Falling For the Bully

Chapter Three

I awoke the next morning to Yugyeom gently shaking me awake, "Sunbaenim...sunbaenim...It's time to get ready." he whispered softly. I nodded and sat up rubbing my eyes, "I told you to call me hyung Yuggie." I said sleepily as I turned to wake up Jackson who was still asleep. "I'll wake him up hyung, please just go get ready okay?" Yugyeom continued as he moved closer to Jackson and started to shake him gently. "Trust me Yuggie it's better if I do it, Jackson isn't a morning person and he can't get mad at me for waking him up," I stated. 

Thankfully Yugyeom nodded and left the room, "InJung sunbaenim told us to be ready in half an hour." he said before he closed the door softly. I rolled over on top of Jackson and started pulling on his hair, "Wake up lazy" I said directly into his ear. He swatted at the hand that was pulling his hair as he groaned a few times before opening his eyes up slowly, "If you weren't older I would punch you right now." he said without using honorifics. I didn't care though, I thought honorifics were weird even though I was used to them now. I slapped him on the butt once and stood up feeling refreshed even though I had slept on the floor all night. 

I started pulling out something to wear before I realized that I should probably get the schedule first so I could dress accordingly. I pulled open the door after I made sure that Jackson wasn't going to fall asleep again and walked into the living room where Junior was sitting ready to go and looking at his phone. "Morning Mark, you wake up Jackson?" InJung asked walking over to me with a mug of something steaming. I nodded as he held the mug out to me. "Tea, all of you have to drink this since you will be doing a lot of singing today, here is the schedule for the day," he said pulling my tired body toward the dining table.

Mark Tuan: Schedule November 2, 2013
7am Team Meeting (All project members)
8am Vocals (MT, JW, KB only)
10am Individual vocal practice (MT only)

- Lunch -

1pm Group dance practice (Room 7)
7pm Dinner Break
8pm to 11pm Group Vocal

I was surprised that the day wasn't as filled with activities as I had thought, I remember reading 2pm sunbaenim's once and felt myself panicking. Although we hadn't debuted yet so there was still time before we were getting less than five hours a sleep a night too. I nodded and went back to my room happy that Jackson was getting dressed. I chose a plain white shirt and some basketball shorts figuring if we were going to have a six-hour dance practice I might as well dress for comfort. When I had finished dressing I slid on a gray beanie and dragged a half-awake Jackson out the room with me. Bambam was the only one who wasn't ready yet and I could see Junior physically getting annoyed even though we were actually early according to the schedule.

 Bambam came running out of his room bowing furiously to everyone in the room before InJung ushered us outside and down to the van. The office wasn't that far from the dorms so we arrived at 7:45am and were directed to room 7 - a large dance room that I had never been in before but I recognized from 2pm sunbaenim's dance practice videos. I guess the reality still hadn't settled into me because I walked into the room cautiously like I wasn't supposed to be there. Within a few minutes, JYPdnim entered with four other people and we all stood and bowed before being told to sit. "As I'm sure most of you have heard today you're getting your group name as well as there will be a leader selected." JYPdnim started once we had all stopped shuffling about. "First the group name. This name is special to me and I specifically hand selected you seven for this group so please do not disappoint me." He looked at all of us for a few seconds before moving on. "The group name is....Got7" there were a few gasps and silence before Jackson spoke up. "Hyung isn't that kind of on the nose? I mean Got7 and we have seven members?" he asked in English to which only seemed to annoy Junior further than he already was.

"Exactly. Now for the leader. This was a hard decision since the leader is usually the oldest member of the group, but considering our oldest isn't fluent in Korean I have chosen Jaebum as the leader." he continued. I kind of figured I wasn't going to be the leader, it didn't really make much sense in the first place: I wasn't fluent in Korean, I was quiet pretty much all the time and I only really felt comfortable around Jackson and even to him I wasn't fully open about everything. I felt a pair of eyes look at me and turned to see a slightly terrified JB. "It's okay, I kind of figured," I said hoping to assure JB that I really didn't mind. I honestly would be a horrible leader when I started to think about it.

 I wasn't really good at being comforting and I gave horrible advice. Plus there was no way Junior would listen to me considering he already had a debut with JB a few months ago. The meeting ended after we discussed that we would be getting our debut song later this week and until then we were just polishing up our basic skills of everything as well as playing around with some possible choreography for the song. I had vocal training with Jackson and Bambam which was relief since our training was pretty easy. None of us could really sing that well, we could sing but we all knew we weren't going to be vocalists in Got7 which I really didn't mind.

 Today we were trained in rap as that was the position us three were most likely going to be given, surprisingly I wasn't as bad as I thought I was going to be. By the end of training, I actually felt pretty confident. I walked into a separate and practiced the rap that I was given, the words were pretty good and rapped them with confidence as I walked about the room. Time was just flying by as Bambam came to get me for lunch, we headed to the cafeteria and were greeted with bows from several of the trainees that we used to practice with. I didn't understand why they were bowing until JB came up behind me "Nice, isn't it? Having the trainees bow to you? They do that because you're their sunbae now." he said as he patted my back and got his food.

Lunch was pretty uneventful as Jackson just went on and on about noticing that there were some new trainee girls who had started training today, I didn't pay much attention though, trainee girls weren't as interesting to me as they were to Jackson. After lunch we all trudged back upstairs to room seven for dance practice; the first three hours were going to be learning choreography and the second set of three hours were for correction and polishing. The choreographer entered the room and immediately wanted to see my martial arts tricking, the skill that probably landed me in the company in the first place.

 I went through a few tricks before the choreographer decided that he definitely wanted at least one trick in the dance. He turned on the demo and then pointed out our positions before showing us what he had come up with. It was a great dance I had to admit, I just hoped it was debut worthy. We spent the three hours learning the moves before taking a small break and getting back to it. After six hours of dancing and tricking I could feel my muscles screaming, as a trainee we maybe had four hours of dance practice a day so my body needed to adjust. The rest of the schedule went by in a blur, after dinner I was so tired that I hadn't remembered a single thing that happened during group vocal but the vocal teacher looked impressed with us when we left so I assumed I had done everything right despite having no clue what happened.

 When we arrived at the dorm we all dragged our tired and sore bodies inside slowly, even Junior and JB who was used to having full schedules looked like they wanted to collapse. "Hyung can we shower together tonight? I can't wait for you or I'll fall asleep." I heard Jackson ask as he leaned against me. I dragged him to the bathroom on our side of the dorm and locked the door not giving him an answer but he knew anyway.

We showered lazily and changed, we didn't bother to blow dry our hair before we climbed under our blanket but we both wrapped towels around our heads and pulled on beanies to keep from getting sick. Jackson turned towards me and once again cuddled up close to me, "I hurt" he said softly, "But I'm proud of it. This is just the start of Got7 huh?" he asked. I nodded and snuggled him closer to me before we both drifted off to sleep.