Slipping Into The Diamond Life {Chapter 1-3}

Chapter 1: Living With 13 Other Boys

Shinhee’s P.O.V

I hurried downstairs where my luggage was already sitting, I opened the front door as my parents rushed over to give me hugs.

“Honey, go achieve your dreams!” my mother cried as I hugged her and my father.

“Princess, make sure you stay safe and get a boyfriend while your their!” my dad told me as I laughed.

“Sure, I’ll totally get a boyfriend.” I said sarcastically, “Love you guys! I’ll call you guys when I settle down.”

They waved at me as I hurried to the driveway where my friend was waiting for me to get in.

“Selene hurry up! You’ll be late.” my friend Yvonne yelled.

“Okay!” I yelled back as I shoved the luggage into her car trunk and jumped in, waving to my parents as I put my seat belt on.

Within about a half an hour I got to the airport, “Thanks so much Yvonne, I’ll contact you soon. Here have some money and go buy yourself ice cream.” I said tossing her five bucks before leaving with my luggage.

I entered and rushed through all the process and finally got to the gate number I was assigned to and got on board.

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When the flight was over it was 3pm in Korea already, I had to go meet my cousin at the coffee shop nearby the airport.

I exited the stuffy crowded airport and into the streets. I looked around, Seoul had changed a little since I was last there when I was 13 but I still could get through the streets well.

I paced quicker through the crowd and then bumped right into someone, I looked up to see a face of a foreigner who looked like he had just been caught stealing food from his friends refrigerator.

“Oh I’m sorry.” I said in English, I looked at the guy again, he seemed familiar but nothing clicked in my head.

“It’s okay, I wasn’t watching where I was going either.” he replied in Korean. My face turned red as I realized he could speak Korean.

I bowed and continue walking for about 5 more minutes before I reached my favorite coffee shop. I walked in to see my cousin.

“Seungcheol oppa!” I yelled as he came over to hug me.

“Long time see!” He said ruffling my hair, he passed me a cup as I smelled it.

“Mocha Latte for my favorite cousin.” he smiled as he helped me pulled my luggage out the shop.

He motioned me into a black car and helped put the luggage into the back trunk.

“Annyeonghaseyo, Shinhee imnida.” I slightly bowed to the driver.

Seungcheol jumped in to the passenger seat as the driver started the engine.

“So hows your parents?” he asked me and then we talked the whole way to Pledis.

Why am I in Korea? Well I’m so called ‘talented’ and my cousin wanted me to try out for the Pledis Entertainment so I was like: ‘Sure why not?’ and luckily there was a agent in Los Angeles at that time so they accepted me and I was freaking out because I always wanted to become a singer.

Me? I’m not really into Kpop. To be honest, I don’t know anything about Kpop except for Gangnam Style. Since I live in the USA Kpop isn’t that much of a thing at my school so I wasn’t really interested.

When we reached the building, my luggage was left in the van.

“Where is the van going?” I asked my cousin.

“Our manager is bringing it to our dorms.”

“Our?” I asked confused.

“Me and my bandmates'”

“Oh,” I said nodding but then stopped, “Wait why? Where am I staying?”

“At the dorms, we have a storage room they cleaned up for you to stay in.” he said. My jaw dropped as we entered the building.

“I’M staying at YOUR dorm? With WHO else?”

“You’ll see but first we have to talk to the CEO.” he chuckled. I frowned as he brought me to a big office.

I bowed politely to the CEO, “Annyeonghaseyo.”

“Annyeong, today you’ll just visit the other idols in this company and get to know them better. Your real job starts tomorrow, do you understand?”

“Ne.”

“Okay,” the CEO smiled, “Seungcheol will bring you around.” and with that we left the office.

“We’ll be visiting my group first,” Seungcheol smirked as I rolled my eyes, he always wanted to convert me to their fan but I was never interested and usually that’s how our video calls ended.

“Whatever.” I grumbled as he laughed and then pinched my cheeks lightly.

“Still so cute.” he smiled.

I kicked him in the shin as he grimaced and stuck out his tongue. We reached a room labeled ’17’s Practice Room’

He put his arm around my shoulders and opened the door. Catchy music blasted at my ear but it wasn’t Korean, it was English.

