Together: BTS X Reader 8th Member

Chapter 23

After recording our songs and getting crowned winners, we decided to be nice to Warren and throw a small party for fun. We walked into a building our production team had rented out and stepped up for us, letting out gasps of excitement. Jin and Yoongi decided to go out and cook the meat with Warren, while the rest of us decided to stay inside and help wash up the vegetables and set everything up. Jimin and I were washing the vegetables, assuming that Namjoon and Taehyung were helping us, but when I turned around, I saw them messing around stacking cups. "Ah, only eating and not helping," Jimin said while watching them shove cut-up fruit into their mouths. "Jimin-ah, we have to use those too," Taehyung said while pointing at the store-bought cupcakes. We started putting the cupcakes on a plate to make them more presentable. After we finished that, Jungkook, Taehyung, and I started playing games with eating an onion as a punishment. I decided not to participate since I didn't want to have onion breath, so instead, I just watched the two boys play rock, paper, scissors. The first time, they tied, and then Jungkook went without telling Taehyung, so he didn't make a motion, leading him to have an onion shoved into his mouth by Jungkook. "Hey, get to work," Namjoon yelled at us, tired of us wasting time. I looked over to Taehyung, who spit out the onion, going unnoticed by the other members except for me. I continued washing and cutting up the vegetables so we would be able to eat sooner since I was starving. I plated all of the vegetables, handing two plates to J-hope and two to Jimin so they could bring them out to the grill. "Did you wash all of these?" Yoongi asked before taking a skewer to them, "Yes, (N/N) washed them all very well," While the meat was cooking, Jimin, J-hope, Jungkook, Taehyung, and I all went back inside, we found a mic stand and started goofing around with it, I grabbed the mic from Jungkook and started singing some of our songs like Embarrassed while they danced along. Eventually, we stopped singing our songs and started freestyling. Jungkook, being himself, attacked Jimin at his height, causing a playful fight between them. Eventually, we got told it was time to eat so we all sat down on the couch where everything else was set up for us to start eating. After a while of shoving food into our faces, Warren suddenly asked us a serious question, "So how does it feel? Do you guys miss your family and your friends?" We stayed quiet for a second until Jin replied in English, "I miss them, and I want mothers to cook," Warren nodded his head understanding what Jin was saying to him. "Are you guys homesick?" He asked while looking around at us and waiting for an answer, "Yes, I miss Nari she's my stylist," I replied trying to speak English more earning a nod from Warren. "Since it's been 4 years since I left home, I don't miss my mom and dad," Yoongi replied in Korean which our translator helped Warren understand. "America's this nice, but whenever we come out, it'd be nice if we can take our parents to these nice places too, I have those thoughts a lot," I felt bad since I didn't have these feelings for my parents. Since I left to join BTS my mom hadn't reached out to me despite being my mother and legally responsible for me. Once we were done with dinner we bid our farewells to Warren and made our way back to the dorm to get ready for the next mission we had ahead of us. 

