My I「Junhao」

1.2

"Seungcheol-hyung! You messed up that move again." Minghao called out from where he was sitting on a chair in the performing arts auditorium —which doubled as the dance classroom— covered in blankets, courtesy of me. I rushed over to where Minghao was sitting from my position and asked my oldest hyung to repeat the section we had been working on so I could see what he was doing wrong and try to correct him.

Once I saw what it was I sighed with relief, seeing that it was something easily fixable. "Okay hyung, I see what you're doing wrong now. Firstly, you need to stop looking so stiff, secondly, you're getting your arms and legs mixed up. Sammy come here along with hyung, I'll show Seungcheol-hyung what he's doing wrong with you as my example. Soonyoungie's not here at the moment so Hao and I are watching and teaching you what he's taught us of the routine so for him we need to make sure all of you are getting it right. Chan, can you go over that with everyone else while I help Cheol? You're our next in charge with dance."

The second youngest nodded and started running the movements again. The oldest sighed and walked over. The youngest in our group also came over to me with a smile on his face, looking like he seemingly thought that he felt like he was useful, even if it was only in the slightest. (Although I don't think that would be the case at all, he is very useful and helps with choreography suggestions often)

I stood up and my fingers grazed Minghao's arm as I walked over to Samuel and Seungcheol watched everything that I was doing. Seungcheol smirked and I shot him a glare momentarily before smiling at Samuel and gently moving his arms and guiding him to move his legs to mimic what Seungcheol was doing when he did the movement. "Hyung, you're doing this, you're meant to be doing this." Samuel moved to the correct position, "And this is what the movement is meant to look like." Samuel did the movement the correct way, slow enough for Seungcheol to process.

"Like this?" Seungcheol showed me the movement again and it seemed closer to what it was supposed to be. "Almost. You've got the arms and legs right now but you're still really stiff. Your movements do need to be sharper, but you need to relax. At this moment your shoulders are tense and it looks like you don't have a neck." I stated bluntly and he nodded in understanding.

"I see it too. Cheol-hyungie, you are doing the steps right but you need to relax a little bit. This is fun. It's a competition but this is meant to be a fun dance to do." Samuel spoke confidently and I nodded in agreement. "Definitely, I agree with everything that Sammy just said. You can go back now, I don't want to keep you from practicing any more. Thank you for your help." The younger boy beamed at me and walked back to his position. "Again please hyung."

We had to run the movement a few times more, with me doing it with him a few of those time, until he did it to my liking. "Okay let's go again, all together though. Thank you, Chan." I returned to my own position and looked at Minghao, signalling for him to start the music, which for now was just a copy of the backing track as Jihoon was taking people away to record lines.

"5, 6, 7, 8." I cued us into the phrase and occasionally watched Minghao as he was observing movements. He seemed satisfied, much to my relief. Once we finished I smiled slightly and turned to my best friend. "How was it? Did Seungcheol-hyung do better?" I asked and Minghao nodded and went to respond when the door suddenly slammed against the wall as it was opened. "Guess who's back bitc- boys!" It was the extremely loud voice of our dance leader.

"'Who's next?', you may be asking. Well good for you because I have the answer! Junhui-hyung you're in next." I nodded in understanding and walked to the door, turning to look at Minghao when I opened the door to leave for the room Jihoon was recording in. Minghao nodded at me once with a smile on his face and I left the room with a faint smile on my own face.

I had taken about five steps before I remembered I had no clue where Jihoon's recording room was. I started to go one way and suddenly realised that I wasn't going towards the right area of the performing arts education area, I was going towards the individual classrooms for specific instruments, not to the recording rooms and larger music classrooms. I immediately turned around and went towards the actual area I was supposed to be in.

As I walked through the hallway, I realised that I had forgotten which music room Jihoon was recording in and I didn't even have my phone to send a message and ask him. Humming, I started marking the routine as I walked down the long hallway, looking for where Jihoon would be. "Hyung, what the fuck?" I heard from behind me and I froze in my place and turned around to face said boy I was looking for with an awkward smile on my face.

"Dancing." I uttered and he nodded slowly, staring at me like I had grown another head. "So, we'll be recording your lines for all three of the songs." He explained as he led me back to the recording room he was occupying. Once we were inside he passed me a few pages with lyrics on them and I read over them, interested by what my own lines would be. "How long is it until this competition actually begins?" I asked, stumbling over my words occasionally due to me reading and speaking completely different words simultaneously.

"It's in about a month. So Minghao should be fully recovered by then." I smiled slightly at his words and was relieved that there was such a long time to go before we had to compete. "These lines... how is your mind picturing me singing these?" I asked Jihoon, holding the sheets out towards him. "Your lines for this one... because you don't have many it's quite simple, you need to almost whisper these first ones, do you get what I mean?" I nodded, somewhat understanding his vague explanation.

"So like this?" I proceeded to 'sing' my lines, even though it was practically the same thing. "Thank god you'll be an easy one to work with. You saw how long I took with Soonyoung. Sometimes he's useless. Get in there and put the headphones on, I'll record your lines for that song then we'll move on." I nodded and made my way to the door which lead to the little recording room.

"Are you sure that he's useless and you weren't making out?" I asked cheekily and Jihoon threw a pillow at me from the chair he was sitting on. "Fuck off." He responded in a small voice. I poked my tongue out at him and walked into the room, closing the door behind me and putting the headphones on that were by the microphone. "Okay, so your lines start pretty much instantly, that'll be the only issue you may have with recording this. As soon as I nod and press the record button and the backing track starts, you need to start." He said through his special microphone.

I nodded and prepared myself. He nodded and I started. Even though I know I went too late I kept on going with my line, just for Jihoon to hear my voice against the backing track, in case he wanted me to do something else. "Let's try this again, hyung. You were a split second too late." I nodded in understanding and got ready to start again.

I finished recording my lines approximately half an hour later and when I returned I had to quickly catch up with part of the choreography which I hadn't been taught prior to Soonyoung leaving to record his lines. When I saw what some of the choreography was for the song 'Fast Pace', I almost left the room. "Why am I doing this with Jeonghan, of all people? Neither of us can stay serious when we do anything like this with each other."

To prove my point I made a face at Jeonghan just as he turned around and looked at me after hearing his name and his face broke out into a grin before he laughed. I laughed as well because he tried to copy the face I made and failed miserably. Soonyoung just shrugged. "Sorry hyung. I originally wanted it to be Minghao but Jihoonie said no." I pouted at him and made my way over to Minghao instead to ask him how he was feeling.

Of course, he said he was fine 'as always' and said that I really didn't need to ask him that question all the time. I knew from his sparkling eyes that he was relieved to be out of his room and I also knew that he was getting healthier as days passed.

Holy hell this just kept on getting longer I probably should've ended it after the recording but where's the fun in that when you like to imagine that Jun and Jeonghan laugh at each other when they practice that one part of the Fast Pace choreography.