In when a total of 23 contestants joins mnet's I-LAND, one of them being a Japanese girl named Sato Hana.
"Why don't you just join the girl version or another girl group?"
"The company wants my voice, but with my dance they want me with a boy group...
Guys, I just got my second dose today and my arm and neck hurts like hell and all I wanna do is sleep-
SO BE GRATEFUL I PUSHED THROUGH JUST TO WRITE THIS WHOLE CHAPTER WHICH FOR SOME REASON TOOK 4 HOURS
okay bye, make sure to read the end VERY WELL
also for y'all wanting a Heeseung and Hana scene, it's not much, but there's something 😏
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"What are you doing?"
Hana opens her eyes and pauses her portable CD player, swinging her feet off her bed. she takes one earphone out and looks towards Sunghoon, giving the boy a small awkward smile. "Calming myself down before we go onto stage."
The 6 representatives were taking a small break before going onto stage, the girl deciding to use her time listening to her CD's she brought from home. "Ooh can I listen?" he asks, sitting beside her on the bed. Before he can take an earbud, she pulls it back. "Its.. its not a song you'll know." she awkwardly chuckles, looking down at the device.
"How would you know?" he raises a brow, pointing to his ear, telling her he still wants to listen.
The girl hesitantly places the corded earbud in his ear, the boys gaze staring down at her. She looks down at the portable CD player and presses play, a song she knows by heart starting to play.
Sunghoon's gaze moves down to the device before looking up at the girl, watching her eyes train themselves onto the floor.
"The face in the mirror feels unfamiliar."
Hana's eyes slowly look up at the boy, studying his reaction. She tried to see what he was thinking as it built up the chorus, seeing a spark of curiosity.
"Did she, suffer for so long.. Just to become the person I am today?"
As the boy listens to the chorus, he feels a small ache in his heart. He studies the beauty of her features, the light in her eyes that travelled from her soul, he noticed the pain and heaviness behind it.
At one point he took the earbud out and smiled, nodding his head. "Thats a good song. You were right though.. never heard of it."
He stopped there, not asking what the song was called or who it was by. He sits there and smiles at the girl, pretending to not know it was her voice, pretending to not know she had written the song, but she knew he had connected the dots.
Sunghoon had felt as though the girl wasn't ready to be fully vulnerable with those around her, so he didn't push her. She was thankful for that.
"Theres a whole CD, did you download your favourite songs onto there?" He asks the girl, receiving a nod as a response. "I made the CD for someone around the start of this year. I haven't seen them in a while, but I just wanted to show them these songs so I did." She smiles as she looks down at the CD player, fiddling with the earphone cord.
