StrayTeez (Ateez and Stray Kids FF)

Rappers Meet

-Hongjoong's POV-

The next morning was great I woke refreshed and comfortable, it almost felt as if Bang Chan was laying right next to me, a thought that brought comfort and a pang of sadness as I know he slept on the couch. I sat up quickly shaking my head at the thought, I know I find him charming, but I can't like him, can I? we work together. I quickly shake the thought away as I walk out of the room bumping into Bang Chan on my way out, speak of the devil, we meet each others gaze as he stammers on his words, "Oh hey you're awake, I have your clothes here all clean and dry, whenever you are ready the rappers want to meet and get some work done." Bang Chan smiled and stuttered finishing what he had to say. I thank him and explain that I will be happy to meet with the rappers in the dance studio give us all a change of scenery, I take my clothes from him with a smile and tell him, "I will be right there let me get dressed and call Mingi," with that he left and I went back into his room to quickly change. Once I was decent I called Mingi and quickly explained to him where the dance studio was and to meet there. I then leave the room and go to the dance studio and see that Han and Changbin are already there and now we are just waiting on Mingi.

While we wait we ended up doing a rap battle and well without rap lyrics it is clear they have a hard time and I am not going to lie I even have a hard time without lyrics I guess it is something to laugh about since we are all dying laughing on the floor. After our rap battle Mingi comes walking through the door and we all greet him. Now we can get started we are all sitting on the floor and Bang Chan hands us all a lyric sheet with the rap parts of Cheese. All three of the Stray Kids members do their parts flawlessly and now it is Mingi's turn. He fumbles a bit, but that is to be expected since this is a completely new song to us and while Mingi is doing his part I am saying mine in my head. I didn't even notice that Mingi was done and it took Bang Chan nudging me to snap me out of my practice mode. I say my parts and I fumble a few words, but I managed them well and I smiled as Bang Chan spoke to me. "You did well just relax." He said and I instantly relaxed his voice to me is so soothing I can't help but feel my stress melt.

We practiced the rap parts of Cheese for a little longer before Bang Chan pulled out the sheets for The Real. I smiled as I took the sheet of paper and I looked to him. "Do you guys think you can handle the rap of this song?" I asked and all three of them said yes and I didn't doubt them since well they have done wonderful raps. I rap first and of course the look Bang Chan is giving me is one that made me blush, but I didn't fumble. Mingi did his rap part next and after we let Changbin start on the rap and of course since it is a new song they will fumble like we did, but once they get used to it I'm sure they will be great. Changbin honestly didn't fumble as bad as I thought he would and I was really impressed. Han did great too he didn't fumble much either and now it was Bang Chan's turn. He fumbled a few times, but it could have been because he was nervous and I don't blame him I was nervous too. He did do it a second time and did much better that time than he did his first time. After we did The Real we sat and talked about ourselves a bit and I explained I can do really fast raps like Han, Changbin and Mingi. 

After we finished talking Mingi left and I told him to let the others know that I won't be home again tonight he understood I have a lot of work to do with Bang Chan in terms of redoing music. Han and Changbin left as well and this is when Bang Chan and I were left alone again. He was doing something on his phone, but I didn't ask what he was doing. Before I knew it he was done on his phone and spoke softly. "I bought coffee. Would you like to have lunch in the cafeteria?" He asked and I nodded. "Sure lets go. Is it alright that I am staying another night?" I asked and he nodded. "Yes that is fine. Don't worry about my sleeping I might be up all night working on the music again honestly." He said and I sighed. "All night again? Why can't you sleep well?" I asked and I was not ready for the answer. We got to the cafeteria and got food then sat down before he answered me. "I have night terrors and sleep paralysis, so I have a really hard time sleeping so when I crash I crash hard. I was lucky to wake up in the studio last night without one of those things happening." He said and I felt a pang of hurt hit me. If last night was one night he didn't wake up like that then maybe I am helping him. I honestly don't know, but maybe.

I sat in silence for a minute and I looked to him and spoke. "Is there anyway I can help with your night terrors?" I asked and he answered I didn't want to hear this answer. "No I don't think you can help with that, but thank you for offering." He said and I just wanted to cry right then, but of course I didn't.  I ate my food and drank my coffee and I sighed softly. The rest of the lunch was almost silent, but I decided to ask him something. "Uhm I have a question. I am sure you do this with your members and yes I know I am a member now, but will you sleep with me tonight?" I asked and of course it sounded odd, but I honestly wasn't expecting his answer. "Sure I wouldn't mind and yes You are a member, but you are also a Captain still I am not the only leader. My group and your group will come to realize that sooner or later." He said and I smiled. After our lunch we went back to the studio.

We again decided to stop working on the music at midnight even though I am sure he wants to work on the music longer and might do that on his laptop when I am sleeping I just hope that he doesn't so he can get some sleep. Once midnight hit I went back to the dorm with him and I changed into what I had on last night of his and I crawled into bed. He soon crawled into bed with me and his scent overwhelmed me to the point I had to turn my back to him. I quickly fell asleep, but when I woke up in the middle of the night I found that his hand was wrapped around my midsection and is holding me close to him. My breathing picked up and it felt like my heart was going to beat out of my chest. I did calm down enough to go back to sleep, but that took about an hour to do.