𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵/ 𝗜-𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗

MINI-MISSION

The countdown already started starting from 23 hours while it slowly decreases, everyone begins to practice.

"Uhhhh why am I on pretty U?" She mumbled getting annoyed by the fact that she's not confident on some cute concepts.

While Ta-ki's excited, Yuji just covered herself with her hoodie, there is no way she's going to make those faces.

She saw Jungwon and Sunoo practicing facial expression, and the way she imitates them made her only frustrated.

Her mom always admires those cute cheeks when she smiles while her brother always teases her that she looks like the clown from the movie IT and she's afraid that it will be a forever meme when she fakes a smile.

"Why are you so good at this?" Jungwon commented to Sunoo "it's your specialty"

"Yuji-ah smile a bit more" Daniel giggled.

"I'm not good at making expressions shamelessly," she said softly.

A few moments later, Yuji repeated the performance video countless times, she can't seem to focus enough because she can't get the right tracks she wanted.

"Ahhhh I can't do this...." she groaned in a deep voice "what is wrong with me?"

"Just smile..... smile naturally, try to smile like this" sunoo said showing off his teeth.

"You smile most of the time and you just don't realize it, but you really smile prettily" Daniel suddenly said that caused her to fake cough sarcastically.

The others went to realize it right away and keep on encouraging Yuji during the practice eventually, the time she spent doing practices was worth it for her to get the natural look they were talking about.

And the one night, that I-landers got to practice, got passed although it was a mini-mission test, everyone is serious about aiming for a good performance.

MINI-MISSION D-DAY

the next morning as usual everyone woke up earlier to tidy up and prepare themselves. The I-landers only took short naps because they were practicing forever.

Sunoo took his time to fix the hair of their Unit members using flat iron and since Yuji was the only girl on their team Sunoo suggested to put her hair clips this time and wear the yellow sweater.

After that, they headed to the practice room immediately to clean up inside, Yuji was using the vacuum cleaner when Daniel keep on poking her head using the pillow trying to distract her.

The other members entered the room with their shoes on and didn't know what's happening so they just continued inside, Yuji turned to them and facepalmed herself.

"You guys seriously....."

The system starts ringing earlier than planned while the PRETTY unit is in upstairs they couldn't hear it properly because they were too far from the lobby compare to the HIT unit who was practicing in front of the gateway.

While the PRETTY U was recording, Ni-ki suddenly barged in their practice room and told them that SEVENTEEN sunbaenim is already downstairs, they all to the large practice room and Ni-ki was right.