18 | A Sparkly Gift

Jungkook's POV:

We had just finished our practice at our building. I was exhausted so I decided to take a long warm shower. My muscles were tense from all the dancing. I stay under the water for a bit letting the tension leave my body.

Once I finished, I got out and brushed my hair. I'm brushing my teeth first before changing, I always do this after a shower.

I was almost done brushing my teeth when I suddenly get a text. I look at my phone and the name 'Zoey' pops up on the screen.

We end up texting for a bit until she wanted to do a video call. I was in my closet looking for something to wear.

I call her and she picks up almost instantly, she's standing in her bathroom. She looks pretty without any makeup on.

"Hi," I say smiling as I set my phone down on one of my shelves.

"Hi, I gotta wash my face hold on." She starts washing her face.

"Okay," I say and I go back to looking for clothes.

I'm not sure what to wear, maybe ill go for shorts and a random shirt. I pick up a shirt and look at its design, it was a plaid pyjama shirt.

I look back over to my phone and all I see is a wall. I walk over to my phone and kneel. "Zoey? You still there?"

"Yeah, I am." She says, but I still can't see her.

"Why can't I see you?"

"Ohh sorry, I must've pushed my phone." She turns her phone and I see her, she has her hair tied up and she's putting something on her face.

"What are you putting on your face?" I ask, trying to get a look at the product.

"It's moisturizer." She shows it to the camera and I read the name. It's the same stuff I use, it makes my face very soft.

"Ohh I use that stuff too." I give her a small smile before getting up and walking out of frame to get changed.

Zoey's POV:

It's the third day that we've been here in Korea and we are all currently at the show venue practicing.

We had just finished practicing our last song of the day and I'm sitting on the floor of the stage drinking some water when suddenly someone taps my shoulder. I look behind me to find Jin standing there smiling at me. I was startled at first. I stand up and I hug him. "What are you doing here? Aren't you already done your practice today?"

"Yeah we are, but... We have a gift for you, for all of you." He looks at the members who are sitting on the floor in shock that there are seeing THE KIM SEOKJIN in front of them. He gives them a warm smile and it looks like they're all about to faint.

Caro comes up beside me and they both hug each other. "Hi, Jin!"

I look back at Jin. "A gift? What kind of gift?" I say, looking kinda confused.

"You'll see, just follow me." He walks off the stage and I look at Caro confused.

"A gift?" She says and I just shrug.

I look at the members and tell them to follow us. We follow Jin off the stage and into the waiting room areas. He walks into BTS's waiting room and we follow him in. All of the boys are standing there smiling widely.

"Okay, what's happening?" Ella says as all of them file into the room.

"Well, we have a gift for all of you. And we hope you like them..." The boys step aside revealing these boxes/cases with gemstones on them.

I stare at them for a bit kind of skeptical at first, I walk forward and look at the boxes. They have our names on them with gemstones all over. I grab the one on top that has my name, it's light pink with my name in purple. I look at the boys. "What is this?"

"Open it," Jungkook says stepping forward to help me. He grabs the box from me.

He opens it and I gasp at what's inside. There's a microphone inside with light pink gemstones all over it, there's also matching light pink IEM's inside (IEM=In Ear Monitor). I run my fingers along with the mic before taking it out. I look up at Jungkook, my emotions are mixed. "These are... for us?" I say, shaking a little.

Jungkook nods. "Yep, specially made just for all of you."

I'm speechless, I look at the boys and they are all looking happy and smiling. I look back at the microphone and then at the members. They all how their mouths hanging open in shock. I look back at my mic and a tear drops on it from my eye. "Thank you!" I say as I wrap my hands around Jungkook's neck, hugging him tightly as tears stream down my face.

He almost drops the case in the process, he hugs me back with one hand. "Aww, why are you crying?" He says smiling and wiping my tears as I pull away.

"I'm just so happy." More tears stream down my face. "You didn't have to get this for us."

The other boys come to us and they envelop me in a hug. Once they pull away I grab my case from Jungkook carefully setting my mic back in.

I look at my members. "Come get yours," I say and they all come over slowly still in shock.

