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HMU ASAP

Jungwoo looked at the rubric in his hands, questioned for the millionth time if this was a good idea, looked up at Chenle who was moping over Shotaro's absence, and then once again thought of all the ways this could go terribly wrong. It's too bad his need for help overpowered all the reasons why this should never be done.

"Can you please help me with something?"

Chenle leaned backwards off his bed so he was hanging upside down to face Jungwoo.

"If you're asking for me, I don't think you actually need help."

"No, but I want to make it fun and as least awkward as possible."

Chenle smiled, sliding off his bed in a motion that would've fit the Cheshire Cat. "I'm good at that. What do you have to do?"

"Film a video for English class about slang words."

Chenle looked over Jungwoo's shoulder at the rubric, thinking of ways to make this fun.

"I'll go get Johnny and Mark."

"What about Jaehyun?"

"Someone's got to run the cafe."

Jungwoo shrugged, allowing Chenle to run upstairs and grab them. He started picking up a few things around the basement while waiting, unsure of where they'd be filming the video.

"You do know we haven't actually been in an English speaking country in awhile, and we probably don't know the new slang now, right?" Johnny pointed out.

Mark scrunched his eyebrows, thinking for a second. "I went last summer, what are you talking about?"

"Do your grandparents know slang terms?" Mark paused, realizing what Johnny meant now.

"That's fine, I've got a list for us to use. I was thinking maybe we could go over them like flashcards?" Jungwoo suggested, knowing himself it was a lame idea.

"Sounds boring. We need more spice." Chenle criticized, Mark holding his arm up and pretending to sprinkle spice onto something.

"What if we did a skit or something? Unscripted, of course." Johnny commented.

"Like if Chenle and I needed help with something?"

"Writing a letter to Stephen Curry!" Chenle threw in, his eyes bright.

"I think I might need to be on the side getting help." Mark muttered.

"Nope! I need you." Johnny tugged him to his side, putting an arm on his shoulders so he couldn't escape.

"The criteria for the video is we just have to use as much English as possible and go over the slang terms." Jungwoo read off the paper, knowing at this point it was going to turn out better than doing it with the group that left all the work to him.

"So if Mark and I are chilling and talking in English, and you two come up and ask for study help or something, we'd have it covered." Johnny looked to Jungwoo for confirmation, Chenle's eyes lighting up for a second time.

"I'll go get my basketball jersey!"

Before anyone could stop him, he was running to his granny's house to change for a reason no one was quite sure of.

"We could film it in the cafe for a different vibe. Isn't it closing soon?" Mark asked.

"In five minutes."

Gathering what they would need for the video and making sure they all looked decent, they set up in a corner of the cafe. Chenle came running in a few minutes later, basketball jersey and all.

"Need me to help with anything?" Taeyong offered, Jungwoo immediately putting the camera in his hand.

"Thanks."

"When should Jungwoo and I come in to ask for help?" Chenle asked.

"Umm... when I say possibilities you can join us." Mark decided, everyone looking at him strangely. "What? I'll make it work."

Taeyong just shrugged and got set up, counting down for them to start.

"I kinda want to do something." Johnny started in English, leaning back in the booth as if he was bored.

"What is there to do?"

"We could watch a movie."

Mark hissed, "I was thinking something more... energetic."

"Energetic... paragliding?"

"Nah, something more... exciting."

Johnny sat up straight, "Dude, let's make a handshake."

Knowing they should probably get Jungwoo and Chenle in the frame as soon as possible to truly start the project, Mark panicked and said whatever came to mind.

"That is a possibility of all the things we could possibly do out of all the possibilities."

Assuming that was their cue, Jungwoo and Chenle approached their booth, flashcards behind Jungwoo's back.

"Are you the famous Johnny Marky?" Chenle asked, the two in question looking at each other.

"Sure, wanna join us?"

Johnny and Mark skootched over, giving Jungwoo and Chenle enough room to slide in.

"What's up?"

"We were trying to write a letter to Stephen Curry-"

"But we don't know what these words mean, can you help us?" Jungwoo finished instead of whatever Chenle was about to say, placing the flashcards on the table.

"Yeah, we can do that." Johnny took the flashcards, showing the first one to Mark before holding it so everyone- including the camera- could see.

"ASAP."

"As soon as possible!" Jungwoo shouted, getting a little too excited.

Taeyong smiled from behind the camera, having to press a hand to his mouth so he wasn't heard laughing.

"Alright, next one. GOAT." Mark read off, Chenle staring at him suspisciously with the familiar word.

"Mr. Suh's biggest fear?"

"No that's lowercase goat. Like baaaAaa. This is GOAT." Johnny explained, Chenle nodding.

"Gold, orange, apple, tomato?" Jungwoo tried, Mark bursting out into laughter at his cute attempt.

"Greatest of all time. GOAT." Johnny explained, moving on to the next one.

After going through OMW (oh my why), BRB (big right baby), and SMH (the thing you do when Mark does something weird), they came to the ultimate road block. ROFL.

"R.O.F.L.?" Jungwoo spelled out for the fifth time, mentally swearing he never put that one in there.

"ROFL." Johnny repeated with a nod.

"Is it true?"

"Yes!"

"Okie dokie yo!"

They decided to call it quits after that one, ending the video with Jungwoo and Chenle thanking Johnny and Mark before Mark started blowing a whistle he randomly pulled out of his pocket.

For a one shot with no script, they thought a ninety-five was pretty good.