Battle of The Bands

Did We Make It?

Chapter 6 

Did We Make It? 

     As I get out of the room I slide my back against the wall. What the fuck. I can't tell if he's being genuine or not. What am I saying, he's obviously messing with me. He probably knows that I can undo his group's spell, that has to be it. I shouldn't listen to him, he just wants me to betray my group. "Hey, you coming?" A voice from nearby says. I look to my left and notice Seungmin's still here. "I thought I'd wait out here for you, you alright?" No, I'm not alright.. I wonder how Seungmin will feel about the whole thing.. "Yeah, I'm fine. Where's the others?" "They're going by Chan's house to work on some more songs. Results get released in a few days, let's hope we make it." "We were easily the best performance, I think we'll be fine." Seungmin giggles at my comment. "C'mon, let's get lunch." 

     Spending time with Seungmin actually helped take my mind off everything. I think it's best if I just ignore the razzles all together. With them bothering me it becomes hard to focus on the goal. I guess that's what they want though. I just need to focus on breaking the spell. Now that I think about it, I don't think anyone's spell broke during our performance. Maybe we're lacking something? Is it teamwork? I mean we work pretty week together, so.. It's not talent because we're all talented, if 3racha were just some cringey guys I would've left long ago, but they're not. Whatever this spell is, it's strong. "Yo, Jeongin, should we check on 3racha?" "I guess so, I wonder what kind of song they'll make next." "I dunno. Seungmin takes out his phone, which has the same baby blue case it's always had. "Yo, Jisung, how's the song going?" He says to Jisung who's on the other end of the call. After some squabbling Seungmin puts his phone away and sighs. "Jisung wants us to stop by his place, 3racha made a track but they think it might be too much for us." "Too much? It's probably nothing compared to the notes we had to hit in Hellevator." "I dunno, but let's head over by Jisung." 

     I guess Seungmin has been by Jisung's house before because he already knew where his house is and how to get to it. I wonder how someone like Seungmin is even friends with someone like Jisung to begin with. Who knows, I don't. Still, I am curious how they became friends. Me and Seungmin headed over to Jisung’s house which was pretty far from the school. I wonder how they even got here so fast, but whatever. We go inside and holy fuckign shit. This place stinks. Like, it smells bad bad. I held my nose but that didn’t really help. “Seungmin.. what the hell.” “Blame his parents, they have this place absolutely trashed.” “Shit, really?” “Yeah, they’re probably in his room, c’mon.” So we headed to Jisung’s room, which is also pretty messy but I don’t mind. “So, what’s the issue?” Seungmin says, sitting next to Jisung. “The song we’re working on is called District 9. Here, I’ll play the track for you guys,” Jisung says as he fumbles around on his laptop. The song starts to play and I’m immediately jumpscared by the sirens in the intro. The song is loud, in your face, I like it. I’d say it’s very in character for us. Only issue is, it’s pretty high. I mean, Hellevator was high but District 9 is even higher.

 “Are you two able to go high enough for this song?” “Uhm.. maybe if we try hard enough?” Seungmin says, he sounds quite unsure of himself. “If you two don’t wanna do this song we can do another.” “No, no, it’s fine, I like the song and think it suits us,” Seungmin protested. “Yeah, I’m fine with it too, it gives us a chance to show that we’re capable of singing high and shit,” I add on, but in a much calmer way than Seungmin. “Alright, District 9 it is,” Jisung says, typing something on his laptop. It’s then I notice Chan and Changbin passed out on Jisung’s bed. “What’s with those two?” “They’re pretty tired after today’s performance, so I let them take a nap on my bed,” Jisung says, still typing. I had opened my mouth to tell Jisung and Seungmin about what happened earlier as it just crossed my mind that something crazy happened but then I remembered what exactly that crazy thing was. I’m still creeped out about it, my enemy said that he liked me, that’s.. Weird.. “Coming up with a choreo for this song is gonna be tough, huh,” Seungmin says, pulling me out of my thoughts. “Tell me about it.. I never intended on being a dancer or anything, just a rapper,” Jisung says as he rests his head on Seungmin’s lap. “Right? I wasn’t planning on becoming an actual idol, just a soloist,” Seungmin stares off into the distance stroking Jisung’s hair. I guess they’re close, I was not expecting that honestly. It’s like they forgot I’m here because they’re too busy being lovey dovey. Good for them, I guess.