CONNECT ! enhypen

episode 2 {pt 2}

BOLD speech is English

Sunghoon wrapped his arms around his twin, comforting her as she cried into his chest. He rocked the pair of them side to side gently, one hand playing with her hair and the other rubbing her side. "Sunghee-yah," he mumbled into her ear, "it's okay. You'll see them again soon. You still have Jake and I, right? And Roxi and Alice, so it's not the end of the world just yet." The girl nodded, continuing to latch onto her brother until another pair of arms found their way around her waist.

"Bunhee-yah, stop frowning. You'll get wrinkles like a caterpillar." "Jake," she laughed out, leaning back into the other whilst still keeping her arms around her brother. "Don't cry and then laugh!" the male exclaimed. "You'll get a horned butt." "Hey!" Sunghee hit her boyfriend's shoulder lightly, suddenly feeling excited at the reference to lyrics from her favorite Stray Kids song. "I hate you so much," she pouted.

Jake opened his mouth to speak but was interrupted by a loud voice through the speakers, "the fifteen of you who became the I-LANDERS, congratulations. Choose a chair and put your name tag on."

They all did as they were told, the boys taking the twelve chairs that sat on the sides and leaving the girls to take the three that connected both sides at the top. Unfortunately fo Alice, the other two girls sat on the outside seats, meaning she had to sit between them both. When they had all sat down, fifteen emblems dropped down on the screen behind them, everyone making surprised sounds and cheering.

"Sung-ah," Roxi called, "you look so pretty in your picture." "Really? Thank you!" Sunghee smiled. "You look like a fairy."

. . .

The I-LANDERS walked around the bedrooms, having already chosen their roommates and now needing to choose who sleeps where.

There were five bedrooms, each with three beds and a different color theme.
Geonu, Nicholas and Jungwon took the blue room; Seon, Heeseung and Sunghoon had the purple room; K, Youngbin and Jake chose the green room; Jay, Niki and Daniel wanted the yellow room; and Sunghee, Roxi and Alice, by default, had the red room.

The girls had started unpacking their things from their bags when the door knocked, "can I come in?" Sunghee and Roxi looked at eachother, "yeah, the doors open!" As the door creaked open, both girls went back to sorting through their things, occasionally throwing things between themselves. "Hee-ya, who's are these?" Roxi held up a pouch of make-up, to which the Korean hummed. "What color is the lipstick?" "Shade #143." "Ah, it's Hwa's," Sunghee nodded, putting away her own lipstick before relaxing against the wall.

Sunghee looked up at the boy who had entered and situated himself at the bottom of her bed. "Daniel, right? You were pretty good earlier." The Korean-American boy nodded with a shy smile, "thank you, Noona. You weren't too bad yourself." "Thanks, Dani. Can I call you Dani?" He hummed, "of course."

"So, Daniel," Roxi spoke up from where she lay on the floor next to her bed, "why do you look so pretty?" "Huh?" "Unnie!" Sunghee laughed, throwing her head back and hitting it against the wall as a result. Daniel jumped off the bed and crouched infront of the older, "Noona, are you alright?" "Yeah, I'm alright. Thank you," she girl chuckled, placing a hand on his knee as a means of reassurance.

"What's your problem?" asked Alice from the corner of the room. "You're so loud and for what? It wasn't even funny." Roxi's head snapped toward the Japanese, but before she could say anything, Sunghee spoke, "RoRo Unnie, just drop it. It's alright." The auburn-haired girl sighed, crawling to her friend. "It's not alright," she whispered, "she literally has a problem with everything that you do! Soon she'll be complaining because you're breathing the same air as her!"
Daniel furrowed his brows, "what's going on?" "It's nothing, really." Sunghee turned to the older, "look, if you don't like it, maybe we can go and chill elsewhere." "Please."