𝗯𝗮𝗯𝘆𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹 | 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗹𝗲𝗲

𝔩𝔢𝔱'𝔰 𝔱𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔟𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰

"girls are you done? manager-nim will be coming very soon!" yuta yelled in the dorm as he heard a bunch of girly yells back , "okay!"

"does this look okay?" irene said running to the living room to get the boys opinions while ruffling her dress down to look more neat.

"it looks nice." taeyong replied glancing at the girl.

"does it look like it's too much? should i change into jeans?" irene said looking down at her outfit.

"the dress looks more business related and the jean jacket makes it more casual. it looks good irene, no worries." johnny gave his fashion advice as the girl smiled in agreement and gave him a high-five.

"girls hurry up!" irene said sitting next to jaehyun and taeyong as she put her shoes on.

"coming!" soyeon yelled from the hall as she pushed her hair to the back so she could see.

"it looks fine right unni?" she said giving a small twirl.

"i like it soyeon! you always have a good fashion sense, no worries. don't forget your spare comfortable clothes." irene reminded the girl.

"no worries, i got it." she said noticing a flash go off in her peripheral vision. she turned to see the boys staring at haechan as he discreetly had his phone off trying to snap a candid photo of me.

"haechan, you could have just asked if you wanted a photo." soyeon said as she posed and the boy brought his phone up and counted off as he caught a photo of her smiling comfortably.

"i wanna see how it looks!" soyeon commented as she sat between haechan and yuta.

"yeri! get your little butt here!" irene yelled as she looked at the time nearing close.

"i'm here. i'm here" yeri said calmly showing everyone her outfit.

"i was busy straightening my hair. how does it look?" yeri said as she looked down at her neat outfit.

"you look really pretty." johnny said as the boys rolled their eyes knowing how flirty johnny naturally was.

"dude he's flirting." mark said as the other boys immediately bursted into laughter after hearing mark's side comment. yeri rolled her eyes as she sat between jungwoo and johnny as they all waited for the youngest.

"no surprise that the youngest takes the longest. hana!" irene commented as everyone diverted their attention to their youngest.

"i can't decide if i should add the black denim jacket or not?" hana questioned as she came out with her outfit.

"i mean you look good with no jacket. do whatever you feel comfortable with hana." irene said in admiration of hana's looks.

"i think blue is your color hana, it looks nice." doyoung commented with his gummy smile.

"you're right, it looks nice witho-" hana spoke before getting interrupted.

"put the jacket on." mark said infront of everyone. the girls looked at him in shock that he had the guts to say anything.

"doesn't it look nice without the jacket though, mark?" soyeon said knowing she was plotting something. mark diverted his attention away from hana to refresh his mind as he tried to find the proper words to express how he felt.

"yeah." mark shortly replied as he caught hana staring at him. he looked down and toyed around with his phone hoping for the conversation to end.

"okay, so no jacket?" hana finally questioned lastly noticing soyeon's tactic to make mark crack.

"mark just doesn't want people staring at you hana." taeyong said as she remembered her making eye contact with taeyong during their conversation in the morning as she mouthed to him to not tell mark she was awake from behind.

"ah, is that so mark?" hana said with a small smile arising in hopes she would say what she thought he would say.

"yeah." mark shyly admitted as he covered his face knowing that he literally just indirectly expressed that he was concerned for her in front of everyone.

"awww you're so cute mark." hana said going to mark and patting his head before everyone watched the two in admiration.

"they're so oblivious." haechan commented as mark and hana talked in their own world about things.

"let them be, hyuck. we can tease them more later." soyeon said quietly before feeling the need to squeeze haechan's cheek and take a photo.

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"okay girls, let's take care of some business." manager-nim said before giving an idea of what they'll be discussing in their weekly meetings until the comeback.

"any ideas for what vibe you're thinking off? from there we can build how we will market and the production team can make some sample beats for you. we want to make just a generalized idea so that we can pitch it to mr. sooman. it'll most likely be approved because he loved the way . we managed your debut. it's just formalities." the leader of their marketing team spoke.

"i think we do really amazing with the rebel concepts. we could go with the cutesy side as well. we are flexible with the concepts. our only concern is that we want the lines to remain as even as possible. if that isn't a requirement you have right now, we ask that you make it one." irene started off voicing all the girl's general thoughts.

"okay, we could make that work. how many tracks are you thinking?" the production team representative spoke as the team got up and quietly headed to the next door recording studio to produce some samples.

"a mini album sized amount of tracks. maybe five or six?" soyeon suggested.

"that would be the ideal number to start off from. we could do six and have two of them be subunit songs amongst you girls. for example one track for the vocalists and one track for the rappers. it'll show that both of you guys are capable of holding a song that will needs both." the production team rep spoke. the girls nodded in acknowledgement that they completely agreed.

"before the production makes some sample beats on the side, we need to decide some concepts." the marketing team rep announced as the girls diverted their attention to the front of the meeting room to see a powerpoint.

"this for sure is gonna be a long but eventful day." hana said to herself before taking a deep breath and focusing as much as she could during the meeting.

a/n: hii! i hope you all are enjoying the progress made in the book :) the book is gonna have a lot more chapters than i originally anticipated, but i'll find a way to keep you wanting to read more each chapter!