressed and freshening up, I sneak into the kitchen to grab my purse, keys, and coat. With minimal noise, I open the front door and slip through successfully.

I did a small happy dance and walked down the hall to the elevator. As the doors were closing, I half expected Soon to burst through our door and run after me to question where I was going, But luckily, that didn't happen.

Looking at the time, I still had an hour before the time Yeonjun gave me. It doesn't take a genius to figure out where I was going to burn time.

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Walking back from the cafe with my chocolate in hand, I make my way to the C building.

The C building on campus was for the arts. Arts as is performing arts, fine arts, and the small corner for the culinary arts.

I never really come in here, I never took a class or needed to be here before. That's probably why I'm in awe about all the different people wandering these halls.

I passed several people with hair in every color of the rainbow, someone with frosting all over their face, and someone who looks like they need to take an ice bath after the amount of sweat on their forehead. 

There's also papers all over the floor. Some are crumpled up some of them are not. Taking a quick look, one of the papers have arms and hands sketched on the page. Another have a comic that was on the verge of being inked and colored. Besides the papers, there were pencils, pens, and erasers all over the floor.

As I keep walking and by chance look up. What the actual hell.

There was a banana on the ceiling with a single staple through the stem. And to top it off, a picture frame with golden leaves engraved on it was framing someone's hard work.

Yeah, let's just find the boy's practice room and avoid meeting anyone.

Coming up to the correct hallway (yes, I got lost don't, judge), I find room 124.

I peek through the small window on the door to see four of the boys laying or sitting on the floor.

With a smile, I knock on the door and slowly open it to be greeted by Huening Kai.

"Hi, noona!"

"Hi, Kai!" I laugh.

I walk into the practice room as Yeonjun and Taehuyn come up to me.

"Hey, Jihyun." Yeonjun smiles.

"Hey, guys. Sorry if I'm a bit late, I may have gotten a little lost." I say shyly.

"It's ok, noona. Oh, you didn't see anything too crazy on the way here did you? This building can be really unpredictable." Taehyun asks me.

"Oh, yeah. The art students are very ... creative with their craft." I answer slowly. They all laugh at my answer, I guess I'm not the only one to think that way. When Yeonjun recovers, he starts moving the conversation on.

 "We just went through a couple of runs and we were about to go get something for lunch. Have you eaten, Jihyun?" He asks.

"N-no, but I can pay for my own-"

"Nope! I told you yesterday that we were paying for lunch." Yeonjun reminds me.

Before I can object again, they start to sprint out the door.

I chase them to the threshold and just as I see Beomgyu's leg turn the corner of the hall, Kai comes running back up to me and grabs my hand in his.

"Just stay here, noona. We'll take care of the lunch for everyone, ok?" He says with a smile.

I can't say no to the maknae. How is it possible for him to be this cute?

I slightly nod in defeat and he smiles even brighter. "Ok, noona. We'll be back in about 20 minutes." He says as he lets my hand drop and speeds off around the corner again.

After processing what just happened, I go back into the practice room and look around.

When you walk through the door, to the left is a small couch that could fit probably 3 people. Beside the couch is a computer with lots of unorganized files all over the desktop. One file in the very corner of the screen is red with "Sweat" in bold letters under it. Probably just an intense work-out or something.

Behind the computer is an array of wires that lead to the two big speakers on two corners of the room.

The wall opposite to the door is all one big mirror with a few smudges here and there.

The wall to the right has a door leading to another room which was cracked open a little.

I walk closer to see the lights on in the connecting room, and hear faint music coming from it also.

Peeking inside, I see a recording booth and computer setup for producing music. This is where the boys made that song from the park.

I shuffle in closer to see motion in the recording booth. There's someone in there.

Looking towards the mic in the booth, I see a tall, brown haired boy standing there with headphones on and his eyes closed.

He's moving to the beat of the soft music playing, and as I listen to the music, he starts to sing.

His voice is so smooth and refreshing, I've never heard anything like it.

I just stand there in awe of the tall boy's amazing vocals, that I don't even notice when the music stops.

The boy opens his eyes, and is immediately surprised to see a person standing at the door.

When I realize that the music has stopped and his singing is over, I slightly panic while I'm staring right back into Soobin's eyes.

A/N

The whole Art building situation was thanks to my sister. She knows about all the weird stuff that goes on in an Art school, even though she isn't in college yet. I apologize if you are in Art school and you found that whole bit rude, that wasn't my intention.

I was trying to find a youtube video with a compilation of Soobin's vocals, but came up empty. It's ok, if you want a song with Soobin showing off his vocals, watch the stage performance for 20cm or Fairy of Shampoo.

Anyway, this week go eat your favorite meal. I don't remember if I've said this before, but I'm saying it now. At the time of writing this, I just ate Panda Express and I am living my best life! GO EAT SOME FOOD!

Love you guys! 💙💛💙💛💙

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