Red Chrysanthemum - Minsung

Chapter 2

Minho's first day at his new job was... well, interesting to say the least. He didn't really know what to make of Jisung and his behaviour, but he was happy to have found something more stable than simply relying on the occasional private dance lesson. His following on social media was finally growing after a few agonising years of endlessly posting silly dance challenges and some more serious posts.

The collaboration he'd recently done with Hyunjin was really doing wonders for his numbers, since a lot of people were now filtering over from Hyunjin's side. All of them were fawning over his looks, especially the girls. But unfortunately for them, he was not attracted by them, or even by that gender as a whole.

His thoughts buzzed quietly as the bus bumbled along, most of them were drowned out by his music. His headphones were playing a song where Changbin was rapping and Chan was following it up with his melodic voice. He's been a fan of 3RACHA since they first debuted and he would often receive their albums for his birthday. Thus it was a dream come true when Chan had emailed him, asking if he was up for some choreographing. The blond had explained what he wanted and he had showed him the song they would perform and Minho had quickly gotten to work.

It hadn't taken him too long, the song had a particularly interesting drum line that he could sync most of the moves to and the bass line was rather fun as well. The dance break was his magnum opus though, as he poured all of his knowledge of breakdance and contemporary dance into it, still keeping it relatively simple for the boys.

His playlist was on shuffle, and his thoughts grew completely silent as Jisung's voice came on in his headphones, catching the dancer's attention. His lilting vocals and harsh raps had always mesmerised Minho, how someone could be so good at both was incredibly impressive, especially considering how he hadn't been rapping in a studio for that long. Yet his rotten personality was what soured the seemingly perfect deal, but none of his fans would ever find any of that out since his public image is the polar opposite of his true self.

Even in the short amount of time 3RACHA have been producing music, they already have a decent following, almost triple of Hyunjin and Minho's combined, and that number is steadily growing every day. Obviously the boys' charisma is what had managed to get them off the ground, but their pure talent is what has allowed them to continue riding that high, popping up on charts every now and then with incredibly well-designed and unique beats, their raps and varying flows catching a lot of people's attention.

The bus was driving past the rich district of the city, big and incredibly expensive townhouses lined the streets proudly. Minho watched them from his window seat. He remembered growing up here briefly, before they moved out to a quieter side of the town, away from a good part of the light and sound pollution.

He didn't spend all of his childhood in these pristine and often cold looking houses, he'd walked his first steps in a smaller, poorer district, about an hour away from the bustling center of town. He shook the haunting memories away, pushing them back down into the endless pit in his stomach, where every single bad thing that has ever happened to him resided, out of sight and out of mind.

The bus stop was just about a five minute walk away from Minho's flat, the very same place he now shares with Felix, his half brother. Their adoptive parents gave it to them when Minho had left to pursue his budding dreams of becoming a professional dancer. The brunet had lived alone for about two years before Felix moved in with him once he had started art school.

They don't live too far away from what Minho considers to be his and Felix's friends, even though the former is a bit of a loner and it's mostly the latter who introduces him to his friends and he just follows along. Luckily, his brother is very good at choosing nice friends and Minho gets along quite well with Hyunjin, Seungmin and Jeongin. The four boys attend the same art school and they share a lot of classes and are mostly inseparable, especially Seungmin and Jeongin, who've known each other for a very long time.