Few days later.
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Minho paces back and forth in the lobby of the JDP Entertainment building. Felix watching the older boy.

"Hyung just relax okay? I'm sure it'll be okay. We've had a few days to prepare and we are going to kill this. They'll have no option but to hire all three of us." Felix reassures the older boy.

Minho realizing something, turns towards Felix.

"Are they really looking for 3 dance choreographers?"

Felix's face flushed of all color and looks out the window feeling guilty.

"I-uh.. Possibly, I'll convince them okay?"

Minho sits down next to Felix.

"Lix I have to work with you and Hyunjin, I'll lose my sanity if it's just me and Hyunjin. And there is no way I'll work alone at the studio."

Hyunjin walking into the lobby interrupts their conversation.

"Hey whores" Hyunjin plops down on the couch on the other side of Felix.

"You guys ready?"

"You're late." Is all Minho says before they're being called back for their personal interviews.

"Lee Minho?"

Minho looks to the two boys nervously. Felix grabs Minho's hand and gives it a reassuring squeeze.

"I'm not ready, I can't do this. Fuck." Minho whispers to himself as he's being led to where the interview will take place. He's passing by recording rooms, dance rooms, studios.

Holy shit.

Finally Minho is led to a dance practice room with a table with two men sitting behind it. Bowing, Minho enters the room.

"Lee Minho right?" One of the men ask.

"Y-Yeah that's me."

"Nice to meet you. We're excited to see what you have prepared."

Minho and the two other boys were told to prepare a choreography they made 100% themselves. They were able to choose the song, fast paced or slower, to their liking to show their skills. They were also told to prepared for a sit down interview as well. Minho was confident in his dance, he wasn't worried about that. The talking? That was an issue for Minho.

"Let's begin!" The other man says and Minho goes to plug his phone into the speaker in the corner of the room.

You got this, Minho. Do it for Soongie, Doongi, and Dori.

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Jisung is walking down the halls of JDP aimlessly trying to avoid going back to the recording studio. Chan's been so into this whole process that he barely leaves the studio. Jisung on the other hand can't sit there for over 4 hours without getting up to do something different. Even if that means taking a 5 minute walk around the building.

Passing by the same recording studios he's seen a million times, he passes by a specific dance practice room. Curious, he looks in the window realizing JDP is in there with a boy who is dancing.

Jisung tries to figure out who the boy is but he's not facing Jisung. All he can see is his back. Watching, Jisung sees the way the boy moves. Swiftly when needed but powerful. At one point the boy in the room turns around for a few seconds as a part of a dance move and sees Jisung looking through the window. That's when Jisung realizes it's that boy Minho, he must be here for his interview.

Jisung nods to the boy.

Minho completely ignores him and continues his dance.

When Minho is done, Jisung can see how out of breath Minho is.

Jisung decides to go to a vending machine at the end of the hall and gets two waters. One for himself and one for Minho. As Jisung is walking back towards the room, Minho is walking out with sweat dripping from his forehead making his hair look a bit messy.

"Minho right?" Jisung says catching Minho's attention.

"Yeah, why?" Minho questions.

"I heard you're interviewing for the dance choreographer position." Jisung offers the water to Minho.

Minho looks at the water in Jisung's hands and turns to walk the other way heading back to the lobby.

"Hey wait" Jisung jogs a bit to catch up to Minho walking beside him.

Minho doesn't even look at Jisung, not even wanting to question why this boy wants to talk to him.

"Did your interview go that bad?" Jisung laughs trying to make a joke, but then Minho stops walking and Jisung does the same.

Minho putting on a fake smile says "I appreciate the concern, but I don't need anything from an idol. I'm good. Thanks anyway." Minho turns to continue his walk to the lobby.

Jisung surprised by what he just heard, stares at the wall for a minute before deciding to go after the boy.

Who does he think he is? He's acts entitled when I'm just trying to be nice. What a waste of a pretty face.

Jisung walks into the lobby to see a tired Minho and a boy with black hair sitting next to him. Jisung realizes that's Hyunjin, the one Jeongin messaged.

Walking up to the pair, Jisung sits down in a chair next to the couch they're on catching Hyunjin's attention.

"Hi?" Hyunjin asks slightly weirded out by the new sudden presence.

"Hey, I'm Han Jisung." Jisung states simply. Minho doesn't even look up at him.

Hyunjin blankly stares at Jisung until he has a realization.

"No fucking way, Felix is going to flip." Hyunjin stares at Jisung a bit too long for the youngers liking.

"Who is Felix?"

