OUR JOURNEY. boys planet

interlude

Mingze tossed and turned on his bed. He tried his best to try sleeping, but it just wouldn't work. He had to perform his signal song test tomorrow, but he just wouldn't sleep at all.

He was wide awake, and there was no sign of tiredness.

"Ah... what do I do...?" He mumbled. Mingze knew everyone else was sleeping due to hearing their tiny snores. Mingze was the only one that wasn't snoring.

The boy sat up from the bed to check the time. The clock showed that it was 2:30 AM.

Mingze got off the bunkbed and took his suitcase from under the bottom bed as quietly as possible. He then unzipped the suitcase and opened it. In there was a big digital piano, the one he had brought to the first performance.

Mingze took out the piano, took the iPad laying on the table, wore his sandals, and ran out of the room.

Out of the room, he ran to the dance practice room. Once he was at the door, he barged into the room to see a boy sitting on the floor in the room.

The boy in the room quickly turned to Mingze in panic. He was now confused. "Mingze hyung? Why are you here?" He asked. "I should be the one asking you that, Yujin, Mingze replied as he quietly closed the door. He approached the younger to sit down next to him.

"I couldn't sleep, so I decided to practice the signal song choreography," Yujin replied. "Doesn't look like you are," Mingze replied, placing his piano on the floor. "I couldn't sleep either, so I decided to learn a new piano piece." He said.

Mingze found an outlet across the room and quickly plugged the wires into the piano and then plugged them into the outlet.

"Aren't you sick? Why are you still dancing?" He asked. "I'm worried I might do badly on the test," Yujin mumbled, crawling toward Mingze to sit next to him.

"You'll do well Yujin. The masters are just a bit... strict. I and everyone else are sure you'll do well. You are very talented after all." Mingze patted the younger boy's back.

"I have a question." Yujin began. Mingze looked at the boy with listening ears. "If you get eliminated from Boys Planet, what would you do after, since you're done with school and all that," He asked. Mingze looked at the younger boy, surprised. No one had ever asked Mingze that question before.

"Erm... Continue training?" Mingze wasn't sure. "You've trained for so long, and you still haven't debuted yet," Yujin said. "I could pull a Bang Chan? I don't know..." The latter sighed.

"Whatever happens, please still keep in contact with us." Yujin hugged Mingze.

"You're acting like you're expecting me to get eliminated." Mingze laughed.

He gave Yujin a side hug. "If you want, I can play a soft piano song so you can sleep. You need to sleep." He whispered to the younger boy. Mingze felt the younger boy's head nodding on his shoulder.

He placed his hands on the piano keys and began to play a soft piece of music.

(The song above the chapter)

Yujin's head rested on Mingze's shoulder, and he closed his eyes.

As Mingze gracefully played the song, Yujin was slowly falling asleep.

Just to make sure Yujin was fully asleep, Mingze played the song multiple times. Once Yujin was asleep on Mingze's shoulder, Mingze took the iPad sitting beside him.

"What piano piece should I learn..." He mumbled to himself.

He turned on the iPad and searched for piano songs through YouTube. Some of the songs were too hard, and Mingze didn't feel like learning such complex while others were too short and boring.