“Yah! You guys I told you to practice while I was gone!” Seungcheol yelled at them,”Anyways this is my cousin, a new rookie and the one staying at our dorm.”

I bowed, “Annyeonghaseyo, Shinhee imnida.” and then looked up

“Say the name! Annyeonghaseyo Seventeen imnida.” They all said.

Seungcheol opened his mouth but was interrupted.

“Eoneo Dongsaeng?” said a familiar voice.

“Noona?” said another.

I looked at the two who just called me out, two familiar faces,”Joshua?” and then I looked at the other and blushed from embarrassment, “Vernon?”

The two boys ran over to hug me.

“I was worried you didn’t remember my name.” Vernon said laughing and then whispered quietly so Seungcheol wouldn’t hear, “I bumped into you on the streets and you look like you forgotten me.”

Then the two boys let go of the hug and then pointed at each other, “You know her?” they asked each other.

“You know my cousin?” Seungcheol asked them.

The rest of the group pointed at Vernon and Joshua, “You know her?”

They both nodded but then everyone stared at me for an explanation, I flicked me hands up, “Whoa don’t stare at me like that. Vernon was my neighbor when we were little in New York, after he moved I moved to Los Angeles. I was in the same church and school as Joshua but I wasn’t in the same grade.”

Everyone nodded were like: ‘Oh okay’

“But why are you eoneo dongsaeng and noona?” one of them asked.

“I speak a lot of languages and my birthday is January 4 1998 therefore older than Vernon.”

“Aww, she’s older than me.” the one who stated the question complained.

“How many languages are you at now, Selene?” Joshua asked.

“Um, English, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, French, and Japanese.”

He nodded approvingly.

“Your name is Selene? Seungcheol never told us.” the one with pink hair said as I nodded.

“Now, mind if you guys introduce yourself to me?”

One by one they introduced themselves, I listed all the new names into my mind including their real name and not just their stage name.

“I’ll work with the names and stuff when we get to the dorms.” I smiled as Seungcheol was about to bring me out when Joshua and Vernon stopped us.

“Can we come along?” Vernon asked his hyung.

“Don’t let Vernon go, he went to buy food and then bumped into Shinhee on the way back.” Seungkwan shouted.

“But you guys need to practice plus I told you not to leave the building.”

“Aw come on.” Vernon groaned.

“Fine but you three go by yourselves.” Seungcheol said as he turned back to the others.

The two bows mumbled ‘ne’ as we left the room.

“Ugh, finally out of h-” Vernon sighed but was interrupted by Joshua’s intense stare, “Whoops, sorry hyung.”

“So how’s your parents?” they both ask at the same time and look at each other.

I faced palm myself, “Their great and all.”

“How come you never told me about Hansol.” Joshua bent down and whispered.

“I-I did, I just never said his name.” I stammered, fully aware that he was extremely close to me.

“Oh, so how’s Yvonne?”

“She’s doing great and is making outfits now. Some of the clothes I brought she made for me for my birthday.” I looked at Joshua as he nods his head.

“Let’s visit After School noonas.” Vernon shouted as he ran across the hallway.

“He’s just excited to be out of that room.” Joshua whispered.

“I heard that!” Vernon shouted back without turning around. I giggled a little as we reached After School’s practice room.

“Annyeonghaseyo, Shinhee imnida.” I bowed as the unnies introduced themselves.

Vernon swung his arm over my shoulders and whispered in my ear, “NU’EST isn’t here right now so when they come back to the company building we’ll meet them.”

We waved goodbye and left the room.

“Now you’re going to meet the trainee you’ll debut with.” Vernon smiled.

“So is it a duo?” I asked as Joshua nodded, “At lease that’s what Seungcheol said.”

They led me to another practice room.

“Why are there so many practice rooms?”

“Its just easier so everyone can practice at the same time.” Vernon shrugged as he opened the door.

I looked around to see a girl inside the room by herself dancing to a song sung in Korean.

She turned around and bowed in our direction as we bow back, “Annyeonghaseyo Shinhee imnida.”

