Waited for by: viclovesskz honest_intentions Ameliyanie1802 engywook and kaycee854
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(A note. I'm not going to include the former member in this chapter. Just in case it brings bad memories for people.)

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"Why. Why are you this way?", Chan asked.

The boy called Felix was just laid out on the wooden floor of the practice area, stretching his body.

"I'm getting comfortable.", he responded.

"You are a strange kid."

"I'm glad you noticed."

The boy named Jeongin came in with Jisung.

Today, the trainees were being placed into units of no more than eight.

They would be put through their training in these units for the next few months and evaluated together.

Now, Chan, Felix, Jeongin, and the little Jisung were waiting to meet their four fellow unit members.

"Mr. Chan!", Jisung yelled, jumping on Chan.

"Hi baby! How has your morning been? Has Jeongin been nice to you?"

"He super nice! He show me how dance to songs!"

"Oh good! I'm glad he's teaching you."

Jeongin and Felix were playing rock, paper, scissors for a nature valley bar when the practice room door opened.

A boy dressed in black sweatpants, a hoodie, and tennis shoes walked in.

"Oh, hello!", Chan said greeting him.

Jisung got down off of Chan, and made eye contact with the boy who walked in.

The quiet boy walked up to the group of four.

"Hi. My name is Lee Minho. I was told to look for a person named...uh...Chan?"

"That's me.", Chan responded, "Welcome. I guess you're part of this growing group of chaos children."

Minho looked around.

He was greeted by everyone, including Baby Jisung, who thought the boy looked like a sad kitten.

Chan started to stretch while watching Jisung terrorize the young Minho.

Felix and Jeongin split the nature valley bar after tieing in rock, paper, scissors eighteen times in a row.

"Why are you screaming?", Minho asked when Jisung screamed from on the floor.

"Mr. Chan say screaming good for you health."

"I think he just lied to you."

The door to the practice room opened again.

A boy who looked skeptical of this entire ordeal, and an excited Labrador looking boy entered the room.

"Oh good, people are here. Hi, I'm Seo Changbin, this is my dog, Seungmin."

"He kidnapped me.", Seungmin said, dressed in one of Changbin's stolen hoodies.

Chan stood up from stretching.

"Welcome friends! Join us."

Everyone greeted the boys.

"Who's the oldest?", Changbin asked.

"That would be me.", Chan said.

"You look like you're 12."

"You're funny. I'm 18."

"You're kinda cute tho."

".....it's been five minutes."

"I'm just letting you know how I am in advance. Just in case we debut together Mr. Chan."

"I'm silently hoping we do."

After a few minutes of talking and getting to know one another, and Jisung showing everyone how adorable he was by blowing kisses and twirling around, the practice room door opened once more.

An adorable boy with the face of a newborn ferret walked in with one shoe untied and immediately tripped over the lace and fell onto the floor.

From his spot on the floor, he spoke.

"Hi! I'm Hwang Hyunjin! Can someone help me up please?"

Changbin helped the boy up.

He fixed his hair before greeting everyone again.

Since there were now eight boys there, they determined that their trainee unit was complete.

Since Chan was the oldest, he felt like a babysitter for whatever it was he was currently looking at.

Seungmin was the only one doing something normal, and stretching.

Jeongin was being chased around by Felix, who just wanted a hug.

Changbin and Minho were doing BTS choreography in the mirror and constantly falling over each other.

Lastly, Jisung and Hyunjin were arguing over nonsense despite just meeting.

"Mr. Chan, I not like that one.", Jisung said, pointing at Hyunjin.

"I don't like you either.", Hyunjin said.

"Boys, boys, calm down. You just met. Give each other a chance please.", Chan said.

"He called me a rat!", Hyunjin said.

"He say I look like rejected Peta advertisement for endangered squirrels!"

Chan had to totally stop himself from laughing.

"Boys. Please just try to get along."

"If I have to debut with him one day, I'll commit acts of violence.", Hyunjin said.

"Be nice."

"But-"

"Be. Nice. Hyunjin."

Hyunjin pouted, turning away from Chan and Jisung and walking off.

Jisung stood in front of Chan.

"Mr. Chan, can we switch wiv another person?"

"No, Jisung. Give it time. You two will get along one day."

"Ewwwww!", Hyunjin yelled after hearing Chan.

"Maybe."

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A few months had gone by since the eight boys met.

Hyunjin and Jisung still strongly disliked one another.

Felix and Jeongin were best friends and the older boy claimed Jeongin as his new little brother.

Chan had formed a unit with Changbin and Jisung, but they didn't have a name for themselves yet.

Minho and Seungmin actually started to become friends despite the fact that Seungmin bites people when he gets nervous.

Right now, Chan was in a meeting with the CEO, Park Jinyoung.

"Christopher, I have an opportunity for you."

"Yes sir?"

"You have been here a long time. And you have proven yourself to be a great asset to this company both as a trainee and as a musician. So I have a proposition."

Chan nervously moved in his chair.

"Those seven boys you have been unit members with...you like them right?"

"Of course. I even picked them specifically when we redid the units. They're awesome."

"I see. So hear me out...how would you like to have your chance."

"My...chance?"

"Next year I will be hosting a survival show to determine my next boygroup to debut. I want you, and your boys to be on that show."

"Sir..."

"Christopher, you have a lot of talent. You have promise. These boys love you like family."

"But what if I disappoint them? What if I'm not good enough?"

JYP stood up.

"You will be good enough. As long as you believe. So what do you say? Will you take this opportunity and not only give yourself, but your boys a chance to debut?"

Chan thought to himself.

What would his future look like as an idol? Would he be successful?

Would people love him?

Would he be happy?

He looked back at JYP.

"Yes sir. I will."

"Good choice. In a few months we will speak again. Until then, go tell your boys their chance is coming."

Chan got up, running from the room down to the practice studio.

When he entered the doors, everyone looked at him.

"Guys! We're going to be on a survival show!"

"What?!", they all yelled.

They all piled into a hug.

"We...we might debut?! Really?", Minho asked.

"Yes, Minho. This is going to be so exciting!"

"I can't believe it. A survival show...", Jisung said.

Chan smiled at them all.

"If we make it...let's make a promise to one another."

They all put their hands in the center.

"We have already seen a lot of struggles in our lives. From leaving home young..."

Jeongin nodded in agreement.

"...to leaving home because we weren't safe."

Jisung nodded as well.

"So if we debut...I want us to make music for all of those kids out there like us. Those who were lost, who may still be lost..."

Minho agreed.

"...for those...who have been led astray. Let us, be their guiding light."

They all held their hands in the center together.

"Who's ready to begin a new chapter?"

All of the boys raised their other hands.

"Then...let's do it. Together."

They released their hands, hugging one another.

Minho stood by Chan.

"Do you think we'll actually become popular? You know, if all of us debut?", he asked.

"One day we will. But be prepared."

"Why?"

Chan looked around the room at the boys he had chosen for his unit.

Hyunjin tossed an exercise ball at Jisung and knocked him down.

"Because we are not the most normal people you'll ever work with."