New 새로운 // BTS

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"Yo, these outfits are dope," Namjoon smiles at his black and gold T-shirt.

"Yeah but these nerves sure aren't," Jimin sighs, rocking back and forth. I bet we can all agree with him on that one.

"Nerves just mean you care. It'd be worrisome if you didn't have any," Yoongi applies his input.

I quickly glance at the clock, seeing that we have exactly 12 minutes before starting our interview. After that we'll have to go right into our first ever performance on a stage of our own, and then to a fan meet. I don't know if I'm ready for this yet.

"Nice man skirt hyung," Hoseok nudges Yoongi who gives him a death look, "I'm just kidding with you! It actually looks really cool,"

"You and RaeJae are twinning," V points out. I let out a small laugh, looking down at my oversized black T-shirt that has a pleated skirt with a gold design sewed under it. I'm also wearing high socks accompanied by black sneakers, and let's not forget all of our gigantic chains hanging from our necks.

"I'm asking for a new outfit," Yoongi grunts, turning around.

"No no no!" Jin grabs his arm, "we literally have like 8 minutes. The stylists know what they're doing so don't worry about it. Your swagger is glowing,"

"My swagger?" Yoongi repeats.

"Yes, you have swag," Jin nods. Yoongi makes a pleased expression which puts all of our minds at ease knowing that he's now confident in his outfit.

"Alright, BTS, we're going to get the ball rolling today," a staff worker greets us, "we're going to have you enter the room one by one, oldest to youngest, and on the way in you'll see a mirror. We want you to stop there for a quick second, give yourself one piece of advice for today, and then you may enter the room. Got it?"

"Ne! [yes]!" We all say in unison.

"Jin-Ssi, we'll call you over in about 2 minutes,"

"One by one?!" Jimin whisper shouts, his face going pale. I remain silent, nerves overrunning my every muscle.

"It'll be okay. This interview isn't live either so don't worry if you make a mistake, "Namjoon tells us, "also, don't forget to call me, RaeJae, Hoseok, Taehyung, and Yoongi hyung by our stage names,"

"Of course, Rap Monster," J-Hope grins cheerfully.

"Jin-Ssi, you're up!"

Jin looks to us all, mouthing good luck before following the director. One by one they all enter leaving just Jungkook and I shaking in our shoes.

"Kookie I can't even think of a piece of advice to give myself," I whisper shakily, counting down the seconds until they call Jungkook into the room.

"How about-" Jungkook is cut off by the director, "You'll figure out something," He smiles while giving me a quick hug.

"Hwaiting!" I call after him.

Great now I'm all alone. There's got to be something I can tell myself. Like maybe don't trust your manager... obviously not. Oh my god I'm going to look like fool if I just sit there.

"RaeJae-Ssi,"

"Already?" I gasp, the director nodding, "coming,"

I slowly walk through a black curtain, revealing a dark room with just a vanity mirror at the far end. I carefully walk towards it, the small bulbs on the edge of the mirror lighting up my face.

"Omo," I breath out, sitting down in front of myself, "this is sort of creepy..."

I tilt my head at myself, oddly enough being fascinated by my makeup and hair today. Usually I never put on makeup or do my hair, so this is huge change. I kind of like it though.

"Um, RaeJae-Ssi," I address myself awkwardly, "Don't be so-"

Suddenly the mirror lights up, a ghost or something looking back at me with the worst grimace I've ever seen.

"AHHHHH!" I scream at the top of my lungs, a hand grabbing my ankle which only causes me to scream more.

I quickly scoot back in my chair, completely falling backwards onto the ground before springing up and to the door of the interview room. My eyes widen at the seven boys laughing their heads off in front of me.

"Y-your face!" V struggles to get out, leaning into Jimin for support, "I thought you were going to faint!"

"Did they do that to you all too?" I breath out, trying to get my heartbeat under control.

"Yeah, you should've seen J-Hope's reaction," Suga says in between laughs.

"Woah, I thought I was dead for sure," I sigh, sitting next to Jungkook, "What'd you do?"

"I didn't scare," He smirks cockily.

"Yeah right!"

"Could you please introduce yourselves to the camera please?"

I immediately snap my mouth shut and sit up straight. Pushing thing fact that I just got the living daylights scared out of my by a make pretend ghost.

I clear my throat to kick off our introductions, "Ne, Anneyeonghaseyo jeoneun Rain-imnida. I am the maknae in the group and am a vocalist, rapper, and dancer as well," [yes, hello my name is Rain]

[A/N] sometimes I worry myself with how much Korean I've learned just by watching so many videos xD)

We all go down the line from youngest to oldest, telling our names first, then age, and then or roles. Yoongi then tells the camera about our goals in hip hop and other things like our targeted audience.

Finally Namjoon raps it up with a kind message for love and support and we're already getting ushered to the stage.

"What happens if I mess up?" Jimin questions shakily, his hands trembling at his side.

"Jimin hyung," I smile, grabbing his hands in mine, "You're going to do great! We've trained so much for this moment, especially you. So don't stress yourself out over something that you'll look back on in five years just to smile at,"

"Thanks, Rain-Ssi,"

I laugh at my stage name, now focusing on myself. To be honest I can't tell if those words were directed more towards Jimin or to myself, because I'm freaking out right now.

"Alright my dear friends," Namjoon turns to us all, "this is it. This is the moment we've been waiting for, and look at us. We all made it here! Now Let's make good memories from this point on and let's never look back. Hands in,"

I put my hand on top of Yoongi's who put his hand over Namjoon's and the rest follow.

"Bangtan Banting bang bangtan!" We all cheer, throwing our hands down just as we hear our name called.

We rush into our positions under the stage so that we can be raised up. My platform jolts just as I make it on, it already moving up for me to see the faces of about a thousand fans max. That's a lot of people.

The stage is still dark so none of them can see us, but I can see all of them. I feel a hand on my should so I look back.

"Don't be shy," Yoongi mouths to me, giving me a smile. I nod in agreement, looking to the floor and waiting for the music to start.

We are Bullet Proof Pt. 2 is the first track to play, Rap Monster starting us off as I work hard to hit all my dance moves. After the first chorus I do my 6 line rap, dancing the best I probably have ever in my lifetime. I just want people to like us.

Soon my nerves disappear pretty much at the same time as we go into our second song No More Dream. Our performance luckily goes just as smooth as the first, ending in cheers from the audience and us exiting the stage with zero regrets.

"THAT WAS AWESOME!" Taehyung gasps, jumping up and down the his hands on Hoseok's shoulders.

"That just made up for every time I doubted myself during training," Namjoon smiles wide.

"Agreed," Yoongi says.