For the next two hours she was stuck in the dance studio with her choreographer, going over a brand new sequence she was going to be adding in to her routine for her new song. “Come on Angel, gotta push through this. Burn that weight off! Pick up the pace Angel!” He was shouting at her, getting her in gear to work as hard as she could.

    She could feel the sweat dripping down her face and down her tank top the longer she danced the steps, her body twisting in ways she didn’t imagine when she started. “Wait hang on.” She mumbled, stopping for a moment.

    Rinjin stopped and watched her as she lifted her hands above her head, closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths to calm her racing heart. She was panting softly and winced the tiniest amount at feeling her muscles stretching while she moved to grab her water bottle from her bag. She could see her phone blinking in her bag and took a moment to look at the messages, wondering who else would be messaging her aside from Taehyung wanting to speak to her about something.

    She chuckled a little when she saw a video of Yunho and Mingi dancing to her old song like a couple of idiots, Wooyoung in the middle of them trying to dance her part. She could even hear her song Lost to the Music playing through their speakers as the three dorks continued to dance along happily. “How’s it goin’ Angel!? Just wanted to give you some luck with dancing! We love you!” Yunho shouted out with a grin, the other two smiling just as wide while they all waved to the screen.

    She smiled a little at the video and gently set her phone down, sucking down half her water from the bottle before she turned to Rinjin to continue her training. She got back into position and nodded her head at him, telling him to keep going without any more distractions. He nodded back and the two immediately stepped back into learning the piece he’d been teaching her for the last couple hours.

          xXx

    Another 4 hours later, with her tank top completely dampened with sweat and her forehead glistening, she collapsed to the ground in exhaustion and smiled tiredly up at Rinjin. “This is such an awesome dance. I can’t wait to learn more steps.” She panted out, resting her hands on her hips while she managed to sit up on her knees.

    He laughed and pointed at her as he moved himself towards the door. “Careful now Angel. Flattery will get you nowhere! See ya tomorrow!” He said with a smile, opening the door to step out.

    She crawled on her knees toward her bag and drank up some more water, having refilled it a few different times already since she started the dance with Rinjin so long ago. She leaned against the mirror in hopes of helping slow her breathing and grabbed out her phone to see if there were anymore texts she missed. Ravn had messaged her asking how she was doing, and she immediately snapped a photo of herself where she was against the mirror, his ring still on her finger since she’d taken it from him those few days ago.

    Once she sent that off she checked the group chat of Ateez and saw the stupidity of the boys all wanted to hang out with her and missing her like crazy, yet she could only tell them she couldn’t hang out for a while what with her comeback training starting up. One of them gave a frowny face and told her to take many breaks in between so as to not tire herself out like the last comeback. She just waved it off with a laugh and sent them an innocent heart meme which had a person winking as they made a type of heart with their arms.

    Just as she was about to put her phone down Ravn messaged her again and seemed to fake demand her give back his ring. With an angry face and a few exclamation points and everything. So she sent back the same  thing she sent the boys before relying, “you gotta come get it from me.” Before finally getting the chance to set her phone down.

    Róisín then slowly stood up on wobbly legs and looked at herself in the mirror, going towards the middle of the room so she could start the dance over again and practice it on her own. She could feel her legs shaking more than before the more steps she worked through, to the point she stumbled over herself a few different times. ‘Take breaks Angel!’ She remembered someone telling her.

    She groaned softly and finished the routine for the last time before sneezing something fierce, immediately falling to the floor in exhaustion. “What the?” She asked herself, sniffling a little at the runny nose she suddenly got.

    She rubbed under her nose just to make sure it wasn’t blood and then crawled her way toward her bag, suddenly feeling like she was dead weight. Her head started hurting the longer she focused on the bag in front of her, and she could feel another sneeze trying to make its way passed her lips. She was about to sneeze when the door opened and a grinning Jay Park stepped through the door. “WHERE’S MY CHILD!?” He shouted out, searching the room before finding her collapsed on the floor frozen in her crawl to get to her bag.

    He tilted his head and stepped through the door, Gray right behind him since the two were discussing a collaboration between him and the redhead. “Why are you laying down when there is practice to get done?” Gray asked in confusion before seeing how red she was getting, real fast.

    She laid down on her back and spread her arms out on either side of herself, her legs falling to the floor like lead. “I’m dying. Is the room spinning?” She replied, furrowing her brow in confusion after finishing what she said.

    The longer she spoke that simple sentence, the dizzier she felt until she had to close her eyes and cough a little bit. “Oh no.” Jay muttered, dropping the bags he held onto the floor before rushing to her figure at lightning speed.

    She just stared at him, still confused about her situation. “Why are you so blurry?” She asked softly, her eyes fluttering shut on their own.

    Gray was quick to run out of the room and find someone to help her as Jay was busy putting her stuff in her bag to sling over his shoulder. Once he had the bag secure he went to pick her up into his arms, but Simon rushed in behind Gray and immediately squatted down to be beside her, looking at Jay in concern. “She’s burning up, we have to do something. Uuuuhhhh, hospital?” He stuttered out with a deep frown on his face.

    The three adults kept looking at each other for a minute or so before Simon finally picked her up and followed Jay out the door, the small group moving to get Róisín home as fast as possible.

          xXx

    When she woke up next, Róisín had a person laying down beside her sleeping soundly. She frowned a little when she saw him and looked around for the rest of the group, wondering what he was doing with her, and in her room of all places. “Hongjoong, what’s going on?” She asked softly after shaking his shoulder a little.

    Her best friend jumped out of the bed and looked around wildly, checking to see what had woken him just to see a very concerned and sick looking Róisín staring back at hi. “Roe!” He shouted, diving into her arms and latching onto her tight.

    She flinched and coughed a little at the movement, frowning when she felt her energy levels at an all time low. “What the hell is going on Hongjoong?” She asked him, seeing his worried face beside her.

    Just as he was about to respond, Seonghwa with the rest of the group slunk their way into the room, Seonghwa leading with a tray of soup and cold medicine, and water. “This had better been clean of all liquid and medicine when I come back. That include everything in the bowl of soup Angel. Gotta get that sickness out of your system.” He told her, narrowing his eyes at her when she just grinned innocently at him.

    She then pouted when he continued staring at her. “Okay fine Bossy!” She cried out, taking the spoon into her hand and dipping it into the soup, grumbling under her breath the whole time it took to put it in her mouth.

    Needless to say she finished the whole thing with Hongjoong laughing at her eagerness.

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