Two days before Yo oppa's birthday was the skateboard elimination competition. After classes in the afternoon, the FISSk Team converged outside the admin building with their skateboards. The team captain had gone to get passes from the admin staff for an early off, but they were not given one, so they had to wait until the rest of the members finished classes. One by one, the team was complete. Practice for the school play was postponed for the day because they were supporting our team, and Kai was a FISSkT member. Luhan had dismissed his soccer team just after telling them he was watching the eliminations. He had added to come and watch as well, to support our school. I had waited by the soccer field for Luhan. I didn't want to go to the parking lot for fear I would see someone I didn't wanna see again.

*coughTaeyongcough*

I trailed behind him and Xiumin as we made our way to the parking lot after his talk with the soccer team. s had gone back to the lockers to change back and go to watch the eliminations. Suho, Lay, Chen and Kyungsoo were waiting by the cars at the parking lot. The five who were part of the team were in one mini bus, courtesy of the school.

Luhan: Where's Kris?

Suho: I don't know.

Luhan: Is he coming to watch?

Suho: Maybe?

Xiumin: The kids will feel bad again if he don't come.

Luhan: I know right. He's always promised to watch practice but only got to do once.

Suho: Maybe he's still doing some drills with the basketball team?

Luhan: They don't even have a game this month orz.

Suho: You know how he is when he's focused on his game.

Xiumin: Here he is.

Kris ge had just appeared at the parking lot. He was still in his basketball shorts, but he had changed his tee to a plain white one. He raised a hand in greeting and apologized. Baekhyun was not driving papa's car since papa returned from Korea. He had gotten back into riding with Kris or Lay going to school. Since we were all complete, we went to the venue where the eliminations were going to be held.

When we arrived, Luhan had called mama to let her know that we were all at the eliminations to show support to our brothers. He also called papa to inform him. Jin was already there to watch as well. Yoongi was also found there. Ain't nothing like family showing support. Yoongi had raised his hand and pointed to an empty space where he was. Jin was also seated there. Suho and Lay went to greet the other two while we said hi. There were no bleachers, rather there were just a few benches on the sides.

The students from the other schools were starting to arrive as well. There were some sort of tech teams checking the ramp, U-pool and obstacle courses for any defects or whatever. Like a safety precaution or something. We saw our brothers on one corner of the empty lot just behind the ramp. They were preparing for the competition. They have changed into more comfortable clothes and kicks. Tao was helping Chanyeol do some stretching. Baekhyun and Sehun were doing some kind of hiphop dance as a way of stretching, while Kai was doing handstands.

Chen: Hahahah. Bra girl is here, too. Hahahaha.

Lay: Where?

Chen: Right there. By the rails, first row.

Lay: Sehun-ah! Be careful! Don't face that way!

Sehun had heard him and looked in our direction. He squinted his eyes and tried to understand whatLay was saying. Lay pointed to the row where bra girl was sitting. When Sehun turned his head towards the place where Lay was pointing, he frowned and gritted his teeth. He ran towards the back and didn't show himself until the time his name was called to do his tricks.

I scanned the area for...uhm...Jungkook. I saw him sitting on the ground playing absentmindedly with his skateboard. Jimin was beside him doing some flips with his board. J was gliding along the sides of the ramp. Taehyung and Namjoon were nowhere to be found. Their team captain and the others were not there either.

Xiumin: Where's Namjoon and Taehyung?

Yoongi: Behind that building. Their team captain's there too.

Xiumin: What are they doing there?

Yoongi: Practice some sort of new trick. I heard Taehyung say something about it last night.

Luhan: What? They're just practicing now?

Yoongi: Nope. They've been doing that for at least two weeks now. Taehyung's got some bruises on his thigh because of it. I guess they don't want the other teams to see it, so they had to hide?

Kris: Good one, though. Might be copying if they saw the trick.

Kris: They won't be able to copy it if they will just see it now?

Yoongi: Ah, but these guys are pros. Last year's champion is here.

Kris: Oh. Yeah. Right. Sheesh hahaha.

Xiumin: Pay attention, Li Shang. We are in skateboarding territory.

Kris: You should have used your magic, fairy godmother.

Xiumin: Shut up.

A few minutes later, all of them were on the ramp. The competition coordinator had called everyone to gather in the middle before the actual competition began.