I step aside letting them grab theirs. I look at the boys and they're looking at the members happily. "Why did you guys get this for us?"

"Because we wanted you guys to have something special for your first huge performance," Namjoon says.

"And because we wanted to. It was my idea." Jungkook says smiling widely.

I start tearing up again. "But you didn't have to."

Jimin sees me tearing up and come to my side hugging me. "It's nothing, plus we knew how much of a big deal this is for all of you. We wanted to make this performance even more memorable. And consider this our Christmas gift for all of you."

"Thank you! I am. You guys are always doing so much for us." And I'm crying, again...

They got us all a mic and matching IEM's to go with it. Every member has their own colour, every mic with gemstones on it and the member's initials.

"Wait but how did you guys get all of our names?" I say and the boys just look at each other.

"Well... I contacted your manager and asked her for a list of members. At first, she was mostly screaming, and then after a bit of talking she gave it to me." Jungkook says. I laugh, that's the Janette I know.

"How much did all of this cost you guys?"

"We're not telling you that, because knowing how stubborn you are we know you'd wanna pay us back," Jungkook says.

I laugh again. "It's like you read my mind."

They all laugh as well. We spent quite a while talking, the boys also talked to the members. My members don't know anything that went on with me and the boys, not because I don't want them to know but because I don't want it to spread around. I can't risk that.

We took pictures with the boys holding our new mics. And we took pictures of all members holding their mics in the center making a circle. I loved our new mics!

*****

It's the 5th day we've been here and it's dry run day, we are gonna be pretty busy for the next 2 days. The performance is on the 22 of December.

All of the groups and soloists are here including us and the hosts. Every performer was waiting in their waiting room for their turn, we can't see each other's performance so it's a surprise. We all have comfortable clothes on and name tags.

I'm currently sitting in our waiting room eating a granola bar. We had to get here at 6 am to start the dry run and who knows what time we'll be done.

"Zoey! Come on, let's go up now! We're gonna start soon!" Caro says as she runs out of the room.

"Coming!" I finish my granola bar and throw it in the trash before following Caro.

I follow Caro as we walk into the back of the main stage. We listen as the hosts finish their speeches then it was our turn to do our opening dance number. A video that we made plays first, introducing every member and their name.

In that video, we were all wearing school uniforms that the show made for us. We are also wearing that for the opening dance performance. They made us these uniforms that looked like the typical Korean school uniform in blue. We wore a jacket that had ND as the logo and they had blue plaid as the inner design, then we wore a white long sleeve shirt inside that had silver gemstones on the collar.

We stand inside these big screens formed into a box, the front of the box fall to show us standing there. There are 2 boxes with 4 and 3 members inside. On the other stage are all of the boys and on the other are the rest of the girls.

We decided to go for an unnie line, boys line, girls maknae line and all performance. Meaning we have 4 songs mashed to make one song but pretty much 4 different performances, does that make sense? 3 of the songs are from the 3 seasons of the 'Produce 101 Survival Shows', the song is 'Pick Me' from all 3 versions. The first 'Produce 101 Pick Me' version is for the unnie line, the second one is for the boys obviously, and the last one from 'Produce 48' is for the maknae line. The last song is 'Into The New World' by 'Girls Generation', and it's for the all performance meaning all 23 members.

First is the unnie line which is me, Caro and 5 other girls. Then the boys are shown on stage and they are raised from the platforms from below. Then the maknae line which is the youngest girls, and they are on platforms that are risen.

We went with this concept to present each member individually. We wanted to have something cute and will make an impact on the audience.

We practiced the performance and it went well, we even got to use the mics and IEM's that the boys got for us. It was nice using the microphones since they glistened under the light.

After our opening performance, we went back to our waiting rooms to wait for our next one. I sat down in the chairs and I drank some water.

"Can I borrow your charger?" Caro says, walking up to me.

"Yeah, sure it's in my bag." I point to my bag on top of the vanity.

She looks through my bag and pulls out my charger. "What should we buy for breakfast?"

"What time is it?"

"It's like 7:30 I think." She says as she charges her dead phone.

"Ohh, well then let's get some McDonald's."

"Mkay, I'll come with you."

