My I「Junhao」

1.8

"Seungcheol the mirror has wheels for a reason!" Jeonghan screeched at his boyfriend, who had offered to help move the mirrors out of the storage room and was seen struggling to carry one out. He was holding it on the outsides, stretching his arms as far as he could, rather than simply manoeuvring it using the wheels on the bottom. I snickered at that and continued pushing the mirror I was moving out and across the floor to where we normally set the mirrors.

"Actually no, let's put them somewhere different today." Soonyoung insisted and Minghao, ever the perfectionist — he had been straightening the mirror he'd put in place and making sure it was equal with the line where the floorboards met — glared at Soonyoung and cursed at him in Mandarin, to prevent from getting yelled at for swearing by Jeonghan, who was overseeing the entire process of setting up the room for our brainstorm and first choreography session for the new group song with an eagle eye.

I laughed at Minghao and moved my mirror to the side of the room where Soonyoung had told us to move the mirrors, the others following. Seokmin — who had been trying to use the mirror almost like a skateboard when making his way over by standing on top of the wheels — started moving in a diagonal rather than staying straight, fell off and down to the floor and narrowly missed getting hit by the falling mirror. I winced as I heard him and the mirror fall but sighed with relief when I saw that there was no damage done to anything.

The sound of his body and the mirror impacting the ground immediately got Jisoo and Jeonghan to react and they both rushed over to Seokmin, stood the mirror up and fussed over him, checking him for injuries. "Hyungs, I'm fine. I'm not five." He insisted, pushing their hands away from him and standing up with no difficulty. "Be careful next time." Jisoo insisted and Seokmin rolled his eyes, but it was clear he was loving the caring nature of the two older boys due to the smile on his face when he put the mirror in place, moving it safely this time.

Seungkwan, who was also helping with the mirrors, was laughing loudly at his friend and almost ran into Wonwoo, but was redirected last second by Hansol, who had noticed that Seungkwan was distracted. Hansol quietly scolded Seungkwan as the two of them moved the mirror Seungkwan had. Once the mirrors were lined up, we gathered around Seungcheol, who looked excited.

"My friends, this round is our subunit round so between Jihoon, Soonyoung and myself, we've split you up into your specialities and we will be the leaders of these subunits. Wonwoo, Mingyu, Hansol, you're with me. We're the hip hop team." I nodded, knowing that they were indeed our best rappers, however, I was slightly confused that Chan wasn't in that group as he was also a great rapper.

"Hannie, Jisoo, Seokmin and Seungkwan, you're with Jihoon, you're our vocal team. That leaves Junhui, Minghao, Chan and Muellie with Soonyoung. You're our performance team. Our best dancers." I smiled at that, now understanding why Chan wasn't in the hip hop team. I went up close to Minghao, who was still straightening his mirror and grinned at him. "I guess you're stuck with me still." He faked a groan at that.

"Okay, so we each have backing tracks for the song for each unit. You all need to discuss lyric ideas with your groups and once you have something figured out, start writing." I grabbed Minghao's arm and dragged him away from the mirror which he was struggling to line up and to the other three. "I will rip your head off you piece of trash. I was so close to getting it perfect!"

I just rolled my eyes in response to him overdramatising his threat. "It looks perfectly fine, Xiao Hao. The only thing wrong with the mirrors is the fact that the ones that Seungkwan and Seokmin put in line weren't completely straight and we can fix that." He looked back at the mirrors and sighed, allowing me to drag him without more struggle.

"My boys, let me just express to you, my love for our song. It's amazing and once we write lyrics it'll be even better." Soonyoung gushed like a fangirl (or fanboy) crying over their favourite group. I just rolled my eyes and smiled fondly at the boy. "We all know it's because your boyfriend wrote it and you love your boyfriend and everything he does." Soonyoung tried to protest but instead looked at me through narrowed eyes.

"I want to say that you're wrong but you're really not wrong at all. I really do love my boyfriend and his music. But, I must admit, it is a very lit song." I cringed at the use of lit and Minghao grinned at that. "So, here is our song so far." He pulled up a track on his phone's music app and turned it up loud enough for the remaining four of us to be able to hear it. He was right. It was 'lit'.

Within fifteen minutes we had brainstormed ideas for the song and came up with our general concept, as well as a few of us suggesting some lines that could be used in the song. The best moment of that fifteen minutes was the way that Minghao's face lit up when Soonyoung agreed to him rapping in Mandarin, giving him a section of the song that would be just after the chorus. Him and myself worked together to write his rap and with the two of us working together it took about 10 minutes.

Soonyoung's reaction to the rap was priceless "That is going in this song. I don't care what anyone thinks. This is our song so we have every right to have you rap in Mandarin." He stated in a no-questions-asked tone. It was clear he wasn't going to change his mind and I was glad for that because the look of happiness on Minghao's face meant everything to me.

Within a few hours we had the lyrics mostly completed and we gave them to Jihoon to revise, criticise and help tie them together. While he was doing that, we started on our dance. We worked on it for a a while and then we started working on the choreography for our group song for the second round, which was a song that we worked on and recorded before the first round of the competition had even occurred. It was called 'Pretty U'. We ended up leaving the room at the end of the allocated time for practice with over half of the routine having been learned by all of us successfully.

It was an all round success and as Minghao and myself walked home, enjoying the ice cream I had decided to treat us to and swinging our intertwined hands between our bodies, I felt strangely content.

EVERYONE I ACTUALLY FINISHED THIS CHAPTER TWO DAYS BEFORE UPDATE DAY
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A WHILE IM EARLY!!!!!!

What's your favourite song by each subunit?
Mine are Highlight (and also Lilili Yabbay but Highlight is just that bit higher bc I love it so much), 20 and If I