My I「Junhao」

3.5

There are some racist and homophobic slurs in the middle of this chapter. I will mark the start and end with a ⚠️

"I'm fucking dying, I'm so tired." Wonwoo moaned and I laughed, but couldn't help but relate. Several of us didn't get enough sleep because we were freaking out about how the last performances of the competition were tomorrow (or well, today now) and were regretting every single choice in life up to this moment.

"Can I sleep in the dressing room...?" Jihoon asked and many of us murmured our agreements to him sleeping, as long as we could sleep as well. Jihoon was the one who got the least amount of sleep of all of us. Because it was the last round, he was especially stressed over our final songs. The thirteen of us were extremely impressed with the songs, but Jihoon was more concerned about the thoughts of everyone else.

He loved how we responded to his songs for this last round and our willingness to do several different styles with the songs. We loved how he and Soonyoung had come up with the idea to connect three of the four songs we were performing through the choreography.

We arrived at the venue a lot earlier than necessary and those of us who didn't have much sleep immediately took vacancy of the couches and those who couldn't fit on those took some of the swivel chairs and brought them over so we were all sleeping in the same area.

I managed to get a spot on the couch and I gestured for Minghao to lay on top of me. I held him close to me and barely heard Jeonghan's statement of how he was going to wake us up at a certain time, (And then told all of our friends who weren't trying to sleep to keep track of the time in case he fell asleep as well) before I fell asleep.

If I dreamed then I couldn't remember it at all when I woke up to Minghao playing with my hair. I opened my eyes to see my boyfriend, still laying on top of me, looking up at me with both hands up near my face. "Are you alright there Hao?" He froze and I chuckled at his reaction. "Don't stop baby, (StOP BABY DONT STOP im sorry that song was on like 10 minutes ago) that feels nice. It's soothing."

"Nuh-uh I need to stop or you'll fall back asleep, Gē." He whispered and I groaned quietly. "We need to start getting the children prepped anyway." He added and I then frowned in confusion. "Children? Babe, you're younger than most of them." He shushed me at what I said and responded with, "They don't need to know that." And I couldn't help but laugh at that.

Minghao got off of my lap before he helped me stand up and we then successfully navigated our way through the maze of legs of the others who were still asleep without waking them. Once we got out I took a good look at the members who weren't asleep and tried to think about looks for this final performance of the competition.

"Hao." I spoke and Minghao turned to look at me. "I say we go dramatic. Not over the top dramatic but like... do you get what I mean?" Minghao, much to my relief, understood what I meant. He called over Seungcheol and I called over Samuel and we both started to work on the makeup while our other friends were playing around on their phones or sleeping.

(No surprise here, but Jeonghan fell asleep as well and Jisoo ended up having to wake the others up.)

By the time all of our friends were awake enough to comprehend the idea of a quick rehearsal, there was only a few people left to get ready. Upon hearing the word 'rehearsal' Soonyoung immediately started sprinting to the practice room, ignoring all of our shouts for him to slow down and be careful.

Soon after he ran out, some of us sighed, (Jihoon - 'disappointed in his boyfriend', Jeonghan and Seungcheol - 'stressed out about Soonyoung', Wonwoo - 'regretting being friends with that weirdo' and Seokmin - 'because everyone else was sighing so why not?') and soon after, as Jeonghan turned away from them to talk to Seungcheol, Chan and Samuel bolted out of the room and after Soonyoung.