"Okay, guys what do you guys want from McDonald's?" I get up and start taking orders on my phone.

"Okay, I got everyone's order. Let's go!" I grab my wallet and Caro and I quickly make our way to the McDonald's across the street.

We have to make sure to go quickly so that we aren't late for our practice. Luckily the McDonald's was across the street from the venue.

We were waiting for the red man to turn green before crossing the street. My phone started vibrating in my pocket signalling I was getting a call, I took it out and the caller ID read 'Jin'.

I answered the call. "Hello?"

"Hi Zoey! I heard you went out to get McDonald's."

"Yeah, I am."

"Great, can I ask you for a favour?"

"Just text me your orders and ill get it for yah."

"Wha- how did you know I was gonna ask you that?"

"The members are like that, that's why." I chuckle and glance at Caro, she's looking at the cars passing by.

"Okay, ill send you our orders, just bring them to our room. I'll pay you when you get here, okay?"

"Mkay, and please don't order too much. I can't carry a lot."

"Don't worry, ok I'll see you when you get here. Bye!"

"Bye!" I end the call and at the same time the red man turns green and we can cross the road.

Caro does this thing that when we cross the road she makes sure to hold my hand or grab my arm. Her overprotectiveness kicks in whenever we cross.

Just as we finish crossing the road, Jin texted me their orders.

We walked into the McDonald's and there weren't very many people there. I made Caro order all the food since I was the one who took the orders. We ordered separately from the boy's order.

We sat at a table while we waited for our food to be done. "How are we gonna spend our Christmas? We don't even have our gifts yet." Caro says.

"You don't have gifts yet? I already bought all of my gifts like last month."

"You did?! How come I didn't see any?"

I leaned back in my chair and smirked. "Cuz I hid them somewhere."

"When we get home I'm gonna find them." She smiled innocently. She likes to open her gifts early since she can't wait. It's why I don't put my gifts under our tree until Christmas night.

"You can try but I bet you won't find them."

"Bet." She smiled.

"What time is our flight on the 23rd?" I asked her as she started looking at her nails.

We got our nails done the other day, we wanted them too nice to match our microphones. I got mine a baby pink with pink gemstones on it.

"5 pm KST I think."

"Okay."

We have our flight from Korea to Canada on the 23rd. We still have a lot of time to prepare for Christmas which I'm pretty excited about.

"Order numbers 25 and 26!" An employee was standing at the counter holding 4 large bags.

Caro jumped up. "That's ours! Be right back." She ran to the counter and retrieved our food.

I got up and pushed our chairs in. Caro came back with the 4 bags, I took 2 of them so she wouldn't have a hard time.

We made our way back to the venue with our McDonald's.

*****

Caro went straight to our waiting room and I went to the boy's waiting room. I'm kinda struggling to carry these 2 huge bags filled with a whole mountain of food.

I knock on their door and I wait for someone to open it. The door swings open and I'm met with Jungkook standing there SHIRTLESS!

I try not to look down at his abs, I keep my eyes on his face. "Here's your food." I hand him the bags and I give him a small smile.

"Ohh Zoey you here! Here's the money." Jungkook moves aside to look at Jin.

Jin comes running to me. I hand him the receipt and he looks at the price. "Here, keep the change. Thanks for the food!"

"Uhmm, no p-problem." I stuttered, why did I stutter?!

I walk away still trying not to look at the shirtless man in front of me. I start blushing as soon as I look away.

I make my way back to our room trying not to look flustered. I don't want the members to ask questions.

*****

We had just finished practicing all of our introduction performances, last we just had to practice our ending performance.

We decided to perform 'The Light by The Ark' and 'A Poem Called You'. We split the members into two by I have to perform in both songs. For this stage, we decided to go for a nature theme. We wanted to do something cute and fairly like. We don't get to see the props until the last dry run.

We finished our performance and we went back to our waiting room, I need to shower once we get back to the penthouse.

We packed up our stuff and we went to go wait for the bus. It was still early in the day around 11 am.

"Guys! Let's go get Korean BBQ!" Caro started jumping around.

"Korean BBQ? But I'm tired, I wanna go home." Ella whined.

