“Dude!” Jackson exclaimed once Jaye was out of earshot, gently shoving Mark’s shoulder.

“Ow, what!” Mark shouted back, unsuccessfully swiping at his co-member’s hand.

“How do you know her?” he asked excitedly, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in a room alone with a girl before.”

Mark just scowled and walked in the opposite direction from where Jaye ran.

“Uh, keu-jjeugk-eu-roh kaht-da,” Youngjae stated, pointing down the hall. They went that way.

“Ah-rah,” Mark answered over his shoulder, continuing on his way. I know.

Jackson ended up dashing over and blocking his route. “I’ll let you go…when you answer my question,” he smirked.

The eldest GOT7 member gave him a blank stare for a moment, before sighing and letting his shoulders droop. “We used to go to high school together, back in LA,” he said quietly, “I dropped out without much notice so no one really knew why I left except for my family.”

“Huh,” Jackson replied, only to have a thought dawn on him, “Oooooooh.”

“What now?” Mark accused.

“Ohp, nope, nothing,” Jackson spouted, avoiding his friend’s gaze and shaking his head even though the glint in his eye was obvious.

“Doesn’t sound like nothing,” Mark said, crossing his arms.

“Nothing to worry your pretty little head over,” he answered, patting Mark’s pretty little head, “Now come on! We’ve got a game to win.”

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

And they did. A bit overwhelmingly actually, the only people ousted from his team were Sukjin, Mark, JB, and Jr. It wasn’t really a surprise since Jongkook and Gary were on Jackson’s team, but Jihyo and Jaye did put up a good fight as the last two standing. Jackson figured taking out the guys on her team first would be a better strategy than leaving them until the end. It helped that the additional friends the production team called for Jaye weren’t all that experienced in name tag eliminating.

At the closing statements in front of Gwanggyo Youth Center, it was explained that Jackson had other missions to complete while everyone else did the main missions because he came up with everything. It was impressive since he didn’t get caught, not even Jongkook caught on to what the idol had been doing.

Once Taek PD shouted cut after Jaye clapped the last slate of the day, everyone turned to each other and the staff, bowing and saying their “kam-sa-ham-nee-da”s and “soo-goh-haes-seum-nee-da”s. ”thank you”s and “good work”s

The crew was packing up and everyone was saying their goodbyes as they got into their respective vehicles. Jaye got her goodbye hugs from everyone, giving her additional team members big thank yous and promises of dinner for coming out, and waved to Billie, who drove to the venue and would give her a ride home.

“Good job today,” Jackson said, when he got around to standing in front of her as everyone dispersed.

“You too,” Jaye grinned, “I’m actually glad you won.”

“Really?” he asked surpri