an inconvenient encounter ❁ jeong jaehyun

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«────── 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟓 ──────»

"we'll go through the steps again," the instructor yells out, turning around to face the mirror. when the music plays, she goes through the steps again, the students behind her, followed through.

when the music comes to an end, the instructor lets everyone have a water break before they continued again.

hyejin grabs her bottle of water, gulping it down until there was not a drop left. she was still thirsty, so she stepped out of the room to refill her water from the water fountain.

as she was refilling her bottle, she heard someone call her name by the stairs.

when hyejin turns to face the person, a grin forms on her lips. she closes the cap of the bottle tightly, before she ambles to the boy.

"taeyong!" she exclaims, "what are you doing here?" her arms automatically wrap around his waist as taeyong wraps his arm around her shoulder, tugging her to his side.

"wanted to come by and check up on you guys," he grins cheekily. he was wearing an all black outfit, he probably came here after his practice. his hair was dyed a caramel brown, and it looked incredibly good on him.

hyejin rolls her eyes, "i know that's not the actual reason. are you recruiting more people for the company?"

taeyong had joined the academy way before hyejin did. when hyejin first joined the academy, she didn't have any friends since she was new, but taeyong was the first one to approach her and they had became friends since then.

hyejin grew into the person she was now because of taeyong. he had a strong impression at first, but after getting to know him after some time, they became really close, like an older brother-little sister relationship. taeyong had helped hyejin learn new steps, and he was basically just someone hyejin respects a lot.

anytime anyone would see them together, they would get jealous of the sibling love that they shared.

taeyong nods, "yeah, the company told me to find some new people," the boy pats hyejin's head, "how about you—"

"i told you i'm not going to apply to be an idol," hyejin sighs, nudging the side of taeyong's waist. "i don't want to work for anyone, ever. i want to be my own."

"no matter how hard i try, you will never change your mind, right?"

"nope," she grins proudly.

as the both of them talked by the staircase, they suddenly hear someone clearing their throat from behind. turning around, hyejin's eyes widens when she sees jaehyun standing a few feet from them, waiting for the two to move.

"jaehyun? what are you doing here?"

jaehyun lifts his empty water bottle, "the water fountain upstairs was broken"

hyejin peels her body from taeyong, moving to the side to give jaehyun space to walk to the water fountain.

"new kid?" taeyong tilts his chin to jaehyun.

hyejin nods, "he's from my class in school."

taeyong makes a satisfied face, "he's good looking," he whispers, to which hyejin frowns and hits him in the shoulder, earning a painful groan from taeyong.

when jaehyun was done, he trudges up the stairs without a word to hyejin.

"are you guys even friends?" taeyong jokes with a laugh.

"we're... not that close," she partly lies. well, it was true, they're not that close. but for once, she thought that things were different now that they had done a project together. she thought that they could now talk without having to argue, but she guessed she was wrong.

"anyway," taeyong distracts her from her thoughts, "i'm just going to see a few candidates i could lure into the company. go back to practice," he beckons.

hyejin hums, bidding goodbye to her friend before she goes back into the dance room. the rest of the students were still seated on the floor, having their break.

she spots her dance teacher standing in the mirror, practicing for a familiar dance routine. her teacher notices hyejin walking in, and she beckons hyejin.

"you remember this dance don't you?" she asks, "want to film one with me?"

hyejin agrees. the both of them practiced the old dance routine, before they asked sejeong to help them film the dance.

once the music played through the speakers, the both of them break into the steps, the flow of the dance came naturally to hyejin. her eyes were sharp as she stares into the mirror, making sure she had extruded the steps perfectly.

when the music ended, a grin breaks on her face, turning to her dance teacher and giving her a tired hug and sejeong stops filming.

"wah, that one brought back so much memories," hyejin pants out, referring to the dance routine. "i forgot how tiring it was."
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jaehyun punches in the code before it unlocks, pushing the door as he steps into his home. he shouts an 'i'm home', before he goes into his room tiredly. the boy throws his bag on the floor before throwing himself on the bed.

he lets out a low groan from how tired he was from the class today. he turns to lay on his back, fishing out his phone, but something else fell out of his pocket as he did that.

he looks down on his bed, eyeing the familiar pink card laying on his bed. it was slightly crumpled since he was rushing today, fishing and tucking his phone in his pocket multiple times.

jaehyun licks his lips, reaching out for the card in his hands.

'SM Entertainment' was written at the front of the card. he knows SM, it was a big company— huge even.

he never thought that he would get this chance to get into a company. of course he had thought of becoming an idol a lot, but he thought that it would require even more work, for example, the competition in a few months.

but if he had decided to go with SM, then it would be the greatest opportunity for him, with it being the biggest company in seoul, it could definitely be an advantage to him. he closes his eyes with a sigh, thinking hard.

jaehyun then flips the card to the other side, where the company's email and phone number was printed out in black against the pink card.

he licks his lips, grabbing his phone as he sits up on his bed. jaehyun punches the number on the phone, checking it if it was correct before he presses the call button. as he waits for the call to be answered, he takes deep breathes in order to calm him down.

deep down, jaehyun wants them to answer the call, but at the same time he hopes they don't answer it. he isn't sure if he was making the right decision.

"hello, this is SM Entertainment, how can i help you?"

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a/n oh shiiittttt