Someone else was watching from across. I had to squint my eyes to be able to focus on who it was. The form was familiar and it was as if I could see his smirk from this distance. Why was he here? I don't remember inviting him...nor my brothers. Maybe he invited himself. What for?

I crouched low and hid behind Luhan. I hoped he did not see me. I didn't wanna talk to him. I didn't wanna be in the same place as he was. I saw his driver behind him. And his younger brother. Oh, so he probably came here to actually watch. I doubted he came just to look for me. He didn't look like he was searching for me. His eyes were fixed on the ramp and the courses in front. He had an arm around his younger brother.

The coordinator gave the mic to the emcee to start the eliminations. Students from Chaoyang District came as well for the competition. They were the first to go on the course. I heard Luhan saying that there was an indoor street course in Chaoyang, and that Fengtai ought to have one like it. A professional skater who studied in the US had funded the indoor course. Xiumin had said that there was one in Woodward Camp Beijing.

Lay took out his high-end DSLR camera that papa bought for him last birthday. Aside from his car, he had asked papa to buy him a new camera, and papa obliged. He now went to taking pictures of the ramp, people around, and zooming in on our brothers who were waiting for their turn.

There were several tents put up on the sides. Most of them had skating stuff for sale and some were for refreshments, like energy drinks, food and pastries. There was no bubbletea, so in case Sehun looked for one, he'd be disappointed. Chen and Xiumin had gone to buy food for us as we waited for our school's team's turn.

Then it was FISSkT's turn. Team captain and senpai's first. Then Kai started. As each skater did his turn, there was music accompanying them. So you could expect the bass cranked up with each skater's choice of music. Kai chose a sort of eerie tune with lots of bass and violins. But if you listened to it and watched him do his trick flips, it was heart stopping. He really knew his forte. He made use of the tranny or the quarterpipe to execute his flips. People were clapping for him. Chen was so noisy and jumped up and down as Kai made one last flip. Schoolmates cheered loudly when he finished and took a bow. Actually, everyone at the event were noisy. I was noisy myself. LOL.

"Kai! Kai! Kai!"

"Hey baby boy!"

Next to Kai was Namjoon. They didn't follow the subteam order. Something new? Hmmm.. Okay. We watched as he started. His choice of music was classic. Muse. Yoongi whistled and clapped his hands as he watched his younger brother maneuvred his board skillfully through the courses. And instead of him riding his board on top of the learner rails, he hopped up, let his board slide on the ground and he slid down the rail before he jumped down back on top of his board.

Whoaaa! New move?

Of course, the crowd went wild. I looked at the other school's team and they looked amazed as well. Some of them had their mouths open and clapped. Namjoon finished his course with a bow as he slowed down.

Chanyeol was next. His still yellowish bruise on his leg was still faintly visible, but other than that, he was okay. He bowed first before he hopped on his board and did some maneuvering on his board before he started his flips. Lay kept shouting "Yeolie! Yeolie! Look at the camera! Say cheese!" And because he knew where we were standing, his eyes turned to look at us and gave us a wide grin. It was funny because he was supposed to be focusing on his course, but here he was smiling widely for the camera.

Chen: Camera .

Lay: I know, right?

Yeah, right. All of my brothers were camera actually. Even Sehun who didn't really like to smile if you asked him to. He would smile when he wanted to and not because someone told him to. I found him hiding behind Tao and Baekhyun. He was probably avoiding beeing seen by bra girl. LOL. Poor Sehun. I guess he didn't wanna be distracted when it was his turn. That girl could be really loud and she had her friends with her. Group effort. Team cheerleaders, but more like Sehun cheerleaders.

"Chanyeol! Chanyeol!"

Our school supporters chanted as he went for a trick flip to finish his course. He hopped on the ground and kicked his board up and it sort of s up and landed in between his fingers.

"WHOAAAA!"

"What a nice finish there, from Wu Can Lie."

Next was Taehyung. Yoongi crouched low and squatted on the ground before he got back up and raised both arms, shouting, "Show them Taetae!" To which Taehyung smiled sweetly to his hyung and waved. He didn't even look like he was nervous.

Yoongi: Little alien is good in hiding his nerves. Please don't let him slip.

Xiumin: He's gonna be alright. He's practiced, right?

