Features || Junhan

2

Once we get to the company, we dash into the basement and enter our practice room with our equipment all set out.
I skip slowly to my metallic blue electric guitar, taking it out of the black case and slipping into the blue strap with a yellow cresent moon and 3 birds, as I instantly play a random guitar riff with a wide smile on my face.

"Nari loves her guitar more than she loves us!" Hyun shouts as she points over to me. I wink as I point a finger gun at her.

"Hey, did you guys know that there's a new band debuting in a few months?" Yuki asks as she throws her bag onto the sofa, plugging in her keyboard and testing it out. We all shake our heads with curious looks on our faces.
"Oh? Who?" Nabi asks as she plugs her red marble electric guitar into the large amplifier, strumming the strings a bit. Her strap was a row of roses to match with her stage name.

"I think I saw one of the members at the trainee lockers." Dasom says as she puts her mint blue hair up in a bun. "I think his name was Oh Seungmin or something."

"He sounds nice." Hyun says.

"What song should we warm up with?" Yuki asks as she connects the laptop to the speakers for the backing instrumentals.

"Should we do 505 since it's for a special stage?" Aera asks as she takes a seat at her drumset, taking out her worn out drumsticks. With a nod, Yuki begins to play the song, the metronome timing us, while she dashes to her keyboard.

"I'm going back to 505, if it's a 7 hour flight or a 45 minute drive." Hyun starts. "In my imagination, you're waitin' lyin' on your side with your hands between your thighs."

After a few hours of practice and the group joking around, which were mainly Chunja and Nabi, we were now on break. It was just me in the room alone since the others went out for a bit.

"Hey, JJ!" Aera calls out, I look up at her from my phone as I take out an earphone. "Want to go get lunch? The others went somewhere else."
I nod slowly as I take my earphones out and wrap it around my phone after turning the music off. I go over to my guitar and put it in the cover, slinging it onto my back as I put my mask on. I wear masks most of the time when I'm off stage because the makeup artist outs so much makeup on me that I look like a different person barefaced.  We then leave the practice room.

"You really love that guitar, don't you?" Aera laughs as I wrap an arm around her shoulder with a poker face, scoffing as I take her drumsticks out of her pocket.
"Says you." She then whines as she takes her drumsticks back, hugging them as she runs away.

"Leave me alone!" She shouts as she turns a corner. I laugh softly as I jog up to her, bunping into something. I groan as I fall on the floor.

"I'm so sorry!" A voice calls out. I roll my eyes as I look up to the figure infront of me. I couldn't move at all.. I was stunned.

A tall boy with soft orange hair had his hand offered infront of me. I then notice his downturned, brown eyes. He had a mole on his left eye. I then see his soft freckles that went across his face. His lips were slightly open, revealing his bunny teeth.

"Uhm, are you going to get up?" He asks awkwardly. I shake my head softly as I stand up myself, dusting off my clothings. He looks at me confused as he then retracts his offering hand. "Are.. you ok?"
"Yeah I am." I nod, looking into his eyes and instantly getting lost. "Just.. becareful next time. You might hurt yourself."

With a nod and a smile, he then walks off while I stood there confused.

"Han Nari! Come on!" Aera shouts out as she points her drumsticks at me.
I nod and jog up to her.

"Hey, do you know that boy I just walked into?" I ask. "I know your curious ass was wondering where I was so you turned around and looked for me."
Aera chuckles nervously as she shoves her drumsticks into her pocket.

"I think that was Han Hyeongjun, a trainee here. I bumped into him a few times." She shrugs. "I guess he's just clumsy."

Han Hyeongjun.. I like that name..