“Annyeonghaseyo Yeri imnida, so you must be the talented dongsaeng I will be debuting with, I look forward in becoming friends with you.” Yeri smiled warmly and then looked at the boys, “Where’s Seungcheol? Isn’t he suppose to bring his own cousin around?”

“We wanted to go instead.” Vernon smiled, “Me and Jisoo knew Shinhee before she came here.”

“Ah.” Yeri nodded, “I see. I’ll drop by your dorms with food later. Shinhee, let’s grab some coffee tomorrow and chat.”

I nodded, “Arrasseo, nice meeting you.” and I bowed one more time before exiting the room and heading back to the Seventeen practice room.

All of them were sitting there fooling around by the time we came back. I sat on the floor with them as they pushed me into a circle in between Seungcheol and Woozi.

“Let’s play a get to know you game!” Dino shouted as the rest of the boys cheered.

“You start first.” Seungkwan smiled as I smiled back nervously.

“Okay then… My name is Choi Shinhee and my English name is Selene. I was born in New York but moved to LA when I was about six. I like to sing, dance, cook, play instruments and sports.”

“Sports?” Hoshi asked but then Seungcheol shushed him, “It’s her turn to talk.”

I smiled and then continued, “I have no experience in Kpop at all. I used to once in awhile go to New York for vacation, that’s when I would sometimes bump into Vernon when he went to vacation there and we hanged out then but I stopped going to New York for vacation when I was 11. I went to the same church as Joshua and the same schools but he is older than me by three years. Most of the time we talked in church than at school.”

I finished off as the boys nodded and introduced themselves with more details and information.

I tried my best to remember all of the stuff they said but it was hard for it was my first day.

“Let’s do some Kpop recommendations!” Woozi yelled as he stuck his finger up in the air.

They played song after song as it all flowed into my mind.

I snapped my fingers, “Can you play that song I heard Yeri play?” I look at Joshua, he flashed a small frown.

But Vernon got right to it and played the song, “It’s called Hello B-” he was interrupted when Joshua slapped his back and gave him a stare.

“Just let her listen, she’ll learn the title from the lyrics.” Jeonghan told Joshua as he pulled him back to his spot.

Recommendations after recommendations, song after song I slowly got more interested in KPOP.

“You guys I think we should do a random dance play.” Jun suggested but I shook my head, “You guys go ahead and play, I’ll sit here and watch.”

“Aw why?” Seungkwan asked.

“Jet lag, tired.” I said as they nodded and went to play by themselves as I watch and soon fell asleep leaning on the wall.

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A/N: Yay! First chapter done! I hope you enjoyed it! Thanks for reading the first chapter! Comment what you think below. 🙂

Chapter 2: First Official Day

Shinhee’s P.O.V

“Ya wake up. We need to get to the dorms.” DK shook me as my eyes snapped open. Seungcheol helped me up and we walked out to the front of the building.

We got to the dorm around nine, the dorm looked decent because they cleaned it up so I wouldn’t freak out when I see the messiness but my room had no blanket or pillow, sad. At least they had tv and wifi.

The doorbell rang and I opened the door for Yeri.

“Come join us.” I told her as the boys flashed me a weird face.

“We never had any girls in our dorm besides you.” Seungcheol whispered to me.

I rolled my eyes and pulled Yeri in, “Seungcheol it’s okay if she hangs out for dinner right?”

I winked at my cousin as he stammered a little, “Uh su-sure. Why not?” I smirked at myself and escorted Yeri to the living room.

We talked about ourselves, sharing likes and dislikes, soon Yeri had to go home, “I need to get home for a party.”

“A party? Didn’t you just eat?” I asked.

“It’s some award thing for my father’s business, my father likes to hold the parties in our house and expects me to be there. Bye!” She waved and left the dorms.

We finished up dinner as all the boys went to there rooms for the maknae to clean up, I stayed behind to help out.

“Do they always tell you to clean up?” I asked Dino.

He nodded, “It’s the maknae’s job.”

I shook my head, “No way, I don’t think so. You guys should play rock paper scissors or something to choose who to clean up.”

He just shrugged and continue to pack all the trash into a bag. He tied up the bag and was about to go out to toss it but I stopped him, “I’ll go out to toss it.”

