After that, I had quite a deep and profound conversation with Ji-heon. He knew more about math than I thought, and he told me he was even good at it when he was younger, so he seemed like a comfortable kid in many ways. When I took him to a cafe and bought him cheesecake, he said he wouldn't eat it because he'd get fat. This was shocking. If he keeps getting shocked like this, how will he handle himself in school? He'll probably have more work to do there, after all. When I see kids coming out during vacation and doing things... I feel so ashamed.
“Are you sure you can go alone, Ji-heon?”
“I can go by myself!”
"Okay, I understand. Bye. See you at the freshman orientation next time."
That's how we broke up. I felt something was missing, but I knew nothing would happen. Relieved, I went back inside and turned on the song I'd chosen.
“....Um, this part.... I think it’ll be hard even if I start practicing tomorrow. Let’s just practice first.”
This dance is simple yet challenging. It secretly gave me a hard time. Luckily, I live on the first floor. If it weren't, it would have been incredibly noisy. I practiced hard, even just the highlight part. It felt good. The most handsome Minhyun took center stage... The parts went like this...
“Haam..... It’s already past 1 o’clock...”
I decided to take a nap. As I lay down on the bed, I saw that one of the kings on the chess board I had been playing with yesterday had fallen over and was lying on the floor.
“......I don’t know, I’ll clean it up next time.”
I closed my eyes. King was still rolling on the floor.
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The next morning, at 9 a.m., I finally woke up feeling refreshed. I didn't have any nightmares, and it was great. After a quick shower, I briefly entered the still-hot NU'EST chatroom, and everyone knew I was there. Wow, these guys are amazing.
Oh, Jonghyun is here.
"Guys, today we're going to the practice room that Aaron prepared for us."
"Huh? I'm in the practice room... Oh yeah, that's right, it's school."
"Oh, school. Great! What time do I have to go by?"
‘What time do you want to come?’
It's a little past 9 now, so how about meeting around 11?
'call'
Okay, so I have to be at school by 11 o'clock. Well, I guess I'll take a quick walk and then go to school. I dressed as lightly as I could and headed to school. That security guard, Ma Dong-seok, who's always there, said, "Isn't it time to get used to it?" Are you kidding me?
“Who are you...? Aren’t you our math teacher?”
"Oh, yes. I got accepted to this school, so I'm preparing for the freshman orientation..."
"Wow, as expected, you're already preparing so diligently. Teacher, you have a separate practice room, so you can just go there and use it. No wonder you're unpopular with the students. As expected, you're meticulously prepared. But why were all the teachers like that when I was there? I'm curious, Teacher."
“Haha... I think it’s because the education system wasn’t as strong in the past...”
"Oh, you don't understand when I talk about such difficult things. I don't really know what you're talking about, but anyway, my teachers in the past weren't as nice as my math teachers are now! I get that! If you go around the school and go inside, you'll find the practice room, so work hard! I'll go see what kind of stage you're on too, haha!"
“Oh, yes, thank you...!”
Oh, it's really scary. Whenever I see those arms... It's really scary, how can I live in this world.... But soon enough, there was a practice room. While I was preparing with NEVER on in advance, people came in one by one.
“Wow, the practice room is nice...”
"Hey, Jonghyun, how on earth did you find that song? I listened to it last night and fell asleep! The dancing is pretty good too. Don't you think it was made just for us?"
“Honestly, I was a little surprised to find this song too.”
After that, Aaron came in last and we started a meeting among ourselves. Fortunately, Minhyun and Minki were pretty good at singing and dancing too. So now Minhyun is the center, Minki is a sub vocalist with Minhyun. Aaron and I split the rap part, and Dongho took on the main vocal. And as we practiced, it started to look good. Especially the last high note part was thrilling as we danced too. It was the part I was most worried about, but thankfully, we did it well, so it was even more goosebumps.
"how is it?"
“Hey, I’m watching the video, so let’s watch it together.”
“Oh, it’s pretty good?”
“Hey, I told you this song was really made for us.”
The atmosphere gradually improved. The chemistry was truly fantastic. Aaron and I were rapping together, and everything was perfect. That is, until I heard the man's voice.
“Oh, I heard there are a lot of new male teachers. They must be really good.”
"Hey, but we can do better together. What's the problem, honey?"
Just when I was thinking, "Oh, we should leave the practice room," those people started talking to me first.
"Hello. We're Min Yoongi and Lee Taeyong, teachers who used to work here. Do you want to have a dance competition?"
"......great."