our rainy days || yang jungwon

Chapter 13

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That night, I kept worrying about the audition, hoping it wouldn't be too tough to think of a routine.
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author's POV

The next morning, Jae-in went to the new HYBE building for her early morning dance practice with Ni-ki and Sunghoon. After deciding that they were going to help her with the auditions, Enhypen split up into 3 teams to help her work on her dance, vocals and rap respectively.

For dance, Ni-ki had volunteered and Sunghoon had already promised her that he would be there, so he naturally stuck to his word. They all greeted each other with good mornings before they started to warm up to Ni-ki's stretching playlist.

Jae-in POV

I never realised I was so out of practice until I started stretching. It felt like my limbs were tearing off and Ni-ki kept pushing no matter how much I protested. "I'm older than you, you know!"

"THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD" Ni-ki shouted over the music, before sitting down across from Sunghoon to do his own stretching. That little devil child.

After the pain of warmups, we went into the choreography I was going to do, with Sunghoon offering to be my partner so we could audition as a duet, with me being the focus of the duet since Sunghoon had technically already been accepted into the company.

With several spins, jumps and dips, I was out of breath after just one round, with the he-devil himself continuing to push Sunghoon and I to do it again and again. Surprisingly, Sunghoon barely seemed affected, and if it weren't for the drops of sweat on his forehead dampening his bangs, I wouldn't even had noticed he had been dancing HARD.

Thankfully, we went into a water break before Heeseung and Jungwon came in for my vocal lesson, or else I might've fainted. Heeseung, looking at my disheveled state, laughed his lungs out.

"Why do you look like you ran a marathon? It's only been 2 hours!"

I glared at him, saying "You haven't seen the routine Ni-ki made me do, that kid is cruel!"

That only made him laugh more, wheras Jungwon seemed to be holding in his laughter, bringing me towards a barre in the room so I could lean on it for a while.

"Okay, let's start with warming up our voices."

After a series of 'Ah's, 'Oh's and 'Ooh's, we finished up our vocal warm ups, before Heeseung spent a good 20min teaching me how to find the right pitches for my audition track. Once he was done, he left Jungwon and I, claiming he needed to meet Sunghoon to discuss my dancing.

"So... you could be joining Enhypen eh?" Jungwon started out.

"Hah.. I'm not too sure yet, it seems like everyone around me wants it for me but I'm not too sure if I can handle it, you know?"

Jungwon motioned for us to sit down and take a break, replying with "Yeah I get it, I was conflicted too since you know, I was really into competitive taekwondo instead and suddenly now I'm an idol, but I don't think I regret it."

because it led me to you

I looked up, surprised to see Jungwon staring intently at me, awkwardly laughing it off with "Yeah, you suit being an idol... I just hope I won't let anyone down"

I just hope I won't let you down

Jungwon moved closer, standing up to take the bottom edge of his shirt and using it to wipe my forehead. Surprised, my face jerked up to look at him smiling down at me knowingly. I smiled back, feeling comforted by his presence.

"I'll always be here for you if you need it you know... I don't think you could ever let me down."

My smile widened at his words, feeling touched that he would support me through anything. In the spur of the moment, I got up and kissed him on the cheek, whispering a thank you in his ear while hugging him.

At first, his body tensed up at my sudden action, but soon after he relaxed and wrapped his arms around my waist, bringing me closer into his body. His embrace was so warm and familiar I just wanted to melt into a puddle there and then.

Jungwon rubbed my back gently with one hand while his other hand ran through my hair, causing a shiver to run up my spine as I hid my burning face in his chest. "Mm.. Jungwon?" I mumbled against his shirt.

"Yes dear?"

"You're the bestest AB+mate ever"

"Bestest still isn't a word babe"

"Well you're better than best then."

I felt him smile as he placed a kiss on the top of my head, before we finally separated from each other.

"I leave you guys for 2 minutes and suddenly you're all lovey dovey?!" Heeseung came in with a shocked look on his face, which slowly turned into a smirk. Oh god that's not good. I looked at Jungwon, panicking, but he seemed completely calm, until Heeseung started to yell for Jay while running out of the studio.

With a quick look back at me, Jungwon sprinted after him, yelling "HEESEUNG HYUNG WAIT, IT'S NOT LIKE THAT" and "DON'T YOU DARE SPREAD ANYTHING"

I just stood there, completely stunned by what had happened and my sudden burst of confidence. Who was I to hug Jungwon like that, oh god, I'm going to be assassinated by his fans if they ever found out.

author's note :
hi everyone ! hope you like the update, i'm back before a month HAHA but for real i'll try my best to update the story, thanks for the support !