Chan Hee had tried, earnestly and really tried, to ignore the smell of smoke from Eun Suk as she unpacked her things, but when she saw a pack of cigarettes sticking from the jacket pocket of Eun Suk’s pants, she couldn’t help but warn her, “You better not smoke while you’re in here.”

Eun Suk rolled her eyes, “Geez, relax…”   

Chan Hee was about to thank her when Eun Suk suddenly added, “you get used to the smell”, and stuck a cigarette in .

Before Eun Suk could light her blunt, Chan Hee sprinted across the room and grabbed it right out of .

“I’m serious. It’s gross.”, Chan Hee said, glaring. Eun Suk just stared at her for a while, but Chan Hee could tell Eun Suk was itching to punch her.  

Chan Hee slowly backed off and returned to her side of the room, but she heard Eun Suk snort and say, “You act like you’re all clean, but you’re a bit of a rebel yourself, right? I mean, you have that stupid tattoo on your wrist.”

Chan Hee was trying to keep her temper now, but her voice wasn’t quite level as she responded, “It’s not stupid.” Chan Hee was thinking of her brother, the person closest to her…

“It stands for your freaking initials”, she heard Eun Suk say, “Can’t you just be a little more original?”

“God, shut up!”, Chan Hee yelled at her, sick of Eun Suk’s constant snide remarks. Chan Hee suddenly threw her book at Eun Suk. It hit Eun Suk in the arm, where it was bound to leave a bruise.

Chan Hee saw Eun Suk’s mouth straighten into a line. “It was a joke. Can’t you take a joke?”, Eun Suk said. But Chan Hee was so sick of Eun Suk.

“You’re disgusting! Why are you making jokes about things that you know nothing about? Didn’t your parents teach you any manners?”, she spit out.

Suddenly, Eun Suk looked beyond upset. She launched Chan Hee’s book right back at her, yelling, “Keep your stupid things on your side of the room!”

Chan Hee picked up her book, brushed it off and set it on her counter. “Then keep your stupid jokes on your side of the room, all right?”, Chan Hee replied angrily.

“Fine!”, Eun Suk spit out. She got up from her bed and furiously grabbed the roll of silver Duct tape from her desk. She ripped a long piece and stuck it onto the floor, marking the middle.

 “See this? Don’t you dare step over it!”, Eun Suk yelled, pointing at the line.

“Same goes for you!”, Chan Hee shouted back.

            “Fine.”, Eun Suk crossed her arms.

            “Fine.”, Chan Hee imitated her, crossing her arms as well.

            “Fine!”, Eun Suk shouted, annoyed beyond belief.

            “FINE!”, Chan Hee screamed right back.

            “CAN YOU SHUT UP?”, Eun Suk roared.

            “MAKE ME, YOU JERK!”, Chan Hee shouted furiously.

            Eun Suk got up from her bed and starting to approach Chan Hee but Chan Hee pointed at the line in the middle. “Can’t cross that line, you said it yourself”, Chan Hee smirked.

            Before Eun Suk could say anything, the door to their bedroom opened.

            It was Soori. “Stop yelling, I can’t study with you two arguing”, she said. She leaned against the door frame. “You sure you want the rock-paper-scissors’ room pairings to be absolute?”

            Shim Jang also tip-toed behind Soori, and she whispered, “Can you stop?  Yelling makes my stomach hurt.”

            “Yeah, of course. Sorry.”, Chan Hee said, trying to calm herself down. “You’re Shim Jang, right?”

            Shim Jang nodded.

            “SEE? Nobody knows each other yet! Let’s throw a party!”, Soo Ri marched into the room. She was holding her head, as though her head hurt, but she was grinning.

            “Are you okay?”, Chan Hee asked her.

            “I get headaches a lot…”, Soo Ri replied, trying to hide her pain. Normally, she wasn’t so upbeat, but it seemed necessary right now. For her members.

            Everyone could see it. Although the last thing she wanted was a party, Soori piped in, “Yeah, let’s have a party.”

            Suddenly, Chan Hee’s phone rang. She saw it was from the SM President, so she put it on speaker.  

            “Yes?”

            “Your mentor is going to stop by your dorm in about an hour, as well as the boys and their mentors, so be ready to meet them.”

            “Mentors? Who?”

            “Tablo. From Epik High. And the boys’ mentors are B2ST.”

            “All right”, Chan Hee answered, trying to hide her excitement. The mood had suddenly changed in the girls’ dorm. All the girls were excited, how could they not be!?

             But when the president hung up, they suddenly realized how unprepared they were.

            “My underwear! It’s all scattered on my bed!”, Soori yelled, and dashed madly to her room.

            “Uh oh, I should clean some stuff up too, seeing as I live in the living room”, Shim Jang said, disappearing.

