2nd August

'Shit!' Joo-hee thought. This was her first official day and she was already late. It wasn't her fault though. Things just... happened, weird things, that she'd rather not remember, she shuddered.

She managed to get to HYBE on time, but she was still late by thirty minutes!

"Oh, Lord, I'm dead," she sobbed as she ran to the studio.

"Do you intend to waste my time like this every single day?" A cold voice greeted her. She gulped seeing a very disappointed and annoyed RM on his seat already.

"I'm really sorry, I just ran into a problem involving a cat-"

"Save it, let's just get to work, so you don't waste any more of my time," he said displeased.

Now she really felt bad, because if there was anything Namjoon hated it was being tardy.

Now she just wondered how to lighten the atmosphere again, because she felt like she would burst in tears anytime soon.

3rd August

The other applicants had already started taking classes together along with Joo-hee. Ahn Song-Joo and Jang Young-Min were boys while there was another girl apart from her taking rapping lessons too, Hong Min-ah. Joo-hee felt happy that she had such nice classmates or whatever she could call them...
But she felt like she didn't belong, she felt that while everyone else seemed to improve, she was still stuck in one place, she felt frustrated.
She felt obscure like, no one noticed her, like she wasn't standing out the way her other team members were (she decided to call them team member:-D). RM complimented them daily, while she got nothing and she felt sad. She felt a lot of things, and then it hit her, she should compose a song, it was perfect and then she could play it for RM and then he'd finally look at her like a real student.
And so she got to work.

4th August

"Wake up, we have a road trip," was the first thing she heard at 4 am on a fucking Wednesday morning. She had woken up on hearing her ringtone to see an unknown number calling her, she picked it up despite her discretion that she really shouldn't, and was surprised to hear her mentor's voice through the phone.

She was still very sleepy so she just muttered an 'OK' and ended the call, then went back to sleep.

Ten minutes later, she sprung awake. "Oh my, I'm supposed to get ready, then she jumped into the bathroom tossing her clothes in every direction and taking a shower. By 5 am, she was ready. Then she left for HYBE although no one should even be awake by this time, it had to be illegal to wake people earlier than six! She thought as she took a cab there.

Suprisingly, there were very few people there, RM was outside, along with some of the staff, but her team mates weren't even there yet!

"Mr. Namjoon-ssi, where are my team mates?" she asked trying to be polite, before she would blow.

"Oh, they're not here yet, until seven am."

Joo-hee closed her eyes, taking some deep breaths trying to regain her calm, "Then why the flying fuck did you call me here at 4am?!"

"Well, since you have a thing with being late, I decided to call you here early, so you wouldn't delay us," He had the guts to say cheekily and even smile while saying it, showing his dimples.

"I swear to God, RM-ssi-," she was interrupted by a staff calling Namjoon for help.

She just looked at him as he walked away, while she waited until 7am for her teammates.

"This is gonna be a long day," she sighed.

5th August

She finally managed to get to the building on time, full of energy but her mentor was not in the studio, neither were her teammates. She brought out her phone and texted Young-Min

      Joo-hee
Why aren't you guys in the studio?

Young-Min
Didn't you get the message?

                                            Joo-hee
                             What message?

Young-Min
Oh, I forgot to send it to you, RM-ssi said for us to take the day off as he has some important business to take care of. Sorry for not telling you🥺.

                                               Joo-hee
                      Don't worry about it

She typed as she dropped her phone back, she was about to leave the studio, when the door opened, revealing Taehyung and Jungkook. Her mouth was agape for like 5 minutes or eternity, just staring at them and then she squealed. "Oh my God, I'm not dreaming, am I?" she said put loud. At first Taehyung looked confused then worried and now amused, then he pinched her making her yelp in pain. "Nope, you're not dreaming," he grinned with his boxy smile. 'I must have died and gone to heaven.

"Hey! I remember you!" Jungkook exclaimed. "You came to our last fan meet, I remember your eyes, they're really unique"

"Oh yeah, I remember you too!" Taehyung said too. "You have really pretty Hazel eyes."

'I've died and gone to heaven, Tae and Kookie just called my eyes pretty, somebody pinch me again' she thought, then Jungkook pinched her, she turned to look at him hoping she actually hadn't said it out loud. "You looked dazed," he explained nervously, scratching the back of his neck.

"Come and hang out with us,...?"
"Joo-hee"
"Come hang out with us, Joo-hee," Taehyung said cheerfully, dragging her and Jungkook along.

'Oh well, today is already weird, might as well just go with them,' she thought as she let herself be dragged.

6th August

"We're having a bonfire, by 6pm don't be late, like you usually are," Namjoon had said.

"Oh, I'll be sure to get there by 4am," She said sarcastically.

