Just teenagers | Chensung

Chapter 10

It was the day of the presentation. Everybody were getting ready at the venue hall. Ryujin, Yeji and Jaemin were going through the presentation material one last time while Chenle and Jisung were rehearsing their script. 

Just as they were doing so, Seulgi, their mentor, came rushing to them. 

"Guys, I think you have a problem," she said, slightly out of breath. 

"What is it?" 

"Jaemin, did you handle the booth yourself yesterday?" 

"Yeah... I did. Why, what's wrong?" 

"One of friends who ushered the judges through the campus yesterday said that they stopped by your booth. Apparently you weren't there and someone else was taking care of it for you," 

Jaemin's POV 

Jeno? 

But he said there weren't any problems yesterday. Did he lie? Is this the 'surprise' he was talking about? 

"Does that mean we broke the rules?" Chenle asked worried. 

"One of the rules was to never get help from external parties so I'm pretty sure this is a rule break. Have any of you heard from the judging committee?" 

The group shook their heads no. 

"In that case, you'll have to wait and see. Sometimes they inform you of any rule break after the announcement of the winners," 

The colors on Chenle's face faded. The rest of the group were also worried but not as bad as he was. They were concerned about Chenle. Jaemin couldn't bare to look at the group. 

"It's okay, Jaemin. I'm sure something came up and you didn't leave the booth on purpose," Yeji tried cheering him up. 

Urghh... I'm so stupid. I shouldn't have trusted Jeno

"But I just left it with Jeno for like two minutes," 

"Jeno? The guy at the convenient store?" Ryujin asked excitedly while Yeji nudged her. 

"Stop it. He's upset," Yeji whispered at Ryujin. 

"I'm sorry, guys. I didn't mean to break the rules," Jaemin said softly. 

"Don't worry. The judging committee probably understands that you had to step out for a toilet break or something," Seulgi tried to comfort the group feeling slightly guilty for breaking the news to them. 

"Let me think," Chenle said and walked out. Jisung followed him. 

It's all my fault. I keep messing things up for people.

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Jisung's POV 

"Chenle, wait up!" Jisung yelled, running behind the boy. 

How are those tiny legs so fast? 

"Chenle!" Jisung got a hold of his wrist to make him stop. 

"I can't believe I'm about to be disqualified at Stage 2 again. Last time it was a Chaeryeong. This time it's a Jaemin," Chenle said, slightly teary-eyed. 

"Hey, we're not disqualified yet. Maybe the judging committee would understand like Seulgi said," 

"Jisung, you don't understand. It's not like the crew informed the judging committee of a rule break. They saw it themselves. There's no escaping this," 

"In that case, let's give the best presentation ever that they can't disqualify us. Remember Seulgi said something about appealing to the judges so they reconsider. Let's do that,"