            “Think I’m going to go blow off some steam and dance in my room”, Soo Ri said, slightly embarrassed. Dancing was an incredibly personal thing for her, but she realized it was somewhat necessary to tell her roommates why screeching noises were coming from her room.

            “Can I come?”, Chan Hee asked. She wanted to spend time with her members and get to know them; she was the leader, after all, and that was not a responsibility she planned to take lightly.

            Soo Ri smiled shyly and said, “Sure, if you want.”  

            “We don’t have any food, though!”, they heard Shim Jang call from the living room.

            There was a moment of silence.

            “Guess I’ll go, then”, Eun Suk said unwillingly. She pulled on a black hoodie before she left.

            “Buy me strawberries!”, Shim Jang yelled, just before the door slammed shut.

            “So”, Doojoon began, once everybody had been introduced to each other. Everyone was in a circle on the floor, and passing around snacks.

            “First day at the dorm is always awkward, and we’re here to help you guys feel a little more enthusiastic about being a group”, Doojoon said, leader-like.

            “President told us to play Spin the Bottle-”, Junhyung continued, but was quickly interrupted by Kikwang, who said, “Not that kind of Spin the Bottle”, in response to the suddenly blushing faces everywhere.

            “Right, so. The person who gets picked on the first spin has to ask a question and the second person to get picked answers by writing the answer on a piece of paper. But only the person who asked gets to see the answer. And questions can’t be repeated.”, Dongwoon explained.

            “Ready? Answer honestly!”, Junhyung said. Everyone nodded.

            “Wow, it was so long ago when we played this game!”, Yoseob said, excitedly. He draped his arm around Hyunseung as he watched Dong woon start spinning the bottle.

            The bottle landed on Eun Suk. She spun it, and it landed on Skyler. Eun Suk blushed when they made eye contact, thinking of the disastrous first meeting, where she’d made him believe the elevator was burning and then promptly pushed him into a window. But Skyler’s face was totally blank.

            “Um…”, Eun Suk said awkwardly, “how… do you deal with stress?”  

            Skyler quietly wrote his answer on a piece of paper and passed it to her.

            Eun Suk opened it in the palm of her hand. Sky had written: I don’t deal with stress very well… but I like to focus on intricate things to distract myself from my emotions. Eun Suk was impressed with how honest it was.

            However, Skyler, on the other side of the circle, was beginning to worry whether he’d written too honestly… what if he was the only one taking this seriously? He had to calm a sudden urge to wrench the paper right out of her hands…

            The bottle then landed on Chan Hee, and then Lee Soo Ri. Chan Hee smiled; she and Soo Ri had become a little less awkward after practicing dance together.

            “As Epik Love’s leader, what is one thing you want me to always keep in mind about you?”, Chan Hee asked.

            “Good question”, Doojoon said, approvingly. 

            The paper was passed to Chan Hee, who opened it. Soo Ri had written: I feel a little shy right now, but I hope you can depend on me.

            Chan Hee read it and then tucked it deep into her pocket, so she wouldn’t lose it.

            The bottle was spun again, landing on Gongchan and then Kyuhyun.

            Gongchan grinned. What didn’t he know about his longtime friend?

            “What… is the last thing you did that you regret?”, Gongchan asked his friend seriously. Kyuhyun tended to be competitive, and never told anyone his regrets, ever.

            Kyuhyun took a much longer time than the other two.

            “Are you strategizing a national military attack? Hurry up”, JiHyun teased.

 Finally, the paper was passed.  Gongchan unrolled the slip of paper, honestly curios. The paper read: When I stupidly lost in rock-paper-scissors to our leader, and realized I have to sleep on the couch. Gongchan laughed out loud; how very Kyuhyun of him, to continue to act bold despite such a question!

            Sensing the confusion of everyone else, Gongchan quickly spun the bottle, it landed on JiHyun, and then Jung Soori.

            “Hmmm…”, JiHyun said. “All right. I got one. Maknae, what is the last thing you put away before we boys got here?”

            Shim Jang and Chan Hee started rolling over in laughter, Soo Ri suddenly felt embarrassed herself, and Eun Suk had to stifle a laugh.

            “What?”, Soori said, blushing in spite of herself. “That’s totally not fair. You know, don’t you? You already know!”

             “Know what?”, JiHyun said, pretending to act innocent, but also honestly confused. What could it be? He and the other boys had no idea why the girls were suddenly laughing.

            “You… have to…. be… honest”, Shim Jang reminded Soori between laughs. She was clutching her sides and gasping for air because she was laughing so hard.

            Blushing, Soori scribbled the answer and passed it to JiHyun. Then she buried her head in between her arms. She felt Soo Ri, who was sitting next to her, comfortingly pat her on the back.

            JiHyun wolf-whistled at the answer (My pink Hello Kitty underwear) and then spun the bottle.

