The Brightest Star in the Night Sky || 时代少年团

🖤CHAPTER 9💛

"Chengxin. Chengxin. CHENGXIN. DING CHENGXIN"!!!, yelled Jackson.

"Can you stop staring at Meiqi and look at me instead. You have enough time to stare at her when you actually start rehearsing together".

Chengxin turned beet red. He hadn't realized he was staring at Meiqi instead of paying attention to Jackson. She just looked kinda cute with a cap on.... Meiqi glanced at Chengxin for a second and lowered her cap after hearing that. She was also blushing.

"Sorry. I'll pay more attention", said Chengxin.

Jackson stared at them for a second and let out a laugh. "You know what, let's take a break. It's almost time for lunch anyways. You can continue staring at her. Meet back here at 2 pm". And just like that, Jackson fled the practice room.

Chengxin was beyond embarrassed at this point. What am I such a fool ahhh, thought Chengxin. To ease the awkwardness, he turned to Meiqi, "Do you wanna go get lunch with the rest of TNT then".

Today was already too much for Meiqi to handle, and she really wanted to be alone, but how can she politely decline him. "Um, it's ok I think I'm going to practice the moves by myself. I'm not hungry", she replied. She was actually hungry, but the thought of having to interact with more people was just not what she wanted to do right now.

"Oh ok. I'll go for now, see you later", said Chengxin.

Meiqi let out a sigh of relief after Chengxin closed the door. She laid on the floor, staring at the ceiling. How am I going to dance with him if we can't even get past practice? She closed her eyes for a minute, trying to catch up on rest but fell asleep from how tired she was. Chengxin appeared in her dream. With his shirt off again. He was modeling for something. Those 6 packs though... It was the first time she fully realized how cute he was...Meiqi Meiqi Meiqi

"Meiqi", Jiaqi said as he shook her awake. Huh, where am I, thought Meiqi. "Are you ok, why are you so red. Are you sick?. Meiqi wasn't sick, she was just blushing from her dream.

"Oh, Jiaqi. I'm fine. Why are you here?"

"Chengxin said you didn't want to come to lunch because you wanted to practice your dance. But we all have to eat or else how are you gonna have energy to dance? Here I got you food", said Jiaqi as he handed her a bento box. "Sorry, it's nothing fancy, but we can get better food for dinner", smiled Jiaqi.

Meiqi smiled slightly as a reply. "Thanks".

"So how it's like working with Chengxin", asked Jiaqi.

"It's ok. We just started, so it was just trying to memorize the moves."

"Ah right. You know if Chengxin ever bosses you around, tell me, and I'll beat him up. He likes to boss around everyone. Even people that aren't his members."

Meiqi let out a small chuckle. That reminded her of dinner last night when he told her to eat the shrimp he had peeled.

"You're really quiet. But it's ok they rest of us will bother you till no tomorrow, and then you'll start talking to us to tell us to shut up."

Meiqi let out an actual laugh this time. How absurd, she thought.

"Oh yea, also sorry about this morning. Chengxin likes to sleep without clothes on. This is what happens when you live with a bunch of boys. You probably need to wash your eyes after that."

More like wash my mind, thought Meiqi.

She gave him a small laugh, "It's ok. I'm assuming it's not only him that's like that. Who else do I need to look out for."

"Woww you know how to crack a joke", smirked Jiaqi. "Well basically, Yaxuan and Yaowen always sleep together, but I think they're a bit more normal. Except for the fact that they like to hug each other sleeping, so that's the only scene you need to look out for. Junlin's pretty normal. Haoxiang and Zhengyuan occasionally sleep without their clothes on too. Especially in the summer, so right now. I suggest you just cover your eyes in the morning or else you're going to wash your eyes every time."

"What about you", Meiqi asked laughing.

"Me?", Jiaqi was surprised she was able to continue talking about this rather interesting topic.

Meiqi surprised herself too. She would usually never talk about things like this. But talking to Jiaqi seemed to put her at ease, she could even joke about it with him.

"I'm not narcissistic. I prefer to have my clothes on. Seeing Chengxin every day is enough", Jiaqi said with an eyeroll.

"Good to know there's one normal person in your group", mumbled Meiqi.

"What you'd say?"

"Oh nothing". Meiqi suddenly remembered her interaction with Jiaqi back when they were competing on the show when they were young. She was tempted to ask if he remembered her, but it seemed a little too absurd to just randomly ask. How could she test him without being obvious?

"I saw some of your clips from 音乐大师课 (Master Class) before. Kind of crazy how much you've grown."

Jiaqi turned over to face Meiqi. "You watched my clips?? I was like 11 back then. Surprised you even know about the show".

It seemed like Jiaqi didn't remember Meiqi at all. She should probably stop asking. Right as she was about to brush it off, Jiaqi said something that surprised Meiqi...