I saw an angel
When I first saw you,
You shined like an angel from heaven

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Excited and slightly nervous, Taeyong stood together with Johnny and Yuta in front of the management office the following day. They came in threes and would leave in fours. The time had come and NCT would get a new member again. When Taeyong came back the day before from the conversation with the management, Doyoung, Jaehyun and Johnny were waiting for him eagerly. Especially Doyoung wanted to know every detail of the meeting. Taeyong asked the three of them to call the other members so that he could tell the news directly to everyone and while the three of them immediately went to the rooms of the others he took a shower and slipped into comfortable cozy clothes. The bandmembers of 127 were already sitting at the table in the kitchen and waited for him when he went downstairs a few minutes later. NCT consisted of 4 units in total. NCT 127, NCT U, NCT Dream and WAYV. The Dorms are also divided by the units, so not all 21 members were on site. Taeyong sat down on the free place at the head of the table and looked into the slightly nervous faces of the others. They all knew that Taeyong was with the management and were probably afraid that it would be bad news. However, when Taeyong told them that they would get a new member, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. However, not everyone was excited about the news and Taeyong could understand this well. It happens quite often now that some members are neglected when it comes to screen time in the music videos or lines in the songs. Especially Yuta didn't seem to be that enthusiastic about it and Taeyong decided to talk to him in a private conversation later. The others, especially Jungwoo and Haechan seemed to be quite happy about it and made a bet about who could become friends with the new one first.

Now almost 24 hours later it was time and the number of NCT members would rise to a proud 22. Johnny who was standing next to Taeyong sipped tiredly on his coffee while Yuta looked with crossed arms at the entrance door of the office. Even today he was still not very enthusiastic about the idea of admitting a new member, but he insisted on accompanying Taeyong and getting to know Lei directly. Taeyong could understand Yuta, especially after their conversation yesterday. The Japanese wasn't afraid of getting even less screen time, he was afraid of change. Right now NCT are like one big family and he was afraid that new faces might destroy this harmony. Taeyong tried to talk him out of this fear, after all they have already gotten new members several times and with each of them they are now close friends, especially with Jungwoo. Jonny, on the other hand, was happy about a new band member, especially when he heard the Lei had spent much time in America like he and Jaehyun did, so he immediately offered to join Taeyong as well. Taeyong was immediately very grateful to him, because although he was the leader he is always quite shy towards strangers, especially when he has to face them alone. When the door of the office opened all three of them looked up immediately. Lee Soo Man stood in the door with a broad grin and had put his hand on the shoulder of a young man who stood nervously next to him. So this was Lei. Lei, the newest NCT member stood nervously smiling next to the CEO and stroked his blue greyish hair before he turned his eyes to the singers in front of him. Yuta and Johnny watched him slightly and then looked at their leader. Taeyong smiled gently at Lei. At that time the 24-year-old didn't know that they actually knew each other. Lee Soo Man released his hand from Lei and clapped his hands briefly. "Lei, this is Taeyong, Johnny and Yuta from NCT. They'll take care of you now." He turned to Taeyong. "Taeyong is in charge of you as a leader so don't be afraid to report any problems to him." He raised one finger slightly. "Taeyong I'm counting on you." With these words he nodded to all the boys one last time before he went back to his office and closed the door behind him and the hallway sank into silence until Johnny cleared his throat and walked towards Lei smiling, holding out his hand. "Hey welcome to NCT, the biggest and most chaotic band in K-POP history." Johnny laughed briefly at his own words. "I'm Johnny." Lei who was still standing there totally insecure smiled slightly and you could clearly see how he relaxed and squeezed the hand of Johnny. Taeyong looked at Lei a little while he let Johnny involve him in a conversation. Lei was a little bigger than him and definitely more muscular. His hair was dyed bluish and styled upwards and Taeyong wondered which natural hair colourhe could have before he released himself from his little stare and also walked up to the new one to greet him.