A Child's Vision | Yeri × Jungkook

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Koeun ran into the room when she saw Yeri sitting on the floor, crying into her hands. She immediately ran to her side and put a hand on her back. "Yeri, what happened? Where's Dino going?"

Yeri looked up from her hands and her eyes were stained with tears. "Jungkook. He was trying to protect me and I threw him out."

Koeun eyebrow's furrowed. "Yeri, you are going to have to explain that better."

Yeri sniffled. "Chan and I were practicing my scene. I was saying "stop" and Jungkook came in and attacked Chan."

Koeun bit her lip. "I think he just misunderstood. Why did you automatically throw him out?"

Yeri shook her head and stared at the ground. "He didn't try to let Chan explain what was happening. He just came in and started punching him."

Koeun sighed. "I know why you are upset but you have to think about it in his perspective. He even came up to us and asked where you were and we told him that you were in the waiting room. Think of him walking towards the waiting room and hearing someone yelling. He goes into the room and he sees a guy on top of you. Do you really think that he would politely ask him to get off?"

Yeri bit her lip. "Damn it, I hate it when you are right."

Koeun gave her a small smile. "You should go find him."

Yeri nodded and got off of the ground. She turned to Koeun and she wiped her years from Yeri's face. She patted her shoulders and Yeri gave her a thankful smile.

Yeri ran out of the waiting room and scanned the warehouse. She couldn't see Jungkook but she knew that it was a while since she threw him out of the room.

She found a producer that knew Jungkook personally and approached her. "Hi, do you know where Jungkook went?"

The producer nodded and pointed at a door. "He ran out of that door a few minutes ago."

Yeri thanked the producer and she ran towards the door. She went out and scanned the area. The area outside of the warehouse was a makeshift parking lot. Yeri thought for a moment, trying to think of what Jungkook's car looks like. All she could remember that it was a black hatchback.

Luckily, there were only a few black hatchbacks in the lot. Yeri moved to the first one that she saw. No one was in there. Yeri groaned and moved to the next car and peeked inside. She gasped when she saw Jungkook sitting in the driver's seat of the car, his head in his hands.

Yeri wondered if what she was doing was appropriate. She sucked in that energy and tapped the window. Jungkook popped his head up and saw Yeri. He immediately reached over the interior of the car and opened the door for Yeri.

Yeri crawled into the car but noticed that Jungkook couldn't look at her. Yeri was just about to open her mouth to speak when Jungkook started.

"You know that I really thought that you were being attacked?" He finally looked at Yeri. She could see that there were tears in his eyes. "I know that it wasn't right, but I just wanted to kill that guy. To think that he would do something to hurt you killed me inside. If you wouldn't have stopped me, I would've pounded his face in."

Yeri was about to give a small giggle at his morbid statement but she could sense that he was being serious. "I'm sorry, Jungkook."

He nodded once. "I am too."

Yeri bit her lip. She didn't know what else to say so she opened the door to his car. Jungkook grabbed her on the wrist.

Yeri turned back to see him give her a small smile. "Do great out there, okay?"

Yeri gave him a blank expression and nodded before getting out of the car.

--

The 8 girls stood in front of the mirror at their practice studio. They looked unpresentable: sweat stained bodies and hair that could be mistaken for a bird's nest. But still, all of the girls had bright smiles on their faces.

Sua spoke first. "Hello, we are..."

"99 Line!" All of the girls said brightly together.

"Our debut song, 'Know Yourself' is a house track with powerful dance moves. The song is about knowing yourself and all of your internal struggles to be able to live your life to the fullest. We hope that you will give our song lots of love as well as our full length album!" Sua said in a bright voice.

All of the other girls oohed at her, mesmerized on how she could turn from the charismatic rapper to a well-spoken leader. Sua giggled and looked at all of the girls. "We will be having our debut stage tomorrow!"

The girls cheered and jumped up and down. They couldn't believe that they were so close to their dreams, specifically one night away.

The music video had already been released in its entirety. The 8-minute, story driven music video had garnered a lot of attention from fans all around the world. The album in general had been critically acclaimed and liked by the public. The only thing to do now was to give their performance of their debut song since there was absolutely no dancing in the music video.

"I think we deserve a bit of time on our own." Sua pointed out. "Let's get back to the dorms and have the rest of the day to ourselves."

Yeri gaped at Sua, looking at the clock on the wall and noticed that it was barely past 11 in the morning.

--

Koeun crawled onto Yeri's bed when they reached the dorms again. She smacked her head against Yeri's pillow and sighed. "I think all I need right now is a nice nap."

Yeri giggled and hopped into her own bed, sitting underneath Koeun's legs. "Koeun, I want my own bed too."

"Too bad." Koeun said into the pillow. "I don't have the energy to climb the ladder to my own bed and I intend on staying here."

Yeri laughed and nodded. "I think I'm going to go out."

Koeun twisted her head and sat up at the blink of an eye, all of her attention on Yeri. Yeri started laughing at Koeun. "I guess you weren't as tired as you say you are."

Koeun ignored her statement. "Why are you going out? Don't you think it's dangerous?"

"Why would it be dangerous?" Yeri asked.

Koeun looked at her as if it were obvious, written on her forehead. "We have just debuted and you want to go spend your day out on the town?"

Yeri shrugged. "I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Sua did give us the rest of the day off."

Koeun licked her lips. Yeri knew that she was in trouble when Koeun did this. "Yeri, I'm all for you having fun, but seriously this is the worst time in your life to go out and be a normal human being. What if someone recognizes you? It would be terrible if some article came out saying that you were out fooling around when you should be practicing for your debut stage tomorrow."

Yeri sighed. "What is up with you being right all of the time?"

Koeun smiled and shrugged. "I just don't want you to kill us before we even get started. I love you Yeri, but I refuse to let you do anything that could hurt us."

Yeri simply nodded and crawled out from under Koeun's legs. Koeun seemed to calm herself down quickly enough to sleep. Yeri climbed up to Koeun's bed and pulled out her phone.

Sorry, we can't meet. I'm on a tight leash. She texted.

It's alright. The person replied. We will see each other at your debut stage tomorrow.

Yeri smiled as she threw her phone onto the bed. She crashed her head onto the pillow and smiled at the thought of tomorrow.