I opened the door up but a hand grabbed my shoulder from behind, I turned around to see Vernon smiling, “Noona, I’ll do it.” he said as he grabbed the plastic bag full of trash and left the dorm. I just stood there trying to process what he just did.

“He never does that.” Dino said shaking me to my senses, “He must like you or you guys are just really good friends.”

“No way, he’s just being respectful.” I said shaking my head.

“Pfft, whatever.” Dino said as he finished up and went to his room and I went to mine.

I opened my luggage, I didn’t bring much but it was enough to live with. Someone knocked on the door, without turning around I yelled, “Come in.”

I turned around to see Joshua enter, “Did you bring a blanket?” Joshua asked as I shook my head.

“Eh, it doesn’t matter. I’ll use my clothes to cover myself up and then go shopping tomorrow.” I shrugged as he sat down on the cold floor next to me.

“Do you want to use my blanket and pillow?” he asked.

“Do you have an extra?”

He shook his head, “No but I could just sleep on the floor.”

“Nah, keep your blanket. Unless…” I thought for awhile, it was a wild idea, “Unless you want to share.”

He give a are-you-crazy face, “Um no.”

“Well suit yourselves, I’ll sleep on the floor with no blanket.”

“No, I’ll give you the blanket, I’ll sleep without it.”

“No, I’m not going to let you sleep without your blanket.”

“Why. I don’t want to sleep next to you. That’s just weird.”

“Oh well then I’ll sleep without the blanket.”

He hesisted, “Fine.” and then left the room as I hurried to get ready to wash up before the rest of them.

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After I showered the boys took turns to wash up. I dried my hair and pulled out my laptop as someone knocked on my door again.

“Come in.” I yelled as Joshua came in again with the blanket and pillow. His hair was still wet, I rolled my eyes and put down my laptop and grab one of my towels.

Joshua sat down next to me as I help dry his hair. I looked at his face and whispered, “Wow. You changed a lot, same with Vernon. You guys used to be so cute now your just… grown up.”

I smiled at myself as he scoffed, “Yah, I can dry my own hair, Selene.” I rolled my eyes as he continued talking, “Stop treating me like a kid, I’m older than you.”

I finished drying most of his hair, tossed the towel to the side and flipped open my laptop.

“I’m going to talk to Yvonne.” I said as I opened video chat. I looked at the time, it was 7am in LA but Yvonne wouldn’t care much when she sees Joshua on my side of the video chat.

Yvonne’s sleepy face popped up. I watched as she looked for the lamp switch and turned it on, “What’s up Selene?”

“Hey Yvonne, I got to Korea, sorry for waking you up.” I apologized.

“Wait.” she said as she rubbed her eyes, “Joshua?”

“Bonjour Yvonne.” Joshua smiled shyly.

“Oh long time no see! Sorry I look so horrible and all but oh well. Selene why didn’t you tell me you’ll see Joshua in Korea?”

“I didn’t know he is in the same Kpop group as my cousin, same goes with…” I pause as the idiot walked in.

“I sense you need me.” Vernon said as I placed my laptop down and grabbed the towel. His hair was dripping everywhere.

I rubbed his hair, “Noona-yah, stop it. I’ll dry it myself.”

“No you won’t. You’ll just wait until it dries itself, then you’ll get migraines for the rest of your life.” I said.

After awhile I had him drying his own hair as I got back to chatting with Yvonne, “And yeah that was Vernon.”

Vernon sat down on the other side of me and waved at the screen, “Hello, nice to meet you. I’m Vernon of Seventeen.”

Yvonne’s smile grew bigger, “Hello, I’m Yvonne. Nice to meet you too.” then she turned to me, “Where are you?”

“I’m staying in a dorm shared by 13 other boys.” I said as Yvonne gaped.

“What? That’s ridiculous!”

“I know. My parents never told me that, at least I could’ve gotten a temporary stay at a hotel.” Yvonne still looked shocked.

“Don’t worry we won’t hurt her. Trust me.” Joshua smiled.

“It’s not that I don’t trust you, it’s that I can’t trust those I don’t know.”

“It’s okay, I have my cousin and these two.” I said smiling, “You should get ready for school now.”

“Oh yeah. School.” Yvonne grumbled.