Yoongi: Yeah, he did. I'm the one who's actually nervous for him.

Luhan: Aish. Just jump up and down then.

Yoongi: I can't watch.

And he started to cover his eyes with his palms as Taehyung started his course. Taehyung chose the tranny and U-pool for his tricks. He looked like he was ice skating and enjoying himself. Beside the U-pool was the curved flat bar. Nobody saw it coming when he suddenly did a 360 and sort of flew from the ramp to the bar and slid on top with a pose that would remind you of Michael Jackson.

"Oh my godddd!"

"Taehyung-ahh!"

"Yoongi hyung, look..look...he's done. He's done."

Kyungsoo had tapped Yoongi's shoulders. Apparently the eldest Min had turned his back from the course and was still covering his eyes with his palms. He looked so cute doing that. I stifled a laugh as I watched him. He caught my eye when he removed his palms away from his face and he laughed.

Jungkook was next. Jin gripped the railings tightly. I could see that, because his knuckles went all white. I was the one who didn't look this time. I barely glanced at him when he went to the ramp to start the course. He looked relaxed. He had turned to look in our direction knowing his hyung was there. When he saw me, he smiled. I closed my eyes and hid behind Luhan again.

Japanese hiphop music went playing over the large speakers. Yeah. That would be Jungkook. Their family had spent summer vacations in Japan and he would choose that kind of music. Classics.

Jin: Why in the world did he choose that song?

Lay: Don't kill his buzz. It's what he wants.

Jin: It's weird.

Lay: It is, but he's the one there.

Jin: Would you choose that if you were the one there?

Lay: No. Definitely not.

Jin: That's exactly what I mean.

Lay: I'd choose something more like the one Kai chose.

Jin: Me too.

I grinned. The two were really alike in so many ways. Jin had taken out his camera and started taking pictures of Jungkook on the course. I still didn't look at what he was doing. People were cheering and shouting his name. I risked looking at the last minute. He did a frontside heel flip and ended with a 360.

Not bad. I think I can watch now.

Yeah, because he was done.

Geez.

Next up was Tao. He had to drop his head for a minute while he stood in the middle of the ramp. He smiled sheepishly as he raised his head slowly. He turned to look in our direction and we all gave him two thumbs up. He did mostly grinds and slides on the flat bar and ledge. That was his forte. His hair bouncing as he hopped and dropped and maneuvered the board on the stairset.

"Whoaa...what shampoo is he using?"

"I wanna run my fingers through his hair. God Zitao.."

He finished with a perfect hardflip. Kai slapped his back when he walked with a grin on his face back towards the team.

Baekhyun went next. He looked from left to right trying to find us. When he saw us, he broke into a wide grin. He pointed at Kris ge and gave him a thumbs up. Kris saluted him and nodded. I knew Baek was glad to see dragon gege watching the eliminations. He started his course in the U-pool and did kickflips and hardflips. He was showing off with his flips. And he did them smoothly. He did blunt slide as he went for the ledge and did an axle stall going to the ramp after the slide kickturn.

"Did he just-?"

"I know right?"
 

"Wha-"

"-just happened?"

Luhan had wished for a rewing but of course he couldn't because it was not a recorded show. He poked Lay by the ribs.

Luhan: Did you record that? Huh, huh?

Lay: Ouch! Yes. Stop poking me.

Luhan: Did you start your recording with Kai? Huh?

Lay: Yes! Yes, I did. Heyyy! Stop poking me. The camera is shaking!

Luhan: Hao le, le, le. I'm sorry. Carry on.

Kris: You are such a klutz today, Mulan.

Luhan: Shut it, Shang.

Kris: Why is Snow White not talking?

He had turned to look at Suho who was gritting his teeth and covering his ears while he watched. Kyungsoo, beside him was cheering with Chen. They were doing a sort of cheerdance and the people behind them were copying them. Schoolmates, of course. I was trying to copy them as well, but I got conscious when I saw Jungkook looked in our direction from where he was sitting. He and the rest of the FISSkT were sitting on the ground by the ramp.

Xiumin: Don't disturb princess Snow White.

Kris: I bet he's worried that his little babies would get injured again.

Luhan: Like you didn't worry when Chanyeol got that scrape on his leg.

