1:31 Am

Chapter 13

"youngjae?" Youngjae turned to jyp and smiled. "Yes sir?" Jyp smiled at the singer and took him under his arm. "As you know your Flight Log comeback is happening soon and i was wondering if you could possibly write a song to preform live in front of the whole audience the first night of touring." Youngjae stopped in his tracks and looked at him. "But... that's.... 2 or 3 months away sir." Jyp nodded. "You can do it. You're a genius so it shouldn't take that long. Thanks youngjae" And just like that, youngjae was stuck stressing about this whole damn thing. After all this was the ultimate test. He was going to be able to preform one of his very own songs in front of thousands of fans and he had the power to do what ever he wanted with the song. He felt powerful but he also felt like he was going to lose his shit. This was such a big opportunity for him. He began to think and an idea popped into his mind. He walked up to jaebum and cleared his throat. "Hey uh.... hyung, can we do a duet together?" Suddenly the room went dead silent and everyone had been staring at the two. Jaebum turned around, a confused look on his face. "why do you want a to do a duet with me?" Youngjae coughed and chuckled nervously. "W-well uh it's because JYP told me to. He wanted us to do a collab together for our opening at the fly in Seoul concert. " Jaebum nodded his head and smiled softly. "alright. Sure let's do it." Youngjae smile grew two sizes and nodded "Thanks hyung!"

It was now 1:00 am. That was over a month and a half ago and youngjae was flipping his shit. He was running on 2 hours of sleep and about 5 cups of coffee. He would press the keys on the piano to see what chords worked with what and to see how the song would flow. He would rip, scribble, burn, tear, chew, and stab the papers with lyrics that didn't make the cut. Periodically jinyoung would bring him more coffee or some food to help the poor child but jinyoung went to bed 3 hours ago. He was starving and running on fumes. Youngjae got up from the piano with his coffee cup and began to walk towards the kitchen, filling up his mug and getting a shit ton of food from the fridge. One of the items in his hand had been loose enough to fall to the ground. Youngjae groaned and was about to pick it up when he saw another hand pick it up. He trailed the hand to the shoulder and from there it connected to the body that had belonged to none other than Im Jaebum. Youngjae sighed as jaebum looked at the younger boy struggle. "Hyung can you give me a hand?" Jaebum nodded silently and took some of the stuff, following the singer into the piano room. "How's the song coming along?" Jaebum asked. Youngjae shot him a death glare before yawing and taking a sip of coffee. "it's coming along horribly. I got 3 days to finish a song that is nowhere near being done and i'm stuck and out of ideas. I don't know what to writ about and i feel like giving up." Youngjae smashed the keys on the piano before he felt jaebum stop him. "youngjae. Why didn't you just ask me to help you write the damn song?" "because hyung jyp wanted me to write it. But im losing so much hair over stress i don't know what to do." Jaebum sighed and scooted youngjae over on the bench. "youngjae. When are you going to realize that we are a team? The burden of doing poorly or doing well wont all be on you if you just let me help you sooner. If we fail we fail together. If we make it we make it together. Okay?" Youngjae nodded and reluctantly handed over the pencil.

"Okay but what about 'I need u girl-'" youngjae trailed off singing the BTS song. "Youngjae that wouldn't be good. That would be copy righted. " "you right jaebum hyung." Jaebum looked at the younger boy worried. "Youngjae you need sleep." Youngjae shook his head and yawned. "let's just finish up the lyrics okay?" Jaebum nodded. Youngjae looked at the clock. '1:30 am' it read. Suddenly an idea popped into youngjae's head. "Hyung!!!" Jaebum jumped a little and looked at the boy. "Im right here no need to yell. What's up?" Youngjae grabbed jaebum's arm and turned it so his wrist was facing towards the ceiling. Youngjae wrote down the lyrics that had been on there and then wrote down his own. Suddenly the wheels in his brain began to turn as he wrote some more. "youngjae?" Jaebum looked at the boy who had seemed to be pushing himself far beyond his limit but was blown away by the sheer focus he had. He looked down at the paper and saw the lyrics that he had written down.

The way you always smile don't ever lose that.

If it ever get's hard you can always come back to me.

Jaebum looked shocked as he looked down at his wrist and saw that some of the letters to other lyrics were beginning to appear. The leader turned towards youngjae who seemed to have been frozen. "h-hyung...." Jaebum looked worried at the other boy. "Yeah youngjae?" Youngjae slowly turned to jaebum, gripping his wrist, his face sickly and pale, a few beads of sweat rolling down his forehead. "I-is it possible for lyrics to be on your wrist from a song that has never existed?" Jaebum froze. He looked at the younger boy and then back at his wrist. "i-i don't know youngjae.... maybe yeah."

You have to stay well. Don't even get sick.
The way you smile, don't ever lose that.

If it ever get's hard, you can always come back to me.
I'm here like always, right here for you.

I will never leave you.

Waiting for you