Stay - Yang Jungwon 양 정원

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘-𝐓𝐖𝐎

That first night, I was having a lovely conversation with Sunghoon and K. Until someone opened the door to the yellow room.  We all silently watched as Jungwon entered without a word and just fell on my bed, "Uh... hello?" I laughed quietly, reaching forward to brush out his hair, "Need something, Jungwon?"

Jungwon dramatically sighed, and looked at me with a small pout, "I missed you.  And Geonu hyung."

K laughed, "Geonu hyung was an afterthought, wasn't it, Jungwonie?" He teased. Jungwon's answer was to get up and get under the blanket with me.

"I missed you too," I said, ignoring Sunghoon and K's teasing jokes. "Did you go jump on Geonu's bed too?" I asked.  Geonu, Hanbin, Taki, and Niki were in the green room together.

Jungwon shook his head, leaning on my shoulder, "No.  The old man's asleep," He said rather bluntly.  K, Sunghoon, and I burst out laughing at Jungwon's words. Who knew he could be so sassy?

"Well, he is dealing with both Riki's, and Hanbin," I pointed out.

"How is that any different from us?" Jungwon questioned.

I looked at him, "How is it not? If I had to room with them, I'd probably sleep in the bathroom," I said with a small laugh.

Jungwon just shrugged, wrapped his arm around my waist, and buried his face in my shoulder.  It was easy to tell he was tired by how mellow and clingy he was being.  I smiled softly, running my hand through his hair.  "You should go to sleep if you're tired.  I'm making our practice early tomorrow," I warned.

"Noooo," Jungwon whined and fell back on my pillow, "Ah why, Chae?!"

I was going to answer but instead, I flinched when a pillow was suddenly thrown at us.  Or at least Jungwon as it landed right on his back.  Both of us turned our heads to Sunghoon who was grinning, "Jungwon-ah! Go to bed! You're going to start saying things you don't wanna say," He joked. 

Jungwon threw the pillow back, with incredible aim might I add, "Alright, alright, I'll go, hyung.  And Chae, please, eight o'clock at the earliest!" He pleaded, holding his hands together as he got up.

"seven-thirty!" I shouted back as he left. "Tell the other boys that!" I only got a small pout before Jungwon closed the door on his way out.

"Are you actually going to make them practice at seven-thirty?" K asked, looking amazed.

"Yes and no. You boys always end up practicing about forty-five minutes later, at the minimum.  So reverse psychology!" I explained, earning laughs from them. "So by saying seven-thirty, we'll probably start around eight-thirty," Which was a more normal time, but still decently early.

Sunghoon shook his head, "I wish Jake good luck if you're his leader," He joked, earning a pillow thrown from me. "Chae! You're going to run out of pillows to throw!"

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The next day during breakfast, I was sitting with Jungwon as we watched K and Niki show off what they've learned so far in their spare time. "DNA unit has all the dancers," I said, leaning on Jungwon's shoulders.

K looked at me, "Honestly, Chae, if you weren't a unit leader, I would have chosen you."

"Thank you, but I'm glad we get to do I Need U.  I've already covered DNA before, so it'd be a bit boring," I shrugged.  I thought it would be good to try something new and impress the producers even more since this would be the first time they've seen me do this concept.

"Noona, you've done DNA before?" Niki asked, "Do you still know it?"

I nodded, "Yeah.  I have a good memory with choreographies, even after it's been a long time."