"Our best friend, he got us these dance choreographer interviews through Jeongin. He's also a huge fan of 3racha." Hyunjin is still staring at Jisung in surprise.

Ok this dude is staring way too long

"I see, I heard about that. Did you have your interview yet?" Jisung asks Hyunjin trying to make conversation and distract himself from the sulking boy next to him.

"No, they just called Felix back. Minho had his though." Hyunjin looks over to Minho realizing he hasn't said a word since he came back from his interview.

"Minho?"

Minho finally looks up at Hyunjin and the younger understands once he sees Minho's eyes.

"Anyway, why are you talking to us? I mean you're Han Jisung, shouldn't you be making songs right now or .. I don't know something other than talking to us? Also is 3racha signed here??" Hyunjin directs his question to Jisung.

Sighing, Jisung answers. "I needed a break, I saw Minho dancing during his interview and thought I'd talk to you guys since you might be joining the company. Yeah we are."

Hyunjin smiles at that.

"That's really nice, I appreciate that" Hyunjin slightly bows towards Jisung and Jisung smiles.

At least he's respectful.

Jisung directs his attention to Minho.

Minho feeling eyes on him, looks up and makes eye contact with the youngest boy.

"Did your interview actually go bad?" Jisung asks actually concerned this time and deciding to forget the rude encounter from a minute ago. He saw how good of a dancer Minho was. Unless he's just extremely bad at talking, it shouldn't have been too bad.

Minho looks away and nibbles at his bottom lip debating whether to tell the idol what happened.

Finally deciding to speak up after a few awkward seconds, Minho directs his attention back to Jisung.

"I messed up on the sit down interview. They asked me two questions and were done. They said that they'll contact me shortly." Minho says looking disappointed in himself.

Hyunjin speaks up. "Hyung that's okay, you know how well you dance. You have nothing to worry about." Trying to reassure the older boy is hard. Minho doesn't take it well when he messes up, especially something this important. He just hopes his dancing made up for his lack of speaking skills.

"They asked me if I speak English, and I said I'm taking classes, then they asked me a question in English. I understood two words out of their mouths and just decided to guess what they were asking. That's when they stopped the interview." Minho lays his head back and stares at the ceiling feeling done for the day.

Hyunjin sighs knowing Minho's weakest aspect was his English speaking. English is an extremely difficult language to learn when you're not a native English speaker. Hyunjin just got a better grasp on it than most.

Some trainees at the company come from overseas and speak English more fluently rather than Korean. English is important for this job. Thinking about this, Jisung decides to speak up.

"Can I ask you something Minho?"

Minho picks his head up to look at Jisung.

"I guess." Minho shrugs.

Jisung thinks about what he is about to ask carefully. Minho doesn't seem too fond of idols so offering his help to Minho probably won't be a good idea. Then again Minho doesn't really deserve Jisung's concern after their interaction just a bit ago.

"Have you thought about getting a tutor?" Jisung bites his bottom lip for a second, nervous Minho might respond badly like earlier.

Minho looks to Hyunjin and the boy nods to Minho as a sign of reassurance.

"I had Felix try to help me but it's pretty much a lost cause. I take classes at my university but I'm barely passing." Minho states looking down at the ground now.

"What if I helped you?" Jisung asks.

I'm probably going to regret this

Minho and Hyunjin are both surprised by this. An idol wanting to help a dance choreographer learn English so he can get a job at the company he works at?

"Why would you do that?" Minho questions Jisung and he has every right to. It's a weird offer coming from him. Especially how Minho clearly didn't like Jisung for whatever reason.

"I saw how you danced, you're really good and we could use you around here. I could help you learn English if you also help teach me how to dance. I mean I'm good, but not as good as I should be." Jisung offers, it's a fair trade. Jisung is a good dancer, he does need improvement though. Chan never wanted to tell him because of how stubborn Jisung could be sometimes, but he could use the help.

Minho looks to Hyunjin.

"I think it's a good idea, plus maybe if Jisung tells JDP about helping you with English he might offer you the job."

"You're right.." Minho thinks about this carefully. That means he would have to spend more time with this idol than he would like to, but if that means he has a chance at this job then he'll do it.

"Okay, if you think they'll actually give me a chance. I'm down."

Jisung smiles hearing that.

"Cool, I'll talk to JDP today about it. I already have your instagram so I'll message you after I talk to him." Jisung checks the time. "Shit okay I have to go or I'm not gonna be alive to see tomorrow, good luck Hyunjin and talk to you later Minho." Jisung smiles as he gets up.

Hyunjin bows. "Bye Han Jisung !!"

Minho simply waves and shows a small smile.

A/n i hate this chapter lowkey 😀