Namjoon just rolled his eyes, "lose the attitude".

Now she walked along the beach shore looking for her bonfire companions, she couldn't find them and she was holding a heavy ass cooler filled with junk.

"Joo-hee-ah!" She heard someone call her name, "Over here!" She turned to see Taehyung waving at her along with the rest of his group and the other trainees.

"Hi, everyone," she said as she dropped the cooler in front of them. Taehyung, Jimin and Jungkook rushed to open them.

"Yaay!, Marshmallows and Graham crackers, plus chocolates!" Taehyung exclaimed, hugging Joo-hee tightly, while the rest just watched awkwardly apart from Jimin and Jungkook, they had all gotten to know each other the day before and were already friends as shocking as it might be.

" You're a life saver, "Jungkook said, grinning in his cute bunny way," Hyungs wouldn't let us bring any snacks" he whined adorably.

"Well, I brought snacks, so let's get this bonfire started," she said as everyone went to sit around the fire.

7th August

"Why did you pick me as your mentor?"
Joo-hee was shocked to hear that question coming from behind her as she was working on her song.

"Why do you ask?" she tried to divert the question, but Namjoon was not having it.

"Because, I want to know," he said, rather like a bratty child.

"Well, maybe it's because you're the leader?"
"Because of that?"

"Well yeah, and you're a composer too, but mostly because of the leadership part"

"Why because of that?"

"Well, you see, I'm not the most organized person, I also have a slight ADHD, so my attention span is allover the place and I'm the best at procrastination, so I need someone that can command me, so yea, because of that"

"Just that?!" Namjoon asked in disbelief.

"OK, maybe because you and the boys may have saved me from committing suicide, especially you" she pointed her pen at him.

Namjoon looked shocked.

"I don't know if you read my letter, but you'd know I tried to commit suicide because of the racism. Then I heard your song on the TV and that brought me back. I was still having problems with my esteem, then I listened to your UN speech in 2018 and 2020 and I thought, hey finally someone who understand me, people who understand me. Which is why I wouldn't trade you for any other mentor, no matter how cranky you get when you're on your man periods," she said, hoping it would make him smile, it didn't.

Her smile fell, when she saw his glassy eyes and how hard he was trying not to burst into tears.

"Oh my God, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to upset you," she said frantically.

"You didn't upset me," he sniffled. "You just reminded me why I decided to become part of BTS and why it is so much worth it because of people like you," he said, tears streaming down his face freely.

Joo-hee tried not to cry herself as she nodded.

8th August

"Are you sure this is all you want to do for today?," Namjoon asked sceptical.

"Yea," Joo-hee replied, head focused on the computer.

"But it's your last day and all you want to do is work on your song, I already told you, your song is perfect, you don't need to change a thing."

"Are you sure? 'Cos my tone seems a bit off here and the rhythm's not right here"

Exasperated, Namjoon turned the swivel chair, "you'll be fine!, it's perfectly OK, take it from me, even the group enjoyed it."

"All right, if you say so" Joo-hee grinned sheepishly as she stood up and left with Namjoon from the studio.

"Come on, the boys wanted to spend some time with you,"

"What will we be doing?" Joo-hee asked as they stopped in front of their dorm room.

"Playing games!" Taehyung answered, opening the door. Along with the boys, their managers were there and also a female chaperone.

"I'm so going to kick your butt this time in Overwatch," Jungkook grinned deviously.

"Sure, like the last time on the phone?" Joo-hee replied sarcastically.

"That was a fluke," Jungkook whined kicking the bean bag and the popcorn on the floor.

"Sure, big baby," Joo-hee smirked.

"I swear to God, Jungkook, if you make a mess on the floor, you're gonna clean it with your mouth," Jin yelled.

"I challenge you Lee Joo-hee to a game of Overwatch, winner takes all."

"Challenge accepted, Jeon Jungkook"

"What is the 'all' you're talking about?" Tae asked curiously.

Jungkook and Joo-hee just stared at each other and shrugged. "We don't know"

After 5 rounds of Overwatch and tossing if popcorn everywhere, Joo-hee was about to win.

"No! Jiminie-hyung! Tickle her!" Jungkook commanded.

"Sure thing," Jimin said with a devious smile as he and Taehyung immediately started tickling Jungkook.

"N-no Fai- No F-fair!," he said as he lost. "I told you to tickle her" he whined again kicking his beanbag to a corner of the room and tossing popcorn everywhere as he looked as if he had been betrayed brutally, with his doe eyes and huge pout.

"Well, she's the maknae so too bad for you" Jimin said still giggling.

The hyungline just sighed, while Jin just said "This is what you get when you have the maknae line together"