Jaemin dashed passed the swarm of girls, yelling and shouting his name; he was already 15 minutes beyond schedule. He was obviously not living up to his status as "Leader Of NCT Dream," if anything he was being extremely irresponsible and frequently arriving late to practice. Jaemin auditioned for another band, but life had other plans for him and he made his debut with NCT DREAM. Though he had never tried to learn anything about the group, he only knew they were gaining notice in the media. Jaemin had no choice but to join the group, and after a year, he had warmed up to the rest of the members.

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"IM HERE, SORRY GUYS" Jaemin said as he busted through the door of the studio. 

"why don't you move into the city side, instead of relying on taking the train?" Chenle remarked.

Fact is Jaemin doesn't want to move due to the high cost of rent in this city area. he would rather stay in his parents house on the other side of the world. 

"okay guys, we have a concert in about 2 weeks. We need be on our toes this week and next week. I don't want to see any slacking off" Renjun announced 

Renjun was a natural born leader for NCT DREAM. He was always on time, made sure the group doing their best, had a neat and organized schedule and everything. Though he was not given the role of leader because their agency; SM ent, ran by CEO Lee Soo-man and Chris Lee. Thought that renjun wasn't fully capable for the role, but thought Jaemin was. (big mistake) 

"2 weeks?! why didn't you alert us, like.. a month ahead?" Jisung shouted.

"Chris lee just gave me this info yesterday. I know we don't have a lot of time but we can try. We only have to preform 'Broken melodies,Brave Jewel,Sestuna Trip and Lost ones weeping'".

"Are we going to be the only group there?" Jeno asked.

"No, Aespa will be there along with many others bands; Anyways we should start practice" 

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Practice was going smoothly until Jeno broke his drum stick midway through. Everyone packed up and said their goodbyes to each other. Jaemin was ready to leave the building when he noticed Chenle outside, looking down at the ground. Jaemin chose to approach him.

"Hey chenle what's up? waiting for an uber?"

"yes.."

Jaemin noticed how chenle voice cracked.

"are you okay?" Jaemin seemed really concerned and chenle just broke down into tears. Crying on Jaemins shoulder, It took a while for him to calm down.

"do you wanna talk about it?" Jaemin asked.

But just as chenle looked up at him his uber arrived.

"I'll tell you if I have time" chenle replied and left.

Jaemin watched as Chenle Drove away.

Jaemin walked to the train station which was farther than he expected, from a distance he heard a faint voice of a girl. He could've sworn he heard that voice before. He looked in the direction of the voice to find it was NingNing, one of Chenle's friends. He walked up to her.

"Hi NingNing, how are you?"

"AH jaeminnie!! Im Good, how about you?" NingNing replied.

"Im okay, ready for the big concert in 2 weeks, because we certainly are not" Jaemin nervously laughed.

"yeah, me and the girls are ready. Im mostly ready to beat chenles ass" NingNing joked.

Jaemin thought it would be a good time to talk about chenle about what happened a while ago. "Speaking of chenle, I caught him crying today and when I confronted him he broke down even more"

NingNing didn't say anything, she had a look on her face in which she knew what was going on but just told jaemin "ahh.. sometimes he justs.. miss home, you know him he gets homesick a lot. He.. maybe just had some memories about china that's all"

Although Jaemin didn't buy it he still thanked NingNing and left her be, his train had arrived and headed home.

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Jaemin reached is house in which him and his fiancé lived in. 

"Hi honey, how was practice?" Mars asked while cleaning dishes.

Mars was everything Jaemin could ask for, Jaemin had proposed to her 3 months ago and were set to get married soon (they haven't decided on a date yet due to their busy schedules). Mars worked as a part time- bartender and mostly stayed home. They met through mutual friends in high school and clicked.

"practice was alright, we have a concert soon as well. Which is why I'm going bed early" He kissed mars on the forehead and headed off to bed.