“Bye.” I waved as she waved and cut the video call, “Now I’m going to call my parents.”

“Oh okay. I haven’t seen them in ages.” Vernon said as my parents face appeared on the screen.

“Hello Princess how’s- oh hello.” My dad smiled.

“Mom, dad. This is Vernon and Joshua.” I smiled.

“Long time no see.” the boys said as they bowed slightly.

“Oh, I haven’t seen you guys in such a long time!” my mother exclaimed.

“Mom, you can speak Korean with them, practice some.” I told her, since she never wants to practice with my father and I.

“No thank you, anyways. How’s Korea, where are you now?”

“Um about that-“

“Selene is staying at our dorm.” Vernon interrupted.

I watched as my mother gasped and my father put down his fork on the kitchen counter where they were eating breakfast. I nodded slowly.

“Where is your cousin?” my father growled as somebody shouted through the dorm, “Vernon! Joshua!”

“Here!” Joshua shouted back.

“He’s coming.” I said to my father as my door swung open.

“Oh there you guys are.” and Seungcheol sat down next to Vernon.

“Annyeonghaseyo.” he bowed and then looked at me, “What’s with this weird atmosphere?”

“The thing is.” My mom started in Korean, “Why is my daughter in a dorm which I assume is full of boys.”

“Don’t worry auntie. I’ll take care of your daughter well and so will Joshua and Vernon.” he smiled.

“Make sure okay?” my mother said as Seungcheol nodded but my father still didn’t trust him, “Make sure nephew. Or else.”

He stared at Seungcheol making him flinch a little, I smiled, “Appa, I’m fine here, don’t worry about me.”

“You three take care of my Princess okay?” my father said pointing at the three boys siting there quietly.

“Ne.” they said in unison.

“Bye.” I waved as my parents waved back. I cut off the video call as the light layer of tension faded.

“We’re going to sleep earlier today so let’s go and let Shinhee adjust to her jet lag.” Seungcheol said as he stood up and Vernon followed.

“Jisoo, come on.” Vernon said as Joshua looked for a chance to escape, he looked at me but I gave him the best stare I could make.

“I-I’m sleeping here.” he stammered.

Vernon laughed as he told my cousin who was already almost to his room. Seungcheol ran back into the room, “Make sure you don’t touch my cousin AT ALL. You understand?”

“I don’t even want to sleep here.” Joshua said, “But she won’t let me just sleep without a blanket.”

I rolled my eyes, “Your blanket is big enough for two, plus I trust you and I know you trust me. It’s only going to be for 7 hours then we have to go to work anyways.”

Seungcheol eyed Joshua, “I’ll let you guys for this time, only this time.” and he slid away as laughing Vernon closed the door behind him.

I spread out the blanket and pillow and turned off the light. I lied down and soon fell asleep quickly.

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“Selene, wake up.” Joshua tapped me awake, “Wake up.”

“Give me five minutes.” I grumbled as I pulled the blanket over my head.

“Good morning, Selene.”

“Good morning.” I mumbled back.

“Hurry up and get ready for your first official day at work.” he shook me softly but I didn’t move. I felt his finger draw a line on my back, sending a tingling feeling down my spine.

“Hajima!” I told him as he started tickling me. I started laughing like crazy trying to tell him to stop, “I’m awake, I’m awake.” and he stopped tickling me as I sat up and thread my hand through my tangled hair.

He stood up and left the room, I rubbed my eyes and head to the bathroom to wash up.

By the time I finished washing up most of them had finished eating breakfast already so I grabbed bread and a bottle of cold coffee from their refrigerator.

“It’s okay if I take this right?” I asked them as they nodded. I jumped in the car with the hip-hop unit and we head to the Pledis building.

When I got to the practice room Yeri was already there.

“Wassup Shinhee? Ready for practice?” she asked as I nodded, “Let’s start with dancing and singing other artists songs then tomorrow we’ll work on our debut album.”

For the whole entire day we looked through song after song, testing my dancing and singing abilities. Our dance instructor, Lee Hyerim, watched us the whole entire time pointing out my flaws in dancing. Our manager along with Hyerim both said my dance has mistakes but my singing is beyond impressive for someone like me.

It was dinner time already when we finally got to rest.