Kris: It's better now orz.

Xiumin: Snow White, pssstt...

Suho had turned to look at him.

Suho: Huh?

Xiumin: We want to hear your voice.

Suho: Shhhh... I can't.

Luhan: Hahahaha. Relax orz.

Suho: Sehun is next. I don't think I can watch more of these.

Xiumin: You better go home, then.

Suho: No, no. I'll stay. I don't get why you don't get worried for them.

Luhan: Of course we get worried, but you see they're doing well.

Suho: You know how Sehun trips over the smallest bumps?

Kris: He don't trip on his board.

Xiumin: You should watch him again.

Suho: Alright. I'll try.

Chen had turned around and burst into laughter. Kyungsoo did the same and he dropped to the ground as he laughed hysterically.

Luhan: You two, what are you doing?

Chen: I cannot watch Sehun.

Kyungie: Me too.

Luhan: Why no-? Oh, oh...oh...why...in...the...world...

Chen: I can't. Hahahahah.

And we all tried to understand why Chen could not. Luhan had understood. His face fell and sighed heavily as he tried to do hand signals to Sehun who was getting ready. Baekhyun was done and was now walking towards the rest of the team.

Bra girl and her friends had gone nearer the ramp to cheer for Sehun. Nope, she didn't wave her bra at him this time. But the fact that she went nearer, was funny enough for Chen and Kyungsoo. Sehun had actually seen her get near the ramp and was frowning. He beelined for the U-pool to start there instead. But I bet he was able to hear bra girl's cheers from there, because he stomped his foot twice in annoyance.

Chen: What if she flashes Sehun her...

Kyungsoo: ...s?

Chen: Hahahahahaha!

Lay: I need to capture it real time. Sehun's reaction and the...ies.

Luhan: Hey. I don't believe she'll do it with this kind of crowd?

Chen: Lu ge orz. She could even take off her bra in front of the whole school, how much more these?

Suho: Stop it. Just cheer for Sehun. He needs us cheering for him, not .

Kris: Snow White is right. Let's make him look at us instead of her.

Chen: Haoba.

Lay: But...how?

Kris: *shouts* BUBBLETEA!

Sehun automatically turned his head to the owner of the voice who shouted his favorite. Kris clapped and made the gesture with two of his fingers as if to say, "I've got my eyes on you, you should look at us too." Sehun nodded. I guess he understood. We didn't want him to be distracted by the girl, so we did our best to cheer louder for him as he started his course.

Surprisingly, it worked. No matter how the girl tried to get attention from Sehun, he didn't really look at her. He went on executing his hardflips, kickturns and switchstance perfectly. The ledge and stairset didn't go unnoticed, though. He made use of them as he finished.

"Shi Xun! Shi Xun! Shi Xun!"

"Hoseokkie! Hoseokkie!"

Those two names being chanted as Sehun finished his course. It was J's turn to show what he's got. Jin had gripped the rails again and shouted encouragements to him. Jungkook smiled widely at his hyung who did a sort of dance for the crowd before he hopped on his board to do his tricks. Jimin had been jumping up and down while J was maneuvering his board over the ledge with a frontside and backside heel flips.

Chen started a wiggly dance and my brothers on the team saw him and they went to do the same dance. Then the whole team started dancing. That pumped up J's energy and made him do 360's all over the place.

"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!"

"He's showing off!"

"Man, that's hard."

"Talking about hard, that was a hardflip right there! And another!"

"The FIS team is sure to get in the next rounds."

Of course. Our team is the next team to beat. Watch out for Bulletproof EXO in the finals. I smirked. I didn't notice that someone had come behind me and stood watching the competition. I only found out when Soo had turned around and greeted him.

Soo: Oh, hi Taeyong. Jeno.

Taeyong: Yeah.

Jeno: Hello, hyung.

Soo: Enjoying the competition, so far?

Jeno: Yup.

Taeyong: I'd love to join if I went to school here.

I turned my head to look at him. He gave me a smile, but I rolled my eyes and edged closer to Luhan. I hugged his arm and grabbed Kris' other hand. Kris looked at me and grunted. He turned around to see who was it that Kyungsoo was talking to. He did not greet Taeyong. He just nodded at the younger brother.

