prove it • stray kids

37 | vocal unit practice

nyla asher

[korean]

It has been months since the debut, and we could not be happier. While being an idol is a huge change of pace, it is so great to be pursuing music with my best friends and sharing the music with our supportive fans.

Also, we have gotten even closer to Stray Kids, and a lot of 341 fans are fans of Stray Kids as well. The twelve of us have been hanging out commonly, so people have been requesting for us to release content together or do a fan meet together.

Our managers talked and decided that our groups should do a concert together. After working through the details, we figured each group should perform some of their own songs, and we should have collaboratory stages.

That led us to break into unit groups and work on performances to present at the concert. I am currently waiting in one of the vocal practice rooms to meet up with the vocal line of Stray Kids.

While waiting, I start practicing the piano for the song the four of us decided to perform: The Truth Untold by BTS.

"Hey, Nyla," Woojin says as he enters the room, Jeongin and Seungmin following behind him.

I pause my practicing to greet them, "Hey."

Jeongin sits beside me on the piano bench while the other two sit in chairs across from us.

After a moment of silence, Seungmin laughs, "This is awkward."

Woojin just smiles, "The four of us have never really hung out together, have we?"

"Not really," Jeongin chuckles, "Nyla and I pretty much only talk in school."

I sheepishly laugh, "Sorry. I'm still bad at talking."

"It's okay!" Woojin cheers, "We'll be with each other a lot to practice for this performance. We'll be close in no time."

"Then let's get to work. How should we distribute the lines?" Seungmin asks.

"Well," I start, "There are four members who sing the song originally, so we could each be assigned to a certain person's part."

The boys nod in agreement, and then Jeongin suggests, "Let's listen to the song to see who should sing whose part."

We end up deciding that Woojin should sing Jin's part, Seungmin will have Jimin's part, Jeongin will take V's part, and I will sing Jungkook's part.

The rest of our practice time is spent going over the lyrics and trying to memorize them. Once we finish for the day, we all gather our things and get ready to go back to the dorms.

"I don't want to go to the dorms yet," Jeongin pouts.

Seungmin puts his arm around the younger boy, "Then what do you want to do?"

Jeongin shrugs in response, and Seungmin lightly pushes him, making me laugh at their cute friendship.

"Why don't we take a walk around the city before we head back?" Woojin suggests.

Jeongin lights up, "Sounds great! This way we can spend time bonding outside of practices too."

"Yeah, a walk sounds nice," I agree.

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"Wow, I love Seoul," I say, taking a picture of the beautiful street in front of me, "There's so much to do here."

"It is quite beautiful," Woojin agrees.

Seungmin nods, "Seoul and so many of the other cities we have traveled to are amazing. I can't wait to visit even more places."

"Right," Jeongin adds, "The world has so many incredible places, and we have so much more to explore."

I smile at him, "I'm glad we get to travel with this job. As you said, there are a ton of wonderful places, and we've barely seen a fraction of them."

Woojin cuts off our pleasant thoughts, "It's getting late. We should head back to the dorms."

Jeongin frowns, "I don't want this to end."

"We can go on walks like this after our other practices too," Seungmin proposes, making Jeongin happy again.

"I can't wait," I say, glad to hear that we'll be spending time like this again.

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