“Wow, this is so tiring.” I exclaimed as I grabbed a bottle of coke and opened it.

“Yeah. I’ve trained for 5 years now, I can’t wait until we debut.” Yeri squealed.

“Amazing, I’ll do my best for you to debut early.” I smiled.

“Did they tell you to go for a diet yet? Or plastic surgery?”

“I don’t want to do plastic surgery but they said they might ‘fix’ up my nose. I don’t think I need a diet, I eat a lot but don’t gain weight easily.”

Yeri nodded a little, then stood up and walked to a box in the corner and grabbed a plastic bag out. She passed it to me as I opened the bag up. Cream, the bag was filled with cream for your skin. I looked through it with my mouth opened.

“Isn’t this expensive?” I asked Yeri.

“This was all sponsored or something, some of them are from the company my mother works for.”

I thanked Yeri before putting it all in my bag. I took a look at my watch, “Oh it’s nine already. I have to leave soon before stores close. I need to buy some necessary things I didn’t bring to Korea.” I waved to Yeri and hurried out of the room.

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A/N: Sorry for the poopy update. The more interesting part hasn’t come up yet. But thanks for reading this anyways. I’ll try to update but since I have to keep my eye at the degree I’m at now, just for one month I have to spend less time on electronics and reading or writing for too long.

Chapter 3: Classes With Seventeen

Shinhee’s P.O.V

I pulled a seat to the middle of the music room and pulled my guitar and pick out from the case. I sat down and started strumming.

“How great is our God~” I sing while strumming the guitar, “Sing with me~”

“How great is our God~” A voice sang along. I smirked as the vocal unit walked in and then continued singing, “And all we see~” Joshua strummed his guitar and joined me in the song.

When we finished singing everybody clapped.

“That was good although I have no idea what you guys were singing about.” Seungkwan said as he tried to imitate our English.

I rolled my eyes and shook my head, “So what are we doing today?”

“Ballads. You’ll sing ballads with us to practice more powerful performances.” Woozi explained as I nodded silently.

After singing for about two hours before I was to be transferred to the performance unit class.

Joshua waves at me for my attention as he tosses a drink at my direction but SK interferes and catches it. Fortunately, he was catching it for me.

I grabbed the drink and cover my mouth with my other hand, covering my smile. It was a Maeil Cafe Latte.

“Oh my goodness Joshua. I remember how we use to drink this all the time when we first met and then I was so sad when the Korean store nearby closed. Then once you surprised me with one of these I hadn’t had for a really long time.” I said as I pinched myself for being so ridiculously ridiculous.

“Okay….” Seungkwan awkwardly mumbled.

“This specific flavor from the same brand was the last gift Joshua gave me…” I paused and looked at Joshua, “Be-before he left without a word. Before he left his home.”

I sagged my shoulders as tears rolled down. Joshua walked over and hugged me, “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you. It’s just…”

“What, just what?” I asked when he stopped, lifting my head up to look at his face.

“I didn’t want you to know I left you alone with Yvonne. I didn’t want you to worry about me or go after me. I’m sorry, I couldn’t tell my parents to tell you a lie either.” He bit down on his bottom lip.

“It’s okay since it’s in the past now.” I sighed as I wiped the tears off my face. I picked up my guitar and bag and walked out the room to the trainee room.

I looked around the room and put my stuff in a corner, some other trainees were also practicing. When they finished up they turned around as we all bowed at the same time.

“Annyeonghaseyo Shinhee imnida.” I introduced myself as they took turns introducing themselves.

“Wow, seven years!” I gasped when Siyeon told me how many years she trained. I flashed a thumbs up, “Why aren’t you guys grouped up with Yeri?”

“The company wants to try a duo.” Kyungwon said, “I heard you’re really good at singing, that’s the reason why you get to debut early.”

“Don’t worry about the pressure.” Nayoung smiled as they all slowly left the room and the performance unit entered.

“Dance time!” Hoshi yelled as he grabbed my arm and pulled me to the center of the room, “Show me what you got.” and he played the music.

Too bad for him, he played a lot of Kpop songs that I memorized the choreography to.

“Wah, you already know the dance.” he complained as he looked for other songs to play.

