#bejun

seira needed friends, she’d been made aware of that. she hadn’t really realized how much she lacked friends till her group disbanded, they went their different ways, and she realized, for a while she’d only hung out with them. her old members were still her friends, but now they were busy, once they’d been busy together, now they were all busy on their own. seira had decided not to return to japan, but that meant staying in korea and figuring out what she wanted. did she want to try her luck at being an idol again? should she hope her songwriting career would take off? maybe she should start school again?

for now she was a barista, and though it was temporarily, it was nice, she got to see new faces, her colleagues and costumers. she still wasn’t a fan of the smell of coffee, but it was nice having something to pass time with. she looks at the clock, she’s soon free, ready to go home and… do nothing, like almost every other day. a familiar costumer walks in, she greets him with a smile and wave “hey jun!” and that’s when she decides on something.

they haven’t hung out before, they’ve had some small-chat, greeting each other whenever he steps into the cafe. “what you wanna order today?” she sends a smile before giving herself the courage to continue talking, “it’s actually the end of my shift, if you’re not too busy… would you wanna try hanging out?”.

yuji taps a rhythm on the table, frowning in thought. adjusting the volume levels and arranging the mix takes the most time she feels— at least she’s finding it to be more challenging then the rest. looking away from her screen, yuji’s eyes curiously roam over to jun.

“how are you faring over there?” she asks quietly, tilting her head to the side. while yuji is much more invested in what the camp offers— she’s never sure about anyone else. the trainees in sr media she has some idea on. her curiosity when it comes to musicality begins to rear its head again. what kind of music would jun even make? something chill? something noisy? ballad? a love song? would he gravitate more towards music production rather than lyrics? or is this not really his thing?

yuji's never been good at footwork. while dancing is becoming a little easier for her to get the grasp of, heavy footwork is something she'll always struggle to perfect. the faster it is, the harder it is to get her legs and feet to cooperate.

and she knows it's a weak point. yuji spends a lot more of her open practice time focusing on dancing and perfecting the choreo; it feels a little easier too, doing a dance from a senior group at her company. at least yuji feels like she knows what they're looking for-- like she's got an idea for what is expected from someone covering bxy.

but it still doesn't feel like enough. maybe it's her overthinking, like she's prone to do under the eyes and directions of the company (or in this case companies). maybe it's the pressure of working with two other people she's not used to working with; expectations are high, and yuji knows there's a lot to be done before she'll feel ready for this evaluation.

sua's never been one to go to the gym on her own accord. she doesn't mind working out, even if she'd much rather be tucked away in her room drawing or playing on her switch. but as the week progresses and she gets more and more aggravated by the littlest things-- she considers maybe trying out boxing.

she's looked it up before after it was recommended to her-- maybe perhaps in jest at her sometimes volatile response to arguments. maybe it'll be good to get rid of the built up tension that she garners by just sulking and stewing away. maybe it'll make her feel better; she isn't sure. but athletics and what not have always been recommended for working brain chemistry or something.

so she looks up some stuff and tries it out in the gym. fits herself with proper gloves and eyes the punching bag with skepticism. sucks in a breath and counts down in her head-- then throws the first punch.

then another, and another. remembers what she read about alternating the strength behind each one and tries. it feels a little...silly, at first, but as she does it more-- it's not too bad. makes her feel better if she reminisces about her week, feels the anger build up and then throw a punch.

< a starter w. @bejun >

things are rapidly changing. after his elimination, it felt like a lot of his friends were out of touch. in a sense, they were! busy with next gen all the way up to the finals. now? it’s done and over with-- freedom! one would say. except that now there’s contract signings and it’s harder than ever to make schedules line up to see a good handful of his friends.

stevie finally gets to make plans with junho though. asks him to meet up after he’s done with his day. and he’s pretty excited– anything to get out of his house and avoid the influx of campus work now that he’s back to prioritizing university, along with emails from his therapist that he’s been putting off. he’ll gladly take the distraction.

the bag of goodies bump against his leg as he skates towards the park, going a an easy speed. it feels nice– the wind against his face, the board under his shoes. feels right. stevie’s careful though-- not willing to suffer from another round of injuries due to not paying attention. he can finally bend his arm all the way without wincing. 

            the surprise of seeing junho ( @bejun ) joining next gen too, to junho be the first one to scold him during the show, the two ending up performing together, and now? both managing to get into the same company. noel feels a bit stupid that he hadn’t realized earlier that junho wanted to become an idol. junho was the first one to scold noel for not taking the show seriously enough, and noel had felt like the other over-reacted, just to realize he should’ve listened to jun. it felt awkward that jun had been right and noel had kind of just ignored it, but getting to perform together at the end of the show, it was a chance to show jun that he was finally taking it seriously, and he was happy that they didn’t end the show on bad terms.

he’d clapped when it was announced that lime entertainment offered a contract to junho, ready to congratulate him after the show and then go home himself, just for it to be announced he too was getting offered a contract from lime entertainment. he was nervous and unsure, but his growing love for dance made him decide on signing the contract. and wook felt quite lucky he now had the chance to once again train together with jun. 

— COMPANY NOTICE

SEO JUNHO has joined lime entertainment as of MAY 24, 2023.

            truthfully he should’ve listened way earlier. when junho ( @bejun  ) raised his voice at him for not taking it seriously enough, he’d ended up confused, but as time passed, he realized he should’ve listened. and junho was his friend, so it wasn’t like the other had ever been out to sabotage him, still though, when junho told him to take all of this more seriously, he’d raised a brow and wondered to himself why junho was taking it so seriously. he feels bad a bit, that he didn’t listen to junho, but first began taking it seriously when the judges told him how awful he was. after coming to realization that junho was right, he felt a bit bad, and like he had to apologize for not listening to his friend.