            It landed on Shim Jang, and then Tae Lin.

            Both of them felt very awkward; they really didn’t know each other. “Um…”, Shim Jang wracked her brains for something to ask…, “Well, I heard Sky-sshi say something about Chu when you guys were coming in. So, I was wondering, what’s Chu?”

            Skyler quietly smiled to himself as he watched Tae Lin scribble furiously about his precious, precious Chu.

            Shim Jang was actually really shocked by the answer (Chu is my plush bunny that is always in my backpack. He’s very cute. My grandmother gave him to me a long time ago. He knows all of my secrets.), but she just tucked away the answer to make people wonder about Chu.

            The bottle landed on Tablo, and then Gongchan- but… “Gongchan? Gongchan?”

            “Is he sleeping?”, Kikwang asked, surprised.

            “It’s only midnight”, Shim Jang said.

            “Aw, come on, don’t stare at the poor kid’s sleeping face. Leave him alone”, JiHyun said, shooing them all away from Chrome’s Maknae.

            The bottle was spun again after Gongchan was put in a more comfortable position against Kyuhyun’s shoulder. The bottle landed on Doojoon, and then Chan Hee.

            “What does the tattoo on your wrist stand for?”, he asked.

            Chan Hee felt Eun Suk looking at her, but Chan Hee didn’t turn her head, just honestly wrote the answer and gave it to Doojoon. When Doojoon read the answer (CH stands for Chan Hee; my brother, Chan Yeol, has a CY on his wrist. We’re close, my brother and I.), a sign of recognition came onto his face. He must know the Exo members, then. Doojoon flipped her a thumbs up, and then spun the bottle. It landed on Junhyung and then Shim Jang.

            “All right”, Junhyung said, leaning forward. “Hm… if you were on a variety show and you had to show a gag/funny talent, what would you do?”

            Shim Jang was stuck for a moment, she’d never really thought of it, but then she wrote: Imitating people. I’m an actress, you know. Junhyung nodded in approval when he read it and flashed her a thumbs-up.

            Happy with Junhyung’s approval, Shim Jang spun the bottle enthusiastically, it landed on  Jung Soori, then JiHyun. Soori smiled mischievously, with the promise of revenge in her eyes. “What… is the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done for fame?”

            JiHyun couldn’t help but cringe as he wrote his answer. Everyone who noticed laughed.

            The answer? Soori smiled when she saw it: Crossdressing for a variety show… ><

            It was 12:30 am now, and Gongchan had fallen asleep on Kyuhyun’s shoulder, who had also fallen asleep against the wall. Hyunseung was now nodding off against the couch.

            “Okay, last time”, Soori said, and spun the bottle.

            It landed on Tablo and then Eun Suk.

            “What… is one thing you want to stop doing? One thing maybe I, as a mentor, can help you with.”

            Eun Suk very deliberately  and thoughtfully wrote an answer and passed it along to Tablo. When Tablo saw it, he didn’t say anything, just put it in his jacket pocket. Eun Suk winced at the response.

            “We’ll be going then”, Kikwang said. He ruffled Jaesun’s hair and then he and Yoseob hoisted Hyunseung onto their shoulders before going out into the night, where a van was waiting for them. Doojoon set the bottle on the table, telling Chan Hee, “If you ever need to say something to one another, don’t hesitate to play the game. It may sound childish, but we probably told each other things we would never have told each other otherwise tonight.”

“Thanks”, Chan Hee said, sincere.

            Meanwhile, JiHyun hoisted Kyuhyun onto his back. JiHyun figured he sort-of owed Kyuhyun since JiHyun was partially to blame for making Kyuhyun owner of the couch.

            Skyler slung maknae Gongchan over his back. Whoa, kid was so heavy. Skyler remembered thinking about how tall Gongchan was for his age, and automatically confirmed his thoughts. Kid was heavy, too! Heavy from all the muscle and height. Uurghhh…

            As for Jaesun, well, he just slung his backpack lightly over his shoulder, and Shim Jang, who was on the couch and half-asleep, remembered that Chu was inside there. She smiled.

            Everyone bid each other good night, and though each of them felt that there were many fights and tears and yells to come; at least for now, they felt a little more comfortable with each other and a little less farther from their other families and friends.

a/n: i tried to include everyone, but i know a few people aren't featured as much as others. please wait your turn, you will get it, i promise! i hope you like this chapter a lot... i worked very hard on it. XD thank you for the comments, they always motivate me. and thank you for the amazing characters you all created. it's so much fun to have them together. and please: tell me if i do anything wrong with your character! <3 and another thing that always helped me to have fun when i got chosen for an apply story: talk to EACH OTHER in the comments section. :D it makes an apply story much more fun and you have fun reading the story even when its not about you. just a thought. i want this to be the best story for you guys!