3RD PERSONS VIEW。

the program had started and the crowd was loud and wild. the emcee's introduced themselves as the camera faced them, it just happened so that jaeyoung was forced to become one of the crews as well.

it was fine with her, she was just an assistant anyways. she sat beside the main camera person as she watched miyeon and jeongin do their thing.

the director of the school had a few words and thus the program begun with an oath for the players as well as the hymn for their school. afterwards the teams that would be playing today were announced.

soon enough before starting the game the emcee's started to introduce the royal family. miyeon stated the family's background before welcoming the queen, who had arrived a few minutes before the program started.

jeongin was the one who gave the queen a mic as queen misun gave her little speech. jaeyoung payed attention to the screen as it soon revealed the rest of the royal family who attended the program.

her eyes went wide seeing two unfamiliar faces yet she recognized the other six. she bit hard on the cherry flavored lollipop she was snacking onto as her sweat dropped.

oh my hera, they were princes!?

jaeyoung seemed to be in a state of shock as she didn't even bother to hear what jeongin had said as he shortly interviewed the princes.

miyeon, who still sat on her swivel chair, whipped her head towards jaeyoung's direction and smirked when jaeyoung finally realized the situation she was in.

jaeyoung couldn't help but fiddle with the hem of her jacket as she stared at the screen. "what in the world have i just got my self into." she whispered to herself.

miyeon laughed as she watched jaeyoung murmuring to herself. miyeon shook her head and smiled as she looked down at the crowd, "the fun has now started, jae." she grinned and started to emcee again as soon as jeongin came back into the control booth.

halfway through the tournament, jaeyoung couldn't keep still. the camera person she was assisting kept telling her to do change the camera in different angles, now she got ordered to get some water for them.

they were having a ten minute interval and she stepped out of the room, only to find some of the princes outside the balcony area. she immediately retreated and walked back into the control booth with a panicked face.

her heart beat was racing, she didn't know why but she was obviously nervous.

"oh? jaeyoung? i told you to get some water for us."

jaeyoung gave her a sheepish look, "y-yeah... it's just that... um, i can't?" she tried to make up and excuse.

miyeon turned in her chair and chuckled, "you're so bad at lying, jaeyoung."

jaeyoung sneered and crossed her arms, "oh shut it."

"why can't you?" jeongin questioned, tilting his head. "we're running out of water." he frowned and pointed at their bottles.

jaeyoung's mouth formed a frown as well as she looked at them with pleading eyes, "do i really have to?"

"i can come with you if you want?" jeongin offered.

miyeon suddenly shot jeongin a look making jeongin flinch and look away, "on second thought, i-i have to revise my script— yeah sorry."

miyeon looked back at jaeyoung with a proud smile, "you can go now, jae."

jaeyoung pouted, "whatever, miyeon."

she clenched her fists as she stepped out of the control booth. please don't notice me. she cried inside of her head as she head towards the water station, which to her luck, happened to be beside where some of the princes were at.

she had recognized their faces. jisung, chenle, yuta, doyoung, and another foreign face.

she gulped, i should've not put my hair in ponytail today.

her nerves were kicking in as she approached the water station. as she grabbed four water bottles, one happened to slip out of her grasp and land on the floor, rolling towards a bad direction.

she shut her eyes closed in annoyance, her whole body freezing. this is a very bad day.

she thought twice about the fallen bottle. yeah, i'd just not drink then. yeah, that's right. her inner conscious was screaming and she had decided to turn around quickly, not letting her face be seen as she was about to leave the station.

"hey wait, you dropped this!"

she flinched, now she came to a conclusion that there was no escaping to this situation. she soon calmed down and turned around to face them.

as soon as she did, all held looks of shock while taeil just kept a straight look. even doyoung who happened to catch the fallen bottle was in a state of shock.

stupid bottle. jaeyoung cursed in her mind.

"t-thanks..." jaeyoung said and walked closer to doyoung to grab the bottle.

