Dreams come true - Idol Producer Fan Chengcheng FF (RESQ SAGA PART 1)

5. Dorm room

We headed to the dorms, and I was placed in the same one as Zhenting, Chengcheng and Justin, which was a relief as I knew two of them. It would let me get to know them even more, which I was excited about.

I was the first one to arrive, so I chose the lower bunk furthest away from the door. I liked the fact that the lower ones had a curtain on the side because that way I could get more privacy, or at least I thought so until ChengCheng arrived and chose the other lower bunk and realized there was no curtain in between them. Zhenting chose the bed above mine and Justin the remaining one.

We had not been in the room for fifteen minutes and the boys had already made a mess. The only clean space that was left was my part. I had neatly set everything up, but the boys just threw their things anywhere and everywhere.

The camera crew suddenly came in and we were told that they would be taking everything that was not absolutely necessary. I had been wise enough to put all my beauty products and my favourite candy and chocolates on a box under the bed before any cameras were there, so they did not know my secret.

The boys were reluctant to give their things away but eventually did. I, on the other hand, was not as reluctant and directly gave them everything. Once they left, I started laughing.

"Why are you laughing?! They took all our things!" Half-yelled Zhenting.

I then turned and took the box from under the bed. Justin stared at it in awe while Zhengting and Chengcheng looked at me in utter shock.

"Why didn't we think of that!" Justin said and facepalmed.

"If you ask, you can always take things from the box. But remember to ask!" I offered them.

Chengcheng tackled me in a hug playfully, and we fell to the floor. 

"By the way, how old are you? We forgot to ask you," Justin asked as we stood up.

"Oh, I was born in 2001. Sixteen," I answered.

"Oh, you are older than me, then. I was born in 2002," said Justin.

"I'm older!! 2000," Said Chengcheng excited.

"I'm surrounded by babies!" Said Zhenting.

"When were you born?" I asked.

"1996!" he answered.

"Woah! You look a lot younger!" I truthfully said.

"Thank you, I guess?" He said and I laughed.

Linong, Xukun, Zhangjing and Yanjun then came into our room to say hello. I bowed to them as they came in, and they quickly smiled when seeing us.

"Hello. I wanted to meet the girl trainee personally," Linong said with a smile plastered on his face.

"Hello, I'm Zhu Lin. Nice to meet you," I said to all of them. "I saw all of your performances earlier, you were amazing. Yanjun, Zhangjing: you deserved a higher rank."

"Thank you, Zhu Lin," they said and smiled at me.

As I had the box from earlier next to me, I offered them chocolate bars and Zhangjing looked at me as if though I had the most precious treasure ever. They all thanked me and took one quickly, shoving it in their mouths in a way that would have made everyone else think they had been starving for days.

"Weren't your things confiscated?" Asked Xukun as he munched on his chocolate bar.

"They were, but this rascal right here managed to find a way to hide her things and got away with them," explained Zhengting, ruffling my hair.

"I swear I didn't do it on purpose. I had hidden the box around fifteen minutes before they came," I said, and they all laughed.

"By the way, Cai Xukun, that mesh shirt..." I said and he blushed and the rest of us laughed. "Don't worry, it was really cool."

We started chatting and I got to know them a bit more. They were all really nice and funny. I chatted with Yanjun the most and, although he was older than me (1995), we seemed to get along really well. He told me many things from the Banana Entertainment boys including Zhangjing who, when he heard that we were talking about him, decided to join the conversation. Yanjun was talking about how much Zhangjing loved to eat and the younger one quickly started slapping his arm.

"You don't need to tell her that!" He yelled.

"It's not as if though she isn't going to find out sooner or later!" Yanjun said laughing.

"Sorry to interrupt, but I was wondering why you were added to the show, Zhu Lin," Linong asked.

"Please just call me Lin, that goes for all of you," I said before answering his question and he nodded. "I really do not know the exact reason. My brother told me that they were holding auditions for girls, and I decided to join. I competed with around a hundred other girls for this spot."

"So basically, to get to Idol Producer, you had to go through beating the same number of people," said Xukun.

"Yes, basically," I agreed.

There was suddenly a knock on the door, and we all turned to see who it was. None other than Jackson Wang stood before us.

"I'm sorry to break the mood," he said while coming inside as we all bowed." I heard you were all having fun in here."

"Oh, it's no problem!" I said to him respectfully.

"Okay. I am going to use this chance to ask you something, boys," he said. "Would you mind if I treat Lin casually when you are off set and off practice? She's like a little sister to me and I really hate having to talk to her in a professional way all of the time."

They all said there was no problem for them so both Jackson and I thanked them. He at once embraced me in a tight hug and the boys laughed. He was almost choking me.

"How have you been?" he asked me. "I still sometimes chat with Donghai, but he's always busy and can't talk for long so I couldn't ask him about you."

"I've been okay, I guess," I answered him. "Just like always. When you left, I took you as a role model and started practising singing and dancing. And, well, now I am here! In a boy's survival program because of an unknown reason!"

The boys and Jackson then laughed, and he finally pulled away from the hug with a big smile.

"I see you are still the same. I'm glad you didn't change a single bit," he said and pinched my cheeks. "Well, I have to go now. I'll see you soon, okay?"

He then turned to leave but, right before he crossed the door, he turned back to us.

"Oh, and, by the way, you all did really good performances. Keep working hard!" he said to us. "Jiayou!"