Stay - Yang Jungwon 양 정원

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐘

The video messages weren't the only surprises we got that night. When we came back to our rooms, there were small notebooks on our beds with our names on them. "What are these?" Sunoo gasped, picking his up.

I grabbed mine and flipped to a random page. I gasped when I saw a bunch of handwritten text. Skimming over the words I looked at the camera that was in our room, "Are these what I think they are?" I asked as Sunoo and Heeseung read theirs.

"Oh, they're letters!" Heeseung realized, falling onto his bed.

Some of them were digitally printed out, and some of them were cut-out letters that were stuck on the paper. Some pages were just artwork or letters, most were a mix of both. "These are so cute!" I excitedly sat on my bed. "Wait! Look at this one!" I flipped my book around and showed Sunoo and Heeseung the art of me during I&Credible.

"They even have the freckles!" Sunoo gasped, pointing to the small cluster of dots that were along my cheekbones. Most of the time they were covered by makeup, but the makeup artist that day wanted to leave them exposed.

Looking through the doodles and letters, I just kept giggling and smiling. "My fandom name is Cherries! Oh, they're adorable," I said, covering my face with the book.

"Like Cherries?" Heeseung asked. "Like your name right?"

I nodded, "The play on words is really cute," I sat up from my bed, "I'm going to go the blue room," I told them, closing my book. I wanted to show Jungwon the fan letters.

"Ah to see Jungwonie?" Heeseung teased. "Okay~"

"No! I'm going to see Hanbin and Daniel too!" I shouted over my shoulder before leaving the purple room. I passed by the yellow room where everyone in there was also really excited about their letters. When I got to the blue room, Jungwon, Daniel, and Hanbin were peacefully sitting in their beds. Each of them had wide smiles on their faces as they read their letters.

"Chae!" Jungwon said excitedly when I knocked on the open door. "You got your letters right?"

I nodded and held mine up, "I've read the first couple of pages. My fandom name is Cherries. Cherries in English," I explained.

Without question, Jungwon immediately scooted over in his bed and patted the empty bed for me to sit. "Can you translate some of mine? Some of them are in English and French."

"Wait noona! Look how cool I look!" I looked up from Jungwon's letters and laughed when Daniel hurried over to show me fanart of him.

"They captured our maknae well," I teased seeing the cute chibi style of Daniel.

"There are people calling him oppa! There are people younger than him!" Hanbin added, pointing to Daniel. "I feel old!" He complained, making us laugh. He and K were the only ones born before 2000.

"Chae," I felt Jungwon tap my thigh. I looked at him and chuckled at his small pout. "Can you read these for me?"

"Yes~" I cooed, placing my letters down and taking his. It was already opened to a page that was written in French. "Uhm... Jungwon, this is the first time I've ever watched a kpop survival show or even liked an idol this much... You're so talented and really handsome... We're all so excited to see you debut. I'm always excited to see a new episode every week because it means getting to..." I trailed off as I finished reading the rest of the letter. "So, they said this is the first time they've ever liked a survival show idol as much as they like you. They think you're really talented and cute. And they're excited to see you every episode," I summarized, running my finger along the lines. "And then they drew this," I pointed to the digital art of Jungwon in his Into the I-Land outfit.