"...you're welcome..." doyoung mumbled and handed her the water bottle.

she was about to turn around when taeil spoke. "you shouldn't drink that water bottle, it had fell, grab a new one."

jaeyoung's eyes widened, "r-right. i will. thank you again." she stammered and disposed the water bottle to the side before grabbing a new one.

she bowed to them before quickly heading off to the control booth.

once she got in she let out a sigh of relief before dropping to the ground, still having the water bottles in her grasp.

"are you okay?" the camera person questioned before helping her up.

"i think i just died..." jaeyoung muttered and handed them their water bottles before setting her own bottle by her backpack.

miyeon chuckled as she took a sip, "that sounds concerning."

"did something happen? you look so tensed."

jaeyoung gave them a side glare before turning away, pink dusting her cheeks, "i'm n-not."

"lying doesn't suit you, jae!" miyeon teased.

jaeyoung's pink cheeks worsened, "shut– shut up!"

on the other hand, the four princes were still in the state of shock as taeil couldn't help but furrow his brows at the sudden silence.

"what is up with you boys?" he questioned, eyeing his brothers.

chenle couldn't contain the happiness in him as he kept hitting jisung lightly with his hand. "j-jisung..."

"chenle..." jisung mumbled back, also stunned.

doyoung scoffed as his eyes landed on the control booth's door. "you're going to school here?" he murmured to himself as he averted his gaze onto his hand that had caught the bottle earlier. he bit his bottom lip before curling his fingers into a fist, the clenched hand dropping to the side of his body.

yuta, however, didn't expect to encounter the girl he met at valfied here in heflorescence. despite the fact he knew that jaehyun and jisung had met her before, he didn't know today was the day he'd see her again.

yuta glanced at jisung who was smiling. yuta couldn't help but smile as well. she looks pretty in a ponytail.

taeil was confused. "yah, don't just ignore your oldest brother. what's going on?"

the boys flinched at taeil's sudden change of tone. the smiles on their faces faltered as they felt their body stiffened.

taeil noticed their tense bodies and sighed, "okay, i'm not gonna force it out. i'm sorry if i sounded strict right now, but please, tell me what's going on?"

doyoung sighed, so this was why i felt like something was gonna happen.

"i met her before..." doyoung blurted out softly as he looked at the oldest.

taeil was taken aback, "wait, seriously?"

doyoung nodded, "at the bakery. she works there, for mrs kang."

"i understand that, and you three? what's with the look?" taeil questioned, gesturing to the others.

chenle bit the inside of his cheeks, his eyes scared to meet taeil's, "i have also met her before... at the gates of this school..."

"jisung?" taeil raised a brow.

jisung gulped, "i-i... i also.. met her." he managed to say though it was hard. he lowered his head, his hands playing with the hem of his blazer.

taeil's eyes softened at the young ones. he knew from their looks that they were frightened. he chose not to use a hard tone of them, he didn't want to get angry at them now, not while they were outside the palace.

the oldest craned his head towards yuta who was silent. "i'm guessing you also met her before?"

yuta gave taeil a look before smiling sheepishly, "wow great, hyung you could be a magician."

taeil deadpanned at yuta's words before facepalming, "i'm letting you go for now since we're outside the palace, but once we get back, we need to talk."

the boys nodded and were kinda relieved taeil handled this situation calmly.

jungwoo suddenly walked out from the curtains of the balcony, "hey, the program's about to start again." he announced.

yuta chuckled and stood up, trying to forget that such situation happened, "what are you? the host?" he joked and walked back in through the curtain.

jungwoo glared at yuta's back before facing the rest of his brothers. soon they all started to walk back in and the last on to enter was doyoung.

but before doyoung could even enter, jungwoo held him back. "what were you all talking about?"

doyoung sighed and faced jungwoo, "taeil met jaeyoung."

jungwoo's eyes wet wide, "seriously?"

doyoung nodded, "i'm scared that taeyong would meet her soon, too."

"let's just hope nothing bad would happen, okay?"

doyoung frowned but nodded again, "okay..."

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yO

dream

*bunch of korean gibberish words dream chants afterwards*

n e ways

hI again

-jibin