I was awakened by the awful sounds of construction going on in the house next to ours making it hard to get some actual sleep. "Wake up BTS, wake up," Tony's aggravating voice shouted throughout the dorm. He wasn't aggravating but when I was sleep-deprived and had to fight Taehyung for a blanket all night long I was bound to be grumpy. One by one Nate and Tony started lifting us all out of bed and forcefully putting us on the couch, I thought I was safe from being dragged out of bed until Tony got a hold of me and carried me bridal style plopping me down next to Jungkook before going back to our beds trying to wrangle Taehyung out of bed. I was falling back asleep on the couch since I was now lying on top of Jungkook who was also half asleep. "Hey, get up, sit up," Tony told us while pulling on my arm to make me sit up. "BTS! Make the music video full of hip-hop spirit and swag!" A voice said that was coming from a projector's speaker. I didn't bother to pay attention to anything that was told to us after that because I was now half asleep on Jin's shoulder practically drooling on him. "(N/N), get up and get dressed we have to go soon," Jin whispered trying not to wake me harshly. I reluctantly got up from the couch and walked over to Taehyung who was already dressed and had a pile of clothes in his hands, I took the clothes and walked into the bathroom shutting the door behind me. I put on the white shirt with my name on it along with a black pair of jean shorts and some shoes. When we were all dressed we had to sit back down on the couch making me only more sleepy. "What are we supposed to do," Jimin asked looking at us for an answer. "We have to make a music video, but I've seen hip-hop videos and there's always something in them," Yoongi answered Jimins question while glancing over at me when he finished his sentence. Soon our mentors came out and sat down on a mini ottoman, "So we're going to teach you guys a new word, it's called stuntin'. The purpose of stuntin', there are two reasons one is to get attention. We just want to make sure that when y'all come to L.A., when y'all come to America y'all gotta do the rap video the right away. Your videos are dope, but there's something we don't see a lot of and that's girls. We know you have (Y/N) but she's sweet and innocent, she doesn't bring that Hip-hop factor. So today we're going out to find some girl and try to get them in the music video." Tony finished explaining to us, although his comment about me not bringing up the factor that they wanted to be made me feel some type of way, Bang PD put me in this group for a reason that's all I know so I decided to just ignore his comment. "So these skills we're about to teach y'all should not be used for personal gain. These are to be used for the music video before you even talk to a girl the first thing is, you gotta go after the right kind of girl. We're casting a hip-hop video so we need girls who take care of themselves, that care how they look. Nails they need to look good, like (Y/N) stand up for me," Nate told me while gesturing for me to get up. I stood up in the middle of the room facing the boys wondering why I had to stand up from my comfy space on the couch. Nate grabbed my hands holding them out to show them off to the boys, "See she keeps her nails nice and done. Their simple colors are a nice light blue and white but they look good. Look at how she's dressed, it's a T-shirt and shorts but she keeps her hair kempt, her hair is a nice blonde color, look for someone like (Y/N)," Nate finished explaining to the boys letting me sit back down on the couch. Nate and Tony made the boys show off their skills giving them a few pointers on their skills with picking up girls, until it was my turn. I wasn't sure what I had to do so I just looked at Tony and Nate waiting for clarification. "For you (Y/N) we were thinking you could be friendly and show off that charm you have to you," Tony explained giving me a better idea of what I had to do for this mission. We soon finished practicing for the mission and had to get dressed to leave soon, Taehyung left a folded pile of clothes for me this morning so I went into the bathroom and put on the black long-sleeve shirt he picked out along with the black and grey skirt and some black boots, as a finishing touch I decided to add a black bow choker along with the necklace Jungkook helped Coolio get me. 

By the time I was done getting ready, it was time for us to go and pick up some girls. I thought this was weird given the fact that they had me but also asking random people to be in our music video seemed creepy. We loaded into the car and started our short but long drive to the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. " I think the first person to succeed will be Rap Mon," Jimin commented making all of us nod our heads in agreement. He was the best at English so it was an advantage for him, but I made it my goal to study English more until I was as fluent as Namjoon so I could communicate with people more and not just rely on translators. By the time we got to the Walk of Fame and found parking it was dark outside, I was sitting next to Taehyung who had an arm draped lazily around me soothing me to sleep since I felt sleep-deprived due to the rude awakening I had this morning. "Namjoon and Jimin are up first," One of our camera people told us encouraging Namjoon and Jimin to hurry to get out of the car. I fell asleep while they were out dreaming of pure nonsense and the thoughts of all the dances we'd learned running through my head trying to remember them all. I was shaken awake by Taehyung who explained to me it was our turn to go and talk to some girls. I got out of the car slightly annoyed with the mission since it felt like I served no purpose and seeing my boyfriend flirt with other girls was going to hurt. We made Taehyung go first since he was the most outgoing and confident no matter the situation, and because this game me time to space off trying to distract myself from watching him. I did nothing for the entire mission except smile here and there at the girls they found giving a few convincing comments here and there, we walked back to the car satisfied hoping that the girls we talked to would show up. We got back in the car which meant I got to go back to sleep until we got home and once we got home I could sleep even more.

We woke up to our producers and managers walking in with the stylist and makeup artists following close behind them so that they could help us get ready for the day. I was hoping to see Nari as the stylist but she wasn't there sadly, I was pulled away from my train of thoughts when a new stylist who didn't even bother to talk to me gave me some clothes and ushered me into the bathroom so I could get dressed. I put on the clothes that she gave me which were a bit different and more revealing than what I would usually wear hence the fact that the shirt was sheer. I got my hair done to just have a slight curl in my hair that was once a bright copper turned to a blonde.

We drove for about 30 minutes to a mansion where we were going to be filming our music video admiring how wonderful it looked. We took some group pictures around the house taking it in and making memories that would stick with us forever. I decided to spend some time with J-hope who was working on producing some music. I had no input and instead just listened to the ideas he had giving small suggestions which was hard due to all the limits our producers put on us. Jungkook eventually came over to us with a camera he had taken pointing it right at us, "What are you doing?" He asked while trying to peer over at J-hopes phone, "Because the weather is so nice, I'm working on the side tracks for our next album," He replied while looking back at Jungkook who then took off and went to go record something else. I could already tell it was going to be a long day trying to film this music video.