"Ugh come on, we should celebrate."

"Celebrate for what?" I questioned. There's nothing special going on today.

"Celebrate the upcoming show! We should have a proper celebration since last time we didn't. So what ya say? Hmm?"

I looked at my members and we all just looked at each other. We stayed silent before we all screamed "Yes! Let's go!" We ran to the bus stop and waited for our bus.

"I looked on google maps and there's a KBBQ place on the same route to the penthouse. We'll just stop at the bus stop closest to the restaurant."

"Mkay."

We wait for a bit until 4 black vans stop in front of us.

"Are they gonna kidnap us?" Caro says grabbing onto my arm.

I grab onto her too. "I hope not!"

The window opens and Jin sticks his head out. I let out a breath. "Jesus Christ Jin! I thought we were gonna get kidnapped!" I say trying not to fall over, my knees felt weak.

"Sorry, we just saw you guys over here so we called our drivers to bring the vans." He points to the vans behind the one they're in.

"You didn't have to, we were just gonna take the bus."

"Yah! You're always like this, whenever we help you out you always decline."

"Well, you guys are too kind. You're always helping us out, it kinda feels wrong at this point."

"Yah, yah! It's not a big deal, we just want to help out our friends. Now where to?"

"We're headed to lunch, at the Korean bbq near our penthouse."

"Did I hear Korean bbq?!" I heard Jimin say as he tried to poke his head out the window.

"Yah! Get back in there, we both can't fit in this window!" Jin shoves Jimin back inside, and we all laugh.

"Okay anyway, well take you there and we can have lunch together."

I looked at Caro, she gave me a slight nod. I looked back at Jin who looked like he was gonna get out and beg on his knees. "Okay fine." The members started cheering.

"Sound good! Zoey, you come to sit in here so we have directions, the rest of you in the other vans. Quick before others see us!" Jin opened the door for me and I got in.

The rest of the members got into the other vans. I was sandwiched between Jungkook and Jimin in the back seat. Sitting beside them I felt like I was a dwarf.

"Where are we going?" Jin asked looking back at me.

I showed him the place on my phone and he showed the driver. Then we were off, the other 3 vans following closely behind.

*****

"Okay, we're here! I'm so excited!" Jimin started clapping his hands, he must really like Korean BBQ.

We got out of the van followed by the members. I fixed my shorts that we're hiked up during the ride.

We walked inside and surprisingly there wasn't anyone there, I expected the place to be full. "Huh, that's funny. There aren't many people here."

"That's cuz we reserved the whole place," Namjoon says standing beside me.

I look up at him in shock. "You did what?!"

"We got the whole place since we didn't want other people to be here. Paparazzi can get crazy, yknow." Taehyung says standing on the other side of me.

"But why?"

This time Jin comes and stands in front of me. "And there you go again, come on let's go and sit." He drags me by the arm and makes me sit beside Jungkook.

We were seated at a large table. To the right were all of the bangtan boys, and to the left where my group members. Caro sat in front of me beside Jin.

"Okay, you guys order as much as you want. Our company is paying for it!" Yoongi said smiling widely. Everyone clapped their hands and said 'thanks'.

"You don't have to pay for it!" I said to the boys.

"Ahh, it's fine!" Yoongi waves it off like it's nothing.

These boys really do a lot for us, I need to find a way to pay them back someday.

I just stayed silent since I knew that there was no stopping these boys. I pulled my shorts down since they were pretty short. I didn't bring any shorts so I borrowed Caro's, and they are really short for some reason.

I think Jungkook notices me constantly adjusting my shirts so he takes off his hoodie and puts it on my legs. "Use this to cover yourself."

"Ohh, thank you." I smile at him and I fix the hoodie on my legs.

We end up ordering a bunch of meat and some other dishes. We are laughing and talking a lot as we cook up our food. It's fun having everyone here all together.

~~~~~

Authors Note:

So that's all for this chapter. Did y'all like it?

I know it's pretty random, but I just wanted to add this in since I thought it would be cute that the boys gave them custom mics.

Let me know what you think of this chapter.

I hope you liked it! Bye for now!

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