I Just Wanna

Chapter 5

"I'm not saying she's my type; I'm just saying if she was a cupcake amongst a hundred cupcakes, I would pick her." Namjoon argued as he closed several tabs on his laptop. Daehoon cackled and slapped the latter's shoulder.

"You're such a hopeless romantic." Daehoon pointed out. He shook his head as Namjoon opened his mouth to argue, but Aj caught his eyes.

"Aj!" Daehoon greeted, hopping off of Namjoon's desk and giving Namjoon a quick pat of the blonde's shoulder. He walked over to Aj and wrapped an arm around the blonde's shoulders.

"So, I've been messing around with the song you gave me and I think you'll like what I did with it." He said. Aj looked at Daehoon.

"Which song? I gave you like seven." He questioned.

"'Be My Girl.'"

"Oh...you can trash it, bro, it's not a good enough song."

Daehoon stopped walking.

"What do you mean I can trash it? You haven't even listened to what I've done; I worked all night on it." His eyes fumed. He was getting mad. Aj looked into his red eyes and noticed the slightly grey bags under them.

He really had worked all night...

"Dae..." Aj began, but Soohyun called the music technician. Daehoon glanced back at the blonde, a sad look in his eyes, before walking towards his superior. Soohyun patted Daehoon's back and they both walked out of the main office. Aj sighed and rubbed his eyes before adjusting the strap of his satchel. He began to walk towards his office when a high, pleasant voice called his name.

"Aj!" Taeyeon shouted. A few heads turned their way and Aj would have blushed if it weren't for Taeyeon's calming smile. He beamed back and raised his hand.

"Hey, Tae." He answered sweetly. Taeyeon smiled wider and walked briskly to the blonde. Her hair bounced and blew back slightly and Aj had to force himself not to stare. He looked down to his shoes and bit his lip as the brunette reached him.

"Hi there; I've been looking for you." She brushed a lock of hair behind her ear and looked up to him. "Where have you been?" Aj shrugged and looked to Taeyeon. Their eyes met and there was a momentary silence before Aj switched his focus to a piece of lint on Taeyeon's shoulder.

"I just arrived." He admitted. She smiled at this.

"Are you busy? Do you want to practice right now?" The brunette asked. Aj thought about the songs he now had to rewrite because of his father. The chords he had slaved over finding for hours he now had to find again. The lyrics he had to remember for the multitude of songs he had written. The now very difficult editing and perfecting songs on his computer without a base to build them on. He closed his eyes for a few seconds before faking a smile to Taeyeon.

"I'm not busy; let's go to the music room." He lied. He told himself he needed a break and held back a sigh as Taeyeon grinned and pulled him by his elbow.

"I've been practicing on what you told me and I think I finally have everything down." Taeyeon stated as they both walked towards the music room. Aj began to feel happier as he realized he was going to spend around an hour with Taeyeon. Around an hour because she was a perfectionist if anything and she always strived for improving. She would be asking him questions, asking him for demonstrations before trying his techniques out for herself. What would have been guessed as a twenty minute vocal lesson would turn into an hour long lesson on breathing correctly, enunciating words better, singing eighth notes instead of sixteenth notes, for some examples. "I don't strive for perfection; it doesn't exist so why try. I strive for progress, damn good progress at that," was what she would say to him whenever they sat alone in the entire building in the dark hours of the night. Whenever he was tired and ready to go home, but she was not. She kept him under lock and key when they were in practice. She wanted to know anything and everything.