Jeno was nice, unlike his older brother. Their driver was standing attentively behind them. Jeno and Soo started talking like long lost friends. Chen joined the conversation and they started cheering noisily at J who was almost done with his course. Jeno even did a hand signal for the FIS skate team. Taeyong had smirked the whole time and humming to himself.

The last of the FISSkT member on the ramp was Jimin. He flexed his muscles in humor and the girls screamed. He flipped his hair and laughed. He was such a tease. We laughed when his choice of music filled the air. It was full of gunshots and cranked up bass. It was indeed his style, his Jin hyung had said. Their house was filled with gunshot sounds when he was in control of the loudspeakers at home, Jin had said.

He started by pushing his board really fast towards the ramp and started off with slides and grinds on the rail and stairset. Because of his pumped up gunshot music he glided like he was being chased by someone who wanted to shoot him. The crowd got wild as the gunshots became like a drumbeat and Jimin did a backflip.

"What the actual fuuuhhh?"

"Jimin, right? That's his name?"

"Yes. Transfer student from Korea."

"Jimin! Will you marry me?!"

Yeah. And be murdered by Yue. Pfffftt.. Hahahah. I think they already had a mutual understanding, even if they say they aren't official. I mean, come on. It's not the right age to be official. Oh yeah, where are those girls? They had told me that they would watch, but I didn't see them since the eliminations started. Hmmm... Probably they weren't given permission?

After Jimin's backflip, he ended it with a simple switchstance and kicked his board up and caught it with his hand.

Oh yeah. FISSkT has finished. There were still two schools who were competing. The rest of the team went to the sidelines and sat on the ground. Sehun excused himself from the team and started running towards us. He slipped under the rope barriers with his skateboard under his arm. He went to join us as we watched the last two teams. When he saw Taeyong standing behind, watching the competition, he smirked and faced Jeno. He only greeted Jeno.

It made me think that they knew what was going on. Not one of my brothers really paid attention to him and only spoke to Jeno.

Then Tao decided to join us as well. He dragged his skateboard behind him as he walked casually along the sides towards us. Chanyeol was trailing behind him. Baekhyun got up from the ground and went to run and walk beside Chanyeol. Kai looked up and saw that he was being left behind by the four, so he excused himself and went running behind.

Tao and Baek started jumping up and down when they reached us. The crowd around started calling each one of them and asking if it's okay to take a picture of them. My camera brothers of course agreed.

While they were taking pictures of the other people around, the Kims and Mins also came over and joined us to watch the remaining two teams. Taehyung hugged his Yoongi hyung and squished him. He looked happy to see his hyung watch him. It reminded me of Baek when he saw Kris. I think boys will be boys. When you look up to your older brother, it's just but normal to expect him to be around when it was your turn to show what you got. Right?

I didn't talk when I saw Jungkook. He started to say hi, but he just smiled and nodded at me. It was weird, not talking to each other. On the phone, we could talk freely, but out here, it felt like we were distant.

Then someone pushed me. Because there were people wanting to take a picture with my brothers, someone had pushed me aside. I almost hit the ground if not for a pair of arms who caught me. My back hit his chest hard, I felt the impact of the push. He almost stumbled backwards, but his footing was firm, so he was able to catch me and not fall himself.

Taeyong: Are you okay?

Me: Uh..yeah..I guess..so..

I was not expecting him to do something heroic like that. And before I started praising him, he did something more.

Taeyong: Hey! Hey! Stop pushing people around, will you? Nobody has the right to push people here. Go to the wresting arena if you wanna hit people. Especially girls.

The one who pushed me had bowed in apology. Tao and Chanyeol who heard, came to me and hugged me.

Chan: Who hurt little sister?

Tao: Please don't push my sister.

When they knew I was the sister of those they wanted to take a picture with, they bowed and said sorry. Taeyong stood in front of me like an annoyed hawk.

Yeah. Thanks. But that doesn't mean I like you already.

One point to Soo Taeyong.

And then I met Jungkook's eyes.

He looked away and disappeared from the crowd.

Okay. Double update because I sort of can. Heheh. Just excited for BTS comeback! Although I'm a bit sad that Die Jungs have cropped Kris from the photobook, I'm glad to see him back in Beijing. He has a bruise on his right arm though. =(  → ♥♥♥ 吳愛你們！我愛你們！