I Love You 3000 (Y.Jw)

Chapter 17

After three days of practicing a had already started tension in our 'DNA' team. Niki had done one adlib which he hadn't discussed with any of us, which we had discovered while having recorded our practice for monitoring. K had immediately gotten... mad, I guess you could say as the least, so he had taken Niki with him to one of the rooms where there weren't any cameras. In that time I had silently left the practice room and carefully knocked on the door to the 'Fake Love' unit and carefully poked my head inside.

"Taki?" I called out making them all stop and turn to me in confusion, "can you quickly help me? It's just a minute, no more."

He nodded in confusion and followed me out to the pantry where we both stood and looked at the cooler and all the snacks that had been given to us, for when we were practicing.

"I think Niki needs something to cheer him up, and you know him the best," I pointed out to Taki who immediately nodded and went over and grabbed a small bag with a fishbread in it before grabbing some Japanese drink from the cooler and extended it to me.

"This used to make Niki happy when we trained together," Taki spoke up and I nodded as I grabbed the two things from his hands and thanked him happily.

"Thank you," I grinned widely at the thought of cheering Niki up, just by a small bit, "now get back to practice."

"Is everything alright in DNA?" he frowned as we walked out of the pantry and towards the practice rooms once again, together.

"Yeah, yeah. I just think none of us are used to K's way of leading," I assured him as he nodded before running back to his practice room to continue with his practices.

I carefully opened the door back to ours again and saw Hanbin and Jay who both sat in silence on the floor, looking quite awkward at the voice of K, that was audible from the broom closet he had pulled Niki into.

"Has K come out yet?" I questioned and they both shook their heads in silence as we all just stared at the door in anticipation.

I silently nodded and sat down by them while we quietly waited. Once K came back I immediately got up and rushed to the room where Niki sat in silence and looked all down, before he even had the chance to look up or get out of the room.

"Niki?" I questioned and he hummed quietly, "here," I held out the two things towards him and he glanced up at them, and I smiled softly at him, "Taki helped me."

"You don't have to noona. Just say that what I did was wrong and go," he muttered and I shook my head as I sat down and placed the two things beside him. I looked at him carefully to read the situation properly before I began speaking.

"I didn't come here to do that," I shook my head at him and he glanced up at me, seemingly shocked at what I had said, "I came here to make sure you were alright. I know how we're all struggling, but you seem be a bit more than everyone else."

"I'm not," he shook his head in denial and I arched a brow at him, making him silently shrug in reply, making me sigh deeply.

"Okay... how about, instead of us sitting here in this dark room. You come with me and we take a small break and sit outside and talk?" I questioned him and he just shrugged in reply, making me let out a small huff and stand up, "Yep, it's decided. Come with me."

I grabbed his arm and the two things I had brought for him before walking back to the practice room where the three boys sat waiting for us. But I just continued dragging Niki with me.

"You three continue practicing, Niki and I need a little break," I pointed out and they all nodded, while K was about to say something, but I quickly pretended to not see and just continued talking, "we both have the dance down, so it'll be fine. We'll just practice a little longer tonight."