"You're my missing puzzle piece"

8 Dream

"Haechan, this is like your second time being late this week" mark stated while looking at Haechan, but he wasn't the type to get angry or upset easily, he usually, more like always lets things slide when it comes to his members especially Haechan.

"Plus we're literally in the middle of our Hot sauce CB promotions" Chenle added "Why were you late anyways?" All the members were curious because Haechan always managed to have the perfect excuse for everything but today it seemed as if he was just talking to someone

"Really?" Haechan asked. "You don't see ALLLL this?!" Haechan moved his arms to his side, twirling to show off the outfit willow had made him. "Wahhhh, out of all people, it was my own members who didn't even realise my outfit" he sulked

"I mean It does look really cool, are these going to be our outfits for our next stage?" Jeno asked. All members looked at haechan with eunthusiam in hopes they would get an outfit with a similar style to his but he had to break the news to them...

"Everyone...drip is something someone possess but, cannot obtain"

...

Silence fell over the practice room while he stood in confidence, smirking at the rest because of what he said, none of the members were impressed and only looked at him in disgust while mark tried to hold Renjun back from attacking him at any moment because of his nonsense

"Anyways, there's a new employee here, she's the one that styled this outfit" he pointed at it and continued talking "it was something I've never seen before, she was so passionate while talking about what she was doing, her eyes lit up while making adjustments, her hair was in the way but she didn't let it bother her...she was really cool, i mean not her, like the process, the process was cool" he chuckled awkwardly while rubbing the back of his head

"Well...are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Everyone looked at each other hopelessly because no one could ever know what he was thinking about at any moment
"Come on guys! Seriously?" The members still looked at Haechan with confusion because still...no one understands what goes on in his mind
"Let's ask her to help style our next stage outfit!" Everyone paused and looked around, haechan stood in fear, worrying that he said something wrong

"g-guys...?" He stuttered

"Wo-wow...that's actually a good idea!" Renjun smiled widely, forgetting that he was about to attack him just a second ago. this was the first time Haechan had said something that makes sense. Everyone looked at one another with eagerness to make this happen, they were all on the same page.

*scene change to Willow's new office*

"No creepy guy? Check. "No annoying and lowkey misogynistic boss? Check, for now. Working at SM Entertainment? CHECK!"

It seems that this was the first time in a while Willow has felt genuine joy with what she was doing, a spark in her was relit that was put out years ago but was it the fact that she's working at SM or her bumping into Haechan by chance?

"No, no willow, focus! You're not here to be all 'buddy buddy' with the idols, you're here to work" she whispered to herself while trying to read the notes she made at the meeting but soon enough she was interupted by her boss, the head of promotions.

"Willow, can I see you in my office?"

Willow's eyes widened with fear, "that's it, my time at SM is up, my cover has been blown", she thought to herself. Willow made her way to his office with her head down, feeling nothing but shame and guilt. For the first time she was able to feel true happiness but it had to be cut short, maybe cut too short.
She took a deep breath before walking through his door and stepped in

"It was never my intention to mislead you guys, my friend just thought It would be a funny idea but now that I'm here it's not funny anymore, after meeting Haechan I reali-"

"Wow, wow, wow, slllooowww down, what are you saying? Why do you think you're here?" Her boss raised his eyebrow, confused because of the sudden apology

"I lied to you guys" willow said in a shameful voice with her head down

"Lied about what?" Her boss was still confused with the situation and why she was apologising out of the blue

Willow had realised what just happened and started to turn red out of embarrassment. She wasn't caught for anything, not even the resume situation, he just wanted to talk about something else. Willow panicked and knew she had to say something before he grew more suspicious of her and why she apologised for supposedly nothing

"I LIED!...I lied ummmm I lied at the meeting, yes the meeting I lied, that's where I lied, the meeting is where the lying happened" Willow struggled to make any sense making her boss grow more and more suspicious of her behaviour and now her supposed untruthfulness

"You-you lied...? What about specifically"

"I lied about the ummmm the like uhhhhhh THE COMEBACK, YES THE RED VELVET COMEBACK!" I took a long time to think about what could have been possibly bad about a Red Velvet comeback but I couldn't think of anything so I just
"The ideas weren't just very very good they were AMAZING!"

...

"Okaaayyyy..." although Willow had explained what she had "lied" about he was still confused by her behaviour

"anyways, what I have bought you here for is that I've got some good news!"

After the scene i had caused I'm not sure anything can make me feel better, I literally nearly blew my cover for the SECOND time and now embarrassing myself in front of my new bos-

"THE BOYS WANT TO WORK WITH YOU!" Her boss shared with enthusiam

"Huh?"

"Oh I should explain, NCT dream want you to work along side them as apart of their stylist team!" he said

I froze...I didn't know what to do, why would they pick me? It's literally my first day here and he didn't say SM wants me to work with Dream he said Dream themselves wanted me to work with them, why? It just doesn't make sense

"There has to be a mistake here, I've been here for a day and I haven't even talked to any of the mem-"

I paused before I could finish what I was saying, I knew, I knew why I was chosen and in fact I have talked to one of the members, now I know why I was chosen... It-it was Haechan...
I stoped myself from thinking anything further and just thanked my boss for the opportunity.

"This can't be happening right now. It was Haechan, right? If not who from dream? I haven't seen or spoken to anyone except for him. There has to be a mistake, I only adjusted his outfit, did he like it that much?"

Willow thought all of this on her way back to her desk, she was still in disbelief that this was really happening but something in her wasn't right, she wasn't as excited as she thought she would be, it was as if something was holding her back but she couldn't get a hold of what it was.