This Is It • Meanie

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Jihoon was heading to the Dance Studio for practice when he noticed a man in the other room by himself. Stopping on his tracks, he recognised the strange figure as Seokmin and went back in front of the room to peek inside.

He was right.

Seokmin was staring at the window as he stood by himself in the room, beads of sweat rolling down his body. His shirt was soaked wet and he looked breathless as he took multiple gasps of air.

Even though the choreography wasn't completed, he wanted to practice for the upcoming performance. Even though everyone didn't met up together again, he wanted to imagine the happy faces of his fellow members if he didn't cause any trouble. If he didn't cause any couples to break apart, if he didn't make Chan avoid him.. If he didn't lose all of them, all of them would have been laughing with each other.

Sighing from his spot, Jihoon placed his hand on the doorknob and bit on his bottom lip as he hesitated to talk to the taller male. They never really had any conversations even when their group met up with each other.

Twisting the doorknob slowly, he opened the door quietly and cleared his throats to snap Seokmin out of his trance. Capturing the attention of the taller lad, he turned around to get greeted by a smiling Jihoon.

"Hey.."

Seokmin nodded as an acknowledgement of his presence with his lips pursed together and turned back around, moving to the speakers to stop the music. The smaller male went inside the room before closing the door shut and looking around.

There were a few instruments around and even a Theatre Grand Piano was placed at the corner. The male wondered why would the other practice in this room when it wasn't for dancing.

As if Seokmin heard his mind spoke, he answered straightforwardly with his eyes down to his smartphone. "I like it here."

"O-oh.." Shocked by the response, he blinked his eyes a couple of times before sitting in front of the black-coloured Piano with his eyes scanning among the black and white keys. Gently pressing down on a few of the keys, he quietly sighed in hopelessness.

"Have you ever played Sam Tsui and Christina Grimmie's Just A Dream?"

Feeling Seokmin's eyes on his back, Jihoon turned around to meet his stare and nodded slowly. Seokmin's lips formed a small smile and he nodded, "Great. Could you play that piece for me please? I'll sing Sam's part and you'll sing Christina's part, just to lift up the awkward mood."

"Okay.." The smaller male turned back to the piano with his eyebrows furrowed in confusion of the sudden request. He searched up for the score of the song on the Internet since he didn't really memorise it, and tried the piece out.

"I will be recording this, if that's fine with you?"

"It's fine.."

Placing his phone on the speaker which was facing Jihoon's back, he started the video and sat beside the smaller male. With a reassuring smile, he nodded as a que to start the song.

In the first few seconds, the silence was broken by the music played by the piano. Jihoon looked concentrated on the piece, though multi-tasking would make him look more appealing.

Seokmin started singing, "I was thinkin 'bout you, thinkin 'bout me, thinkin 'bout us, what we gon' be. Open my eyes~"