“Play Dangerous or something you guys have danced to.” I suggested, “I could remake the dance.”

Song after song, I remade most of the songs Seventeen has danced to. The8 gave me a high-five, “Daebak.”

I looked at my watch, “Hip-hop unit time.” I told them as I pick up my stuff and walk out to After School unnies’ practice room.

“Annyeonghaseyo!” I smiled as I entered, they were just going to leave the room so they were grabbing there things.

I bowed to them as they all walked out one by one. After what seemed like forever Hip-hop unit finally walked in.

“You guys take for ever.” I groaned as Seungcheol walked over and pulled me up from the floor.

“Sorry we didn’t look at the time.” he grinned as Wonwoo looked through his phone for a song to start off with.

I can’t really rap or make poems, I have a hard time keeping up with the beat.

After I finally finished up having classes with the units in Seventeen, it was almost dinner time. I was sitting on the floor dozing off.

“Don’t sleep!” Mingyu said as he flicked my forehead lightly. I rubbed the spot he flicked at and opened my eyes.

Vernon tried to help me up but I didn’t want to move, “Come on, your too heavy.” he complained trying to pull me up. I stuck my tongue out at him.

Seungcheol walked over and squat down with his back facing me, “Piggy back ride.” I rolled my eyes but didn’t complain for I was really tired so I got on his back.

He stood up and I wrapped my arms around his neck. He sighed, “You take forever to adjust to jet lag.”

I didn’t say anything as they walked out the building.

By the time we were back to the dorm the others were already chilling out. I hopped off Seungcheol’s back and took off my shoes, running to the living room.

I slid on the floor and placed myself between Joshua and Jeonghan, I grabbed a plate and started picking the food from its dishes and gobbled up the food quickly.

“Noona-yah, why are you eating so quickly?” Vernon asked sitting down and then throwing a crumpled napkin at me. I threw it back at him and it hit his forehead making him jump from the sudden quick movement I made.

“I have to start my simple diet tomorrow. I want to eat as much as I can now especially all the meat.” I said as the boys laugh like crazy.

“A diet always starts tomorrow.” Seungkwan said as he laughed.

“Well, I need to do this in order to debut early.” I sighed and pulled a false smile up, I continued eating basically eating all of their extra proportions they usually have.

“Buy us some more food!” Jeonghan pouted.

“Hey, I’m the dongsaeng here!” I said flipping my arms up in the air, “Don’t ask me to buy it.”

“But you were the one who finished it.” Mingyu pointed out.

“I’ll buy pizza. Shinhee, you don’t have to buy it, my job.” Seungcheol said as he stood up and walked away.

“Spoken like a true hyung.” Dk smiled.

“More like father.” I mumbled but Seungkwan shook his head, “He was protecting you.”

I raised one of my eyebrows and looked back at my plate, scraping the leftover crumbs into my mouth.

“True, he never does that, at least not that I’ve heard of or seen.” Jun frowned.

“He’s my cousin, my older brother since I don’t have any siblings.” I protested but the rest of the boys thoughts didn’t change so I kept quiet but mumbled, “You guys are so childish.”

I pulled out my phone and earplugs, I was just about to plug it into my phone when Seungkwan yelled at me, “Stop!”

“What?” I asked as I rolled my eyes.

“Don’t plug it in and just play it out loud, I want to sing too.”

I rolled my eyes, “How did you know I was going to practice singing?”

“Because I was the one who assigned you that!” Seungkwan yelled.

“What if I was only just listening to music?” I asked as I raised my eyebrows.

“Well Joshua hyung and Hansol said-“

Vernon interrupted him, “We did not say anything.” he smiled.

I looked back down at my phone and flipped through my favorite songs, I tapped the play button as the music flowed out of my phone:

“Coups!” I yelled as Seungcheol walked in.

“I gaw one more poblem wit you gurl!” he yelled as I suppress a laughter.

“Hey baby even though I hate ya! I wanna love ya.”

“I want you ou ou!” Seungcheol laughed.

“And even though I can’t forgive you. I really want ta.” I sang as I snapped to the beat

“I want you ou ou!”

“Tell me, tell me baby. Why can’t you leave me? Cause even though I shouldn’t want it. I gotta have it.” I smiled as Joshua quietly joined.

“I want you ou ou!” Seungcheol yelled as he sat himself next to me, grabbed my phone and then whispered, “We might want to change the song.”

Before we could even stop the song Seungkwan started singing, “Heb in the teb… curry…”

“What are you saying?” I stared at him as another song started and Hoshi and Dino jumped up and started dancing.

“Michael Chanson!” Vernon yelled.

“If you want it, take it. I should’ve said it before. Tried to hide it, fake it. I can’t pretend anymore.” I watched as they danced like crazy and forgot about singing.

“Yah! You guys will throw up! You just ate.” Jeonghan yelled.

They sat down as Seungcheol continued looking for songs:

I was a liar
I gave in to the fire
I know I should’ve fought it
At least I’m being honest
Feel like a failure
‘Cause I know that I failed you
I should’ve done you better
‘Cause you don’t want a liar

And I know, and I know, and I know
She gives you everything,
But, boy, I couldn’t give it to you
And I know, and I know, and I know
That you got everything,
But I got nothing here without you

The doorbell rang as I jumped up to go get it. Still singing I opened the door.

“So one last time. I need to be the one who takes you home. One more time. I promise, after that, I’ll let you go.” I sang as I paid and brought in the pizza boxes, “Baby, I don’t care if you got her in your heart. All I really care is you wake up in my arms. One last time I need to be the one who takes you home.”

I walked back and put down the pizza as everyone grabbed their slices.

“Are you guys munchkins or something?” I asked.

“Munchkins?”

“I mean people who eat a lot.” I smiled.

They all nodded and continued eating. I grabbed my phone and flipped through my songs and played another playlist.

“Hurry up and eat! So we could all dance.” I said as I gobbled up my third piece.

“Sahchon! I think you’re growing fatter.” Seungcheol teased. I slapped his shoulder as he laughed, “I was just kidding.”

I rolled my eyes and stood up, placing my plate on the table before going to the bathroom to clean up first.

After I left the bathroom the boys had just finished eating, I walked to my room and pulled out my phone to message Yvonne:

Hey Yvonne, u don’t need 2 respond now but I might need ur help soon. Since ur so passionate on promoting. 🙂 btw u mit wanna turn ur phone on mute while u sleep, ill be messaging u more often.

I then dialed a number given to me this morning, “Mr. Han.”

“Hello Shinhee.” the CEO said.

“I have a question, is out debut plan completely up to us to do by ourselves?”

“Yes, although somethings you have to ask for permission from me.”

“Is it okay is my friend in America promote for us while me and Yeri make a youtube account? I have a lot of followers on my SNS accounts so I can promote that way. Can we also make our own outfits and music video theme? I know a theme to suit the song we are debuting with.” I smiled.

“Yes you guys may promote but make sure it doesn’t cause a bad stir. The outfits and theme have to be checked okay? Plus the song might change a little with some adjustments.”

“Kamshamnida, bye, CEO-nim.” I said as I hung up and started sending the news to Yeri and Yvonne.

“Lucky you.” Seungcheol said as he opened the door without permission, “He is so nice to you guys, especially you. I envy you, he scared me at times.”

“I don’t see what’s so bad about him.” I shrugged.

“You don’t know him well. Anyways, come out in ten minutes and then we can jam out.” he said as he closed the door behind him.

Suddenly my phone started to ring as Joshua and Vernon barged in, I accepted the call and clicked the speaker mode, sticking my hand as far away from me as possible.

“OH MY GAWD! Vraiment (really in french)? He said yes?”

“Yes, he said yes.” I smiled as the boys sat next to me.

“YEAH!!!!! I am so going to post fabulous posters all over the town!” Yvonne yelled through the phone.

“Don’t stick it in church!” Joshua yelled back.

“Oh hey Joshua. Selene, did you put this on speaker?”

“Yeah.” I snicker.

“Meanie. Oh well who cares, I’m going back to sleep and then when I wake up I’ll start drawing out my ideas!” Yvonne squealed.

“Okay, go back to sleep.” I said as I hung up. Vernon helped me up and we headed to the living room to party.

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A/N: Finally done with this chapter! 🙂 Thx for reading up to here! <333